Vegetable Seeds
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Beetroot – Chioggia (Organic)
Price range: £2.30 through £4.60 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageBeetroot – Chioggia (Organic)
An Italian variety with striking white and red concentric rings throughout its flesh. This unusual cultivar has been around since the early 19th century and originates from the coastal town of Chioggia near Venice in Northern Italy. With its delicate flavour and soft flesh it will make an ideal raw addition in salads or as a decorative side dish. When cooked the rings will fade out a little and become pinkish but the beetroot will keep its sweet and mild delicious taste. Definitely our favourite in terms of looks!
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Agretti / Salsola – (Organic)
Price range: £2.05 through £4.00Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAgretti / Salsola – (Organic)
A leafy Italian delicacy, can be eaten raw or cooked. Agretti is a popular Italian leaf which is slowly becoming more popular in the UK particularly with chefs. Its flavour could be described as ‘chivey samphire’ and is slightly salty. It can be lightly steamed, stirred through pasta, or added raw to salads to add an interesting twist. The seeds are only viable for a few months – they are actually little plants not strictly seeds.
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Spring onion – Evergreen (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketSpring onion – Evergreen (Organic)
An excellent hardy spring onion variety that produce bunching onions from autumn and that stand through winter. Evergreen are a non-bulbing spring onion and have a mildly, sweet flavour, ideal for salads and stir fries. They are best sown from March – September, with August and September sowings being ready for harvest in spring.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.25 -
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)£2.45 -
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)
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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)
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Chilli – Ring of Fire (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketChilli – Ring of Fire (Organic)
An improved cayenne type chilli producing long pointy red fruits which pack a punch. This is one of our staple chilli varieties to grow. It is very reliable and does exactly what it says on the tin – for better or worse!
The plants are compact growing to 45cm, and produce an abundance of fruit 1cm wide and 6-7cm long. This variety measures 70-85,000 SHU on the Scoville Scale, which classes it in the hot but not unbearable heat range.Chillies can be very easily frozen whole and then used as needed, we always make sure we grow enough so that we always have a supply.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£1.98 -
Peas – Blauwschokker (Organic)
£2.45 Add to basketPeas – 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)
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Chilli – Jalapeno, Early (Organic)
Price range: £1.98 through £4.00Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageChilli – Jalapeno, Early (Organic)
A truly early and abundant hot chilli with good flavour. Plants grow to 60cm high and fruit heavily, with harvesting of typical green Jalapeños beginning in early August, and continuing through into autumn. We thinly slice and preserve ours eating them with Mexican dishes throughout the rest of the year.
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA!Price range: £1.98 through £4.00 -
Onion – Robelja (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketOnion – Robelja (Organic)
A productive red onion with medium storage potential. It makes beautiful dark red globe-shaped bulbs with a fine flavour. They store quite well for red onions but not as long as some white onions.
(Approximate seed count – 350)£2.30 -
Soybean – Fiskeby (Organic)
£2.90Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.Soybean – Fiskeby (Organic)
An early-maturing edamame soybean perfect for UK gardens. Friskeby produces abundant clusters of plump, sweet pods ideal for steaming or drying. This variety has been bred to thrive in cooler climates and is the ideal gourmet addition to any vegetable patch.
(Approximate seed count – 30)£2.90
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