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Broad bean – Super Aquadulce (Organic)
£2.59 Add 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 is extra hardy and can withstand cold temperatures. 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. Harvesting the tops also takes the energy out of the growing tip and encourages the beans to ripen.
(Approximate seed count – 35)
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Tomato – Marmande (Organic)
£2.30 – £4.20 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageTomato – 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.
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Broad bean – Ratio (Organic)
£2.90 Add to basketBroad 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)
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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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Runner bean – Scarlet Emperor (Organic)
£2.80 Add to basketRunner 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 -
Peas – Sweet Horizon (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketPeas – 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 -
Tomato – Pink Tiger (Organic)
£2.65 Add to basketTomato – Pink Tiger (Organic)
Elongated plum cherry tomato with stunning golden and red stripes. Pink Tiger is the most beautiful elongated plum cherry tomato you can imagine. The fruits are about 5cm long and striped with red and gold and have an excellent sweet flavour making them ideal in colourful salads.
This strain of seeds has been bred specifically to resist cracking and their flesh will stay firm for a very long time.
As an indeterminate tomato you should stake the plants and remove their side shoots. They will grow in a greenhouse or outdoors in a sunny and sheltered spot.
(Approximate seed count – 15)
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Calendula – Triangle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic)
£2.58 Add to basketCalendula – Triangle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic)
A stunning version of the regular calendula with fully doubled blooms and of peach, gold and bronze petal colour. This calendula variety is a real treasure. Pastel shades of orange, pink and peach are tinged with yellow towards the petal base. The backs of the petals are maroon. A pure joy to look at. We were so excited to have found this strain of calendula, bred by Frank Morton from Wild Garden Seeds in Oregon, USA. The flowers don’t only look good in the garden or as cut flower, they are also edible and can be used for medicinal purposes, too. An abundance of beauty for your garden!
(Approximate seed count – 80)£2.58 -
Sunflower – Sonja (Organic)
£2.35 – £6.90 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSunflower – Sonja (Organic)
A wonderful multi-headed variety, particularly for cut flower use. This beauty has become a huge hit on the cut flower scene, producing around eight strong stems per plant. The blooms are a compact 10-15cm diameter, with striking with deep yellow petals and dark centres. The plants are fairly small, growing to around three to four feet tall.
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Climbing French bean – Borlotti (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketClimbing French bean – Borlotti (Organic)
Produces gorgeous bright pink-dappled pods with beans to be used either fresh or dried. Borlotti is one of the most beautiful climbing French bean varieties available. The pods have a stunning colour with dapples of bright pink and white. The bean itself is creamy white with maroon speckles.
We love them for their excellent taste, colour and versatility. Either eat the young pods raw or cooked, or the beans when matured. Just shell and use like a dry bean.They are one of the most popular heritage varieties in Italy and our favourite in the Vital Seeds 2019 bean trials.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£2.95 -
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 -
Runner Beans – Emergo (Organic)
£2.85 Add to basketRunner Beans – Emergo (Organic)
A traditional white flowered variety producing an abundance of smooth pods. Emergo is a great variety which produces well even in our unpredictable UK climate. As well as being delicious and easy to grow its white flowers make a beautiful addition to the vegetable patch, especially when grown alongside a red-flowered variety such as Scarlet Emperor.
(Approximate seed count – 30)£2.85
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