Below are listed much-demanded seeds which do not readily fit into our other seed lists. We have not yet been able to find organic varieties of these seeds, or have room to grow them for seed ourselves. However, none of these seeds have any chemical treatment in the packet. They are untreated seeds and are therefore safe to handle. As with all our seeds, these below are open-pollinated and none are gene-modified.
ASPARAGUS PEA
Unusual winged pods. Picked tender and young for cooking whole. Grown as a regular pea variety. Approx S/C 40
£2.75
BEETROOT Golden
Golden beetroot that does not ‘bleed’. Very tender and good flavour. Grow as usual varieties. Approx S/C 120
£3.25
BROAD BEAN Crimson Flowered
Heritage variety with deep crimson flowers much loved by bees. Short upright sturdy pods. Produces a good crop of very tasty beans. S/C 40
£2.75
BROAD BEAN Karmarzyn
Unusual pink seeded variety. This compact growing bean will produce a bountiful crop of tasty colourful beans. S/C 40
£2.75
BROAD BEAN Masterpiece Green
Long pods with bright green beans of outstanding flavour. Gives an early and heavy crop. Best green-seeded variety. Grows well in most conditions. Spring sown. S/C 40
£2.75
BROAD BEAN Witkiem
For sowing in early spring and also later. Sturdy growth. Uniform pods. Top quality white beans, 5 to 6 per pod which are good for fresh or freezing. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Approx SC 40
£2.75
BURDOCK
Variety called Takinogawa. Large rooted selection of this unusual vegetable. Use young roots like parsnip. S/C 25
£3.25
CABBAGE SPRING GREENS Wheelers Imperial
Heavy yielding spring greens with large dark green leaves. Late summer sowing. Approx S/C 200
£3.25
CALALOO
Very decorative dark green leaf overlaid with shades of red. Ideal as alternative to spinach or young leaves for salad mixture. Used in Caribbean and Indian cookery. Approx S/C 100
£3.25
CAPE GOOSEBERRY
Grown in the same way as outdoor tomatoes. Easy to grow. Delicious fruits are extremely nutritious and full of vitamins. Picked when bright orange and really ripe. Eaten raw or can be stewed or made into jam. They store well in their husks. S/C 35
£3.25
CARROT Chantenay Red Cored
Short wedge shaped roots. Rich colour throughout. Delicious raw or cooked. High yield. Early maincrop. Approx S/C 400
£3.25
CAULIFLOWER Romanesco
Excellent pointed green variety producing small conical shaped heads. Approx S/C 50
£3.25
CELTUCE
Stem lettuce bred for the thick fleshy stem. It can be peeled and eaten raw or cooked into stir-fry or soup. Approx S/C 100
£3.25
COURGETTE Custard White
Patty Pan bush type. Fine flavoured creamy white fruits with scalloped edges. Pick when young for best results. S/C 15
£3.25
COURGETTE Tromboncino
Trailing variety of squash used as a courgette. Best trained up wires or trellis for the long fruit to hang down. Can reach a length of 1 metre. S/C 15
£3.25
CUCAMELON
Vigorous climber/trailer. Pest and drought resistant. Small cucumbers that have a watermelon flavour with a tinge of lime. Much easier to grow than ordinary cucumber. S/C 15
£3.25
CUCUMBER Lemon
Small yellow, lemon shaped cucs also popular with children. Quick growing and prolific. Continues to fruit until first frosts. S/C 25
£3.25
CUCUMBER Telegraph
Heritage variety. New improved strain of this popular prolific cucumber. S/C 5
£3.25
Dwarf French Bean ORINOCO
Yellow podded wax bean with pencil pods 13cm long. Early to medium maturity. Excellent variety. Very prolific and easy to pick. Disease resistant. Approx SC 40 ORGANIC SEED
£2.75
French Bean Climbing PYTHON
Produces long dark green glossy beans. Pods are 15-17cm long. Exceptional yield. Pods are carried in generous clusters, full of flavour, and over a long cropping time. S/C 40
£2.75
French Bean Dwarf PURPLE TEPEE
Pods form at the top of the plants so easy picking. Superb flavour. Very prolific. Can be sown early and again at end July for a late crop. Approx S/C 75
£2.75
LABLAB BEANS
Also called Hyacinth Beans. Very decorative plant that can grow up to 2 metres. The violet flowers are attractive and the purple pods are flat, blunt and slightly curved. Small young pods can be cooked and eaten whole. Often grown as an ornamental climbing plant up a trellis or over an arch. Lablab purpureus - different species to French bean.
