Organic Carambola Seeds / Averrhoa carambola

As one of the world’s most popular commodities, it is grown commercially throughout South America. Commercial growth focuses on quick production and larger beans and so plants are placed in full sun and watered extensively.

A large shrub, originally native to montane forests in the Andes of South America, but now widely cultivated for its delicious fruits, which, under a thin, green peel, has very sweet, soft, white, custard-like flesh that can be scooped out with a spoon.

Much grown in the tropics for its delicious fruits. In this country it is grown for interest and as a foliage plant as it has large, handsome leaves. The leaves can be used for wrapping round pieces of tough meat with the object of tenderising them.

This is a perennial plant of the pumpkin family, which is why it is also called ivy pumpkin, but the fruits are more like cucumbers, grows very quickly, begins to bloom and bear fruit in the second year.

Bogata Hata has solid, meaty, medium-sized, around 2 or 3 ounces with deep red globe shaped fruit with Vitamin C per fruit which is twice as much as most tomatos!-but you don't have to sacrafice taste!

This reliable radicchio forms a gorgeous, firm, round, dark-red and white head which appears like a jewel when you pull aside the tattered clump of outer wrapping leaves. With a unique and tangy taste, it adds flavour, colour, and crisp texture to salads.

Grow this unusual but very attractive little gem from Nigella seeds. This Love In A Mist seed mix produces blooms in shades of red, white and blue which reach up to 2 1/2 inches across.