Wednesday 12th May 2010
We are delighted to announce that for the third year in a row, the Marshalls Kitchen Garden Catalogue has been recognised in the ECMOD Awards for Outstanding Business Performance in 2009, winning the gardening products category.
There is still time to get seeds and vegetable plants in to the ground and we are pleased to enclose some exciting new varieties for you to try out.
Your feedback on seeds and plants is very important to enable us to deliver innovative new varieties and keep track of performance, so we’d be grateful for your thoughts and comments on the enclosed samples. We’d like to send you further varieties to try out, periodically.
To kick start the season we have chosen Flower Sprout, hailed as the first new vegetable for ten years! Now that the extensive trails are completed, we’d like you to trial it too.
Flower sprout has been bred by crossing curly kale with Brussels sprout. It has a sprout-like plant habit, a tall stem with little purple and green rosettes (looking like miniature cabbages) forming all the way up to a frilly-leaved top. The purple colour intensifies as the weather turns colder.
It is extremely winter-hardy, with a similar cropping time to sprouts but with a flavour more like spring greens. The loose buttons are easy to pick and is an ideal winter vegetable, it can be steamed, stir fried or micro-waved.
There are also some seeds of delicious Brokali, which is a prolific, fast growing new variety, giving tasty tender stems.
Finally, with World Cup fever upon us, how about our very patriotic new runner bean-
St George. This bean variety produces an early, high yield of crisp, juicy pods with good snap. St George out performed every other bean at RHS Wisley trials and the National Veg Society in 2008 – it’s top of the league in producing the heaviest crops!
For any further information, images or queries please see my contact details below.
We hope to see you at Hampton Court Show in July, where we will be exhibiting again.
Regards
Claire Hart
Tel;-01460 259776 Email;- claire.hart@marshall-seeds.co.uk
