The easy way to get your vegetable patch started. Ten varieties carefully chosen for their quality and performance, to provide reliable and nutritious fare for your kitchen table. And to top it all, you make a saving of over 20%!

Black Beauty was introduced about 1910 and has long been popular with home gardeners. An excellent quality variety, early to mature it gives and abundant crop of tasty fruits that are clear of the ground. Sturdy plants produce high yields of glossy, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit.

Aubergine Moneymaker F1 is an excellent choice for the British climate. An early-cropping variety that doesn’t need Mediterranean heat. Large, glossy purplish-black skinned oval fruits The fruits hold their quality and colour well after picking.

“Bunyards Exhibition” broad beans are a favorite of Chefs worldwide and the most popular old variety with home gardeners because of their beautiful colour and unique flavour. This reliable early English white longpod can be sown in autumn in mild areas and successionally sown throughout the spring.

Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli has been selected for its hardiness and flavour. Heavy cropping it has good quality spears that can be harvested over many weeks. It is one of the most flavoursome of vegetables, standing beside asparagus and globe artichokes. Sweet and delicate, it melts in the mouth.

Sprouting Broccoli “White Eye” is a very early, uniform variety which will produce delicious tender white spears in February and March. You’ll never regret planting it, we can guarantee that once you taste it, you will cultivate broccoli every year.

Extra-Early Purple Sprouting “Rudolph” is bred to perform well in the September to February period but is at its best from November to February. With medium to large, deep purple, succulent spears that have outstanding flavour, team with Cardinal for a longer harvest period.

Late Purple Sprouting “Cardinal” is our latest cropping variety for harvest late March to May. Heavy cropping, it produces medium large deep purple spears with excellent flavour on large framed uniform plants. Team with extra early sprouting varieties, such as “Rudolph” for an extended harvesting period.

If more people tasted home grown Purple Sprouting Broccoli they would surely cultivate it. You would see it on London balconies, in country herbaceous borders and standing proud in every kitchen garden in the land. Late Purple Sprouting Broccoli follows on from Early Sprouting.

Home grown sprouting broccoli is the ultimate treat at the start of spring. White Sprouting “White Star” Broccoli is a uniform variety which produces abundant pretty white broccoli spears. This late variety will produce delicious tender spears in April and May.