Tomato ‘F1 Totem’ has an upright habit that is perfectly suited for a patio container. However, this is no mere ornamental. This dwarf stocky bush variety is early and heavy yielding, with large trusses of crimson fruit. From one plant you will be able to harvest several kilos of tomatoes with a delectable flavour.
Roma VF is a traditional plum tomato that gives incredible yields of very richly flavoured, pear-shaped fruit. These fruits are meaty with few seeds and not much juice, perfectly suited to cooking, but delicious enough to eat fresh. The vines fruit heavily, occasionally needing some support.
‘San Marzano’ is a classic plum/paste type of tomato from Italy, it produces clusters of delicious, elongated fruit.. This variety is a compact and prolific producer and performs best if staked. This heritage tomato is one of the jewels in Campania’s crown.
Tigerella is a standard, indeterminate variety, an English heirloom variety that is highly productive and extremely attractive. About the size of a billiard ball, it has a unique, rich, tangy flavour and the stripes give it outstanding eye appeal. Ideal for children. Tiny Tim is a surprisingly tiny plant, growing to only 30cm (12in) tall. It can be grown as a potted plant any time of the year and doesn’t need support. Perfect for wherever garden space is limited and outstanding for growing in containers. It looks beautiful in hanging baskets or window boxes.
Purple Top Milan is a classic Italian heirloom variety and is still as popular as ever. Highly ornamental, it has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh. A strap-leaved variety, quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal ‘catch crop’ between slower growing vegetables.
Introduced before 1888 Purple Top Milan has smooth creamy-white flat roots with bright purple shoulders and pure white flesh of choice quality. Quick to mature and early cropping, it is an ideal ‘catch crop’ between slower growing vegetables. Organic Seed. Turnip ‘Snowball’ is a very popular first-class, globe variety with solid flesh and a juicy, sweet, mild flavour. They are a fast crop, being ready in just five to eight weeks from sowing. With pure white flesh as its name suggests, Snowball is superb for both table and exhibition and is recommended by the N.I.A.B
Amaranth ‘Green Giant’ is a vigorous selection that produces slightly savoyed, large mid green leaves. The popular Calaloo in Caribbean cuisine, the leaves have a mild spinach flavour and can be harvested when plants are just 20cm tall.
Amaranth tricolor ‘Variegated’, also known as ‘Red Leaf’ has attractive oval, mid-green leaves that are streaked through with shades of red and purple. Easy to grow and tolerant of wide-ranging conditions. Its soft leaves are a great addition to salads and, like spinach, it melts delectably when cooked.
A favorite with chefs, Amaranth tricolor ‘Red Army’ is an intense cherry red selection that grows to around 35cm tall. The attractive leaves have a delicate pea-like flavour and can be used at babyleaf stage for salad or garnish, or can be left to mature for steamed vegetable or soups.
Artichoke ‘Violet de Provence’ is one of the most traditional of Italian vegetables. This delicious medium sized artichoke develops rich violet-purple headed globes. Few dishes are as satisfying to eat as the globe artichoke. Dip the leaves into warm balsamic-bacon dressing and fall in love with a little thistle!
Aubergine ‘Bambino’ is an early dwarf variety ideal for growing in pots or small vegetable patches. The plants grow to a height of around 40cm tall with a stocky habit. The purple flowers are followed by multiple small purple cocktail type fruits. Ideal for making skewers, they are delicious baked, roasted or sautéed. Organic Seed.
Historically, White Aubergines were some of the first types to be found in cultivation in Asia. Today they are still relatively rare, but they are experiencing a wave of popularity as more chefs and home cooks search for diversity in their produce. Organic Seed.Aubergine ‘F1 Patio Baby’ is a unique, high-yielding, compact variety that reliably produces flavoursome fruits with beautiful glossy skins. Ideal for growing in the greenhouse or on the patio, each plant can produce up to 50 deep purple-black, egg shaped fruit.
Considered one of the best by gourmets and gardeners alike, Aubergine ‘Rosa Bianca’ is a gorgeous variety with a delicate, mild flavour, creamy consistency. The fruits are produced in abundance, have a meaty flesh and a delicate flavour. They are both lovely to look at and lovely to eat.
