Squash
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All zucchinis have edible flowers!
Cucurbita pepo — A most prolific and easy vegetable to grow. Sow just like pumpkins in warm soil and mulch well. The Italian zucchini (meaning ‘baby marrow’) replaced the watery English vegetable marrows and ushered in a transformation of Mediterranean foods and cooking. Our heirlooms are ready to pick in just 60 days when they are small and tender – pick often for the table and they will produce all summer! Oct-Dec Sep-Dec All year
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Trailing vine
Tromboncino
Jaune et Verte
Picked young, the flesh is sweet and buttery. The tender skin cooks to lime green. Compact variety producing scalloped fruit over a long period. This French heirloom created much excitement amongst those of us who have never been convinced about the merits of growing squash! Harvest from 7 weeks, yields 3kg per plant. 30 seeds
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$3.95
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$2.95
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Looking more like a melon than a squash, this fruit can be boiled or roasted. Cut it open and the flesh shreds into ready made pasta, without the extra carbs! Try it with feta and a sprinkling of fresh herbs for a gourmet treat that is so easy to prepare. Pick when yellow. Harvest in 15 weeks, yields 5 fruit per plant.
zucchini
S192
Tri Colour Mix
Zucchini
Oct-Dec
Sep-Dec
All year
80cm
H 6-10 weeks Y 5-24 fruit per plant
zucchini
$3.95
CLUB
$2.95
CODE
S189
Collection includes zucchini Tromboncino, broccoli Green Sprouting, capsicum Chinese Giant, cucumber Mini Muncher, pea Greenfeast, pumpkin Delicata, broad bean Aquadulce and tomato Tommy Toe. Substitutes may apply.
S254
1m
Train the quick growing vines up a trellis so they grows straight, not curved. The outstanding flavoured fruit can reach 1m but best is picked at 25cm. Huge yields, fruits for months. 18 seeds
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$3.95
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S192
Long Florence
Picked with its flower attached “before it’s out of the cradle”, this olive-green ribbed zucchini from Italy is the Pick flowers for stuffing or leave fruit until it is 15cm best selection for long harvest (4 months). The flowers of this zucchini are by far the biggest we have seen, with long. Produces more fruit than the standard hybrid plenty of room for your favourite summer fillings. Black Jack. Just 9 weeks to harvest. 15 seeds RETAIL $3.95 CLUB $2.95 CODE S3752 15 seeds RETAIL $4.95 CLUB $3.95 CODE S253
Black Beauty organic
Golden Zucchini
Costata
Definitely one of the quickest and easiest vegies you can The star for slicing! A standout Italian heirloom with grow. Sow the seed of these sunshine yellow zucchinis heavily ribbed fruit that look like stars when sliced and on a warm spring day and in just 9 weeks you will Gem Squash served. Firm flesh is perfect for steaming, stir-fries or harvesting and barbecuing these healthy summer treats. This South African Gem is a semi-trailing vine grilling. Harvest in just 6 weeks, 25 fruit per plant. NEW! 20 seeds RETAIL $3.95 CLUB $2.95 CODE S2543 producing grapefruit-sized squash that can be eaten fresh or stored as a mini-sized pumpkin for roasting. 20 seeds RETAIL $4.95 CLUB $3.95 CODE S2541 Sometimes called Cannonball Squash due to Help zucchinis ... their size and shape, they are sweet when small and Tri Colour Mix ... pollinate by carefully transferring savoury when larger. A prefect variety for growing Golden yellow, rich green and cool white zucchinis are pollen from a male to a female flower easy to grow. Only 9 weeks from sowing to harvest! up a trellis. when they open early in the morning. RETAIL CLUB CODE RETAIL CLUB CODE 20 seeds $3.95 $2.95 S1901 25 seeds $4.95 $3.95 S254 RETAIL
8 Packets — Recreate the popular Diggers mini plot in your own backyard with these high yielding varieties. This collection is perfect for those just starting out and those who want to grow a bumper harvest! Grow the broccoli, broad beans and peas over autumn and winter, and when the weather warms up sow zucchini, capsicum, cucumber, pumpkin and tomato.
