Buy Organic Vegetable Plants

(False saffron) Important source of good quality cooking oil, and yellow or red dyes. Thistlelike flowerheads colour silk, wool, rouge and are used as a saffron substitute in rice dishes.

An heirloom seed that produces a pear-shaped golden-yellow fruit, resistant to splitting and cracking.

Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. (Onion green; Bunching onion) Attractive green stalks look like they have been dipped in wine! Bulbs are stained a deep purple. A salad onion that adds an unmistakeable splash of colour and flavour to...

Easy to grow and blooms from July to September. Height 40in (100cm). Spread 18in (45cm). Bees love the vibrant coloured flowers! Leaf infusion makes an uplifting tea. Cousin of anise-hyssop, has a familiar, sweet anise scent and flavour.

Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. Grow like garden peas. Also the leaves can be cooked like spinach, and the young pods, 5-7cm/2-3in long, can be eaten like snap beans.

(Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock. The skin is blue-green and shiny, and the flesh is deep orange, succulent and sweet.

Beautiful yellow-orange beefsteak tomato with a tangerine shape, meaty flesh and a sweet tart flavour. Excellent slicer, up to 10cm/4" across. Indeterminate vines. Introduced to the American market by Burpee in the 1930s.

An heirloom variety believed to be over a hundred years old, a legacy of the Cherokee Indians. Resembling a beefsteak tomato in size and shape, with dramatic, dusky pink-purple fruit.

(White Bell) Sweet bell pepper with 3 or 4 lobes and crisp, medium-thick flesh. Fruits mature from a beautiful translucent white to pale yellow to scarlet red, and are delicious in any colour.

Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Sugar snap peas are also known as “mangetout” peas, meaning that both the pod and the peas can be eaten. Fusarium resistant.

(Ye kui) Edible plant with traditional use as a medicinal herb. The flavour is mild and very pleasant. Compared to lettuce, a plant like this with abundant leaves for the taking makes a lot more sense for gardens.

(Chinese mustard; Indian mustard) A splash in the salad bowl and in the garden! Brilliant maroon leaves with light green midribs are both delicious and strikingly ornamental. Sow in early spring.

White skinned pumpkin with dark orange flesh, suitable for jack-o-lanterns and pies! Great halloween novelty, as outer skin can be painted on mature fruits of 30cm/8-10”, weighing about 10-16lbs/5kg.

Thick, succulent light green edible pods with a distinct, sweet flavour. Excellent for stir frys, steaming, freezing and fresh in salads. Grows to 120-150cm/4-5ft, so some staking is required...

Suited for greenhouse and field production. A large leaf basil has high oil content and hence a stronger aroma and flavour than other varieties. Good uniformity. Excellent for pesto and other typical basil uses.

Heirloom variety of rose-coloured with white radish with crisp, tender mildly pungent flavour that is wonderful in salads, sliced thin on buttered bread, as a garnish or appetizer.

5cm/2” fruits are good pickled or dried for seasoning. If you like heat and flavour... Heat: 100,000-300,000 Scoville units. This is a good one! Mushroom shaped, thin walled, green to bright yellow, fiery hot taste similar to Habanero types.

Delicious when steamed slightly and served drizzled with plain or herb and garlic seasoned butter. Globe shaped root of deep scarlet and pure-white tips. Lovely for salads, garnish and appetizers.

Leaves are fine to medium in thickness and dark blue-green in colour. It is uniform, upright, and very vigorous. Highly resistant to diseases and is tolerant of thrips and leaf tip burn.

Pickling cucumber developed at Cornell University with white skin and black spines, 8-12cm/3-5" long. Good flavour and resistant to powdery mildew.

Important tonic herb for the liver. Its glossy leaves are painted with veins of creamy white which, according to tradition, originated from the milk of the Virgin which once fell upon a plant.

Bright red fruit of over 2.5cm/1” in diameter are unusually sweet and flavourful with a high vitamin C content. Plants grow tall, so staking is recommended as the vine bears fruit in long clusters of 12 to 20 fruits.

(Wild arugula) Wild relative of the ever popular roquette or arugula salad green. Extremely cold hardy and a very quick and easy crop. Leaves can be used fresh or added to pasta dishes.

A loose type with a striking bronze burgundy oak-shaped leaves. Very popular for all season use. Stays bitter-free and is heat tolerant. For baby leaf use in 28 days or full-size use in 51-58 days.

No heirloom tomato garden is complete without the addition of one green tomato, and this is the one. Unmistakable green tomato flavour in a striking jewel-green fruit. Delicious eaten fresh by itself or added to salads.