June
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Broccoli Kailan 'Kichi'
Chinese Broccoli, Hon Tsai Tai€2.00Out of stock
Kailan is a fantastic vegetable chimera - the florets of broccoli, the stems of asparagus, and leaves like tender collard greens. 'Kichi' is a uniform variety with large blue green waxy leaves and excellent stem and bud eating quality. It has a mild flavour and, best of all can be harvested in only eight weeks.
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Broccoli raab, Rapini, Cima di Rapa
Broccoli rabe Sessantina
Heritage (Italian 1930's)€1.95Flourishing famously in Mediterranean and Chinese cultures, elsewhere Raab is still a bit of a curiosity. Easy and fast growing, it can be useful as it comes ready when ordinary broccoli isn't available, but this isn't just a replacement for broccoli, it is a great vegetable in its own right.
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Broccoli, Calabrese, 'Belstar F1' Organic
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€3.50Out of stock
Calabrese Broccoli ‘Belstar F1’ is a superb organic variety. The compact plants have round domes, small to medium beads and short flowering stems with a thick main stalk. Ideal for short-stemmed crown cuts or florets they have an excellent flavour. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Broccoli, Calabrese, 'Ironman F1'
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€2.70Out of stock
A vast improvement on the older varieties. Calabrese Ironman F1 possesses the usual advantages of a hybrid - vigorous habit with excellent uniformity and high yields of larger than normal heads. Producing excellent quality, uniform dense heads and a very good dome shape. Harvest late June to November.
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Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Burgundy'
Sprouting Broccoli€3.95'Burgundy' is a standout purple sprouting broccoli. It’s the first 'main head' type in its class, delivering sweet, tender spears with a deep violet hue. Sown from April though to August, the harvesting period begins in June and runs right through to December.
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Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Mendocino F1'
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.95Bred to overwinter and slide into the March harvest window when fresh food from the garden is scarce, Purple sprouting broccoli 'Mendocino F1' is prized for its uniform, high-quality spears. Sow anytime from April to June, overwinter and harvest from mid March to mid April.
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Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Rioja F1'
Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Bred for its prowess at overwintering, Purple Sprouting Broccoli ‘Rioja F1’ is a compact, very productive plant with a bushy habit, which produces very high quality, brightly-coloured spears. It will give an early spring crop from mid-February if transplanted in July and August.
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Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Santee F1' Organic
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Out of stock
Purple Sprouting Broccoli ‘Santee F1’ is an overwintering type suitable for late autumn crops in most regions and winter crops in mild areas. It does not require exposure to cold as some of the later varieties do and consequently it will crop in the same year it is planted. Organic Seed. -
Burdock Takinogawa 'Gobo'
Burdock Root, Gobo€2.20Out of stock
Regarded as both a nutritious vegetable and curative medicinal, the Burdock root is widely used in all sorts of cuisines from the classic English summer drink to the classic Japanese 'Kinpira'. Seeds can be also sprouted like bean sprouts; nothing goes to waste with this plant.
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Cabbage 'Brunswick'
Autumn to Winter Cabbage.Regular Price: €1.75
Special Price €0.95
Out of stock
Cabbage Brunswick is a fine flavoured, popular old variety. Cold hardy and drought tolerant It can be sown early and grown to huge proportions but is more usually sown in March to May for harvesting August to October. Used in soups or stews, made into sauerkraut or coleslaw.
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Cabbage 'Cuor di Bue Grosso'
Early Autumn. Sweetheart Cabbage ‘Ox Heart’
Heritage (Italian)Regular Price: €1.75
Special Price €0.95
Not all cabbages have the round shape that we usually find on the market. Cuor di Bue Grosso, literally translated means ‘Large Heart of the Ox’, a cultivar with a beautiful conical shape, large, firm, pointed hearts and sweet compact heart, and looking at its glorious shape ‘Ox Heart’ is the perfect name for it
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Cabbage 'Famosa F1' Organic
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy€3.95 Cabbage ‘Famosa F1’ is an attractive mid to early variety, that can be planted in late spring to early summer for a late summer harvest, it matures just 70 days after transplanting. Easy to grow and very productive this savoy has a lovely green exterior and a gold-tinted tender interior. Organic Seeds. -
Cabbage 'Greyhound'
Summer. Pointed, York or Sweetheart Cabbage€1.85
Appropriately named, Greyhound is one of the earliest summer cabbages and a reliable old favorite. Very fast growing with a yield of mild flavoured tender juicy hearts. Well suited to successional sowing. Sow from February to July, crops will be ready for cutting from June to October. -
Cabbage 'Klimaro F1' Organic
Red Ball Head€3.95Out of stock
Reminiscent of a rhodolite garnet and as solid as a polished gemstone, Cabbage 'Klimaro F1' is a dark reddish-purple in colour, both inside and out. With a small core and dense head, it has a good flavour and a high crunch factor. Organic Seeds. -
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 '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. -
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.
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Carrot 'Lila Lu' Organic
Maincrop€2.75 'Lila Lu' is a stunning deep purple carrot with a vibrant orange centre. A newly developed organic variety, the wildly unique colour and and sweet taste make this a must grow for both home gardeners and farmers markets. Sow May to July for harvesting September to end of October. Organic Seeds. -
Carrot 'Purple Sun F1'
Maincrop€2.95Out of stock
Carrot 'Purple Sun F1' is a conical, nantes-type carrot, with smooth, intensely coloured dark purple skin and purple centre. Slow bolting with strong disease resistance, they can be sown April to August. Pulled as a baby carrot, they are even more sweet and beautiful and dark to the core.
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Carrot 'Yellowstone' Organic
Maincrop€2.95Out of stock
Carrot 'Yellowstone' is one of the most attractive and versatile carrots you can grow. Slightly tapered with smooth skin and crunchy texture, this Imperator type stores well in the ground when planted in late summer for winter harvest. Organic Seeds. -
Carrot 'Autumn King'
Maincrop / Late variety€2.10 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 'Autumn King' Organic
Maincrop / Late variety€2.75 Autumn 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 'Berlicum'
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€1.95Out of stock
Famously 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 '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.
