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Winter Lettuce – Valdor (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketWinter Lettuce – Valdor (Organic)
A green winter-hardy butterhead lettuce with great taste and texture. We wanted to include Valdor amongst our lettuces because it is simply one of the best winter lettuces there is. It forms tight medium-sized heads with the classic look of a butterhead. Sown in September, it can be cultivated outside or undercover for continuous picking or left to mature for an early spring harvest.
(Approximate seed count – 250)
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Red Onion – Tropea Lunga (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketRed Onion – Tropea Lunga (Organic)
Extremely sweet pointed red onion sought after by chefs around the world. This is probably Italy’s most famous onion. It comes from the Tropea region which has the perfect climate for onion growing.
The pointed pink bulbs have a very high sugar content making them perfect for caramelising. Indeed some say they are so sweet you can eat them like apples! Each to their own, but you get the point…
(Approximate seed count – 350)£2.50 -
Courgette – Cocozelle (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketCourgette – Cocozelle (Organic)
Very productive courgette producing dark and light green stripy fruit over a long period. We have grown this traditional Italian variety of courgette for many years and it has become a staple part of our summer diets. It is a prolific producer of good looking and great tasting fruits. It has a bush-type growth habit making it suitable for smaller plots or even container growing.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.95 -
Climbing French bean – Borlotti (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketClimbing French bean – Borlotti (Organic)
Produces gorgeous bright pink-dappled pods with beans to be used either fresh or dried. Borlotti is one of the most beautiful climbing French bean varieties available. The pods have a stunning colour with dapples of bright pink and white. The bean itself is creamy white with maroon speckles.
We love them for their excellent taste, colour and versatility. Either eat the young pods raw or cooked, or the beans when matured. Just shell and use like a dry bean.They are one of the most popular heritage varieties in Italy and our favourite in the Vital Seeds 2019 bean trials.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£2.95 -
Bee Mixture – (Organic)
£3.50 Add to basketBee Mixture – (Organic)
A colourful mixture of Borage, Buckwheat, Calendula, Crimson Clover, Cornflower, Dill, Coriander and Phacelia.. The bees and other beneficial insects in your garden will love this mixture of flowering plants. The nectar will provide them with sugar they need for energy and the pollen contains protein and oils that bees collect to raise the brood.
We rejoice in this bee mixture particularly as it has a diverse range of flowering plants and makes our vegetable plot look beautiful and filled with colour. The edibles amongst the mix we use to jazz up our summer salads.
(Approximate seed count – 5 grams)£3.50 -
Climbing French Beans – Cobra (Organic)
Price range: £3.10 through £5.80 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageClimbing 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
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Chicory – Catalogna Gigante di Chioggia (SM4.32) (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketChicory – Catalogna Gigante di Chioggia (SM4.32) (Organic)
Leaf chicory best used as a delicious sautéing green. Catalogna Gigante di Chioggia – also known as dandelion greens – is an open leaf chicory type which is similar to wild chicory.
The leaves make some of the best sautéing greens around, sweet with a slight bitter edge. They can be blanched in salty water to remove some of the bitterness if desired. Drain and fry up with garlic and chilli for a truly delicious side dish.
More forgiving to grow than some other chicory/radicchio types.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.20 -
Broccoli – Piracicaba (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketBroccoli – Piracicaba (Organic)
A real treat in the garden, Piracicaba is a sweet, flavourful broccoli that’s perfect for picking over a long period. The initial central head is relatively small, however it produces an abundance of loose florets with large beads on long, tender stems which make it ideal for regular harvesting. Thriving in warmer conditions where other broccolis might struggle, it’s a brilliant choice for extending your season. We grew it in 2024 and absolutely loved it, it was one of those crops we were always happy to see more of.
(Approximate seed count – 150)£2.25 -
Peas – Ambassador (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketPeas – Ambassador (Organic)
A top quality pea for cooking and freezing, widely used in home gardens and commercial production. Big juicy peas in a pod. What could possibly be more exciting than growing your own peas to go with a traditional dinner. Ambassador is robust, vigorous, productive and delicious. It won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit in 1993 which was reconfirmed in 2005 and is one of the most widely used peas of its kind.
(Approximate seed count – 80)£2.25 -
Sweet Pea – Enchante (Organic)
£2.65 Add to basketSweet Pea – Enchante (Organic)
Beautiful delicate multicoloured blooms opening creamy green and progressing through pink to pale mauve. This Fred’s favourite sweet pea variety. The colour show when they are in full bloom is no less than spectacular. Each flower head is a rainbow of different colours, and the smell is intoxicating!
(Approximate seed count – 23)£2.65 -
Fennel – Perfektion (Organic)
Price range: £2.00 through £4.90 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageFennel – Perfektion (Organic)
Just the right blend of dependability and flavour creating attractive white bulbs with the signature anise flavour. Perfektion creates a succulent, round, white bulb with fine flesh. It has a delicious anise flavour and is reliable in its growing pattern. This variety also has attractive fern-like foliage which is also edible and good for adding a hint of anise to your cooking. Suitable for early or late cultivation.
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Kale – Nero di Toscana (Organic)
Price range: £2.50 through £3.50 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageKale – Nero di Toscana (Organic)
Upright plants producing lots of heavily savoyed dark green leaves. Surely this is the king of kales! We always grow masses of Nero di Toscana, we cant get enough of it. It has been a staple of Italian cuisine for centuries and heavily features in the iconic ‘Ribollita’ Tuscan bean stew.
Although usually steamed or stir-fried, kale leaves can also be massaged raw with a little olive oil, salt and lemon juice and made into a salad. Well worth a try if you haven’t already!
(Approximate seed count – 150)Price range: £2.50 through £3.50
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