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  • Marketmore CucumberMarketmore Cucumber

    Cucumber – Marketmore (Organic)

    Price range: £2.00 through £4.00
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    Cucumber – Marketmore (Organic)

    A versatile, productive variety with luscious, dark green fruits throughout the summer. As British reggae artist Macka B makes clear in his ode to ‘Cocombers’ (see youtube for reference) the humble cucumber has many a good reason to grow and eat it. The Marketmore variety produces luscious, cylindrical, dark green fruits and does so in abundance throughout the summer. It grows well in both poor and rich soil conditions and will ensure you are full of good electrolytes for the rest of the year.
    (Approximate seed count – 20)

    Price range: £2.00 through £4.00
  • ClaytoniaClaytonia

    Claytonia ‘Winter Purslane’ – (Organic)

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    Claytonia ‘Winter Purslane’ – (Organic)

    A must-have excellent winter leaf of mild flavour and incredibly succulent, soft and juicy texture.. Winter purslane, also known as miners lettuce or claytonia, has heart-shaped elegant looking leaves which are small, abundant and make a great cut-and-come-again salad green. You will get a productive harvest all winter and early spring and if left to self seed, it will just keep coming back year after year.

    It is one of those greens that come up in just the right moment when we’re most in need of something fresh and it self-manages very well which is why we like it too.
    (Approximate seed count – 850)

    £1.85
  • Lila Lu CarrotLila Lu Carrot

    Carrot – Lila Lu (Organic)

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    Carrot – Lila Lu (Organic)

    Lila Lu is a purple carrot on the outside with a vibrant orange interior, sweet and crunchy. This is a modern European breed specifically developed for organic growing conditions. It has a crunchy texture and pleasantly sweet taste, the purple pigmentation is attributed to a higher levels of the potent antioxidant ‘anthocyanin’ alongside the usual beta carotene that orange carrots offer. Carrots have been bred since the 10th century in Asia, whilst we have come to know carrots in their orange standard, their ancestors were yellow and purple, we appear to have come full circle with this ‘new’ variety.
    (Approximate seed count – 400)

    £1.95
  • Broad bean - Super Aquadulce (Organic)Broad bean - Super Aquadulce (Organic)

    Broad bean – Super Aquadulce (Organic)

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    Broad bean – Super Aquadulce (Organic)

    A Spanish heritage variety for autumn sowings that produces an abundance of light-green pods early in the season. According to food historian Willam Woys Weaver this variety can be traced back to Vilmorin’s selection of a Spanish broad bean called ‘haba de Sevilla’ in 1885. Super Aquadulce is extra hardy and can withstand cold temperatures. It will produce massive amounts of delicious uniform green pods with large beans. Although especially suited for Autumn sowing, Aquadulce can be sown in early spring for a summer/autumn crop too.

    The pods can be eaten as a whole when harvested young and the beans shelled and dried when they’re a bit older. The tops will make an excellent addition to salads or as greens, tasting a bit like a bean and a bit like spinach. Harvesting the tops also takes the energy out of the growing tip and encourages the beans to ripen.
    (Approximate seed count – 35)

    £2.59
  • Purple Top Milan TurnipPurple Top Milan Turnip

    Turnip – Purple Top Milan (Organic)

    Price range: £1.60 through £3.00
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    Turnip – Purple Top Milan (Organic)

    A flat white turnip with purple shoulders; it’s easy to grow, quick to mature and excellent fresh or for storage. A classic Italian heritage variety from Milan with a creamy white, firm, crunchy and mildly sweet flesh. Eaten pickled, cooked or raw – it is a very versatile vegetable! The leaves are tasty and nutritious and can be cooked just like other greens.

    Price range: £1.60 through £3.00
  • Trailing NasturtiumTrailing Nasturtium

    Nasturtium – Trailing (Organic)

    Price range: £2.58 through £6.95
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    Nasturtium – Trailing (Organic)

    A colourful annual with edible flowers and leaves . Trailing mix of bright greenery and different shades of orange, yellow and red coloured flowers. Both leaves and flowers are edible, they taste peppery, hot and sweet.

    We love having nasturtium flowers dotted around our land. They attract the bees and just make a beautiful addition in summer salads.

