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These seeds also are from Premier Seeds Direct

Parsnip 'Tender and True'

An excellent and popular long rooted variety with high quality smooth roots, suitable for exhibition and an excellent flavour. One of the best for resistance to canker. Crops in 102 Days

Gourd 'Yugoslavian Finger'

This rare and strikingly unusual gourd has a bush-type growth habit, producing 4-5 pound fruit with cream-colored skin. The fruit has 10 points or 'fingers' on a fluted acorn shape. These can be eaten young similar to summer squash, when mature like winter squash, or dried for decorative use.  100 days from germination

Courgette 'Cocozelle di Napoli'

A favorite and prolific Italian Heirloom variety introduced in 1885, producing beautiful light and dark green striped fruits on compact bush plants reliably in all but the worst UK summers.  Grown mainly due to its outstanding flavour they are best picked young and tender.  The fruit can be used as per marrows if left too long or at the end of the season. Fantastic for slicing, frying, or steaming.  Very easy to grow.  55-60 days from germination.

Cauliflower 'Self Blanche'

Self Blanche Cauliflowers have pure white heads that are very uniform, weighing 3-4 lbs. Large, close-jacket leaves makes blanching easy.   Deep, smooth, fine-grained heads.

Tomato 'Black Krim'

Named for the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. Slightly flattened 4-5" globes with dark greenish-black shoulders, turns almost black with enough heat and sun. Excellent full flavour. Indeterminate, 69-90 days from transplant.

Turnip 'Purple Top White Globe'

Turnip Purple Top White Globe, is sweet and mild and can be grown for both its greens and roots. The very tasty, sweet and mild roots are eaten fresh or cooked like potatoes. The greens are even more nutritious and are considered one of best flavours in the greens category. Purple Top White Globes store particularly well.

Hollyhock 'Summer Carnival Mix'

A hardy cottage garden favourite, providing tall stems of double flowers in shades of  pink, scarlet, yellow, and white all summer. The fluffy, 4 inch flowers grow on 3-5 ft. stalks.  Ideal for the back of  borders, walls, or fences.  Makes a great cut flower.  Easy to grow.  Hardy Perennial.

Kohl Rabi 'Purple Vienna'

This Purple Heirloom variety is an easy to grow and versatile vegetable often overlooked for the home garden.  Its bulb-like growth develops aboveground, has a distinctive nut-like flavour and tender flesh, which can be cooked, stir-fried or used in salads and dips. This variety has a purple skin and white flesh and is excellent fresh or stir-fried. Ready in around 60-100 days and the variety to choose for late sowings and harvests into winter. 

Leek 'Large American Blue Flag'

A fantastic and reliable early season leek variety producing leeks of superior quality and mild flavour with blue-green foliage borne on 10” thick white shanks. (Often referred to as a “Blue Flag Leek”)  Harvest in around 130 days.  Will stand well until at least mid winter

Lupin 'Russell Strain Mixed'

An ever popular garden perennial producing spectacular spikes of dense pea-like flowers in a wide range of single and bi-colours. Colourful spike flowers stand out above attractive cut-leaf foliage. Especially effective in borders and for massing. Adapts to most soil types. Blooms from Spring to Summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting.

Climbing French Bean 'Blue Lake'

Considered one of the gourmet varieties, these are a prolific producer defying the driest of summers, whilst remaining sugar sweet, `stringless' and tender with medium length beans. Excellent and easy to deep freeze. Can be grown against a trellis, on poles or up netting and can be interplanted with peas or runner beans required little or no maintenance.  White seeded variety. Height: 150cm (5').

Pea 'Kelvedon Wonder'

Italian Climbing Bean 'Marvel of Venice'

Unusual Italian climbing bean that reaches a height of 9 ft/3 meters, producing huge crops of Wide, meaty, 25cm long yellow string-less Beans that have a very tender, almost buttery flesh, with absolutely no strings. Often referred to as “Romax”.  Can be grown as a successional crop every four weeks to maintain a good supply.

Beetroot 'Ruby Queen'

Uniform and smooth, medium dark red globe shaped roots have dark-red flesh with no off color zones. Medium dull-green tops tinged with maroon grow 10-12 inches tall.  Good on poor soils and performs well when crowded. Matures in an average of 55-60 days.

Kale - Heirloom - 'Red Russian'

A vigorous and attractive Heirloom variety, Red Russian kale colours up well even before cold weather, but especially after cool weather. The oak-leaf shaped gray green leaves of this kale are deeply cut and are intersected by purple-pink veins, lightly tinged with purple on the margins.   Excellent for salad greens when leaves are thumb size and tender; larger leaves make delicious and nutritious cooked greens as per other kale varieties. Height up to 2 ft.

Dwarf Kenyan Bean 'Ferrari'

One of the best Kenyan / Filet type type beans producing large crops of dark green string less, meaty fleshy pods.  Fast to flower and quick to develop this one of the earliest varieties to harvest, all maturing in the same week to a uniform size.  Can be succession sown.  It has good disease resistance and can also be cropped early under glass. No support is needed

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