Vegetable Seeds – Parsnip Tender and True produces large, straight, firm roots and is virtually coreless with a deliciously sweet flavour.
Tender and True also benefits from good canker resistance.
The long tapering roots grow beautifully straight in light, stone-free soils.
Height and spread: 45cm (18″).
Often considered to taste sweeter once it’s received a good frost.
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Carouby De Maussane is a superb, tall-growing, mangetout variety that produces large, sweet, very tender pods with a crisp texture and delightful flavour.
Carouby De Maussane produces attractive purple flowers that develop pods up to 11cm (4in) long.
Height: 150cm (60in) Spread: 80cm(32in).
Peas are at their very best when picked young.
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Douce Provence is a compact, very early, reliably heavy-cropping variety that produces superb-tasting peas with a succulent texture.
Douce Provence only reaches a height of 45cm so requires only minimal support.
When sown in Autumn/Winter, this variety will produce one of the earliest pea crops compared to some other varieties!
Douce Provence overwinters well, however, it benefits from added protection in cold winters to protect tender new shoots.
It can be sown from February to July to provide great successional sowing and crops later in May to October.
Water well when flowering and pick regularly to encourage further pods.
Pea Douce Provence makes an excellent variety for containers and pots.
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Early Onward is an RHS award-winning variety that produces prolific crops of round-ended pods packed full of peas with a succulent texture and sweet flavour.
Produces superb yields of straight pods approximately 8cm (3in) long, with 6-8 peas per pod.
Early Onward is a popular wrinkle-seeded variety that can be harvested some 2 weeks earlier than it’s relation, Onward.
Also perfectly suited to growing in pots, planters and containers although it does need support!
Early Onward will crop around 10 days earlier than the standard onward variety.
Height: 60cm (24in) Spread: 80cm (32in)
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Half Pint, also known as Tom Thumb, is a very dwarf variety, making it the perfect pea for pots, planters and containers.
This extremely compact variety produces full sized pods filled with gorgeous, bright green peas bursting with flavour!
Half Pint also has very good tolerance to cold.
Height: 35cm (14in). Spread: 40cm(16in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Hurst Greenshaft is an RHS award-winning variety that produces heavy crops of long, pointed pods filled with very tender, sweet peas.
Hurst Greenshaft is a real popular favourite variety that develops pods in pairs containing approximately 10 peas with a gorgeous, sweet flavour and suuculent texture.
To get the sweetest flavour, the peas are best cooked when picked young and cooked within 30 minutes of harvest.
Height: 60cm (24in) Spread: 70cm(30in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Kelvedon Wonder is an RHS award-winning variety that produces 2 pods per node with up to 8 delicious, succulent peas.
Kelvedon Wonder is a heavy-yielding, reliable variety well-suited to successional sowings throughout spring and perfect for June sowings.
This first early variety has good resistance to pea wilt and is tolerant to powdery mildew.
Height: 50cm (20in). Spread: 25cm (10in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Onward is an RHS award-winning dwarf variety that produces masses of old-fashioned marrowfat peas with a superb texture and flavour.
Onward is a well-established, hugely popular, dwarf pea variety well-suited to the UK and is even exhibition-worthy!
This variety also benefits from great disease resistance.
Onward pea is the most popular of garden peas that produces plump blunt-ended pods, produced in pairs with large peas.
Height: 75cm (30in) Spread: 60cm (24in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Pea Oregon Sugar Pod is an RHS award-winning variety that produces large, fleshy, double pods with a deliciously sweet flavour.
Oregon Sugar Pod is a real grower’s favourite producing bountiful yields over a long growing season.
This variety also has good resistance to mildew.
They’re at their best when picked young while tender and stringless.
Perfect for salads, steaming and stir fries!
Height: 90cm (35in). Spread: 25cm (10in).
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Vegetable Seeds – Radicchio – Chicory Palla Rossa is a mediterranean favourite that produces a tangy, slightly bitter flavoured leaf.
A real favourite in Italian cuisine, Chicory is usually eaten grilled with olive oil, or mixed into dishes such as risotto.
It can also be served with pasta, or be used in strudel, as a poultry stuffing or an ingredient in tapenade.
Chicory also makes a superb, vibrant ingredient in salads!
Chicory’s roots, after roasting and grinding, can be used as a coffee substitute or coffee additive.
As the round heads mature they develop that beautiful red colouration.
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Vegetable Seeds – Runner Bean Benchmaster is an RHS award-winning variety that produces bountiful crops of long, slender pods with a superb flavour and texture.
Benchmaster is real favourite with growers and a top quality British-bred variety with vivid red flowers that develop into straight, smooth pods of over 40cm (16″) in length!
This variety is also perfectly suited to freezing.
Height: 3m (10′). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Runner Bean Butler is a superb variety with a vigorous growing habit that crops over a long period that produces medium-length, very fleshy pods which are quite stringless.
Butler is also one of the most attractive runner beans available. This variety will brighten-up your garden with a mosaic of scarlet flowers.
Also ideal for freezing.
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