Root Vegetable Seeds

Smooth, dark red skin and tender flesh. Produces baby beets or full sized beetroots. Ideal for baking, pickling, or grating raw into salads.

An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Sweet fresh flavour.

An improved Detroit with rich maroon colouring. These globe-shaped beet are ideal for successional sowing.

Bolting is almost a thing of the past with this excellent globe beetroot! Ready to harvest over a week earlier than Boltardy, which it supersedes in all respects. Firm, smooth, deep red flesh without a hint of fibre, even when 12.5cm (5in) in diameter. Vigorous, high yields which are synonymous with F1 Hybrids.

The first F1 hybrid cylindrical Housewives Choice Beetroot with the sweetest of flavours. Uniform, straight roots have a smooth rich red skin and flesh colour, free from rings making them easy to prepare.

Roots stand proud above the soil, but can be earthed up, and remain in good condition for long periods.

High quality, round, bright red fleshed roots which do not go woody. Wonderful flavour when freshly cooked, either as baby beet or as larger roots. Ideal for pickling. The young leaves can be used as an alternative to spinach.

A main crop variety with round to oval, high quality roots with a dark red colour. The hybrid vigour makes it a very strong grower which will do well in most sites and soils; good in dry seasons. Excellent for exhibition.

British bred monogerm variety, producing only one seedling per seed cluster, reducing the need of thinning out. Smooth skinned, round roots are ideal as a baby beet or as a mature root, high in sugar content for the sweetest of flavours.

Good resistance to bolting, leaf spot, downy and powdery mildew.

Sweet, smooth skinned orange roots. Bred for resistance to carrot root fly. Delicious eaten raw, just pulled from the earth and washed.

Sweet, smooth skinned orange roots. Bred for resistance to carrot root fly. Delicious eaten raw, just pulled from the earth and washed.

Experience a flavour sensation with this extra sweet carrot, which also contains high levels of beta carotene. Long, 25cm (10 inch) roots of exceptional quality, so sweet you can just lift the roots, wash and serve in chunks in salads.

Approximate root length: 20-25cms (8-10 inches).

A smooth, rich purple skin contrasts with the deep orange flesh when washed and diced into chunks. Produces long, heavy roots best eaten raw when full of flavour and nutritionally high in antioxidants and Vitamin A. The colour and flavour are less intense if steamed or cooked.

New & Exclusive 2008

An early maturity sister line to Sugarsnax producing slightly tapered, 13-15cm (5-6in) blunt ended, smooth, rich orange roots. Outstanding juicy and tender sweet flavour. Delicious eaten raw in salads, used for juicing or as a cooked vegetable.

High in Beta-carotene and Vitamin A and rich in antioxidants.

Highly commended by the Royal Horticultural Society, UK. It is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they are fetching high prices in the shops. A very important autumn sowing vegetable breakthrough.

Root length: 25-30cms (10-12 inches).

Long, large roots with a deep rich red internal colour. Ideal grown for the heavyweight class at local shows. Can be left in the ground all winter without splitting.

Approximate root length: 13-15cms (5.5-6 inches).

A fast maturing selection of this superb carrot with medium length roots of good internal colour. Excellent also for a January/February sowing under glass.

Deservedly well-known, rich, orange/red-fleshed carrot, crisp and sweet. Excellent for a very early and successional sowing. Described as an intermediate, stump-rooted variety.

Unique breeding over many years has resulted in a true F1 mixture of pastel shades with a diversity in skin and core colours, ranging from white to pale yellow through shades of orange. Washed sliced roots are sweet, juicy and tender, adding an exciting contrast to any salad or cooked dish. All colours are high in vitamins and other nutrients.

A new hybrid of high calibre, producing heavy, cylindrical, well-coloured roots with impeccable flavour. With strong tops, meaning easier lifting, Kingston also boasts good storage qualities, and is ideal for winter stews, casseroles and as a steamed vegetable. Versatile, easy to grow variety for the garden. Ideal for winter storage.

Root length: 3-5cm (1.5-2in)

Deliciously tender, bite-sized, round carrots, with a very smooth skin. Early maturing and uniform. Ideal for containers, high density cropping or even in a windowbox. Suitable for clay soils where carrots are only dreamt of.

Approximate root length: 12-15cms (5-6 inches).

Excellent as a Maincrop variety, with superb storage capabilities. Produces larger, cylindrical, smooth, more blunt ended roots than Flyaway, with the sweetest of flavours. Good early vigour, with good skin and core colour when later sown, as a Maincrop.

Root length: 15-20cm (6-8in)

A quick growing second early Nantes. Produces heavy crops of cylindrical, smooth-skinned, good flavoured, coreless bright orange roots, which resist cracking once washed. Stores well for winter use.

One of the earliest maturing varieties available. Short tops with smooth skinned, cylindrical roots, filling out quickly to give a crunchy sweet flavour. Ideal for sowing early in cold frames. Be the first to pull carrots this spring!

A high quality variety producing small cylindrical roots with a rich deep orange red colour and almost no core. Very quick to mature, ideal for early forcing in frames, cloches etc. to produce delicious finger carrots. To produce quick crops out of doors from summer to autumn sow at 14 day intervals through the spring and early summer.

Approximate root length: 12-15cms (5-6 inches).

British bred with partial Carrot Fly resistance, due to lower levels of chlorogenic acid within the developing roots. Flyaway is naturally sweet, producing early blunt ended roots, with good skin and flesh colour. Tried and tested by thousands of T&M gardeners.

This variety is based on original breeding work carried out by Dr Bob Ellis and sponsored by MAFF funding.

New 2008

A giant amongst summer radish. Vienna produces large, golf ball sized roots with pure white flesh which remain firm, juicy and crisp with a spicy flavour, but have no sign of pithiness or bitter after taste. Ideal for successional sowing.

Cylindrical, pale red roots with small white tips make a most attractive hunching radish. Excellent for both early sowings under glass as well as for maincrop outdoor sowings. Crunchy delight for salads.

Bright red skin and crisp, sweet and succulent mildly flavoured white flesh. Early, very fast maturing, and very slow to go woody.

Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection

Crisp, crunchy, mild and sweet. Ideal for decoration - make small uneven cuts around the outside of the radish, place in iced water and it will open up into floral shapes.

Dark red, good coloured round roots with crisp, gently pungent flesh which is slow to turn pithy. Suitable for outdoor crops or for forcing under glass or in frames for even earlier crops. A versatile, easy to grow salad crop. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun. Harvest almost all year round.