Vegetable Seeds
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Asian Greens – Baby Choi (Organic)
Price range: £1.68 through £3.80 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAsian Greens – Baby Choi (Organic)
A delightful minature version of pak choi, Baby Choi is perfect for those seeking a quick and tender Asian green. This versatile brassica offers a mild, sweet flavour with a satisfying crunch, making it ideal for stir-fries, salads and steamed as a side dish. Ready to harvest in just 30 days after planting (50 days after sowing), it can be picked as a whole plant or leaf by leaf for prolonged harvests. Keep Baby Choi well-watered, especially during hot weather, to prevent it from bolting.
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Lettuce – Red Solix (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketLettuce – Red Solix (Organic)
A vigorous dark red oak-leaf variety with upright leaves. Red Solix is a fantastic variety, cropping large amounts of fresh and crunchy leaves over a long harvest period. It makes a fantastic addition to the summer salad bowl.
(Approximate seed count – 250)
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Swede – Willhelmsburger (Organic)
£1.60 Add to basketSwede – Willhelmsburger (Organic)
A well-formed, firm-fleshed and smooth-skinned swede, refined in taste and with good keeping qualities. Swede is a very valuable winter vegetable and easy to grow.
Wilhelmsburger is a German variety from 1935 bred for culinary use. Ronja’s favourite recipe for swede is a bake with a creamy sauce and goats cheese. It will also make a great addition in stews or just roasted.
(Approximate seed count – 275)£1.60 -
Tomato – Black Cherry (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketTomato – Black Cherry (Organic)
Vigorous indeterminate cherry tomato producing large trusses of inch round dark red fruits. They have a superb flavour, not too sweet, not too acid and are very juicy in texture. They have an amazing colour which is the result of a natural mutation discovered by the legendary tomato breeder Vincent Sapp of Tomato Growers Supply in 2003.
(Approximate seed count – 25)£2.30 -
Kale – Red Russian (Organic)
Price range: £2.10 through £4.40 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageKale – Red Russian (Organic)
Recognisable by its flat, purple-tinged and tooth-shaped leaves; this kale is hardy, frost tolerant and very versatile. A productive plant, it reaches 90cm in height and can be harvested throughout the winter becoming sweeter after a frost. The tender young leaves are great in salads and larger leaves are attractive as well as delicious. This kale is so tasty you can eat it on its own, but it’s also a perfect addition to smoothies, salads and stir fries. You can get in the habit of adding it to most meals! In Scotland, kale used to be a mainstay of the traditional diet. So much so that to be “off one’s kail” means to feel too ill to eat.
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Tomatillo – Purple Mountain Landrace (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketTomatillo – Purple Mountain Landrace (Organic)
Purple blushed landrace tomatillo productive and tasty. Related to the tomato, these plants are easy to grow as transplants and very productive. The big cherry tomato sized fruits are enclosed by a papery husk and are of astonishing flavours. It’s the combination of tomatoey and lime flavours that make them ideal for salsas and other Mexican and Southamerican dishes. The fruits turn purple in patches on the plant but become more coloured when the fruit is exposed to sunlight after harvesting.
This landrace has been bred by Wild Mountain Seed, USA, particularly with disease resistance and reliable production as a goal. A diverse parentage of strains ensure a genetic diversity, yearly selections where made to increase vigour and productivity while keeping an eye on disease resistance as well.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.30 -
Pepper – Pepperoncini (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketPepper – Pepperoncini (Organic)
Small sweet pepper variety from Tuscany traditionally used for pickling. An Italian pepper with the occasional hint of spice. Pepperoncini are often pickled in vinegar, made into delicious antipasti or cooked whole, served with classic Italian foods like pizza or pasta dishes.
This variety belongs to the same family as bell peppers and hot tobasco chillies. Pepperoncini is an annual that favours hot, fairly dry summers. Normally harvested when glossy green, the pretty long wrinkly peppers turn red and exquisitely sweet if you leave them on the plant. Perfect for a little snack straight off the plant and a favourite when roasted or barbecued, served with olive oil and flakes of sea salt.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£1.95 -
Lettuce – Fine Speckled Oak (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Fine Speckled Oak (Organic)
Fantastic and unusual oak-leaf lettuce, covered thickly in fine speckles of crimson. Fine Speckled Oak was one of Fred’s favourites in our 2018 lettuce trials. It was super healthy and had very consistent growth throughout the population. At full maturity it forms a dense colourful heart. An attractive and vigorous lettuce bred by Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA, that we are very pleased to offer in our catalogue.
(Approximate seed count – 175)£2.00 -
Courgette – Tondo di Nizza (Organic)
£3.00 Add to basketCourgette – Tondo di Nizza (Organic)
A round pale green courgette with a delicate skin and fine flavour. If you’re looking for something a little bit different in your courgette patch, Tondo di Nizza would be a good choice. It is an Italian heritage variety that provides you with an abundant crop of round courgettes. Best harvested when approximately 10cm in diameter, just before the skin darkens in colour.
(Approximate seed count – 12)£3.00 -
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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Beetroot – Cylindra (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketBeetroot – Cylindra (Organic)
A distinctive, very attractive variety which forms long, thin cylindrical beets . Deep purple, and typically 20cm tall, and 6cm diameter, but like any beet, can get very large with enough room. They look great in the veg patch, at the market and also on your plate! Very suitable as a main crop and has excellent storage capability.
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.30 -
Leek – Pandora (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketLeek – Pandora (Organic)
Early summer leek. Delicious and uniform with long white stems. Pandora is a quick maturing summer leek that can be harvested from late summer onwards. It’s delicious and uniform and makes long tender white stems and a dark blue-green foliage.
You shouldn’t really be eating leeks in August, but if you sow Pandora in time you’ll find that it is possible!
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.50
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