Vegetable Seeds

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  • Meruhen Winter squashMeruhen Winter squash

    Winter squash – Meruhen (Organic)

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    Winter squash – Meruhen (Organic)

    Discover the incredible Meruhen winter squash, originally from Japan. It’s a truly special variety with exceptionally sweet and rich flavour—possibly even sweeter than butternut! Its flesh is slightly starchier, giving it a velvety texture that particularly shines in hearty soups and luscious sauces. The fruits are beautifully round, with dark green skin sometimes accented by pale green-grey stripes. Whether you’re growing for the kitchen or simply admiring its beauty, Meruhen promises to deliver both flavour and style.
    (Approximate seed count – 10)

    £2.50
  • Groninger Brussels sprouts

    Brussels sprouts – Groninger (Organic)

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    Brussels sprouts – Groninger (Organic)

    An excellent, reliable variety, steadily producing from November up until the end of January. Groninger is a great-tasting Brussel sprout variety, with improving flavour as the cold draws in. It is an ideal choice for your garden, giving a steady supply of small to medium sized sprouts with tight heads just in time for Christmas dinner.
    This variety has received the RHS Award of Garden Merit and is tried and tested, sturdy and reliable.
    (Approximate seed count – 100)

    £2.35
  • Blauwschokker PeasBlauwschokker Peas

    Peas – Blauwschokker (Organic)

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    Peas – Blauwschokker (Organic)

    A stunning heritage pea variety with dark purple pods and bright green peas inside. This ornamental pea is an old European heritage variety. It has attractive pink flowers followed by lots of dark purple pods that contain tender, sweet, green peas.

    The delicious peas can be eaten fresh green and podded or allowed to mature for shelling and drying.

    Being mostly culitvated in North Germany and Holland, it is a robust and very productive variety. Traditionally this pea is eaten as a dry pea in a soup or stew but it’s also very tasty and tender when eaten fresh.

    (Approximate seed count – 80)

    £2.45
  • Scarlet Emperor Runner beanScarlet Emperor Runner bean

    Runner bean – Scarlet Emperor (Organic)

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    Runner bean – Scarlet Emperor (Organic)

    A heritage variety of vigorous growth and productivity. Harvested young as snap beans or matured to be dried and shelled. Scarlet Emperor beans are an old favourite. They are often just grown for their beauty – how great that they can be eaten as well!

    The plants have bright red flowers and grow up to 3m tall, producing masses of smooth-textured long green pods that can be eaten as a snap bean. When left to mature they form seeds of a purple colour with black dapples and also make a delicious drying bean.
    (Approximate seed count – 30)

    £2.80
  • Ratio Broad beanRatio Broad bean

    Broad bean – Ratio (Organic)

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    Broad bean – Ratio (Organic)

    Ratio’ is a fantastic spring sown broad bean with very attractive, well-filled pods.  Sow outdoors from March to mid April. Early, productive broad bean with an excellent pod shape, good pod set and a delicious flavour. Thanks to its branching habit, the crop stays short and is at less risk of lodging. Very flavoursome and suitable for freezing.

    (Approximate seed count – 40)

    £2.90
  • Sweet Horizon PeasSweet Horizon Peas

    Peas – Sweet Horizon (Organic)

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    Peas – Sweet Horizon (Organic)

    Mangetout pea variety with tasty, flat, almost stringless pods with a long harvest window. Sweet Horizon will grow up to 1.2m tall, producing large and very sweet pods over a long period of time. We found this variety to have good resistance to powdery mildew, and exquisite flavour either raw or cooked. We love grazing on mangetouts in the garden, so much so that they rarely make it to the cooking pot!
    (Approximate seed count – 60)

    £2.30
  • Marmande Tomato

    Tomato – Marmande (Organic)

    Price range: £2.30 through £4.20
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    Tomato – Marmande (Organic)

    Classic French beefsteak variety with mildly ribbed fruit. Marmande is a fantastic variety producing fruits between 60g and 120g on semi-determinate vines which need support and pinching out. The fruits are very tasty raw or grilled on the barbecue.

    Price range: £2.30 through £4.20
  • Padron ChilliPadron Chilli

    Chilli – Padron (Organic)

    Price range: £2.10 through £4.00
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    Chilli – 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!

    Price range: £2.10 through £4.00
  • Chicory - Radicchio Rosa 'Jolanda' (Organic)Chicory - Radicchio Rosa 'Jolanda' (Organic)

    Chicory – Radicchio Rosa ‘Jolanda’ (Organic)

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    Chicory – Radicchio Rosa ‘Jolanda’ (Organic)

    A beautiful and early salmon-pink radicchio variety forming loose heads from October. This one is a real show-stopper! A really unique radicchio making the most exquisitely pink leaves unlike no other leafy veg we have grown before.

    ‘Jolanda’ is an early selection of Rosa (which often tends to be a later-cropping type) so it’s much better suited to the UK climate.

    Bred by our friends and plant breeding wizards at Smarties.bio in Italy. (Approximate seed count – 100)

    £2.20
  • Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat Winter SquashOregon Homestead Sweet Meat Winter Squash

    Winter Squash – Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat (Organic)

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    Winter Squash – Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat (Organic)

    A large, beautiful, and delicious hubbard-type pumpkin, with excellent storage qualities . This is a variety bred by Carol Deppe in Corvallis, Oregon in the USA. She spent years selecting for vigour, good cool-soil emergence, small seed cavity and premium flavour. We believe this variety is a serious contender to Crown Prince F1. It is quite a large variety with a crunchy, sweet flavour. They were extremely prolific in our 2018 squash trials and Ronja’s clear favourite in taste. They are great for cooking and even raw they are a real pleasure to munch on.

    (Approximate seed count – 10)

    £2.65
  • Pandora LeekPandora Leek

    Leek – Pandora (Organic)

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    Leek – 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
  • Ischikrona Spring OnionIschikrona Spring Onion

    Spring Onion – Ischikrona (Organic)

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    Spring Onion – Ischikrona (Organic)

    A vigorous Japanese type bunching onion producing stems up to an inch in diameter. Ishikrona is definitely one of our favourites. It is beautiful in every way with fresh green coloured leaves and a bright white stem. It is succulent, mild and sweet in flavour, fresh and crispy in texture. It is extremely hardy as well as pest resistant and it stands in the ground for a long time without bulbing up.

    As an important ingredient of the Asian cuisine, it can be used in stir-fries, soups and salads. It can be used instead of or alongside onions.
    (Approximate seed count – 385)

    £2.25