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Russian or Siberian Kale, Ragged Jack
Heritage variety (Pre 1885, reintroduced 1977)
With 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.
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)
Until recently Cavolo Nero, or ‘Tuscan Kale’, was one of Italy’s best kept secrets. Simply adored, especially in the north of Italy, it has been an essential fare of traditional dishes for centuries. Cavolo Nero can now be found in garden markets, specialist greengrocers and trendy restaurants throughout Europe.
Purple Kohlrabi
‘Azure Star’ is a highly regarded purple kohlrabi from Europe, considered to be one of the finest. It is the earliest blue-leaved, purple Kohlrabi and is also the most delicious. Raw or cooked, it is superb eating, Azure Star sets a new standard for excellence. Organic Seed.
Purple Kohlrabi
‘Delicacy Purple’ is much improved over the previous Vienna varieties, producing a crop that is slightly more tender and with more flavour, it has good standing ability, is low growing and matures quickly, progressing from sowing to harvesting in a couple of months.
White or Green Kohlrabi
‘Delicacy White’ is much improved over the previous Vienna varieties, producing pale green globe shaped roots with a crisp white flesh.Sow from late February to the end of August for a continuous supply. “Delicacy White” is an ideal companion to “Delicacy Purple” as it matures a little earlier.
Mustard Spinach
Komatsuna is possibly Japan’s most beloved vegetable – An all-season green that is easy to grow and can be used in all kinds of cooking. While Japanese people have eaten Komatsuna since the olden days, many people now use Komatsuna to make smoothies – A chilled komatsuna and banana smoothie is lovely morning drink.
Midseason Leek. Heritage (1834)
Leek Musselburgh is named for a coastal market town on the Firth of Forth. Introduced in 1834, it has remained popular ever since. It is extremely hardy and can be picked over winter from December to April when there is little else in the garden. A very hardy leek and a very dependable performer.
Autumn / Winter Leek.
Leek Winter Giant 3 is an extremely hardy leek, it will put up with blistering gales and frost without a pause. Harvest from October to March. The solid, long white stems are exhibition quality with an outstanding flavour.
Bee Balm Sweet Balm, Balm Mint, Blue Balm.
Melissa officinalis or ‘Lemon balm’ is a highly-scented herb, best known for its use in tea, but this very special herb has a number other uses. If you enjoy the liquors Benedictine and Chartreuse you may find the taste familiar as lemon balm is an ingredient in both.
Bee Balm, Sweet Balm, Balm Mint, Blue Balm.
Lemon balm is a very special herb with a number other uses. The leaves have the scent of lemon with a hint of mint. It is refreshing served in summer drinks such as Pimms or lemonade, use to flavour fruit, in sorbets and deserts or with a green salad. Organic Seed.
Lemon Grass, Cochin Grass or Malabar Grass
Lemon grass is widely used as a herb in Asian and Caribbean cooking. It has a citrus flavour and can be dried and powdered, or used fresh. It is commonly used in teas, soups, and curries and is also suitable for poultry, fish, and seafood.
Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (pre 1870)
As its name suggests, this classic butterhead lettuce can be the basis of fresh daily salads throughout the year. This is no ‘supermarket’ variety, but rather a proper lettuce with an exquisite flavour unavailable from anywhere but from your own vegetable patch.
Loose Leaf Lettuce
Heritage variety (Introduced in 1952)
Salad Bowl lettuce are amply named, one plant fills a salad bowl with no need to add other lettuces. “Green Salad Bowl” is an award winning variety that produces large, slow bolting, non-heading plants with sweet, succulent green leaves. N.I.A.B and RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Romaine, Cos, Semi-Cos
Heritage (1880's)
Little Gem is a popular choice, and no wonder! It produces sweet crisp, small-sized hearts with few outside leaves. Quick to mature, dwarf and compact. It will tolerate hot weather and resists bolting and root aphid. NIAB Accreditation and RHS AGM.
Romaine or Cos
Heritage 1790
‘Lobjoits Green Cos’ is considered by many to be the best lettuce that you can grow or eat. It can be grown year round and is renowned for its reluctance to bolt in summer. Home-grown, it will astonish you with its freshness and sweet taste, the the crispness is unrivaled 
Green Continental, Curly Lettuce
Lollo Bionda lettuce forms a beautiful round mound of pale green, crisp frilled edged leaves. Appreciated for its unique shape and refreshing taste, it holds well in summer heat and in the cold. It makes an attractive complement to Lollo Rossa.
