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.

Flourishing famously in Mediterranean and Chinese cultures, elsewhere Raab is still a bit of a curiosity. Easy and fast growing, it can be useful as it comes ready when ordinary broccoli isn't available, but this isn't just a replacement for broccoli, it is a great vegetable in its own right.

Introduced to the seed trade between 1914-1918. This lovely, old fashioned Broccoli variety is a very disease resistant, very hardy and very prolific producer of large dark green heads. Italian Green Sprouting Broccoli will produce a number of good-size side shoots once the initial head is harvested.

“Miranda” is a very distinctive new Calabrese. It produces a distinctly beautiful, large violet head on a central stalk. Once the main head is removed, small side shoots form which are tender, delicious and ideal for florets. Hugely fashionable, very pretty to look at and extremely beneficial to health!

Fresh Brussels sprouts, properly cooked, are deliciously delicate in flavour. Bedford Darkmar 21 is an open pollinated, mid to late season variety, Darkmar gives heavy crops of medium sized, dark green sprouts with a fine flavour. Harvest from December so ideal for Christmas.

Brussel Sprouts 'Evesham Special' has become a real old favourite for its generous crops which are ready particularly early in the season. They will give harvests over a long period from September till Christmas. Growing to only 60cm (24in) in height, a good choice for exposed sites and smaller gardens.

F1 Trafalgar is a splendid, British bred mid season hybrid. A tall variety for the November, December and into January cropping period, it is one of the best tasting and sweetest varieties available and a good variety for Christmas sprouts.