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Artichoke 'Violet de Provence'
Artichoke€2.00
Artichoke ‘Violet de Provence’ is one of the most traditional of Italian vegetables. This delicious medium sized artichoke develops rich violet-purple headed globes. Few dishes are as satisfying to eat as the globe artichoke. Dip the leaves into warm balsamic-bacon dressing and fall in love with a little thistle! -
Basil, Mrs Burns' Lemon
Mrs. Burn's Lemon Basil€2.00Mrs Burns' Lemon Basil is a legendary heirloom, nothing short of an idol among fine chefs and gardeners alike. With the strongest aroma and flavour of all the lemon basils, the scent is powerful, resinous, and oily, followed by spicy cinnamon, with a strong floral note. It has a concentrated lemon oil taste, with mild spice and mint. -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Aquadulce'
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)€2.70 Aquadulce is highly prolific and easy to grow, and remains one of the most delicious in terms of flavour and texture. It can be sown anytime from autumn until spring and is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. RHS AGM -
Bean: Broad Bean 'The Sutton'
Dwarf variety. Broad Beans, Fava beans.
Heritage (English)€2.35 Growing to only 40cm tall, The Sutton produces a huge amount of tasty beans for such small plants, it is ideal for small gardens and with beautiful white flowers they would not look out of place if you grew them amongst flowers in a border. RHS AGM -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Witkiem'
Broad Beans, Fava or Horse Beans.€2.35 Broad Bean 'Witkiem' is the most versatile of vegetables and, as Hannibal Lector says it also goes perfectly with a glass of Chianti. Early to mature, it produces a good crop of plump, well filled pods with big tasty beans. Ready to harvest from June into September. -
Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Maxi' Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.95Out of stock
This French Bean may be dwarf but , oh la la – do they taste good! 'Maxi' is an outstanding variety producing high yields of long, slender pods that are stringless and full of flavour. Very easy to grow they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort. -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Sprite'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.00 Sprite is a lovely, elegant variety, producing exquisite smooth pencil thin pods on bushy, compact plants which need no support. The beans are the ‘filet’ type, very slender round dark green stringless pods. Generously produced and very tender. -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Stanley'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.20'Stanley' is a white flowering, white seeded variety that reliably delivers impressive yields of top quality beans. Resistant to Halo Blight, Anthracnose and BCMV. it reliably delivers very abundant yields of long, straight pods and top quality beans. -
Bean: French Climbing 'Cobra' Organic
Climbing French Bean.€2.70 A prolific cropper, French Bean 'Cobra' is a black-seeded variety that produces beans ahead of most other varieties. With lovely pale violet flowers, this vegetable is pretty enough to grow in the ornamental garden, too. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Firestorm'
Runner Bean€3.20Out of stock
With fewer bees and drier summers, runner bean crops have been recently been unpredictable. Runner Bean 'Firestorm' is the first self-fertile scarlet-flowered runner bean. They set well even in poor weather or high temperatures and produce prolific, smooth pods that are tender and stringless. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Lady Di'
Runner Bean€2.35Out of stock
Runner bean 'Lady Di' is an exceptional variety that produces long pods of exceptional quality. The long, slender beans are slow to develop seeds, meaning the pods can stay on the plant for longer before they become tough, giving you more time to harvest them. -
Beetroot 'Boltardy'
Globe Beetroot (Introduced in the early 1960s)€2.35 Boltardy is a very popular and reliable globe-shaped beetroot. A tried-and-tested cultivar, used as a yardstick against which other beetroot are measured. Due to its excellent resistance to bolting, it is recommended for early sowing, NIAB and RHS AGM. -
Beetroot 'Pablo F1'
Baby Beetroot, Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf.€2.75It 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. -
Cabbage 'Caraflex F1' Organic
York or Sweetheart Cabbage€3.50 When every little sprout and leaf seemingly has its 15 minutes in the spotlight, the possibility that cabbage is being recognised for its deliciousness, instead of its health benefits or affordability, is unexpected, to say the least. Exceptionally sweet and tender. Cabbage ‘Caraflex F1’ is unique. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Carrot 'Amsterdam Forcing 2'
Forcing, Early & Successional€1.85Out of stock
Amsterdam Forcing 2’ is a high quality variety which produces uniform, cylindrical 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 and for successional planting. -
Carrot 'Amsterdam Forcing 2' Organic
Forcing, Early & Successional€2.35 Amsterdam Forcing 2’ is a high quality variety which produces uniform, cylindrical 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 and for successional planting. Organic Seed. -
Carrot 'Autumn King'
Maincrop / Late variety€2.00 Unless 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. -
Carrot 'F1 Flyaway'
Second Early & Maincrop€2.50 '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 'F1 Sugarsnax 54'
Second Early & Maincrop€2.95 Carrot 'Sugarsnax 54' is a main crop variety and quite simply the sweetest carrot you will find. The long, thin, uniform roots are extra high in beta-carotene giving it a deeper orange colour and a super-sweet flavour make this an ideal carrot to eat right from the garden. -
Cauliflower 'Romanesco'
Romanesco broccoli, Calabrese romanesco, Broccoflower.
Heritage (Northern Italy)€2.00 One of the most beautiful vegetables and a true Objet d'Art. Each complex, symmetrical head features whorls of chartreuse green florets, in a complex, bewitching design, an amazing example of phyllotaxis - the fractal patterning that appears in nature. -
Celeriac 'Prinz' Organic
Celery Root, Turnip-Rooted or Knob Celery.€3.20 Celeriac ‘Prinz’ has twice been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. First awarded some years ago in 2000, the award was reconfirmed in the recent 2011 RHS Trails. The judges were impressed describing it as having ‘Compact plants with healthy foliage and deep, smooth, white skinned, well shaped globes’ -
Celery 'Victoria F1'
Self blanching, Summer celery.€2.80Out of stock
Celery ‘F1 Victoria’ is the UK's market leader for early and mid season production. Producing tall, well filled plants with medium green, smooth fleshy petioles, it performs well under difficult spring conditions. It is one of the best flavoured varieties available. -
Chard, Swiss Chard 'Bright Lights'
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard€2.00With more colours than Joseph’s Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Bright Lights is one of the best looking vegetables around. The stems are a veritable rainbow of colours. One of the easiest of vegetables to grow. RHS AGM and an AAS winner. -
Chard, Swiss Chard 'Bright Lights' Organic
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard€2.35With more colours than Joseph’s Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Bright Lights is one of the best looking vegetables around. The stems are a veritable rainbow of colours. One of the easiest of vegetables to grow. RHS AGM and an AAS winner. Organic Seeds.
