Brassicas

F1 Yuushou is a vigorous, green leaved variety of Pak Choi which is slow to bolt and suitable for all year round cropping. China's most popular vegetable is used raw or cooked from any stage from seedling to mature plant and can be used as a “cut and come again” vegetable.

Pak Choi 'Shanghai' is a special green stem variety with glossy, dark green leaves, thick green petioles and an attractive hourglass shape. Tender and very delicious, this new 'celebrity' vegetable tolerates both cold and heat and can be sown in succession for crops nearly all season long.

A favorite with growers, Swede 'Best of All' is an old variety that produced globe shaped roots with purple tops and yellow flesh. Very easy to grow, very hardy and reliable with good storing qualities, it isn’t as heavy cropping as modern varieties but has good flavour and low water content.

Swede 'Gowrie' is an exceptionally easy-to-grow, yellow-fleshed variety, providing great winter crops of sweet and tasty purple-skinned roots. Very winter hardy with resistance to powdery mildew and club root, it has a long harvest period from October to January and stores well in dry conditions.

Swede Invitation is a strong-growing, Club Root resistant variety which also benefits from Powdery Mildew resistance and has improved winter hardiness over other varieties. A late maturing, purple topped variety with mild yellow flesh, it can be harvested from winter right until the end of spring.

Swede Marian is the Swede to buy. Bred in Wales this high yielding variety in NIAB trials has all the plus points. This reliable cropper will produce uniform purple topped, globe shaped roots with yellow flesh, a splendid flavour and fine texture with the bonus of resistance to club root and mildew.

Tweed is the first F1 Swede variety, bred for its uniform, globe shaped roots and vigorous growth. Its fondness for less fertile soil and resistance to club root make it a perfect variety for successful growing at home. Very appealing with purple shoulders and lovely creamy flesh, it is ideal for a late autumn harvest.

“F1 Red” is a non-hearting oriental mustard with spoon shaped, purple green leaves which are not only full of flavour, but very tender. Mature plants exhibit a rosette of rounded, savoyed, purple green leaves. Suitable for both baby leaf and whole head production, it can be harvested anytime during growth.

Tatsoi or Rosette Pak Choi is among the most popular of oriental greens. The spoon-shaped, dark green, evenly spaced leaves form a plant worthy to be grown for its decorative value alone. Given enough room the plants will form beautiful wide rosettes of regular, concentric circles.

No one interested in vegetable growing can fail to be inspired by the Chinese people and the diversity and productivity of their vegetables. ‘F1 Kuro’ is a traditional Pak Choi and Tatsoi cross, that produces plants with an upright habit, luminescent green flat stems and tender, dark green, thick glossy leaves.

Purple Top Milan is a classic Italian heirloom variety and is still as popular as ever. Highly ornamental, it has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh. A strap-leaved variety, quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal 'catch crop' between slower growing vegetables.

Recommended 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.