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Lettuce – Wild Garden Mix (Organic)
£2.00 – £4.00 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!
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Radish – Cherry Belle (Organic)
£2.25 – £3.50 Add to basketRadish – Cherry Belle (Organic)
A quick-maturing variety with bright scarlet skin and crisp white flesh. We love the way radishes signal that summer is well on the way! These cherry-like beauties are so fresh and crunchy and such a welcome addition to the lunch plate after the hungry gap. This variety was awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit, making it an excellent choice for home gardeners.
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Dill (Organic)
£2.00 Add to basketDill (Organic)
A fine herb used fresh or dried for seasoning and pickling. A beautiful ancient plant originating from the Mediterranean that used to be known for its medicinal properties and is mostly utilised for culinary purposes today.
The fine feathery leaves have a flavourful complex taste and can be chopped and added to sauces to go with fish or vegetables or just sprinkled on top of your meal to add colour and flavour. Traditionally also used for pickling; try using the flowers or seeds too.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£2.00 -
Chives – Common Chives (Organic)
£2.30 – £4.50 Add to basketChives – 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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Carrot – Yellowstone (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketCarrot – Yellowstone (Organic)
A yellow rooted variety which is fast growing and produces beautiful, long and cylindrical roots. Yellowstone carrots have a delicate, sweet flavour and they cook just as well as their orange siblings, adding that extra rainbow colour to any plate of food. And of course delicious raw with lots of crunch. They produce large foliage which is reflected in the often large root that is growing beneath the ground.
(Approximate seed count – 400)£1.80 -
Asian Greens – Mizuna (Organic)
£1.68 Add to basketAsian Greens – Mizuna (Organic)
A variety of mustard greens. Mizuna is a vigorous grower, producing an abundance of stalks with green deeply serrated leaves. Mizuna has a mild piquant almost peppery taste and can be used raw in salads and also as a cooked green. It is highly resistant to the cold and can be grown throughout the winter, making those cold, short days and long nights feel healthier and a little bit spicier! The pretty yellow sprays of flowers can also be a bright addition to a salad with the same mustardy hit.
(Approximate seed count – 275)£1.68 -
Lettuce – Flashy Lightning Butter-Oak (Organic)
£1.95 – £3.90 Add to basketLettuce – 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 – Marvel of Four Seasons (Organic)
£1.98 – £3.00 Add to basketLettuce – Marvel of Four Seasons (Organic)
French butterhead with the ability to be harvested in all seasons. Marvel of Four Seasons is one great heritage variety. It is as pretty as it is tasty, crisp in texture and vigorous in growth.
It is slow to bolt and tolerant of low temperatures making it suitable for an extended growing season. The solid green head is tinged with red, bronze and burgundy colours. In cooler spring and autumn weather its colours will intensify and make it even more beautiful.
This lettuce is easy to grow and has been cultivated in kitchen gardens for centuries.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.98 – £3.00 -
Lettuce – Really Red Deer Tongue (Organic)
£1.80 – £3.90 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!
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Asian Greens – Giant Red Mustard (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketAsian Greens – Giant Red Mustard (Organic)
Purpleish-red and green mustard with large leaves and a fiery spice. The young leaves are of a succulent, delicate and peppery flavour. When harvested fully matured, the leaves might surprise you with their bold flavour. When cooked or steamed like other greens however the taste will be mild and similar to spinach or chard. Giant Red Mustard seeds are also excellent for sprouting.
(Approximate seed count – 330)£1.80 -
Lettuce – Flashy Butter Oak (Organic)
£1.98 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 – 250)£1.98 -
Lettuce – Little Leprechaun (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketLettuce – Little Leprechaun (Organic)
A small to medium sized dark red-maroon flushed cos lettuce with crunchy leaves forming a tight centre. Cos or romaine lettuces are probably one of the oldest types of cultivated lettuce, originating in the Mediterranean. Little Leprechaun is popular as a salad leaf crop forming a compact, upright, dense lettuce with crunchy and tasty leaves, slightly tangy and very delicious. It can be grown outdoors throughout the growing season and is an old-time favourite amongst growers, gardeners and us.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£1.98
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