Plants & Seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Merveille De Quatre Saisons seeds An old variety with a big, open structure and beautiful, crumpled bronze outer leaves around a good heart. Excellent flavour. For serial sowing, three or four times from early spring to autumn, for picking almost all year. Sow now into guttering. Lettuce Merveille De Quatre Saisons seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Reine De Glace seeds A lettuce with a superb crunch and sweet flavour. Harvest it leaving the root in the ground and it will sprout leaves again. Sow now into guttering. Lettuce Reine De Glace seeds

£1.95 Mizuna seeds Its sharply serrated, bright green leaves look lovely in the salad bowl. An essential desert island plant in my garden, for sowing and growing all year. Mizuna seeds

£1.95 Mustard Osaka Purple Organic seeds An elegant, indented small leaf version of Mustard 'Red Giant' which we now prefer to the original. Lovely as a baby leaf raw or cooked in stir fries and soups. Mustard Osaka Purple Organic seeds

£1.95 Nasturtium Tip Top Mahogany seeds Nasturtium flower buds and young leaves have a strong peppery flavour, excellent in a mixed leaf salad. This variety has the brightest green leaf, contrasting strongly to the orange-crimson edible flower. Mid to late spring sowing for summer and autumn picking. It will lightly self-sow. Nasturtium Tip Top Mahogany seeds

£1.95 Rocket Salad seeds The well-known peppery salad leaf, which is good raw, or wilted over pasta or pizza. It runs up to flower quickly in the heat, so dont grow it in the summer, but sow it in the autumn for picking in the autumn, winter and early spring. Rocket Salad seeds

£1.95 Rocket Wild seeds Slower growing rocket, with thinner leaves, which is fine, if protected against flea beetle, for picking in the summer. Rocket Wild seeds

£1.95 Sorrel Buckler Leaf seeds The small, tender leaved sorrel with intensely delicious lemony flavour. Superb raw or very quickly cooked in cream for sorrel sauce, delicious with fish or chicken. For serial sowing, three or four times from early spring to late summer, for picking in summer and autumn. Sorrel Buckler Leaf seeds

£1.95 Spring Onion North Holland Blo seeds The best spring onion you can grow, with rich-crimson outer skins and round, generous bulbs. I love them raw or griddled. An excellent companion plant for carrots to avert the carrot root fly. For serial sowing with carrots, three or four times from early spring to autumn. Spring Onion North Holland Blo seeds

£1.95 Viola Heartsease seeds Keep picking these mini pansy flowers to decorate salads and puddings for four or five months at a stretch.It will self-sow. A very hardy plant, for sowing, growing and picking flowers, even in winter Viola Heartsease seeds

£1.95 Winter Purslane Lettuce seeds Heart shaped leaves with delicious mild flavour and succulent texture. This is as happy as Larry growing outside, even in the depths of winter and will self sow. Runs up to flower quickly in the heat, so dont grow it in the summer, but its a must for autumn sowing for picking in the autumn, winter and early spring. Sow now into guttering. Wint

£1.95 Florence Fennel Romanesco seeds Hardy annual. This is a later summer sowing variety which forms the largest, most succulent bulbs. Serial sow a few times until late July for cropping through the autumn. Cut, leaving an inch of bulb in the ground and they'll bulb up again in spring. Florence Fennel Romanesco seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Cos Pinokkio Organic seeds A lovely mini Cos which has now outdone 'Little Gem' in our trials for taste and crunch and slowness to bolt and so replaced it. Try the hearts sautéed with Prosciutto and peas (see p115 Garden Cookbook) as well as eating them raw in a mixed leaf salad or dipped into humus. Lettuce Cos Pinokkio Organic seeds

£1.95 Sorrel French seeds Hardy perennial. Delicious in salads and soups, sow this now for young leaves in the autumn and winter. Sorrel French seeds

£1.95 Summer Purslane seeds Round, fleshy stalks bear rosettes of succulent, slighty nutty tasting leaves. A good, mild and crunchy addition to a mixed leaf salad. Early spring sowing for spring, summer and autumn picking. Sow now into guttering. Summer Purslane seeds

£1.95 Borage seeds The classic, blue flower to decorate Pimms, summer drinks (freeze it in ice cubes) and puddings. Its a lovely plant, which prolifically self-sows. You wont need to sow again. Hardy annual. Borage seeds

£1.95 Climbing Nasturtium Black Velvet seeds Half-hardy annual. A sumptuous, rich almost-black trailing nasturtium with an edible flower that makes fantastic tempura. Sow now for picking in late summer and autumn. Climbing Nasturtium Black Velvet seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson seeds My favourite large, crunchy hearting lettuce that did exceptionally well in our lettuce trials, growing well as a cut-and-come-again leaf through the winter as well as summer and spring. Sow now into guttering. Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson seeds

£1.95 Lettuce Red Sails seeds Lovely flavoured and textured red lettuce, good for the colder months of the year. Lettuce Red Sails seeds

£1.95 Mustard Golden Streaks seeds This peppery-tasting mild leaf is one of the best looking of the many new varieties I tried last year. Even quite large, the leaves never get too strong or bitter. Mustard Golden Streaks seeds

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