Grow Your Own Vegetable Seed Collection

Growing your own veg at home has never been more popular – and it’s not really surprising. It’s the only way to pick and eat vegetables at their utmost peak of freshness and flavour. But with so many different types and varieties to choose from, it can be tricky deciding on which ones to grow. So we’ve made it easy for you with this fabulous collection!

Our Grow Your Own Vegetables Seed Collection contains no less than 10 of the best most popular veg – all RHS AGM winners. They all taste delicious and will produce abundant crops throughout summer and well into autumn.

They can be used in a variety of dishes and cooked in a number of different ways to bring great flavour, taste and variation to your lunch and dinner table.

RHS AGM

All the varieties in our RHS AGM Vegetable Seed Collections, have been awarded the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Such plants have been awarded this accolade after testing and assessment by the society, and is only given to plants that have proved to have excellent garden performance and worth growing.

The collection contains one packet of each of the following 10 varieties.

Cabbage Kilaton F1

Kilaton is an excellent winter cabbage variety that produces large, round heads with a great flavour that, thanks to its F1 vigour, can weigh anywhere between 2.5-4kg (5½-9lb).

• Autumn/winter cropping
• Excellent club root resistance
• Rounded heads up to 4kg (9lb) in weight
• Each packet contains approx. 20 seeds

Calabrese Green Magic F1

Green Magic is a delicious variety of calabrese or broccoli that forms a large, tight tasty head that can be harvested in summer. This is followed by lots of equally tasty sideshoots that provide further delicious pickings into autumn.

• Enjoy tasty, large heads and sideshoots
• Early to mature
• Disease resistant
• Each packet contains approx. 50 seeds

Carrot Amsterdam Forcing 3

Amsterdam Forcing 3 is considered to be the best carrot variety for cropping over a very long time – from April to October. The small, bright orange roots are super sweet, and perfect for freezing.

• Sweet and tender carrots
• Harvest 12-14 weeks from sowing
• Good for freezing
• Each packet contains approx. 1,000 seeds

Carrot Autumn King 2

Autumn King 2, as its name implies, produces a fantastic crop of carrots for harvesting in autumn and into winter. The long, tasty carrots can be left in the ground without fear of splitting.

• Late maturing
• Delicious flavour
• Great for storing
• Each packet contains approx. 2,000 seeds

Cauliflower Aalsmeer

Cauliflower Aalsmeer forms large, dense cauliflower heads that are a lovely creamy white. It is also super hardy, so plants can stay in the ground over winter without protection, providing curds for picking in March and April.

• Frost hardy
• Lovely creamy-white heads
• Great taste
• Each packet contains approx. 50 seeds

Leek Jolant

Jolant is a delicious variety of leek that is earlier to mature than many others, providing leeks that can be picked as early as August. Being cold hardy, it continues to provide a reliable supply well into winter.

• Lovely mild flavour
• Great for growing in pots
• Easy to grow
• Each packet contains approx. 75 seeds

Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia

Aquadulce Claudia is a classic and much loved broad bean variety that produces masses of long pods filled with flavoursome, delightfully tender white broad beans.

• Heavy crops of long pods
• Succulent white beans full of flavour
• Best for autumn sowing
• Each packet contains approx. 45 seeds

Runner Bean Enorma

Runner Bean Enorma is a big favourite with vegetable growers for its ability to produce massive crops of delicious runner bean pods throughout summer. Plants look great in flower too!

• Excellent flavour
• Highly productive
• Super long pods
• Each packet contains approx. 45 seeds

Swiss chard Rhubarb

Rhubarb chard is an easy vegetable to grow and very versatile in the kitchen. It is also highly attractive, thanks to its colourful stems and leaves.

• Easy to grow
• Versatile in the kitchen
• Tastes like a cross between beetroot and spinach
• Grow to maturity or use as a cut-and-come again crop
• You’ll receive approx. 75 seeds

Cabbage Greyhound

Greyhound is one of the best summer cabbages, producing sweet-tasting, pointed heads that are perfect for steaming, as well as adding to salads, coleslaws and stir-fries.

• Sweet, 30cm (12in) tall pointed heads
• Fast growing
• Harvest in summer and autumn
• Each packet contains approx. 500 seeds