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No. of Varieties: 218
Chinese, Mexican or Indian Parsley

Coriander ‘Slobolt’ is a variety for leaf production that is resistant to bolting and running to seed. It isn’t a hard plant to grow and of course, fresh herbs and spices have far better flavours than dried ones. Home grown herbs are infinitely superior, the difference can be quite startling.

Dwarf Lemon or Zesty Lemon Parsley

‘Dwarf Lemon’ Coriander is a delightful and refreshing combination that brings together the sharp zest of lemon and the aromatic, citrusy undertone of coriander. This pairing is cherished in a variety of global cuisines for its ability to lift and brighten dishes.

Compact, Slow bolting variety.

A modern coriander variety, fresh ‘Hacor’ leaves are bright, citrusy and slightly peppery, with a hint of spice and a touch of sweetness. The flavour is clean and full rather than harsh, holding up well in both raw and cooked dishes. The seeds are warm, nutty and aromatic, with a lemony undertone once toasted.

Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini
There is a growing interest in the light green courgettes in international markets and Italy has been working hard to meet the demand. Once mainly grown in the south of the country, this courgette has now expanded into new markets. Expect Courgette ‘Alberello’ to produce tasty, green-skinned fruits with beautiful light green flecks. Resistant to a multitude of diseases, reliable and easy to harvest, they will bear fruits in prolific quantities. Organic Seeds
Courgette, Marrow, Squash, Zucchini

Courgette ‘Black Beauty’ is a reliable variety that produces fruits with a very dark green skin, giving it its ‘black’ name. It is a compact, open bush and starts bearing zucchini around 45 to 50 days to maturity, and will produce throughout the season. If continuously harvested, they will bear handsome oblong dark green fruits in prolific quantities.

Common or Pepper Cress
Cress is one salad ingredient you can be sure of harvesting all year round, adding flavour to salads, sandwiches and omelettes. You only need water, a little warmth and light, and this stuff will grow pretty much anywhere. You don’t even need a garden. Organic Seed.

This fabulous range of Edible Flowers and Herbs give decorative petals and leaves for use as garnishes and flavourings. Some are spicy, and some herbaceous, while others are floral and fragrant, the range is surprising. They will bring a stunning finish to the food and drinks you that you love.

Price range: €3.95 through €23.95

Curly-leaved endive
Italian Frisée Pancalieri resembles a lettuce that has gone horribly awry. With a pale green explosion of frizzy leaves it adds a frisky note to green salads. The large, loose collective head is dark green with a self-bleaching, creamy white interior.
Chinese leek, Oriental garlic chives, Ku chai, Koo chye or Gau choy

A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavour of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used a stir fry ingredient. The flowers may also be used as a spice.

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

Perpetual Spinach ‘Everglade’ is a modern selection with an upright habit and dark green compact leaves. It responds well to repeat cutting and is one of the easiest and most productive vegetables for a small space.

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.

Chinese spinach, Saan choy, Pui shak

Malabar Spinach, is a vining type of plant that thrives in hot temperatures, it is a discovery that is a boon for those of us that love our greens but find the warm days of summer a bit too hot for good growth. It can be grown throughout the summer and can even cope when the heat exceeds 32°C (90°F).

Chinese spinach, Saan choy, Pui shak

Malabar Spinach is valued for the brilliant fuchsia-purplish colour of its leaf stems and veins as well as its mild flavour. Juicy and crisp, the flavours of citrus and pepper accompany the succulent leaves.

Oriental Greens, Japanese Greens

Mizuna ‘Purple Stem’ also known as ‘Beni Houshi’, is a striking Japanese variety that retains the classic deeply serrated leaves and mild mustard flavour of green mizuna, but with a touch more sweetness and less bite. Organic Seed.

Oriental or Leaf Mustard

Mustard ‘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.

