Standard green headed variety with its distinctive thistle-like foliage. A perennial vegetable - the large edible flower heads can be harvested during the second year from planting.

Soil & Site: Well-drained soil is essential with compost or manure added. Spacing: Plant 1 metre/yard apart and, if growing in rows, allow 1 metre/yard between them.
Special tip: Liquid feed every 14 days in growing season to ensure strong growth.

Popular and reliable variety producing large, glossy purplish-black, good flavoured aubergines, 5-6 inches (12-15cm) long. Early maturing. Suitable for greenhouses or warm sunny patios.

Early, reliable, high yielding, tasty, long, slender, purple oval fruits. Suitable for greenhouse and a warm, sunny patio.

A French Climbing Bean producing early crops of long, stringless green pods of good flavour. Excellent disease resistance and produces very good yields.
Soil and Site. Ideally plant in well prepared fertile soil in a sunny position, but climbing French Beans will crop will even in poor conditions where runner beans do not thrive. Pick crops when young for the most delicious and tender beans, and to encourage continued cropping.

Very early heavy crops of very succulent good flavoured beans, straight and 6 - 8 inches (15 - 20cm) long. Always sets well, even in poor summers. Resistant to Halo blight.

A popular variety which produces heavy crops of smooth, delicious beans up to 12 to 15 inches (30 to 45cm) long. Vigorous plants, reliable with early crops but with a long productive period. The pods remain in good condition on the plants, longer than many other varieties.

A popular variety which produces heavy crops of smooth, delicious beans up to 12 to 15 inches (30 to 45cm) long. Vigorous plants, reliable with early crops but with a long productive period. The pods remain in good condition on the plants, longer than many other varieties.

Fast growing old variety producing good size pods of excellent flavoured white beans. A reliable, popular maincrop variety with pods containing 6 to 8 beans. Good for freezing.
Soil and Site. Beans do best in well-prepared, rich soil which is free draining but even in less favourable soils they will produce a worthwhile crop. Plant in a sunny position and when the first beans start to form pinch out the leading shoots to discourage black fly.

This winter squash is prolific, easy to grow with a sweet nutty taste, similar to a sweet potato. The skin is yellow and the flesh when ripe is deep orange. Squashes are a good source of fibre, vitamins A and C, manganese, magnesium and potassium.
Site and Soil. Plant out in a sunny position when all danger of frost is past, preferably on a mound of fertile soil. In Spring if there is danger of the temperature dropping below 40 degrees F (5 degrees C) cover the plants with fleece for protection. Water well and feed regularly. When ripe cut the squashes retaining about 1-2 inches (2.5-5cm) of the stem and store in a dry frost free place until needed.

Easy to grow cabbage which produces very solid medium size round heads with crisp, crunchy, beautiful white hearts. These are excellent for shredding for coleslaw, or they can be harvested and cooked as a normal cabbage. Matures late summer and into autumn.

A fine pointed Greyhound cabbage, one of the best early summer hearted cabbage with excellent flavour.

Large tightly packed hearts, crisp ruby-red leaves. Can be used for pickling.

Light green foliage, considered the best savoy of all.

A semi-hearted cabbage with good bolt resistance.

One of the most well-known and reliable spring cabbages available today, producing firm, pointed, well flavoured hearts on compact plants.

This variety produces a tightly packed well flavoured round head with an average weight of 4 to 6 lbs (2 to 3 kgs). Although so tightly packed they do not have a tendency to burst. Creamy white interior. Early to mature - planted in May they will mature in September.
Site and Soil - as other cabbages.

Produces reliable small evenly sized buds with good colour. Marathon has good disease and cold resistance.

Soil & Site: Soil prepared well and rich in organic matter and firm suits this brassica best. Lime, if necessary, in winter prior to planting. An open, sunny position is ideal.
Spacing: Allow 18 ins (45cm) between plants and rows.
Special tips: Watch out for caterpillar and spray against them. Likewise, protect against bird attack on young plants. A light feed of Growmore to encourage the crop is useful as the plants run into crop.

This cauliflower produces a beautiful swirled head which is delicious, firm and a fantastic colour. Harvest 12 to 14 weeks after planting.

Produces smooth roots, known as bulbs, with good white flesh which does not discolour. It has a wonderful 'nutty' celery like flavour. It can be grated and used in autumn salads, or is delicious roasted plain or with a dusting of paprika or curry powder to give an extra 'bite'. Plant in May to harvest in September to October, or the bulbs can be left in the ground longer but there is a danger that slugs will find them delicious.
Soil and Site. Plant in rich, fertile, moisture-retentive soil, so is ideal in a damper area of the garden. Plant crowns firmly at ground level, then water well throughout the growing period. In midsummer remove outer leaves, and any side shoots if they appear. This will encourage the bulbs to develop.

An excellent self-blanching variety, with crunchy, stringless, apple-green stems of good flavour. Easy to clean as stalks are smooth with only a slight ridge. Early, heavy yielding variety, which must be kept well watered, or be grown in soil that is constantly moist. Good resistance to bolting.

Dwarf, neat compact chilli type pepper producing good yields of medium hot green (turning to red) chillies on compact plants. Ideal for windowsill or patio.

A compact, bushy, early ripening variety grows to a height of 45cm (18in) - perfect for cropping bags and containers. The medium sized orange fruits are best described as 'hot'!

An easily grown variety which produces one of the hottest red peppers with a rating of 150,000 to 325,000 Scoville Units - fantastic for those who like their chillies hot! They are ideal for salsas and sauces and other culinary uses.

This variety produces a prolific crop of hot conical shaped peppers which ripen from green to red. The Skin is smooth and thick, therefore resisting cracking, and is a good flavour.

Quick maturing cylindrical dark green quality fruits are produced in high yields on compact bushy plants.

Golden-yellow fruits, with creamy-white well-flavoured flesh. This courgette is a prolific cropper yet compact in habit. Can be either cooked or used raw in summer salads.

All-female flowered, quick, strong grower, bitter free, long fruited variety. For indoor cultivation.

Superior all-female flowering variety producing large numbers of mini dark green, slightly ribbed fruit throughout the summer and autumn. For indoor cultivation.

Favourite variety for outdoor production, dark green medium to long fruits - up to 30cm (12 ins) with tender skin and excellent flavour.