Artichoke
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This hardy variety of artichoke produces consistently large, heavy globe-shaped heads with a superb taste and looks beautiful in any vegetable patch.
Buy Artichoke SeedsRight, we're properly into sowing season now! With the frosts a thing of the past you're spoilt for choice for veg you can plant either inside or out - luckily for you though, we've picked the very best variety of each veggie to make things easier.
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This hardy variety of artichoke produces consistently large, heavy globe-shaped heads with a superb taste and looks beautiful in any vegetable patch.
Buy Artichoke SeedsAs the name suggest, this classic beetroot is bread for its resistance to bolting even if you sow it nice and early. Grows nice and round deep red roots.
Buy Beetroot SeedsThis very popular variety grows well in most conditions and is ready to be planted outside now. It produces large, long pods with 7 beans inside.
Buy Broad Beans SeedsThis popular variety of broccoli is great for regular sowings so you can harvest from summer to autumn. It also produces edible sideshoots in addition to the main head.
Buy Broccoli SeedsThese sprouts mature later in the season than others, making them an ideal candidate for Christmas dinner. They produce a heavy crop of dark green sprouts.
Buy Brussel Sprouts SeedsThis bolt-resistant cabbage can be sown in early spring for medium sized cabbages and spring greens or later in the season for larger cabbages ready in the summer.
Buy Cabbage (Spring) SeedsThis reliable summer cabbage is an old favourite amongst gardeners. The fast-growing plant gives an early crop of quite dense pointed hearts.
Buy Cabbage (Summer) SeedsThis winter hardy savoy variant produces dark green, dense, round heads which - once mature - will remain harvest-ready for months.
Buy Cabbage (Winter) SeedsThis award-winning favourite can be grown both as a maincrop or as a late variety. Autumn King gives a reliable crop of large carrots which store well.
Buy Carrots Seeds'All Year Round' is one of the easiest varieties of cauliflower to grow and produces great big heads. Can also be grown over winter in a coldframe.
Buy Cauliflower SeedsThis mixed selection of authentic Italian endive seeds give a variety of tastes, colours and shapes and are ideal for both summer and autumn cultivation.
Buy Endive SeedsA popular variety of fennel, due to the sheer size and quality of the huge white bulbs which have compact foliage and a good resistance to bolting.
Buy Fennel SeedsDwarf Green Curled is a popular variety because it produces excellent quality dark, tightly curled leaves and it is also easy to grow and cold hardy.
Buy Kale SeedsKohl Rabi is easy to grow and is ready within 8 weeks of sowing. They're best eaten when they are golf ball-sized but this variety stays succulent and bitter-free as it grows further.
Buy Kohl Rabi SeedsMusselburgh is a classic mid-season variety well known for its exceptional hardiness, heavy crops and excellent flavour.
Buy Leeks SeedsThis very hardy lettuce can be sown all the way from early spring to autumn. It gives medium sized heads of lettuce with dense, crisp hearts.
Buy Lettuce SeedsThis fast-growing oriental green is ready to harvest as baby leaves in just 30 days or wait 45-70 days for full size heads.
Buy Pak Choi SeedsGladiator is a popular and fast-maturing parsnip with reliably high-quality flesh and excellent sweet flavour. They also keep in the ground very well.
Buy Parsnip SeedsA very popular pea which is aptly named given their extra long, lightly curved pods. It is well known for having the most peas per pod - up to 12!
Buy Peas SeedsThis variety can be sown at regular intervals from March to June in order to have a steady supply of tasty purple spears from July to November.
Buy Purple Sprouting Broccoli SeedsAt this time of the year, rocket will happily grow outside and will keep on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected with cloches.
Buy Rocket SeedsThis great mixture of quick-growing salad seeds give you a great variety of texture, colours and flavours that will be ready just 25 days after sowing.
Buy Salad Leaves SeedsSalsify is a delicious vegetable rapidly growing in popularity thanks to its uniquely delicate flavour which some liken to oysters or asparagus.
Buy Salsify SeedsAn ideal variety for spring sowing due to its high resistance to mildew, this spinach will reliably produce a heavy crop of dark green, curvy leaves.
