Heritage Seeds

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...

Courgette Chiaro di Nizza is an Italian heritage variety that is easy to grow and very productive. It produces unusual pale green round courgettes that are their very best when about 10cm round cricket ball sized. Courgette Chiaro di Nizza is a compact trailing plant that requires little maintenance other...

Courgette Tromboncino Albenga if the name of this Italian heritage variety didn't make you want to have a go at growing this easy to grow veg than maybe the fact it looks so fun (like a trombone) and is also so versatile in the kitchen will! Courgette Tromboncino Albenga can...

Cucamelons are small grape-sized fruits that have the taste of cucumbers with a hint of lime and the shape of a mini watermelon with a patterned green shaded skin. Cucamelons have a hard outer skin with a crunchy texture and are perfect eaten raw in salads, pickled like gherkins, added...

Edamame 'Green Shell' are immature Soya beans that are picked and cooked in their pods, the beans are then shelled from their pod to eat (the pods are not usually eaten). These nutty tasting beans have a creamy texture when cooked rather like a Broad Bean and they are great...

Endive Encornet de Bordeaux Seeds are the fine old French heirloom variety with large broad leaves. Extremely hardy, making it particularly suitable for early spring sowing directly into the ground, and lasting well for picking into autumn and winter. It's a fantastic addition to any salad and you may find other...

Kale Cottagers  was once a staple of the 19th century cottagers’ diet, this ‘perennial’ kale has fallen out of favour simply because the leaves don't store well for sale. Packed with vitamins and minerals, this heritage superfood supplies tasty green leaves with purple stems all through the winter followed by a...

Kale Black Tuscany, also known as Cavolo Nero, is a great easy-care veg that is packed full of vitamins. It has a long harvest period from the summer through the winter (it is hardy to -15C) to early spring when it will bolt and flower. The flowers can be eaten...

Kale Dwarf Green Curled is one of the most beautiful Kale we grow. A Heritage variety introduced before 1865. This compact curly Kale is ideal for growing in windswept gardens or on poor soils. Kale 'Dwarf Green Curled' produces attractive, dark, tightly frilled leaves of excellent quality. Like all Kale,...

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...

Leek Hannibal is a reliable variety that crops heavily & early from mid July to mid October. It has long thick white shafts and dark green leaves. Grow close together and harvest early as an excellent baby leek. Leeks are an excellent crop for winter and add flavour to many...

The Leek 'Musselburgh' is a reliable old favourite that tastes excellent. Leek Seeds 'Musselburgh' produces solid white stems and is the main stay of vegetable production through the lean winter period. It is a very heavy cropper. Leek Seeds 'Musselburgh' Information Seed Quantity: Approx 200 seeds per pack. Site: Any...

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...

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 Little Gem produces small, crisp & crunchy compact lettuces with dark green leaves that are considered to be the sweetest of all lettuces. Lettuce Little Gem is a quick maturing mini Cos type lettuce which can be sown in March/April to give an early crop in May/June or sown...

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...