Direct Sow In Autumn
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Pea 'Kelvedon Wonder' Organic
Second early / maincrop, Low-growing variety.
Heritage (Essex, England 1925)€2.95Out of stock
Kelvedon Wonder is an award winning, popular and well-flavoured pea which grows on a dwarf plants, making it excellent for container growing and smaller gardens. Fast growing and heavy cropping it can be can be sown in succession from March to July. Organic Seeds.
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Pea 'Terrain'
Maincrop€2.25Pea 'Terrain' is a recent introduction and one of the most the most exciting developments of recent times. Yield, pod quality and taste – Pea Terrain couldn’t be beaten. Considered the most mildew resistant pea available this powerhouse pea is ideal for late summer sowing, especially in June/July enabling peas to be picked into November and up to a hard frost.
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Phacelia tanacetifolia 'Lacy Phacelia'
Wildlife, Set-aside, Cover Crop or Green ManureStarting at: €2.35
Out of stock
Phacelia is a very attractive plant and one with a variety of uses. Very rich in both nectar and pollen, it is listed as one of the top 20 honey-producing flowers for honeybees. It is ideal for a wildlife-friendly planting scheme and makes a wonderful green manure.
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Purslane, Claytonia 'Winter Purslane'
Miner's Lettuce, Indian Lettuce€1.75This incredibly succulent, melt-in-your-mouth raw salad green has recently gained popularity in the gourmet greens world, attracting both world class growers and chefs. Best used fresh and tiny, these elegant leaves bring a rich, tart-creaminess to delicate, micro-green salads.
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Purslane, Claytonia 'Winter Purslane' Organic
Miner's Lettuce, Indian Lettuce€1.85Miner’s Lettuce may not sound like the most appetising of edibles. But if you were a miner during the California Gold Rush, the sight of these plants emerging from the soft soil would have been as welcome as a plethora of gold nuggets. It appears in the early spring, when you are hungry for something fresh, the winter crops are quite exhausted but the lettuces aren’t quite ready. Organic Seeds
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Rocket, 'Wild Rocket'
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula
Ancient Crop. True Wild Variety€1.50'Wild' or 'Perennial' rocket is gaining in popularity; it has narrower and more deeply divided, aromatic leaves than the annual variety. With a sharp and clean flavour they hardly need a dressing. For restaurant quality micro-greens or pesto, use wild rocket when only the finest ingredients will do!
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Rocket, 'Wild Rocket' Organic
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula
Ancient Crop. True wild variety€1.75Out of stock
'Wild' Rocket, also known as perennial rocket has a more intense flavour than annual varieties and can be grown outdoors all year round. Suitable to container growing, use as a baby leaf in salad mixes. It can be 'cut and come again' two to three times. Organic Seed.
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Rocket, Salad Rocket 'Dentellata'
Cultivated Rocket
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.50'Dentellata' is a classic salad rocket with a typical wild rocket indented leaf shape. With good texture and colour it has a mild flavour. Also known as arugula, it is popular in Italy and Southern France, where it has been grown and eaten for centuries.
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Rocket, Salad Rocket 'Esmee' Organic
Cultivated Rocket
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.65Salad Rocket 'Esmee' has beautiful oakleaf type leaves, typically found in mesclun mixes, the rounded leaves gives a salad an attractive, three-dimensional texture. For bunching, cut just above soil level. For baby leaf, clip leaves for cut-and-come-again. Organic Seed.
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Rocket, Salad Rocket 'Green Brigade'
Cultivated Rocket
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€2.00In recent years, Rocket has undergone a renaissance and a whole range of varieties are now available in a variety of leaf shapes and flavours. Rocket 'Green Brigade' is a refined variety of the classic salad rocket type. The plant has an upright habit for ease of harvesting and is suitable for growing all year round.
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Rocket, Salad Rocket 'Pronto'
Cultivated Rocket,
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.60Rocket 'Pronto' is a very attractive and fast growing salad rocket. A clear improvement to regular varieties, the highly serrated leaves resemble the shape of wild rocket yet are mildly spicy with a nutty, light peppery flavour. Ideal as a bed for seafood and it also makes a wonderful salad on its own.
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Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Dragons Tongue'
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.95Rocket ‘Dragons Tongue’ is a distinctive wild rocket variety with striking purple-red leaf veins which contrast beautifully with the dark green leaf. It is the essence of a lightly flavoured rocket – honeyed, grassy and only lightly peppery. It is something a bit little bit different for the salad bowl.
