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Squash : Winter : Barbara Butternut F1 Hybrid

Trailing. Unique introduction in the butternuts. Barbara has a rich orange, delicious tasting flesh with an unusual striped green skin.

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Squash : Winter : Butternut Duo

One packet each of Avalon and Barbara Butternut.

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Squash : Winter : Harrier F1 Hybrid

Bushy. An outstanding early British-bred Butternut squash. In T&M's trials Harrier F1 was the quickest to ripen, and was ready to harvest approximately 95 days from sowing. Bushy plants have an open habit allowing the sun to ripen fruits naturally on the plant giving added sweetness.

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Squash : Winter : Potimarron

A famous French heirloom whose name derives from potiron (pumpkin) and marron (chestnut). One of the very best for baking and roasting, fruits reach 1.25-1.75 kilos (3-4lbs) in weight with an aromatic chestnut like taste.

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Squash : Winter : Turk's Turban

Trailing. Stunning colour of fruit with a distinctive shape as each fruit has its own cap on top making it a popular choice for ornamental autumn displays.

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Gourd - Autumn Glory 1 packet

A hand selected mixture of small gourds in a wide range of colours and shapes including smooth skinned, warted and winged types. These ornamental fruits are ideal for adding to autumn floral decorations, or used as varnished ornaments around the home.

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Gourd - Crown Of Thorns 1 packet

Wonderful small fruits of creamy-white to green and yellow striped. Uniquely shaped, resembling a crown.

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Gourd - Dinosaur 1 packet

A prehistoric looking, large, green, wrinkled skinned, bottle shaped gourd, ideally used as an eye-catching climber or for ground cover. Pick and use fruits for interesting autumn decorations. Dry fruits fully in a cool, airy position before painting the skins. Climber/Trailing 120-180cm (4-6ft)

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Gourd - Jim Jams 1 packet

An all encompassing mixture of easy to grow Gourds: small, large, pure colours, striped, mottled - every shape and colour imaginable. Superb autumn decorations when few fresh flowers are available. Non edible trailer. Harvest early autumn.

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Gourd - Ornamental Collection 3 packets - 1 of each

One packet each of Gourd - Snakes, Speckled Swans and Russian Dolls (Cucurbita pepo). Gourd - Snakes Grow your own slippery snake! Unusual pale green narrow gourds that twist and curl, then, once dried, can be painted with your personalised snake pattern. Gourd - Speckled Swans Speckled Swans with life-like crooked necks, in an unusual two-tone green pattern that when dried, can be painted to a colour of your choice! Use acrylic paints. Gourd - Russian Dolls (Cucurbita pepo) Unusual, doll-shaped gourds that can be harvested at various sizes, dried and painted to your own design, creating a family of Russian dolls. ALL NOT EDIBLE - Use acrylic paints to create your own designs.

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Gourd - Russian Dolls (Cucurbita pepo) 1 packet

Unusual, doll-shaped gourds that can be harvested at various sizes, dried and painted to your own design, creating a family of Russian dolls. NOT EDIBLE - Use acrylic paints to create your own designs.

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Gourd - Snakes 1 packet

Grow your own slippery snake! Unusual pale green narrow gourds that twist and curl, then, once dried, can be painted with your personalised snake pattern. NOT EDIBLE - Use acrylic paints to create your own designs.

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Gourd - Speckled Swans 1 packet

Speckled Swans with life-like crooked necks, in an unusual two-tone green pattern that when dried, can be painted to a colour of your choice! NOT EDIBLE - Use acrylic paints to create your own designs.

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Squash : Golden Hubbard (Heritage)

Hubbard squash have excellent, fine-grained, thick golden yellow flesh with a sweet flavour to match. The rather warted skin is a rich orange. Fruit weight average 3.5-4kg (7-8 lb). Very long storage over winter in a cool place indoors at 10C (50F).

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Squash : Hasta La Pasta

A major improvement on the old spaghetti squash, this variety offers appealing, deep orange flesh with a sweeter flavour. Extract the 'spaghetti' flesh from each boiled fruit to experience a very unusual vegetable.

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Squash : Summer : Patty Pans Scallop Mixed

(Bushy) Vigorous plants produce a colourful mix of tasty 'Patty Pan' scalloped fruits. Harvest throughout the season at various sizes from 'baby squash' for eating raw to its mature size of 15-20cm (6-8in) across.

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Squash : Waltham Butternut (Winter) - Duchy Originals

Attractive tan coloured fruits with sweet, creamy yellow flesh.

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Squash : Winter : Avalon F1 Hybrid

A superb variety of compact Butternut Squash. Early to ripen, and with a rich sweet orange flesh, Avalon is perfect for baking and roasting. The fruits will also store well, for up to 6 months.

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Squash : Winter : Festival F1 Hybrid

A decorative small-fruited Squash with a marbled outer skin encasing sweet, nutty flavoured, pale orange flesh. The trailing vines play host to fruits of about 680g (1?lb), which are also good for long term storage. Sweet flesh with a delicate nutty flavour.