£2.75
LEEK Musselburgh
Strong growing habit. Very winter hardy. Thick stems ready from December onwards. Approx S/C 100 ORGANIC SEED
£3.25
LETTUCE Buttercrunch
Light green heads with tender tasty leaves. Spring, early summer and autumn cropping. Good disease resistance. Approx S/C 400
£3.25
LETTUCE COS Little Gem
Mid-green shiny foliage. Dwarf compact habit. Excellent quality crisp leaves. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Approx S/C 300
£3.25
LETTUCE Freckles
A unique romaine type and very tasty. Early open pollinated lettuce with glossy green leaves with maroon splotches. Mature heads hold extremely well. Good for early or for late season sowing. Approx S/C 300
£3.25
LETTUCE Green Oak Leaf
Attractive oak-leaf shaped green leaves for cut-and-come-again. Cocarde type. Approx S/C 400
£3.25
LETTUCE Rougette de Montpelier
Green romaine type with a red tinge. Sow early or late season. Approx S/C 300
£3.25
LETTUCE Winter Density
Semi-cos type with dark green very crisp foliage. Ideal for late summer sowing. Approx S/C 200
£3.25
MANGETOUT Carouby de Maussane
Tall growing mangetout with attractive purple flowers. Large pods with good sweet flavour that do not go stringy. Height 150cm. Approx S/C 170 ORGANIC SEED
£2.75
MARROW Long Green Bush
Large dark green fruits with pale stripe. Not a trailing type. Excellent for stuffing. S/C 10
£3.25
MUSTARD SPINACH Komatsuna
KOMATSUNA Green Boy. Vigorous and quick growing Sow spring to late autumn. Ready in one month from sowing. Excellent dark green leaves. Approx S/C 250
£3.25
ONION North Holland Blood Red
Rich crimson outer skins with round generous bulbs. Very versatile onion - can be used young as a salad onion or left longer to bulb. Approx S/C 400
£3.25
ONION Spring Onion White Lisbon Winter Hardy
Salad bunching onion. Excellent salad onion with good white length. Slow to bulb. For spring/summer growing. Autumn to winter harvest. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Approx S/C 400
£3.25
ORIENTAL GREENS Green in Snow
Dark green jagged leaves with a peppery flavour. Very vigorous and very hardy. Sow in August and eat in winter. Approx S/C 200
£3.25
PEA BEAN
A multi-purpose bean. Pick pods when young and tender and cook whole. Or leave to swell and then shell out like peas. Or can leave seeds to dry in the pods and shell out for storing for use in winter casseroles. S/C 26
£2.75
PEA BEAN
A multi-purpose bean. Pick pods when young and tender and cook whole. Or leave to swell and then shell out like peas. Or can leave seeds to dry in the pods and shell out for storing for use in winter casseroles. Approx SC 26
£2.75
PEA Douce Provence
Very early round seeded pea. Excellent cropper. Can be sown from November to April. Height 45cm. Approx S/C 100
£2.75
PEA MANGETOUT Sugar Snap
Very sweet fat pods for cooking whole. Can also be left to grow on for shelling out like normal peas. Height 1.85m. Approx S/C 100
£2.75
PEA PETIT POIS Waverex
Produces small very sweet-tasting peas. Heavy cropper. Pods 7-9cm long usually with 7-8 peas in each. Approx S/C 300
£2.75
PEA SHOOTS Serge
A vining variety of pea that is semi-leafless and ideal for sweet tasting pea shoots. Grows fast in a seedtray on the windowsill. Cut at 12cm for adding to salads, sandwiches or soups. Approx S/C 100
£2.75
PEPPER Bird’s Eye
CHILLI PEPPER. Very hot chilli ! 100.000-220,000 Scoville heat units. Ripens from pale green to orange to vibrant red. Tall plants at one metre. S/C 15
£3.25
PEPPER Cherry Bomb
CHILLI PEPPER Early hot cherry type of chilli pepper 7cm diameter. Ripens green to bright red. S/C 10
£3.25
PEPPER Demon Red
CHILLI PEPPER. Ideal for pots. Very decorative with compact plant habit and upward growing fruit. Ripens green to red and very hot. Height and spread 35cm. Very prolific. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. S/C 15
£3.25
PEPPER Firecracker
