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Calendula – Traingle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic)
£2.58 Add to basketCalendula – Traingle 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)
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Kale – Dazzling Blue (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketKale – Dazzling Blue (Organic)
Cavolo Nero-type kale of dazzling blue and green coloured leaves with exceptional pink midribs. This showy kale was bred by Hank Keogh from Avoca Farm in Oregon, USA. He back-crossed ‘Lacinato rainbow’ with the Wild Garden Seed ‘Lacinato’. In looks it resembles a Cavolo Nero kale and it has stunning blue, green and pink colours. The leaves are savoyed and have underturned margins, the plant grows upright and is very cold-hardy – more so than any other Cavolo Nero type kales. Tender and tasty, great for sautéing, steaming or finely chopped in a salad. A solid vegetable for the home or market garden.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.95 -
Kale – Cavolo Rainbow (Organic)
£2.30 – £4.80 Select optionsKale – Cavolo Rainbow (Organic)
Red, purple and blue-green leaf colours with slight ruffling on the edges, cold resistant and vigorous. A Frank Morten cross from Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA of Cavolo Nero ‘Lacinato’ and Redbor hybrid kale. The majority of the plants have savoyed, blue-green leaves with ruffled edges, others are more purple or more white, some have more ruffling and others less. When grown outdoors the colours will intensify with the cold. It is a hardy and very beautiful kale tasting. sweet and aromatic.
We planted ‘Lacinato rainbow’ in our 2018 trial and relished in this diverse variety that tastes amazing and is more funky and cold-resistant than the usual Cavolo Nero
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Lettuce – Elf Ears Oak (Organic)
£2.00 – £3.90 Select optionsLettuce – Elf Ears Oak (Organic)
An oak-leaf lettuce with pointy elongated ‘ear’ tips and a crispy texture. Elf Ears Oak is a tasty and beautiful lettuce with slightly savoyed leaves that have an elongated tip and a dense compact heart. The leaves almost resemble a dandelion in terms of shape but the good taste, sweetness and crunch make it a superior salad ingredient. It was bred by Frank Morten from Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA.
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Lettuce – Fine Speckled Oak (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Fine Speckled Oak (Organic)
Fantastic and unusual oak-leaf lettuce, covered thickly in fine speckles of crimson. Fine Speckled Oak was one of Fred’s favourites in our 2018 lettuce trials. It was super healthy and had very consistent growth throughout the population. At full maturity it forms a dense colourful heart. An attractive and vigorous lettuce bred by Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA, that we are very pleased to offer in our catalogue.
(Approximate seed count – 175)£2.00 -
Lettuce – Flashy Butter Oak (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Flashy Butter Oak (Organic)
A very pretty and vigorous oakleaf lettuce with dark red splashes all over pale green leaves. This lettuce was bred by Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA. It is an open-pollinated variety that was introduced in 2005. It is very versatile, can be picked as baby green, baby head, at full maturity or one leaf at the time. The texture is crispy and smooth, with a delicate and sweet flavour.
(Approximate seed count – 193)£2.00 -
Lettuce – Flashy Lightning Butter-Oak (Organic)
£2.00 – £3.90 Select optionsLettuce – Flashy Lightning Butter-Oak (Organic)
A quick-maturing butterhead lettuce with dashes of maroon on its dark green leaves. Exquisitely mild, juicy and sweet with a silky texture. This is a masterpiece of lettuce breeding from Wild Garden Seed in Oregon, USA. We are extremely happy to offer this variety in our catalogue as it combines all the goodness one can find in a lettuce.
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Lettuce – Really Red Deer Tongue (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Really Red Deer Tongue (Organic)
Very dark red loose-leaf variety, with striking arrow-shaped leaves. This is definitely one of our favourite varieties of lettuce. It is productive and easy to harvest as well as being crunchy and extremely tasty. It adds a real depth of colour to any salad with leaves that are almost black!
(Approximate seed count – 175)
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Lettuce – Outredgeous (Organic)
£1.80 – £3.00 Select optionsLettuce – Outredgeous (Organic)
Stunning deep red coloured lettuce with a crisp texture and sweet flavour (this variety was the first plant to be grown in space!). In 2014 Outredgeous became the first lettuce ever to be grown in space on the International Space Station due to its reliability and because it is so easy to grow.
It’s an upright cut salad that forms a loose romaine head at maturity. An outrage of red in your salad bowl makes this a firm favourite for gardeners and growers.
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Lettuce – Ruffled Soul (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Ruffled Soul (Organic)
Deep red, ruffled leaves, very suitable for repeated harvests. The most attractive lettuce I grew in 2018, it contrasts brilliantly with other leaves in a mixed salad. Bred by Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed this lettuce is very suitable for repeated harvests since it is slow to bolt and the leaves do not get too big.
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA!
(Approximate seed count – 175)£2.00 -
Lettuce – Wild Garden Mix (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketLettuce – Wild Garden Mix (Organic)
Unique mixture of different attractive and tasty lettuces. This is a funky blend of all sorts of lettuces that have been bred and are being bred by our favourite seed company in the United States, Wild Garden Seed.
“Instant lettuce diversity for cut salad or fresh market racks” is how they describe it on their website. “This is by far the most popular mix (…). Go crazy with lettuce phenotypics.”
This is our absolute number one lettuce mix with an immense variety of fantastic colourful lettuces. No matter what you’re looking for in a lettuce, you’ll find it in this mix and more!
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.00
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