Vegetable Seeds

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...

Celeriac Giant Prague is an heirloom variety that was introduced in 1871 and is still perhaps one of the standard cultivars. The roots have a slight taste of celery (which it is related to but is easier to grow) and aniseed. The leaves are celery-like. It has large, white, 5”...

Celery Celebrity is a self blanching type with short stalks. Quick to mature for the earliest outdoor crops, it has consistently high yields of superb quality stalks with a lovely flavour. Has very little stringiness. The wild celery plant - from which cultivated varieties are selected - is found on boggy...

  Chicory Brussels Witloof is a heritage variety of chicory which resembles a cos lettuce. Excellent for forcing and easy to grow, the seed is sown in spring in a shallow drill.  The carrot-like roots are harvested in November and stored in a cool place. 3 or 4 weeks before...

  Chicory Pain de Sucre, also known as Sugarloaf,  is a large, leafy variety of chicory which resembles a cos lettuce. It is a good alternative for late-season salads but it will only stand mild frosts. As the name suggests it has a sweeter taste than most chicories which tend to...

  Chicory Palla Rossa is a traditional Radicchio type. It has firm, cabbage-like hearts with red-maroon and white leaves giving colour and crunchiness to salads. Palla Rossa has probably the best colour of all the radicchio types and can also be grown as baby-leaf for salad mixes. It matures in...

Chicory Variegata di Castelfranco is an ancient Heritage variety developed in the 18th century in the Castelfranco region of Northern Italy. One of the best for eating quality. A very decorative variety that produces attractive, rosette-shaped heads with an appearance is best described as a large, tie-dyed cricket ball, leaves are speckled...

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 All Green Bush is a very reliable, quick-growing, dark-skinned variety that's compact and so perfect for pots. Courgette All Green Bush is quick to mature and will crop all summer long and with regular harvesting. The abundant, dark-skinned fruits of Courgette 'All green Bush' should be harvested as baby courgettes...

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 Defender F1 is an excellent variety that produces lots of mid-dark green fruits with lovely firm flesh. It is a very easy to grow, compact plant with an open habit so the courgettes are easy to see & pick. Courgette Defender is a versatile gardeners' favourite because it is...

Courgette Early Gem F1 produces a very early crop of dark green fruits with a lighter green stripe. It is a dual-purpose plant as the fruits can be left to form good shaped marrows. The courgette is probably the most popular form of all the marrow family. Picked young it can...

Courgette Eight Ball F1 seeds germinate quickly, easily and grow to produce unusual top quality round, forest green courgettes that are at their best when picked at about 10cm round. Courgette Eight Ball F1 is a compact bush plant that doesn't sprawl like some courgettes and so does very well...

Courgette Gold Rush with its shining golden-yellow, banana-like fruits (best cut when between 10-15cm in length), with creamy-white, nicely flavoured flesh, prolifically produced on relatively compact plants, this is a very fine variety that should prove very popular. Try it raw, thinly sliced in place of cucumber, in a salad.  Gold...

Courgette One Ball F1 is an unusual round, bright yellow courgette that is a very easy to grow. It produces lots of uniform fruits on a compact plant from early July to October. This compact variety does not sprawl all over the veg plot like some courgette plants and as...

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...

Mmmm, not sure about the name but it is reputed to have 'no repeats.' Cucumber Burpless Tasty Green is a real winner in other ways it is an excellent variety to grow outdoors and is easy to grow. It has a crisp outer skin with a sweet juicy centre that...

Cucumber Bush Champion is a real winner for those with either small spaces or growing in containers and raised beds. Bush Champion produces an abundance of 20cm cucumbers from about a third of the normal space that a traditional cucumber plant takes up. It has a crisp outer skin with...