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Tomato – Green Zebra (Organic)
£2.45 Add to basketTomato – Green Zebra (Organic)
Large fruits, which remain green when ripe, with attractive yellow striping and excellent taste. In terms of appearance, this does what it says on the tin, but it does it very well. Fruits grow to around 8cm diameter and plants typically produce 6 to 8 fruits per truss. Quite fleshy, with very good taste and looks wonderful with other red and yellow tomatoes on a plate or at market.
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA!
(Approximate seed count – 25)
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Broccoli – Fiolaro di Creazzo (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketBroccoli – Fiolaro di Creazzo (Organic)
A traditional Italian type of broccoli sown in summer and harvested in autumn and winter. Broccoli Fiolaro di Creazzo has been cultivated for many centuries in Italy and is on the Slow Food Ark of Taste list which is a living catalogue of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction.
It is sown in July through to early September and harvested November to March.
It does not grow a large central head, but produces side shoots – “fiois” – from its stem which are harvested and cooked with the leaves – not too dissimilar to Kalettes.
(Approximately 70 seeds / packet)
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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 -
Napa Cabbage – Jeju Island (Organic)
£2.60 Add to basketNapa Cabbage – Jeju Island (Organic)
Originally from Jeju island, perfect for making kimchi or adding to stews and soups. The seeds of this line came from a farmer from Jeju Island, the volcanic island on the Southern part of Korea. This is a heritage Chinese cabbage variety, also called “Gueok” or “Gueokbeachu”. The plants grow well in our climate, making compact, slightly elongated heads with a cream coloured heart reaching up to 2kg. The flavour is mild yet typical Chinese cabbage with a twist of Indian mustard. It’s traditionally used to make kimchi as well as other Korean dishes such as Gochujang (cabbage soup) or Ssam (cabbage wrap).
(Approximate seed count – 150)£2.60 -
Cornflower – Mixed (Organic)
£2.10 Add to basketCornflower – Mixed (Organic)
A stunning mix of pink, blue and white double flowered blooms, ideal for the border and for the cutting garden.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.10 -
Parsley – Curly: Moss Curled (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketParsley – Curly: Moss Curled (Organic)
A vigorous dark green curled parsley that keeps its fresh appearance well. Moss Curled is an early maturing variety that was introduced in the 1800s. Its leaves are finely curled like moss and can be used to flavour soups and salads, and many other dishes. It is particularly good for garnishes as the leaves are less likely to bruise when chopped.
(Approximate seed count – 600)£1.95 -
Cosmos – Kiiro (Organic)
£2.35 Add to basketCosmos – Kiiro (Organic)
A gorgeous variety producing pale buttery-yellow blooms with single petals. No garden would be complete without a few Cosmos plants, with their long stem length, abundant blooms and long flowering window.
Kiiro is a lovely addition to our collection, with a soft delicate colour palette. Like other Cosmos, it’s very easy to grow and great for beginners, also being suitable for pot growing as well as the garden border.
(Approximate seed count – 70)£2.35 -
Phacelia (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketPhacelia (Organic)
Beautiful lavender-purple flowers adored by bees and other pollinating insects. Phacelia is extremely attractive to honeybees and other beneficial insects providing both pollen and nectar. It is a quick growing annual flower that germinates at low temperatures and has the potential to catch excess nitrogen too. We love sowing it in between our crops and rejoicing in the lovely flowers and insects that it attracts.
(Approximate seed count – 1000)£1.95 -
Chilli – Lemon Drop (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketChilli – Lemon Drop (Organic)
Crinkly yellow chilli with a hot lemony flavour with a wide range of culinary uses. One of our most popular chilli varieties with a bushy growth habit and lots of fruits ripening from green to yellow.
The variety is also called Aji Limon and originates from Peru where it’s used as a seasoning pepper. Rating 30,000-50,000 SHU (Scoville heat units) it is quite a spicy one ideal for making your own hot chilli sauce with an extra citrusy twist or add it to stir fries, tomato sauces or your scrambled eggs.
