Bean : Dwarf Bean: Opera

An early maturing Kenyan-type bean which produces heavy crops of slim, dark green 10-12cm (4-5in) stringless pods over a long season. Easy to harvest as the plant has an upright, open habit. Resistant to Halo Blight, Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose, it is the perfect choice for organic gardeners, as Opera has no problems with Botrytis.

Carrot : Early Nantes 2

Approximate root length: 13-15cms (5½-6 inches).

Carrot Early Nantes 2 is a fast maturing selection of this superb carrot with medium length roots of good internal colour. Excellent also for a January/February sowing under glass.

Carrot : Sugarsnax 54 F1 Hybrid

Experience a flavour sensation with this extra sweet carrot, which also contains high levels of beta carotene. Carrot Sugarsnax 54 produces long, 25cm (10 inch) roots of exceptional quality, so sweet you can just lift the roots, wash and serve in chunks in salads.

Courgette : Defender F1 Hybrid

A very heavy and early yielder of solid mid-green courgettes. The early yield is almost twice that of some other courgette varieties and it just keeps producing firm, remarkably heavy fruit right through the season. Courgette Defender has an open habit which lets you see and pick the fruits easily, and it has excellent resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus.

Herb : Rocket : Skyrocket

Combines the speed of Salad Rocket and the flavour of Wild Rocket. Rocket Skyrocket has an upright habit, so keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop. Rocket Skyrocket is best cut as small leaves. Slow to bolt.

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Kale : Reflex F1 Hybrid

Curly Kale! Recent breeding has given Kale Reflex more intensely curled, succulent and nutritious, dark leaves which stand well without yellowing and can be picked for much of the year from successional sowings. Kale Reflex is fully winter hardy. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Lettuce : Cos : Little Gem

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Lettuce Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Lettuce Little Gem is very useful for cloches too.

Lettuce : Niche Salad Leaves

An exciting blend of salad leaves, Niche Salad Leaves add a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend of Niche Salad Leaves consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet.

Sow seeds in succession, pick leaves as required. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

Lettuce : Salad Bowl

All-American Gold Medal winner. Salad Bowl Lettuce is large, medium-green, slow bolting, non-heading and decidedly tender. Don't pull the whole plants - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way Salad Bowl Lettuce will continue to replace itself the whole season

Mangetout Pea : Oregon Sugar Pod

This is surely the sensible way to grow and eat peas - no time consuming podding, no waste, just heavy crops of delicious, sweet and juicy pods of sugar-peas, often called 'Mangetout' or 'Snow peas'. Well flavoured and excellent for lightly steaming or stir-fries,. The pods of Mangetout Pea Oregon Sugar Pod are large and flat (4½ inches long by ¾ inch wide) and stringless when young. This is the way peas will be eaten in the future. It just doesn't make sense to go through the tediousness of discarding the pod if its so full of goodness and so delicious to taste.

Onion : Bunching/Spring : White Lisbon

Very quick growing salad onions, sow Spring Onion White Lisbon in succession for a continuous crop all spring, summer and autumn.

Radish : Red Head

A visually appealing, red-crowned round radish with a white base, Radish Red Head offers a different colour to salads along with crisp, succulent, mild-flavoured inner flesh.