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Easy to grow. Sow under glass in pots or in a nursery bed. Plant out to final position 36in/100cm apart the following spring. Cut down in late autumn, using spent foliage to protect crowns.Easy to grow these are quite delicious! Simply boil and eat the fleshy outer scales like asparagus, dipped in butter. The flowers and foliage are highly ornamental. Crops for 4-5 years.
A gourmet treat! Though not a true pea, they produce pods which are sweet and crisp - like a cross between a mangetout and asparagus. Harvest when pods are 2-4in/5-10cm long and steam or sauté lightly.
A white strain, as good to eat as the purple. Hardy and easy to grow, plants give several pickings.
A taste sensation! Tasty broccoli spears on succulent, almost asparagus tasting edible stems. Easy and quick to grow, it will flourish on any well cultivated soil. One floret contains almost as much vitamin C as an orange, good levels of calcium and it is a source of fibre, zinc, iron and vitamin A. It also contains glucosinolates which are thought to be beneficial to health.
Easy to grow tasty and reliable. Lift as 'baby carrots' or leave to mature. With a sweet crisp flavour, and suitable for pots we are pleased to list this selection of organically grown seed.
Perhaps the most decorative and exciting vegetable introduction of recent times. With up to 7 different coloured stems, it is an ideal subject for the flower border! Enjoy its mild, sweet flavour when young, raw in salads or gently steamed.
The leaves are cooked as spinach and the stems as celery. Versatile, with a a long season.
Delightfully crisp, easy, quick maturing with dense hearts of mild chicory flavour. Immature plants can be picked as baby leaf salad.
A tasty, versatile and quick-growing vegetable for stir-fries, salads and as a cooked vegetable. Easy to grow.
Finely curled, deeply cut leaves, can be picked as baby leaf. Hearts of mature plants will self-blanch to a pale yellow. Excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C and fibre.
Especially suited to early production because of its excellent resistance to bolting. Produces uniform, slightly flattened bulbs which are delicious roasted or grated in salads. The tops can be used as herb fennel.
Large crisp white bulbs, with a mild 'aniseed' flavour. Easy to grow and fast to mature. The feathery foliage makes an attractive garnish and is good for flavouring many dishes.
Ultra-hardy, a great source of winter 'greens'. Also known as 'borecole'.
Grey-green feathery leaves with a purplish stem. Great added to salads as it has a distinctive shape and texture, also good in stir-fries.
Vigorous variety that has strongly coloured red-purple foliage that deepens and becomes curlier in cooler weather. Can be harvested at baby leaf stage or left to mature. Highly attractive, it could be used as a foliage plant in the flower garden.
Compact plants produce prolific, year round yields. Delicious eaten raw or steamed. Very winter hardy.
Vigorous hybrid variety that produces dark grey-green leaves, which are very finely and tightly curled. Has exceptional standing ability and winter hardiness.
A reliable, medium sized 'butterhead' variety. Compact and slow to bolt, long season.
A great garden performer with good tolerance of bolting in the hottest summer months with resistance to mildew races 1-16. Produces very dense heads with crisp leaves and a good flavour.
Very easy, elongated, decorative, light green tender leaves. Excellent for baby leaf from spring to autumn. Voted top in our taste tests.