To get good germination temperatures of 28° – 30°C are recommended. Germination can be slow and take three weeks or more. As it is thought to be genetically slightly closer to its wild relatives, there is some apparent seed dormancy which can affect germination rates. We have included a higher number of seeds in the packets to ensure you get enough plants.
(Approximate seed count – 23)£1.95 -
Cosmos – Pink Mosaic (Organic)
£2.40 Add to basketCosmos – Pink Mosaic (Organic)
A stunning cosmos variety with mottled and flecked double petals in gradients of magenta and white. An unmissable addition to any cutting garden, cosmos are a workhorse for cut flower enthusiasts. They are easy to grow, great for pollinators and provide endless blooms throughout the summer with long upright stems.
(Approximate seed count – 70)£2.40 -
Iceland Poppy – Pink Fizz (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketIceland Poppy – Pink Fizz (Organic)
Eye-catching flowers with gentle fizzing tones of watermelon pink, white and apricot. These beauties are great as cut flowers or for filling borders with sumptous bursts of colour. this is a short lived hardy perennial often grown as a biennial here in the uk, flowering from June- August.
Best sown thinly under vermiculite or sand and watered from below as the seeds are very small, plant out as soon as 2 true leaves have formed, they do not like root disturbance so handle gently.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.95 -
Everlasting Sandflower (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketEverlasting Sandflower (Organic)
A delightful everlasting flower, with delicate daisy-like flowers on tall, branching stems. Bearing flowers all summer long, from June – September, this variety is an excellent addition to a cutting garden and dries beautifully for winter arrangements.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£2.25 -
Chilli – Adam’s Sweet and Hot (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketChilli – Adam’s Sweet and Hot (Organic)
Remarkable chilli/pepper variety of sweet flavour with a fruity heat. Discovered by Adam Alexander in a market in Donetsk, Ukraine in 1989, this sweet and gently spiced pepper has been grown in South Wales ever since with plants selected for earliness and flavour. The fruits are slightly ribbed, flattened, and about the size of an apple. When eaten fresh they are exceptionally sweet, crunchy, and full of flavour, with a subtle heat towards the top of the fruit that makes them per definition a chilli, although we think of it more like a pepper.
Plants are short, stocky, and very productive, with red fruits that hold well once ripe. They can be grown outdoors in a sunny spot or under cover.
Firm favourite across the Vital Seeds team and number one winner of our 2023 pepper and chilli trials.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£1.95 -
Cosmos – Mixed (Organic)
£2.20Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.Cosmos – Mixed (Organic)
A popular, low-maintenance annual flower with white, pink and lilac petals and a yellow centre. Single, daisy-like flowers in purple, pink or white that will bloom from early summer to autumn. Cosmos is easy to grow, it’s great for bees, butterflies and hover-flies and makes a lovely cut flower, too.
We like planting it in between food crops as an ornamental divider.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.20 -
Lettuce – Moonred (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketLettuce – Moonred (Organic)
A little gem type lettuce with deep red tops to the leaves graduating to a bright green at the base. Also known as Red Little Gem, this is a stunning variety producing small compact heads which are aesthetically beautiful, deliciously sweet and with the same crunchy freshness of standard little gem.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.95 -
Chicory – Radicchio ‘506 TT’ (Organic)
Price range: £2.45 through £5.50 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageChicory – Radicchio ‘506 TT’ (Organic)
Fantastic modern Palla Rossa type radicchio forming large round heads.
This is a wonderful new Radicchio variety much celebrated by market gardeners due to the high consistency of its heads which can be harvested from September until December. The leaves can be eaten raw as a delicious addition to winter salads, or they can be sliced and baked with olive oil and balsamic. (Other recipes are available too)
(Approximate seed count – 150)
Price range: £2.45 through £5.50
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