Nasturtium- 8.5cm Pot
UK Grown
In the world of edible annual flowers, nasturtiums are one of the tastiest and easiest to grow.
While most edible flowers have a subtle flavor, nasturtiums knock your socks off with their peppery taste.
It's not just the flowers and buds that are packed with a strong flavor; the young leaves are tender and edible as well.
Nasturtiums are popular with chefs and home gardeners because their colourful flowers not only dress up a plate, they're high in vitamins A, C (10 times as much as lettuce), and D.
Nasturtiums are one of the quickest and easiest annuals to grow.
They produce masses of vividly coloured blooms from midsummer right through to the first autumn frosts in a surprisingly wide range of colours – not just orange, yellow and red but also cream, salmon pink, burgundy and crimson (and often a mix of several of these).
Also known as Indian cress nasturtiums also make good companion plants on the veg patch – the caterpillars of large and small white butterflies feed on the leaves, luring them away from brassicas, while blackly are attracted to the leaves, which may mean your beans escape attack.
Bees & butterflies love the flowers.
Nasturtiums need sunshine for at least half the day in order to grow well. A free-draining soil is essential; nasturtiums flower best on poor soils. Fertile soil results in lots of leafy growth at the expense of flowers and flowers that are buried beneath the foliage.
Grow nasturtiums at the front of a border, up an obelisk, as companion planting on the veg patch or spilling over the edge of raised beds and pots.
Young plants growing in 8.5cm pots
