Exhibition Varieties
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Turnip 'Snowball'
Japanese Type. Heritage (Pre 1885)€2.00Recommended by the N.I.A.B, Turnip ‘Snowball’ is a very popular first-class, globe variety with solid flesh and a juicy, sweet, mild flavour. They are a fast crop, being ready in just five to eight weeks from sowing. With pure white flesh as its name suggests, Snowball is superb for both table and exhibition.
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Tomato 'Yellow Pear'
Teardrop Tomato, Heritage (USA 1700's)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€1.85Tomato 'Yellow Pear' is a popular pear shaped cocktail tomato, an open-pollinated heirloom variety that produces large indeterminate plants that are very productive, the fruits grow in large luscious clusters. They have a sweet fresh taste and a beautiful yellow colour, perfect for salads or for snacking.
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Tomato 'Sugar Grape', Organic
Cocktail Tomato, Zuckertraube
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.35
Cherry Tomato 'Sugar Grape' is very vigorous variety that produces large trusses of sweet flavoured fruits. This is an excellent variety for indoor production, and a good early producer that is ideal for a short summer season. Organic Seeds -
Tomato 'Sambucca', Organic
Cherry or Cocktail Tomato
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate)€2.95 Tomato 'Sambucca' is a semi-determinant cocktail tomato variety that is suitable for pot cultivation. An excellent variety for indoor production, and a good early producer that is ideal for a short summer season and can be eaten straight from the vine. Organic Seeds -
Tomato 'Red Pear'
Teardrop Tomato, Heritage (USA 1700's)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€1.95Out of stock
This is a lovely variety of tomato which, whilst you would describe it as a cherry tomato, produces fruits in the shape of a pear. Tomato ‘Red Pear’ produce small, solid-bodied fruits that are have a sweet and flavoursome with soft and velvety textured flesh. Perfect for salads, the shape creating additional interest to any dish.
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Tomato 'Kremser Perle' Organic
Early Salad Tomato. Heritage (Austria)
Semi-Bush (Semi-Determinate)€2.45 Tomato 'Kremser Perle' is the most famous heirloom Austrian tomato variety. Recognised for being robust and weather-tolerant, this semi-determinate variety bears abundant medium-sized, round, red fruits that have good taste. Very robust and disease resistant, they are eminently suited for cultivation in cooler climes under glass or outdoors. Organic Seeds -
Tomato 'Clementine', Organic
Cocktail Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.55 Originally from France, Tomato 'Clementine' produces small, uniform, oval-round, golden fruits. An excellent variety for indoor production, the growth is well balanced, with a polite, open habit and can be grown at close quarters. They produce high yields and have an excellent flavour. Organic Seeds -
Tomato 'Berner Rose' Organic
Early Beefsteak. Heritage (Swiss)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.95Out of stock
Tomato 'Bernese Rose' is a beautiful rose-pink Swiss heirloom that is earlier to ripen that other larger varieties. Fleshy, thin skinned and with the most exquisite tomato flavours this tomato is a firm favourite amongst gardeners and growers. Organic Seeds -
Tomato 'Auriga' Organic
Early Salad Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)€2.75 Tomato 'Auriga' is an orange fruited 'shirley' type. Early to ripen they weigh 70 to 80 grams. If you let them mature the flavour of the fruit changes to a gorgeous Melon taste. Very distinctive, they are ideal as an eye-catcher in salads. Organic Seeds -
Squash 'Marina di Chioggia'
Winter Squash, Zucca Barucca, Zucca Santa
Heritage (Italian 1600's)€2.35This very old Italian Heirloom rustic variety originates from near Venice and is considered the King of Italian Squashes. Round, short, and squat in shape, the dark green to grey-blue skin has slight, vertical ridging and is almost completely covered in bumps. When cooked, Marina di Chioggia squash is tender and sweet with nutty flavours.
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Squash 'Futtsu Black Early'
Black Futsu Winter Squash,
Heritage (Japan 1800's)€2.55Blocky, deeply ribbed and extremely bumpy, for most of the season they are a gorgeous dark green to charcoal black, but in autumn 'Futtsu Black Early' mature in a fascinating metamorphosis, to a grey-bloomed dusty orange. Harvest in the midst of their transformation for funky autumn displays or wait for them to ripen completely for maximum flavour, nutty and sweet with hints of chestnut.
