‘Hustler’ is a very productive variety of yellow with straight fruit averaging 20cm in length. The fruit has thick walls and delicious sweet capsicum flavour. Good disease resistance makes this one of the best of its type.
The market leader for many years, this semi-strong grower provides good leaf cover with continuous picking and very high yields. Medium heat levels. Lightly tapered fruit with excellent firmness at both dark green and mature red stages to 12-14cm. Read more about Chilli, Cayenne ‘Caysan’ F1 (Capsicum annuum)
Medium to long sized red Cayenne pepper with high pungency levels and a clean glossy appearance and good shelf life. The strong plant has a high yield potential and produces fruit averaging 12cm x 1.8cm
VULCAN is a medium sized red cayenne type, with very good colour at both green and mature red stage. The fruit average approx 34-35g per fruit, with thick walls and excellent firmness at red. The plant is slightly more compact with very high overall yield.
One of the quickest carrots to produce 36 days for baby and 54 days for full size. The slender roots have a very good sweet flavour and a crisp texture. Performs well under a range of conditions even during hot weather.
Twice winner of the “Best tasting carrot” at the yearly field day of the British Carrot Grower Association, this hybrid carrot ‘Romance’ is a good doer even in hot weather. Sow seed from August until late February for harvesting much of the year. Read more about Carrot ‘Romance’ F1 (Daucus carota)
‘Sweetheart’ is very sweet, flavoursome and productive bunching carrot for year round production. It takes about 90 days from seed sowing to harvest and maintains its flavour at a larger size.
Boris is a vigorous growing variety, a good doer in a variety of soils, with a good leaf wrap. Sow early July until November for a December to March harvest. Sow a few seeds at a time as cauliflowers don’t hold well in the garden.
Denlis is a vigorous growing variety, a good doer in a variety of soils, with a good leaf wrap. Sow late April to early August for spring and early summer harvest and sow early November to early January for an autumn harvest. Read more about Cauliflower ‘Denlis’ F1 (Brassica oleracea)
Puntoverde is a new industry leading Romanesco cauliflower for spring, summer, autumn and early winter production. Sow from July until late February. Romanesco cauliflowers have light green, amazingly beautiful, intricately spiralled heads. Read more about Cauliflower, Romanesco ‘Puntoverde’ F1 (Brassica oleracea)
Vertissimo is a slow bolting deliciously flavoured chervil. It can be used in salads, as a micro green or a garnish. Plant seed in drills in the garden in spring and again in autumn.
Garlic chives are a perennial onion relative with a flavour closer to garlic than chives. The leaves are used in stir fries, pancakes and dumplings as well as a garlic substitute in stews etc. Read more about Chinese Leeks/Garlic Chives/Kow Choi
As I grow coriander for its leaves rather than for its seeds I grow this slow bolting variety. It is ready to pick in less than a month and a half and will under reasonable conditions take three or four months before it runs up to seed. Read more about Coriander ‘Santo’ (Coriandrum sativum)
‘Gold Fields’ is a selection of Genovese basil, the one used for pesto, that is more tolerant of cold weather than traditional varieties. A strong plant with dark green leaves it has all the flavour of older types but can be sown a month or two earlier. Read more about Herbs Basil ‘Goldfields Early Wonder’ (Ocimum basilicum)
Easier to grow than ordinary celery and can be picked over a long period just as you would parsley. Plant in a drill straight into the vegetable garden in late spring or summer, thin to 15cm apart. Or germinate in a glass house or polyhouse and plant out when big enough. Read more about Herbs, Celery, Cutting ‘Par-Cel’ (Apium graveolens var. secalinum)
Vertissimo is a slow bolting deliciously flavoured chervil. It can be used in salads, as a micro green or a garnish. Plant seed in drills in the garden in spring and again in autumn.
A premier variety of flat-leaf parsley with large thick glossy dark green leaves and delicious aromatic flavour. Vigorous, upright habit and very high yielding. Sow seed on bottom heat during early spring and in situ during late spring, summer and early autumn. Read more about Herbs, Flat-Leaf Parsley ‘Midori’ (Petroselinum crispum)
A new improved variety boasting a high yield from a uniform plant with sturdy stems.I plant seed on bottom heat early in the spring and outside in the garden after mid-November. Parsley will sometime bolt if seed is planted in soil which is too cold.
Anyone who has ever eaten corn salad, or mache as it is known in Europe, knows just how wonderful a winter salad green it is. A cool season vegetable I pick enough for a salad several times a week from the end of May until spring. Read more about Corn Salad (Mache) (Valerianella locusta)
Max is a really good doer which grows well in cooler parts of Australia. It has an excellent disease resistance package and produces good flavoured, sweet tasting yellow cobs, often two per plant.
