March
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Borage, Blue, Borago officinalis, Organic
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue Borage€2.25The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers of Borage are edible with a cool cucumber flavour. Use them as garnish in fruit cups, summer drinks, wines and Pimms. Garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its flower! Organic Seeds. -
Borage, Borago officinalis alba, White Borage
Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage€2.15The herb borage is a well known annual. Not so well known is the equally beautiful form 'alba' which boast pure white, perfectly star-shaped flowers. Each flower is centred by five black stamens which heighten the drama. The flowers are edible, garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its white flower.
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Borage, Borago officinalis, Blue and White Mix
Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage€2.25The herb borage is a well known annual with beautiful blue flowers. Not so well known and not often written about is the equally beautiful form 'alba' which boast pure white, perfectly star-shaped flowers. This mixed pack of seeds gives both blue and white forms.
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Borage, Borago officinalis, Blue Borage
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue BorageStarting at: €1.95
Borage is one of the most reliable sources of blue flowers, often flowering lavishly for weeks after sowing. The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers are edible and very important for bees, providing pollen and nectar in prodigious amounts.
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Broccoli 'Extra Early Purple Sprouting Rudolph'
Sprouting Broccoli€3.95Out of stock
Extra-Early Purple Sprouting 'Rudolph' is bred to perform well in the September to February period but is at its best from November to February. With medium to large, deep purple, succulent spears that have outstanding flavour, team with Cardinal for a longer harvest period.
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Broccoli 'Italian Green Sprouting'
Green Sprouting Broccoli
Heritage (1918)€1.95This lovely, old fashioned Broccoli variety is a very disease resistant, very hardy and very prolific producer of large dark green heads. Italian Green Sprouting Broccoli is very easy to grow and will produce a number of good-size side shoots once the initial head is harvested.
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Broccoli raab, Rapini, Cima di Rapa
Broccoli rabe Sessantina
Heritage (Italian 1930's)€1.95Flourishing famously in Mediterranean and Chinese cultures, elsewhere Raab is still a bit of a curiosity. Easy and fast growing, it can be useful as it comes ready when ordinary broccoli isn't available, but this isn't just a replacement for broccoli, it is a great vegetable in its own right.
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Broccoli, Calabrese, 'Belstar F1' Organic
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€3.50Calabrese Broccoli ‘Belstar F1’ is a superb organic variety. The compact plants have round domes, small to medium beads and short flowering stems with a thick main stalk. Ideal for short-stemmed crown cuts or florets they have an excellent flavour. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Broccoli, Calabrese, 'Ironman F1'
Green Broccoli, Heading Broccoli€2.70Out of stock
A vast improvement on the older varieties. Calabrese Ironman F1 possesses the usual advantages of a hybrid - vigorous habit with excellent uniformity and high yields of larger than normal heads. Producing excellent quality, uniform dense heads and a very good dome shape. Harvest late June to November.
