A popular Chinese variety producing striking, clean white stalks holding fabulous, rich, dark green leaves which can be eaten raw when young in salads, or left to mature and then cooked. The compact plants are resistant to weather changes and are slow to bolt. ... Learn More

A Patty Pan heirloom summer squash. First grown by the native Americans and depicted by European settlers as far back to 1591. A very attractive flat fruit with scalloped edges, this is still one of the best tasting and yielding varieties around today! Great fried or baked. ... Learn More

This rare treasure, a favourite of gourmet-growers, has parchment-white, almost seedless fruit, with extra smooth skin and a sweet rich and mild citrus-like flavour. An amazing heirloom that is bursting with fragrance, the vines setting very heavy yields, this plant has far outperformed other heirloom tomatoes and even some of the hybrids here. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These medium to large-sized, almost seedless, creamy-white fruits are exceptionally sweet with a high sugar content and have a smooth, mild flavour reminiscent of melon. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Making a distinctive colour-break, these medium sized white tomatoes have faint green stripes. A well as being a pleasure to the eye they also taste good, the elongated 4-6 oz globes having a good sweet flavour with moderate pulp. ... Learn More

Spice up your salads with wild rocket: its deep green, serrated foliage has a similar distinctive flavour as its standard namesake, but is more intense. Wild Rocket is perfect for 'cut and come again', growing right through the year with protection. Its peppery taste is sharper and cleaner than salad rocket. ... Learn More

This reliable and heavy yielding pepper, developed especially for northern gardens, has thick, juicy and sweet walls, turning from green to red when mature. A very heavy producer of early-ripening, meaty peppers, our trial plants at Plant World had so many fruits they had to be caned to stop them from falling over! ... Learn More

A very reliable and fast-maturing spring-sown broad bean, Witkiem gives heavy crops and tolerates cold weather well. It can be sown from February to May and the sturdy 3 foot high plants produce top quality white beans (usually five in a pod) which are well-suited to freezing. ... Learn More

A superb newcomer, resembling the garden huckleberry, but with a far superior taste, but should not be eaten green. Quick and easy to grow in a container, garden or green house, producing thousands of small, unusual-flavoured, sweet blackcurrant-like fruits which can be eaten straight from the plant, but also cooked when they make a very good jam/jelly/preserve. Young plants can fruit in as little as 10 weeks. The leaves of this plant are narcotic and are sometimes smoked as a cannabis legal drug substitute and we DO NOT recommend this practice. ... Learn More

Large barrel shaped heads, with crisp light green leaves grow typically up to 2.5kg. Fast growing and ready for harvest in 10 weeks, this versatile vegetable adds crunch to salads, coleslaws and flavour to stir fries, and is a useful steamed veg. ... Learn More

These slightly translucent, small, cherry-sized, golden fruits, are produced over a very long season, and have a most unusual, strong, dry flavour. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These bright yellow, pepper-like tomatoes have a pleated shape like an accordion. Although they have an excellent flavour they can be easily scooped out to make unusual and novel containers for salads, desserts, and other stuffings. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Yellow Bush Scallop Squash is an extremely hardy, old summer squash variety that was introduced prior to 1860. It produces an abundance of golden-yellow squash on compact plants over a longer season than other varieties. (AKA Golden Custard). ... Learn More

These tomatoes resemble sweet yellow bell peppers and can be put to similar culinary uses. The walls are thick with 3 or 4 large cavities, and so it holds its shape when baked or used with various stuffing mixes. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Large, fluted, cream coloured, fascinatingly shaped fruits have ten finger-like ribs, which come to points at the end of each squash. The flesh is very fine grained and smooth to the taste. Outstanding, used either for eating small, or as an ornament later. ... Learn More