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Discover round, striped, yellow and trailing courgettes, their flavours and ways to grow them.
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Good King Henry is a perennial vegetable that does not need sowing again each spring. Young leaves and spring shoots are usable.
Read the growing guide →Curled leaves with a classic culinary character.
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The first broccoli head is not always the end of your harvest. Many summer broccoli varieties produce smaller side shoots after the main head. Sprouting types have a different growing cycle again. Look at the variety, keep growth steady and check the bed regularly as heads form.
Read the growing guide →Large dark brown fruit; vigorous growth.
Read moreBrunswick is a late white cabbage with broad, flat, large heads on a short stem. The exterior is described as green. Choose this cultivar for a late, substantial cabbage harvest and possible processing. The name white cabbage does not mean the outer leaves have to be white.
Read moreA very early, compact variety from southern Russia with smooth, dark green snack fruits approximately 8–12 cm long. Choose Bushy for more compact growth and early snacks; recommendation for cooler regions does not make it frost-hardy.
Read moreCreamy white with soft pink/peach, very large double flowers.
Read moreAn early, red tomato with irregular, slightly flattened fruits. Choose it for irregular shapes and an early harvest. Despite the retail name cherry tomato, the description mentions medium-sized fruit; do not expect uniform small snack globes.
Read moreA small citrus with lots of tiny fruits provides balcony fruit for drinks and preserving.
Read moreEarly bush French bean with long, thin, green pods. Choose Calvy for an early, low-growing green harvest. The source mentions anthracnose resistance; that does not automatically make the plant resistant to every bean disease.
Read moreSlower bolting, long leaf-harvesting period.
Read moreMid-season; reliable garden choice.
Read morePartially self-fertile greengage.
Read moreCreamy white, kidney-shaped beans from a low plant. Choose Cannellini for a white storage bean without a tall climbing frame. A low crop is easy to manage and serves a different purpose in the kitchen from beans eaten young in their pods.
Read moreLow and trailing over a pot or wall edge.
Read moreViolet-purple spikes with dark-coloured stems.
Read moreA large-flowered gladiolus in the RHS selection.
Read moreA southern Italian Armenian cucumber with light green, grooved fruits approximately 15 cm long and fine, silky hairs. Choose Carosello for a short, grooved cucumber melon from the Bari region, as an alternative to the very long Armenian Painted Serpent.
Read moreLight green, half-long fruits with dark stripes make Caserta a fresh variation on uniformly green courgettes. Choose Caserta for striped fruit on a bushy plant. The supplier mentions adaptation to cooler regions, without the variety tolerating frost.
Read moreIvory-white, oval fruits on a plant approximately 80–120 cm tall give Casper a very different appearance from purple aubergines. Choose Casper for a white, oval aubergine; pair with Ma-Zu Purple for striking colour and shape contrast.
Read moreA hot cayenne chilli for anyone wanting a clearly spicy flavouring, also in a pot or under glass. Choose Cayenne Long Slim for hot chilli in a practical crop. It is a named variety alongside the broader cayenne type.
Read moreA very early-ripening chilli with bright yellow-orange fruits, also selected for promising warm outdoor growing. Choose Cayorange for early orange chillies and a trial in a sunny outdoor spot, rather than a late exotic greenhouse variety.
Read moreCenturion has bronze-brown skin and creamy-white flesh. Discover what early means in its source context, how the bulb grows and why saved seed does not automatically reproduce the same variety.
Read moreCompact; suitable for a pot, fruits young.
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