Kew Urban Vegetables

Zombie might be the ugliest, scariest pumpkin you’ve ever seen! Plants have a trailing habit, producing 2-3 warty fruits of 3-4kg (6.5-8.5 lbs) each.

The Kew Vegetable range of seeds from Thompson and Morgan has been specially created alongside the experts at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew containing a mixture of staples, colourful and unusual vegetables specially selected to bring…

‘Chantenay’ types are increasingly popular in the supermarket but have been a gardeners’ favourite for years. Caracas is best sown quite thinly to produce short, conical coreless roots of outstanding flavour. Ide…

A medium sized Iceberg lettuce ideal for the smaller garden. The heads are of dense, round shape and compact in habit with few waste outer leaves. Excellent mildew resistance for quality heads throughout the season and tipburn tol…

A patio edible, ornamental as well as productive in containers, or planted in growbags in the greenhouse. Compact, dwarf habit. virtually spineless plants producing a good crop of small, deeper round, purple fruits with white stri…

Brassica rapa var. rapa. Flatter, globe-shaped roots with purple crowns and white bases, ideal as baby turnips when the taste is sweet and succulent. Dark green, erect leaves are ideal steamed as 'greens'. Turnip Atlantic is ideal…

Raphanus sativus. Shiny purple skinned round roots with crisp white flesh. The roots of Radish Amethyst are slow to go pithy and have strong tops for easier pulling. Ideal for containers.Sow regularly for continuous succulent root…

Capsicum annuum. Compact 'ornamental edible' on the windowsill or outside in a sunny spot, producing abundant green turning black to red sweet peppers throughout the summer. Pepper Sweet Ingrid makes an attractive and edible featu…

Capsicum annuum. Compact 'ornamental edible' on the windowsill or outside in a sunny spot, producing masses of upright pale green, turning vivid red chillies throughout the summer. Chili Pepper Krakatoa makes an attractive and edi…

Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leaf' indoors 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 …

Daucus carota. Baby round carrots, deliciously sweet and crunchy and with rich orange, coreless flesh. Just wash under the tap as a raw snack, add Carrot Atlas to salads or as a steamed vegetable. Sowing Info Sow seeds March to Ju…

Beta vulgaris var.conditiva. Easy to grow, Beet Cardeal produces golf ball sized, succulent baby beets with very sweet, smooth skinned rich red fleshed roots. Sowing Info Sow seeds March to July. Sow seeds thinly direct outside or…