Beetroot Cylindra has long, red cylindrical roots making it the ideal variety for slicing. Cylindra has a great colour, is free from internal rings stores well and keeps its sweet flavour all season. Delicious served either as a hot vegetable.

45 days. Once a rare delicacy, Arugula is now part of the American dinner table. But for what it costs at the fresh market, growing your own is the only sane option! And it's a good thing it's so easy to grow.

Due to its graceful leaves, Tarragon also combines beautifully with irises and lilies and, because this sun lover is resistant to drought, can also grow very well in pots and baskets on your terrace.

A beautiful hardy annual herb with rough leaves covered in silvery hairs and the most attractive celestial blue flowers. Nectar rich borage flowers are particularly attractive to pollinating insects, including bees which make distinctive flavoured borage.

Origanum majorana. Sweet Marjoram is a key ingredient in many Mediterranean dishes adding a similar flavour to oregano, but more delicate. This pale green, bushy plant will spread readily if the tops are pinched out when young.

Fenugreek is a spice native to Asia and the southern regions of Europe. It’s widely used in Asian cuisines and is a must have ingredient for an Indian curry. The spice is renowned for its rich flavor.

Annual plant, 25-35 days, leaves are elongated oval, light green in color, juicy, with a pleasant pungent taste.

Anise seeds flavor soups, cookies, cheese spreads, and applesauce. Seeds and leaves carry sweet, licorice-like flavor, make a comforting tea. Anise has been traditionally employed as treatment for sore throats, indigestion, and flatulence.

Typical winter vegetable and from time immemorial often cultivated as an alternative for asparagus. A fine vegetable with long, truncated roots with a deep black skin. Duplex is known for its resistance to running to seed.

Noir Long Maraicher black radish seeds are also listed in some sources as Noir Gros Long d’Hiver. This old French heirloom translates as black, large, long, of winter. The roots are long, black-skinned, and excellent for fall and winter harvests.

Early ripening variety, 23 days, root crops of elongated cylindrical shape with a blunt tip, white color, weighing 20-25g, white flesh, very dense, juicy, tender and pleasant to the taste.

This is an early ripening variety of sweet pepper, the fruits are cherry-red in color, elongated cone-shaped with a pointed tip, up to 20 cm long, weighing 180-250 grams, the pulp is juicy and sweet, 7-9 mm thick.

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.

Dill is excellent in sauces, soups and salads. A chef's favourite with fish. Grows up to 1.2 metres tall. Sow this herb in pots, containers from mid Spring onwards. Cover these herb seeds with finely sieved compost. Dill can be sown direct outdoors.

Mid-late amateur variety, 110-125 days, tall bush, 2.5-3 m high, plum-shaped fruit, with thick walls, red, weighing up to 100 grams.

What a great addition to your flower garden! Globe Amaranth seeds readily produce these bright little golf ball-like blooms. They look so attractive on the bushy, well-branched plant that they're the perfect complement to everything else.

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.

"Mona" variety stands out with long and abundant blooming that lasts from spring to autumn frosts. Double, round, bright orange inflorescences would make a strong mark in flowery arrangements and would not be overlooked on borders and flower beds.

The bush is strong, 50-60cm high, the inflorescences are double, round, 5-8cm in diameter, red in color with a white-yellow center, powerful peduncles, 35-40cm long.

China Aster ‘Princess Mix’ is a mix of annual china asters with glamorous large multi-coloured inflorescences that produce mostly tubular flowers. Contrary to dwarf aster varieties, which grow up to 30 centimetres in height.

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.

Aster seeds grow quickly and are so rewarding! This Aster Callistephus is a late season bloomer. While many of the summer flowers are finished, Aster flowers are just getting started, and they will bloom until frosts.

Caraway is a member of the carrot family and looks much like a carrot plant prior to flowering. It is an upright growing plant, with a spindle shaped tap root. During flowering it sends up tall stalks that may reach from 60-90cm high.

This is a late ripening variety. The vegetation period from shoots - 150-160 days. Heads resistant to cracking, dense, rounded, white, weighing 3.5-5 kg. The yield of 8-10 kg/m². Heads of cabbage are suitable for fresh consumption and pickling.

Golden Acre is an excellent early summer variety ball head cabbage. With small to medium-sized green, round solid heads on compact plants with few outer leaves. Ideal for confined areas, it can be grown at 30cm spacings and give excellent small heads.

Early ripening variety, growing season 95 days, drought-resistant, low-growing bush, 50 cm high, red fruits, round, smooth, fleshy, tasty, weighing 150-300 grams.

Thick enough for a bit of crunch when eaten fresh, but thin enough to dry easily. The fruits are sweet with moderately warm heat for a cayenne. "Pepper heads" can eat Red Ember fruits whole, while others craving a touch of heat can slice it.

This is a thermophilic culture. Grown as seedlings, and sowing in the ground. Plant height from 1 to 1.5 m. The leaves are wide, have a peculiar smell. Used for the production of tobacco products as well as to combat dangerous pests of agricultural crops.

This ancient of strawberry was popular in colonial America as well as 17th century Europe. Fruit have bright red skin and pure white flesh. These bear in June and are best eaten right out of the garden, they have superb flavor, not shipping quality.

The Small Sugar Pumpkin is noted as one of the finest pie pumpkins. A staple heirloom baking pumpkin, the “Small Sugar” has been enjoyed around the Thanksgiving table for more than 120 years!

Gardeners fall in love with Thunbergia vine. Easily established from Thunbergia seeds, this annual is commonly called Black-Eyed Susan Vine. This Black Eyed Susan vine is very quick to bloom, offers a super-long season of color.

Low-growing annual, 15-20 cm high, flowers 2-3 cm in diameter, black in color with a white border along the edge of the petals.

Your garden will never be the same! Start Forget-Me-Nots from flower seed to add a true blue to the early flower garden. This fairly low growing perennial is often used as a ground cover or edging plant.

A perennial plant up to 90 cm high. The stem is erect, strongly branched, the flowers are golden yellow. Blooms from mid-July for 70-80 days.

Cobaea scandens 'Purple' will clamber up and over your garden wall. It is a fantastic, exotic looking plant with buds in green-white, deepening to purple as they age. I've picked a bunch of these in December on a sheltered wall in Sussex.

There is a seemingly unsolvable conundrum for the many gardeners among us who would like vertical interest and colour in summer without having to wait a year or two for shrubs or perennial climbers to develop sufficiently to flower well.

The common name is Mountain Garland or Garland Flower, and it originated in California. This variety produces blooms with an array of pink, salmon and hues of maroon, and the colors are most striking when planted in groups.

Many people think of Sweet Peas climbing up trellises, lamp posts, or fences. White Sweet Peas flowers are also extremely popular for weddings and floral arrangements as they make a great cut flower!

Sweet William ‘Double Mix’, as the name implies, is mix of plants of biennial type with gorgeous double flowers. The plants grows up to 25 centimetres in height, whereas the flowers create unique umbellate inflorescences.

Sweet William ‘Holborn Glory’ is a very unusual, yet highly decorative variety. Similarly to other plants of this lovely family, this one is a biennial plant that grows around 50 centimetres in height.