Here’s a list of the varieties I currently have in stock, some will be homesaved. I always like to try out new varieties so this list will change from time to time so i will keep this updated and add new varieties as and when i have them.  For subscriptions I choose the seeds for you according to the time of year, and these do vary so it will be a surprise with what you receive through the post, all the individual collections have the varieties listed.

 

 

• AUBERGINE – Solanum melonena

‘Black Beauty’  Reliable and medium early variety producing large, 10-15cm long, smooth, glossy, round-oval, purplish-black fruits with good flavour

‘Kaberi’- ‘Kaberi F1’ is a small fruited, compact bush variety of aubergine. It is a unique variety bred specifically for growing in containers,  its very compact habit makes it a perfect choice for those with small spaces.

• BEANS 

 

‘Barlotto Lingua Di Fuoco’ (phaseolus vulgaris). A specialist climbing variety which can be harvested whole when young or for dry beans later on. Spectacular colour and taste. I love these sliced up when young with butter and black pepper.

‘Scarlet Emperor’ (phaseolus coccinus).  Climbing Runner Bean, well known traditional variety that I always grow without fail, its prolific and tastes gorgeous. It has red flowers and bears masses of pods.

 ‘Dior’ (phaseolus coccinus). A Dwarf French bean, suited to containers or small garden spaces. Produces lovely long, crisp and crunchy yellow round podded beans.

 

• BEETROOT

‘Detroit 2’  (Beta vulgaris)

An old favourite quick growing with great flavour and round globe shaped roots. Eat small, or large and remember to pick the central baby leaves for salads too.

 

• BRUSSELS SPROUT

‘Evesham Special’ – Great flavour, produces large sprouts from September.

 

• CARROT

‘Chantenay Red-Cored’ Main season stumpy rooted carrots, with a deep red core. These ones are easy to grow if you have containers as they are shorter rooted. Sweet flavour and fancy coloured!

 

• CALABRESE 

‘Green Sprouting’ – This is a lovely variety of Broccoli. Prolific and produces lots of small blue green heads. You can eat everything on this plant and it all tastes great!

 

• CELERY

‘Golden Self-blanching’ – I chose this variety as it’s so easy to grow! This is a dwarf variety with tasty, golden-yellow heads and one requiring no earthing-up. Delicious to eat raw or cooked, I love it in sandwiches with lettuce!

 

• CHARD

‘Rainbow Chard’  (Beta vulgaris)  –  Wonderfully brightly coloured chard, a small variety and easy to grow. It is a beautiful mixture of chards which look stunning in the vegetable garden, producing beautiful stems in shades of red, orange, yellow, cream and white

 

• CHICORY

‘Rossa Di Verona’ A lovely heirloom radicchio, Rossa di Verona has deep red, heart shaped leaves wrapped tightly around one another to form a solid, round head. I adore it and eat tonnes of it! It is gorgeous grilled with a creamy mustard sauce, simple and delicious.

 

• COURGETTE 

‘Zucchini’ – A green bushy reliable grower, this courgette produces many very tasty courgettes and has a bushy habit, not is not trailing so good for smaller gardens

 

• CAULIFLOWER

‘Snowball’ – A cauliflower that is nice and compact with small creamy white heads.

 

• CUCUMBER

‘Crystal Lemon’ – A bit different from the usual cucumber but this one is round, has a superb sweet taste and is quick growing and prolific. I am partial to snazzing up a Gin and Tonic with some Cucumber and a few Borage flowers!

‘Marketmore’ – A really reliable cucumber with long fruits, can be grown outside or inside. 

• ENDIVE

‘Pancalieri’ – Rare and Frizzy with an outstanding flavour. Broad, bulky heads with an abundance of dark green, very frizzly-edged, outer leaves and, almost self-blanching, contrasting creamy-white, pink-tinged hearts. A really interesting variety which also has the most beautiful flowers if you let it go to seed.

 

• FENNEL

‘Romanesco’  A summer sowing variety with good large bulbs, tastes sweet.

