This amazing gourd produces up to fifty wonderfully-coloured fruits per plant! The bi-coloured, pear-shaped fruits are orange and green with a smooth, hard skin and looks incredibly attractive nestled in a harvest basket for autumnal decoration. ... Learn More

A regular-leaved, Russian beefsteak variety, producing attractive, deep reddish-brown fruit with darker shoulders, weighing between 4 and 8 oz. Strong-flavoured for such a large fruit! 'Aisberg', predictably, means 'Iceberg' in Russian. (Cordon) ... 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

This heavy cropping variety is everyone's favourite, producing seemingly endless bunches of smallish, ultra-sweet fruits, which resemble large, shiny, dark brown cherries and which have a very rich flavour. A current favourite in up-market shops, it is a very easy-to-grow gem. As long as you keep picking them, heavy hanging bunches of fruit are produced over a surprisingly long period from July right into late September (Cordon) ... 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

This early fruiting (in UK conditions) hot pepper produces 30-50 distinctive fang-like fruits. The "fangs" are about 6cm long and change colour from dark green to purple to red but can be harvested at the dark purple stage. The flavour is like a cayenne pepper and can be chopped for cooking or dehydrated and ground into chili powder. It has a score of 71,500 Schoville units so is hot but not extreme. ... Learn More

Whilst this deep reddish-brown Russian beefsteak variety is not as dark as some other "black" tomatoes, where it really scores is on taste which is really strong, rich and sweetly-sharp (!!) with a hint of smokiness. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A most attractive, rare and ornamental heavy cropping pepper with lovely purple flowers, producing delicious flavoured, ornamental black fruit which resemble mussels, and which ripen to red. (75 days from transplanting. Heat-3) ... Learn More

Originally from the island of Krim in the Black Sea, this famous black tomato produces a large crop of sizeable deep-mahogany beefsteak fruit with green shoulders and a very distinctive flavour with juicy fruit. It is perfect for salads and also cooking. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This Russian gem gives a good crop of even-sized, juicy fruits with deep mahogany skin and greenish-pink flesh. Our own taste-testing result sheet said 'lemony flavour...very refreshing!'. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A sweet and mild, very hardy winter radish with snowy-white succulent flesh and a near black skin which lacks the fieriness found so often in summer varieties. It has likely been grown since at least the 16th Century. ... Learn More

This natural and stabilized cross between Green Zebra and a black tomato is one of the stars of the new tomato range available. The quarter pound juicy round tomatoes have purple/mahogany-coloured skin with green stripes (like brush strokes), with exceptionally rich tomato flavours that contain hints of smoke and sweetness. (Cordon) ... Learn More

If you hate being scratched whilst collecting blackberries, this is the one for you. This quite amazing variation bears smooth, shiny, thorn-free stems carrying countless bunches of sweet, juicy black berries. ... Learn More

This very productive old East German variety ('blondie') gives huge bunches of smallish, grape-sized golden fruits, which do not split, and are borne in succession until late autumn. Our tasting panel said 'strong, tasty and not over sweet fruits'.(Cordon) ... Learn More

This old heirloom from the Appalachian Mountains gives heavy yields of half to one kilo beefsteak fruits which are roughly pink and globe shaped, with no cracks or blemishes, and could be called "Mr. and Mrs. Knobbly!!! . Another tomato ideal for sandwiches, they have excellent meaty, sweet-tart flesh. Plants grow very tall, are highly productive and have good disease resistance. (Cordon) ... Learn More