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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)
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Cabbage, Winter – Verza Moretta (Organic)
£2.70 Add to basketCabbage, Winter – Verza Moretta (Organic)
Fantastic traditional ‘Veronese’ purple Savoy cabbage with bright green centre. This striking variety has been cultivated in the countryside around the Adige river in Italy since the nineteenth century and is on the official list of traditional rare varieties.
It has purple and green outer leaves and bright green-yellow centres. Forms a compact head with a sweet flavour, perfectly suited to salads, soups, and risottos. (Approximate seed count – 50)
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Cabbage – Kalibos (Organic)
£2.70 Add to basketCabbage – Kalibos (Organic)
A heritage variety from Eastern Europe producing pink/purple pointed heads of roughly 2kg. This beautiful variety is a traditional rare variety from Eastern Europe. It is deliciously sweet and is perfectly suited to shredding into salads and fermenting into saurkraut.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.70 -
Courgette – Solara (Organic)
£2.95 Read moreCourgette – Solara (Organic)
A bright yellow variety producing an abundance of fruits over a long period. Solara is a fantastic modern open-pollinated yellow fruited courgette. We are really impressed with how productive and uniform this variety is compared to other yellow varieties we have tried and they taste superb. A couple of plants will keep you well fed throughout the summer.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.95 -
Lettuce – Till (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketLettuce – Till (Organic)
Green variety forming a dense rosette of arrow-shaped leaves. Till seems to be quite a unique variety. Although officially loose-leaved, it forms a very dense head, with a texture similar to little gem.
If you like a lettuce big on crunch and fresh taste then Till might be the one for you. Leaves can be harvested cut-and-come-again style or whole heads can be harvested.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.95 -
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 -
Chilli – Padron (Organic)
£2.10 – £4.00 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageChilli – Padron (Organic)
A classic Spanish tapas variety, mild when picked young, very hot if left to mature. Padron is a stand-out favourite pepper variety for us. Traditionally the fruits are picked when small and green before they have developed much heat. If left on the plant a bit longer they will get very hot, and sometimes one slips through the net, hence the Russian roulette associated with this variety.
As the fruits do not need to ripen you can start picking them early in the season so Padron is a good choice for the UK climate where some peppers struggle to ripen in our short and cool growing season.
Pick when the fruits are between 1.5 and 3 inches long, the longer they are the more chance of a hot one!
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Wild Rocket (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketWild Rocket (Organic)
Delicious and spicy serrated leaves, smaller and more delicate than their cultivated cousin. We love wild rocket as it just keeps on giving, even once it is going to seed it continues to produce new leaf growth if you cut it back.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£1.80 -
Kale – Bear Necessities (Organic)
£2.10 – £4.00 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageKale – Bear Necessities (Organic)
An unusual ultra-frilly Red-Russian type. Bear Necessities has leaves unlike any other kale as it was bred from a cross between a mizuna and a kale. It’s ultra frilly leaves lend themselves to salads when young and are great cooked when larger.
The leaves have a high volume and surface area which means they stir-fry particularly well, easily getting coated in delicious flavours and holding their shape.
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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)£1.98 -
Cucamelon (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketCucamelon (Organic)
An unusual cucumber relative producing an abundance of grape-sized crunchy fruits. Cucamelons have become popular addition to the veg patch in recent years. Despite the name they are neither cucumber or melon but their own species, Melothria scarba.
They are best grown up a trellis system as they have a sprawling growth habit. Their fruits are crunchy, fresh and tangy, and make a great snack or pickle.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£1.80 -
Tomato – Mango Lassi (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketTomato – Mango Lassi (Organic)
Extremely productive red cherry tomato bred for its fine flavour. This is a farm-original variety which we have bred by ‘dehybridising’ a popular F1 variety. We have been stabilising the line for 5 years and think its ready to send out into the world now!
The plants have been selected each year for the best flavour and excellent productivity. One of our volunteers thought that the fruits tasted like mango so we named it Mango Lassi. We hope you enjoy it. We would appreciate any feedback you have on it.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.20
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