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Winter squash – Meruhen (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketWinter 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)
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Broad bean – Ratio (Organic)
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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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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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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)
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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 -
Salad rocket (Organic)
£1.80 – £3.50 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSalad rocket (Organic)
Salad leaf with a peppery fresh taste, most commonly used raw but can be cooked, too. The nutritious dark green serrated leaves add their fine spice to salads, pasta, pizza, pesto, other sauces or as garnish. Salad rocket is native to the Mediterranean and has a long history of popularity. It is quick to crop and easy to grow and definitely one of our favourite salad leaves.
(Approximate seed count – 900)£1.80 – £3.50 -
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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Summer Squash – Lemon (Organic)
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A trailing summer squash variety producing an abundance of lemon-sized and shaped fruits. This is a very interesting variety of summer squash which sits somewhere between a patty pan and a courgette. Its flesh is slightly denser than a typical courgette and is extremely tasty. A definite star of the veg patch and will keep on producing until the last frosts.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.50 -
Winter Squash – Oregon Homestead Sweet Meat (Organic)
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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)
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Chives – Common Chives (Organic)
£2.30 – £4.50 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageChives – Common Chives (Organic)
Delicious and easy to grow, compact plants producing an abundance of edible stems and flowers. Without a doubt one the most versatile herbs! Chives are so easy to grow and can be added to just about any dish. We put them in soups, salads, omelettes, stir fries, etc. The flowers are also delicious and make a very attractive addition to summer salads, with their mild onion flavour.
Chives are perennial which means once you have them established you’ll never need to sow them again. They can be propagated equally easily by division or from seed.
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Courgette – Solara (Organic)
£2.95 Read moreCourgette – Solara (Organic)
A bright yellow variety producing an abundance of fruits over a long period. Solara is a fantastic modern open-pollinated yellow fruited courgette. We are really impressed with how productive and uniform this variety is compared to other yellow varieties we have tried and they taste superb. A couple of plants will keep you well fed throughout the summer.
(Approximate seed count – 20)£2.95
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