Alexanders are an ancient food source, cultivated for many centuries. This biennial wild flower, with dark green, shiny leaves and umbels of yellow-green flowers can be grown as an ornamental or can be put to use as a culinary herb or spice, the flavour is said to be similar to myrrh.
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.
The Bright and Spicy Leaf Salad mixture contains a well balanced salad mix that is rich in colour and taste. The mix includes Greek Cress, Tatsoi, Pak Choi and the Mustards Red Zest and Red Frills. The attractive flavoursome leaves need only the lightest dressing.
This salad mix is comprised of a dynamic array of niche varieties. The vivacious colours along with its well loved taste, makes this mix wonderfully enticing. The mix contains American or Land Cress, Kale Red Russian , Red Chard, Salad Rocket and Spinach.
Not overwhelming by any means but certainly friskier than the lettuce mixes, this classic Asian Mix contains Taisai, Mizuna, Swiss chard, Chinese cabbage and frilly mustards. Sow little and often for continuity. Organic Seeds
A Classic mix of lettuce varieties that can be used for both baby leaf or for growing to maturity. Including ‘Red Salad Bowl’, ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’ , Lettuce ‘Suzan’ and ‘Little Leprechaun’ – Try it, you are bound to be delighted! Organic Seeds The Frilly Leaf Salad Mix is a new blend that contains an attractive blend of salads with frilled or indented leaves, an explosion of tastes and colour that is perfect for micro leaf or baby leaf production. Juicy, crisp and fast-maturing, they can be grown all year round.
Mesclun Mix has been made for hundreds of years around Nice in Southern France. The idea was to make a salad that touches upon every taste and texture sensation: bitter, sweet, tangy, crunchy and silky. This mix is based on the traditional recipe and is a treat for the eye as well as the tongue.
The Oriental Salad Mix is one of a series of six blends which provide a wide variety of colourful and tasty salads. The mix includes Mizuna, Mibuna, Red and Green Mustards, Pak Choi and Tatsoi. The vivacious colours along with its well loved taste, makes this mix wonderfully enticing.
The Pak Choi Colour Crunch Mix is a new blend that contains a colourful array of pak choi varieties, an explosion of tastes and colour. Juicy, crisp and fast-maturing, they can can be eaten in salad or cooked in stir-fry dishes and can be grown all year round for a continuous supply of tasty baby leaves.
The Provence Salad mix has a light texture enriched with striking red stems portioned throughout. Containing Sorrel de Bellevile, Corn Salad Verte de Cambrai, Lettuce Rougette de Montpelier and Chervil. A tasteful mix with a warming sensation to assist any appetite.
This is an exiting mix of vibrant colour and incomparable textures of salad in its youth. Containing Chicory Italico Rosso, Rocket Dentellata, Kale Nero de Toscana, Lettuce Lollo Rossa and Catalogna Cerbiata – Classic Italian leaves that will enhance presentation and flavours of any dish.
The Baby Leaf Salad Mix Collection contains six packets of seeds. They can be grown all year round, for a continuous supply of tasty and nutritious baby leaves. They can be grown in the home, on windowsills or raised in pots in glasshouses or polytunnels in cooler areas for winter early spring crops.
Kailan ‘Kichi’ is a fantastic vegetable chimera – the florets of broccoli, the stems of asparagus, and leaves like tender collard greens. It has a mild flavour and, best of all can be harvested in only eight weeks.
‘Golden Self Blanching’ produces thick, crisp, juicy, aromatic stalks of celery with solid hearts that have no hint of bitterness or stings. This dwarf variety is ideal for smaller gardens and does not need blanching. It produces naturally cream-coloured stalks with a crisp, crunchy texture and mild flavour.
Celery ‘Tango’ is an excellent quality, self-blanching celery that produces beautiful apple-green stems with good flavour and texture for that all-important celery crunch. ‘Tango’ is suitable for cultivating throughout the growing season, it has good resistance to bolting, and stands well during hot weather. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.Chervil ‘Massa’ has a sophisticated yet gentle, aniseedy warmth. It is a dark green selection with smooth leaves and good plant vigour, it has better cold tolerance than standard Chervil and is used for autumn sowings, it also bolts much later.
Famous for the forced, blanched heads or ‘chichons’ that are loved by gourmets Chicory ‘Brussels Witloof’ is the traditional finely-textured variety used for forcing. With a delicious, tangy, unique flavour, it is very easy to grow and produces one of the finest tasting winter vegetables.
The classic tall Italian radicchio. Upright with red and white striped leaves with large pure white stems. Highly prized, this flavoursome early variety is grown in the Treviso area in winter and is eaten, root and all, simply pan fried or grilled. It has high resistance to cold.
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.
‘Wong Bok’ is a tender, sweet tasting, hearted-type of Chinese cabbage. Growing this fast growing cabbage is simplicity itself. Plant the seeds, stand back and once the secondary leaves appear you are a mere 30 days away from mealtime. This vegetable growing season promises to be very rewarding.
Vit is an easy to grow, vigorous variety for spring and autumn crops. This French variety is mildew-resistant with long, oval, glossy green leaves which form a heavy bunch, They have a tender, delicate nutty, minty flavour. An excellent winter gap filler, both in the vegetable garden and at the dining table.
In France this humble plant is called la mâche and enjoys an elevated gourmet status. Vit is an easy to grow, vigorous variety. Mildew-resistant with long, oval, glossy green leaves with a tender, delicate nutty, minty flavour. Organic Seed.Crambe maritima is a lovely dual purpose plant. This delicacy from the olden days has a unique delicate flavour, forced Seakale is a real delicacy. In the garden, it can be grown as an eye-catching and fragrant border plant. It has perhaps the most beautiful of all large glaucous leaves
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. I don’t really see the point of growing cress only to scythe it down when it’s barely got going, and I’m moderately confident that, once you’ve tried the grown-up version, neither will you. With a sweet nutty flavour with a slightly spicy kick and lingering peppery taste, Greek Cress is one of the finest selections available.
Once very popular for winter salads, Land Cress has the same pungent nip that Watercress does but can be grown directly in the garden. Leaf production is at it’s highest during the summer and autumn, but it will happily carry on growing right through the winter. It deserves to be far more widely grown.
Watercress has recently risen to a starring role in elaborate culinary preparations. This highly nutritious aquatic herb has a lovely mustardy bite most commonly served raw as a garnish or as part of a salad.
For centuries, Samphire was food for the poor, free to ordinary people living by the sea. It is ironic that today it is regarded as a specialty food, often served with an accompanying price tag.
Dandelion is reviled by lawn manicurists yet, like Burdock, it is one of the most esteemed herbs in healing, the benefits are endless. The young raw leaves can be used in salads or cooked as a vegetable, the leaves contain more iron than spinach and are a excellent source of vitamins.
‘Cornet de Bordeaux’ is a very fine old French variety of endive that produces looser, wavier interior foliage that flares into a veritable cornet. The thick, buttery yellow leaves are very succulent and delicious, they have that special thick crunch of Italian endives, but with a sweeter flavour.
Good King Henry was once a common sight in every garden. He may have lost his court and become something of a rarity today, but this unique herb has much to offer to the home or cottage gardener. Organic Seed.
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.
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.
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.
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 ‘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.
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.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.
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.
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.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.
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.Lettuce Meraviglia d’Inverno is truly a ‘Marvel of Winter’, it is from one of the coldest regions of Italy and is hardy to around minus 10°C (14°F). Compact and tender, it will stand in perfect condition right through winter and can be harvested from September right through to March.
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