Vegetable seeds
We stock a wide variety of vegetable seeds, perfectly suited to small scale organic growing conditions. We will be constantly expanding our catalog to include new varieties that we have tested and think are worth growing. If you would like us to sell a variety that we do not already then we would love to hear from you (info@vitalseeds.co.uk) and if enough people request a variety then we will trial it ourselves and may stock it in the future.
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Aubergine seeds (2)
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Beans (8)
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Beetroot seeds (4)
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Broccoli seeds (1)
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Cabbage seed (4)
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Carrot seed (3)
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Cauliflower (1)
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Celery and Celeriac seeds (2)
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Chard seed (4)
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Chilli seeds (4)
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Courgette seeds (2)
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Cucumber (2)
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Kale seeds (6)
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Kohlrabi seeds (2)
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Leek seeds (5)
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Lettuce seeds (9)
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Onion (4)
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Oriental greens (5)
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Parsnip (1)
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Peas (3)
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Pepper (1)
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Radish (2)
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Rocket (1)
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Spinach (3)
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Spring onion (1)
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Squashes and Pumpkins (1)
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Sweetcorn (1)
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Tomato (4)
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Turnip (2)
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Aubergine – Black Beauty (Organic)
£1.50Add to basketAubergine – Black Beauty (Organic)
The classic open-pollinated aubergine, heavy crops of striking black-skinned fruit on vigourous plants. Black Beauty aubergines competes with its hybrid sister varieties. In the right conditions (light, greenhouse/polytunnel) they fruit abundantly and the plants grow tall and strong. The aubergines themselves are all shapes, sizes and shades of purple which prove popular at markets or in the kitchen! They fruit early to mid season with aubergines from July – September. This is our favourite variety to grow, and most importantly the fruit tastes fab!
Guest description from our friend Liv at Down Farm, Winkleigh
(Approximate seed count – 18)
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Aubergine – Rosa di Bianca (Organic)
£1.50Add to basketAubergine – Rosa di Bianca (Organic)
Pale pink and violet colours with white shading, mild in taste and smooth texture when cooked. The unusual coloration makes this classic Italian heritage aubergine truly special. The subtle sweetness, the absence of bitterness and the creamy consistency brings it close to perfection.
Expect less harvest if growing in cooler climates but it is still worth a try!
(Approximate seed count – 25)
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Beetroot – Bull’s Blood (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketBeetroot – Bull’s Blood (Organic)
A variety of beetroot with extremely dark red leaves, usually grown as a salad leaf. The leaves are exceptionally dark red, almost purple colour and very tender and sweet, especially as baby-leaf. They can be cut up to 4-5 times and will grow back. The beets are best when harvested young, very mild in flavour. They have beautiful pinkish rings inside.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20 -
Beetroot – Chioggia (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketBeetroot – 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!
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.80 -
Beetroot – Cylindra (Organic)
£2.20Add 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)£2.20 -
Beetroot – Detroit (Organic)
£1.90Add to basketBeetroot – Detroit (Organic)
Reliable maincrop beetroot producing large globe-shaped red roots. This is a classic variety, having proved itself since 1892 when it was introduced by the D.M. Ferry Seed Company, in Michigan, USA! It is reliable and high-yielding and remains a favourite with gardeners and growers to this day.
The large, globe-shaped beets have the typical beetroot colour and an excellent flavour which makes it perfect for baking, sautéing, grating into salads, pickling and anything else that you might want to do with a beetroot. Yes, it will also store well! The green and red-veined leaves can be used like spinach and are equally tasty.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£1.90 -
Broad bean – Express (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketBroad bean – Express (Organic)
One of the fastest maturing broad beans from early spring-sowings. Eaten the world over, broad beans are a reliable base for delicious and varied dishes such as bean dips, curries and spicy stews.
Express is excellent for freezing as it will not discolour, it is frost-hardy and produces wonderfully tender, white-green beans.
(Approximate seed count – 40)£2.80 -
Broad bean – Hangdown Green (Organic)
£2.95Add to basketBroad bean – Hangdown Green (Organic)
A spring sown medium-late variety, producing long pods containing 5-6 beans each. This is a very tasty green-seeded bean which stays juicy and tender when cooked. It is a modern variety which is becoming increasingly popular which growers, gardeners and chefs.
