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Florists Dill or Compact Dill
‘Mariska’ is a little known compact variety of Dill often referred to as ‘Florist’s Dill’. With starry bright yellow flower heads and abundant foliage it is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower, yet is still a great variety for the kitchen.
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (1860's)
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.
Winter Savoy Cabbage
Vorbote Cabbage is an early maturing savoy type with slightly pointed heads and with attractive, crinkled and blistered leaves and a robust flavour and texture. With good field standing ability it has an arctic-like tolerance to the cold. Organic Seed.
Pot Marigold, English Marigold. Herb Marigold
Cheerful and bright, use Calendula in beds, borders or containers. Calendula is prolific and durable, and like most hardy annuals it is easy to grow, simply sow where it is to flower. It is currently one of the top herbs used for medicinal use. Sprinkle salads and decorate cakes with the edible tangy petals.
Meridian Fennel or Persian Cumin
Caraway is an incredibly useful plant. The seeds are used as a culinary spice and for medicinal purposes, the leaves can be eaten in salads and the roots cooked as a root vegetable. With feathery, delicate foliage the plant is lovely in the garden border and is a very useful companion plant in the vegetable garden.
Cardamom
Black cardamom or Nepal cardamom is are very popular in Indian cuisine and is the world’s third-most expensive spice, outstripped in price per weight only by saffron and vanilla.
Maincrop / Late variety
One of the best main crop varieties available, with a consistent deep red colour and conical roots, carrot ‘Autumn King’ can be grown as a maincrop or late variety and is an excellent variety for storing. RHS AGM. 
Maincrop / Late variety
Unless 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. Autumn King resists splitting and stores well just left in the ground. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)
Famously 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.
Maincrop & Successional
Heritage (France mid 1800's)
Originating 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.
Second Early & Maincrop
‘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.
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)
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. Organic seed. 
Self blanching, Summer celery.
Heritage variety (1886)
‘Golden Self Blanching’ produces thick, crisp, juicy, aromatic stalks of celery with solid hearts that have no hint of bitterness or stings. This dwarf variety is ideal for smaller gardens and does not need blanching. It produces naturally cream-coloured stalks with a crisp, crunchy texture and mild flavour.
Cutting or Soup Celery. Chinese Kintsai
Cutting celery or Leaf celery is the type that is used in Europe. It looks similar to parsley but tastes like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and curly, aromatic leaves; it is much easier to grow than its big brother.
English or Lawn Chamomile
Also spelt Camomile
Camomile is a most useful plant. It can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is an ideal family remedy, calming and sedative, perfect for restlessness or travel sickness, while for gardeners the tea is effective as a spray to prevent ‘damping-off’ of seedlings
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard
With more colours than Joseph’s Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Swiss Chard ‘Bright Lights’ is so beautiful to look at that its easy to forget that its real strength is as a vegetable. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Heritage (Italian 1914)
Producing wonderful, heavily crumpled green leaves with white mid-rib and veins, Swiss Chard ‘Lucullus’ is a particularly prolific, hardy variety. Deliciously succulent simply cooked and served with butter. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard.
Swiss Chard is probably the most under appreciated of all vegetables. One of the easiest of all vegetables to grow with a long cropping season, it tolerates poor soil and inattention. With crimson-stemmed leaves, it makes a striking contrast in any salad. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Ruby chard
Worth growing for the colour alone, Red Chard will give tasty spinach type leaves for up to 12 months from a single sowing. It is a good choice for the beginner or busy gardener. The striking deep green leaves with red veins are a beautiful addition to any garden. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Brusseler Winter
Chervil ‘Massa’ has a sophisticated yet gentle, aniseedy warmth. It is a dark green selection with smooth leaves and good plant vigour, it has better cold tolerance than standard Chervil and is used for autumn sowings, it also bolts much later.
Perle du Nord.
Heritage (Belgium 18th C.)
Famous for the forced, blanched heads or ‘chichons’ that are loved by gourmets Chicory ‘Brussels Witloof’ is the traditional finely-textured variety used for forcing. With a delicious, tangy, unique flavour, it is very easy to grow and produces one of the finest tasting winter vegetables.
Chicory / Radicchio
Italian Chicory, or Radicchio ‘Palla Rosso’ from Chioggia in Italy is a reliable radicchio that forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outside green leaves. 
Chicory / Radicchio, Early variety.
Heritage (Italian 18th C.)