CHILLI PEPPER. Productive and vigorous plants. Upright fruiting habit. Conical fruit up to 10cm length which ripen through purple and orange to deep red. Hot but fruity flavour. Indian chilli. Heavy fruiting. S/C 15
£3.25
PEPPER Hot Lemon
CHILLI PEPPER. Vigorous and very productive. Has a pronounced lemon flavour. One of the hottest baccatum varieties. S/C 15
£3.25
PEPPER Hungarian Black
CHILLI PEPPER. Black fruits ripening to red. Mildly hot with a delicious flavour. S/C 10
£3.25
PEPPER Scotch Bonnet
CHILLI PEPPER. Looks like a small scotch bonnet - hence the name! Very hot chilli. From green to red when ripe. Best grown under glass. S/C 15
£3.25
PUMPKIN Small Sugar
Enough for 4 people, or soup the following day! Sweet flavoured bright orange meaty flesh. Good ripening and very long storage. S/C 10
£3.25
RUNNER BEAN Firestorm
Sweeter and more tender than other runner bean varieties. Does well in good or poor summer! Best red-flowered runner bean and good for pollinators. Has the RHS Award of Garden Merit. S/C 35
£2.75
RUNNER BEAN Painted Lady
Old variety with top quality beans. Attractive red and white flowers. S/C 30
£2.75
SALSIFY
SALSIFY Sandwich Island. Long white tapering roots of smooth texture for winter use. S/C Approx 75
£3.25
SCORZONERA Duplex
Long black root vegetable with delicate flavour. Heavy yielding, very uniform with resistance to bolting. Approx S/C 40
£3.25
SEA KALE
Young leaf stalks and flowering stems are cooked rather like asparagus. Can be picked regularly from established plants. Sometimes blanched in early spring. Silvery blue-green leaves. Also ornamental with white flowerhead up to 1 metre. Needs good drainage. Perennial. S/C 8
£3.25
SQUASH Little Gem
Cricket ball size fruits with dark green skin. Wonderful flavoured flesh. Mature by mid August. Very prolific. Trailing habit. S/C 10
£3.25
SQUASH Marina di Chioggia
Medium sized fruits with knobbly grey-green skin. Flesh is yellow-orange. Excellent flavour and storage. S/C 10
£3.25
SQUASH Turks Turban
Brightly coloured squash often grown as an ornamental but very tasty when picked young and stuffed with rice. S/C 10
£3.25
SWEDE Marian
Globe shaped with purple skin colour and yellow flesh. Sow May/June for lifting February to April. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Approx S/C 150
£3.25
TOMATO Ailsa Craig
Greenback type with exceptional flavour. Early maturing. Medium size. Reliable heritage variety. S/C 30
£3.25
TOMATO Alicante
Early cropper with smooth skin and fleshy fruits. Cordon type. Very productive. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. S/C 30
£3.25
TOMATO Black Russian
Very dark red tomato, dark green at shoulders. Large fruit, beefsteak type. Delicious intense taste. Sweet and juicy. S/C 20
£3.25
TOMATO Garden Pearl
Delicious rosy-red, cherry-size fruits. Ideal to grow in hanging baskets. Early to crop and continues all season. S/C 20
£3.25
TOMATO Mascotka
Tumbling red cherry tomato suitable for hanging baskets Open pollinated variety. S/C 20
£3.25
TOMATO Patio Plum
Compact variety ideal for containers on balconies, windowsills and patios. Tasty mini-plum fruit throughout the growing season. This variety has the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. S/C 10
£3.25
TOMATO Red Alert
Bush growing variety for outdoors or unheated greenhouse. Early cropping with small very tasty red tomatoes. S/C 20
£3.25
TOMATO Tumbling Tom
A bush trailing variety for glasshouse or outdoors. Produces a great many delicious cherry size tomatoes. Ideal for tubs and baskets. S/C 10
£3.25
TOMATO Yellow Pear
Pear-shaped, small yellow fruits on tall-growing plants. Large trusses of sweet flavoured fruits. S/C 30
£3.25
YARD LONG BEANS
Very vigorous bean of a different type to French or runner beans. Best grown in a glasshouse or polytunnel as warmth is needed all season for this bean to do well. Produces very long thin pods that are stringless and very tasty. S/C 40
£2.75