Tromboncino
Cucurbita pepo — Fast, easy to grow and very productive, these ‘baby marrows’ are delicious when picked young!
S2542
Spaghetti Squash
15 seeds
Mini Plot Vegie Kit
70-80cm
H 7-17 weeks Y 5-24 fruit per plant
Three Sisters
RETAIL
$39.95
CLUB
$24.95
CODE
S277
Heirloom Legends
Field of Sunflowers
6 Packets — If you are just starting out with heirlooms or simply can’t decide what to grow, then this collection of our iconic heirlooms is for you! Includes one pack each of Lazy Housewife Bean, carrot Purple Dragon, tomato Tommy Toe, corn Golden Bantam (Pumpkin Ironbark instead for TAS/WA residents), watermelon Moon and Stars plus our Five Colour Silverbeet.
4 Packets — Nothing says summer quite like the happy round faces of sunflowers. Easy to grow from seed and are an ideal way to get kids into the garden. Why not share some seeds with your friends and family and have your own tallest sunflower competition? This selection of multi-headed and single stemmed varieties includes yellow, burgundy and red sunflowers – one packet each of Van Gogh, Moonwalker, Giant Russian and Evening Sun. Substitutes may apply.
RETAIL
$22.50
CLUB
TAS & WA only
$19.95 CODE
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S281WA
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S281
RETAIL
$19.95
CLUB
$12.95
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Jaune et Verte
S253
squash
Long Florence
S2542
42 • Diggers Seed Annual 2015/16
zucchini
S3752
Spaghetti
Costata
squash
S189
zucchini
S2541
Golden
Gem
squash
zucchini
S1901
S2543
3 Packets — This planting combination was one of the first sustainable gardening practices developed by native Americans. The strong stalks of the Golden Bantam corn (Honey & Cream corn for NT/TAS/WA) provide a support for the climbing Rattlesnake beans, and in return the beans stabilise the corn in strong winds. The beans also fix nitrogen into the soil and this is then available for the corn and squash. The large leaves of the Wee B Little pumpkin act as a mulch and so suppress weeds and prevent water evaporating from the soil. So plant the Three Sisters today and feel connected to the gardening pioneers from many centuries ago! RETAIL
$12.50
CLUB
$9.95
CODE
S2612
code below for NT/TAS/WA orders only RETAIL
$12.50
CLUB
$9.95
CODE
S2612Q
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Organic Seeds
Low Income Special!
zucchini
(Pumpkin)
S780
Budget Breaker
Black Beauty
Corn, Beans & Squash
Grow 2 tonnes of food for just $19.95! Make a limited income stretch further with this collection of our highest yielding varieties. This collection has helped thousands of Aussie battlers and the unemployed get started. 13 Packets — Grow 120kg of pumpkins, 824kg of tomatoes (2pkts), 268kg of cucumbers, 22kg of peas, 21kg of beans, 560 lettuces (195kg), 560 carrots (42kg), 200 parsnips (115kg), 840 onions (2 pkts), 247 broccoli heads and 60 bunches of silverbeet (157kg). Available to Health Care Card holders only. 13 packets of seed for just $19.95
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These seeds have been grown by certified organic growers which means you can confidently grow truly organic food in your own backyard. With the popularity of organic vegetables still on the rise, these varieties will always be in demand. 11 Packets — Collection includes lettuce Baby Cos, carrot Atomic Red, eggplant Long Purple, melon Eden’s Gem, broccoli Green Sprouting, capsicum Sweet Chocolate, bean Sex Without Strings, zucchini Black Beauty, tomato Green Zebra, tomato Legend and cucumber Mini Muncher. Substitutes may apply. MEMBERS SAVE 40% RETAIL
$49.95
CLUB
$29.95
CODE
S256
S260
Diggers Seed Annual 2015/16 • 43