July
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Beetroot 'Boston'
Maincrop€2.55Beetroot 'Boston' is an excellent improved Boltardy selection. The round roots have a smooth skin and good internal colour and texture. Slow bolting, it is ideal for early sowings, this maincrop variety can be sown from early March right through to late August.
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Beetroot 'Bikores'
Red Bikores€2.25Beetroot Bikores produces smooth-skinned red roots with dark-red flesh, it is a fairly sweet beetroot with a full and rounded flavour and has consistently been one of the highest ranking beetroot in taste tests. It is resistant to bolting and suitable for early sowing under cloches and for maincrop use. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Streamline'
Scarlet Runner Bean€3.25When I was young and idle, I’d dream of a self-refilling pint of cider. Now I’m older I dream of the slightly more realistic horticultural equivalent: beans and plenty of them. Bred for high yields and reliability, ‘Streamline’ gives heavy yields of fantastic tasty pods giving you effortless food for weeks.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Painted Lady'
Scarlet Runner Bean
Heirloom (1633)€3.25An improved selection of this well known and much loved variety, Runner Bean 'Painted Lady' is well know, as much for its astonishing bicolour, coral red and creamy white blooms as for the superior beans produced. The beans are deliciously thick and meaty with a sweet balanced flavour.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Mergoles'
White Seeded, Stringless Runner Bean€3.95Runner Bean ‘Mergoles' produces decorative clear white blooms and white beans. This high quality variety sets well in almost all conditions and produces abundant yields of delicious, stringless, fleshy pods, which can be eaten fresh or frozen, or left on the plants to mature and harvest the mature creamy white seeds.
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Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Faraday', Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.95French Bean ‘Faraday’ is one of the best, if not the best new Dwarf French Bean to become available for some time. A white bean variety that have excellent flavour, it produces extremely tender, uniform long, dark-green pencil pods. Harvest from late May right through to September. Organic Seeds -
Bean: French Bean, Climbing 'Cobra'
Climbing French Bean.€3.30Cobra is one of the most reliable French beans around. This prolific cropper produces heavy yields of long, straight sweetly-flavoured beans over a long period. The stringless pods grow up to 20cm long. RHS AGM. -
Bean: French Bean, Climbing 'Blue Lake Stringless'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (1885)€2.25Blue Lake is a classic choice for early beans of highest quality eating. A wonderfully prolific French climbing bean that does well even in adverse weather, the dark green pods remain stringless and fibreless at all stages of growth. They are tender and rich, and filled with white seeds that are of incomparable flavour.
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Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Tendergreen'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.45Very reliable even in variable conditions, Dwarf French Bean seeds 'Tendergreen' is a medium long pencil podded type that produces good yields of medium sized, 15cm pods that have good texture and taste. Very easy to grow, they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort.
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Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Purple Queen'
French Bean, Dwarf Bean€2.45‘Purple Queen’ French beans are the sort of fun, sassy crop every stylish gardener wants to grow in their good-looking veg plot. They race up their supports, burst into shocking magenta flower, and then produce hundreds of gorgeous regal purple beans which are a pure pleasure to eat.
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Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Maxi'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.80This 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 'Gordonia'
Extra Fine, Dwarf French or Bush Bean.€2.75French Bean 'Gordonia' is a beautiful extra fine, dwarf or Bush Bean that produces slender, dark green pods that have good texture and taste and are tender enough to eat raw. They mature just 8 to 10 weeks from sowing, are very easy to grow and give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort.
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Bean: French Bean 'Weinländerin La Vigneronne' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (Land race from Switzerland)€3.50'Weinländerin La Vigneronne' pole beans are a classic from Switzerland, cultivated and preserved by the country women and known as 'Wine country beans' the distinctive pods are marbled and speckled with purple, as if stained by drops of wine. Organic Seed. -
Bean: French Bean 'Stokkievitsboon' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety€3.50French Bean ‘Stokkievitsboon’ produces very attractive pink speckled beans which resemble eggs of the lapwing bird. The highly ornamental pods look wonderful in the garden, and are stunning chopped into salads. With a creamy taste and a soft nutty consistency, it is quite the most beautiful bean in the world. Organic Seeds. -
Bean: French Bean 'Red Swan'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€3.95French Bean 'Red Swan' is an heirloom stringless bean with burgundy red pods. The plants grow up to around 50cm tall and are highly productive, with good flavour the beans mature in just 50 to 60 days. For a regular and steady supply of beautiful beans, sow a few seeds every couple of weeks, from April to July.
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Bean: French Bean 'Blauhilde' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)€3.40Well known, reliable and attractive, 'Blauhilde' is an extremely purple-skinned climbing French bean that has excellent flavour. Sown from April to July, they can be harvested continuously through to late autumn. Organic Seed. -
Bean: French Bean 'Blauhilde'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)€2.85French Bean 'Blauhilde' well known German heritage variety that produces attractive purple-skinned pods that have excellent flavour. The entire plant is pretty, purple flowers and purple stems, they produce myriads of flowers from which large, long 20 to 25cm (8 to 10in), fleshy and stringless pods develop.
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Bean: 'Yin Yang Bean'
'Orka Bean' or 'Calypso Bean'€3.75The ' Yin Yang Bean', also known as the Orca or Calypso bean. This bean is a reminder to stay zen with your gardening, with its distinctive black and white symbol on the seed. A great soup or baked bean, this compact variety grows to a height of around 45cm producing loads of beans with a mild delicious flavour. -
Basil: Holy Basil, Tulsi, Sacred Basil
Shyama Tulsi, Krishna Tulsi, Dark TulsiStarting at: €1.50
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Holy basil, also called Tulsi or Sacred Basil is an ancient variety. It has highly aromatic, narrow oval leaves and pink flowers with a perfumed fragrance. This reddish-purple tinted plant exudes a delicious, sweet, clove-like aroma. The hotter the summer, the deeper the purple.
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Basil, Thai Basil, Organic
Bai Horapa€2.25Out of stock
Thai Basil is commonly used in the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It has has a stronger taste and an identifiable liquorice flavour which is more stable under high or extended cooking temperatures than that of sweet basil. Organic Seed. -
Basil, Thai Basil 'Siam Queen'
Bai Horapa€1.85Out of stock
Thai Basil 'Siam Queen' is a large leaf variety that has been cultivated to provide a distinctive set of traits preferred in Asian cuisine. It has an identifiable liquorice flavour not present in sweet basil, and its flavour is more stable under high or extended cooking temperatures than that of sweet basil.
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Basil, Sweet Genovese. Organic
Basil. Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)€2.00Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. Organic Seed. -
Basil, Sweet Genovese
Basil, Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)€1.50Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. It is THE Basil for pesto and a wonderful companion plant.
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Basil, Purple Ruffles
Basil€1.75Out of stock
Purple Ruffles is probably the prettiest of basils, if not of all herbs. While it deserves a place in your kitchen garden, it also makes an excellent contrasting plant in a border. Tempting though it is to admire your plant, one taste will have you tearing the leaves of by the armful.