Seed Catalogue

Sugar Snap and Mangetout Varieties
Golden Sweet Mangetout (CO – ISSA)
A rare variety collected originally from a market in India. Tall vines that flower
with abundant purple/maroon blooms. The pods are a beautiflul lemon yellow, best
picked while quite flat and perfect for stir fry. Can be Autumn sown under cover.
Oregon Sugar Pod (CO - ISSA)
A vigorous and high yielding mangetout pea with sweet and crunchy pods. It was
developed in Oregon State University, an excellent variety for sowing in Autumn.
Grows upto 1.5m and needs support.
Liliaceae Family
Aspargus (Aspargus officinalis)
Cherbury (CO - ISSA)
This was sent in to us by Suzette Hughes
(of the Hughes family that donated us the
famous Delaway cabbage). The original
plants were grown in the Edgeworth gardens
near Dublin called Cherbury, where
her mother worked as a young girl. Suzette
has been growing them successfully
in her own garden for the last 40 years
and sent in seeds to us three years ago.
Normally asparagus are propagated vegetatively
but we had great success growing
it from the seeds. We tasted the shoots for
the first time this year, and they were delicious,
even raw. In a final twist of irony,
those aged gardens live on in the name
of the modern housing estate built there
‘Cherbury Gardens’.
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