(Approximate seed count – 40)£2.95 -
Broad bean – Super Aquadulce (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketBroad bean – Super Aquadulce (Organic)
A Spanish heritage variety for autumn sowings that produces an abundance of light-green pods early in the season. According to food historian Willam Woys Weaver this variety can be traced back to Vilmorin’s selection of a Spanish broad bean called ‘haba de Sevilla’ in 1885. Super Aquadulce can withstand cold temperatures as it is extra hardy. It will produce massive amounts of delicious uniform green pods with large beans. Although especially suited for Autumn sowing, Aquadulce can be sown in early spring for a summer/autumn crop too.
The pods can be eaten as a whole when harvested young and the beans shelled and dried when they’re a bit older. The tops will make an excellent addition to salads or as greens tasting a bit like a bean and a bit like spinach.
(Approximate seed count – 40)£2.80 -
Broccoli – Early purple (Organic)
£1.90Add to basketBroccoli – Early purple (Organic)
A very popular and traditional variety of sprouting broccoli, producing an abundance of tasty spears from late March . We love Early Purple broccoli, it comes at a time of year when we are in serious need of some green vegetables that are not kale, chard or leeks! We can quite happily eat it with every meal during its harvest window. It is very versatile, being great seamed, stir fried, roasted, added to soups and stews, put in omelettes… the list could go on.
It is slow growing and takes around one year from sowing to harvest but it is well worth the wait, and each plant produces a lot of food. Plants can grow up to 1m in height.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.90 -
Cabbage – Derby Day (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketCabbage – Derby Day (Organic)
Early summer cabbage that quickly forms large round heads. This is our favourite summer cabbage. An excellent variety for cropping as early as June. It is more resistant to splitting and bolting than some other fast-growing varieties. Dense interior of mild flavour ideal for steaming, boiling or in coleslaw.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.80 -
Cabbage – Langedijk red late (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketCabbage – Langedijk red late (Organic)
Forms dense heads of a good size which stand well in the field and also do well in storage. This improved variety is particularly suited for storage and has good taste. It also makes a very fine sauerkraut, turning bright pink during the fermentation, with the addition of salt. Red cabbage can in fact be used as a litmus test for acidity (it will turn blue in less acidic conditions).
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA!
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.80 -
Cabbage – Rodynda (Organic)
£2.95Add to basketCabbage – Rodynda (Organic)
Red autumn and winter cabbage with a dense head and medium-good storage qualities. Rodynda is a variety bred specifically for organic conditions. It is vigourous and short-stemmed and forms dense, elliptical heads. It has strong outer leaves and solid root growth. The particularly sweet and aromatic flavour makes it perfect for a coleslaw and it performs brilliantly in a classic braised red cabbage dish cooked with apples and onions.
(Approximate seed count – 150)£2.95 -
Cabbage, Winter – Violaceo di Verona (Organic)
£2.95Add to basketCabbage, Winter – Violaceo di Verona (Organic)
A winter Savoy cabbage with dark green and violet leaves. We were really pleased with Violaceo di Verona in our cabbage trials in 2018, in terms of vigour, pest resistance and looks.
This variety grows medium sized heads that can be harvested from July until mid-winter with successional sowings.
Another Italian heirloom of the region of Verona that has been preserved for its beautiful looks and its fabulous flavour. It is frost hardy and long standing. As the cold moves in the contrast of colours will get more bright.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.95 -
Carrot – Amsterdam Forcing (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketCarrot – Amsterdam Forcing (Organic)
A quick to grow and early maturing carrot, producing small, slender, cylindrical roots. This is a great variety for early or late cultivation under fleece or in a polytunnel. It’s a particular hit with children as it can be grown as baby carrot and is very sweet and crisp!
(Approximate seed count – 400)£2.20 -
Carrot – Autumn king (Organic)
£1.50Add to basketCarrot – Autumn king (Organic)
An RHS award-winning maincrop variety ideal for storage over the winter months. How could we not include Autumn King in our catalogue?! This is one of our favourite varieties, and certainly lives up to its name. It is an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner and is a firm favourite amongst both home and market gardeners.
It produces conical roots up to 30cm long and with a deep organgey-red colour. It is sweet-tasting and delicious both raw and cooked.
Autumn King is a great carrot for storage over the winter. To store the roots place them in containers in single layers between layers of moist (but not wet) sand making sure they do not touch each other. Place the containers in a cool place and check the roots periodically over the winter and remove any that show signs of mould or rotting.