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Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Rioja F1' Organic
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Out of stock
Bred for its prowess at overwintering, Purple Sprouting Broccoli ‘Rioja F1’ is a compact, very productive plant with a bushy habit, which produces very high quality, brightly-coloured spears. It will give an early spring crop from mid-February if transplanted in July and August. Organic Seed. -
Broccoli, Purple Sprouting 'Santee F1' Organic
Purple Sprouting Broccoli€3.50Purple Sprouting Broccoli ‘Santee F1’ is an overwintering type suitable for late autumn crops in most regions and winter crops in mild areas. It does not require exposure to cold as some of the later varieties do and consequently it will crop in the same year it is planted. Organic Seed. -
Brussels Sprout 'Doric F1' Organic
Brussel Sprouts, Button Sprouts.€3.95'Doric F1' is a modern variety of Brussels Sprout that is reliable and popular. It produces tight round buttons of fine flavour and texture from November to February. The plants do not grow too tall and are ideal for harvesting as stalks. Just perfect for Christmas. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Brussels Sprout 'Groninger' Organic
Brussel Sprouts€2.65Brussels Sprout Groninger is a second early variety noted for its great tasting sprouts. It produces medium sized green sprouts and gives a steady supply through the autumn and into the winter. Harvest October to December - perfect timing for that all important Christmas Dinner. -
Brussels Sprout 'Igor F1'
Brussel Sprouts, Button Sprouts.€3.95With a medium to late maturity time, high yield, and good cold tolerance, Brussels Sprouts 'Igor F1' will grow close to 3 ft tall and produce about 60 to 70 one-inch across, tightly wrapped green sprouts that can be harvested as needed or all at once in late winter after the first frosts. -
Brussels Sprout 'Neptuno F1 Organic
Brussel Sprouts, Button Sprouts.€3.95Brussels Sprout 'Neptuno F1' is an outstanding variety that produces attractive, fresh green sprouts that are firm, smooth and very round and are well-spaced on the stem. They have excellent taste and can be harvested from early November and throughout December. Organic Seed. -
Brussels Sprouts 'Red Bull'
Aka 'Red Ball' or 'Brusselberry' sprouts.€2.75‘Red Bull’ is a specialist sprout variety from Europe, it offers smaller yields of dark red sprouts, but has a milder, delicate, nuttier flavour than standard green types. The red colour is enhanced with the first light frosts. The resulting sprouts are small and tasty, and look gorgeous in the pan and on the plate.
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Burdock Takinogawa 'Gobo'
Burdock Root, Gobo€2.20Regarded as both a nutritious vegetable and curative medicinal, the Burdock root is widely used in all sorts of cuisines from the classic English summer drink to the classic Japanese 'Kinpira'. Seeds can be also sprouted like bean sprouts; nothing goes to waste with this plant.
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Cabbage 'Brunswick'
Autumn to Winter Cabbage.Regular Price: €1.75
Special Price €0.95
Cabbage Brunswick is a fine flavoured, popular old variety. Cold hardy and drought tolerant It can be sown early and grown to huge proportions but is more usually sown in March to May for harvesting August to October. Used in soups or stews, made into sauerkraut or coleslaw.
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Cabbage 'Cuor di Bue Grosso'
Early Autumn. Sweetheart Cabbage ‘Ox Heart’
Heritage (Italian)Regular Price: €1.75
Special Price €0.95
Not all cabbages have the round shape that we usually find on the market. Cuor di Bue Grosso, literally translated means ‘Large Heart of the Ox’, a cultivar with a beautiful conical shape, large, firm, pointed hearts and sweet compact heart, and looking at its glorious shape ‘Ox Heart’ is the perfect name for it
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Cabbage 'Glory of Enkhuizen'
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (Dutch, bred in 1899)€1.75A traditional autumn maturity variety, Cabbage ‘Glory of Enkhuizen’ is an excellent variety that was originally bred in 1899. The medium-large, hard round heads are light green in colour, used in slaws, salads, soups and stir fries, it is a good keeper, ideal for storage, and for kraut.
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Cabbage 'Golden Acre' Organic
Summer Cabbage.
Heritage (Denmark, Pre 1927)€3.45Golden Acre is an excellent heirloom variety that produces tightly folded, solid,heads of first rate quality and flavour. The compact plants can be grown at 30cm spacings and is ideal for confined areas. Sow early indoors in March or direct sow from April to the end of June. Organic Seeds. -
Cabbage 'Greyhound'
Summer. Pointed, York or Sweetheart Cabbage€1.85Appropriately named, Greyhound is one of the earliest summer cabbages and a reliable old favorite. Very fast growing with a yield of mild flavoured tender juicy hearts. Well suited to successional sowing. Sow from February to July, crops will be ready for cutting from June to October. -
Cabbage 'Kalibos'
Late Summer to Autumn€2.45Cabbage 'Kalibos' is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour.
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Cabbage 'Kalibos' Organic
Late Summer to Autumn€2.95Out of stock
Cabbage 'Kalibos' is a pointed cabbage variety with distinctive red leaves. For late summer and autumn cutting. A delicious cabbage that has a high sugar content, making it the perfect variety for shredding raw into salads for superb sweetness, crunch and colour. Organic Seeds.