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Sorrel – French (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketSorrel – French (Organic)
A zesty perennial herb with bright green shield-shaped leaves and citrusy aroma. French sorrel grows in clumps of 15cm high by 20cm wide. It is easy to grow and easy to pick. Developed in Italy and France in the Middle Ages, the tangy and slightly tart taste packs a punch. Use as a herb, salad leaf or leafy green. Perfect for adding an edge to rich and heavy meals.
(Approximate seed count – 350)£2.20 -
Phacelia (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketPhacelia (Organic)
Beautiful lavender-purple flowers adored by bees and other pollinating insects. Phacelia is extremely attractive to honeybees and other beneficial insects providing both pollen and nectar. It is a quick growing annual flower that germinates at low temperatures and has the potential to catch excess nitrogen too. We love sowing it in between our crops and rejoicing in the lovely flowers and insects that it attracts.
(Approximate seed count – 1000)£1.95 -
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 – 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 -
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 -
Climbing French bean – Blauhilde (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketClimbing French bean – Blauhilde (Organic)
A stringless, climbing French bean from Germany producing lots of very dark purple pods that turn green when cooked. We like to grow a variety of different colour beans as they are such a versatile crop. Blauhilde can be grown outside or indoors and makes an excellent market garden variety as it’s productive, disease resistant and exquisite in taste.
(Approximate seed count – 80)£2.95 -
Chard – Perpetual spinach/ Erbette (Organic)
£2.20 – £4.40 Add to basketChard – Perpetual spinach/ Erbette (Organic)
A traditional Italian variety with narrow leaves and a pale midrib. Perpetual spinach or beet leaf is actually a part of the chard family. It tastes similar to spinach but is slightly earthier in flavour.
Hardy, easy to grow and bolt-resistant in its first season it makes a good replacement for true spinach where growing conditions are difficult.
A very versatile cut-and-come-again leaf that can be used for salad mixes, as a leafy green in pies, pastry and pizza or just steamed or blanched on the side of your meal.£2.20 – £4.40 -
Winter Lettuce – Grenoble Red (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketWinter Lettuce – Grenoble Red (Organic)
Robust Batavia variety forming a loose head with slightly frilled, maroon tinged leaves. Grenoble Red or Rouge Grenobloise is a Batavian heirloom lettuce with waffled leaves that are tinged with a maroon colour. It’s tolerant to the cold and has an ability to grow for longer than most varieties when its outer leaves are repeatedly picked off. While it is an excellent winter variety, it can also be sown in the spring and summer too.
(Approximate seed count – 200)
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Climbing French bean – Golden Gate (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketClimbing French bean – Golden Gate (Organic)
A vigorous climbing French bean producing bright golden yellow pods and dark green foliage. A heavy-cropping pole bean variety that we really enjoy for the buttery, smooth textured beans that will stay tender and stringless even as they get larger. A great addition to your other green and purple beans.
(Approximate seed count – 75)£2.95 -
Pepper – Yolo Wonder (Organic)
£2.35 Add to basketPepper – Yolo Wonder (Organic)
A proper bell pepper with thick flesh and excellent, mild flavour. Plants produce large green fruits which mature to red when fully ripe. A productive plant with a spread of about 60cm which is very suitable for British summers. I pick these green to encourage more fruiting and because the taste is just excellent, raw or cooked. – Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA!
(Approximate seed count – 15)£2.35 -
Leek – Bandit (Organic)
£2.25 – £5.00 Add to basketLeek – Bandit (Organic)
The latest leek! A tasty, winter-hardy, bluey-green variety, most suitable for harvesting in spring. We have even adopted (and adapted) a Catalan festival – the calcotada – to celebrate the end of the leek harvest in mid-May where we barbecue the remainder of the crop and have a party!
Guest description by our friend Dan from Chagfood CSA£2.25 – £5.00 -
Cosmos – Orange (Organic)
£2.34 Add to basketCosmos – Orange (Organic)
Brilliant tones of orange flowers on tall stems with fine feathered leaves. This beautiful eye-catching orange flower will bring you joy from early summer until fall. It tolerates poor soils and dry conditions and attracts bees, butterflies and other insects.
We find Orange Cosmos easy to grow and it will self-seed if allowed to.
(Approximate seed count – 50)£2.34
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