Loose Leaf or Continental Red Lettuce
Lollo Rosso is a classic Italian lettuce, with dark copper red to bright green, finely crinkled frilly leaves which are crisp, almost brittle when snapped. It is appreciated for its unique shape and refreshing taste and holds well in summer heat and in the cold. 
Loose Leaf or Continental Red Lettuce
Lollo Rosso, for which you pay premium prices for in the supermarket is one of the easiest, trouble free lettuces you can grow. It’s a cut-and-come-again variety and produce leaves for three months or more. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
'Merveille des Quatre Saisons' Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (French 1885)
This French butter-head lettuce is famous for its signature butter-head shape boasting the appearance of a bibb-type rosette with an array of beautiful colours ranging in bronze, gold, red and green. The “Four Seasons” will thrive in a range of climates and its texture always remains crisp and its taste unforgettable.
'Merveille des Quatre Saisons' Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (French 1885)
Also known as Merveille des Quatre Saisons this is a butter-head lettuce that is a true delight. With ruby toned leaves that encompass tightly folded green hearts it is as tasty as it is beautiful, and it is a truly beautiful lettuce. Organic Seed.
Marvel of Winter, Butterhead, Winter variety.
Lettuce Meraviglia d’Inverno is truly a ‘Marvel of Winter’, it is from one of the coldest regions of Italy and is hardy to around minus 10°C (14°F). Compact and tender, it will stand in perfect condition right through winter and can be harvested from September right through to March.
Romaine or Cos
Heritage (USA 1950)
Parris Island produces an upright head of strong leaves with a distinctive crisp white midrib. Heat tolerant with fair bolt resistance, you can grow successive crops in spring and autumn and in mild coastal areas it can be grown year-round. 
Loose Leaf Lettuce
Heritage variety (Introduced in 1955)
“Red Salad Bowl” is a large fast growing rosette lettuce with very pretty burgundy green crimped leaves.This award winning variety produces large, slow bolting, non-heading plants with sweet, succulent red leaves. N.I.A.B and RHS AGM. 
Loose Leaf Lettuce
Heritage variety (Introduced in 1955)
“Red Salad Bowl” is a large fast growing rosette lettuce with very pretty leaves.This award winning variety produces large, slow bolting, non-heading plants with sweet, succulent red leaves. N.I.A.B and RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
European Liquorice or Licorice (U.S.)
The liquorice plant has a very long history of use both as a medicine and as flavouring. The soft and pliable roots have an aroma strongly reminiscent of anise or fennel. The taste is dominantly sweet, warm and medical. Organic Seed.
Love Parsley, Mountain Celery
If you haven’t cooked with lovage before then you have missed out on a very flavourful herb. The flavour is distinct and greatly appreciated by food aficionados. Even though some like to compare lovage to celery, it is almost like saying that an apricot tastes like a small peach.
Vegetable Gourd. Aka Loofah or Loofa
Luffa acutangula is a very versatile plant. As a vegetable, the leaves can be eaten in a salad, the very young gourds, known as Chinese Okra they taste like aubergine. The matured dried gourd develops into a fibrous netting. It is an excellent sponge and makes a wonderful exfoliator.
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole
Kale ‘F1 Winterbor’ is a very frost resistant medium-tall variety with dark blue-green finely curled leaves. It is unsurpassed for extra-mild, sweet Kale tang. Ultra-hardy, it is suitable for autumn and winter harvest. 28 days for baby kale; 60 days mature.
Russian or Siberian Kale, Ragged Jack
Heritage variety (Pre 1885, reintroduced 1977)
One of the tenderest kales available, with a sweeter taste than most traditional varieties, ‘Red Russian’ is delicious raw in salads and excellent used in stir-frying. It will grow to baby leaf in only 25 days, just add to lettuce to make your own mesclun mix. Organic Seeds. 
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole
Some 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.
Curly Kale, Scotch Kale, Borecole
One 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.
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)
‘Black Magic’ is an improved Italian Black Kale, 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.
Black Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Borecole
Heritage (Italian pre 1879)
Simply adored, especially in the north of Italy, Cavolo Nero is an extremely cold hardy kale that will tolerate conditions that would make most brassicas keel over. Thank heavens we have finally managed to locate Organic Seeds!
