Herbs

Basil - Purple

76 days to harvest. Purple version of Italian large leaf, with similar sweet scent. Large flat leaves stand out horizontally and are a copper-tinged purple colour.

Celery Cutting

80—85 days to harvest when started indoors. Easy to grow celery leaves with strong flavour.. Use fresh in salads, cooked in soup, stew and mixed vegetables. Nice addition to tomato juice.

Chervil Curled

 

Coriander

This intensely fragrant herb grows 5-7cm high. It has bright green, shiny, parsley like leaves. Darkness is required for germination which occurs in 7 to 10 days. Direct sowing at 9cm apart. Slow bolting.

Cress - Watercress

60 days to harvest. Gourmet salad and sandwich vegetable. Delicious, vitamin-rich perennial. Watercress may be direct seeded about 1.5cm apart, 1cm deep. Thin to 9cm apart and keep well watered, or start seed indoors, keeping soil moist. Trans plant to large pots, cold frame or garden with soil that is fertile, humus-rich, well-limed, and pH around 7.0. keep soil moist or sit pots in pans of water and renew water daily. Harvest as needed.

Cress - Wrinkled Curled

21 days baby leaf, 40 days full. Sweet and spicy salad item. Spoon shaped leaves are bright green with ruffled edges and an attractive “blistered” surface. Fluffy new addition to your salad mix. Resists bolting longer than other varieties allowing multiple cuts from a single planting.

Cress - Upland

Late, long-standing. A 13-18cm rosette of dark watercress but much easier to grow, the plants are very slow to bolt and longstanding. Sometimes call “Creasy Greens” .

 

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