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Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Giove'
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.60Out of stock
GIOVE, the Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element are the satellites that test technology in orbit for the Galileo positioning system, while Rocket ‘Giove’ is a new wild rocket variety that has been bred for flavour. Bolt-resistant, hardy with a distinctive flavour, I am sure Galileo would have approved of this new variety.
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Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Olive Leaf'
A Foglia Di Olivo, Wild Rocket
Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.75Relatively unknown to our shores, Rocket ‘Olive Leaf’ is an excellent selection of the traditional Italian olive leaf wild rocket. With a beautiful light green colour and smooth shape similar to an olive leaf, this perennial form has a distinctive aroma and flavour that is more subtle than the usual wild rockets.
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Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Sorrento'
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.85Rocket 'Sorrento' is a reliable main season variety with distinct thick leaf and strongly erect plant habit. A little slower to mature with good field holding ability for summer and autumn crops, the plants are more upright, and bolting is slower than with standard wild rocket. Use as a baby leaf in salad mixes, it will ‘cut and come again’ two to three times.
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Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Wasabi'
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€2.25This trendy Wasabi Rocket actually has the punchy flavour of Wasabi - a Japanese vegetable much like horseradish. It can be picked from microleaf, babyleaf or a larger rocket sized leaf. Easy to grow and packs a full flavoured punch with the unusual flavour of wasabi. .
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Root Parsley, Hamburg 'Berliner' Organic
Dutch Rooted Parsnip, Halflange
Heritage (Germany 16th C.)€2.10Hamburg Parsley 'Berliner' has edible large flat, parsley-like leaves but should not be confused with common curly parsley or Italian flat leaf parsley, as neither produce edible roots. It is a specific variety grown for as a root vegetable rather than an herbaceous green. Organic Seeds.
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Root Parsley, Hamburg 'Half-Long'
Dutch Rooted Parsnip, Halflange
Heritage (Germany 16th C.)€1.50Root Parsley Hamburg is an off-beat, dual purpose vegetable that deserves to be better known. The root can be left in the ground all winter and dug up as and when your Sunday roast requires and the luxury of having plenty of leaves to snip from the garden in winter can’t be overstated.
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Salsify ‘Sandwich Island’
Oyster Plant€1.50Out of stock
Salsify may be a chic new vegetable with the foodie crowd but it just happens to be an old-fashioned heritage root crop. This unprepossessing Mediterranean winter vegetable has a delicate taste, ever so slightly sweet, some say slightly reminiscent of oysters, so much so that it is also known as the 'oyster plant'.
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Scorzonera hispanica, Organic
Oyster Plant€2.35Scorzonera is a root vegetable with an awkward name and an ugly appearance but with a delicious oyster-like flavour. ‘Duplex’ is a fine selection with long, truncated roots with a deep black skin. The root is considered to be finer textured, and remains so further into the winter. The plants can be also be grown for perennial greens. Organic Seeds
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Spinach 'Butterflay' Organic
Spinach. Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf€1.95Spinach 'Butterflay' is a fast growing spinach with large dark-green leaves and full, rich flavour. It is a fabulous open-pollinated variety that rivals hybrid plants in growth and productivity. Sow early spring or late summer, for babyleaf or to grow to maturity. Organic Seeds.
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Spinach 'F1 Piano'
Spinach. Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf€2.45Spinach ‘F1 Piano’ is a modern, variety with smooth, green leaves. Highly productive, it is completely resistant to all races of spinach mildew and is very strongly resistant to bolting. With these properties it ranks among the most successful varieties for summer and autumn cultivation.
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Spinach 'Matador'
Spinach. Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf€1.65Spinach 'Matador' is a reliable all-year-round variety that is disease resistant and slow to bolt and is beloved by many a gardener. This popular open pollinated heritage variety provides a generous haul of spinach that appears in a deep green shade and has a mild, sweet flavour.
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Sweet Cicely, Myrrhis odorata
Garden Myrh, Anise€2.35Out of stock
Sweet Cicely is an attractive plant that is a striking component of herb gardens and hedgerows. Growing to around 90cm, umbels of tiny white flowers appear from spring to early summer. Formerly a widely cultivated culinary herb, the fern-like leaves are deeply divided and smell of aniseed when crushed.