Organic Red amaranth seeds (microgreens)

While there are several cool season legumes grown as field crops in the U.S. (such as chickpeas, lentils, lupines, and faba beans), there are relatively few alternative legumes that are heat and drought tolerant.

Although very familiar to many, the chick pea is a crop rarely seen in the UK, though it has been cultivated for centuries in Asia and the Mediterranean. Our seed comes from Italy, and is of the white-skinned variety which has a superior flavour.

The variety is high-yielding, mid-early ripening, the duration of the growing season is 82 - 85 days, the world's first chickpea variety, which in its characteristics stands between the Desi and Kabuli types with large seeds.

Buckwheat seeds are used for planting in a container at home all year round, it is best to use raw microgreens, buckwheat seedlings are very high in magnesium and phosphorus.

This is the ever-popular summer bedding plant with beautiful, soft green foliage forming a dense bush that turns a deep fiery red in autumn. Makes a splendid pot plant. Although usually sold as a half-hardy annual.

Growing Aster seeds is the perfect way to have enough of these stunning annuals that are late season bloomers. Just when other flowers in the borders are about done, Aster Callistephus starts blooming in the latter part of summer and into the fall.

A variety of leaf radish with an impressive appearance and taste, purple sprouts with green tints, ideal for salads, soups, vegetable dishes, appetizers and sushi, an essential source of vitamins for our climate in winter.