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Squash : Winter : High Sugar Mixed F1 Hybrid

An exciting mix of for 'high-sugar' varieties, developed from Sweet Dumpling types. Bushy plants produce 'one meal' sized fruits of acorn or dumpling shape, weighing 500g-750g (1lb-1½lb). Sweet flesh, average 14-16 brix (sugar) levels. Mix contains Harlequin (acorn, cream with green stripes), Celebration (acorn, cream with orange stripes, green flecks), Table Star (acorn, green) Sweet Lightning (dumpling, creamy orange with darker orange stripes).

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Squash : Winter : Sunshine F1

All America Selection Winner. Sweet, nutty, bright orange-fleshed fruits. Delicious when used in a range of warming winter dishes it is as versatile as a potato. Fruits about 1.5kg (3lb) in weight.

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Squash Baby Bear seeds

Tasty, easily grown and useful for pies. Flattened globe fruits turn orange on maturity. The seeds can be dried in an oven or cooked in oil and eaten like peanuts.

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Squash Cobnut F1 seeds

An early maturing butternut variety bearing good crops of fine flavoured, buff coloured, 1 kg fruits, that are particularly delicious roasted.

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Squash Cornells Bush Delicata Seeds

An improved version of the popular 'Delicata' type, producing attractive cream, green-striped fruits that taste delicious. Mildew resistant.

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Squash F1 Balmoral Seeds

A superb summer squash, which sets heavy crops of tasty, mild-flavoured fruit. And its dwarf habit makes it ideal for growing in a container on the patio.

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Squash F1 Cobnut Seeds

The earliest maturing butternut-type Squash available, producing a good crop of full-flavoured fruits (each up to 1kg in weight) that are excellent roasted.

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Squash F1 Crown Prince Seeds

Steel blue skin and bright orange flesh with a sweet nutty flavour, and averaging 3-4kg (6.5-9 lb) in weight. The storage potential is excellent; it can be over 3 months if kept in a frost-free area with good ventilation. Trailing growth habit.

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Squash F1 Polo (Patty Pan) Seeds

An early maturing, Downy Mildew resistant bush variety, producing a good crop of tasty fruits that are good for conserving and for casseroles.

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Squash Geode F1 seeds

A prolific cropper, producing smooth, greenish-yellow, uniform, spherical fruits. Use as a Courgette while young, or as a stuffing Squash when fully ripe. Nutritious and delicious!

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Squash Hunter F1 Seeds

A high yielding butternut squash, giving you a good supply of delicious squashes throughout late summer and autumn, each one a lovely buff colour, with attractive, fine-flavoured orange flesh. Summer/storage variety. Sow under cover late April-May, and plant out when danger of frost has passed, allowing 60cm (24") between bush varieties and 120cm (48") between trailing plants. Harvest late September-October.

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Squash Hunter Seeds

This is the first Butternut squash to be bred in the UK to give excellent results in our climate whatever the weather. Strong healthy plants will give a bumper crop of squashes which are full of flavour when roasted, boiled or mashed. * Guaranteed results! * Versatile vegetable Approx. 15 seeds.

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Squash Jumbo Pink Banana Seeds

The golden flesh is soft, sweet and delicious roasted or made into a warming autumn pie. Once picked, the squashes will store for several weeks in a cool, frost free place. As easy to grow as marrows and courgettes. * Huge fruits * Great Roasted Approx. 10 seeds.

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Squash Sunburst F1 Seeds

A compact squash producing a heavy crop of small yellow-skinned fruits with a distinctive 'nutty' taste. Cut the fruit at 3.5cm (1½") diameter. Eat raw or lightly steamed. Award of Garden Merit.Mini Veg variety - With our mini-vegetables even the smallest plot can yield a wealth of succulent, tasty produce. By sowing closely together in blocks or broad drills and cropping while young, you can fit far more into a small area. Sow mid April-early May indoors, 1 seed per small pot. Advised minimum distances between rows 60cm (24") (plant when all frost risk has passed). Ideal distance between plants in the row 60cm (24"). Should be sown indoors mid April-May and planted out when danger of frost has passed. Special varieties have been chosen which are particularly suitable for eating at a young stage when they are quite small. Eat them raw in salads, lightly steamed or in stir-fry recipes. For best results you must ensure the soil is fertile and well prepared. Dig in garden compost or peat prior to sowing or planting and apply fertiliser between crops.

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Squash Sweet Dumpling Seeds

One of the very best varieties. Sweet Dumpling produces plenty of small fruits. The fruits are tasty roasted whole in their skins, or peeled, cubed and added to casseroles and other savoury dishes. * Good Flavour * Keeps for weeks Approx. 10 seeds.

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Winter Squash : Autumn Crown

New from British breeding, an easy-to-grow, early-maturing variety, well suited to our summers. The flattened round-shaped fruits combine the attractive skin colour of a Butternut with the shape of Crown Prince. An average of 5 fruits per plant, each weighing 1.5kgs (approx 3lbs) develop on semi trailing vines. Fruits have a rich orange flesh with a 'melon aroma', and a small seed cavity. Stores well.

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