Oriental & Speciality

Leaf mustard comes in an array of shapes and sizes, but if you want colour, choose the beautiful Mustard ‘Red Frills’. True to its name, the attractive and sweet leaves are finely serrated. The fringed burgundy-red leaves add the taste of mustard and horseradish to salads, stir fries and sandwiches.

Boasting magnificent, savoyed, purple-red leaves edged and veined pale green. Mustard ‘Red Giant’ is a vigorous growing broad leaf variety. Commonly found in mesclun mixes, the leaves are slightly textured and the mild mustard flavour is fresh and zesty.

Mustard ‘Wasabi-na’ is a Japanese specialty mustard, bred for its wasabi like flavour. Bolt resistant and hardy, it can be grown almost all year round. Use delicate baby leaves for salad and fresh eating and mature leaves for tsukemono, ohitashi, stir-frying, and pickling.

Heading Mustard is a specialty vegetable, prized for its distinctive mild flavour. This cultivar, known as 'Sher-Li-Hon' in Asia produces a longer, looser head than regular Gai Choy, they are tasty, sweet and suitable anywhere you'd like a more tender green with a less assertive flavour than regular mustards.

Nasturtium 'Blue Pepe' is a unique variety from Europe. A culinary variety, originally bred for the edible blue-green leaves and vivid dark red flowers. The flowers dress up a plate and pair sweetness and spice while the leaves deliver peppery punches.

We have all heard of Nigella Lawson, the British cooking show goddess who advocates the importance of a well-stocked pantry. But the seeds had the name first. Nigella sativa have a spicy, nutty flavour with a crunchy texture, they may be used whole or ground, and develop their flavour best after short toasting.

Bunching onion 'Kyoto Market' is an early, vigorous and heavy yielding bunching onion that does not bulb but forms long white stalks with long green foliage. suitable for later crops and for overwintering. This perennial variety splits into bunches as it grows, simply divide the clump to multiply your onion patch.

The Welsh onion has a mild, sweet flavour and although the Welsh onion is much more delicate, it is strongly reminiscent of the leek in appearance and taste and is similar to the scallion. It is distinguished from the bulb onion by its round hollow leaves and only slight bulb formation.

The Red Welsh is an old form of the perennial bunching onion with very decorative red stalks and a slightly stronger flavoured than the white variety. Once established, tend to look after themselves. The flowers are attractive to bees and is an effective insect repellent.

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.

Pak Choi "F1 Hanakan" is an outstanding green stem hybrid for babyleaf or for miniveg (straight to wok) specification. Dwarf, hourglass shaped heads, with lovely broad based green stems. The flavour is sweet with a hint of mustard. Not only tasty, but good for you. Whatever next?!?

Pak Choi 'F1 Red Wizard' is a dark red variety that produce crops that have consistent colour even with summer temperatures. This vigorous variety has good heat and cold tolerance and a mild, sweet flavour. They look as attractive in the garden as they do on the plate.

Pak Choi 'Rubi' is very quick to crop, easy to grow and slow to bolt. This purple/red leaved variety is perfect for adding colour to baby leaf mixes, it be used as a babyleaf veg or as whole head shredded into stir-fries. It looks as attractive in the garden as on the plate.

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.