Roots & Tubers
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Beetroot 'Bikores'
Red Bikores€2.25Beetroot Bikores produces smooth-skinned red roots with dark-red flesh, it is a fairly sweet beetroot with a full and rounded flavour and has consistently been one of the highest ranking beetroot in taste tests. It is resistant to bolting and suitable for early sowing under cloches and for maincrop use. -
Beetroot 'Boston'
Maincrop€2.55Beetroot '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€1.75Beetroot 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.
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Beetroot 'Detroit 2 Crimson Globe'
Beetroot
Heritage (USA 1892)€2.25Detroit 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)€2.25“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 'Forono' Organic
Cylinder Beetroot€2.95Beetroot 'Forono' is a popular and productive cylindrical variety that forms a uniform, elongated, dark-red root. With a fine, smooth texture with little fibre, the root maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. Awarded the RHS AGM. Organic Seeds.
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Beetroot 'Golden Beetroot' Organic
Maincrop
Heritage (USA 1940's)€2.70Who 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.
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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.
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Beetroot 'Tonda di Chioggia'
Dolce di Chioggia or Barabietola di Chioggia
Heritage (Italian 1840's)€2.25Chioggia 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)€2.20Barabietola 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.
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Burdock 'Takinogawa', Organic
Burdock Root, Gobo€2.95Regarded 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
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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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Carrot 'Autumn King'
Maincrop / Late variety€2.00Unless 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.
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Carrot 'Autumn King' Organic
Maincrop / Late variety€2.45Autumn 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.
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Carrot 'Berlicum'
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€1.95Famously 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.
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Carrot 'F1 Flyaway'
Second Early & Maincrop€3.50'F1 Flyaway' is the result of over 15 years breeding, an excellent carrot fly resistant variety with cylindrical roots and a good blunt end. Most importantly they are naturally succulent and sweet, with good skin and flesh colour. Crops early summer through to autumn.
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Carrot 'F1 Napoli' Organic
Extra early variety, Early Nantes type.€2.95Out of stock
This is the extra early carrot that organic gurus rave about. With incredibly sweet flavour and uniform growth, carrot 'Napoli F1' has assumed cult status with growers. Sow in August in a raised bed or beneath a cloche, and experience the full flavour of winter 'candy carrots'. Organic Seeds.
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Carrot 'F1 Red Samurai'
Second Early & Maincrop€2.45Carrot F1 Red Samurai is a distinctive and beautiful carrot, with long tapered roots and uniform bright red skin. Juicy, crisp and flavourful, Samurai produces conical roots that will grow to 28 to 35cm long. Sow successionally from March to July for harvesting June to September
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Carrot 'F1 Resistafly'
Maincrop / Late variety€3.25Recent carrot breeding has concentrated on root fly resistance, Carrot 'F1 Resistafly' is the newest variety. The hybrid is unique in its high carotene concentration. Growing 16 to 18cm in length, it is excellent maincrop to late season variety. Sweet and juicy the taste qualities are astonishing.
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Carrot 'Heirloom Mixture' Organic
Four Colourful Varieties€2.55Out of stock
With their compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers, colourful vareities of carrots have quickly established themselves to be de rigueur for both home growers and market gardeners. This season we are offering a mix of four rare and unusual, heirloom varieties. Organic Seeds.
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Carrot 'Kuroda'
Maincrop & Successional
Heritage (Japan 1950's)€1.95Carrot ‘Kuroda’ is a refined Chantenay strain that is widely adaptable, suitable for growth almost everywhere. Producing high quality, uniform roots of great flavour, it is highly tolerant to heat and thrives in even the poorest of soils, use as a main crop for enormous yields that mature late in the season, Kuroda keeps well in cold storage and is an awesome juicer.
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Carrot 'Nantes 2'
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€1.95Early Nantes 2 An excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it matures in 110 days in a warm climate and reaches an average size of 15cm. Ideal for freezing. Sow February to August, harvest in June to October .Carrot 'Nantes 2' Organic
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)€2.35Out of stock
Originating from Nantes in France, Nantes 2 is an excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it is virtually coreless with a tender texture and sweet flavour.