One of the quickest carrots to produce 36 days for baby and 54 days for full size. The slender roots have a very good sweet flavour and a crisp texture. Performs well under a range of conditions even during hot weather.
Twice winner of the “Best tasting carrot” at the yearly field day of the British Carrot Grower Association, this hybrid carrot ‘Romance’ is a good doer even in hot weather. Sow seed from August until late February for harvesting much of the year. Read more about Carrot 'Romance' F1 (Daucus carota)
‘Sweetheart’ is very sweet, flavoursome and productive bunching carrot for year round production. It takes about 90 days from seed sowing to harvest and maintains its flavour at a larger size.
Romanesco cauliflowers have light green, amazingly beautiful, intricately spiralled heads. The flavour is more delicate and nutty than white cauliflowers. Romanesco can only be grown to be harvested in autumn and winter. Sow seed from early December until early February. Read more about Cauliflower 'Veronica F1' (Brassica oleracea)
Puntoverde is a new industry leading Romanesco cauliflower for spring, summer, autumn and early winter production. Sow from July until late February. Romanesco cauliflowers have light green, amazingly beautiful, intricately spiralled heads. Read more about Cauliflower, Romanesco 'Puntoverde' F1 (Brassica oleracea)
An excellent hybrid variety producing long smooth dark green stalks which will crop from mid-summer until the end of winter. From September until January sow three seeds 1 mm deep per 5cm pot and thin to one plant per pot. Read more about Celery ‘Julius’ F1
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.
Garlic chives are a perennial onion relative with a flavour closer to garlic than chives. The leaves are used in stir fries, pancakes and dumplings as well as a garlic substitute in stews etc. Read more about Chinese Leeks/Garlic Chives/Kow Choi
As I grow coriander for its leaves rather than for its seeds I grow this slow bolting variety. It is ready to pick in less than a month and a half and will under reasonable conditions take three or four months before it runs up to seed. Read more about Coriander ‘Santo’ (Coriandrum sativum)
‘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)
Anyone who has ever eaten corn salad, or mache as it is known in Europe, knows just how wonderful a winter salad green it is. A cool season vegetable I pick enough for a salad several times a week from the end of May until spring. Read more about Corn Salad (Mache) (Valerianella locusta)
Max is a really good doer which grows well in cooler parts of Australia. It has an excellent disease resistance package and produces good flavoured, sweet tasting yellow cobs, often two per plant.
Polaris cobs grow to 20cm long and are sweet and juicy. The plant can make 180-200cm tall and provides good disease resistance to ensure a bumper crop. A terrific 'honey and cream' variety to use instead of Samurai. Read more about Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1 (Zea mays)
Productive Gherkin 55 days from transplant A beautifully shaped pickling cucumber which brines well and has excellent flavour if eaten fresh. It has very uniform, cylindrical fruit which set 1or 2 fruits per node. Replaces ‘Harmonie’
‘Caman’ was the best slicer in our cucumber trials. It is very productive with good fruit length. The fruit has smooth dak green skin and crisp flesh. A market leader amongst commercial growers a couple of plants will keep a house supplied for months. Read more about Cucumber, 'Caman' F1 (Cucumus sativus)
The best Lebanese cucumber in our trials for non-trellis production. Very quick to produce and incredibly productive this variety has uniform crops of dark green crisp fleshed fruits for all of the warmer months. A couple of plants will keep a household going. Read more about Cucumber, 'Khassib' F1 (Cucumus sativus)
55 days from transplant ‘Panama’ is a superb variety with excellent disease resistance which produces delicious, crisp Lebanese cucumbers with a thin dark green skin. It makes a compact but vigorous plant and is highly productive. 'Panama' is best grown on a trellis. Read more about Cucumber, 'Panama F1' (Cucumus sativus)
Blue Leaf(TM) cucumbers have a greater disease resistance, greater vigour and fruit longer than traditional varieties. ‘Lyman’ is a multi fruited Lebanese cucumber for harvesting from early December until late March. Sow September until early December. Read more about Cucumber, Blue Leaf Lebanese 'Lyman' F1 (Cucumus sativus)
Fantastic is a new, large round eggplant which can be grown successfully in the open garden in cooler parts of the country. I plant 2 seeds in a 7.5cm pots on bottom heat during early to mid-September thinning to one plant after germination. Read more about Eggplant ‘Fantastic’ F1
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)
