About this box
Taking on an allotment, or digging over a first veg patch, comes with a long list of decisions before anything goes in the ground. The Allotment Collection makes the first ones for you: twelve reliable, well-tried vegetables that cover the crops every plot holder grows, chosen so there is something to sow in most months and something to pick in every season.
Broad Bean 'Aquadulce Claudia' starts the year early, sown in autumn for the first fresh crop of the following summer. Pea 'Hurst Greenshaft' is the dependable main-crop pea. For the root bed there is Carrot Autumn King 2 for storing, bolt-resistant Beetroot Boltardy and Parsnip Tender & True, which only gets sweeter after a frost. Onion Ailsa Craig grows large heritage onions from seed, and Leek Musselburgh stands through the hardest winter. Tomato Gardeners Delight is the sweet, reliable cherry tomato that crops in a greenhouse or outdoors in a sunny spot, and Courgette All Green Bush gives more than most households can eat. Lettuce Little Gem and Radish Sparkler keep the salad coming, and Kale Nero di Toscana crops right through the winter.
A year on the plot
- Autumn: broad beans, to overwinter.
- Late winter to early spring: onions, leeks and tomatoes under cover.
- Spring: peas, carrots, beetroot, parsnips and kale outdoors; courgettes indoors to plant out after the frosts.
- Spring to late summer: lettuce and radish a little at a time, every few weeks.
Between them they give broad beans and peas in early summer, tomatoes, courgettes, salads and beetroot through the summer, onions and carrots to store, and leeks, parsnips and kale through the winter. Full instructions are printed on every packet.
Twelve full-sized packets in our signature eco-friendly packaging – a practical gift for anyone with a new allotment, a first veg bed or a plan to grow more of their own. For a whole plot, The Allotment Collection (20 Packs) adds eight more.
