Root Vegetable Plants
Root vegetables - carrots, turnips, beetroot and more - are a veg plot staple, and ours are selected for the best taste and productivity all year round. Your root vegetable plants start life on a family run Lancashire farm, with varieties chosen for taste and performance, and grown sustainably using recycled water and biological pest control. Delivered to you straight from the field, they’re strong, vigorous and ready for anything the UK weather can throw at them.
Which root vegetables should I choose?
Although most often grown in rows in open ground, there are plenty of root vegetables that thrive in containers, including snack-sized Chantenay carrots. If you’re just starting your patch, we recommend easier varieties like Darko beetroot and Snowball turnips - they don’t take up a lot of space, either. Swedes and turnips are relatively straightforward, as long as they have a good fertile, free draining soil. Growing your own is also a good opportunity to experiment with less common varieties, like these colourful carrots and multicoloured beetroots.
Growers' tips
Root vegetables are a staple crop in the UK, mainly due to their hardiness and ability to stand in the ground through the winter - parsnips even taste better for a little frost exposure. One of the best things about them is that you can plant them all year round - in spring for a late summer harvest or in autumn for a crop in spring. They prefer full sun but will do just fine with a bit of light shade, and don’t need feeding if your soil is halfway decent. Oh, and the secret to successful carrot growing is all in the soil too - a mixture of half soil and half sand makes for the best crop.
Using your root veg
As well as being an essential part of a roast dinner, root vegetables are lovely in any number of roasted veg traybakes, warming winter casseroles and sweet, earthy soups. Grate or spiralise your roots raw for salads and slaws or make a vibrant purple beetroot hummus (beets and carrots are also great in juices and smoothies).
Bright and colourful carrots everyone will enjoy
- A bright and colourful range of carrots
- Fun to grow and eat–get the kids involved!
- Juicy and crunchy with intense carrot flavour
- Very easy to grow
A fantastic variety of superb Beetroots
- Includes three varieties of gardeners favourites
- Great selection of different colours and patterns
- All superb, reliable croppers
- A unique range of different flavours
Fill your veg patch with one click!
- Everything you need to grow your own fresh, tasty veg
- Includes premium award winning and heirloom tomatoes, carrots, peas, salad and much more
- Picked for taste, reliability and heavy yields
- Easy to grow in raised beds or borders
Essential root veg - healthy and hearty
- Includes onions, carrots, beets and more
- Our growers' pick of the plants for taste, easy growing and reliable crops
- Grow in raised beds, allotments, veg plots and borders
- All picked for their strong reliability
A complete veg patch from scratch - easy!
- All you need for a bumper harvest without the hard work
- Premium and award winning tomatoes, courgettes, peas, french beans, lettuce and more
- Reliable varieties chosen for trouble-free growing, great taste and variety
- Perfect for raised beds, containers or sunny borders
Grow your own fresh salads all summer long
- Includes beets, spring onions, tomatoes and leaves
- Reduce waste - harvest what you need, when you need it
- Pick your first leaves after 4 weeks then enjoy continuous crops
- Grow your own salad bowl in your garden
Carrots like they used to taste!
- Bright orange mini carrots
- Sweet and crunchy - no need to peel or chop
- Easy to grow in pots or raised beds
- Harvest in as little as twelve weeks
Easy to grow - ideal for beginners
- Smooth skinned, deep red globe-shaped beets
- Eat raw, boil, roast or pickle - you can eat the leaves too
- Perfect for raised beds and suitable for pots
- Harvest from June to August
More veg, more variety, all season long
- Fill your patch with the tastiest greens, tomatoes, salads and more
- Includes award winners, exhibition favourites and our growers' personal picks for the best crops
- Harvest from June right through to autumn
- No need for a greenhouse, just a little care
You definitely won't find these in the shops!
- Award winners, heirlooms and distinctly out of the ordinary vegetables and fruit
- Rainbow carrots, heirloom tomatoes and many more hard-to-find, colourful and tasty veg
- Heritage varieties chosen for reliability, flavour and garden performance
- Grow in your veg patch or in raised beds
Vibrant veg packed with all the nutrients you need
- The more colourful way to get your five a day
- Premium tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, spinach and beets
- All you need for harvests right through to autumn
- Perfect to grow in your veg patch or in raised beds
Only the best, most colourful and hard to find veg
- Unique, colourful, delicious & hard to come by
- Includes award winners & exhibition favourites
- Harvest from June right through to autumn
- Nothing too difficult to grow in your average garden
Superior taste and stronger growth
- An F1 variety with uniform white roots and healthy foliage, full of flavour
- Harvest from July right through to March
- Perfect for roasting, soups and casseroles
- Grow in rows in a raised bed, allotment or border
The sweet, nutty winter essential
- Purple topped globe shaped roots with nutty yellow flesh
- Harvest from autumn onwards
- Vigorous and very productive variety
- Plant in a row in raised beds, borders or an allotment
Small, sweet and tender
- A sweet and juicy white globe turnip
- Best harvested young from June onwards
- Early harvests and plentiful crops - eat the tops too!
- Grow in allotments, raised beds or pots
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