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Courgette – Black Beauty (Organic)
£2.50 – £3.50 Select optionsCourgette – Black Beauty (Organic)
A vigorous and prolific courgette producing dark green, glossy fruits over a long period. A classic dark-green summer squash with creamy white flesh. Best picked young when no longer than 25cm. The plants have an open growth habit which makes it easy to pick the fruit and they won’t stop coming! Try battering and frying the male courgette flowers for a gourmet addition to a summer meal.
(Approximate seed count – 17)
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Courgette – Cocozelle (Organic)
£3.00 Add to basketCourgette – Cocozelle (Organic)
Very productive courgette producing dark and light green stripy fruit over a long period. We have grown this traditional Italian variety of courgette for many years and it has become a staple part of our summer diets. It is a prolific producer of good looking and great tasting fruits. It has a bush-type growth habit making it suitable for smaller plots or even container growing.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£3.00 -
Cucumber – Crystal Lemon (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketCucumber – Crystal Lemon (Organic)
A prolific, unusual and old variety of outdoor cucumber; small, round and yellow with a crisp, sweet flavour. First cultivated in 1894 in New Zealand, these small apple shaped cucumbers with pale skins are an unusual and very pleasing variety of cucumber. The plant is an attractive climber and will produce prolifically throughout the summer, whether planted in a container or in free draining soil. The skin gets tougher as the fruit ages so they are best picked early on.
Drawings by Lucca Benney.
(Approximate seed count – 11)
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Luffa – Luffa aegyptiaca (Organic)
£2.65 Out of StockLuffa – Luffa aegyptiaca (Organic)
Annual climbing plant producing cucumber like fruits that can be made into a natural sponge. It’s part of the cucurbit family originating in India and produces 30 to 40 centimetres long fruits. Whilst the young fruits are actually edible, the mature ones can be boiled or dried to remove the flesh, revealing the sponge like fibres.
Germination can be tricky, needs hot temperatures constantly between 24 and 30°C and a long season to make a sponge.
The Luffas should be ready to harvest in October, once the skin of the fruits starts to wither. Harvest and stack them up somewhere warm, dry and airy, making sure to turn them. The skin should reach a point where it can easily peel off leaving the fibrous inner. Shake the seeds out and give a thorough wash to clean it. The luffa is likely to have natural brown markings on it; shop-bought luffas are bleached. (Approximate seed count – 15)
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Cucumber – Marketmore (Organic)
£2.00 – £4.00 Select optionsCucumber – Marketmore (Organic)
A versatile, productive variety with luscious, dark green fruits throughout the summer. As British reggae artist Macka B makes clear in his ode to ‘Cocombers’ (see youtube for reference) the humble cucumber has many a good reason to grow and eat it. The Marketmore variety produces luscious, cylindrical, dark green fruits and does so in abundance throughout the summer. It grows well in both poor and rich soil conditions and will ensure you are full of good electrolytes for the rest of the year.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.00 – £4.00 -
Kohlrabi – Superschmelz (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketKohlrabi – Superschmelz (Organic)
A light-green kohlrabi that will remain tender and sweet to a huge size. If left to grow it can reach up to 8kg. It is resistant to bolting and splitting.
Fred has been growing Superschmelz kohlrabi for years. “It gets huge, it stores really well AND it stays tasty and crunchy!” is his verdict.
We think kohlrabi is best eaten raw in salads or straight from the garden. It is also nice pickled or added to stews and stir fries.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.20 -
Nasturtium – Dwarf (Organic)
£2.58 Add to basketNasturtium – Dwarf (Organic)
A dwarf variety of Nasturtium roughly 30cm in height and spread. Leaves and flowers are both edible.
We love having nasturtium flowers dotted around our land. They attract the bees and just make a beautiful addition in summer salads.
(Approximate seed count – 40)£2.58 -
Nasturtium – Trailing (Organic)
£2.58 Add to basketNasturtium – Trailing (Organic)
A colourful annual with edible flowers and leaves . Trailing mix of bright greenery and different shades of orange, yellow and red coloured flowers. Both leaves and flowers are edible, they taste peppery, hot and sweet.
We love having nasturtium flowers dotted around our land. They attract the bees and just make a beautiful addition in summer salads.
(Approximate seed count – 30)£2.58 -
Peas – Ambassador (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketPeas – Ambassador (Organic)
A top quality pea for cooking and freezing, widely used in home gardens and commercial production. Big juicy peas in a pod. What could possibly be more exciting than growing your own peas to go with a traditional dinner. Ambassador is robust, vigorous, productive and delicious. It won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit in 1993 which was reconfirmed in 2005 and is one of the most widely used peas of its kind.
(Approximate seed count – 80)£2.25 -
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 pods can be eaten as mangetout when they are young, as fresh green peas later or allow 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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Peas – Sugar Snap (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketPeas – Sugar Snap (Organic)
Crunchy and sweet round podded sugar snap pea variety with no shelling necessary.
Eating Sugar Snap peas fresh from the plant on a sunny day is one of the best things about growing them. This is a particularly sweet, crisp and juicy variety producing an abundance of edible pods over a long season.
The plants grow tall and will need support. We eat them raw or cooked in stir fries. They are so flavoursome that you will just want to keep growing them.
(Approximate seed count – 80)
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Peas – Golden Sweet (Organic)
£2.35 – £5.20 Select optionsPeas – Golden Sweet (Organic)
Vigorous multicoloured plants with green leaves, red-magenta leaf nodes, cream-pink-purple-blue flowers and golden-yellow pods. Golden Sweet makes an unusual attraction in the pea patch. We love the extraordinary colour changes of the flower from cream to purple and blue when they mature. When the pods are still young they’re very sweet and crunchy, as the pods get bigger they’ll become more stringy which makes them better for cooking rather than eating raw.
It was a real pleasure growing Golden Sweet in our pea trial 2018 and observing all the different colours. We found that the whole plant has a golden glow to it once it starts flowering. It was probably one of the tastiest mangetouts that we had when picked young.
£2.35 – £5.20
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