    Price range: £2.58 through £6.95
  • Autumn king CarrotAutumn king Carrot

    Carrot – Autumn king (Organic)

    Price range: £1.60 through £4.00
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    Carrot – Autumn king (Organic)

    An award-winning maincrop variety, also ideal for storage over the winter months. How could we not include Autumn King in our catalogue?! This is one of our favourite varieties, and certainly lives up to its name. It is an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner and is a firm favourite amongst both home and market gardeners.

    It produces conical roots up to 30cm long and with a deep organgey-red colour. It is sweet-tasting and delicious both raw and cooked.

    Autumn King is a great carrot for storage over the winter. To store the roots place them in containers in single layers in moist (but not wet) sand making sure they do not touch each other. Keep them in a cool but frost free and dark place and check the roots periodically for mould or rotting.
    (Approximate seed count – 400)

    Price range: £1.60 through £4.00
  • Cobra Climbing French BeansCobra Climbing French Beans

    Climbing French Beans – Cobra (Organic)

    Price range: £3.10 through £5.80
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    Climbing French Beans – Cobra (Organic)

    Prolific and reliable climbing bean with stringless pods of marvelous taste. Cobra is an extremely popular and very reliable French bean variety and an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. It’s got everything you’ll want from a bean. It produces an early crop of stringless round green pods that have the most delicious flavour.

    The showy violet-purple flowers will stand out in your garden and you’ll be surprised at how long your beans will keep coming.

    We love them cooked and tossed in vinaigrette when still warm, adding raw onions and a touch of grain mustard.

    Approximate seed count: see packet size

    Price range: £3.10 through £5.80
  • Orange CalendulaOrange Calendula

    Calendula – Orange (Organic)

    Price range: £2.28 through £3.90
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    Calendula – Orange (Organic)

    Also known as ‘Pot Marigold’. This is the classic calendula, producing abundant large orange blooms over a long season. We love calendula and would never go a season without it. It is really easy to grow and loved by humans and insects alike. There is something magical about finding bumblebees sleeping in calendula flowers early in the morning. The flowers are edible and make a great addition to salads. The petals have good medicinal properties and can be taken as an infusion in hot water or turned into a powerful tincture. Calendula’s medicinal actions include but are not limited to: anti-inflamatory, astringent, vulnery, and anti-microbial.

    (Approximate seed count – 125)

    Price range: £2.28 through £3.90
  • Yellow Submarine TomatoYellow Submarine Tomato

    Tomato – Yellow Submarine (Organic)

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    Tomato – Yellow Submarine (Organic)

    Yellow indeterminate cherry tomato that produces lots of small pear-shaped fruits in large trusses. The fresh, sweet taste with juicy pulp and low acidity levels make this a popular tomato variety that will always look good amongst other tomatoes. The plant is a potato leaf type with an open growth habit. This is one of our most productive varieties, it just keeps on giving.

    Great in salads and despite the unusual colour it makes a very delicious tomato sauce. However we end up eating most of them straight off the plant as they are so tasty!
    (Approximate seed count – 25)

     

    £2.45
  • Italian Giant ParsleyItalian Giant Parsley

    Parsley – Italian Giant (Organic)

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    Parsley – Italian Giant (Organic)

    A large flat-leaved parsley variety with excellent strong flavour – more pungent than curled types. Parsley is probably the most well-known herb in the world. It is native to the Mediterranean region and was first grown mostly for medicinal purposes. It seems to have become more commonly used in Northern Europe since the Middle Ages and is today’s favourite for garnishing, in salads and for cooking.

    This Italian variety grows an abundance of dark green leaves. It can be grown in pots as well as in the ground all year round.
    (Approximate seed count – 600)

    £1.95
  • San Marzano Cima di RapaSan Marzano Cima di Rapa

    Cima di Rapa – San Marzano (Organic)

    Price range: £2.10 through £3.00
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    Cima di Rapa – San Marzano (Organic)

    A really easy to grow broccoli alternative producing tender flowering shoots around 60 days from sowing. Cima Di Rapa (also known as broccoli raab), is actually botanically a type of turnip rather than a broccoli. As such it is very quick to grow and unfussy in terms of its water and nutrient requirements.

    The flowering shoots are harvested like sprouting broccoli and if you take care not to remove the lower two leaves you can get a few cuts off them.

    In Italy there are many different varieties of Cima Di Rapa, maturing at different times and with different culinary uses.

    Price range: £2.10 through £3.00