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Squash 'F1 Hunter' Butternut
Winter Squash€2.95Out of stock
Butternut Squash 'Hunter' has been specifically bred and developed to give consistent results in our unreliable climate. Easy to grow and maturing up to four weeks earlier than other varieties. Each plant should produce 6 or 7 fruits of around 1kg. -
Squash 'Autumn Crown F1'
'Squashkin' (Butternut x Crown Prince F1)€2.95'F1 Autumn Crown’ is a new butternut crossed with a Winter squash, Crown Prince F1, which produces the shape of one parent and the buff colour of the other. More importantly, it has inherited early ripening from Crown Prince, setting fruits at least a month before the previously available fastest butternuts.
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Pumpkin 'Musquée de Provence'
Fairy Tale Pumpkin, Winter Squash,
Heritage (French 1800's)€2.25Looking exactly like fairy tale pumpkins in children’s storybooks, Musquée de Provence is a gorgeous French pumpkin that is one of the only pumpkins that is eaten raw. Sweet with a light crunch and typical nutty taste, the very fine-grained flesh is considered by many to be superior to any other.
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Pumpkin 'Atlantic Giant'
Giant Pumpkin, Competition & Exhibition variety€4.25Imagine, You’re reading the paper and suddenly your eye is drawn to a picture of this giant orange thing about the size of a truck with a guy half its size standing next to it grinning like a lunatic. “I’d like to grow one of those,” you think.
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Parsnip 'Tender and True' Organic
2022 harvest, for planting in 2023€2.95Out of stock
Parsnip Tender and True is a popular variety which forms long roots of high quality that are at least 3in wide across at the top. With good resistance to canker it is probably one of the best flavoured varieties to use for both the kitchen and exhibition. Organic Seed. -
€1.75Out of stock
'Hollow Crown' is one of the oldest varieties of parsnip, with probably still the best flavour of all, with a depth and richness unmatched by most other varieties. It has been grown since at least the 1850's and is still very popular among gardeners in the know.
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Onion 'Stuttgart', Organic
White or Yellow Bulbing Onion€1.95 Onion ‘Stuttgart’ is a late-season variety, originating in the Netherlands where it is called ‘Stuttgarter Riesen’, this well-known heirloom variety can also be found as 'Giant Stuttgart' and 'Stoccarde'. It is traditionally the most popular variety for the home gardener. Organic Seeds -
Onion 'Ailsa Craig Prizewinner', Organic
White Bulbing, Exhibition Onion.
Heritage (English 1887)€2.45 With outstanding quality and excellent keeping qualities, Ailsa Craig Prizewinner is much loved by both home gardeners and exhibitors producing weighty onions perfect for the kitchen or show bench. A heritage variety and great all-rounder, Ailsa Craig still takes some beating. Organic Seeds. -
Lettuce 'Parris Island'
Romaine or Cos
Heritage (USA 1950)€2.00 Parris Island produces an upright head of strong leaves with a distinctive crisp white midrib. Heat tolerant with fair bolt resistance, you can grow successive crops in spring and autumn and in mild coastal areas it can be grown year-round. -
Lettuce 'Cocarde', Organic
Oakleaf Lettuce€2.95 Lettuce Cocarde is a beautiful oak leaf type lettuce. Very adaptable, it can be grown in most climates and seasons and can be picked as required. The smooth deeply lobed, red leaves have a sweet taste and delicate melt-in-your-mouth texture. RHS AGM -
Leek 'Winter Giant 3'
Autumn / Winter Leek.€1.95Out of stock
Leek Winter Giant 3 is an extremely hardy leek, it will put up with blistering gales and frost without a pause. Harvest from October to March. The solid, long white stems are exhibition quality with an outstanding flavour.
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Kale, Cavolo Nero 'Nero de Toscana' Organic
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)€2.95Simply adored, especially in the north of Italy, Cavolo Nero is an extremely cold hardy kale that will tolerate conditions that would make most brassicas keel over. Thank heavens we have finally managed to locate Organic Seeds! -
Kale, Cavolo Nero 'Nero de Toscana'
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)€1.75Until recently Cavolo Nero, or 'Tuscan Kale', was one of Italy's best kept secrets. Simply adored, especially in the north of Italy, it has been an essential fare of traditional dishes for centuries. Cavolo Nero can now be found in garden markets, specialist greengrocers and trendy restaurants throughout Europe.
