Marigold (French) Seeds

This is not your regular French marigold, its big, bold and beautiful! ‘Firebird’ is a result of modern breeding, producing big plants with big numbers of stunning, anemone style flowers with a copper edge graduating to red and orange in the center.

A real show-stopper of a plant that looks amazing grown as an annual hedge or simply use a few plants to fill a border with colour. Alternatively, plants can be grown in pots, creating a look that’s miles away from your average French marigold.

Alaska Ladybird – Nasturtium Seeds

A first in nasturtiums, the ‘Alaska Ladybird’ variety has creamy-green variegated leaves with red ladybird spotted, yellow flowers. An excellent trailing, ground cover plant, perfect for both baskets and to cover the ground with a burst of colour!

A great plant to attract beneficial insects to your garden or veg patch. Leaves and flowers are perfect to add to salads, seeds can be pickled to make ‘poor mans capers’.

Cucumber Plants – Green Fingers

An early outdoor, predominately female flowering variety which can also be grown in a greenhouse. Green Fingers produces high yields of smooth dark green spineless 10cm long fruits. Fruits have a good crisp texture and sweet flavour, perfect as a snack or for lunch boxes. Excellent resistance to powdery and downy mildew and good tolerance of cucumber mosaic virus and cucumber vein yellowing virus.

Tomato Grafted Plants – Noir De Crimee

Noir De Crimee is a heritage variety originating on the Isle of Krim in the Black Sea, therefore, it’s used to growing in a climate more like our own rather than many varieties which prefer warmer temperatures. These tomatoes have a gorgeous dark red/purple to brown colour with green/brown shoulders which make for a beautiful looking tomato. Renowned for its flavour, the fruit has a softer feel when ready to harvest. Chop the fruit, add basil and olive oil and serve with crusty bread, delicious!

Cucumber Grafted Plants – Socrates

Socrates is vigorous, strong plants produce numerous mini, bitter-free cues around 15-18cm long. An ‘all-female’ variety best grown in a greenhouse or tunnel. Socrates is regarded as one of the best tasting cucumbers on the market today. Parthenocarpic (meaning it will fruit without pollination), extremely disease resistant and resistant to powdery mildew. One of the best to crop if it’s a cloudy or dull summer with low light levels.

Lettuce Seeds – Bronze Beauty

Its history and unusual leaf shape gives it a bit more interest compared to regular lettuce.The ‘Bronze Beauty’ is a stunning lettuce variety with super-sweet green leaves are blushed with bronze, especially the younger ones. Rob says “I’d been trying to find this old heritage variety for ages as it has such great flavour and looks amazing in the garden. The unusual leaf shape gives a bit more interest in the garden compared to regular lettuce, plus they are slow to set seed and you’ll be able to crop them for longer too. Also known as Bronze Arrowhead. Winner of the AAS award in 1947, recorded as “the finest, most colourful and delicious variety”.

Pepper Chilli Seeds – Carolina Reaper

Grow the World’s Hottest Chilli Pepper! The Carolina Reaper was rightly voted the Worlds’ Hottest Chilli by the Guinness Book of Records! Bred in South Carolina by crossing a Ghost chilli with a Habanero, this chilli pepper weighs in at an incredible 2.2 million on the Scoville Scale. This devilish chilli pepper plant should be handled with extra care and is not for the faint-hearted!Each devilishly hot chilli pepper has a fruity, cinnamon/chocolate taste before the mind-blowing heat kicks in. The bumpy, lumpy Carolina Reaper won’t all look the same as they grow, but the majority will have a pointed scorpion tail that is typical of this ‘super-hot’ chilli.