June
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Cress: Watercress
European watercress.€1.75Watercress has risen to a starring role in elaborate culinary preparations and is as beneficial for the health as much as the palate. This highly nutritious aquatic herb has a lovely mustardy bite most commonly served raw as a garnish or as part of a salad.
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Courgette 'Tondo di Piacenza'
Costata Romanesco€1.95Courgette 'Tondo di Piacenza' produces spherical, dark green glossy fruits with a firm texture and good flavour. This versatile variety can be cropped at different sizes depending on your preferred recipe. Harvest at golf ball size for eating whole in salads, or slightly larger for slicing into stir fries.
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Courgette 'Romanesco'
Cocozelle or Costata Romanesco€1.95Out of stock
Courgette 'Romanesco' is a small to mid sized courgette originally grown in Rome. This Italian favorite has characteristic ribs down the fruit. The compact and erect habit makes this attractive Courgette both novel after cooking and hardly recognisable in a green salad. -
Courgette 'Gold Rush' Organic
Zucchini, Summer Squash, Marrow€2.75
Courgette 'Gold Rush' is an extremely beautiful variety with smooth, thin yellow skins and crisp flesh. It is an early, rich cropping courgette with tender flesh and an abundance of bright yellow fruits. The compact plants yield prolifically and are ideal for smaller gardens or pots. Organic Seeds. -
Courgette 'Genovese'
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini€1.95The Genovese courgette is a popular early variety that is very productive. It produces beautiful, light green cylindrical fruits speckled with grey, with a smooth skin and has an excellent flavour. The plants have an open bush habit which is helpful when harvesting. Sow April until July, harvest June onwards.
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Courgette 'F1 Gold Rush'
Costata Romanesco€2.45Out of stock
Courgette 'F1 Gold Rush' is an extremely beautiful variety with smooth, thin yellow skins and crisp flesh. It is an early, rich cropping courgette with tender flesh and an abundance of bright yellow fruits. The compact plants yield prolifically and are ideal for smaller gardens or pots.
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Courgette 'F1 Ambassador'
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini€2.75Out of stock
Courgette Ambassador F1 is an attractive variety and an outstanding hybrid that gives attractive dark green courgettes over a long period. A popular professionally-grown variety and well known for the home gardener, it is an early fruiting, high yielding courgette which matures in fifty days.
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Courgette 'Black Beauty' Organic
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini€2.65Out of stock
Courgette ‘Black Beauty’ is an heirloom, open pollinated variety that produces fruits with a very dark green skin. One of the most popular varieties on the market, the plants start bearing courgettes around 45 to 50 days and will continue to produce throughout the season. Organic Seeds -
Courgette 'Alberello' Organic
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini€2.95Out of stock
Once mainly grown in the south of the country, you can expect Courgette 'Alberello' to produce beautiful and tasty, green-skinned fruits with light green flecks. Resistant to a multitude of diseases, reliable and easy to harvest, they will bear fruits in prolific quantities. Organic Seeds -
Coriander, Cilantro, 'Leisure'
Chinese, Mexican or Indian Parsley€1.95Coriander 'Leisure' has been bred specifically for large, flavoursome leaf production, a particularly fine variety of superb quality. Extra slow bolting, it is particularly suited to hot weather regions. It is an excellent herb for slightly shaded areas, is very easy to grow and makes a good window box herb.
