“Wintergreen Offenham 3” is a very popular variety, it has proven itself as an excellent variety for early season cabbages. Extremely hardy, these faster-maturing spring greens are ideal for utilising redundant polytunnel space over the winter months. RHS AGM.

With very good resistance to early bolting this variety is ideal for summer sowing. If you can bear to keep your mitts of them, your will be rewarded with great flavoured spring cabbages with compact pointed hearts during April and May. RHS AGM.

It is very uplifting to go to the garden on a cold December day to harvest a perfect, intricately woven, beautiful white head of cauliflower. “All Year Round” produces good quality white heads and is an excellent all-purpose variety for successional sowing.

“Autumn Giant is a well-known and respected maincrop cauliflower with large dense white curds which are thoroughly protected by the leaves. Sow in mid spring for an autumn harvest, or late spring, for a winter harvest.

Cauliflower Chelsea is an outstanding variety for winter production (maturing in late May to June) produces quality white heads with good holding ability. The deep creamy white heads are well protected by large leaves.

One of the most beautiful vegetables and a true ‘Objet d'Art’.
Each complex, symmetrical head features whorls of pointy, chartreuse green ‘florets’, in a complex, bewitching design, an amazing example of phyllotaxis - the fractal patterning that can appear in nature.

Cauliflower Snowball is a superb heritage variety from the 1890's, this regular favourite has certainly stood the test of time. This easy maintenance variety is very suitable for the home gardener, the pure white, snowball-sized heads can be harvested when small or left to mature.

'Michihili' is a softer, loose leaf form of Chinese Cabbage. It has dense, narrow leaves with a deeper green outer colour with lighter green interior leaves with wide, flat white ribs. It produces a cylindrical, leafy head of 40cm long, a little more akin to a large romaine lettuce than to our familiar cabbages.

'Wong Bok' is a tender, sweet tasting, hearted-type of Chinese cabbage. Growing this fast growing cabbage is simplicity itself. Plant the seeds, stand back and once the secondary leaves appear you are a mere 30 days away from mealtime. This vegetable growing season promises to be very rewarding.