(Approximate seed count – 400) 
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Carrot – Nantes 2 (Organic)
£1.50Add to basketCarrot – Nantes 2 (Organic)
Fast maturing carrot perfect for early sowings. Originally from France but grown in this country for decades as a kitchen garden favourite, this is a classic carrot variety of the half-long type, as they say. Reaching up to 17cm in length and 3-4 cm in diameter, it is a sweet, bright orange, blunt, cylindrical root, round at the top and bottom. It has fine texture and delicate flavour with almost no core. It is ideal for early sowings but can delight you with a tasty crop throughout the year as well.
Perfect all-rounder carrot, that does well as bunching carrot, juiced, sautéd, frozen, grated into a salad or just straight from the ground which is when they taste the best, we think.
(Approximate seed count – 400)£1.50 -
Cauliflower – Snowball (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketCauliflower – Snowball (Organic)
A fantastic and versatile heritage cauliflower suited for all growing seasons. Snowball cauliflower was bred in the 1890s in America, and it has certainly stood the test of time. It produces heads of up to 15cm diameter ready 65-70 days from sowing. It has a mild flavour perfect for cooking with but also delicious raw.
The plants are smaller than some cauliflowers and so can be planted closer together. We particularly love this variety due to its flexibility.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20 -
Celeriac – Ibis (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketCeleriac – Ibis (Organic)
Fast growing smooth skinned celeriac that has good storing qualities and disease tolerance. Ibis is a vigourous variety that produces smooth white skinned globes with a good dense interior. Its celery-like nutty mild taste enriches soups and stews and it tastes amazing when roasted or mashed. Our favourite recipes are celeriac schnitzel and battered and pan-fried and celeriac chips with curry powder.
We selected this variety because it has all the qualities you would want from a celeriac: the smooth skin to make it easy to clean, resistance to septoria, it’s good for storing and it is bolt-hardy which makes it suitable for an early cultivation under protection.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.20 -
Celery – Tall Utah (Organic)
£1.50Add to basketCelery – Tall Utah (Organic)
A classic variety of celery producing thick crunchy stalks with compact hearts. We love the deep green colour of this celery and its super-crunchy string-less stalks. It was first introduced in the USA in 1953 and was the outcome of a breeding program by the Ferry Morse Seed Company in California. It was developed to be resistant to many common diseases of celery, and remains a very reliable variety to this day.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£1.50 -
Chard – Five colours (Organic)
£2.80Add to basketChard – Five colours (Organic)
The red, pink, orange, yellow and white stalks contrast with green and maroon leaves. Baby greens are ready in less than 6 weeks – both the tender leaves and stalks are easy to use – fried, steamed, blanched or added to an omelette. This variety of chard is less hardy than others, and doesn’t handle frost as well, so best not relied on as your only winter green.
(Approximate seed count – 130)£2.80 -
Chard – Perpetual spinach/ Erbette (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketChard – Perpetual spinach/ Erbette (Organic)
A traditional Italian variety with narrow leaves and a pale midrib. Perpetual spinach or beat leaf is actually part of the chard family. It tastes similar to spinach but is slightly earthier in flavour.
Hardy, easy to grow and bolt-resistant in its first season it makes a good replacement for true spinach where growing conditions are difficult.
A very versatile cut-and-come-again leaf that can be used for salad mixes, as leaf vegetable in pies, pastry, as pizza topping or just steamed or blanched on the side of your meal.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20 -
Chard – Rhubarb (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketChard – Rhubarb (Organic)
A very striking variety of chard with dark green leaves and bright red stalks. This ornamental looking chard is worth just growing for its beauty! And it can be used like any other chard or spinach.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20 -
Chard – White (Organic)
£2.20Add to basketChard – White (Organic)
A classic variety with glossy dark green leaves and thick white stems. If you need a leafy vegetable that ‘just grows’ Swiss Chard is the right kind of plant. From two sowings, one in the Spring and one in the Autumn, you can have chard almost all year round. In Fred’s words “Chard is just always there, even if you don’t want it, it’s still there.
This variety is robust, vigourous and very productive. You can use the stem and the leaf separately as they have different cooking qualities but Ronja’s favourite recipe is with the whole plant: Sauté onions, chilli and the Swiss chard in a pan, add some cooked white beans and some spice, serve with cheese on top – just delicious!
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20
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