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Beetroot 'Boston'
Maincrop€2.45Beetroot '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 'Cylindra'
Cylinder Beetroot€1.75
Beetroot Cylindra is a dark red, cylindrical root. This unique variety has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre, the root maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. With an earthy-caramel taste, they are especially lovely when roasted. -
Beetroot 'Cylindra', Organic
Cylinder Beetroot€2.50Out of stock
Beetroot Cylindra is a dark red, cylindrical root. This unique variety has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre, the root maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. With an earthy-caramel taste, they are especially lovely when roasted.Organic Seeds. -
Beetroot 'Detroit 2 Crimson Globe'
Beetroot
Heritage (USA 1892)€2.00Detroit 2 Crimson Globe or Rote Ruben is a popular improved Detroit globe beetroot. It is a classic, main-crop beetroot which produces excellent quality, smooth skinned beets with strong skin and ox-blood flesh colour. It is recommended as a good cultivar to use for succession sowings. -
Beetroot 'Flat of Egypt'
Early / Maincrop
Heritage (1800's)€2.00“The old Egyptian turnip or flat-rooted beetroot has the best flavour but is scarce.” Bob Flowerdew. Beetroot 'Flat of Egypt’ is a very old heritage variety that produces smooth skinned roots, often heart-shaped, with a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh.
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Beetroot 'Golden Beetroot' Organic
Maincrop
Heritage (USA 1940's)€2.70 Who would have thought that peeling and caramelising a few roots in the oven, would glorify this humble root vegetable to new heights? These golden beauties are an absolute delight, with a slightly honeyed taste. Use them baked sautéed, steamed or in soups. Organic Seed. -
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. -
Beetroot 'Tonda di Chioggia'
Dolce di Chioggia or Barabietola di Chioggia
Heritage (Italian 1840's)€2.00Chioggia or Barabietola di Chioggia is a globe-shaped heirloom Italian variety. With a rosy orange-pink outer skin and a distinctive dartboard pattern when cut, it is sometimes known as Bull’s Eye Beet or Candy Stripe Beet. Bands of white flesh alternate with bands of pink or rosy red.
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Beetroot 'Tonda di Chioggia' Organic
Dolce di Chioggia or Barabietola di Chioggia
Heritage (Italian 1840's)€2.20 Barabietola di Chioggia is a globe-shaped heirloom Italian variety, grown today mainly for its unusual colouring, but it has a mild and sweet flavour. It can be sown from very early in the season until late and can be grown in raised beds or containers all year round. -
Broccoli 'Early Purple Sprouting'
Sprouting Broccoli€1.85Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli has been selected for its hardiness and flavour. Heavy cropping it has good quality spears that can be harvested over many weeks. It is one of the most flavoursome of vegetables, standing beside asparagus and globe artichokes. Sweet and delicate, it melts in the mouth.
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Broccoli 'Extra Early Purple Sprouting Rudolph'
Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Extra-Early Purple Sprouting 'Rudolph' is bred to perform well in the September to February period but is at its best from November to February. With medium to large, deep purple, succulent spears that have outstanding flavour, team with Cardinal for a longer harvest period.
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Broccoli 'Italian Green Sprouting'
Green Sprouting Broccoli
Heritage (1918)€1.95This lovely, old fashioned Broccoli variety is a very disease resistant, very hardy and very prolific producer of large dark green heads. Italian Green Sprouting Broccoli is very easy to grow and will produce a number of good-size side shoots once the initial head is harvested.
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Broccoli 'Italian Green Sprouting' Organic
Green Sprouting Broccoli
Heritage (1918)€2.35Out of stock
This lovely, old fashioned Broccoli variety is a very disease resistant, very hardy and very prolific producer of large dark green heads. Italian Green Sprouting Broccoli is very easy to grow and will produce a number of good-size side shoots once the initial head is harvested. -
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 Purple Sprouting 'Summer Purple'
Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Broccoli 'Summer Purple' is an excellent summer cropping variety that is sown in spring to harvest late June to October. Eaten within an hour of picking, when still bursting with sappy natural sugars, it's exquisite.
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Broccoli raab, Rapini, Cima di Rapa
Broccoli Rabe, Broccoli di Rape, Rappi, Friariell
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€3.50
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, 'Green Belt F1'
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€2.45Out of stock
Calabrese 'Green Belt F1' is currently number one among early varieties due to its excellent fine grain and its ability to produce abundant shoots. With a wide adaptability, it produces sturdy plants that grow well in almost any soil and under any conditions, and will withstand the heat discreetly during the summer season.
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Broccoli, Calabrese, 'Ironman F1'
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€2.70A 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 'Rioja F1' Organic
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50 Bred 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. Organic Seed. -
Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Santee F1' Organic
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50 Purple Sprouting Broccoli ‘Santee F1’ produces spears from June through to November. 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', Organic
Burdock Root, Gobo€2.95 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. Organic Seeds -
Burdock Takinogawa 'Gobo'
Burdock Root, Gobo€2.20Regarded 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.€1.75Cabbage 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.
