Brassicas
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Cabbage 'Kalibos'
Late Summer to Autumn€1.98Cabbage 'Kalibos' is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour.
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Cabbage 'Ormskirk'
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy
Heritage (England 1899)€1.74Savoy cabbage ‘Ormskirk’ is a very old heritage variety, it gives a fine head of cabbage, solid in the centre with deep blue-green outer crinkly leaves and a pale green centre. It matures from November and can be harvested through to March and beyond.
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Cabbage 'Red Drumhead'
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (1860's)€2.40Out of stock
Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red heirloom variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy variety from the 1860s is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.
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Cabbage 'Red Drumhead' Organic
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (1860's)€1.86Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy heirloom variety is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.
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Cabbage 'Vertus' Organic
Savoy Cabbage, Winter Savoy€2.34Savoy cabbage ‘Vertus’ produces heads of finely blistered, dark green ruffled leaves that have a sweet, subtle flavour. This mid-late, frost hardy variety produces cabbages that have the ability to withstand even severe cold weather. Sow April to early June, harvest October to February. Organic Seeds.
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Cabbage 'Violaceo di Verona'
Savoy and white cabbage cross.
Heritage (Italy 1900's)€1.74Cabbage 'Violaceo di Verona' is a winter Savoy cabbage from Northern Italy. A cross between a savoy and a white cabbage, with dark green and violet leaves. Frost hardy and and long standing it can be harvested from July until mid-winter with successional sowings.
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Cabbage 'Wheelers Imperial'
Spring. York or Sweetheart Cabbage
Heritage (English circa 1844)€1.98Cabbage ‘Wheelers Imperial’ is a traditional heritage variety that produces solidly pointed layers of dark green leaves which form compact, heart shaped heads. Although a Victorian variety, it remains one of the best varieties for autumn sowing to stand the winter for harvesting in spring.
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Cauliflower 'All Year Round'
Successional, Summer Cauliflower€2.04It is very uplifting to go to the garden on a cold December day to harvest a perfect, intricately woven, beautiful white head of cauliflower. “All Year Round” produces good quality white heads and is an excellent all-purpose variety for successional sowing.
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Cauliflower 'Autumn Giant'
Winter Cauliflower.
Heritage (1878)€1.98'Autumn Giant' is a well-known and respected maincrop cauliflower with large dense white curds which are thoroughly protected by the leaves. Sow in mid spring for an autumn harvest, or late spring, for a winter harvest.
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Cauliflower 'Romanesco'
Romanesco broccoli, Calabrese romanesco, Broccoflower.
Heritage (Northern Italy)€1.74One of the most beautiful vegetables and a true Objet d'Art. Each complex, symmetrical head features whorls of chartreuse green florets, in a complex, bewitching design, an amazing example of phyllotaxis - the fractal patterning that appears in nature.
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Cauliflower 'Snowball'
Early Cauliflower: Baby Vegetable.
Heritage (1890's)€1.74Cauliflower Snowball is a superb heritage variety from the 1890's, this regular favourite has certainly stood the test of time. This easy maintenance variety is very suitable for the home gardener, the pure white, snowball-sized heads can be harvested when small or left to mature.
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Cauliflower 'Snowball' Organic
Early Cauliflower: Baby Vegetable.
Heritage (1890's)€1.98Out of stock
Snowball is a superb cauliflower variety. Easy to grow and although strictly speaking an early cauliflower, it can be used for successional production all year. The pure white, snowball-sized heads can be harvested when small or left to mature.
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Chinese Cabbage, Napa 'Granet' Organic
Wong Bok or Mandarin Cabbage.
Heritage (China 14th C.)€2.34Chinese or Napa cabbage ‘Granet’ produces large closed heads of crisp, light green leaves. This relatively fast-growing plant is sweet and mild and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in the usual way. It is also suitable for steaming and for inclusion in the famous fermented Kimchi. Organic Seeds.
