Last Updated on December 21, 2023 by the Dobies Horticultural Team
Our carefully selected range of flower and vegetable seed for the 2016 season is now available. In this blog I’ll concentrate on the exciting new vegetable seeds that have been added to the collection. Details of the new flower range will follow shortly.
Based on the average seed prices charged in 2015 by other major seed suppliers Dobies vegetable seed proved to be up to 41% cheaper for comparable varieties. Combine that with the fact that in November 2014 Which? gave us the top 5-star rating in terms of value and you can feel very confident buying all of your seed from us for the 2016 season and beyond.
New to Dobies Veg Seed for 2016 (excluding Rob Smith’s heritage range)
- French Bean Compass – a prolific and disease resistant extra fine bean.
- Runner Bean Prizewinner – new to the Dobies range although it’s been around awhile. Perfect for the village show so we felt it about time we included it.
- Cabbage Kilazol F1 – club root resistant with long storage and a great taste!
- Carrot Creampak F1 – a creamy-skinned gourmet type with a really strong sweet carroty taste
- Courgette Sure Thing F1 – self-pollinating and ideal for a small garden or greenhouse.
- Cress Curled – grow indoors all year round, ready to eat in just 6-8 days.
- Chilli Pepper Zimbabwe Black – purple stained foliage and colourful chillies that are hot, hot, hot.
- Cucumber Greenfit F1 – reliable and heavy crops of long bitter-free fruits.
- Leek Below Zero F1 – extreme cold tolerance and resistance to rust.
- Snap Pea Sugar Bon – a dwarf growing early maturing variety producing heavy crops of short tasty pods.
- Sugar Pod Peas Shiraz – a burgundy mangetout with a chestnutty taste.
- Chilli Pepper Scotch Bonnet – new to Dobies but established as one of the hottest varieties you can grow.
- Potato Axona – blight resistant maincrop that makes perfect mash.
- Potato Blue Danube – blight resistant general purpose maincrop.
- Spinach Amazon F1 – fast growing with attractive dark green foliage, perfect for using as baby leaves.
- Sweetcorn Mirai Picnic F1 – a super sweet variety good enough to eat raw.
- Tomato Crimson Crush – the world’s first fully blight resistant tomato!
And of course these are just the new additions to our already full and varied range! Browse our full range of new vegetable seeds here or request a catalogue and choose what to grow at your leisure.