Classic Italian courgette, indispensable for a host of dishes. Courgette Zucchino Nano Verde di Milano crops early and heavily throughout the summer if the fruits are picked regularly. Early morning picked flowers can be battered and fried or in...

Courgette Zucchino Tondo di Toscana is a versatile, round fruited variety which can be cropped from golf ball size for eating raw whole, slightly larger for slicing or stir frying, to tennis ball size for stuffing. Sowing Info:This crop requires a rich,...

Traditional 'juicy plum tomato', mostly grown outdoors for a fuller flavour. Tomato Pomodora Roma Nano has juicy but meaty flesh with few seeds, ideal for pastes, soups, salsa and for sun dried fruits.Sowing Info:Tomatoes require a very fertile moisture...

Large 8cm, blocky, pear-shaped paste tomato deep red in colour. The vigorous plants of Tomato Pomodoro Rio Grande produce heavy crops of tomatoes in clusters. Good disease resistance.Sowing Info:Tomatoes require a very fertile moisture retentive soil...

Tomato Il San Marzano Lungo is the Number 1 cooking variety and unsurpassed for sauces; dry and meaty, larger plum tomatoes of deep red skin colour. Il San Marzano Lungo is early to ripen and crops well over a long season.Sowing Info:Tomatoes require a...

A selection of 'Oxheart type', later maturing, producing large, meaty tomatoes about 200gm in weight. Tomato Pomodoro Cuore di Bue produces fruits that are deep, ox heart shaped, with rounded base, ribbed and ripen to an orangey-red colour. The flesh is...

Long, tapering, red-skinned roots with crisp white flesh. Radish Ravanello Il Candela di Fuoco is succulent and quick maturing. An essential ingredient for the salad.Sowing Info:Radishes require rich, moisture retentive soils containing plenty of...

A green fruited, Biscayne type turning bright red with long, broad shouldered slightly tapering fruits with thick flesh, ideal for grilling. Peperone Rubens will produce an abundant crop over a long season if picked regularly.Sowing Info:Peppers are best...

Strong growing Italian Flat Leaved (Plain leaved) parsley, Parsley Prezzemolo Gigante d'Italia is indispensable for a huge range of dishes, sauces, salads and as garnish. Dark green leaves stand well in condition without yellowing; good winter hardiness...

Glossy, red skinned, deeper, more top shaped bulbs of darker flesh with red tinge to the rings. the flavour of Onion Cipolla Rossa di Toscana is quite pungent. Ideal for storing and using throughout the autumn and winter. Sowing Info:Early sowings in...

A loose leaf 'picking lettuce', Lattuga Verde A Foglia Riccia produces an abundant pale green leaves to add to salads and sandwiches, or used as a garnish. _x000D_ Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such...

Attractive bright yellow, slender, stringless pencil podded ‘waxpods’ on vigorous bushy plants. Fagioli Nani Creso is early maturing and crops heavily over a long season if picked regularly.Sowing Info:These beans require a minimum soil...

The compact plants of Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco produces pale cream-yellow pods containing 6 or 7 large white ‘cannelloni beans’, essential for a range of specific dishes. Plants quite late maturing, usually grown for the fully mature seeds...

Forms an attractive rosette of green leaves and a small heart if grown to maturity, but Chicory Cicoria Grumolo Verde is often sown as a 'cut and come again' salad leaf.

Typical Borlotto. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods of Fagioli Nani Splendido are attractive red splashed cream, bulging with 6-7 cream with red streaked seeds. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in...

Ideal for early sowings as they mature quickly, Beetroot Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto produces unusual flatter roots with deep red flesh and a sweet flavour._x000D_ Sowing Info:Prepare a seedbed to produce fine tilth, eliminate weeds and incorporate...