The vibrant red-coloured, exquisite and delicate raspberry is a powerhouse of innumerable health benefits. The fruit which is a rich source of nutrients, minerals and vitamins, when included in your daily diet can help lower risk of cancer, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and even enhance fertility.
Among the most reliable of all courgettes, producing a very heavy crop of dark green, tender fruits over a long period. The plants are vigorous growers and exceptionally healthy, with good resistance to cucumber mosaic virus. They form big neat domes of attractive leaves smothered in large, bright yellow flowers all summer, making this a fine plant in ornamental borders too.
The flowers are also edible: pick when just opened and dip in batter, then fry for a deliciously different appetiser.
There's nothing nicer than a sun-warmed tomato, freshly picked from your own back garden. Tomato ‘F1 Shirley’ is hard to beat. This early maturing tomato has been very popular for home cultivation since the 1970's and has rapidly established itself as the nation's favourite.
Tomato 'F1 Shirley' is one of the best varieties suitable for cold or slightly heated glasshouses. It is an indoor cordon type and the fruits are grown on short joints. The robust plants crop early and heavily over a long period of time and regularly produce more than 6kg (13lb) of fruits. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Cladosporium fuluum race A,B,C,D and E and Fusarium oxysporum race 1 & 2.
Highly recommended and easy to grow, Tomato 'F1 Shirley' produces excellent quality, medium sized red fruits with a firm skin and a lovely taste and texture.
Tomato 'F1 Shirley' has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
An indeterminate regular leaf plant producing heavy yields of 5″ long by 3″ wide, red plum-shaped, meaty tomatoes with very few seeds and a complex rich flavour.
Being easy to peel and core it is one of the best varieties for making Italian pastes, sauces, soups, and salsa dips.
An excellent choice for home gardens and allotments.
Tomato Mountain Magic is stated as a true breakthrough when it comes to disease resistance, producing a good crop of mid sized sweet tasting tomatoes weighing 55-60g.
The breeder of this Campari type tomato states it will withstand the big 3 threats to growing tomatoes - Late blight, Early Blight and fruit skin cracking. Well worth a try if you have struggled with growing tomatoes previously.
Carmen cucumber seeds are a well-known variety and great for cropping through the summer season well into the autumn. They grow to 30-40cm long and are slightly ribbed but with a smooth fruit.
Resistant to scab and leaf spot and also a high resistance to powdery mildew and partially tolerant of downy mildew. Carmen F1 has female flowers only which results in bitter-free fruits. One vigorous plant can produce up to 80 delicious fruits.
This lovely variety of female cucumber is delicious and so worth growing, usually reaching 35 cm long, you will save a fortune on buying cucumbers in the Summer and flavour is just so much better!
A high yielding variety of smooth skinned, green cucumbers which produces an early crop (and is good at coping with hot temperatures if that ever happens in the UK!)
This cucumber is also found to be 'burpless' - ie does not repeat on you or cause indigestion.
The very best for flavour, Jermor is a true French longue type, bred in the southern Rhone valley. The copper skinned bulbs have a crisp, pink flesh, tinged white. It is a very popular exhibition variety, but it is equally popular in the kitchen for its excellent sweet taste. Stores well
Sweeter and milder than onions, shallots have twice the amount of vitamin C and are also rich in vitamins A, B and E. They are invaluable in sauces, dressings, and salads, and notice how often TV chefs use them. This variety is really special and give great results when planted in the autumn.
The Red Baron AGM onion is one of the best in the red-skinned variety. It's attractive crimson-skinned bulbs when reveal contrasting red and white rings when sliced, making it most attractive on the plate. Red Baron has a lovely, robust flavour and is a remarkably good keeper.
A much favoured variety with flat-shaped and yellow skinned bulbs, producing excellent yields and keeping properties.
This new variety is becoming famed for its high yields. Making some of the best baking potatoes you could find, Sorrento grows to the perfect size and with a delicious creamy flavour. Equally as tasty boiled or mashed. Perfect for growing in light, sandy soils, or in periods of drought, Sorrento will not suffer like many varieties. With good resistance to disease especially scab and blight there are so many reasons to try this new potato!
A real aristocrat of the potato world this potato gives high yields of smooth skinned waxy tubers with a firm, yellow flesh. Ideal for making potato salads. The flavour is first rate and plants have a good resistance to disease.
The variety everyone knows - probably because it is reliable, crops well and produces beans of outstandingly good flavour. Known for it's bright red flowers, there are better strains available, but none which is as well loved or as widely grown as this great old performer.
Apparently known for being one of the tastiest broad beans around. It has celebrated its 200th birthday and is still widely grown by discerning gardeners. Not as high yielding as longpods but worth the space in any garden. Green seeded.