The classic tall Italian radicchio. Upright with red and white striped leaves with large pure white stems. Highly prized, this flavoursome early variety is grown in the Treviso area in winter and is eaten, root and all, simply pan fried or grilled. It has high resistance to cold.
Napa cabbage, Mandarin Cabbage.
Heritage (China 14th C.)
‘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.
‘Fine-leaved’ chives have a delicious, mild onion flavour. They keep their slender shape and do not get course or tough with age. The narrow linear leaves are snipped and used primarily fresh, stirred into uncooked foods, such as soft cheeses or salads.
Chives
These easy to grow chives are one of the famous fines herbes of French cuisine. Easily raised from seed, they are perennial bulbs that spread to form neat tufted clumps, ideal for edging beds and paths. They are particularly attractive when in flower and are a favourite of bees and other pollinating insects.
Chives
The organic version of the easy to grow chives. These are one of the famous fines herbes of French cuisine. They are a good source of vitamins A and C, and are also said to stimulate the appetite and strengthen the stomach. Organic Seed. 
Knitbone, Bruisewort, Healing herb, Miracle herb.
To the organic gardener, Comfrey is invaluable. It’s easy to grow, easy to use and incredibly beneficial to the garden. Used to make organic liquid feed, it is especially valuable on crops that benefit from high doses of potassium. Organic Seed.
Chinese, Mexican or Indian Parsley
Most gardeners appreciate that home grown herbs are infinitely superior, but try growing Coriander – the difference can be quite startling. “Slobolt” is a variety for leaf production that performs well under organic production techniques and is resistant to running to seed. Organic Seed.
Mí¢che, Lambs Tongue
Vit is an easy to grow, vigorous variety for spring and autumn crops. This French variety is mildew-resistant with long, oval, glossy green leaves which form a heavy bunch, They have a tender, delicate nutty, minty flavour. An excellent winter gap filler, both in the vegetable garden and at the dining table.
Mí¢che, Lambs Tongue
In France this humble plant is called la mâche and enjoys an elevated gourmet status. Vit is an easy to grow, vigorous variety. Mildew-resistant with long, oval, glossy green leaves with a tender, delicate nutty, minty flavour. Organic Seed.
Mí¢che, Lambs Tongue
Heritage variety (French)
Corn Salad ‘Verte de Cambrai’ is a traditional old French variety, the compact plants have good colour and small leaf shape. It is among the softest and most tender of all greens, the leaves have a sweet buttery flavour which almost melt in the mouth.
Herbe Sainte-Marie, Alecost
Costmary is one of the most interesting and complex of all herbs. With an aroma which has been described as like garden mint with hints of balsam it can be used for many purposes, culinary, medicinal or ornamental.
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini
Courgette Ambassador F1 is an attractive variety and an outstanding hybrid that gives attractive dark green courgettes over a long period. A popular professionally-grown variety and well known for the home gardener, it is an early fruiting, high yielding courgette which matures in fifty days.
Costata Romanesco
Courgette ‘F1 Gold Rush’ is an extremely beautiful variety with smooth, thin yellow skins and crisp flesh. It is an early, rich cropping courgette with tender flesh and an abundance of bright yellow fruits. The compact plants yield prolifically and are ideal for smaller gardens or pots.
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini
The Genovese courgette is a popular early variety that is very productive. It produces beautiful, light green cylindrical fruits speckled with grey, with a smooth skin and has an excellent flavour. The plants have an open bush habit which is helpful when harvesting. Sow April until July, harvest June onwards.
Costata Romanesco
Courgette ‘Tondo di Piacenza’ produces spherical, dark green glossy fruits with a firm texture and good flavour. This versatile variety can be cropped at different sizes depending on your preferred recipe. Harvest at golf ball size for eating whole in salads, or slightly larger for slicing into stir fries.
Cress, Microleaf
I don’t really see the point of growing cress only to scythe it down when it’s barely got going, and I’m moderately confident that, once you’ve tried the grown-up version, neither will you. With a sweet nutty flavour with a slightly spicy kick and lingering peppery taste, Greek Cress is one of the finest selections available.
American Cress or Upland Cress
Once very popular for winter salads, Land Cress has the same pungent nip that Watercress does but can be grown directly in the garden. Leaf production is at it’s highest during the summer and autumn, but it will happily carry on growing right through the winter. It deserves to be far more widely grown.
European watercress.
Watercress has recently risen to a starring role in elaborate culinary preparations. This highly nutritious aquatic herb has a lovely mustardy bite most commonly served raw as a garnish or as part of a salad.
