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Eggplant. Heritage (USA 1910)
Black Beauty was introduced about 1910 and has long been popular with home gardeners. An excellent quality variety, early to mature it gives and abundant crop of tasty fruits that are clear of the ground. Sturdy plants produce high yields of glossy, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit.
Large Leaf Basil or Crispum Basil
Heritage (Italian)
Lettuce leaf basil is a popular old Italian variety, a large leafed variety of Sweet Basil and one of the most productive of all basils. With very large, crinkled and highly aromatic leaves, it adds the texture of leaf lettuce while packing a tasty basil flavour to brighten up your summer sandwiches.
Purple Basil
Basil ‘Red Rubin’ is a purple version of Italian large leaf basil, a multi-purpose variety that is one of the mainstays of many herb gardens. Distinguished from other purple basils by its sweeter aroma and flavour, the rich, dark purple leaves are more consistent in colour than some of the other purple basils.
Also known as Mexican Spice Basil
Cinnamon basil has attractive purple growing tips and pink flowers in summer. This variety is true to its name with a cooler flavour and distinct cinnamon aftertaste. Use this herb just as you would use sweet basil.Organic seed.
Greek Basil
Greek Basil is an improved variety of ‘Bush’. It has a tight compact growing habit and forms a perfectly spherical bush appearing as though having been pruned. The size and scent make it suitable for growing in virtually any horticultural department:- beds, borders, path edging or even window boxes.
Basilic Citronne, Basilico Limone
One sniff and one would swear one was in a lemon orchard. Lemon Basil contains citral and limonene. Mildly flavoured, it initially tastes almost the same as most basils, but with a lovely clean aftertaste. Use it to marinate, grill, finish, or dress salad dressings, sauces, fish dishes and desserts. It also makes a wonderfully citrus pesto. Organic Seed. 
Basil, Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)
Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. It is THE Basil for pesto and a wonderful companion plant.
Basil. Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)
Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. Organic Seed. 
Bai Horapa
Thai Basil is commonly used in the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It has has a stronger taste and an identifiable liquorice flavour which is more stable under high or extended cooking temperatures than that of sweet basil. Organic Seed.
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)
Broad Bean Aquadulce is highly prolific, easy to grow and one of the most delicious in terms of flavour. It is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. RHS AGM.
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)
Broad Bean Super Aquadulce is highly prolific, easy to grow and one of the most delicious in terms of flavour. It is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue Borage
The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers of Borage are edible with a cool cucumber flavour. Use them as garnish in fruit cups, summer drinks, wines and Pimms. Garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its flower! Organic Seeds.
Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage
The herb borage is a well known annual. Not so well known and not often written about is the equally beautiful form ‘alba’ which boast pure white, perfectly star-shaped flowers. Each flower is centred by five black stamens which heighten the drama. The flowers are edible, garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its white flower.
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue Borage
Borage is one of the most reliable sources of blue flowers, often flowering lavishly for weeks after sowing. The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers are edible and very important for bees, providing pollen and nectar in prodigious amounts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
Summer Marjoram
Sweet Marjoram is an essential culinary herb and fresh or dried, no cook should ever be without it. It is wonderfully aromatic with a mild oregano flavour with a hint of balsam. Fresh or dried, it is good with veal, beef, lamb, roast poultry and fish. Organic Seed.
True Oregano
The difference in taste between fresh oregano and the store-bought dried variety is like night and day. Its spicy yet refreshing flavour contributes to Italian, Greek, and Spanish cuisine. Fresh oregano adds a boost of flavour that just can’t be beat. Easy to grow either in the garden or indoors.
Baby Bok Choi, Pak Choy,
Spoon cabbage, Taisai, Chinese mustard.
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.
First early, Low-growing variety
Round seeded Feltham First can be relied upon to produce a substantial crop of large pointed pods packed with tasty, sweet peas early in the summer. It is a traditional high-yielding favourite with good cold tolerance. Suitable for autumn or spring sowing.
Russian Tarragon, False tarragon
The flavour of Russian Tarragon may not be so pronounced as its French counterpart but is it is a much more hardy plant that prefers poor soils and can cope with a bit of neglect. It produces lots of leaves, which can be used for a milder flavour.
