Bare Root Vegetables
Get a Head Start on Your Vegetable Patch: Bare Root Vegetables
Embrace the convenience and affordability of planting bare root vegetables! These dormant plants, typically available in late winter and early spring, offer a variety of benefits for UK gardeners, allowing you to establish your vegetable patch early in the season and enjoy a bountiful harvest.
Why Choose Bare Root Vegetables:
- Early planting: Get a head start on the season compared to planting seeds or containerized plants, allowing for earlier harvests and extending your growing season.
- Strong root development: Bare root plants focus their energy on developing a strong root system, leading to healthier and more productive plants in the long run.
- Cost-effective: Often more affordable than containerized plants, making them a budget-friendly option for growing your own vegetables.
- Wide variety of choices: Find a diverse selection of bare root vegetables, including popular options like asparagus, rhubarb, and many more.
Popular Bare Root Vegetables for Gardens:
- Asparagus: This perennial vegetable thrives in well-drained soil and sunny locations, offering delicious spears for many years to come.
- Rhubarb: This versatile plant produces tangy stalks perfect for pies, crumbles, and other delicious desserts. It prefers cool temperatures and well-drained soil.
Planting Bare Root Vegetables is Easy!
We provide detailed care guides specifically tailored for UK gardeners, ensuring your chosen bare root vegetables flourish in your garden. Here are some general tips for planting:
- Planting time: The ideal planting time for bare root vegetables in the UK is typically late winter to early spring, when the soil is workable but not too cold.
- Soil preparation: Choose a well-drained location and amend the soil with organic matter before planting.
- Planting depth: Follow the specific planting instructions for each vegetable variety, ensuring the crown (the point where the roots and stem meet) sits at the appropriate depth.
- Watering: Water your newly planted bare root vegetables regularly, especially during dry periods.
Don't wait to experience the benefits of planting bare root vegetables! Order yours today and add a variety of delicious and rewarding options to your UK vegetable patch.
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Unit price per- Asparagus Crowns X 6 Mixed Bare root Perennial Plants
- Asparagus Crowns X 12 Mixed Bare root Perennial Plants
- 2 x Gijnlim, 2 x Avalim 2 x Pacific Purple
- Produce your own tasty tender spears for many years to come,
- Hand packed to order in our signature Growtanical packaging with full planting instructions
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Unit price per- Asparagus 'Ginjnlim' Crowns
- Gijnlim F1 is a 100% male hybrid
- Gijnlim is a popular high yielding variety of Asparagus
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Unit price per- 'Victoria' is an old variety, reputedly named after Queen Victoria. Producing high yields of long stems with a sweet flavour and good texture, it's considered to be one of the most reliable rhubarb varieties available. 'Victoria' may be harvested as baby stems, forced or simply left to mature.
- 'Goliath' is the giant in our rhubarb range and makes an impressive "figure" not only in the bed, but also in the kitchen. It is high yielding and although the green-meaty varieties are said to be quite often sour, 'Goliath' is one of the very, very mild and extremely tasty varieties. A consumer tasting in Germany 'Goliath' (together with 'Holsteiner Blut') was a crowd pleaser in terms of taste.
- 'Red Champagne' is a vigorous perennial with large, glossy, wrinkled, dark green leaves and long, deep pink to reddish-pink, edible stems ready for harvest from early spring to early summer.
- 'Holsteiner Blut' Due to its good cultural and taste properties 'Holsteiner Blut' is still recommended for cultivation today and is considered the most famous red-stemmed rhubarb species. Easy to grow and does not require forcing. The rhubarb variety 'Holsteiner Blut' has blood-red colored stems. The stems show a pronounced ribbing on the back and have deep grooves on the inside.
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Unit price per- Mixed Rhubarb Crowns. Three Varieties.
- Rheum Goliath A mid to late cropping variety. 'Goliath' is easy to grow and suitable for forcing.
- Rheum Red Champagne An Early cropping variety. Easy to grow. Long, scarlet stems with a delicious sweet taste
- Rheum Victoria An early cropping variety with a.delicious, sweet flavour One of the easiest rhubarbs to grow producing a good crop
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- Avalim is a 100% male hybrid
- High yielding early production with tender thick spears
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Unit price per- Asparagus 'Pacific Purple' Crowns
- Pacific Purple is high yielding, sweeter and much more tender than the green Asparagus varieties.
- Best lightly steamed or eaten raw in salad or with dips.
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Unit price per- Rhubarb Crowns Rheum Goliath
- A mid to late cropping variety.
- 'Goliath' is easy to grow and suitable for forcing.
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Unit price per- Rhubarb Crowns Rheum Red Champagne
- An Early cropping variety. Easy to grow
- Long, scarlet stems with a delicious sweet taste