Stria is both beautiful to look at and terrific to eat. The medium sized round fruit have white striped purple skin. Early to crop and prolific this variety topped our eggplant trials last season. It holds well after picking too.
A heat tolerant variety with pale yellow almost blond, cut and fringed leaves and mixes well with ‘Clodia’. It has a sweet, mildly spicy flavour. Plant from late winter until mid-autumn for year round crops.
This new hybrid fennel is a better proposition than open pollinated varieties as it resists running up to seed. Sow seeds during January and February for a crop of large bulbs from May until August. Read more about Florence Fennel ‘Leonardo’ F1 (Foeniculum vulgare)
‘Gold Fields’ is a selection of Genovese basil, the one used for pesto, that is more tolerant of cold weather than traditional varieties. A strong plant with dark green leaves it has all the flavour of older types but can be sown a month or two earlier. Read more about Herbs Basil ‘Goldfields Early Wonder’ (Ocimum basilicum)
Easier to grow than ordinary celery and can be picked over a long period just as you would parsley. Plant in a drill straight into the vegetable garden in late spring or summer, thin to 15cm apart. Or germinate in a glass house or polyhouse and plant out when big enough. Read more about Herbs, Celery, Cutting ‘Par-Cel’ (Apium graveolens var. secalinum)
Vertissimo is a slow bolting deliciously flavoured chervil. It can be used in salads, as a micro green or a garnish. Plant seed in drills in the garden in spring and again in autumn.
A premier variety of flat-leaf parsley with large thick glossy dark green leaves and delicious aromatic flavour. Vigorous, upright habit and very high yielding. Sow seed on bottom heat during early spring and in situ during late spring, summer and early autumn. Read more about Herbs, Flat-Leaf Parsley ‘Midori’ (Petroselinum crispum)
A new improved variety boasting a high yield from a uniform plant with sturdy stems.I plant seed on bottom heat early in the spring and outside in the garden after mid-November. Parsley will sometime bolt if seed is planted in soil which is too cold.
An early maturing melon with aromatic intensely flavoured deep orange flesh. Good disease resistance package. It makes a strong vine with high fruit numbers.
An early maturing melon with aromatic intensely flavoured deep orange flesh. Good disease resistance package. It makes a strong vine with high fruit numbers.
‘Black Magic’ is a new and improved variety of Black Tuscan Kale (Cavalo Nero). It produces very dark, deeply savoyed leaves and is best grown as a full size plant. Sow seed from November until January for an autumn and winter harvest. Read more about Kale, ‘Black Magic’ (Brassica oleracea)
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One of the best kale varieties for baby leaf and also good full size. The tender leaves can be used in salads and also cooked. They need less cooking than other kale types. Sow from August until April.
Excellent and bred for baby leaf production it can be sown the year round and is especially useful for Italian style autumn and winter vegetable dishes, but also for summer salads. Read more about Kale, ‘Onyx’ (Brassica oleracea)
Quick growing cabbage relative in which the swollen stems are eaten. One of the sweetest and freshest flavoured varieties and is quick from seed to harvest on an upright plant. Best sown from mid-summer until mid-autumn for an autumn-winter crop.
A white kohlrabi variety which makes a compact and upright plant good at withstanding torrid growing conditions. Suits both autumn and winter harvest cycles. Good cracking resistance. This is professional class seed made available to home gardeners for the first time. Read more about Kohlrabi ‘Morre’ F1 (Brassica oleracea)
Kohlrabi is best harvested when 7-10cm diameter which is when its white flesh is most crisp and nearly fibreless. Sow seed in succession during August, September and October and then from mid-January until early March
Lancaster is one of the newer types of leek bred for an extended harvest period from February through to October. It can be sown from July until February. Can be sown in seed trays or in outside seed beds. Read more about Leek ‘Lancaster’ F1 (Allium porum)
Salanova lettuce have the flavour and texture of full grown lettuce but in the home garden individual leaves are harvested as needed. Salanova lettuce are slow to bolt and can be harvested over a long period. Sow seed from August until May for year round salads. Read more about Lettuce Salanova® Green Butterhead (Lactuca sativa)