Spinach Medania has large mid to dark green leaves that are slightly blistered. The leaves measure about 17cm by 11cm wide when mature and taste mildly sweet & earthy but are juicy and tender. Spinach Medania produces lots of high quality leaves. It can be harvested young as micro leaves...

Salad Rocket or Plain Rocket (Arugula) has long dark green serrated leaves and the usual peppery flavour associated with rocket. It is quick to crop and so easy to grow, just regularly pick fresh individual leaves as required to ensure new leaves continue to grow. There is no need for bags...

Radish French Breakfast is an easy to grow and quick to crop veg that can pep up your salad (the leaves can be used in salads too!) It is a long oval type with white tips that have a flavour of medium intensity. Radishes don't need much space and are...

Pak Choi Red Choi F1 is a colourful purple/red leaved variety with bright green stems that looks as attractive in the garden as on a dinner plate. It is easy to grow, slow to bolt and quick to crop, a tasty little leaf with a mild cabbage flavour. Pak choi...

Lettuce All Year Round is a butterhead lettuce with lovely compact crisp hearts. As the name suggests, it can be sown all year round - Autumn sown ones will need to be sown under cover but will be ready to harvest in the spring. Can be sown March-August and excellent...

Rocket Voyager has thin, serrated dark green leaves that are not only very similar in appearance to wild rocket but also has the distinctive hot peppery flavour. Rocket Voyager is very fast and easy to grow. It can be ready to pick in 25-30 days for young baby leaf production...

It's fascinating to think that many of the vegetable varieties we grow today are over 100 years old and have stood the test of time for flavour and reliability. Heritage (Heirloom) vegetable seeds are growing in popularity and a topic of much debate as to what a 'heritage' variety is....

Kale 'Red Ruble' has been specially bred for the salad leaf market and makes a quick growing colourful tasty salad leaf with its' wine-red serrated foliage. Although it can be grown to mature leaf size it is not as suited to large leaf production as it loses its intense colour...

Mizuna is a quick growing oriental leaf that has a sweet, mild mustardy taste that gets stronger as the wide serrated (similar to rocket) leaves mature. The baby-leaves can be used raw in salads or the larger leaves can be added last minute to stir-fries. It is increasing in popularity...

Landcress also known as American Land Cress is a quick to crop salad type leaf that only takes between 7-8 weeks to begin cropping. It has a similar peppery flavour to watercress and is often used as a substitute for watercress in recipes but it is much easier to grow....

Lettuce Green Salad Bowl is a loose-leaf open hearted variety (lots of individual leaves) with light green frilled leaves. It grows to a height of 15cm and as its name suggests it looks great and is well suited to growing in a container. Lettuce Green Salad Bowl should be picked...

Our Vegetable Seed Allotment Pack offers a comprehensive range of 20 seed varieties covering all the essentials and a few 'unusuals' for you to grow throughout the year. New to growing your own? Just got your first allotment? Or just need some help deciding on what to grow? Then our...

Daikon Radish, also known as Mooli is a long, large white radish with a sweet, light peppery taste similar to turnip crossed with radish. It is a root vegetable that grows to about 30cm long by 10cm wide and is very easy and quick to grow, taking 4-6 weeks from...

Corn salad is also known as Lambs Lettuce or Mache. It's low growing with small thick dark green leaves that have a delicate nutty flavour. The leaves make a useful addition to a mixed winter salad. Corn salad prefers cool moist conditions and is easy to sow from mid-August to...

Lettuce Winter density is a compact semi-cos variety. It has dark green hearts with crisps leaves with a very sweet flavour. It has excellent winter hardiness and should be sown outside in September to crop the following March to April. It is also suitable for sowing March to July for...

Turnips have become a very fashionable vegetable served as a baby-veg by top class chefs in their restaurants and on TV programmes like Masterchef where dinner plates are dressed to impress. Turnip Tokyo Cross makes an ideal variety to grow at home with its round white roots, smooth skin and...

Carrot Amsterdam Forcing is a quick maturing variety and is ideal for growing early crops under cloches or cold frames. The high quality, small cylindrical roots can be harvested at baby size for deep orange-red carrots with a sweet flavour and virtually no core, making them an ideal variety for...