Mrs Burns’ Lemon Basil is a legendary heirloom, nothing short of an idol among fine chefs and gardeners alike. With the strongest aroma and flavour of all the lemon basils, the scent is powerful, resinous, and oily, followed by spicy cinnamon, with a strong floral note. It has a concentrated lemon oil taste, with mild spice and mint. Part of the ornamental Spice Boys range, Basil ‘Queen of Sheba’ is one of the most ornamental varieties available. Intense purple flowers on tall flowering spikes rise above bright green, highly aromatic foliage. In the kitchen it is particularly well suited to Thai and Asian cooking, though it works just as well stirred through a simple pasta or tomato sauce.
The ‘ Yin Yang Bean’, also known as the Orca or Calypso bean. This bean is a reminder to stay zen with your gardening, with its emblematic black and white symbol right there on the seed. A great soup or baked bean, this compact variety grows to a height of around 45cm producing loads of beans with a mild delicious flavour.
French Bean ‘Blauhilde’ well known German heritage variety that produces attractive purple-skinned pods that have excellent flavour. The entire plant is pretty, purple flowers and purple stems, they produce myriads of flowers from which large, long 20 to 25cm (8 to 10in), fleshy and stringless pods develop.
French Bean ‘Blauhilde’ is a reliable, attractive and extremely purple-skinned climbing French bean. Sown from April to July, They can be harvested continuously over a long period through to late autumn. Organic Seed. French Bean ‘Red Swan’ is an heirloom stringless bean with burgundy red pods. The plants grow up to around 50cm tall and are highly productive, with good flavour the beans mature in just 50 to 60 days. For a regular and steady supply of beautiful beans, sow a few seeds every couple of weeks, from April to July.
‘Weinländerin La Vigneronne’ pole beans are a classic from Switzerland, cultivated and preserved by the country women and known as ‘Wine country beans’ the distinctive pods are marbled and speckled with purple, as if stained by drops of wine. Organic Seed.French Bean ‘Faraday’ is one of the best, if not the best new Dwarf French Bean to become available for some time. A white bean variety that have excellent flavour, it produces extremely tender, uniform long, dark-green pencil pods. Harvest from late May right through to September.
This French Bean may be dwarf but , oh la la – do they taste good! ‘Maxi’ is an outstanding variety that is very easy to grow and full of flavour. Superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort. Organic Seed.
Very reliable even in variable conditions, Dwarf French Bean seeds ‘Tendergreen’ is a medium long pencil podded type that produces good yields of medium sized, 15cm pods that have good texture and taste. Very easy to grow, they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort.
Cobra is one of the most reliable French beans around. This prolific cropper produces heavy yields of long, straight sweetly-flavoured beans over a long period. The stringless pods grow up to 20cm long. RHS AGM.
Runner bean ‘Lady Di’ is an exceptional variety that produces long pods of exceptional quality. The long, slender beans are slow to develop seeds, meaning the pods can stay on the plant for longer before they become tough, giving you more time to harvest them.An improved selection of this well known and much loved variety, Runner Bean ‘Painted Lady’ is well know, as much for its astonishing bicolour, coral red and creamy white blooms as for the superior beans produced. The beans are deliciously thick and meaty with a sweet balanced flavour.
When I was young and idle, I’d dream of a self-refilling pint of cider. Now I’m older I dream of the slightly more realistic horticultural equivalent: beans and plenty of them. Bred for high yields and reliability, ‘Streamline’ gives heavy yields of fantastic tasty pods giving you effortless food for weeks.
Runner beans are all attractive enough for flower gardens or patios, but the ‘Sunset Runner Bean’ is in a class by itself. The luminous peach to shell-pink blossoms are absolutely beautiful and will look equally at home in your vegetable plot or your flower borders. The pods are fleshy, straight, smooth, and almost stringless when young.
Beetroot Cylindra is a dark red, cylindrical root. This unique variety has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre, the root maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. With an earthy-caramel taste, they are especially lovely when roasted.Popular and productive, beetroot ‘Forono’ forms a uniform, elongated, dark-red root that has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre and maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. Awarded the RHS AGM. Organic Seeds.
Neat and globe-shaped, with smooth orange skin and rich golden flesh Beetroot ‘Burpee’s Golden’are full of sweetness with a mild, gentle flavour. Cooked, they deepen to a warm turmeric gold, while eaten raw, they bring colour and sweetness to salads. Even the foliage is handsome, with light green leaves beautifully traced in gold.
