Blue Lake is a tasty, climbing french green bean. The strong growing plants will produce 7 - 11 inch long green pods over the summer months. Productive plants, a really great addition to your garden or allotment plot. Beans are a good source of vitamins A and K. Always cook before eating....

This variety, White Lisbon, is very quick cropping traditional salad onion with white stems and bright green tops. Can be sown from early spring, in the summer and in the autumn too. Very hardy spring onion, can be overwintered under cloches, in protected areas. Onions have anti-bacterial and...

Lobjoits Green is a traditional large cos/romaine type lettuce. Established variety, very easy to grow. Produces deep green, crunchy hearts. Uniform production.

Sow the Lobjoits romaine seeds from February onwards. 0.5 cm deep leaving 30 cm between rows. Sow first under protection, in...

Japanese bunching oinon (Allium fistulosum) has long white stalks and short green tops. It is a bunching type so doesn't produce bulbs but a clumps of long stems even if left in for longer.

No need for successional sowings, just sow in spring and harvest all year. RHS Award of Garden...

If you like sweet peas because of their fine scent, this is the must-have mixture. The ultimate mix of the most perfumed heirloom sweet pea varieties, selected especially for their highly scented blooms.

Sow in seed compost, January-March under glass or in April-May outdoors for flowers...

Swiss chard Rainbow Mixed has got many different coloured stems and leaves. Closely related to beetroot but has a small inedible root and grown for its attractive and mild flavoured leaves. The leaves can be harvested as baby leaf or fully grown.

Can be treated as a cut and come again...

Alicante is an early variety. The vigorous plants produce masses of delicious, greenback free tomatoes. Excellent variety for the UK climate, can be grown very successfully outside. A traditional variety.

Sow the Alicante tomato seed about 1 cm deep into a tray or in small pots or...

Golden Sunrise tomato seeds are suitable to grow outised in the UK. Produces medium sized yellow fruits, which have excellent sweet taste with fleshy consistence. Royal Horticultural Society Award winner, so deserves a place in the vegetable garden. Golden Sunrise is an indeterminate/cordon...

Cauliflower All Year Around is an easy to grow cauliflower. Ideal for freezing and for summer shows. Well know variety in many British gardens. The perfect veg seed to sow for all year around production. Medium sized heads and protective outer leaves.

Sow cauliflower seeds in compost in...

Spinach Medania is an easy to grow spinach and has deep green, crunchy leaves. Crops for a long period in well drained soil and if watered well in dry weather. If you love spinach, sow the seeds every two weeks to have a continous supply of fresh young leaves. Excellent taste and texture,...

Coriander, also commonly called cilantro, is a must have annual herb of the family Apiaceae.

Coriander is an essential ingredient in many Asian recipes and both the leaves and seeds are edible.

Coriander seeds can be sown and grown indoors in a container or outdoors in a home...

A cool chilli from Peru, the upright plants produce dark brown fruits which are mild to medium hot and have a great flavour. If you are new to growing chillies, this is not the easiest to start with. Can be grown successfully outdoors in a sheltered spot in hot summers in your vegetable...

Cavolo de Nero, Black Tuscan Cabbage, Nero di Toscana is a popular kale in the UK and used as a cut and come again crop. Very dark green, curly leaves. Easy to grow and delicious as baby leaves for salads or left for very winter hardy mature plants. Kale is a brilliant leaf vegetable, great...

San Marzano is considered by many to be the best variety to make sauce with in the world. The fruit is thinner and more pointed than that of the Roma tomato; and the low seed density in the fruits, meaty flesh and sweet flavour make this an ideal variety for making...

Tigerella has red skin with orange stripes when ripe. A slightly unusual looking vegetable, easy to grow from seeds in the garden or allotment plot. Suitable for greenhouse and outdoor production. A heavy cropper and about 2 weeks earlier than moneymaker. Completely greenback free, tangy...

Very easy to grow, hardy winter vegetable. Early purple sprouting broccoli and green sprouting calabrese contain lots of antioxidants and are high in Vitamins C, A.Provide many delicious purple spears during late winter and early spring when other vegetables are not available in your...