Polaris cobs grow to 20cm long and are sweet and juicy. The plant can make 180-200cm tall and provides good disease resistance to ensure a bumper crop. A terrific 'honey and cream' variety to use instead of Samurai. Read more about Corn, Super Sweet ‘Polaris’ F1 (Zea mays)
Productive Gherkin 55 days from transplant A beautifully shaped pickling cucumber which brines well and has excellent flavour if eaten fresh. It has very uniform, cylindrical fruit which set 1or 2 fruits per node. Replaces ‘Harmonie’
Blue Leaf(TM) cucumbers have a greater disease resistance, greater vigour and fruit longer than traditional varieties. ‘Lyman’ is a multi fruited Lebanese cucumber for harvesting from early December until late March. Sow September until early December. Read more about Cucumber, Blue Leaf Lebanese ‘Lyman’ F1 (Cucumus sativus)
‘Caman’ was the best slicer in our cucumber trials. It is very productive with good fruit length. The fruit has smooth dark green skin and crisp flesh. A market leader amongst commercial growers a couple of plants will keep a house supplied for months. Read more about Cucumber, ‘Caman’ F1 (Cucumus sativus)
The best Lebanese cucumber in our trials for non-trellis production. Very quick to produce and incredibly productive this variety has uniform crops of dark green crisp fleshed fruits for all of the warmer months. A couple of plants will keep a household going. Read more about Cucumber, ‘Khassib’ F1 (Cucumus sativus)
Fantastic is a new, large round eggplant which can be grown successfully in the open garden in cooler parts of the country. I plant 2 seeds in a 7.5cm pots on bottom heat during early to mid-September thinning to one plant after germination. Read more about Eggplant ‘Fantastic’ F1 (Solanum melongena)
Mini Lebanese eggplant 65 days from transplant This outstanding variety produces straight elongated fruit with glossy purple-black skin. A strong upright habit which is super productive even
Stria is both beautiful to look at and terrific to eat. The medium sized round fruit have white striped purple skin. Early to crop and prolific this variety topped our eggplant trials last season. It holds well after picking too.
A heat tolerant variety with pale yellow almost blond, cut and fringed leaves and mixes well with ‘Clodia’. It has a sweet, mildly spicy flavour. Plant from late winter until mid-autumn for year round crops.
This new hybrid fennel is a better proposition than open pollinated varieties as it resists running up to seed. Sow seeds during January and February for a crop of large bulbs from May until August. Read more about Florence Fennel ‘Leonardo’ F1 (Foeniculum vulgare)
An early maturing melon with aromatic intensely flavoured deep orange flesh. Good disease resistance package. It makes a strong vine with high fruit numbers.
An early maturing melon with aromatic intensely flavoured deep orange flesh. Good disease resistance package. It makes a strong vine with high fruit numbers.
‘Black Magic’ is a new and improved variety of Black Tuscan Kale (Cavalo Nero). It produces very dark, deeply savoyed leaves and is best grown as a full size plant. Sow seed from November until January for an autumn and winter harvest. Read more about Kale, ‘Black Magic’ (Brassica oleracea)
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One of the best kale varieties for baby leaf and also good full size. The tender leaves can be used in salads and also cooked. They need less cooking than other kale types. Sow from August until April.
Excellent and bred for baby leaf production it can be sown the year round and is especially useful for Italian style autumn and winter vegetable dishes, but also for summer salads. Read more about Kale, ‘Onyx’ (Brassica oleracea)
Quick growing cabbage relative in which the swollen stems are eaten. One of the sweetest and freshest flavoured varieties and is quick from seed to harvest on an upright plant. Best sown from mid-summer until mid-autumn for an autumn-winter crop.
A white kohlrabi variety which makes a compact and upright plant good at withstanding torrid growing conditions. Suits both autumn and winter harvest cycles. Good cracking resistance. This is professional class seed made available to home gardeners for the first time. Read more about Kohlrabi ‘Morre’ F1 (Brassica oleracea)
Kohlrabi is best harvested when 7-10cm diameter which is when its white flesh is most crisp and nearly fibreless. Sow seed in succession during August, September and October and then from mid-January until early March
Lancaster is one of the newer types of leek bred for an extended harvest period from February through to October. It can be sown from July until February. Can be sown in seed trays or in outside seed beds. Read more about Leek ‘Lancaster’ F1 (Allium porum)
Salanova lettuce have the flavour and texture of full grown lettuce but in the home garden individual leaves are harvested as needed. Salanova lettuce are slow to bolt and can be harvested over a long period. Sow seed from August until May for year round salads. Read more about Lettuce Salanova® Green Butterhead (Lactuca sativa)