Seeds

This greenhouse tomato is hard to beat, and has rapidly established itself as the nation’s favourite. The plants are heavy cropping, robust and disease resistant, and the good sized fruits have a lovely taste and texture. It is also a splendid variety for exhibitors. Shirley simply will not disappoint you. Tasty summer salads. Cut & come again. Sow Date: Jan-May

Scarlet Globe, Sparkler, Pink Beauty, Prinz Rotin and White Turnip (it's not a turnip!) have all been blended to make this attractive and tasty radish mixture.

Grow your own for the best flavour and you can eat it minutes after picking. Compact, dark green leaves, with a very solid, crisp and crunchy heart. Extraordinarily sweet and just perfect for individual salads.

A salad simply is not a salad without spring onions! White Lisbon is deservedly the most popular of all, yielding succulent stems with that characteristic ‘bite’. Gardener’s favourite. Quick growing.

Polycress is a real breakthrough because it is a tasty, true cress which matures at the same time as its companion mustard, without the need for staggered sowings. As quick to crop as mustard. All year round crops. Sow Date: Jan-Dec.

One of the finest tasting orange cherry tomatoes on the market today rivalling Golden Cherry now established as the best of the cherries. Vigorous and quick growing, giant clusters of glossy 1” fruit cover the plant. Packed with vitamins these delicious tomatoes measure 9 on the Brix sweetness scale and have a mouthwatering sugary tomato tang. Perfect for growing both indoors and out.

Well-branched, virtually spineless plants that produce an average of 15-20 fruits per plant. This colourful mix contains an attractive colour combination of shiny white, purple with white stripes, and deep purple fruits. Sow Feb - April. Harvest July - October.

Flat, stringless pods from plants which do best in a warm spot sheltered from winds. The flowers set readily to give a heavy crop of delicious pods easy for slicing. Sow: April to June. Harvest: August to September

At last a mangetout pea which produces a delicious crop of conventional peas even when the pods are "past it" for mangetout purposes! Lightly steamed or boiled, mangetout peas can turn a meal into a feast, but they are just as easy to grow as any other peas. A welcome addition to summer salads when cooked and served still warm. Sow March to May. Harvest June to August.

The new Brokali Apollo F1 Seeds by Unwins are of a trendy tender-stem style that not only tastes great, but looks unique and even more delicious on any plate than your average broccoli. The great Apollo variety of broccoli hosts a high yield of side shoots over a long cropping period, and with especially sweet and tasty stems, what's not to love.

Grow your own medium hot chilli peppers. Sow February - April. Harvest July - October

Very tasty - and pretty enough for the flower border. Very tasty - and pretty enough for the flower border. Use the leaves as spinach and the stalks (chards) chopped in stir fries. The young "baby leaves" are delicious in salads.