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H35 Thyme of Provence. Excellent flavour, add to pork and fish dishes. @6000. Sow Mar-Aug. £2.99 H36 Wild Fennel. Add to trout/ salmon, cooked in foil with butter & lemon. @1240. Sow Mar-end Jun. £2.99 H37 Anise. Strong aniseed flavour. Great for flavouring cakes. @4000. Sow full sun Mar-May. £2.99 H38 Common Purslane (Portulaca Oleracea) Grows like a weed, the meaty leaves are eaten in salads or used like spinach. Slightly sour/salty flavour. £2.99 H47 Red Mustard Senape Rossa Oriental mustard leaf from the brassica family. Eat the younger leaves raw mixed in salads or stir fry the larger leaves. Sow Apr-Sep. £2.99 MH2 Dente di leone (Dandelion) Taraxacum Officinale Young leaves used chopped in the kitchen, dried leaves and flowers in herbal teas. Sow Feb-Oct. £3.29 MH3 Hyssop Dried flowers used in herbal teas and leaves and shoots in condiments. Sow Feb-Jul. £3.29
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MH4 Tall Mallow - Malva Sylvestris Young leaves used chopped in the kitchen, dried leaves and flowers in herbal teas. Sow Feb-Oct. £3.29 MH5 Valeriana Officinalis - Used for insomnia and some gastrointestinal problems. Sow Mar-Jul. £3.29 MH6 Fenugreek - Trigonella Used by the Ancient Greeks & Romans. Annual. Seeds used in curries and pasta, bread, flavouring meat, fish and veg and in herbal teas. Sow Feb-Jul. £3.29 MH8 Cumin - Cuminum Cyminum Annual. Crushed seeds use in sausages, soups, salsas, bread and with cheeses. Sow Mar-Jun. £3.29 MH9 St Johns Wort Perennial. H 50cm Yellow flowers. For treatment of wounds, muscle pain and rheumatism. Also cited in research into Crohn’s disease. Sow Mar-Jun. £3.29 MH13 Roman Mentuccia Calamita Nepita Rustic perennial, easy to grow. 50cm tall. Used in cooking and tisanes. Mint-like. Resists low temperatures and drought. £3.29 MH15 Garlic Chives Perennial, strong flavour. Easy to grow, it's also pefect to attract pollinators. Ideal in potato salad. Sow Feb to Sept £3.29
Seasonal Bulbs and Asparagus
This section is dedicated to our garlic bulbs, onion, shallot sets and British elephant garlic. Available in season only. You can pre-order these items for shipping in full season.
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G1 White Garlic Bianco Veneto (Venice) - Soft Neck. White garlic. 3 pack. Sow Oct-Apr. £6.99 (UK only) G2 Red Garlic Rosso of Sulmona (Abruzzo) - Hard Neck. Sweet red garlic from Apennines. 3 pack. Sow Oct-Apr. £6.99 (UK only) G3 French White - Hard Neck. From Rhone Alps. Late, productive, rustic, strong flavour and high quality. 4 heads. Sow Oct-Apr. £9.99 (UK only) G4 French Red - Soft Neck. From Rhone Alps. Early, annual quality variety with a sweeter flavour. 4 heads. Sow Oct-Apr. £9.99 (UK only)
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G5 Red Baron onion set. By popular demand and in limited quantities. Available in a value 500g pack. Red onions caramelise well £5.49 (UK only) G6 Golden Onion Set Stoccarda (Stuttgarter Riesen). A good storing onion. Strong, flat. You can buy this onion set in season only in a value 500g pack. £5.49 (UK only) G7 French Restaurant Quality Shallot “Longue de Bretagne”. Sweet, red blushed from Brittany. Very
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high quality. Indispensable in French cuisine. Each shallot will multiply unlike onions. 500g pack. £6.99 (UK only) G11 Elephant Garlic “Aglio Elefante” From the leek family so a milder flavour and supplied for sowing in Autumn only. Grows a massive bulb one year, smaller cloves the next. From the UK. Traditionally roasted and just a real show stopper in terms of size! 5 cloves. £9.99 (UK only) A1 Wild Asparagus Crowns “Scaber Montina” Excellent flavour characteristics make this hard-to-find variety much sought after by chefs and foodies. Thin, tasty asparagus from small/med crowns. Pan fry with butter, use with eggs, crepes, risotto, “Torta di patate”’(potato cake) and with black truffles. Sow Nov-Apr. UK only. 10 crowns £14.99 A2 Purple Asparagus of Albenga Historic culinary variety with outstanding flavour. Sought after by chefs. 10 crowns £14.99 A4 Green Asparagus Verde “Superiore” Regular traditional green variety used widely all over Europe. Superior quality. 10 crowns £14.99
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Varieties highlighted in blue are suitable for winter cultivation. @600 = Approximate Seed Quantity.
Herb Seeds
