Minipop is delicious lightly steamed or stir-fried, and is also lovely raw in dips or salads as pre-dinner dips. It does not need to be sown in blocks and should be harvested when the silk tassels begin to show prior to pollination. ... Learn More

Very tasty with large dark green, savoyed leaves and a broad white rib. A good alternative to spinach with the advantage that the leaves retain their volume when cooked. Very easy to grow - leaving the row to its own devices will still yield a large crop. ... Learn More

Native to the Mediterranean, this is one of the easiest varieties to grow and is an excellent source of vitamins and iron. The beautiful, emerald green leaves have a strong agreeable flavour making it perfect for eating raw or cooked. ... Learn More

The Tamarillo (Cyphomandra betacea) is the "Tree Tomato". Like its cousins of the closely-related Lycopersicon genus (the ordinary common tomato), the egg-size fruit makes good eating, and is typically made into jams or conserve, although it is recommended that the skin and seeds are removed before cooking. It therefore makes either a fruiting shrub or a superb foliage plant! It is easily grown from seed and makes a pleasing contrast to the more typical foliage of cannas, gingers and bananas. Easily grown from seed, the roots of this plant are quite tough surviving moderate frosts, and in ... Learn More

Cyphomandra betacea, commonly known as Tamarillo or Tamarillo White Egg, belongs to the Solanaceae family. This compact fruiting plant is recognized for its manageable size, typically reaching heights of 3 to 4 feet (90 to 120 cm), making it suitable for both garden and container cultivation. The Solanaceae family affiliation indicates its botanical features. The White Egg's fruit is distinctive, resembling a white egg in both shape and size. This cultivar is a practical choice for those seeking a compact and visually appealing addition to their garden or container planting. ... Learn More

This rare deep purple form of the classic green tomatillo verde, truly resembling an enormous physalis, and makes a salsa with a difference! The fruits have a little more sweetness than the standard green variety, and the anthocyanins, which give the fruit its purple colouring, are a superb source of antioxidants. The fruits turn purple in patches on the plant but become more uniformly purple if the fruit is exposed to sunlight on a windowsill after harvesting. ... Learn More

These delicious, rich, slightly acidic “big reds” consistently rank at the top, being one of the heirloom tomatoes that faithfully produce huge crops of large to extra-large, meaty, brilliant red, round tomatoes in sizeable clusters. It also resists foliage disease, producing heavily right up to the first killing frosts. (Cordon) ... Learn More

As far as taste goes Ailsa Craig is one of the best. It has just the right balance of sweetness and sharpness to give it an amazing flavour. With a thinnish skin and deep colour, it is great in salads and just firm enough for slicing for sandwiches. It has a good disease resistance and is an early ripener and reasonably vigorous grower. (Cordon) ... Learn More

As its name suggests, this heavy-cropping variety of plum tomato was bred to mature in places where the growing season is short. The extremely uniform, juicy fruits have a truly attractive, two-tone plum appearance both in size and shape. (Bush) ... Learn More

Alicante is an early variety producing heavy crops of uniform, smooth, sweet tasting, medium size fruits. Succeeds well in soil or grow bags. An excellent variety for the UK climate, it can be grown very successfully outside but also will do well in the greenhouse. (Cordon). ... Learn More

These large, firm, orange, slightly oval, beefsteak fruits high in lycopene have a rich, fruity, superior sweet yet full bodied tomato flavour. This old heirloom from the Amana Colonies of Iowa is a good keeper. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Another absolutely superb GMO free, mid-season tomato, its skin ripening to the most incredible blue-violet colour. With strong, non-splitting skins holding the highly flavoured flesh, they are relatively late ripeners, but keep very well with an excellent shelf life. These have been bred to produce high levels of anthocyanins, a class of valuable pigments responsible for the blue and purple colours of many fruits, including blueberries and blackberries, which provide protection for the plant against insects, diseases, and ultraviolet radiation, and are thus a most important part of a first cl ... Learn More

Heavy trusses of small, solid-bodied sweet fruits have a sweet, very tasty, soft and velvety textured flesh. Fruits are all evenly-matched in size and beautifully crafted, to perfectly resemble tiny pears, making them ideal for exotic salads.(Cordon) ... Learn More

An impressive-cropping tomato giving an almost endless supply of big symmetrical trusses of baby, pear-shaped golden fruits. These grow on attractive and truly impressive heavy trusses of pendent fruits. They are lovely for eating, just like grapes, straight off the vine! A superb salad tomato. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A very productive easy-to-grow variety bred by The University of Missouri. The rosy red fruits have crisp flesh and a great taste, just tart enough to be interesting, and are particularly easy on the palate. (Cordon) ... Learn More