Winter veg
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Chard – White (Organic)
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A classic variety with glossy dark green leaves and thick white stems. If you need a leafy vegetable that ‘just grows’ Swiss Chard is a garden essential. From two sowings, one in the Spring and one in the Autumn, you can have chard almost all year round. In Fred’s words “Chard is just always there, even if you don’t want it, it’s still there”.
This variety is robust, vigorous and very productive. You can use the stem and the leaf separately as they have different cooking qualities. Ronja’s favourite recipe is with the whole plant. Sauté onions in some oil with a bit of chilli and the Swiss chard, add some cooked white butter beans, serve with cheese on top – just delicious!
(Approximate seed count – 200)
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Radish – Black Spanish (Organic)
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Large round winter radish with thick black skin and white flesh. This radish is an old variety that is easy to grow and makes an excellent winter vegetable. It is larger than the standard radish with a spicy taste and crisp texture. It’s great eaten raw in salads or cooked in a stew, stir-fry or used like a turnip. It’s a reliable and robust radish that will keep throughout the winter outside or in storage, staying tender and without getting woody.
Sow thickly in July or August and thing out for small early harvests.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£2.30 -
Chicory – Puntarelle (SM4.33) (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketChicory – Puntarelle (SM4.33) (Organic)
An interesting chicory variety grown for its hollow bolting shoots. Unlike other chicory varieties which are grown for their leaves, Puntarelle is grown for its flowering shoots. The young shoots form a ‘head’ at the base of plant and are julienned into thin strips which are then soaked in cold water to removed some of their bitterness. In the water they twist and curl into elegant crisp and crunchy shapes which are then served with a punchy dressing to make a lovely late autumn salad.
Shoots usually appear between mid-October and November.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.50 -
Rocket – Wasabi (Organic)
£1.80 Add to basketRocket – Wasabi (Organic)
Quick and easy to grow leaf giving the distinctive hot and fiery Wasabi root flavour to your salad. This quick growing salad leaf provides a unique punch. It is hot and fiery and more vigorous than traditional rocket varieties. Best sown in spring and autumn as it is prone to bolt in summer heat. Harvest leaves a few at a time or cut across the entire plant for up to 3/4 harvests.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£1.80 -
Cabbage, Winter – Verza Moretta (Organic)
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Fantastic traditional ‘Veronese’ purple Savoy cabbage with bright green centre. This striking variety has been cultivated in the countryside around the Adige river in Italy since the nineteenth century and is on the official list of traditional rare varieties.
It has purple and green outer leaves and bright green-yellow centres. Forms a compact head with a sweet flavour, perfectly suited to salads, soups, and risottos. (Approximate seed count – 50)
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Turnip – Goldana (Organic)
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An improved version of the Golden Ball turnip, creamy-yellow flesh, suited for spring and autumn sowing. Turnips are very traditional vegetables which, unlike most of the vegetables we eat, are native to Europe. For some reason they are not as popular as they used to be.
Goldana is a tasty maincrop variety with a uniform golden round shape, probably one of the mildest and sweetest varieties that you can find. It is quick to grow and doesn’t need much attention. “Get them in, get them out” is what Fred says. He likes them in soups or stews but they can also be roasted, mashed or grated into a slaw or salad.
(Approximate seed count – 400)£1.65 -
Chicory – Pain De Sucre (Organic)
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Mild tasting green leaves that form dense, conical heads; alternative to winter lettuce.. This is a more mild tasting chicory that is a superb substitute for lettuce in the winter. Indeed, this is a common practice in several rural parts of France and no doubt elsewhere, too. It can produce very large heads, with a tender green exterior and golden yellow hearts that have a real sweetness to them, hence the name!
(Approximate seed count – 500)£1.60 -
Chard – Rhubarb (Organic)
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A very striking variety of chard with dark green leaves and bright red stalks. This ornamental looking chard is worth just growing for its beauty! It can be used like any other chard or spinach.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.30 -
Asian Greens – Kizuna Mix (Organic)
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We are really excited about this one!
This is a diverse breeding population derived from a cross between Dazzling Blue Kale and Beni Houshi Mizuna. We found the first individual of this cross between where the two parents had been flowering. These seeds are from the F2 generation which means the second generation after the original cross happened. There is a beautifully diverse mix of quite round leaves, and very feathery and frilly leaves and everything in between.
