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Cauliflower 'All Year Round'
Successional vareity. Heritage (English)€1.75It 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.
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Carrot 'Purple Dragon'
Maincrop€2.35Launched in 2005, Purple carrots caused a great stir at grower's and farmers markets. With compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers they have quickly established themselves as an interesting choice of many home growers. 'Purple Dragon' has a beautiful purple skin, the deep velvety exterior gives way to a starburst of brilliant orange at the core.
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Carrot 'Nantes 2' Organic
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€2.45Originating 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 is virtually coreless with a tender texture and sweet flavour. -
Carrot 'Nantes 2'
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€1.95Early Nantes 2 An excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it matures in 110 days in a warm climate and reaches an average size of 15cm. Ideal for freezing. Sow February to August, harvest in June to October .Carrot 'Kuroda'
Maincrop & Successional
Heritage (Japan 1950's)€1.95Carrot ‘Kuroda’ is a refined Chantenay strain that is widely adaptable, suitable for growth almost everywhere. Producing high quality, uniform roots of great flavour, it is highly tolerant to heat and thrives in even the poorest of soils, use as a main crop for enormous yields that mature late in the season, Kuroda keeps well in cold storage and is an awesome juicer.
Carrot 'Heirloom Mixture' Organic
Four Colourful Varieties€2.95With their compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers, colourful vareities of carrots have quickly established themselves to be de rigueur for both home growers and market gardeners. This season we are offering a mix of four rare and unusual, heirloom varieties. Organic Seeds.Carrot 'F1 Napoli' Organic
Extra early variety, Early Nantes type.€2.95This is the extra early carrot that organic gurus rave about. With incredibly sweet flavour and uniform growth, carrot 'Napoli F1' has assumed cult status with growers. Sow in August in a raised bed or beneath a cloche, and experience the full flavour of winter 'candy carrots'. Organic Seeds.Carrot 'F1 Flyaway'
Second Early & Maincrop€3.50Out of stock
'F1 Flyaway' is the result of over 15 years breeding, an excellent carrot fly resistant variety with cylindrical roots and a good blunt end. Most importantly they are naturally succulent and sweet, with good skin and flesh colour. Crops early summer through to autumn.Carrot 'Chantenay 2 Red Cored'
Maincrop & Successional
Heritage (France mid 1800's)€1.95Originating from the Chantenay region of France. Carrot 'Chantenay 2' is deservedly well known, a popular small variety of carrot with orange-red flesh and a fine crisp texture. Particularly popular with children because of their sweet crunchiness and small size, one carrot is perfectly designed to fit snugly into the hand of a small child.
Carrot 'Berlicum'
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€1.95Famously named after the town in the Netherlands from where it originated, Carrot Berlicum is a long, cylindrical shaped, stump rooted type of carrot, suitable for maincrop production. It has good colour and texture, a high sugar content, fine carrot flavour and a crisp tenderness.Carrot 'Autumn King' Organic
Maincrop / Late variety€2.75Autumn King is one of the best main crop carrot varieties, with a deep red colouring and long conical roots. A vigorous carrot with the potential to be the highest yielding of all, it resists greening and splitting so stores well left in the ground and is an excellent variety for storing.Carrot 'Autumn King'
Maincrop / Late variety€2.00Unless you have tasted the stunning sweetness of a carrot pulled from your own garden in the dead of winter you haven’t really tasted a carrot. This favourite of home gardeners can be grown as a maincrop or late variety and is an excellent variety for storing.Cardamon, Amomum subulatum
Cardamom€2.70Out of stock
Amomum subulatum the cardamon or cardamom plant is native to damp, forested valleys from the eastern Himalayas to central China. It won't yield enough pods for a bountiful crop of the spice, but makes an interesting conversation piece and a satisfying challenge for the adventurous gardener.
Caraway, Carum carvi
Meridian Fennel or Persian Cumin€1.55Caraway is an incredibly useful plant. The seeds are used as a culinary spice and for medicinal purposes, the leaves can be eaten in salads and the roots cooked as a root vegetable. With feathery, delicate foliage the plant is lovely in the garden border and is a very useful companion plant in the vegetable garden.
Calendula officinalis, Organic
Pot Marigold, English Marigold. Herb Marigold€2.25Calendula officinalis is prolific and durable and so are perfect candidates for cutting and flower arrangements. Sprinkle salads and decorate cakes with the edible tangy petals. Organic Seed.Calendula officinalis 'Neon'
Pot Marigold, English Marigold. Herb Marigold€1.85Calendula officinalis 'Neon' is a true showstopper. The densely set, double flowers glow with deep orange petals each with bronze tips. Growing to a height of around 60 to 70cm they are the essence of early summer colour in the garden and make a stunning cut flower.
Calendula officinalis
Pot Marigold, English Marigold. Herb MarigoldStarting at: €2.25
Cheerful and bright, use Calendula in beds, borders or containers. Calendula is prolific and durable, and like most hardy annuals it is easy to grow, simply sow where it is to flower. It is currently one of the top herbs used for medicinal use. Sprinkle salads and decorate cakes with the edible tangy petals.
Cabbage 'Wirosa F1'
Savoy Cabbage, Early Winter Savoy€2.95Cabbage ‘Wirosa F1' is a very useful early variety of savoy Cabbage, with finely blistered leaves and a vigorous plant habit. Reliable and frost hardy, the cycle plantation to harvest is around 160 days. It can be sown early under glass for the earliest harvests.
Cabbage 'Vorbote 3' Organic
Winter Savoy Cabbage€2.75Vorbote Cabbage is an early maturing savoy type with slightly pointed heads and with attractive, crinkled and blistered leaves and a robust flavour and texture. With good field standing ability it has an arctic-like tolerance to the cold.Cabbage 'Vertus' Organic
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy€3.25Savoy cabbage ‘Vertus’ produces heads of finely blistered, dark green ruffled leaves that have a sweet, subtle flavour. This mid-late, frost hardy variety produces cabbages that have the ability to withstand even severe cold weather. Sow April to early June, harvest October to February. Organic Seeds.Cabbage 'Vertus'
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy€2.45Savoy cabbage ‘Vertus’ produces heads of finely blistered, dark green ruffled leaves that have a sweet, subtle flavour. This mid-late, frost hardy variety produces cabbages that have the ability to withstand even severe cold weather. Sow April to early June, harvest October to February.
Cabbage 'Red Drumhead'
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (1860's)€1.95Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red heirloom variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy variety from the 1860s is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.
Cabbage 'Paresa F1' Organic
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy€3.95‘Paresa F1' is a very late, reliable and frost hardy variety of Savoy Cabbage. With a maturity period from December to March, Cabbage 'Paresa' can be sown as late as the end of July, planted out in August and harvested in March, when greens are so very welcome. Organic Seeds.Cabbage 'Kalibos' Organic
Late Summer to Autumn€2.95Cabbage 'Kalibos' is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour. Organic Seeds.