Description

Nasturtium ‘Peach Melba’ is a dwarf, compact, non-trailing, edible plant to 30cm tall. It is suitable for containers or hanging baskets. The flowers are cream to pale yellow with red centres. Flowers and young leaves are edible, usually eaten raw. Single petals can add a touch of colour and a peppery kick to a salad. Immature seed heads can be used as ‘poor man’s capers’. Nasturtiums are drought tolerant once established. ‘Peach Melba’ does not produce as many seeds as trailing varieties.
The wide, open flowers mean that nasturtiums can easily cross-pollinate so the seeds which self-sow may not be the same colour as those which grew in the same place the previous year. In order to maintain the ‘Peach Melba’ strain, hand pollinate then cover the fertilised flower to block insect visits (or grow only ‘Peach Melba’).