Bean 'Dreadnought' (Broad Bean)

An erect annual, typically grown as a vegetable crop, with grey-green leaves & fragrant, black-marked, white flowers in spring followed by long, green pods containing edible white beans, ready for harvest in early summer.

Bean 'Firestorm' (Runner Bean)

A self-fertile variety producing stringless beans which are slightly thicker, sweeter and more tender than other varieties. Scarlet red flowers in summer. Height 3m (10ft), Spread 30cm (1ft).

Bean 'Tendergreen' (Dwarf French Fine Bean)

Pencil podded, white seeded type in dark green pods. Good vigour with good standing ability and a long shelf life

Beetroot 'Pablo'

A root vegetable with heart-shaped leaves. It forms a sweetly edible, deep-red, round, smooth skinned, fleshy taproot with rich red internal coloration. Stands well without going woody.

Broccoli 'Green Magic'

A Calabrese variety which matures early, producing smooth, tightly packed rich-green broccoli heads in summer and autumn. Shows good resistance to white rust. Pinch out (and eat) central head to encourage side shoots.

Broccoli 'White Sprouting'

A hardy, reliable sprouting variety of broccoli that produces creamy-white shoots in spring. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Brussels Sprout 'Trafalgar'

An upright, sturdy plant producing heavy crops of tight, medium sized button sprouts. It is ready to harvest in mid-November and will stand on plants until January.

Butternut Squash 'Hunter'

A tender, trailing annual grown as a vegetable with green leaves & yellow-orange flowers in summer followed by elongated, pear-shaped, edible, pale brown fruit with yellow-orange flesh, ready for harvest from late summer.

Cabbage 'Red Flame' (Red Cabbage)

An unusual and striking spring variety producing red pointed cabbage plants with contrasting white veins. Sweet flavour and good disease resistance. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Cabbage 'Serpentine' (Savoy Cabbage)

An excellent summer or autumn Savoy type cabbage that produces a flatter head with fewer outer leaves compared to other Savoy varieties. Has a good, strong flavour and holds leaf texture well.

Carrot 'Atlas' (Round Carrot)

A root vegetable with small, spherical, edible orange roots ready for harvest approximately sixty days after sowing. A great variety for shallow soils for its small, rounded root. Good flavour and root uniformity.

Carrot 'Chantenay Red Cored'

A perennial plant typically cultivated as an annual for its conical, orange edible roots. This variety is an early maturing main crop producing short, fat, coloured roots with small cores.

Cauliflower 'White Excel'

A vegetable plant with a rosette of triangular, shallowly scalloped, blue-green basal leaves and short, sturdy stalks bearing densely packed, edible heads of crisp, white florets.

Courgette 'Ambassador'

A very reliable high yielding early courgette producing waxy dark green fruits, 10-20cm (4-8in) long, that have a sweet, slightly nutty flavour. Best harvested regularly for the smaller more tender courgettes.

Cucumber 'Femspot'

An early cropping, all female cucumber of superb quality, producing long, bitter free, ribbed cucumbers.

Garlic 'Cristo'

A continental variety which produces plump, white-skinned cloves that have a delicious, strong flavour and a light aroma. It can be planted in autumn or spring for harvesting the bumper crops in summer.

Kale 'Kapral'

An early maturing variety with deeply curled, frilly green leaves that have an excellent, sweet flavour. Height & Spread 60cm (2ft).

Leek 'Tornado'

A tufted, bulbous annual vegetable with upright, blue-green leaves borne by a thick, long, cylindrical, edible, white stalk ready for harvest in early autumn. Good cold tolerance. High yielding and suitable for baby leeks.

Lettuce 'Cut & Come Again'

A variety of lettuce leaves grown to be picked just as they are needed for the table. After the first few leaves have been picked the plant can be left in the ground to grow again ready for another day.

Lettuce 'Little Gem'

One of the most well known Lettuce varieties with a very uniform, compact habit and a well filled heart.

Lettuce 'Oak Leaf Red'

A hardy annual widely cultivated as a cool-season, salad leaf crop forming a compact, dense rosette of oblong, lobed, purple-red leaves. Height & Spread 30cm (1ft).

Mangetout Pea 'Oregon Sugar Pod'

A climbing legume forming small white flowers followed by long, deep green pods containing small, round, edible peas.

Marrow 'Green Bush'

This bushy marrow variety is best known for its large fruits, which are perfect for stuffing and baking. A prolific producer, just 1-2 plants will produce plenty of traditional, dark-green marrows with lighter stripes.

Onion 'Red Baron' (Maincrop Red Onion)

A bulbous perennial with strap-like green leaves cultivated as an edible vegetable. This is a mid-late maturing variety with deep red flesh. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Onion 'Sturon' (Maincrop Onion)

A flavourful variety which produces round, light brown, straw-coloured onions that mature in August.

Onion 'White Lisbon' (Spring Onion)

A perennial grown as an edible vegetable with hollow green leaves and long, white straight stems. This is a mild-flavoured variety. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Pea 'Sugar Snap'

A climbing legume forming small white flowers followed by long, deep green pods containing small, round, edible peas.

Pepper 'Basket of Fire' (Chilli Pepper)

A vigorous, mound-forming, tender annual or short-lived perennial with mid- to dark green leaves and white flowers in summer followed by slender, tapered, edible, hot, yellow fruit ripening orange then red.

Pepper 'Bendigo' (Sweet Pepper)

This sweet, early ripening bell pepper produces exceptionally uniform small, blocky, thick-walled fruits which mature from green to red.

