Heritage Seeds

Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia is a reliable 'old favourite' variety with gardeners and highly rated with the RHS who gave it a well earned AGM in 1995 and reconfirmed its status in 2011 trials for its performance & high yields. Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia produces glossy plump bean pods that...

Broad Bean Crimson Flowered is a gorgeous heritage variety that dates back to 1777. It produces beautiful crimson flowers that will brighten up any ornamental edible garden and produces a good quantity of tasty broad beans too! Broad Bean Crimson Flowered produces upright, short pods with 3-4 beans per pod...

Carrots are one of the best tasting veg to pick fresh from your garden. Carrot Early Nantes 2 will not disappoint as it has a lovely sweet flavour with very little core and is a blunt end variety that can reach a length of 15cm. It is a 2nd early/maincrop...

Carrot ‘Paris Market Atlas’ is an improved variety of the 19th century French heirloom, an early Parisian Market-type carrot that feature the traditional globe shape roots. Smooth, round, bite-sized and instantly recognisable, this very flavoursome variety has a deep-crisp refreshing taste. They are ideal for growing in containers and shallow, hard...

Cauliflower has lost much of its popularity recently which is a shame as it is one of the most successful veg that can grow all year round in Britain. Many chefs are promoting it with new imaginative recipes but 'cauliflower cheese' is still a tasty option just don't overcook it....

Cauliflower Snowball is described as an early cauliflower, Snowball is in fact far more versatile than that and can be used for spring, summer, autumn and winter production. A dwarf compact plant that can be set closer than other cauliflowers.First bred in America in the 1890s there probably still isn't a...

Peter is a very interesting little chilli that makes a great conversation piece in the garden or in the kitchen due to its distinctively phallic shape, hence its name. The green juvenile fruits mature to an orange or bright red and have a mildly hot flavour. Preferring partial shade and...

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...

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...

Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson is a wonderful heritage variety that can be traced back to the 1850's. It is a tall, large crisphead type that has light green wrinkled, crunchy leaves and so makes a perfect lettuce for those who like a bit of bite to their salad leaves. It...

Lettuce Freckles is an unusual semi-cos heritage variety that has bright green leaves with splodges of burgundy/red - the red darkens as the lettuce leaf matures. An excellent 'cut & come again' variety - just snip a few leaves at a time to ensure fresh new leaf production. It can...

Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons is also sometimes listed as 'Merville de Quatre Saison' as it originates from France. It is an easy to grow heritage variety (1885) that can be harvested nearly all year round. Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons produces medium/large butterhead type lettuces with deep crimson outer...

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....

Tomato Artisan Tiger Stripe Mix is an American Heritage cherry tomato that is sure to create excitement with its extraordinary beauty and superb flavour. Fruits are blush, green and tiger pink striped. Well suited for growing in a greenhouse or outside, they will set heavy crops of 2-3cm pear shaped fruits...

Tomato Black Moon F1 (Solanum lycopersicum), is an extraordinary heritage indeterminate tomato variety that will captivate gardeners. Known by its Latin name Solanum lycopersicum, Tomato Black Moon F1 is a unique and sought-after addition to any garden, offering a fusion of exceptional flavour and striking visual appeal. Tomato Black Moon...

Tomato 'Cherokee Purple' is a Heritage variety that is at least 100 years old and was originally grown by the Cherokee Indians in America. A meaty classic tomato that produces enormous 350gr fruit which have a pink colour and turn to purple on the shoulders as they ripen. The fruit have...

Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino is an old Italian heirloom tomato. A meaty beefsteak tomato that is ideal for all types of Mediterranean-style recipes. The red flesh is firm and sweet, juicy and fragrantly delicious. This variety also copes well with British weather and it is easier to grow than most larger...

Tomato 'Cuore di Bue' is an ox-heart variety that produces orange-red fruit that can weigh up to 200gr. It is a strain of an old Italian heirloom tomato famed in Liguria, Northern Italy. A meaty beefsteak tomato that is ideal for all types of Mediterranean style recipes. Tomato Cuore Di Bue...