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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Cabbage ‘Paresa F1′ is an excellent quality winter variety of Savoy Cabbage. This late variety is reliable and frost hardy and can be sown as late as the end of July. Harvested from December to March right through the hardest winter, when greens are so very welcome. Organic Seeds.
‘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.
This is the extra early carrot that organic gurus rave about. With incredibly sweet flavour and uniform growth, ‘Napoli F1’ has assumed cult status. Sow in August in a raised bed or beneath a cloche and experience the full flavour of winter ‘candy carrots’. Organic Seeds.Carrot ‘Yellowstone’ is one of the most attractive and versatile carrots you can grow. They can be sown successionally almost all year from February. Slightly tapered with smooth skin and crunchy texture, honey roasted carrots have never looked, or tasted so good.
‘Giants of Colmar’ is a late-season carrot that reliably produces magnificently large roots with juicy, sweet flesh. Sow from May onwards, they are ideal for winter harvests and renowned for their excellent storage properties. Organic Seeds.
With their compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers, colourful varieties of carrots have quickly established themselves to be de rigueur for both home growers and market gardeners. This season we are offering a mix of four rare and unusual, heirloom varieties. Organic Seeds.
Carrot ‘Jaune du Doubs’ is a beautiful old French gourmet variety that produces cylindrical roots 20 to 25cm (8 to 10in) in length with a rounded tip, a smooth surface and thick foliage. Suitable for fresh consumption, it is recognised throughout France as having a good sweet flavour. Organic Seeds. Carrot ‘Kuroda’ is a refined Chantenay strain that is widely adaptable, suitable for growth almost everywhere. Producing high quality, uniform roots of great flavour, it is highly tolerant to heat and thrives in even the poorest of soils, use as a main crop for enormous yields that mature late in the season, Kuroda keeps well in cold storage and is an awesome juicer.
Carrot ‘Nantes 2’ is an excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it matures in 110 days in a warm climate and reaches an average size of 15cm. Sow February to August, for harvesting June to October.
Launched in 2005, Carrot ‘Purple Dragon’ caused a great stir at grower’s and farmers markets. With compelling health benefits and a thumbs-up from taste testers, it has quickly established itself. A Danver’s type carrot with a sweet flavour and beautiful purple skin, the deep velvety exterior gives way to a starburst of brilliant orange at the core.
Cutting celery or Leaf celery is the type that is used in Europe. It looks similar to parsley but tastes like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and curly, aromatic leaves; it is much easier to grow than its big brother.
Chicory Variegata di Castelfranco has a beautiful form with wavy leaves that are flecked with purple. Incredibly hardy and totally invaluable, this traditional variety is one of the easiest to grow at any time in the year.
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’ 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.
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 ‘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.
Courgette ‘F1 Atena’ is a heavy cropping, early variety of courgette with tender flesh and an abundance of bright yellow fruits. A semi-compact, non training bush variety, the plants yield prolifically and are ideal for smaller gardens or pots. It produces extremely beautiful fruits with smooth, thin golden-yellow skins and crisp flesh.
Courgette ‘Gold Rush’ is an extremely beautiful variety with smooth, thin yellow skins and crisp flesh. It is an early, rich cropping courgette with tender flesh and an abundance of bright yellow fruits. The compact plants yield prolifically and are ideal for smaller gardens or pots.
Akito F1 is a popular all female variety of ridge-cucumber which gives high yields of slender bitter-free fruits. Mildew resistant and suitable for growing outdoors or under-cover, it is an excellent choice for those who want the superior taste of a ridge-cucumber but the vigour of a modern hybrid.
Cucumber ‘F1 Iznik’ is a terrific and very popular cocktail cucumber, 12 to 14cm in length. It is seedless, spineless, smooth, dark green, crisp and perfect for fresh snacking. A parthenocarpic variety with compact growth, suitable for container and greenhouse production as well as open-field.
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.
A prolific cropper, French Bean ‘Cobra’ is a black-seeded variety that produces beans ahead of most other varieties. With lovely pale violet flowers, this vegetable is pretty enough to grow in the ornamental garden, too. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. 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.
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.
Hyssop famously attracts bees, hover-flies and butterflies. It makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden. Some beekeepers rub the hive with it to encourage the bees to keep to their home. In cooking, use the same way you would Rosemary. Organic Seed.Hyssopus officinalis ‘Alba’ is a much less well known variety of hyssop. Also known as ‘White Hyssop’ the plants sport bright white flowers from July to October. Widely used as a ‘taste enhancing’ herb or wildlife plant, the plants are a dark, vibrant green with a spiky, upright habit and narrow tongue-like leaves which have a peppery scent when stroked.
Hyssop is a strong-flavoured aromatic herb which is enjoying a revival with home gardeners. An ideal plant for use in containers or as a low hedge or border within the herb garden. Highly attractive to bees, it makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden.
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.
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. 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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
‘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. 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.
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.
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 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.
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