This traditional favourite, named after a small island off the Scottish coast, has a distinctive globe shape with straw coloured skin and white flesh. The bulbs can grow very large and be used for exhibition, while their tolerance to cool weather while growing makes them very reliable. ... Learn More

A round radish with white skin and flesh. Resistant to cracking and bolting. Harvest after 30-35 days. ... Learn More

All Seasons Salad is a 'cut-and-come-again' mix of various Chinese leaves, Iceberg lettuces and Radicchio and Frisee leaves. Perfect for growing on the kitchen windowsill to provide delicious baby leaves all year round. ... Learn More

A popular, versatile variety, ideal for successional sowing, which produces large velvety-white, well protected heads with an exceptional flavour. These are great for shows, freezing or eating fresh from the garden as they retain their flavour when boiled or steamed. ... Learn More

Extremely productive plants are loaded with small, rounded, thick-walled peppers, ripening from creamy-white to red, and with a mild flavour that is a wonderful combination of slightly warm but sweet and tangy. (75 days from transplanting. Heat-1) ... Learn More

The perpetual fruiting alpine strawberry produces a constant supply of small, but very sweet, bright red fruits, held dangling on long erect upright stems. This plant makes a solid clump and runs barely at all. Fruiting begins in early summer and often continues in a sheltered spot until the first frost of winter! Not to be confused with Fragaria vesca the "wild strawberry", both of which are good to eat! ... Learn More

A vigorous and delicious type of early main-crop pea with good resistance to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt, and which is reliable in all soil types, producing large crops of blunt, double pods averaging 8-9 peas per pod. ... Learn More

This most attractive, tasty, yellow fruited variety of courgette grows rapidly in great numbers, up to 20cm long, with superb flesh and thin skins. The attractive, shiny golden-yellow fruits have a wonderful nutty flavour and texture and appear regularly throughout the summer. This variety, Poland's first hybrid variety zucchini, is also resistant to downy mildew. ... Learn More

A very high yielding mainscrop Nantes variety. Delivers a high level of uniform roots, giving an excellent yield. Smooth texture with a very nice deep orange colour. Features a high resistance to breakage and silvering. ... Learn More

Produces pure white roots with a round uniform shape and a fantastic sweet flavour. This high yielding white beetroot, perfectly complements fish and poultry dishes whilst retaining its flavour through cooking and is perfect for dishes where you do not wish the normal purple beetroot stain. ... Learn More

"Tongues of fire" is an Italian climbing French bean, with attractive red-purple and green speckled pods. This versatile bean can be cropped young and the pods eaten as flageolets or allowed to mature when the ripe beans can be eaten as haricots. ... Learn More

A dwarf, compact variety of basil which is perfect for a kitchen herb garden or container box as it is one of the easier varieties to grow but also produces attractive, delicate white flowers. With a slightly sweet milder flavour, it is great to use with vegetables, cheese and in salads. ... Learn More

This early-fruiting sweet pepper is an attractive blocky pepper with large,thick-walled, square-shaped fruits. They start off green and turn fiery red and are high yielding. They are suitable for growing in a greenhouse or in a sheltered position outside. ... Learn More

Popular and reliable with gardeners since Edwardian times, Black Beauty is an early-medium variety of aubergine. The sturdy plants grow to about 1.2 metres tall and produce good crops of 10-15 centimetre long glossy, purple-black, oval fruit. ... Learn More

One of the favourite fruits of the temperate world, blackcurrants produce numerous clumps of sweet, juicy, black fruits, heavily laden with vitamin C and countless other good vitamins, which are unbeatable for jams and juices. These ready-stratified seeds were harvested from some of the best cultivars in the world. Habits will vary a little but all plants will produce several kilograms of fruit when established. The dried leaves are sometimes used to make tea. These valuable plants are also amazingly hardy, surviving to below minus 40 F (which coincidentally is minus 40 C), with little problem. Their main competitor for vitamin C production, the lemon tree, is long dead at this temperature. Prune very old wood back occasionally and these plants will give fruit for very many years. ... Learn More