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.

Regarded 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.

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.