Dobies’ new vegetable seed range 2023 includes exciting new varieties to tantalise your taste buds!
For our 2023 vegetable seed range, we’ve added 44 new cultivars to keep your allotments, veg patches and containers well stocked. Highlights from the new range include brilliant brassicas for colour and flavour, plus sweet and delicious root veg.
Here are just a few highlights from our 2023 seed range to inspire you!
Cauliflower ‘Amo 125’ F1
The first orange Romanesco-type cauliflower available!
Cauliflower ‘Amo 125’ is an Amoresco cauliflower boasting beautiful conical curds with a bright orange surface and a lighter orange colour that stays throughout the curd, even when cooked!
Mild & sweet tasting
Good looking and great tasting, ‘Amo 125’ is perfect for creating a cauliflower cheese with a difference and great to snack on with dips; you can even add it to homemade piccalilli for a twist.
Sow: May to June
Plant: June to July
Harvest: late October to November
Beetroot ‘Jolie’ F1
Sweet & great tasting!
Beetroot ‘Jolie’ is one of the sweetest and best tasting beetroot we have found, measuring up to 13.5 Brix.
Pick as baby or mature beets
Harvest the dark red, round roots either as baby beets or leave them to grow larger for roasting or pickling. Beets can be stored for up to 4 months in ideal conditions.
Don’t forget the foliage!
The nutrient-rich leaves make a tasty addition to salads.
‘Jolie’ produces strong plants with dense foliage that provides good groundcover, so weeds are less of a problem.
Sow: March to July
Harvest: June to October
Turnip ‘Silky Sweet’ F1
‘Silky Sweet’ flips the turnip on its head!
Turnip ‘Silky Sweet’ is so sweet and juicy that it can be eaten like an apple but with the texture of a firm peach. That’s why we call it the ‘snacking turnip’!
You won’t believe it’s a turnip as it’s so juicy too!
As its name implies, this terrific new turnip tastes sweet and mild rather than woody and hot. It matures in 35-40 days and stays sweet and tender even as it ages.
Harvest when they’re the size of golf balls and eat the ice-white roots as a snack or add them raw to salads.
Sow: March to June
Harvest: May to October
Kale ‘Cottagers’
Unusual frilly, green/purple leaves!
Kale ‘Cottagers’ is an attractive and flavour-packed variety that originated from a cross between a kale and Brussels sprout, which was then re-crossed with purple sprouting broccoli. This created a marvellous mix with a mild, almost nutty, kale flavour – delicious steamed or sauté it with butter and black pepper.
This breeding piqued the interest of Charles Darwin and is mentioned in his writings for the Gardeners’ Chronical, 1860 and his book Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868.
Extremely hardy for leaves throughout winter
Extremely hardy, Kale ‘Cottagers’ provides a tasty supply of leaves throughout the winter. Unlike other kales, a secondary crop of tasty side shoots is produced on the stems from late autumn to early spring – these are like mini flower sprouts and can be harvested as a second crop.
Sow: May to June
Plant: June to July
Harvest: September to April
Plan your plot for 2023!
Our range of new vegetable seeds has been specially selected to give you high-quality to seeds to grow for something new on your dinner plate. View the full range of new vegetable seeds here and get growing!