Vegetable Seeds – Leek Blue Solaise is a reliable winter variety that produces short, heavy stems that stand well through even the coldest, roughest winter weather.
Bleu de Solaise is a French heritage variety making it an interesting addition to your vegetable plot, borders or deep containers and raised beds.
The attractive blue leaves develop a purple tinge as winter temperatures drop.
Height: 45cm (18″). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Leek Below Zero F1 produces pure white stems with dark leaves that stand well over a long period with great bolt-resistance.
This well known, British-bred, tasty variety is rust and extremely cold resistant and improves heavy soils!
Can be pulled from Christmas right through to May.
Height: 45cm (18″). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Kohl Rabi Purple Delicacy develops later and is hardier than the green variety.
Purple Delicacy has a wondefully deep purple skin with white flesh.
This variety is also at its best when harvested young. Simply roasted, this alien looking vegetable is delicious!
The fine texture and flavour of Green Delicacy lends itself perfectly to salads, soups, salsas, stews and superb when roasted with your other veg!
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Vegetable Seeds – Kohl Rabi Green Delicacy has light green skin with pure white flesh with a flavour similar to turnip but milder.
The fine texture and flavour of Green Delicacy lends itself perfectly to salads, soups, salsas, stews and wonderful when roasted!
Green Delicacy is also the earliest of all the varieties.
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Vegetable Seeds – Kale Winterbor F1 is a fantastic hardy, prolific variety ideal for harvesting from late autumn onwards.
The baby leaves are superb in salads!
Matures to a medium height with dark-blue/green, finely savoyed leaves.
Kale is well documented for its superior nutritional health benefits and a favourite ingredient in smoothies.
All kale is exceptionally hardy, standing well in the harshest of weathers all-year-round or can be grown to maturity for a reliable ongoing crop of winter greens when others can be in scarce supply in your garden.
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Vegetable Seeds – Kale Scarlet is a very colourful variety with dark green leaves, red stems and veins.
The young leaves make a vibrant, healthy addition to salads.
All kale is exceptionally hardy, standing well in the harshest of weathers all-year-round or can be grown to maturity for a reliable ongoing crop of winter greens when others can be in scarce supply in your garden.
Kale Scarlet develops more colour as the weather gets colder, standing well in the harshest weather for a long season of harvesting.
Height: 90cm (35″). Spread: 60cm (24″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Kale Nero Di Toscana have attractive dark green, deeply savoyed, strap-like stems and leaves.
All kale is exceptionally hardy, standing well in the harshest of weathers all-year-round making it a reliable vegetable producing at a time when other fresh garden produce may be scarce.
Nero di Toscana can also be used as a baby salad leaf adding texture and a peppery taste to mixed salads.
Height: 90cm (36″). Spread: 60cm (24″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Kale Dwarf Green – Borecole – Curled is a very popular, compact curly Kale.
This variety is perfect for growing in gardens that suffer serious weather and suited to growing in poor soil.
Dwarf Green Curled produces attractive, dark, tightly frilled leaves of excellent quality.
All kale is exceptionally hardy, standing well in the harshest of weathers all-year-round.
Height: 60cm (24″). Spread: 45cm (18″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Flower Sprout Petit Posi. A recent introduction to the vegetable garden, the result of crossing a brussels sprout and curly Kale resulting in a heathy and nutritious vegetable.
Tasty small green and purple sprouts with curly leaves ideal for adding to stir fries and traditional dishes alike.
What would the Christmas Turkey be without them? The older varieties of Brussels Sprouts have the best flavour, yet it is the modern hybrids that have the ability to hold the small tight buttons for a long time on the stem.
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Vegetable Seeds – Fennel Sweet Florence produces large, thick, round-ish bulbs with a distinctive aniseed flavour.
This mid-season variety, best sown early spring produces large white firm, crisp bulbs.
Delicious eaten raw or steamed – you can eat the bulbs, the leaves and the seeds!
Fennel Sweet Florence also creates an attractive addition to your borders.
Sow the florence fennel seeds direct outside in a well prepared sunny spot.
Sow seeds about 1 cm deep March-May when the temperatures reach 13-18°C and leave approximately 40cm between the rows.
When the fennel seedlings are large enough to handle, thin out leaving about 30 cm between the plants.
Keep the plants well watered especially in hot, dry periods.
You can use the leaves at any time, and harvest the seeds when they are fully ripe.
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Vegetable Seeds – Fennel Rondo F1 is a quick-maturing fennel that produces very uniform white bulbs of superb quality.
It is easy to grow and is virtually pest & disease-free, also benefitting from resistance to bolting!
Matures 70-80 days from sowing.
This variety is good for Summer and Autumn production.
Rondo F1 has a great aniseed flavour, and the foliage can also be used as a garnish or briefly blanched.
Superb when picked young to add flavour to salads, sauces and salsas.
Fennel bulbs can also be harvested as baby vegetables for a special tasty twist.
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Vegetable Seeds – Endive Pancalieri is a fantastic Frisée type lettuce-like favourite with a slightly more bitter, more flavourful taste.
Performs well throughout the year producing finely serrated green leaves with a crispy, white coloured heart and ribs.
Frisee types have curled, often deeply dissected leaves, while scarole types have broader leaves.
Sowing to Harvest in approximately 12 weeks.
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