Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato Seeds – Sweet Aperitif
A new cherry tomato with an indeterminate growth habit and a very high yield of small cherry-sized fruits. The bright red fruits have an exceptional flavour with high levels of sugar and acid which combine to give a sweet taste with a refreshing tang. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as
Tomato Seeds – F1 Summerlast
Allow us to introduce the first blight-resistant dwarf patio variety! Summerlast is an F1 tomato ideal for growing anywhere. If you have a smaller outside space or a compact area like a patio or balcony, you can still grow delicious tomatoes that look as good as they taste.
Lettuce Seeds – Lollo Bionda
Loose heads of delicious, rounded, pale green leaves with frilled edges. Easy to grow. Pick individual leaves as you need them. Ideal for raised beds, patios or veg garden. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. An expensive, premium salad in the supermarket. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try
Tomato Seeds – Crimson Plum F1
Tomato Crimson Plum F1 The delicious new member of the Crimson family The Crimson Plum is the first blight-resistant plum tomato from seed. Great for both indoor and outdoor growing, it is the ideal tomato variety to be grown outside in the UK. This remarkable fruit is ideal for pots, baskets or any containers, reaching heights of
Leek Seeds – F1 Sprintan
Well named, Sprintan certainly gets a move on to be our earliest maturing leek. From spring sowings, it will mature from late August through to November. As this suggests, it has good ‘standing’ ability and long green ‘shanks’. Has good resistance to leek rust fungus.
Tomato Seeds – F1 Lizzano
Lizzano, as confirmed by Bangor University, is the most blight tolerant variety we have seen. It is a semi-determinate type producing abundant yields of tasty, high quality, bright red, baby cherry sized fruits. It is a vigorous variety with a compact, uniform trailing habit. Height and spread approximately 50cm (20"). Patio type. (Bush variety –
Tomato Seeds – Honey Delight F1
A true, bright yellow tomato with large cherry/cocktail sized fruit (5cm). It was a recent taste test winner in the USA with a fresh and sparkling flavour, prolific cropper and good overall disease resistance, it adds a burst of colour to a tomato salad. For best results grow indoors, cordon style
Wild Blueberry Seeds
Wild Blueberry A delightful addition to window boxes and containers The Wild Blueberry is a stunning variety that is also known as the Bilberry or European blueberry. Wild Blueberry seeds will produce small, 30cm perennial fruit bushes. These blueberry bushes are great to grow in containers or on a window box due to their smaller
Strawberry Seeds – Red & White Wild Mix
Developed by James Wong – Liven up a fruit salad, muesli or trifle. Enjoy the same way as a normal strawberry. One of the easiest fruit crops to grow. Grows well in pots or window boxes. Tastes like: Ripe pineapple and vanilla.
Squash Seeds – Musquee de Provence
A traditional variety from southern France, these gorgeous, big flat pumpkins are shaped like a big wheel of cheese, and are heavily lobed and ribbed. The skin is a beautiful, rich brown colour when ripe. The flesh is deep orange, thick and very fine flavoured, fruit grow to 20 lb each.
Squash Seeds – Marina di Chioggia
The heirloom sea pumpkin of Chioggia on the coast of Italy. The large turban shaped fruit are deep blue-green – one of the most beautiful and unique of all squashes! A perfect variety for market gardeners. The rich, sweet flesh is a deep yellow-orange and of good quality, delicious baked or in pies. The fruit weigh
Pak Choi Seeds – Crunchy Colour Mix
Red and green leaves with contrasting green-and-white undersides. The colour of the red deepens as the weather becomes cooler. For use in stir fries when baby leaves or as a cooked vegetable when fully mature. Contains 50% F1 Rubi and 50% Hanakan. F1 Rubi – Attractive red leaves (which deepen in colour in cool weather)
Onion Seeds – Elista
Onion Seeds – Elista With onion ‘Elista’, you don’t need to worry about stressful preparations or cut fingers. This variety is easy to peel and super easy to prep in the kitchen. Torpedo (elliptical) onions like these have a different kind of shape to any other regular onion, and by being slimmer than most, this
Onion Seeds – Walla Walla
Walla Walla – Onion Seeds Sweet, juicy and tear-free! A regional favourite, Walla Walla onion seeds offer sweetness at the first bite with more crunch than tears. It’s mild in taste and less aromatic than any other regular growing onions and provides less sulphur content. Use raw, roasted, baked, or sautéed to compliment fresh flavours
Carrot Seeds – F1 Creampak
Attractive, creamy-skinned, tapering roots which are delicious and sweet raw. No need to peel – just rinse and eat! Also tasty cooked. Later sowings can be lifted and stored. 63 days from sowing to harvest (taken from our own trials and may vary in different areas). Comes out top in blind taste tests
Pepper Sweet Seeds – Midas
A bright yellow snack sized pepper – a cross between a Jalapeno and a sweet pepper. It has a very mild almost undetectable heat and excellent flavour. Best of all it has retained the productivity of the Jalapeno. Tom says: A hugely productive pepper bred in the UK from a cross between a Jalapeno and a
Pepper Sweet Seeds – Sweetonia Mix
Easy-to-grow mini sweet peppers with a sweet, spicy taste. Eat raw in salads or stir fry. Harvest July-October.
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Hot Thai
Originally from Thailand, this hot pepper makes a lovely impression in a patio container. These ornamental plants are decked out with up to 200 small fruits that ripen to fiery red. Can be used fresh or dried to make an excellent chilli powder. Rating 50,000-70,000 SHU (Rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU. The
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Longhorn F1
Chilli Longhorn F1 Long curled spicy fruits hence the name Longhorn! The Longhorn is a long chilli (15-25cm) with a distinct ‘curl’ at the end. A cayenne variety, plants will yield copious amounts of spicy fruits. These chillies can withstand intense heat/sun without damage to the fruit. Seriously productive 100cm plants may need a little support
Cabbage Seeds – Cabbice F1
Is it a cabbage or is it an Iceberg lettuce??? The perfect alternative to Iceberg lettuce as the leaves are crisp, thin and extremely tender, perfect to add to salads in summer and autumn. Vigorous, round cabbages which stand well until the first frosts. Used by top chefs (including Jamie Oliver) in salads, coleslaw and
