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Beetroot “Boltardy” is a smooth skinned globe variety, with excellent resistance to bolting. Recommended for early sowing, with good colour and a sweet fresh flavour, they are also grown for their young leafy growth and becoming increasingly popular as a ‘mini-veg’. Remarkably easy to grow.
Chioggia or Barabietola di Chioggia is a globe-shaped heirloom Italian variety. With a rosy orange-pink outer skin and a distinctive dartboard pattern when cut, it is sometimes known as Bull’s Eye Beet or Candy Stripe Beet. Bands of white flesh alternate with bands of pink or rosy red.
Beetroot Cylindra is a dark red, cylindrical root. This unique variety has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre, the root maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. With an earthy-caramel taste, they are especially lovely when roasted.
Detroit 2 Bolivar is a classic, main-crop globe beetroot which produces excellent quality, smooth skinned globe beets with strong skin and flesh colour. It is a high yielding variety with good internal colouring and excellent taste. Organic Seed
It is not without reason that Pablo F1 is a winner of the RHS AGM. These exceptionally uniform, smooth skinned, perfectly round beets have a wonderfully attractive rich red colouration and excellent skin quality. A great choice for baby beetroot or it can be left to mature.
Storuman is a fast growing globe beetroot that produces smooth, tasty roots with a deep red internal colour. The leaf development is large and strong. Not yet widely available, it is suited to both early and main crops and keeps fresh long after harvesting. Organic SeedRegarded as both a nutritious vegetable and curative medicinal, the Burdock root is widely used in all sorts of cuisines from the classic English summer drink to the classic Japanese 'Kinpira'. Seeds can be also sprouted like bean sprouts; nothing goes to waste with this plant.
Atomic Red is a lovely new variety helping restore the wide variety of carrot colours that were present before the 16th Century. This distinctively beautiful scarlet-coral coloured carrot produces long tapered roots. Suitable for maincrop use it thrives in cooler weather.
Launched in 2005, Cosmic Purple reportedly causes a great stir at grower's and farmers markets. With compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers, it has quickly established itself. A Danver's type carrot with straight roots and a sweet flavour, it matures in 65 to 70 days.
Carrot “F1 Red Samurai” is a distinctive and beautiful carrot, with long tapered roots and uniform bright red skin. Juicy, crisp and flavourful, Samurai produces conical roots that will grow to 28 to 35cm long. Sow successionally from March to July for harvesting June to September
While its sunny colour makes the Solar Yellow carrot unique, these colourful carrots aren’t just appealing to the Martha Stewart types, their real appeal is to growers in search of is its juicy sweet flavour and characteristic crunch. Matures in 65 to 70 days.
‘Bambino’ is a baby carrot variety producing slender, cylindrical blunt roots with a very small core. Sweet tasting, with smooth skin and crisp texture. Bambino carrots are best pulled when only 10 to 15cm in length. Organic Seed. Chantenay is deservedly well known, a popular small variety of carrot with orange-red flesh and a fine crisp texture. A premium all purpose, intermediate, stump-rooted variety, with broad shoulders and a blunt tip. With a good, sweet flavour, they taste as carrots used to taste.
Originating from Nantes in France, Nantes 2 is an excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it matures in 110 days. It is virtually coreless with a tender texture, deep orange colour and sweet flavour. Certified Organic. Amsterdam Forcing 2’ is a high quality variety which produces uniform, cylindrical, blunt tipped baby carrots with a rich deep orange red colour and almost no core. Fast to grow and one of the earliest to mature. Ideal for early forcing, early crops and for successional planting.
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