At the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this summer, Suttons showed
their expanding range of grafted vegetable plants. Now you can order
them.
Grafting tomatoes is not a new idea, far from it, but this
whole new generation of grafted vegetables will transform your veg
growing. There are tomatoes of course, but also a wide range of other
vegetables available as grafted plants.
The idea is that heavy
cropping and full flavoured varieties are grafted on to rootstocks
specially developed to resist soil pests and diseases, bring extra
vigour, be happy in cooler greenhouse conditions (or even outside) and
fruit over a longer period. They cost more than seedling plants - but
the extra heavy p&d-free crop more than makes up for it.
Both
Suttons and their sister company Dobies - whose list features one plant
with two different tomato varieties grafted on to it! - have these
grafted vegetables available to order now.
To order, just click the variety name to go direct to the page on the website.
Dobies
Chilli pepper ‘Fireflame' Delicious and hot (but not too hot), 17cm/7in red chillies.
Chilli pepper ‘Sunflame' Yellow sister of ‘Fireflame', with 15cm/6in chillies.
Cucumber ‘Pacto' Prolific 20cm/8in cues with mildew resistance.
Melon ‘Sienne' Sweet and aromatic orange-fleshed melon with attractive striped skin.
Pepper ‘Magno' Virus-resistant green pepper maturing to orange, and unusually easy to grow.
Tomato ‘Twins' Two plum-fruited varieties - ‘Dasher' (red) and ‘Sunorange' (orange') - on each plant!
Suttons
Tomatoes
Five varieties carried over from last year plus ‘Zebrino', a barbecue
type whose rich flavours burst through after a short time on the
barbecue.
Cucumber ‘Passandra', an all female variety with ideal 15cm/6in fruits for indoors or out.
Pepper
‘Chelsea', large fruits ripening to yellow; ‘Ferrari', tall and
vigorous quickly ripening to red; ‘Prego', compact, with large peppers
to pick green.
Chilli pepper ‘Medina', large crops of 15cm/6in chillies ripening from green to shining red.
Melon ‘Sweetheart', grafting this favourite melon variety makes it so easy to grow.
Aubergine ‘Scorpio', easy, heavy cropping and exceptionally early.
To order, just click the variety name to go direct to the page on the website.