Winter Salads
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Turkish Rocket
Bunias orientalis€2.10Out of stock
Turkish Rocket is a robust, fast-growing plant and a great, herbaceous addition to permaculture projects, it is one of the most hardy and long-lived of all winter salad greens. It is blessedly simple to grow. Easy to raise, never needs weeding or watering and goes on for ever.
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Spinach 'Matador'
Spinach. Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf€1.85Spinach 'Matador' is a reliable all-year-round variety that is disease resistant and slow to bolt and is beloved by many a gardener. This popular open pollinated heritage variety provides a generous haul of spinach that appears in a deep green shade and has a mild, sweet flavour. -
Spinach 'Butterflay' Organic
Spinach. Baby Leaf, Micro Leaf€1.95Spinach 'Butterflay' is a fast growing spinach with large dark-green leaves and full, rich flavour. It is a fabulous open-pollinated variety that rivals hybrid plants in growth and productivity. Sow early spring or late summer, for babyleaf or to grow to maturity. Organic Seeds. -
Shungiku, Chopsuey Greens
Chopsuey Greens€1.50Anyone who has had the pleasure of traveling to countries such as Japan or China will appreciate the bewildering but totally delicious array of vegetables on offer there. No wonder the Japanese have no problem reaching their official recommended intake of not merely five, but 17 portions of fruit and veg per day!
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Purslane, Claytonia 'Winter Purslane' Organic
Miner's Lettuce, Indian Lettuce€1.85Out of stock
Miner’s Lettuce may not sound like the most appetising of edibles. But if you were a miner during the California Gold Rush, the sight of these plants emerging from the soft soil would have been as welcome as a plethora of gold nuggets. It appears in the early spring, when you are hungry for something fresh, the winter crops are quite exhausted but the lettuces aren’t quite ready. Organic Seeds -
Purslane, Claytonia 'Winter Purslane'
Miner's Lettuce, Indian Lettuce€1.75This incredibly succulent, melt-in-your-mouth raw salad green has recently gained popularity in the gourmet greens world, attracting both world class growers and chefs. Best used fresh and tiny, these elegant leaves bring a rich, tart-creaminess to delicate, micro-green salads.
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Pak Choi 'Dwarf Canton White'
Baby Bok Choi, Pak Choy,
Spoon cabbage, Taisai, Chinese mustard.Starting at: €1.85
Dwarf Canton White is a short and squat variety, often known as Baby or Squat Pak Choi. Tender and delicious, with a compact habit, this fast growing vegetable can be harvested at any stage, for 'baby leaf or left to mature to thick succulent white stems.
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Mizuna 'Kyona' Organic
Oriental Greens, Japanese Greens€2.20The marvelous Mizuna is an oriental wonder! It grows as a large rosette of finely serrated, feathery leaves, which are dark, glossy green, similar to rocket leaves. A very hardy plant and very easy to grow. Organic Seed. -
Mizuna 'Kyona'
Oriental Greens, Japanese Greens, Kyona€1.75The marvellous Mizuna is an oriental wonder! It grows as a large rosette of finely serrated, feathery leaves, which are dark, glossy green, similar to rocket leaves. A very hardy plant, being both heat and cold tolerant, it usually grows better in moist conditions.
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Mizuna 'F1 Red Knight'
Hybrid Asian green, Japanese Greens, Kyona€2.00Out of stock
A new red hybrid Mizuna, great for adding colour in a salad. The purple-red leaf blades contrast wonderfully against green undersides. It has a long petiole and thick bladed leaves with shallow serrations. Vigorous and high yielding.
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Minutina, 'Erba Stella'
Herba Stella, Bucks Horn€2.35Minutina, also known as Erba Stella is a unique, cold weather salad green prized in Italy for its mild nutty flavour and crunchy texture. This perennial can be grown all winter in temperate climates. With a mild nutty flavour and crunchy texture it is a great addition to salad mixes or for stir-frying.
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Lettuce, 'Gustav's Salad'
Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (1960's)€2.10Lettuce 'Gustav's Salad' is an heirloom butterhead variety that is compact and silky soft with a a delicious melt-in-the-mouth flavour. Upright, small and compact this sweet and buttery lettuce is reliable and perfect for growing where space might be limited. A new staple in the salad garden, the eating quality is of the next level.
