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Lettuce – Devil’s Tongue (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketLettuce – Devil’s Tongue (Organic)
A dark red spring lettuce with tapered cos-like leaves forming loose heads at maturity. Bred by lettuce breeding wizard Frank Morton, this variety has a very buttery texture and thick leaves.
This is not a pure-line variety, as evidenced by its black and white seeds, but a multiline “landrace” of similar looking (but genetically distinct) sub-lines. Most of our ancestors’ staple crops, their legumes and grains, were also multi-lines. The genetic diversity of these farmer-varieties was the original crop insurance against the vagaries of nature.
(Approximate seed count – 250)
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Poppy – Mother of Pearl (Organic)
£2.10 Add to basketPoppy – Mother of Pearl (Organic)
A beautiful mixed variety producing blooms of various dusty shades of plum, pink and white. This is a really eye catching variety, with such delicate colour shades. Some white with raspberry veining, some dusty pink, pale plum and white, on long elegant stems.
Vase life 3-4 days – seer stem ends for 10 seconds.
(Approximate seed count – 500)
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Pea – Purple Magnolia (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.45 Read morePea – Purple Magnolia (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
A vigourous, productive variety producing beautiful purple pea pods . Purple Magnolia is a stunning sugar snap variety that produces tall vines and abundant tasty pods, adding a striking contrast to your garden and plates.The pods retain their colour when eaten raw and are deliciously crunchy and sweet, perfect for snacking on while in the garden.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£2.45 -
Lettuce – Outredgeous (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketLettuce – Outredgeous (Organic)
Stunning deep red coloured lettuce with a crisp texture and sweet flavour (this variety was the first plant to be grown in space!). In 2014 Outredgeous became the first lettuce ever to be grown in space on the International Space Station due to its reliability and because it is so easy to grow.
It’s an upright cut salad that forms a loose romaine head at maturity. An outrage of red in your salad bowl makes this a firm favourite for gardeners and growers.
(Approximate seed count – 175)£1.80 -
Soybean – Fiskeby (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.90 Add to basketSoybean – Fiskeby (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
An early-maturing edamame soybean perfect for UK gardens. Friskeby produces abundant clusters of plump, sweet pods ideal for steaming or drying. This variety has been bred to thrive in cooler climates and is the ideal gourmet addition to any vegetable patch.
(Approximate seed count – 30)£2.90 -
Peas – Golden Sweet (Organic)
£2.35 Add to basketPeas – Golden Sweet (Organic)
Vigorous multicoloured plants with green leaves, red-magenta leaf nodes, cream-pink-purple-blue flowers and golden-yellow pods. Golden Sweet makes an unusual attraction in the pea patch. We love the extraordinary colour changes of the flower from cream to purple and blue when they mature. When the pods are still young they’re very sweet and crunchy, as the pods get bigger they’ll become more stringy which makes them better for cooking rather than eating raw.
It was a real pleasure growing Golden Sweet in our pea trial 2018 and observing all the different colours. We found that the whole plant has a golden glow to it once it starts flowering. It was probably one of the tastiest mangetouts that we had when picked young.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£2.35 -
Helichrysum – Silvery Rose (Organic)
£1.95 Read moreHelichrysum – Silvery Rose (Organic)
Delicate papery blooms of pink through to white, equally at home in the border, the vase, or as a dried bunch. This is a new variety for us and we totally love it! The pale blush pink petals are borne on good strong stems, and if flowers are either cut or deadheaded the plants will keep producing over a very long period.
A top favourite for wedding bouquets due to the exquisite delicate and unfolding nature of the blooms.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£1.95 -
Blue Vervein (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketBlue Vervein (Organic)
A herb with lovely lilac flowers and spiky leaves grown as ornamental and medicinal plant.
Blue Vervein is an elegant hardy herbaceous perennial, native to North America, but widely grown around the world. It has particular properties for the nervous system and can help to ease tension. The plant has delicate foliage with a purple hue, and striking spires of dainty deep purple flowers. The plants grow 1m-1.5m tall and prefer moist soil in full to partial sun.
(Approximate seed count – 150)
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Chicory – Radicchio Treviso Late (SM4.75 – Forcing) (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketChicory – Radicchio Treviso Late (SM4.75 – Forcing) (Organic)
A forcing chicory from Treviso for delicious winter eating. This variety of chicory has been bred for forcing through the winter months (Tardivo means late in Italian), and produces totally delicious ‘chicons’
To force chicory the plants should be left untouched in the field until winter time. When you wish to force them, pull up however many plants you need and replant the roots into a moist medium such as sand or spent compost. The plants then need to kept in total darkness for a few weeks and then beautiful chicons will grow from the roots.
They are generally eaten cooked in pastas and other dishes and were the first Italian vegetable to gain IGP, a European protected status for special food products specific to a place of origin.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.50 -
Lettuce – Really Red Deer Tongue (Organic)
Price range: £1.80 through £3.90 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageLettuce – Really Red Deer Tongue (Organic)
Very dark red loose-leaf variety, with striking arrow-shaped leaves. This is definitely one of our favourite varieties of lettuce. It is productive and easy to harvest as well as being crunchy and extremely tasty. It adds a real depth of colour to any salad with leaves that are almost black!
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Luffa – Luffa aegyptiaca (Organic)
£2.65 Add to basketLuffa – Luffa aegyptiaca (Organic)
Annual climbing plant producing cucumber like fruits that can be made into a natural sponge. It’s part of the cucurbit family originating in India and produces 30 to 40 centimetres long fruits. Whilst the young fruits are actually edible, the mature ones can be boiled or dried to remove the flesh, revealing the sponge like fibres.
Germination can be tricky, needs hot temperatures constantly between 24 and 30°C and a long season to make a sponge.
The Luffas should be ready to harvest in October, once the skin of the fruits starts to wither. Harvest and stack them up somewhere warm, dry and airy, making sure to turn them. The skin should reach a point where it can easily peel off leaving the fibrous inner. Shake the seeds out and give a thorough wash to clean it. The luffa is likely to have natural brown markings on it; shop-bought luffas are bleached. (Approximate seed count – 15)
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Nigella – Love-in-a-Mist (Organic)
£2.34 Add to basketNigella – Love-in-a-Mist (Organic)
Pale blue, pink and white flowers on upright, bushy plants with feathery foliage. Nigella flowers or ‘love-in-a-mist’ are a popular and traditional cottage garden flower. The blue, pink and white solitary flowers appear to sit on a bed of ‘misty’ foliage, hence the common name. The plants get about 50cm high and the blossom is followed by a decorative, inflated seed capsule that also makes a nice addition to cut flower arrangements.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.34
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