One of the best round red cabbages there is. Cabbage Red Jewel has large, tightly packed hearts with crisp, ruby red leaves. Excellent standing in the ground and storing ability
Chinese Leaves are quick maturing and form a cos lettuce type heart in under 9 weeks. Plants are very slow to bolt, so stand well over a long season. Use as salad leaves as you would a Romaine lettuce or as a full heart for salads, stir fries and as a cooked vegetable. Superb quality and garden performance without bolting. Mature heads can be cut and stored in a frost free shed
Have you noticed how difficult it is to buy a SMALL cabbage, or how garden-grown cabbages get wasted because they are ready and you are not? Cabbage Minicole not only overcomes both these problems (it stands ready for cutting for four months) but it can be grown very close together, is used commercially for coleslaw, and is delicious fresh
Cabbage ?Gilson? is an autumn cropping variety with plenty of F1 hybrid vigour. This delicious white cabbage copes well on a wide range of soil types, and is especially useful on less fertile soils. It can be grown closer together than many varieties ? ideal where space is at a premium!
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
The first introduction of 'semi round' ballhead spring Cabbage. Cabbage Spring Hero has good frost hardiness and forms solid heads from late April through to May which remain solid over several weeks. Can also be sown in spring for summer maturity.
Grow your own distinctly-flavoured, tender-stem broccoli at a fraction of the price of imported supermarket produce. A cross between selections of broccoli and kailaan (Chinese kale) to give deliciously flavoured, soft and tender, nutrient-rich stems and flower buds. The main or central head must be cut to encourage plenty of side-shoots
A unique Oriental spinach, Spinach Mikado has an upright habit, producing dark green, large, pointed leaves, multiple side shoots and long stems with pink tinged bases. Delicious chopped in stir fries, added to salads or steamed. Spinach Mikado has good downy mildew resistance, for spring and autumn crop. Ideal for summer sowings due to its superb bolting resistance
Excellent flavoured, well domed, small beaded heads of good colour. Broccoli Belstar F1 keeps in good condition for a long time, producing plenty of side shoots once the centre head is cut. Plant in succession for summer-autumn harvesting. Andrew Tokely says: I always sow this broccoli early in the year and harvest large tasty heads before they can be attacked by caterpillars. Once the main head is cut, I give the plants a good watering, so over the following weeks and months a secondary crop of tasty smaller spears are produced making this a very worthwhile crop
(Autumn/Winter). Ideal to grow a quality giant cabbage, producing heads up to 65kg (14lbs). Cabbage Brigadier F1 Hybrid is delicious eaten raw, with a high sugar and Vitamin C content, but also excellent when cooked, Stands well in good condition, with Fusarium resistance. Andrew Tokely says: A February or Early March sowing can produce by September hearts that are as big as footballs and have many show bench prizes for me. Although large and firm they are full of flavour when cooked and equally as tasty eaten raw in a salad
An excellent new variety suitable for providing both spring greens or small to medium sized hearted spring cabbage and summer cabbage depending on when you sow it. Cabbage Advantage F1 performs much better than non F1 varieties being more winter hardy and less prone to bursting. From an August sowing will keep well into April.
Sow this latest clubroot resistant hybrid variety in the spring for an autumn harvest. Excellent standing ability, good vigour and a wonderful flavour make Crispus a 'must' for the kitchen garden or allotment. Smooth, dark green buttons hold the stalk well and in good condition. Sow February to March. Harvest September to October