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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.
Spinach Beet, Seakale Beet
Heritage (1840)
Bull’s Blood is the variety used by the commercial growers for both baby leaf and mixed salad leaves. The leaves are broader than other beetroot varieties, more flavourful than other red accent crops, they can be harvested for baby leaf salads in as little as 35 days. Organic Seed.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
Camomile Tea, Syn. Matricaria recutita
Chamomile has been used for centuries. In the realm of simple herbs, for the treatment of common ailments by the common people, few herbs have garnered such a reputation for success as the lowly chamomile. Organic Seed.
Herba Stella, Bucks Horn
Minutina, also known as Erba Stella is a unique, cold weather salad green prized in Italy for its mild nutty flavour and crunchy texture. This perennial can be grown all winter in temperate climates. With a mild nutty flavour and crunchy texture it is a great addition to salad mixes or for stir-frying.
Black caraway, Fennel flower
We have all heard of Nigella Lawson, the British cooking show goddess who advocates the importance of a well-stocked pantry. But the seeds had the name first. Nigella sativa have a spicy, nutty flavour with a crunchy texture, they may be used whole or ground, and develop their flavour best after short toasting.
Spring, Salad or Bunching Onion, Scallion
Heritage (1787)
White Lisbon is an old favorite and ever popular Spring Onion. It is a hardy and reliable variety which features long white stems with bright green tops. It is quick and easy to grow, sow in autumn or spring, Cropping in 60 days. NIAB Accreditation and RHS AGM. 
Spring, Salad or Bunching Onion, Scallion
Heritage (In use in 1787)
White Lisbon is traditionally the most popular spring onion for successional sowings from March to September, it can also be sown in autumn and over wintered for early spring harvests. Matures in 60 days. NIAB accreditation and RHS AGM. Organic seed.
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.
Second early
Pea ‘Early Onward’ is a widely grown, long-standing favourite. A wrinkle-seeded variety with blunt well filled, dark green pods. It is short jointed with vigorous growth. Heavy cropping it yields of 6 to 8 peas per pod of sweet tasting fine flavoured peas. 
Winter Squash, Halloween Pumpkin.
Jack O’ Lantern is a traditional pumpkin, especially bred for carving out Jack O’Lanterns for Halloween. A long established favourite, with medium orange colour and sweet flavoured flesh it makes a superb carving pumpkin and a tasty cooking pumpkin.
Summer Purslane, Garden purslane.
Ancient Crop. In use since the 1600's
Summer Purslane was highly esteemed and cultivated in Europe as far back as the Middle Ages, but is now cultivated only for specialised connoisseurs.This wonderfully succulent and cooling herb has tangy leaves make a very nice contrast, in texture as well as taste to other salad leaves.
Summer Purslane, Garden purslane.
Ancient Crop. In use since the 1600's
This highly esteemed ancient crop can be used raw in salads, sautéed as a side dish or cooked like spinach. Summer Purslane has a crispy texture you would expect from a succulent and an interesting nutty, peppery flavour. It is salty on the tongue.
Globe Radish
The globe shaped roots of Radish ‘Cherry Belle’ have appealing bright red skins, smooth white flesh and a crisp, crunchy texture. This fast maturing variety is reliable and versatile, producing early crops of sweet and succulent, mildly flavoured radish.
Formerly known as Sanguisorba minor
Ancient Herb
Salad Burnet is a wonderful old herb that makes a great addition to any garden. It was planted along pathways ‘to perfume the air most delightfully, being trodden on and crushed’, the delicate leaves have a subtle cucumber flavour and today are used in salads, as a flavouring and to add interest to cold drinks.
Micro Glitter Spinach
Mexican Tree Spinach is the latest ‘new’ arrival on the veg-growing scene. A beautiful plant to have in the garden or allotment. Vivid pink tinged triangular bright green leaves with each new set of leaves blushed a shocking magenta.
Gem Squash
‘F1 Rolet’ is a Gem type squash, small and round and about the size of a cricket ball, its deep green smooth skin sets it apart from other squashes. Early maturing and high yielding, it is very easy to cook and has a incredible nutty, warm flavour.
Winter, Onion, Hokkaido or Potimarron Squash
Most people initially grow Uchiki Kuri squash because of its similarity to the familiar pumpkin. What they will not have anticipated is finding it a far superior squash to pumpkin. If you believe that they are only fit for Halloween lanterns allow yourself to be converted. Organic Seed.
Winter Squash
‘Waltham’ is an improved version of the common Butternut squash. First bred in the 1960’s they are reliable, productive and a long-keeper. It has very little seed cavity, thicker & straighter necks, fruits earlier, and produces more flesh per fruit.
Purple Top Rutabaga, Tumshie, Neep, Snadgies
A favorite with growers, Swede ‘Best of All’ is an old variety that produced globe shaped roots with purple tops and yellow flesh. Very easy to grow, very hardy and reliable with good storing qualities, it isn’t as heavy cropping as modern varieties but has good flavour and low water content.
Golden Swede
Heritage (Germany 1935)
This heirloom variety has been long favoured in the local markets of Germany and Northern Europe. Swede Wilhelmsburger is a “green top”, a variety that is considered to have the best table quality and to be the most refined in terms of taste. RHS AGM 
Rosette Pak Choi, Spoon Mustard.
Tatsoi or Rosette Pak Choi is among the most popular of oriental greens. The spoon-shaped, dark green, evenly spaced leaves form a plant worthy to be grown for its decorative value alone. Given enough room the plants will form beautiful wide rosettes of regular, concentric circles.
Red Top Turnip. Heritage (Italy pre 1888).
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.
Red Top Turnip. Heritage (Italy pre 1888).
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. 
Japanese Type. Heritage (Pre 1885)
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
Calaloo , Chinese Spinach, Yin choi, Lin Choi
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.
Chinese Spinach, Yin choi, Lin Choi
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.
Chinese Spinach, Calaloo, Yin choi, Lin Choi
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.
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. 
Basil
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.
'Orka Bean' or 'Calypso Bean'
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.
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)
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.
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)
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. 
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety
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.
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (Land race from Switzerland)
‘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, Dwarf French Bean
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.
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean
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.
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean
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.
Climbing French Bean.
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
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.
Scarlet Runner Bean
Heirloom (1633)
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.
Scarlet Runner Bean
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.
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