The Gourmet Gardeners Collection is a collection of five of the more unusual vegetables, designed to inspire food connoisseurs and vegetable growers alike. All are great delicacies and none are difficult to grow.
Each of the seeds come complete with an A5 information sheet containing pictures, information about the plant, sowing guidelines and cultivation advice.

The packs can also be purchased individually. Please see the click on the name for the full details of each vegetable. If you would like to purchase all five packs, this listing enables you to receive a discount of over 20%.

Pack 1:
Asparagus “Connover’s Colossal” - Asparagus officialis - 1.25 grams ~ 50 seeds.
The delicately flavoured young shoots of asparagus are one of the great luxuries of the vegetable plot, although much of the mystique surrounding their cultivation is unwarranted.
Connover’s Colossal us a traditional cultivar with good yields from selected crowns. One of the most sought-after vegetables, asparagus is not difficult to grow if kept well fed and weed free

Pack 2:
Fennel "Zefa Fino"- Florence Fennel or Bulbing Fennel – 750mg ~ 200 seeds.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, Zefa Fino is a superior strain of fennel that is ideal for cool climates and the best fennel for garden use. It will bulb reliably and doesn't bolt from a spring sowing even when transplanted. Harvests in 80 days.

Pack 3:
Italian Chicory “Palla Rossa 3” Cichorium intybus - 1 gram ~ 750 seeds.
Italian Chicory or Radicchio is a gourmet type of vegetable. “Palla Rosso” from Chioggia in Italy is a reliable radicchio that forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outside green leaves.
Palla Rossa is known for its compactness, size and flavour. With uniform well wrapped round heads it yields a leaf for use either as a baby leaf or as whole heads.

Pack 4:
Cauliflower ‘Romanesco’ - Brassica oleraceae var. botrytis - 380mg ~ 100 seeds.
This has to be one of the most beautiful vegetables around - 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.
An old Italian vegetable variety that's been rediscovered, Romanesco cauliflower is often called romanesco broccoli, calabrese romanesco or minaret especially in Italian recipes.
Romanesco is delicious with a flavour is somewhere between broccoli and cauliflower and a sweet nuttiness that is bereft of the slightly bitter edge cauliflower can have, children tend to like it for this very reason.
If you cook it whole, dunking it in boiling water for a few minutes until tender, it's one of the most impressive greens you can serve.

Pack 5:
Artichoke “Green Globe” - Cyanara scolymus 20 Seeds.
Large and tasty heads of green buds have made Green Globe Britain's most popular variety of Artichoke, a great delicacy, steam or boil and serve with melted lemon butter or hollandaise sauce.
These are perennial plants and will produce more heads with each successive year. Globe artichokes are a popular dual-purpose plant. They are grown not only for food but often as borders in ornamental gardens.