The herb borage is a well known annual with beautiful sky blue flowers and succulent foliage. Not so well known and not often written about is the equally beautiful form ‘alba’ which boast pure white, perfectly star-shaped flowers. This mixed pack of seeds gives both blue and white forms.
Broccoli ‘Summer Purple’ is an excellent summer cropping variety that is sown in spring to harvest late June to October. Eaten within an hour of picking, when still bursting with sappy natural sugars, it is exquisite.
Calabrese Broccoli ‘Belstar F1’ is a superb organic variety. The compact plants have round domes, small to medium beads and short flowering stems with a thick main stalk. Ideal for short-stemmed crown cuts or florets. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. Bred to overwinter, Purple sprouting broccoli ‘Mendocino F1’ is prized for its uniform, high-quality spears. Sow anytime from April to June, overwinter and harvest from mid March to mid April.
If you’re one of those gardeners who like to push the envelope, don’t forget to add purple sprouting broccoli to your overwintering repertoire. ‘F1 Rioja’ is a compact, very productive plant with a bushy habit, which produces very high quality, brightly-coloured spears.
‘Burgundy’ is a standout purple sprouting broccoli. It’s the first ‘main head’ type in its class, delivering sweet, tender spears with a deep violet hue. Sown from April though to August, the harvesting period begins in June and runs right through to December.
‘Doric F1’ is a modern variety of Brussels Sprout that produces tight round buttons of fine flavour and texture from November to February. The plants do not grow too tall and are ideal for harvesting as stalks. Just perfect for Christmas. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Brussels Sprout Groninger is a second early variety noted for its great tasting sprouts. It produces medium sized green sprouts and gives a steady supply through the autumn and into the winter. Harvest October to December – perfect timing for that all important Christmas Dinner.
With a medium to late maturity time, high yield, and good cold tolerance, Brussels Sprouts ‘Igor F1’ will grow close to 3ft tall and produce about 60 to 70 tightly wrapped green sprouts that can be harvested as needed or all at once in late winter after the first frosts. Direct sow seeds outdoors in late spring after last frost.
Brussels Sprout ‘Neptuno F1’ is an outstanding variety that produces attractive, fresh green sprouts that are firm, smooth and very round. They have excellent taste and can be harvested from early November and throughout December. Organic Seed.
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
Cabbage ‘Famosa F1’ is a mid to early variety, that can be planted in late spring to early summer for a late summer harvest, it matures just 70 days after transplanting. Easy to grow and very productive the cabbages have a lovely green exterior and a gold-tinted tender interior. Organic Seeds. A traditional autumn maturity variety, Cabbage ‘Glory of Enkhuizen’ is an excellent variety that was originally bred in 1899. The medium-large, hard round heads are light green in colour, used in slaws, salads, soups and stir fries, it is a good keeper, ideal for storage, and for kraut.
Appropriately named, Greyhound is one of the earliest summer cabbages and a reliable old favorite. Very fast growing with a yield of mild flavoured tender juicy hearts. Well suited to successional sowing. Sow from February to July, crops will be ready for cutting from June to October.Cabbage ‘Kalibos’ is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour.
Cabbage ‘Kalibos’ is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour. Organic Seeds
Reminiscent of a rhodolite garnet and as solid as a polished gemstone, Cabbage ‘Klimaro F1’ is a dark reddish-purple in colour, both inside and out. With a small core and dense head, it has a good flavour and a high crunch factor. Organic Seeds. Savoy cabbage ‘Vertus’ produces heads of finely blistered, dark green ruffled leaves that have a sweet, subtle flavour. This mid-late, frost hardy variety produces cabbages that have the ability to withstand even severe cold weather. Sow April to early June, harvest October to February.
Calendula officinalis is prolific and durable and so are perfect candidates for cutting and flower arrangements. Sprinkle salads and decorate cakes with the edible tangy petals. Organic Seed.
‘Lila Lu’ is a stunning deep purple carrot with a vibrant orange centre. The wildly unique colour and and sweet taste make this a must grow for both home gardeners and market farmers. Sow May to July for harvesting September to end of October. Organic Seeds.Carrot ‘Purple Sun F1’ is a conical, Nantes-type carrot, with intensely coloured dark purple skin and purple centre. An early-maturing hybrid that is uniform and compact. Seeds can be sown successionally almost all year, or sown directly May to July for harvesting September to end of October.
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. Organic Seed.€3.95
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