Pepper 'Demon Red' (Chilli Pepper)

A dwarf, compact chilli pepper plant with deep green leaves and spicy red peppers that are ripe in summer. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Pepper 'Fiesta' (Sweet Pepper)

A bell pepper with solitary flowers followed by medium-sized, bright yellow fruit. An early and high yielding variety.

Pepper 'Redskin' (Sweet Pepper)

A compact, upright, sturdy dwarf bell pepper with solitary flowers followed by medium-sized green fruit, borne around the main stem, in summer ripening to dark red in autumn. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Potato 'Aaron Pilot' (First Earlies)

A popular variety with an excellent taste and an early boiling ability. Produces high yields of white skinned tubers with shallow eyes and has great resistance to all forms of scab.

Potato 'Cara' (Maincrop)

A popular, blight resistant variety producing round tubers with white skin and pink eyes. A robust variety with excellent drought resistance and good all round disease resistance.

Potato 'Casablanca' (First Earlies)

A clean, smooth white skinned variety with shallow eyes. Excellent for chipping, baking, boiling, mashing or roasting. Good resistance to common and powdery scab.

Potato 'Charlotte' (Second Earlies)

A variety with long tubers that have yellow skins and firm, yellow waxy flesh, making them superb for salads and boiling. These potatoes have excellent cooking qualities and are always full of flavour.

Potato 'Desiree' (Maincrop)

A heavy cropping variety producing oval, red skinned tubers with pale yellow flesh that have a firm cooked texture and are good for boiling and mashing. Also very good for roast potatoes.

Potato 'Kestrel' (Second Earlies)

One of the best tasting seed potato varieties available. With a consistant size and colour. Excellent cooking uses and disease resistance.

Potato 'King Edward' (Maincrop)

A great all round potato with both excellent cooking and taste qualities. Once cooked, King Edward potatoes rarely discolour and offer a broad range of uses.

Potato 'Lady Christl' (First Earlies)

A variety producing very early oval tubers, of a medium size with good size yields. Tubers are yellow skinned with great tasting, creamy-to-waxy flesh. Good all-round disease resistance.

Potato 'Maris Piper' (Maincrop)

Very popular with chip shops, this potato has an excellent combination of cooking and frying qualities. The tubers are oval shaped with white skins and cream coloured flesh. They are also very good for long term storage.

Potato 'Pentland Javelin' (First Earlies)

A variety producing heavy crops of short, oval, white skinned tubers with pure white, tasty flesh. They are great to simply throw into the pan and boil for salads.

Potato 'Red Duke of York' (First Earlies)

A heritage potato variety producing red skinned tubers with shallow eyes and yellow flesh. A dry, mealy potato packed with flavour which does not disintegrate on boiling.

Potato 'Rocket' (First Earlies)

One of the quickest bulking of all early potatoes, it's ability to grow large crops of uniformed, round tubers makes it very popular. Tubers are white fleshed and skinned, with shallow eyes and a mild taste.

Potato 'Sagitta' (Second Earlies)

One of the best tasting potatoes available today. Mainly used in the chip shop trade, these tubers provide excellent, flushy mash and can be boiled well too.

Potato 'Ulster Prince' (First Earlies)

Produces tubers that are long and white, with shallow eyes and white flesh. This variety has good resistance to common scab, powdery scab and disintegration in the pan when boiling.

Potato 'Wilja' (Second Earlies)

A variety producing consistent, large crops of light yellow skinned tubers in a shorter time period. The flesh is yellow and firm, between waxy and floury. Bake, boil, chip, mash or roast them.

Rainbow Chard

A leafy, dark green vegetable, related to the beet, with thick, crisp white or red stems and ribs. This variety forms bright stems of purple, pink and orange and young leaves can be picked early for salads.

Shallot 'Red Sun'

Regarded as the best red-skinned variety, producing large yields of crisp, white fleshed bulbs with a good flavour. Perfect for cooking, pickling, or eating raw in salads or for pickling. Also stores well.

Spinach 'Renegade'

A compact, clump-forming, vigorous annual grown as a vegetable crop with upright, oval, semi-glossy, smooth, dark green leaves and inconspicuous, yellow-green flowers. Height & Spread 30cm (1ft).

Sweetcorn 'Minipop'

A tall, annual, cereal grass bearing edible yellow kernels on small ears in autumn. This variety is bred for use as mini-corn and should be picked before the grains swell. Height 2m (6ft) Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Tomato 'Ailsa Craig'

A tall indeterminate variety with uniform, mid-red fruits ripening early in the season which have an outstanding flavour. A heavy cropper, it can be grown in the greenhouse or outdoors.

Tomato 'Alicante'

A superior variety producing early season heavy crops of medium sized, greenback free fruits with a superb sweet flavour.

Tomato 'Gardeners Delight' (Cherry Tomato)

A perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual. It produces yellow flowers which then form small, round, red, edible fruit in summer. This variety is suitable for greenhouse or outdoor use. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).

Tomato 'Moneymaker'

A well-known variety that reliably produces plenty of smooth, medium-sized red fruit throughout the summer that are renowned for their uniformity and exceptional flavour.

Tomato 'Shirley'

An early maturing variety of an open, indeterminate habit with heavy crops of excellent quality fruit. Best grown as a greenhouse cordon.

Tomato 'Tumbling Tom Red'

A perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual. It produces yellow flowers followed by a heavy crop of small, flavourful, orange-red, edible fruit in summer. Suitable for hanging baskets. Height & Spread 50cm (1.5ft).