Cherry Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)
Tomato ‘F1 Sungold’ is often referred to as the ultimate tomato. Even today any taste comparison of different tomato varieties will always have Sungold on top. You won’t see these on supermarket shelves as their delicate skin makes them too difficult to transport and store. The perfect crop for growing your own!
Salad Tomato, Compact
Bush (Determinate)
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.
Early Variety, Heritage (German)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)
An heirloom variety of German origin, this bright red, golf ball sized tomato has the kind of perfect sweet and acidic balance that you normally find in larger, late season tomatoes. Easy to grow and very early maturing, it ripens 55 days after transplant. Organic Seed. 
Salad Tomato, Heritage (English)
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)
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. 
Eggplant, Heritage (Italian)
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.
Goose Egg, Eggplant
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.
Eggplant
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.
Eggplant. Heritage (Italian)
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. Burn's Lemon Basil
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. 
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Broad Bean ‘Eleonora’ is a new improved selection of the popular Express variety. The fast growing plants are not too tall and produce long pods that are well packed with white beans. But it is the beans’ great flavour that makes ‘Eleonora’ stand out. Organic Seed.
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Broad Bean ‘Ratio’ is a very high-yielding variety. It produces fairly short plants that have a multi-branched habit, producing several stems which increases yield. It is suited to standard and late sowings and can be sown from February and as late as May. Organic Seed.
Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage
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.
Successional vareity. Heritage (English)
It is very uplifting to go to the garden on a cold December day to harvest a perfect, intricately woven, beautiful white head of cauliflower. “All Year Round” produces good quality white heads and is an excellent all-purpose variety for successional sowing.
Coral Broccoli, Broccoflower.
Heritage (Northern Italy)
One of the most beautiful vegetables and a true Objet d’Art. Each complex, symmetrical head features whorls of chartreuse green florets, in a complex, bewitching design, an amazing example of phyllotaxis – the fractal patterning that appears in nature.
Sacred Basil, Purple or Red Holy Basil
Holy basil, also called Tulsi or Sacred Basil has highly aromatic, narrow oval leaves and pink flowers with a perfumed fragrance. This reddish-purple tinted plant exudes a delicious, sweet, clove-like aroma. The hotter the summer, the deeper the purple.
Sacred Basil, White or Green Holy Basil
Regarded as one of the most important plants used in Ayurvedic medicine, the ‘Light’ or ‘Rama Tulsi’ produces lots of flower spikes very early in the season, making it a nice ornamental plant as well as edible. The sweet aroma is very strong, even walking past it you can clearly smell its delicious scent.
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 
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.
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.
Summer Marjoram
Members of the oregano family are an essential plant for a well-stocked, sunny herb garden. Fragrant and very decorative, Sweet Marjoram is an essential culinary herb, good with veal, beef, lamb, roast poultry and fish. The leaves are best used fresh, as their flavour is sweeter and milder.
First early, Low-growing variety
Pea ‘Buddy’ is a popular variety producing excellent yields that mature early in the season. A neat and compact variety that can be grown with minimal supports, the pods are borne in profusion with each straight pod containing 6 to 8 tasty peas. Organic Seeds.
First early, Low-growing variety
Strictly speaking Pea ‘Douce Provence’ is a round seeded first early variety. Normally sown from March to early June. Reliable, extremely versatile and hardy, it can also be grown as an over-winter pea, sown in mid October to November it will produce one of the earliest harvests. Organic Seeds.
Very early, Low-growing Shelling pea
Pea ‘Sienna’ is a superstar variety – an excellent hardy, early variety that is well adapted to cool soils and early spring weather, and produces a very fast crop. Very easy shelling, with excellent sweet flavour – open the medium sized, blunt pods and enjoy the first, sweet, plump, green peas of the season!
Early Salad Tomato
Vine / Cordon (Indeterminate)
Tomato ‘Auriga’ is an orange fruited ‘shirley’ type, with medium sized fruits and an excellent flavour. It is a high yielding medium- early ripening, burst-resistant tomato. Extremely sweet and juicy. If you let them mature on for a little longer, the flavour of the fruit changes to a distinctive Melon taste. Organic Seeds €2.15
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