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Coriander, Cilantro, 'Dwarf Lemon'
Dwarf Lemon or Zesty Lemon Parsley€2.65'Dwarf Lemon' Coriander is a delightful and refreshing combination that brings together the sharp zest of lemon and the aromatic, citrusy undertone of coriander. This pairing is cherished in a variety of global cuisines for its ability to lift and brighten dishes
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Coriander, Cilantro, 'Confetti'
Fine or Feathery Leaved Coriander.€2.65Out of stock
'Confetti' is a unique Coriander producing fine, distinctive, feathery leaves, which are full of the distinctive coriander taste but with increased sweetness. Early to mature and slow to bolt it is ideal for use as cut and come again baby leaf, salad leaf or as a mature plant. -
Coriander, Cilantro, 'Calypso'
Slow bolting variety.€2.45Out of stock
Coriander 'Calypso' boasts to be the slowest bolting variety available. Stocky, very well-branched plants deliver almost unbelievable yields of fragrant, delectable leaves. The bulky plants provide a high leaf yield and have an extremely low growing point so can be cut back and allowed to re-grow at least three times throughout summer. -
Coriander, Cilantro 'Slobolt' Organic
Chinese, Mexican or Indian Parsley€2.65Most gardeners appreciate that home grown herbs are infinitely superior, but try growing Coriander - the difference can be quite startling. 'Slobolt' is a variety for leaf production that performs well under organic production techniques and is resistant to running to seed. Organic Seed. -
Chicory, Radicchio 'Variegata di Castelfranco'
Chicory / Radicchio, Late variety.
Heritage (Italian 18th C.)€1.75‘Variegata di Castelfranco’ has a beautiful form with wavy leaves that are flecked with purple. It is one of the hardiest and easiest to grow at any time in the year. Traditionally sown in mid to late summer, the harvest begins in December and lasts well into winter.
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Chicory, Radicchio 'Rossa di Treviso'
Chicory / Radicchio, Early variety.
Heritage (Italian 18th C.)€1.95The classic tall Italian radicchio. Upright with red and white striped leaves with large pure white stems. Highly prized, this flavoursome early variety is grown in the Treviso area in winter and is eaten, root and all, simply pan fried or grilled. It has high resistance to cold.
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Chicory, Radicchio 'Palla Rossa 3'
Chicory / Radicchio€1.50Italian Chicory, or Radicchio '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. -
Chicory, Belgian Endive 'Brussels Witloof'
Perle du Nord.
Heritage (Belgium 18th C.)€1.75Famous for the forced, blanched heads or ‘chichons’ that are loved by gourmets Chicory 'Brussels Witloof' is the traditional finely-textured variety used for forcing. With a delicious, tangy, unique flavour, it is very easy to grow and produces one of the finest tasting winter vegetables.
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Chervil, Plain Leaf 'Massa'
Brusseler Winter€1.95Chervil 'Massa' has a sophisticated yet gentle, aniseedy warmth. It is a dark green selection with smooth leaves and good plant vigour, it has better cold tolerance than standard Chervil and is used for autumn sowings, it also bolts much later.
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Chervil 'Fijne Krul', Organic
Herb of Joy, Gourmet's Parsley.€2.25Out of stock
Take a walk on the mild side with delicate, subtle, elegant Chervil. 'Fijne Krul', or 'Fine Curled' Chervil has been cultivated in France for centuries, known as Cerfeuil it is swirled, whisked and folded into classic French dishes, but it's much too good to leave to the other side of the Channel. Organic Seed. -
Chard, Swiss Chard 'Lucullus'
Leaf Beet, Heritage (Italian 1914)€1.75Swiss Chard 'Lucullus' is a particularly prolific variety which produces wonderful crumpled green leaves with white mid-rib and veins. Particular heat and cold tolerant and very easy to grow, it gives a good source of greens for much of the growing season. -
Celery, 'Cutting Leaf Celery', Organic
Cutting or Soup Celery. Chinese Kintsai€2.45Out of stock
Cutting celery or Leaf celery is the type that is used in Europe. It looks similar to parsley but tastes like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and curly, aromatic leaves; it is much easier to grow than its big brother. Organic Seed. -
Celery, 'Cutting Leaf Celery'
Cutting or Soup Celery. Chinese Kintsai€1.95Cutting celery or Leaf celery is the type that is used in Europe. It looks similar to parsley but tastes like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and curly, aromatic leaves; it is much easier to grow than its big brother.
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Carrot 'Purple Dragon'
Maincrop€2.85Launched 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.