The texture is somewhere in between Red Russian kale and Pak Choy so the leaves have a bit of body to them but are also very soft and are delicious both raw and cooked like spinach.
(Approximate seed count = 200)
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Chicory – Radicchio Treviso Late (SM4.75 – Forcing) (Organic)
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A forcing chicory from Treviso for delicious winter eating. This variety of chicory has been bred for forcing through the winter months (Tardivo means late in Italian), and produces totally delicious ‘chicons’
To force chicory the plants should be left untouched in the field until winter time. When you wish to force them, pull up however many plants you need and replant the roots into a moist medium such as sand or spent compost. The plants then need to kept in total darkness for a few weeks and then beautiful chicons will grow from the roots.
They are generally eaten cooked in pastas and other dishes and were the first Italian vegetable to gain IGP, a European protected status for special food products specific to a place of origin.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.50 -
Beetroot – Bull’s Blood (Organic)
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A variety with extremely dark red leaves, usually grown as a salad leaf. The leaves are exceptionally dark red, almost purple colour and very tender and sweet, especially as baby-leaf. They can be cut up to 4-5 times and will grow back.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.30 -
Kale – Bear Necessities (Organic)
Price range: £2.10 through £4.00 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageKale – Bear Necessities (Organic)
An unusual ultra-frilly Red-Russian type. Bear Necessities has leaves unlike any other kale as it was bred from a cross between a mizuna and a kale. It’s ultra frilly leaves lend themselves to salads when young and are great cooked when larger.
The leaves have a high volume and surface area which means they stir-fry particularly well, easily getting coated in delicious flavours and holding their shape.
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Flower Sprouts – White Winter (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
£2.50 Add to basketFlower Sprouts – White Winter (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
An open pollinated breeding population of flower sprouts (similar to kalettes). This variety has been developed by the folks at the BC Eco Seed Coop in Canada. Here’s what they have to say about it:
“About 10 years ago we crossed a Brussels sprout with a variety of ornamental hybrid and open pollinated kales. Since then we have been selecting for a very winter hardy white laced kale that produces beautiful white sprouts in the winter and early spring. From a June planting, the large green leaves can be used as you would collards in the late summer and fall. After frost, the small inner white streaked leaves develop a sweet flavour and can be added to salads. From mid winter to early spring white sprouts can be harvested from the stalks to stir fry or use in salads. This is still a diverse landrace with a fair bit of variation in leaf shape and colour as well as distribution of sprouts on stalk. We have had fun trying to tame and refine this breeding project over the years, and wanted to release it so you might try your hand at seed selection too.”
OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.50 -
Spinach – Vital Flock (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
£2.80 Add to basketSpinach – Vital Flock (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
A breeding population of spinach created using four of our favourite varieties – sow it and see what you get!. We crossed Giant Winter, Matador, Abundant Bloomsdale and Merlo Nero to create this genetically diverse variety (sometimes known as a flock). It’s currently in the F1 generation which means the first generation after the original cross was made. If you save seeds from these plants they will be the F2, and then next time F3 etc.
Give it a go and breed your own spinach variety adapted to your local conditions.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.80 -
Spring Onion – Ischikrona (Organic)
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A vigorous Japanese type bunching onion producing stems up to an inch in diameter. Ishikrona is definitely one of our favourites. It is beautiful in every way with fresh green coloured leaves and a bright white stem. It is succulent, mild and sweet in flavour, fresh and crispy in texture. It is extremely hardy as well as pest resistant and it stands in the ground for a long time without bulbing up.
As an important ingredient of the Asian cuisine, it can be used in stir-fries, soups and salads. It can be used instead of or alongside onions.
(Approximate seed count – 385)£2.25 -
Chicory – Wild Garden II (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
£2.20 Add to basketChicory – Wild Garden II (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2027***
A diverse mix of culinary chicory varieties. Another great breeding mix from the folks at Wild Garden Seeds. From Frank Morton’s description:
“This is a restart of our Wild Garden Chicory Mix, created by growing a mixture of 11 chicory varieties to seed together.
This second incantation of the Wild Garden Chicory Mix is comprised of the original WGS population, the original Italian varieties, and the varietal hybrids, many of which are striking in form and pigmentation, all of them delicious and unique as an autumn/winter salad mix.
Add chervil, chickweed, and cress, and you have the best holiday seasonal salad around. Farm Original Variety! OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety.”
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.20
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