Buy Spinach SeedsAlways a favourite, this quick-growing salad onion can be sown regularly for continuous cropping all the way through spring, summer and autumn.
Buy Spring Onion SeedsThis variety of swede is fully winter hardy and has a vastly improved root quality and flavour compared to the older varieties.
Buy Swede SeedsA plant as decorative as it is versatile with bright coloured edible stems in yellow, orange, red, green and pink with spinach-like dark green leaves.
Buy Swiss Chard SeedsThis popular variety is perfect for harvesting as succulent, sweet baby turnips. The leaves can then also steamed as fresh greens.
Buy Turnip SeedsPacific 2000 is an award-winning variety renowned for its excellent flavour and heavy yields with up to 25 spears per plant every year.
Buy Asparagus SeedsWhile garlic is traditionally planted in the autumn, these spring-planting bulbs are ready to go in the ground now and will be ready by July onwards.
Buy Garlic SeedsThis easy to grow crop grows almost anywhere and require very little maintenance. Their wonderful smoky flavour adds a delicious dimension to casseroles or stews.
Buy Jerusalem Artichoke SeedsMushrooms are grown from spawns rather than seed, but it is available all year round and is surprisingly simple to grow.
Buy Mushrooms SeedsThis award-winning variety reliably produces decent sized bulbs that store well. It is a spring planting variety that can be planted now.
Buy Onions SeedsElizabeth is a high yielding potato with yellow skin and flesh. It is great served as either a new potato either hot or cold.
Buy Potato (First Early) SeedsThe most popular potato of them all, this classic potato is a genuine all-rounder but is one of the best for roasting and baking and has a superb flavour.
Buy Potato (Maincrop) SeedsA tasty gardeners' favourite that grows competition-standard spuds of a consistent size and shape. It also has good resistance to slugs and eelworm.
Buy Potato (Second Early) SeedsThese tasty and attractive ball-shaped radishes grow in a variety of colours - red, white, purple, gold or white and red. They can be eaten in just 28 days.
Buy Radish SeedsThis torpedo-shaped heritage variety is becoming increasingly popular in gourmet circles due to its superb flavour and generous proportions.
Buy Shallot SeedsEarly to sow and early to ripen, Listada de Gandia produces a heavy crop of beautiful purple and white streaked aubergines up to 6 inches long.
Buy Aubergine SeedsWaltham is the most popular variety of butternut as it fruits earlier and has the most flesh per squash due to its smaller seed cavity and thicker neck.
Buy Butternut Squash SeedsLathom is a popular variety that is stringless and has a good resistance to bolting. It can be sown earlier than other varieties for an early crop.
Buy Celery SeedsThis popular variety produces generous early crops of large moderately hot chillis over a long fruiting season.
Buy Chillis SeedsThis is a great courgette to sow for a good early crop as it produces twice as much as other varieties do in the early weeks.
Buy Courgette SeedsThis popular bean produces huge yields of round, stringless pods bursting with flavour. It can be planted early under cover to get the longest cropping season.
Buy French Bean SeedsThis new hybrid bell pepper grows great big peppers more than 15cm long and 10cm wide and weighing up to 200g, Plant now for heavy early crops.
Buy Peppers SeedsThe perfect variety for halloween carving, these pumpkins grow up to 4kgs and have round body with a flat base. Plant them now to be ready for October.
Buy Pumpkin SeedsA popular runner bean thanks to the heavy crops of long, stringless beans it produces, White Lady can be sown early under cover now.
Buy Runner Beans SeedsThis summer squash produces flattened squashes in a variety of colours which can be eaten raw as baby squashes or left to grow to 6-8inchs at full maturity.
Buy Summer Squash SeedsAn early-to-crop variety you can sow in a propagator now before moving outdoors when the soil has warmed up, Rising Sun is a reliable performer with good sized cobs.
Buy Sweetcorn SeedsMoneymakers are well known as a versatile variety that produce consistent smooth, medium-sized fruit with exceptional flavour all summer long.
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