SeedStepsYour vegetable garden, one step at a time.My gardenVegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs. Start with a plant and discover its varieties.
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Discover round, striped, yellow and trailing courgettes, their flavours and ways to grow them.
Discover courgettes →Fleshy, scarlet tomatoes with a small point and a trailing growth habit. This Italian selection combines a pointed egg shape with determinate growth. It suits trying a loosely supported plant or a large hanging pot as a growing method.
Read moreLow selection with single white flowers.
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Runner beans give the bean frame a second purpose: flowers come first, followed by long pods. Put them somewhere easy to pick and make the frame a visible part of your garden.
Read the growing guide →Plums offer a whole journey of flavours: an early dessert plum, a sweet greengage and a late fruit for compote. If you have room for one tree, let use and pollination decide together. Think too about reaching heavily laden branches.
Read moreHybrid, early ripening.
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Small, purple cherry tomatoes with light stripes: a colourful snack variety with its own name. Choose Purple Bumble Bee for sweet, small, striped fruits instead of uniformly dark Black Cherry.
Read moreDark reddish-brown, wrinkled tomatoes with striking lobes. Choose these when you want a distinctive shape alongside classic smooth rounds. The medium-sized, flattened fruits create a different look from a dark round cherry tomato.
Read morePurple Frills combines strongly divided leaves with deep purple colour. A small amount therefore stands out in a bowl. Choose Purple Frills when leaf colour and fine structure both matter. It is an accent crop, not heading lettuce.
Read moreElongated, plum-shaped tomatoes ripen dark pink to purplish-red or chocolate-brown: dark fruit with abundant juicy flesh. Choose Purple Russian for a dark tomato usable fresh and cooked rather than a small, round cherry.
Read moreStraight, purple pods that turn green after cooking. Choose this low-growing bean if you want a purple harvest without climbing supports. The colour difference makes young pods recognisable among the plant's green leaves.
Read moreDeep violet-blue with a dark eye.
Read morePurple-brown fruits with thick flesh: a dark chilli for substantial, hot sauces. Choose Purple for dark ripening colour and fleshy, hot fruits rather than thin chillies for quick drying.
Read morePurple-grey foliage as a visible culinary variant.
Read moreBronze fennel for strongly visible foliage contrast.
Read moreQueue de Truite has green leaves with red speckles and forms a small cos lettuce. It is Lactuca lettuce despite the shop alias 'Witloof panaché'. Choose this selection for speckled leaves and a compact romaine shape. Use the alias when searching, not to create a different crop.
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This image was created with AI from described plant characteristics and growing advice. It shows a possible situation and is not a photograph of a verified cultivar.
This image was created with AI from described plant characteristics and growing advice. It shows a possible situation and is not a photograph of a verified cultivar.
A short row of turnip greens provides a usable leafy vegetable while still young. You grow them for stalks and leaves, not to form large turnips. This makes them suitable for a small spring sowing or a space between two larger crops.
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Rhubarb gives the vegetable garden volume early in the season, with large leaves above juicy stalks. Give it a permanent space and time to build its roots. The reward is a returning spring harvest; only the leaf stalks go to the kitchen.
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A red head of radicchio makes a striking finish to summer growing. The leaves have a distinctive bitter note, raw or briefly grilled. You can also harvest young leaves, but variety choice and enough space matter when growing closed heads.
Read the growing guide →Radichetta produces broad, dark green, cut leaves without a closed lettuce heart. The shape supports repeated cutting or picking. Choose Radichetta for dark green, loose-leaf lettuce. The name does not mean it is a Cichorium radicchio.
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Radishes quickly show you what a good seedbed and regular watering can achieve. Sow a short row, harvest young and make room for something else. This makes them a small recurring garden ritual rather than one large harvest peak.
Read the growing guide →Yellow snack peppers about 7–8 cm long on strong, short plants: a sunny colour for small fresh portions. Choose Radja for yellow snacks and a relatively short crop. The variety description clearly establishes colour and size.
Read moreRound, yellow-green cherry tomatoes stay greener near the stalk in small trusses often containing several fruits. Choose Raisin Vert for small, green-ripe fruits as a manageable alternative to large Aunt Ruby’s German Green.
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