Oriental or Leaf Mustard
Easy 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
Oriental or Leaf Mustard
Mustard ‘Purple Osaka’ is a handsome Japanese mustard with broad, slightly crinkled leaves washed deep plum-purple with green undersides and pale midribs. Pleasantly mustardy with a gentle wasabi heat: mild and tender at baby leaf, fuller and warmer at mature size. Organic seed.
Oriental or Leaf Mustard

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.

Oriental or Leaf Mustard

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.

Oriental or Leaf Mustard
Mustard ‘Red Giant ‘ is a good-looking plant, the large, red-tinged leaves intensifying to deep burgundy purple in cold weather. Both ‘cold and bolt’ tolerant and often found in the ornamental garden, it adds colour from autumn right through to spring. Organic seed.
Oriental or Leaf Mustard
Mustard ‘Rouge Métis’ is a striking red-leaved variety grown for its finely frilled foliage and mild, peppery flavour. The leaves are a rich burgundy to wine-red, often with flashes of green near the base, and bring both colour and texture to salad mixes. Organic Seeds
Lady's Fingers. Heritage (1939 USA)

Originally developed Clemson University, Okra ‘Clemson Spineless’ produces compact, strong plants that produce exceptional yields of tender, less fibrous pods over a longer season. This spineless variety is still the market standard today.

Mountain Spinach
Orach is a heat and cold tolerant green for all seasons, supplying large quantities of mild heart-shaped leaves with a pleasant flavour and texture. It grows quickly early in the year and has a nice citrus touch, great for salads and are a great alternative to spinach. Organic Seed.
Mountain Spinach
Orach is a heat and cold tolerant green for all seasons. With red-purple leaves that look great in the garden and on the table. Whether using individual leaves in salad mix, cooked like spinach or as a micro-green, the colour is always spectacular. Organic Seed.
Ezetha's Krombeks Purple Podded Pea
Capucijners. Heritage (Europe 15th C)

‘Blauwschokker’ produces an abundance of red and violet flowers, followed by gorgeous deep purple pods. Dual purpose, delicious when harvested young as mangetout or can be left to mature to shell the bright green peas.

Ezetha's Krombeks Purple Podded Pea
Capucijners. Heritage (Europe 15th C)

‘Blauwschokker’ produces an abundance of red and violet flowers, followed by gorgeous deep purple pods. Dual purpose, delicious when harvested young as mangetout or can be left to mature to shell the bright green peas. Organic Seeds.

Mild: 600 to 1,500 SHU.

Arguably the most under-rated pepper in the pepper family, Poblanos are one of the most popular peppers grown in Mexico. With a mild chili taste, they are perfect for adding just a touch of zing to spaghetti sauces, sandwiches, steaks and they are excellent stuffed. Very easy to grow and even easier to harvest.

Volcanic - more than 1,000,000 - one million SHUs!

Bhut Jolokia, the Ghost Pepper was officially the worlds hottest Chilli in the Guinness Book of Records in 2007 until 2011. At over 1 millium SHU’s it is still one of the hottest pepper in the world. Each chilli ripens from lime green to orange to red. The flavour tends to have a smoky, earthy taste with a somewhat fruity aftertaste.

Mild & Fruity, 14,000 SHU

This rare little beauty produces bright red peppers that have a crisp texture, a sweet pleasant flavour with only a mild pungency. Named for its distinct three-sided shape, ‘Bishops Crown’ is great to eat raw as an edible decoration, add to salads or garnish. Genuinely useful in the kitchen rather than just a novelty.

Medium Hot: 30,000 to 50,000 SHU.

Long Slim Red Cayenne is one of the best known hot chili peppers, it is a good long hot chilli that always performs well. The scarlet red peppers are perfect for adding a kick to a Bloody Mary or to vodka.

