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Discover round, striped, yellow and trailing courgettes, their flavours and ways to grow them.
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Allium tuberosum: flat leaves and white flowers.
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Award-winning selection with a solid culinary use.
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Round, white swollen root of an improved Monarch type.
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Vigorous, rounded swollen root for autumn and winter.
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Florence fennel for sheltered and outdoor growing with sufficient moisture.
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White, swollen leaf bases with a fresh anise flavour.
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An early offering with a flatter fennel bulb.
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A cucumber with longer, heavier fruit than Gundel, with which the supplier compares it; harvest-focused and recognisable in shape.
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An early, old variety with dark green fruits approximately 20 cm long: a manageable, classic slicing cucumber.
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Full maturity produces a dark brown, netted skin: a cucumber with a very different exterior from supermarket types.
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Round to oval, yellow cucumbers resemble lemons but remain botanically ordinary cucumbers.
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A familiar cucumber variety for a greenhouse or sunny garden position, aimed at regular summer harvesting.
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An old Australian variety with light green, apple-shaped fruits: round, manageable and strikingly different-looking.
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Long cucumbers approximately 30–40 cm long with few seeds give this Asian variety a practical salad identity.
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An old Himalayan variety with oval fruits that develop a thick, brown, netted skin when ripe: more of a discovery than a uniform supermarket variety.
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Long, strongly green, almost spineless fruits on a vigorous plant: a classic long shape with a smoother feel.
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A compact pot cucumber with short, even fruits, selected for containers and pots.
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A very early, compact variety from southern Russia with smooth, dark green snack fruits approximately 8–12 cm long.
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Short, smooth snack cucumbers on a compact, manageable plant: a variety for small, fresh pickings.
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Dark green, ribbed Chinese cucumbers approximately 30–40 cm long with thin skin and sometimes a slight curve.
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Stocky cream-white cucumbers about 15–20 cm long: a pale slicing type without a further proven cultivar identity.
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A Chinese offering with very long ribbed fruits, sometimes 50 cm or longer; the name snake cucumber describes the shape.
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Cream-white fruits about 20–25 cm long make this offering a pale, fairly long slicing cucumber.
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A southern Italian Armenian cucumber with light green, grooved fruits approximately 15 cm long and fine, silky hairs.
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Light green, grooved fruit can become exceptionally long: this cucumber melon produces snake-like shapes on a trailing plant.
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Deep green, lightly hairy, elongated fruits about 45 cm long; a vigorous cucumber melon variety from the Italian tradition.
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Swede starts as a fine row of seedlings and ends as a firm autumn root. Give this brassica space and time. In a pot, you can deliberately harvest young roots; a full winter supply is better suited to a spacious bed.
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Azur Star is an early kohlrabi with a blue-purple exterior and white interior. The slightly flattened swollen stem grows above ground.
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Delikatess blauw has a blue swollen stem and purple-green leaves. The source describes later development than Delikatess wit.
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Delikatess wit is pale kohlrabi with edible swelling above soil. The source emphasises tender material.
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The familiar clear blue for an informal flower strip.
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Very dark red-purple for striking contrast.
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White brings calm among blue and dark flowers.
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Slower bolting, long leaf-harvesting period.
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Compact, large leaves and relatively slow to flower.
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Fine feathery leaves for a different look in the garden and on the plate.
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Vigorous growth for a generous leaf harvest.
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Foeniculum vulgare: classic fresh green foliage.
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Bronze fennel for strongly visible foliage contrast.
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Productive cooking cultivar; some mildew tolerance.
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Compact cooking cultivar; relatively few thorns.
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Large yellow dessert berries.
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Red; fresh use and cooking.
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Red selection.
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Species group with edible, sweet skin.
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Pear-shaped, aromatic.
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Heavy cropping, pear-shaped and yellow.
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Rounder fruit, compact, leaf spot tolerance.
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Leaf spot tolerance in the RHS collection.
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Levisticum officinale: one true species, no invented cultivar range.
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Compact English type with darker violet-blue flower spikes.
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Low English lavender with white flowers.
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Larger lavandin for long spikes and a stronger camphor scent.
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Striking tufted flowers; more attention to overwintering.
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Very low, with rust-coloured flowers and a yellow throat.
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Taller spikes in soft pink for a cutting border.
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Tall white scented flower spikes for light bouquets.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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A named cut-flower selection from the Potomac series.
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Large, marbled lima beans on a vigorous climber.
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A warmth-loving climbing type of Phaseolus lunatus.
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Large, normally seedless; yellow when fully ripe.
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Small, aromatic lime type.
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Small, round, black beans for a cooked pulse meal.
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Small brown-black mottled lentils from a low-growing crop.
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An offering intended for a short indoor sprouting crop.
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Thornless loganberry selection.
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Luffa produces long fruits that develop a fibrous interior as they ripen. You can make a plant-based sponge from it.
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This offering describes white seeds and cylindrical fruits. Seed colour does not establish a separate cultivar with a fixed name.
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Mild, seedless, easy to peel.
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Origanum majorana: soft leaves and a delicate flavour.
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Origanum onites: larger and somewhat stronger in character.
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French marjoram with fresh golden-green young leaves.
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Cream-yellow tubers with reddish markings; earlier type
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White tubers, classic late type