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.

For those who like the flavour and aroma of Habanero peppers but find them too hot. Aji Dulce has the same shape, size, colour and aroma, but is sweet, spicy, and delicious, with little or no heat. The flavour is spicy and complex, with overtones of black pepper and coriander.

Arguably the most under-rated pepper in the pepper family, Poblanos are one of the most popular peppers grown in Mexico. With a mild chili taste, they are perfect for adding just a touch of zing to spaghetti sauces, sandwiches, steaks and they are excellent stuffed. Very easy to grow and even easier to harvest.

Originally from California, Red Fresno peppers are of similar size and hotness to jalapeños, they are sometimes labeled "red jalapenos", which they aren't, they are less meaty and have thinner skin. This mild / hot chili has a great flavour; it is an exceptional chilli for pickling and salad making.

Chocolate Habanero is from the Caribbean has a unique rich, smoky flavour unlike any other chilli pepper and packs a punch far spicier than regular Habanero. It has little to do with the sweet treat we associate with chocolate, save for the beautiful, rich colour of its skin.

Orange Habanero are closely related to the Scotch Bonnet, they are fiery hot and extremely pungent with an aromatic flavour and a clean but very intense heat. Between 200,000 to 300,000 Scovilles. The fruits are lantern shaped, small and wrinkled and ripen from green to light orange.

The White Habanero is a lovely and rare variety that is hard to come by and said to originate from Peru. These awesomely hot chillies have a distinctive smoky flavour and the creamy-white fruits make for striking plants. Maturing in around 90 days, this is a rare and unusual chilli for your collection.

Long Slim Red Cayenne is one of the best known hot chili peppers, it is a good long hot chilli that always performs well and dries nicely. Producing an abundance of very wrinkled fruits which have thin flesh, they are used fresh in hot sauces or dried and ground for cayenne pepper.

Serrano peppers are fleshy and meaty with the unique flavour so popular in Mexican cuisine. The abundant candle-flame shaped fruit are green, then red at full maturity and are borne on attractive erect, branching plants. They red chilies are often be threaded on string and dried as a colourful ornament.

Tabasco peppers are an American legend. Originally from Costa Rica they are the most well known type of Capsicum frutescens.These fiery little jewels are the primary ingredient in tabasco sauce. This Greenleaf strain has been bred to be resistant to tobacco etch virus (TEV) and give a lot of firepower!

Jalapeño chilli peppers are very versatile: hot enough for a good kick, but still mild enough to use as a vegetable.The smooth, dark green fruits which ripen to red have thick walls with a rounded tip. Rates between 2,500 and 5,000 Scoville units.

Courgette “Ambassador F1” is an attractive variety and an outstanding hybrid that gives attractive dark green courgettes over a long period. A popular professionally-grown variety and well known for the home gardener, it is an early fruiting, high yielding courgette which matures in fifty days.