True Samphire, Sea Fennel
For centuries, Samphire was food for the poor, free to ordinary people living by the sea. It is ironic that today it is regarded as a specialty food, often served with an accompanying price tag.
Also marketed as Crystal Apple
Heritage (1894)
Lemon Cucumbers are a very old variety cultivated since in 1894. Each fruit is the size of a small apple, hence it was known as ‘Apple Cucumber’, but as its fruit is a pale yellow in colour it is often called ‘Crystal Lemon’. Very similar to a typical cucumber, with tender pale greenish skin and sweet flesh.
Outdoor, Ridge Cucumber
The original Marketmore was released in 1968, it is now firmly established as one of the ‘Greats’ in the cucumber world, very reliable and disease resistant it produces a large amount of fruit which usually grow to over 20cm in length Perfect for salads and with fresh, crisp and mild flavour.
Outdoor, Ridge Cucumber
Marketmore is a fantastic slicing cucumber. Reliable and productive and resistant to the diseases that can blight so many cucumbers. Pick daily for the most sublime cucumber experience. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Indoor or Outdoor Cucumber
Cucumber ‘Tanja’ is a premium European open-pollinated slicing cucumber. With beautiful, long, firm and bitter-free fruits, is it suitable for both greenhouse and open air cultivation in you garden and can be harvested over an unusually long period. Organic Seed. 
Heritage variety (English 1897)
Cucumber ‘Telegraph Improved’ is an improved strain of this superb heirloom variety. It is an excellent choice for cool greenhouse or cold frame growing. This reliable variety gives medium-long dark, smooth-skinned fruits with a excellent mild flavour.
Gherkin, Cornichon or Pickling Cucumber
Heritage (French, late 1800's - 'Improved Bourbonne')
Cucumber, ‘Parisian Pickling’ is the ideal cucumber for use in pickling and for eating fresh in salads. The fruits can be harvested while small and young at around 50 days for pickles or left to mature to 67 days for slicing cucumbers. Suitable for indoor and outdoor sowing and ideal for container growing.
Jira or Zi yar
Cumin has a richness of history that gives it a special place in the world of spices. It has a distinctive flavour and aroma and is easily grown in cooler climates. The seeds are typically dried and used as a condiment.
Cardoon
Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world.
Dandelion, Clockflower, Tell-The-Time, Blowball, Puffball, Priests Crown
Dandelion is reviled by lawn manicurists yet, like Burdock, it is one of the most esteemed herbs in healing, the benefits are endless. The young raw leaves can be used in salads or cooked as a vegetable, the leaves contain more iron than spinach and are a excellent source of vitamins.
Dill Weed, Baby Dill, Dill Seed, Dill Fruit
Dill Bouquet is a popular variety with gardeners. It is an early bloomer that sports large seedheads and dark blue-green foliage. With good flavour it is the best cultivar for seed production. Sweet and aromatic, the flavour is intermediate between anise and caraway.
Dill Seed, Dill Weed
Dill ‘Diana’ is a very upright and stable selection. Especially robust against bolting, it is very leafy with an attractive dark green colour. The plants have a compact growth habit and are suitable for windowsill or container use. Organic Seed.
Baby Dill, Dill Seed, Dill Fruit
Dill Dukat is grown primarily for its abundant foliage, producing much more foliage before forming seed than most varieties. It is one of the best for fresh leaf production. Dill is certainly delectable. If ever the term “best if home-grown” were to apply to an item in the kitchen, dill would be it!
York or Sweetheart Cabbage
Cabbage ‘Cape Horn F1’ is an excellent pointed cabbage variety that produces exemplary heads and begins and ends the cabbage season. Not commonly available, it has been developed for cultivation during spring, summer and early autumn. RHS AGM.
York or Sweetheart Cabbage
When every little sprout and leaf seemingly has its 15 minutes in the spotlight, the possibility that cabbage is being recognised for its deliciousness, instead of its health benefits or affordability, is unexpected, to say the least. Exceptionally sweet and tender. Cabbage ‘Caraflex F1’ is unique.
Early Autumn. Sweetheart Cabbage ‘Ox Heart’
Heritage (Italian)
Not all cabbages have the round shape that we usually find on the market. Cuor di Bue Grosso, literally translated means ‘Large Heart of the Ox’, a cultivar with a beautiful conical shape, large, firm, pointed hearts and sweet compact heart, and looking at its glorious shape ‘Ox Heart’ is the perfect name for it
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