Tropaeolum majus 'Jewel Mix'

Nasturtium 'Jewel Mix'

Tropaeolum majus 'Jewel Mix'

Zones 2-5

<p>An easy to grow, compact nasturtium for gardens and planters producing colourful double blooms of light yellow, orange and deep red. Blooms until frost.</p><p>Direct seed in may where the plants are to grow in sunshine or part shade. Germinates at 18C in 14 days. Blooms in 10 weeks. Space 25cm apart, height 30-40cm. Approx. 7 seeds/g. Aphids are a serious problem with nasturtiums, but this can be put to good use in a vegetable area where a clump of nasturtiums can draw them away from your crop plants.</p><p>The spicy flowers and leaves are edible, they contain mustard oil. Leaves are used as a salad green and young seed pods are pickled like capers. T. majus varieties are the true old-fashioned nasturtium, having been in cultivation for over 300 years.</p>