Spinacia oleracea. Dark green, semi-savoy-leaved variety producing plenty of 'baby leaves'. Spinach Picasso is slow to bolt (run to seed). Perfect in containers. Can be grown all year indoors for 'baby leaves'
Spinach Palco produces dark green leaves with good mildew tolerance
Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leafindoors on the windowsill. Outdoors if given wider spacing it will make an abundance of densely curled leaves over a very long period. Winter hardy as a full sized plant
This tasty purple sprouting broccoli is British bred and requires no vernalisation (winter chill) to produce a delicious crop through the summer and well into autumn.
You won't be pushing your sprouts around the plate once you've tasted this one. Firm, flavoursome buttons, which hold well for autumn (and Christmas) pickings!
Truly 'gardener-friendly', this 'Primo type' cabbage is ideal for summer and autumn harvesting, standing well in all weather conditions without splitting, rotting or bolting. An added bonus is its tolerance to mildew and other foliage diseases, making 'Sir' a great choice for the home gardener. Compact plants produce a flavoursome 1kg dark green, short-cored, dense ball head with few wasted outer leaves. Delicious eaten cooked or raw
An easy to grow Brassica which matures in as little as 12 weeks from sowing and resists bolting! Kohl rabi ?Kossak? produces large bulbs of up to 3kg which remain tender, without becoming woody. The pale green bulbs have a pleasant, mild flavour.
New breeding in 'sweet green and tender stem' broccoli. Vigorous, upright plant habit produces a well branched, flat central head Once central head is cut will initiate a mass of sweet and tender sideshoots. Harvest July-October.
New breeding using native Chinese sweeter cauliflower selections. Produces a mass of long stems with white florets and a mild and sweet taste. Sow March-May. Harvest June-September.
So sweet you can eat the stems raw! A true pure broccoli similar in look to Cima di rapa (wild broccoli). Expect three or four harvests per plant.
An intensely sweet cabbage variety producing thick crisp leaves, just perfect for use in salads and coleslaws. This cabbage will perform in almost any free-draining soils.
Upright habit with short, heavily textured leaves. Firm leaves sauté beautifully. Harvest October-April.