Create your own vegetable delivery service from your garden to your kitchen with our Grow Your Own Chelsea Vegetable Collection box. 

These specially selected vegetable plants are all being featured in our Cheslea Garden, meaning you can recreate your own Chelsea garden and enjoy a harvest at home.

Our themed box includes a curated collection of purple flowering or fruiting vegetables. Purple vegetables are renowned for their health benefits, so they not only look fantastic and taste great, they are good for you too.

• Quick Harvesting Lettuce to Autumn Cropping Kales
• Included as part of our Chelsea Favourites 2022 selection
  
• Wide range of culinary uses
  

This collection of 6 superb specially selected vegetables contains:

• Kale 'Rainbow Candy Crush' 6 Garden Ready Plugs- Exciting new Kale ‘Rainbow Candy Crush’ looks as great as it tastes, with bright fluorescent pink new leaves that are deliciously crisp and tasty. With masses of leaves on compact plants, it’s a sensation in the vegetable garden.
  
• Purple Sprouting Broccoli 'Purplelicious' 6 Garden Ready Plugs - This delicious purple sprouting broccoli boasts unique colouring, with green florets and bright purple stems that turn darker when cooked. The sweet-tasting spears are packed with healthy antioxidants and taste fabulous steamed or stir-fried.
• Tomato 'Indigo Ruby' 3 9cm Plants - Purple-tinged cherry tomatoes with a refreshing tangy sweet taste. High in health-giving antioxidants and delicious in salads.
• Lettuce 'Lollo Rossa' 16 Seedlings- This attractive fringed and crinkled pale green leaved variety, instantly adds colour to your salad bowl. It has great flavour too!
• Dwarf 'French Bean' 12 Seedlings - Young plants delivered to your door of dwarf French bean purple Amethyst. Attractive and high in antioxidants, this delicious and healthy plant will make a fantastic addition to your meals
• Beetroot 'Boltardy' 16 Seedlings - One of the most popular and reliable beetroot varieties, ‘Boltardy’ produces deep purple roots with sweet, tender flesh. This bolt-resistant beetroot holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

How you will receive your plants:

Selected by our team of experts and sent from our nursery, you will receive your garden ready plugs in plug trays in a box. These are designed to keep your plants secure and to prevent damage in transit. 

Can’t plant straight away?

If you aren't able to plant your plugs and plants out straight away then ensure they stay moist. You can place your plugs and plants on a saucer or tray of shallow water so they are able to stay hydrated. Aim to have your plugs and plants potted on within 3 days.

Planting hints and tips:

Potting on: On arrival place your plug trays in shallow water to allow them to soak ensuring the rootballs are moist. Use the end of a pencil or a narrow dibber to gently tease your plugs out of their trays. 

Planting in containers: Sprinkle a layer of stone or gravel in the bottom of the container to aid drainage. Use a high-quality young plant or general-purpose compost spaced evenly with enough space to allow the plants to grow. Mix in a slow-release granular fertiliser in the compost before placing the plant to provide plenty of nutrients. Water thoroughly once planted up. Continue to water every 3-5 days and don't allow the container to dry out.

Planting in the ground:  Dig a hole approximately twice as deep and 3 times as wide as the plant, if your soil is heavy mix in general-purpose compost, horticultural sand and stone or potting grit to ensure good drainage. Gently compact the soil around the plant and water thoroughly.

Hardening off: Once your potted on plants reach a good size and are ready to plant out in their final location, the first step is to harden them off before moving them outdoors permanently. This involves simply placing them outdoors during the day and back undercover at night to allow them to get accustomed to the lower temperatures. Once they have been hardened off for a week your plants should be ready to plant out in their final location.