‘Mariska’ is a little known but hardy and compact variety of Dill. With starry bright yellow flower heads, abundant foliage and growing to only 60cm, this well behaved smaller dill is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower filler and is a great variety for the kitchen garden, windowsill or container.

Cabbage Brunswick is a fine flavoured, popular old variety. Cold hardy and drought tolerant It can be sown early and grown to huge proportions but is more usually sown in March to May for harvesting August to October. Used in soups or stews, made into sauerkraut or coleslaw.

'Cuor Di Bue Grosso' or 'Ox Heart’ is a Sweetheart type cabbage with a beautiful conical shape and sweet compact heart. This early variety that produces a mid-sized, conical head with large, firm, pointed hearts. The white hearts are crisp and sweet, excellent eaten fresh in salads or cooked.

Probably one of the most well known and reliable spring cabbages, Cabbage Durham Early produces dark green, medium-sized conical heads with good texture and tasty flavour. You can start harvesting particularly early in the season, and for delicious tender 'spring greens'.

Golden Acre is an excellent early summer variety ball head cabbage. With small to medium-sized green solid heads on compact plants. Ideal for confined areas, it can be grown at 30cm spacings. This Heritage variety gives excellent small heads of first rate quality and flavour.

Appropriately named, Greyhound is one of the earliest summer cabbages and a reliable old favorite. Very fast growing with a yield of mild flavoured tender juicy hearts. Well suited to successional sowing. Sow from February to July, crops will be ready for cutting from June to October.

January King, although a French heirloom, is also considered to be a traditional British cabbage and one of the best varieties for winter use. They are well adapted, withstanding frost and winter rain and remain crisp and crunchy with excellent colour.

Savoy cabbage ‘Ormskirk’ is a very old heritage variety, it gives a fine head of cabbage, solid in the centre with deep blue-green outer crinkly leaves and a pale green centre. It matures from November and can be harvested through to March and beyond.

A very well known and trusted variety, Cabbage Primo II produces solid 'ball head' cabbage. Sown from March onwards they are ready summer though early autumn. The round, medium sized heads are produced on neat compact plants. Delicious steamed, raw in salads or used for delicious, homemade coleslaw.

Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red heirloom variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy variety from the 1860s is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.