Salad Leaves
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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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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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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 '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. -
Mustard 'F1 Red Dragon'
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€2.00Upright, fast and frilly, Mustard ‘F1 Red Dragon’ is a mild mustard, bred for fast growth and resistance to bolting with beautifully patterned purple and green, with lime green petioles and purple veining. An excellent choice for early spring right through to late autumn cropping.
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Mustard 'Golden Frills', Organic
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€2.00Mustard 'Golden Frills' has attractive and sweet leaves that are fringed and finely serrated with the tangy flavour of gourmet mustard. Use it with other salad leaves to create your own bistro salad to suit your tastes. They are fantastic when lightly steamed, stir-fried or sautéed. Organic Seeds -
Mustard 'Green Frills'
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€1.75Mustard 'Green Frills' has attractive and sweet leaves that are fringed and finely serrated with the tangy flavour of gourmet mustard. Use it with other salad leaves to create your own bistro salad to suit your tastes. They are fantastic when lightly steamed, stir-fried or sautéed.
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Mustard 'Pizzo'
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€1.55Out of stock
Mustard ‘Pizzo’ is a new mustard green with that is beautifully mild flavoured when young and hot once mature. The bright green, voluptuous curving leaves are deeply-cut and serrated. They are beautiful as a baby leaf, give volume to winter salads and are very good for bunching.
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Mustard 'Purple Frills', Organic
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€2.00Easy to grow, Mustard Purple Frills is a good-looking plant, the large, red-tinged leaves intensifying to deep burgundy purple in cold weather. It is both ‘cold and bolt’ tolerant and often to be found in the ornamental garden or the potager. Organic Seeds -
Mustard 'Red Frills'
Oriental or Leaf Mustard€1.75Leaf 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.
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Mustard Gai Choy, 'Sher-Li-Hon'
Heading Mustard, Gai Cai, Kai Choy€2.35Out of stock
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.
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Nasturtium 'Blue Pepe'
Nasturtium€2.45Out of stock
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.
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Orach 'Green' Mountain Spinach, Organic
Mountain Spinach€2.45Out of stock
Known as Mountain Spinach, Orach is a heat and cold tolerant green for all seasons. A handsome plant and very suited to growing in the flower garden, the flavour has a nice citrus touch. Use individual leaves in salad mix, cook like spinach or as a micro-green. Organic Seed -
Orach 'Red' Mountain Spinach, Organic
Mountain Spinach€2.45Colourful Red Orach used to great effect in ‘edible landscape’ plantings, mingled with flowers, vegetables and herbs. Whether in salad mix, cooked like spinach or as a micro-green, the heart-shaped leaves have a pleasant flavour and the colour is always spectacular. As beautiful as any floral bouquet. Organic Seed -
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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Pak Choi, Bok Choi 'F1 Hanakan'
Pak choy, Spoon cabbage, Taisai, Chinese mustard.€2.00Pak 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?!?
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Pak Choi, Bok Choi 'F1 Red Wizard'
Kinkoh Pak choy.€1.55Out of stock
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.
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Pak Choi, Bok Choi 'F1 Rubi'
Pak choy, Spoon cabbage, Taisai, Chinese mustard.€1.75Out of stock
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.
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Pak Choi, Bok Choi 'F1 Yuushou'
Pak choy, Spoon cabbage, Taisai, Chinese mustard.€1.90Out of stock
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.
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Pak Choi, Bok Choi 'Shanghai'
Green Stem, Baby Bok Choy, Mei Qing Choi€2.00Out of stock
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.
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Perilla, Shiso ‘Akajiso’ Red Leaf
Japanese or Chinese Basil, Purple Mint.€2.20Out of stock
Shiso ‘Akajiso’ the red leaf variety of Perilla is used extensively in Japan to season vegetables, rice, soups, fish, etc. It has a wonderful complex aroma, the taste is almost always said to be quite hard to describe - the words cinnamon, basil, anise, and citrus pop up in the attempts. -
Perilla, Shiso ‘Aoshiso’ Green Leaf
Japanese or Chinese Basil€2.20Out of stock
Shiso ‘Aoshiso’ leaves make for exquisite decoration. It is finely sliced with ginger and added to salads, sautéed vegetables, sashimi, tempura and sushi. Available either red or green, the red having more of an anise flavour and slightly less spicy than the green variety, which tastes more like cinnamon.
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Perilla, Shiso ‘Hojiso’ Bi-coloured Leaf
Perilla 'Britton' or 'Briton'
Japanese or Chinese Basil€2.20Sometimes referred to as Perilla 'Britton' and called ‘Hojiso’ in Japan, this less typical form of Perilla has beautiful bi-coloured leaves. The serrated, red-veined leaves are green on top and deep purple-red underneath.
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Purslane 'Golden Purslane'
Summer Purslane, Garden purslane.
Ancient Crop. In use since the 1600's€1.85Summer Purslane was highly esteemed and cultivated in Europe as far back as the Middle Ages, but is now cultivated only for specialised connoisseurs.This wonderfully succulent and cooling herb has tangy leaves make a very nice contrast, in texture as well as taste to other salad leaves.