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Chinese Cabbage, Napa 'Wong Bok'
Napa cabbage, Mandarin Cabbage.
Heritage (China 14th C.)€1.98'Wong Bok' is a tender, sweet tasting, hearted-type of Chinese cabbage. Growing this fast growing cabbage is simplicity itself. Plant the seeds, stand back and once the secondary leaves appear you are a mere 30 days away from mealtime. This vegetable growing season promises to be very rewarding.
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Crambe maritima 'Lilywhite'
Seakale, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
Ancient Crop.€2.58Out of stock
Crambe maritima is a lovely dual purpose plant. This delicacy from the olden days has a unique delicate flavour, forced Seakale is a real delicacy. In the garden, it can be grown as an eye-catching and fragrant border plant. It has perhaps the most beautiful of all large glaucous leaves.
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Kale 'Kapral'
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole€1.98The thing I love about kale the most is not its superfood qualities, its lovely bright green leaves or the sweet cabbagey taste. I love kale simply because it is there when I need it. Kale Kapral is a medium early variety. Tremendously hardy, it will defy anything that winter can conjure up.
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Kale 'Red Ruble'
Russian or Siberian Kale, Ragged Jack€1.74Kale 'Red Ruble' is a red, Russian-type kale that has been specially bred for the salad leaf market. Its beautiful wine-red serrated foliage makes a quick growing colourful tasty salad leaf. Grown year-round on a windowsill and picked young and small, they can be added to lettuces to make your own mesclun mix.
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Kale 'Red Russian'
Russian or Siberian Kale, Ragged Jack
Heritage variety (Pre 1885, reintroduced 1977)€1.50With deeply cut, slate green oak-like leaves ‘Red Russian’ is one of the tenderest and sweetest kales available. Sow under cover in autumn for baby leaves after four to six weeks, or directly outdoors for over-wintering. This hardy crop can provide nutritious leaves even in the depths of winter.
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Kale 'Scarlet Curled'
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole€1.74Some years ago, we knew kale as a hearty winter meal, suddenly its popularity soared and ‘Kale Madness’ erupted. Now available in all manner of shapes, sizes and colours. 'Scarlet Curled' Kale is a highly attractive and ultra-hardy variety, the leaves intensify in colour turning to violet-red after a few frosts.
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Kale 'Scarlet Curled' Organic
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole€2.22'Scarlet Curled' Kale is a highly attractive and ultra-hardy variety, the curly, blistered violet-green leaves intensify in colour turning to violet-red after a few frosts. When harvested regularly it produces generous yields of large sturdy and tightly, heavily curled leaves on 90cm tall plants. Organic Seeds
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Kale 'Thousand Head'
Thousand Headed Borecole€1.50Kale 'Thousand Head' is a plain-leaved variety which is extremely reliable and prolific. It is particularly winter hardy and consequently a popular product with growers in northern areas. There is none of the heartache of seeing all one’s hard work destroyed by a sharp and prolonged frost.
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Kale 'Westland Winter', Organic
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole€2.34One of the least problematic and hardiest plants in the Brassica tribe, Kale 'Westland Winter' is a medium early variety that typically grows 40 to 60cm tall, which makes it ideal for more exposed production areas. Organic Seeds.
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Kale, 'Dwarf Blue Curled'
Curly Kale, Dwarf Curlies, Scotch Kale, Borecole
Heritage variety (1865)€1.74'Dwarf Green Curled' is a compact, hardy and easy to grow kale. It produces an abundance of tender and delicate, densely curled green leaves which can be harvested throughout the winter months. Kale is one of the least problematic crops, it will tolerate conditions that would make most brassicas keel over!
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Kale, Cavolo Nero 'Black Magic'
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)€2.70Kale 'Black Magic' is an improved Italian Black Kale, bred to be more tender with better flavour. The winter hardy plants more cold tolerant, vigorous and slower-to-bolt than other Italian kales. They form an easy-to-harvest rosette of very dark, savoyed leaves with a flavour that is rich and mild.