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Lettuce - 'Gourmet Lettuce' Mix
Baby leaf or for growing to maturity.€1.75Lettuce 'Gourmet Salad Mix' is a mixed blend of the very best tasting, and most beautiful lettuces. These award winning varieties provide a colourful mix of textures and tastes that is a treat for the eye as well as the tongue, and can be grown all year round. Harvest for babyleaf or grow to maturity. -
Lettuce 'Suzan', Organic
Butterhead Lettuce. Summer Lettuce variety€2.85Lettuce 'Suzan' is a traditional butterhead, the heads are tightly-packed and the hearts are fleshy and tasty. This very reliable variety can be sown from February and throughout the summer. It holds well in warmer temperatures without bolting so there is a long window of opportunity for harvesting. Organic Seed. -
Lettuce 'Rougette de Montpellier'
Mini Butterhead, aka Rougette Du Midi
Heritage (France)€2.00Out of stock
Rougette de Montpellier, a mini butterhead with perfect rosette shaped heads, has the soft, tender, butter-textured leaves with sweet, succulent flavour typical of Butterhead lettuces. Very hardy and resistant to frost, the loosely formed leaves are deep green kissed with ruby red accents at the leaf tips.
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Lettuce 'Meraviglia d'Inverno'
Marvel of Winter, Butterhead, Winter variety.Starting at: €1.75
Lettuce Meraviglia d'Inverno is truly a ‘Marvel of Winter’, it is from one of the coldest regions of Italy and is hardy to around minus 10°C (14°F). Compact and tender, it will stand in perfect condition right through winter and can be harvested from September right through to March.
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Lettuce 'Marvel of Four Seasons' Organic
'Merveille des Quatre Saisons' Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (French 1885)€2.20Also known as Merveille des Quatre Saisons this is a butter-head lettuce that is a true delight. With ruby toned leaves that encompass tightly folded green hearts it is as tasty as it is beautiful, and it is a truly beautiful lettuce. Organic Seed. -
Lettuce 'Marvel of Four Seasons'
'Merveille des Quatre Saisons' Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (French 1885)Starting at: €1.75
This French butter-head lettuce is famous for its signature butter-head shape boasting the appearance of a bibb-type rosette with an array of beautiful colours ranging in bronze, gold, red and green. The “Four Seasons” will thrive in a range of climates and its texture always remains crisp and its taste unforgettable.
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Lettuce 'Cocarde', Organic
Oakleaf Lettuce€2.95Out of stock
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 -
Lettuce 'All Year Round'
Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (pre 1870)€2.00As its name suggests, this classic butterhead lettuce can be the basis of fresh daily salads throughout the year. This is no 'supermarket' variety, but rather a proper lettuce with an exquisite flavour unavailable from anywhere but from your own vegetable patch.
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Leaf Beet, Perpetual Spinach, Organic
Spinach Beet, Seakale Beet, Wild Spinach
Heritage variety (In use in 1790)€1.95Out of stock
'Perpetual Spinach is one of the easiest and most productive vegetables for a small space. Extremely resistant to bolting, it responds particularly well to repeat cutting. With just one sowing you can feast on the succulent leaves the entire summer and through to winter. -
Leaf Beet, Perpetual Spinach 'Everglade'
Spinach Beet, Seakale Beet, Wild Spinach€2.35Out of stock
Perpetual Spinach 'Everglade' is a modern selection with an upright habit and dark green compact leaves that contrast sharply with bright white stems. It responds particularly well to repeat cutting and is one of the easiest and most productive vegetables for a small space.
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Cress: Land Cress
American Cress or Upland Cress€1.75Out of stock
Once very popular for winter salads, Land Cress has the same pungent nip that Watercress does but can be grown directly in the garden. Leaf production is at it's highest during the summer and autumn, but it will happily carry on growing right through the winter. It deserves to be far more widely grown.
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Corn Salad, Lambs Lettuce 'Verte de Cambrai'
Mâche, Lambs Tongue
Heritage variety (French)€1.50Out of stock
Corn Salad 'Verte de Cambrai' is a traditional old French variety, the compact plants have good colour and small leaf shape. It is among the softest and most tender of all greens, the leaves have a sweet buttery flavour which almost melt in the mouth.