Hot: 30,000 to 50,000 SHU
No matter how many rare and unique hot peppers you add to your collection, some of the basics are still the best and the Cayenne pepper still rocks! The flavour and thin skin make it the absolutely the best pepper for drying. Organic Seed.
Medium Hot: 30,000 to 40,000 SHU.
An impressive and rare variety from Austria, chilli ‘Diavoletto’, meaning ‘little devil’, produces fruits are not only visually attractive, but also beautifully spicy. Elongated, fleshy chili fruits ranging in colour from purple to golden brown and finally to deep orange red. Organic Seed.
Very Hot - 200,000 to 300,000 SHU.
Red Habanero chillies are one happy looking bunch with colourful skins that ripen to red as they mature. They are small, cute, shinny and have waxy skin. But as much as their looks are inviting, they are among the hottest chilli peppers commonly grown in the world.
Mild, 2,500 to 5,000 SHU.
Jalapeño ‘Ruben’ is a reliable, mid-heat chili variety. An interesting variant of the classic Jalapeno with slightly longer, thick-fleshed tapered fruits that ripen from dark green to red. Fruity with a pleasant sharpness they are mild enough to use as a vegetable and well adapted for short-season growing. 75 days to harvest. Organic Seed.
Mild, 2,500 to 5,000 SHU.

Jalapeño peppers are among the most popular and commonly available hot chilli pepper seeds in the world. They are very versatile: hot enough for a good kick, but still mild enough to use as a vegetable. The smooth, dark green fruits which ripen to red have thick walls with a rounded tip.

Hot - 100,000 to 200,000 SHU.

Thepepper ‘Jamaican Hot Red’ aren’t the hottest chillies in the world, but clocking up to 100,000 to 200,000 SHU’s these are probably as hot as one really needs to go. Behind the heat will be found a gorgeous fruity, citrusy flavour. Use in salsas, chutneys soups and sauces, they mix especially well in salsas with fruit.

Fairly Hot: to 20,000 SHU.

Pepper ‘Picante a Mazzetti’ produces attractive cone shaped, chillies which grow vertically with many fruits per bunch. They mature to a festive, deep scarlet red, and have a multitude of ornamental uses. Sown May to June they will produce fruits in perfect time for Christmas.

Mild 500 to 2,500 SHU.
Pimientos de Padrón are amazingly tasty, tiny fresh peppers. The Spanish delicacy often served in Tapas bars, chances are if you have been to Spain you have gobbled up small plates of these in one sitting. Padrón peppers can be harvested as early as mid-May when small and sweet. Organic Seed.
Very Hot: 100,000 to 350,000 SHU. Heritage

The ‘Scotch Bonnet’ was the first Caribbean Hot Pepper to be known by a specific name in the export market. Most commonly found in hot Caribbean dishes, use sparingly, fresh or dried to recipes. Also great for pickling, garnishes, sauces and jerk rubs, it develops a rich, multi-sided, tropical-fruity flavour.

Hot: 10,000 to 23,000 SHU.

Serrano peppers are fleshy and meaty with the unique flavour so popular in Mexican cuisine. The abundant candle-flame shaped fruit are green, then red at full maturity and are borne on attractive erect, branching plants. They red chilies are often be threaded on string and dried as a colourful ornament.

Very Mild 50 to 250 SHU.

Pimientos de Padrón are amazingly tasty, tiny fresh peppers. The Spanish delicacy often served in Tapas bars, chances are if you have been to Spain you have gobbled up small plates of these in one sitting. Padrón peppers can be harvested as early as mid-May when small and sweet.

Bell Pepper
Heritage (USA, Introduced 1928)

Californian Wonder is the widely adapted standard variety, a favorite with gardeners and for commercial production. It consistently produces large yields of blocky, four-lobed thick-walled fruit that is mild and sweet, tender and flavourful. Perfect for salads, to stir-fries, grilling or stuffing.

‘Horn of the Bull’. Heritage (Italian)
Corno di Toro Giallo peppers have thin skin and thick walls and ripen to a golden-yellow. With a sweet, crisp, full-bodied flavour they are so popular that they have spawned an almost fanatical following.

Price range: €3.95 through €23.95