• GARLIC

Provence Wight – Soft neck garlic, good for plaiting, with purple streaks that can produce large bulbs. Originates from Provence in France, can be planted in Spring and Autumn.

Picardy Wight – Soft neck garlic, good for plaiting, originating from Pacardy in France. A good strong flavoured garlic. Plant in Autumn or Spring.

 

• KALE

‘Nero di Toscana’ – Dark rich kale, an old heirloom variety, lovely dark leaves with great flavour. Flavout gets sweeter after frosts. Stands well through winter, a staple for my garden.

• KHOL RABI 

Officially like a turnip, this one is purple stemmed with crispy tender bulbs and a bit later in production than the green variety. Great shredded raw in salads, it’s delicious. 

 

• LEEK

‘Giant Winter’ ‘Allium porrum’  An open pollinated large variety with good taste and one that stands well through winter. 

 

• LETTUCE

Lobjolts‘ – I love CoS lettuce its so versatile. This Cos gives large, very crisp, dark green upright hearts which are self-folding. Easy to grow all year round.

‘Marvel of four seasons‘ – A butterhead, red tinged leafy lettuce which can be grown all through the season.

 

• MIZUNA 

‘Kyoto’ (Brassica rapa).  I adore Mizuna, not only for providing Winter salad but it’s a great flavour. Tall slim white stalks with dark green feathery leaves. Very cold tolerant. Density levels high for leaves and low for whole head, can be sown in all seasons

 

• MELON

 ‘Pepito’  Little and dinky, very sweet flavoured with orange flesh, better grown indoors unless you have a warm climate.

 

• MOOLI

‘Mino Summer Cross’  Japanese Radish – Good for a winter radish as tolerates cold temperatures. Quick and unbelievably easy to grow. Crisp, peppery roots can store for winter use. The mooli, the exotic oriental sister of the normal radish, is not only easy to grow but is a bit more interesting in the kitchen. Long white roots up to 30cm.

 

• MUSTARD 

‘Mustard Giant Red’ Good Winter salad crop with lovely big red veined leaves, tolerant of the cold I grow mine inside a greenhouse through winter.

• PAK CHOI (brassica rapa) 

‘Canton Dwarf’ Also known as ‘Bok Choi’ Nice compact and full of flavour, crispy stems which I like to grow in the colder months. 

 

• PARSNIP 

‘Imperial Crown’ Excellent flavour, good root length but the crown is smaller than some other parsnips. 

 

• PEAS

‘Sweet Sahara’ – Pisum sativum – A delicious, mangetout snow pea, with a very compact plant habit, making this versatile variety suitable for growing both in the garden or containers. White flowers produce a bumper crop of uniform sweetly flavoured 8cm long and 21mm wide stringless pods at the picking stage. Height 65-70cm

Podding pea  – Pisum sativum  Alderman a traditional old variety which can get 4’ high so will need support, produces wonderful peas full of flavour. 

 

• PEPPERS – SWEET

‘Californian Wonder’  (Capsicum annum) – A large blocky thick fleshed sweet pepper. This heirloom variety has large, red, square-shaped fruits with a mild and sweet flavour.

 

PEPPERS  – CHILLI – HOT

‘Habanero Orange’ (Capsicum annum) – Interesting orange fruits with a punchy flavour. The very original Havana pepper perfect for all types of cooking.

‘Birds Eye’ (Capsicum annum)  Hot hot hot! A little bush chilli that packs a punch. Small little red chillis, often used in Thai cooking. Can be grown in a container.

‘Jalapeno’ (Capsicum annum) One of my favourites, popular chilli for Mexican cooking, I love these pickled in a jar. Prolific fruits which get hotter once harvested. Plant height 75cm.

‘Bishops Crown’ (Capsicum baccatum) You have to grow this chilli for the shape alone! Often called ‘Friars Hat’, this chilli can grow to over 90cm high and gives the most interesting shape of chilli, bit like a bonnet! Medium heat, orange fruits.

‘Padron’ (Capsicum annum) Fabulous in Spanish Tapas style cooking, love these gently grilled and covered in oil and salt. Heat does range between fruits but they are delicious! Plant gets quite tall approx. 90cm.

