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2 in stockAchochaFat Baby
This variety of achocha has been known in the Caribbean since the 1930s. It produces an abundance of plump, yellow-green fruits covered with soft spines. Best picked when young and tender if using ...
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334 in stockBeetrootWhite Devoy
This late-maturing, pure white beetroot with a delicate flavour was derived from the purple variety Devoy. It produces an irregularly shaped, tapering beet with knobbly side roots. The foliage can ...
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640 in stockCarrotAltringham
No need to contact us about the spelling, please, it was always (if erroneously) named this way! This early 19th century variety is listed in Carters Catalogue for 1842 and described by D Guiheneuf...
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93 in stockFrench beanNavy Bean Edmund
This variety came to us from RHS Harlow Carr. Navy beans were first cultivated to sustain Australian forces during WWII and are the type used as baked beans. The compact (around 20cm), branching pl...
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124 in stockKaleSpis Bladene
(Brassica oleracea) An old Danish variety whose name simply means “eat the leaves”. A particularly tall kale reaching a magnificent 2m in height, so may require staking. The leaves are broad and gl...
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125 in stockLettuceGreek Maroulli Cos
A compact cos lettuce with beautiful, tasty, large-bladed leaves, lovely when added to a mixed salad. Their size makes them perfect for window boxes or containers.
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8 in stockMelonHero Of Lockinge
Developed by Lord Wantage of Lockinge's head gardener, Mr Atkins at Lockinge Park, Oxfordshire, this musk melon was introduced by Suttons in the 1800s and appeared in one of their early advertiseme...
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297 in stockOnionCipolla Bianca Agostana
This Italian onion is a large, mid to late maturing, globe-shaped, white-fleshed variety with thin skin. Sweet and mild, but full of flavour and with a little 'kick', no streaming eyes while slicin...
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13 in stockOnionUp-To-Date
Originally introduced in the 19th century by R Britton & Sons Seeds, Northampton. Apple-shaped with rather square shoulders and a rounded base. The skin is a deep yellow, the flesh creamy and stron...
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17 in stockPeaMr Bound's Bean Pea
An unusual variety that produces very large seeds. Our donor, Mr Bound, was given this pea in the 1960s, but it had been grown in Wiltshire since the 1950s. The tall, vigorous plants will grow to a...
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46 in stockPeaMummy's Pea
This variety has been grown in Durweston, near Blandford, Dorset for as long as local memory goes. They are known there as 'Mummy's' and it was suggested that the seeds were originally found in a t...
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11 in stockPeaSharpe's Liberty
No, not a Bernard Cornwell novel featuring the dashing soldier fighting in the Napoleonic war, but a rare variety of pea from Sharpe & Co, Seed Merchants, based in Sleaford, Lincolnshire from 1913 ...