Basil : Sweet Green (Ocimum minimum)

Tasting like a mixture of mint and cloves it compliments courgettes and is legendary in tomato and pasta dishes. Use Basil Sweet Green fresh or dried in salads, casseroles and vinegars. Insect repellent and companion plant for tomatoes. Companion Plant: Reputed to improve the growth and flavour of tomatoes, and keep most insects and bugs off most of your vegetables. Diluted crushed leaves make an effective organic insecticide.

Beetroot : Globe : Boltardy

An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Beetroot Boltardy has a sweet fresh flavour.

Chives

Savoury garnish adding zest to any salad. Try chive butter or frozen chive cubes. Companion Plant: Grow chives close to carrots as it is said to improve their growth and deter carrot fly and next to roses to help control black spot. Also makes excellent organic insecticide.

Coriander

A dual purpose annual herb, Coriander is grown for its seeds or fresh young leaves. Coriander seeds are delicious in cakes and when crushed, add an orangey flavour to meat dishes. The young leaves of Coriander are often called 'Cilantro'; finely chop and add to chicken soup to give it a Latin touch or soak the crushed seeds in hot water and add the liquid only to cubes of pork simmering in tomatoes for a real Mexican flavour. Height: 15-70cm (6-28in).

Dill : Bouquet (Antheum graveolens)

An exquisite dwarf form of this special, architectural plant. However, the charm of the original is not lost, as the ferny foliage is highly attractive and most delicate. Dill Bouquet is surprisingly compact, making it ideal for container growing.

Excellent in the herb garden, and ideal for windowsill growing. Dill Bouquet is easy to grow.

Herb : Collection - SPECIAL OFFER

You can create a lovely herb garden with these herb varieties. Fragrant herbs look great in pots on your windowsill and are handy for use in cooking.

Collection comprises one packet each of:

Parsley Laura (750 seeds)

Coriander (150 seeds)

Dill Bouquet (200 seeds)

Basil Sweet Green (400 seeds)

Chives (1000 seeds)

Rocket (500 seeds)

Herb : Parsley : Flat Leaved - Laura

A flat-leaved parsley with a more intense flavour than some other varieties, Parsley Laura is becoming increasingly popular in the kitchen, for growing on the windowsill and for a huge range of culinary uses.

Herb : Rocket

A little known but very useful salad plant, Rocket can be used raw in salads or cooked lightly when it makes a delicious spinach substitute. Late summer sowings of Rocket will carry on cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches.

Lettuce : Cos : Little Gem

One of the earliest varieties to mature. Lettuce Little Gem produces small compact plants which are packed with a crisp sweet heart and little outside leaf. Lettuce Little Gem is very useful for cloches too.

Lettuce : Niche Salad Leaves

An exciting blend of salad leaves, Niche Salad Leaves add a range of colours, tastes and textures to your salads. The blend of Niche Salad Leaves consists of Leaf Radish, Leaf Carrot, Wrinkled Cress, Kale Red Russian, Red Amaranth, Golden Purslane and Salad Burnet.

Sow seeds in succession, pick leaves as required. Can also be grown under glass during the winter months to provide a complete season of harvesting.

Onion : Bunching/Spring : White Lisbon

Very quick growing salad onions, sow Spring Onion White Lisbon in succession for a continuous crop all spring, summer and autumn.