Lettuce

Info: Lettuce Iceberg produces forms large, loose heads with beautiful bright green outer leaves. A popular iceberg variety amongst amateur gardeners as it is slow to bolt even in hot conditions, and performs reliably whether the...

Info: `Sunset` is an attractive loose-leafed vivid lettuce with crinkled red leaves, that will remind you of a sunset`s intense red colours. It has very good flavour with nice texture and is the favorite of many gardeners. It is a...

Info: Lettuce `Romaine Jericho` was developed in Israel and has brilliant green leaves that remain sweet even through the heat of summer. Additionally, it is tolerant to powdery mildew and downy mildew as well as it has excellent...

Info: `Red Cimmaron Romaine` is a beautiful red Romaine that produces up to 30 cm heads of bronze-red with a green heart. It is a heirloom dating back to the 1700s and good for spring, summer and fall planting as it`s cold-hardy...

Info: The Lettuce `Black Seeded Simpson` is one of the earliest and the hardiest of all lettuce varieties. In addition, it was named the tastiest lettuce in the UK by the newspaper Daily Telegraph in 2006. It is suitable for...

Info: Chicory `Red Ball Averto` is a select strain from Italy known for its beautiful red heads and excellent flavour. Usually, this variety is summer sown for autumn to winter harvesting. The outer leaves are peeled away to find...

Info: Chopsuey Green Shungiku is a fast-growing annual spice and ornamental chrysanthemum plant from Asia whose leaves, flowers and buds are edible. They have an intense spicy taste with notes of carrot, parsley and celery. In East...

Info: Rocket has a peppery nutty taste and is excellently suited for picking salad. Used fresh it adds a peppery note to salads. It is ideal as a bed for seafood but also makes a wonderful salad on its own. Cooked lightly it can be...

Info: Wild rocket has much more serrated leaves and stronger flavour than the normal Rocket. The plants grow reliable, vigorous and uniform and produce long slender, deeply lobed leaves continuously from spring through to autumn....

Info: Rocket `Green Brigade` is a refined variety of the classic salad rocket type. Its thick, dark green leaves have a mild flavour and good texture. They have an oval shape when young and become indented at maturity. Used fresh...

Info: Cabbage `Wintergreen` is a spring greens cabbage type with bright green and very crisp foliage. It forms oval, large, solid heads with deep green very crunchy hearts full of flavour. This variety is winter hardy and can...

Info: Lettuce `Winter Density` is a semi-cos or romaine type with dark green and very crisp foliage. It forms oval, large, solid heads with deep green very crunchy hearts full of flavour. This variety is winter hardy and can remain...

Info: `Parris Island Cos` is a Romaine lettuce that is beloved by growers, because of its crisp, super uniform, upright and sweetly scrumptious leaves and its large and slender heads. The tender crisp leaves with delicate white...

Info: Red Salad Bowl is a quick growing multi-leaf type with deep red leaves. It is a long-standing, slow-to-bolt and early maturing lettuce that grows well all season and can be harvested over period of time. Its maroon-red,...

Info: Lettuce `New Red Fire` has sweet frilly leaves with a light green base deeply filled in wine red. It is a popular choice amongst growers for its excellent uniformity and its superb taste. The heads grow relatively slowly, but...

Info: A good economic, single packet with a mixture of butterhead, cos, crisp and loose leaf types to give you a spread of varieties and textures in one row. Sowing & cultivation : Sow outdoors successively between March to...

Info: Lollo Bionda and Lollo Rosso lettuce have nice loose heads and very curly leaves. They are originally from Italy, where the variety Bionda has light green leaves and the variety Rosso is reddish-brown. Both have tender leaves...

Info: Lollo Bionda and Lollo Rosso lettuce have nice loose heads and very curly leaves. They are originally from Italy, where the variety Bionda has light green leaves and the variety Rosso is reddish-brown. Both have tender leaves...

Info: `Lobjolts` is a tall growing roman or cos variety that forms tall, large heads with deep green very crunchy hearts. It is highly suited for box work, early outdoor production in spring as well as for polytunnel in late...

Info: `Bowl` is a highly ornamental Oakleaf variety which produces large uniform heads for summer and autumn use. The thick leaves have good flavour and texture and the compact plants will grow easily in a pot as well as in the...

Info: Rocket `Dragons Tongue` is a British bred rocket with red-purple veined leaves with a peppery taste. Ideal used as a `cut and come again` variety as slow to bolt allowing harvesting over a long period. This variety grows...

Info: Rhubarb Chard is a vegetable similar to Swiss Chard. It easy to grow, very decorative and tasty. It is a bright broad leaved chard with crimson coloured stems. Eat the young leaves in salads and save the larger leaves for...

Info: Lettuce `Tom Thumb` is a heirloom that dates to the 1850`s. This unusual miniature butterhead lettuce produces heads about the size of a grapefruit with dark green, somewhat fleshy outer leaves that wrap around a creamy...

Info: Rape lettuce is a cabbage variety that has a superb leaf with a mild crunchy texture and a piquant flavour, ideal for mixed baby salad leaf stage. It is also suitable for stewing in butter as a vegetable side dish. Sowing...

Info: Radicchio Palla rossa is a classic Italian autumn and witer salad. It grows in round heads with large leaves, changing its colour from green to red when the weather becomes cooler. The stems remain in a pure white. If it...

Info: Summer Purslane is a fast-growing herbaceous annual with thick, fleshy, oval leaves. It was cultivated in Europe as far back as the Middle Ages, but fell victim to alternatives like spinach. In addition to the crispy texture...

Info: Summer Purslane is a fast-growing herbaceous annual with thick, fleshy, oval leaves. It was cultivated in Europe as far back as the Middle Ages, but fell victim to alternatives like spinach. In addition to the crispy texture...

Info: "Wasabi" rocket is a new development with a flavour that`s surprisingly similar to wasabi or horseradish. Compared to standard Wild Rocket, this strain is more vigorous. Sowing & cultivation : Sow outdoors successively...

Info: Thousandhead is a kale variety that has a superb leaf with a mild crunchy texture, ideal for mixed baby salad leaf stage. It is also suitable for stewing in butter as a vegetable side dish. This very hardy, frost resistant...

Info: Namenia is a cabbage variety that has a superb leaf with a mild crunchy texture, ideal for mixed baby salad leaf stage. It is also suitable for stewing in butter as a vegetable side dish. Sowing & cultivation : sow from...

Info: Catalogna is a highly ornamental Oakleaf variety which produces masses of deeply lobed leaves which are perfect for baby leaf salads. The thick leaves have good flavour and texture and the compact plants will grow easily in a...

Info: In fact, everyone knows it: the dandelion, which in spring is one of the first plants with its bright yellow flowers to form entire carpets and later forms the beautiful spherical seed heads whose flying parachutes can be...