‘Hungarian Black’ (Capsicum annum) Jalepeno shaped black fruits ripening to red. Mildly hot with a delicious flavour. 

‘Anaheim’ (Capsicum annum) Quite a mild versatile chilli, fruits are green and change to red in time, about 6-10 inches long.

‘Ring of Fire’ (Capsicum annum) 6-7cm long dark green fruits that ripen to red, a hot one this one so use with care but a good spicy everyday chilli. 

 

• RADISH

‘Malaga Violet’ Well loved for their amazing colour deep violet contrasted with snow-white flesh and mild, peppery flavour. These roots are particularly crisp yet mild in taste, and will stay firm over a long growing season. Easy to grow, quick to mature, beautiful and great tasting. I grow these all year. 

 

• ROCKET

‘Wasabi’ It’s delicious and funnily enough tastes strongly of horseradish or wasabi. I love this strong intense flavour, just a few leaves can spark up a salad and I add leaves to Oriental dishes for an extra kick!

‘Salad Rocket’ Dark green serated leaves with a peppery flavour. Can bolt if sown when it’s too hot but sown at cooler times it does very well.

 

• ROMANESCO

An unusual Italian strain. Delicious to eat (much grown in northern Italy) and striking to look at, has amazing structural heads.

 

• SPRING ONION  (Allium) 

‘Lillia’ An absolute favourite of mine, deep red throughout, delightful dual purpose salad onion or grown on to a main crop. I love the colour and it tastes so fresh, its wonderful.

 

• SQUASH 

‘Custard White’  I adore this patty pan and always grow it. Its a summer squash and as such is treated as a courgette in culinary terms. It has interesting fruits shaped like flying saucers. The plant has a bushy habit and produces many squash. Always pick when small for the best flavour.

 ‘Marina Di Chioggia’  This needs a bit of space as its a trailing vanity of winter squash, its has a dark green attractive very warty skin and is highly ornamental. Each fruit can weigh unto 10kg. Flesh is yellow / orange and tastes wonderful – it even improves after storage

‘Delicata’ A winter squash with cream and orange skin with orange flesh, one of the best squashes I have eaten, resembling a sweet potato. 

 

• SWEETCORN 

‘Golden Lion’ Super sweet variety producing medium to large cobs. 

 

• TOMATOES

‘Tigerella’ (Solanum lycopersicu) – Indetermiante. Something a bit different and excellent for colder climates, can be grown outside too. Lovely colour(red and yellow)texture and flavour. A medium sized fruit.

‘Sam Marzano’  (Solanum lycopersicum)  Indeterminate. A small tasty plum tomato for making a sauce as the fruits contain little seed, the thick flesh lending itself to a nice thick sauce with little acidity. Fruits are thin and pointed.

‘Black Russian’ (Solanum lycopersicum)  Indeterminate. These are large and dark skinned, with a delicious blend of sugar and acid. Tomato ‘Black Russian’ is an old beefsteak variety with a rich, complex flavour that is excellent.

‘Sungold’  (Solanum lycopersicum)  

‘Super Marmande’ (Solanum lycopersicum) 

‘Yellow Pear’ (Solanum lycopersicum)  Indeterminate. A very tasty small pear shaped yellow tomato. This heirloom variety dates back to 1800 Colourful in salads, sliced or in preserves. Lovely tangy flavour.

‘Tumbling Tom Red’ (Solanum lycopersicum)  

‘Garden Pearl’ (Solanum lycopersicum)  Determinate. Delicious, rosy-red, cherry size fruits. Ideal to grow in containers and hanging baskets. Early to crop and continues to crop all season. Fruit trusses over basket sides, perfect for smaller gardens or balconies.

‘St Pierre’ (Solanum lycopersicum)  Indeterminate. Saint Pierre is an heirloom variety from France. It is a quite large fleshy tomato with a smooth flattish round shape and excellent flavour and it sets fruits quite late in the season so brilliant for late harvest which is greatly appreciated.