Beet Root or Leaf, Spinach Beet
Bulls Blood ‘Atlanta Red’ is a heat tolerant, summer variety which holds its red colour in high temperatures, used by commercial growers for both baby leaf and mixed salad leaves. Harvest at any stage of growth, use in mixed salads or steamed like spinach, or the roots can be left to grow like any other beetroot.
Spinach Beet, Seakale Beet, Wild Spinach
Heritage variety (In use in 1790)
‘Perpetual Spinach is one of the easiest and most productive vegetables for a small space. Extremely resistant to bolting, it responds particularly well to repeat cutting. With just one sowing you can feast on the succulent leaves the entire summer and through to winter. 
Baby leaf or for growing to maturity.
The ‘Gourmet Salad Mix’ is a blend of the very best tasting and most beautiful lettuces, each variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. They can be grown all year round for a continuous supply.
Oakleaf Lettuce
Extremely attractive in the salad bowl, Lettuce ‘Baby Oak Leaf’ is a bolt-resistant variety with a long harvest period, recommended for the planting period from March to the beginning of May. The leaves have a buttery texture and an mellow, sweet flavour, which rarely becomes bitter, even in hotter climates.
Loose Leaf, Oakleaf Lettuce
A highly ornamental oakleaf lettuce which produces masses of deeply lobed leaves. With good flavour and texture, the compact plants will grow easily in a pot or in the garden. This variety tolerates heat very well, but also excels in cooler climates.
Oakleaf Lettuce
Lettuce Cocarde is a beautiful oak leaf type lettuce. Very adaptable, it can be grown in most climates and seasons and can be picked as required. The smooth deeply lobed, red leaves have a sweet taste and delicate melt-in-your-mouth texture. RHS AGM 
Romaine or Cos
Heritage
Heirloom Lettuce ‘Crisp Mint’ produces sturdy crops that are heat tolerant and very adaptable. A particular shade of mint green, the slightly ruffled leaves surround a crystal white heart. They retain their crispness and are delicious eaten fresh in salads.
Lettuce
Dark red with a high bolting and weather tolerance. Lettuce ‘New Red Fire’ is a popular choice amongst growers for its excellent colour and taste. The attractive frilly-edged, open leaves are crisp and sweet. Light green at the base and deeply flushed in wine red. RHS AGM 
Romaine, Cos Lettuce
Aka Freckles or Speckled Lettuce
Lettuce ‘Forellenschluss’ is an Austrian heirloom, a romaine type that has the delicate taste and texture of a butterhead. While being extremely attractive it is the taste that really should be emphasised – Slightly sweet, very soft and fine in structure, it is absolutely gorgeous.
Loose Leaf Lettuce
Heritage variety (Introduced in 1952)
Salad Bowl lettuce are amply named, one plant fills a salad bowl with no need to add other lettuces. ‘Green Salad Bowl’ is an award winning variety that produces large, slow bolting, non-heading plants with sweet, succulent green leaves. N.I.A.B and RHS AGM.
Butterhead Lettuce.
Heritage variety (1960's)
Lettuce ‘Gustav’s Salad’ is an heirloom variety that is compact and silky soft with a a delicious melt-in-the-mouth flavour. Upright, small and compact this sweet and buttery lettuce is reliable and perfect for growing where space might be limited. A new staple in the salad garden, the eating quality is of the next level.
Red Romaine, Cos, Semi-Cos
Crisp and light, and very pretty in the salad bowl. ‘Little Leprechaun’ is a compact variety of Cos lettuce that has a very nice appearance and is very easy to grow. The high standing green leaves are tinged with red, almost bronze. Organic Seed. 
Lettuce
Lettuce ‘Red Iceberg’ is a colourful take on the classic crisphead, forming tight heads with pale green hearts wrapped in outer leaves flushed red to burgundy. Wonderfully crisp and juicy, with a mild, sweet flavour that stands up well in salads, wedges and burgers without turning limp. 50 days.
Butterhead Lettuce. Summer Lettuce variety
As its name suggests, this classic butterhead lettuce can be the basis of fresh daily salads throughout the year. This is no ‘supermarket’ variety, but rather a proper lettuce with an exquisite flavour unavailable from anywhere but from your own vegetable patch.
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