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2 FIRST EARLY ABBOT Abbot is an early maturing, white fleshed and white skinned variety. Abbot has a bright skin with shallow eyes and produces a high yield. It has an excellent taste and is suitable for the table and home French fry market. Crops of new potatoes will be ready as early as May while larger tubers can be lifted later in the season for delicious chips and summer bakers. Shows good disease resistance and makes a superb choice for your first potatoes of the year. ACCORD High yielding early bulking variety, fresh chip favourite. Round oval white fleshed tubers. Excellent taste with potential for use as an early baker. Benefits from dual eelworm resistance and a good tolerance to spraing. Relatively low tuber numbers. NEW Susceptible to rhizoctonia, also early blight programme advised. ARRAN PILOT Very early traditional potato, bred on the Isle of Arran and the most popular variety in the UK in the 1930s. Excellent yield and flavour. Great resistance to all forms of scab and scores a high 9 for spraing resistance, good slug resistance. Boiling and chipping. CASABLANCA Relatively new variety. Great skin finish making it a good candidate for the show bench. Makes very good chips. Boiling, mashing, baking, chipping and roasting.

3 VEGETABLE PACKS BROAD BEAN, RUNNER BEAN, FRENCH BEAN, KIDNEY BEAN, PEA, LEEK, CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, BRUSSEL SPROUT, BROCCOLI, CALABRESE, PAK CHOI, RED ONION, WHITE ONION, SPRING ONION, CARROT, CELERIAC, SWEETCORN, SPINACH, CHARD, KALE, SWEDE, TURNIP, BEETROOT VEGETABLE AND FRUIT POTS TOMATO, CUCUMBER, COURGETTE, PEPPER, CHILLI, MARROW, SQUASH, AUBERGINE, ARTICHOKE, ASPARAGUS. STRAWBERRY, MELON, RHUBARB, GOOSEBERRY, BLACKBERRY, BLACKCURRANT, REDCURRANT, WHITECURRANT, RASPBERRY, KIWI, GRAPE. FIRST EARLY COLLEEN (ORGANIC) Has a good resistance to potato blight so is good to grow organically. Excellent all-rounder with light yellow skin and yellow flesh. Good pest resistance. DUKE OF YORK Traditional early variety, harvest when young for a rich sweet flavour or leave to mature for a floury texture. Makes excellent baked potato. show good resistance to dry rot. Boiling, baking, chipping and salad. EPICURE Traditionally know as 'Ayrshire Earlies'. A very good taste and texture. Recovers well from late frosts. Good slug resistance. Boiling, mashing and salad. FOREMOST Foremost remains popular as a new potato with slightly waxy, firm white flesh and an excellent flavour. Boiling, baking and salad.

4 FIRST EARLY HOME GUARD Well known for their early lifting ability. Home Guard was the main potato during the Second World War, and was a commercial success due to its consistent high yields of fresh, tasty potatoes. High resistance to all forms of scab and spraing. Boiling, baking, chipping and roasting. BROAD BEAN BUNYARDS EXHIBITION MAR ROBIN HOOD SOW FEB / MAY MASTERPIECE GREEN MARCH AQUADULCE MAR & OCT/ NOV GIANT EXHIBITION MAR LADY CHRISTL Very early salad type with high yields, good taste and nice bright skin finish. Grown commercially in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire Good all-round disease resistance, in particular to common scab and potato cyst nematode. Boiling, chipping and salad. SUTTON DWARF GREEN LONGPOD MAR MAY PEAS MARIS BARD First early variety that bulks early. It is high yielding and has high potato numbers. Oval shaped with white skins, shallow tuber eyes white flesh. Good resistance against common scab. Baking, boiling and salad. DOUCE PROVENCE APR & OCT/ NOV METEOR APR & SEPT/ OCT KELVEDON WONDER EARLY ONWARD SOW MAR/ APR MAR WAVEREX ALDERMAN PENTLAND JAVELIN First early variety with good eelworm (golden) resistance. Very bright with a mild flavour. Produces heavy crops of short oval white skinned tubers with pure white tasty flesh. Good slug resistance. Boiling, chipping and salad. ONWARD SOW APR/ LINCOLN SOW APR/ APR SOW MAR/ HURST GREENSHAFT APR

5 BLUE LAKE CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN COBRA CLIMBING HUNTER CLIMBING SOW UNDER GLASS FEB/MAR SOW OUTDOORS MAY/ FIRST EARLY RED DUKE OF YORK A traditional red-skinned variety with a yellow flesh. Makes excellent roasts. Dry, mealy potato packed with flavour and do not disintegrate on boiling. Boiling, baking, chipping and roasting SAFARI DWARF TENDER- GREEN DWARF CANADIAN WONDER DWARF ROCKET Recent variety, throws a large number of round whole potatoes. White fleshed and skinned with a mild taste. There is good resistance to blackleg, common scab and spraing. Boiling and salad. RUNNER BEAN ENORMA SOW MAY/ POLESTAR SOW MAY/ FIRESTORM SOW APR/ RED KNIGHT SOW MAY/ STREAM- LINE SOW MAY/ SHARPES EXPRESS Great tasting variety bred in Lincolnshire in This first early has a bright white flesh with a smooth skin. A favourite of gardener Percy Thrower. Good resistance to common scab and tubers have shallow eyes. Boiling, chipping and roasting. WHITE LADY SOW MAY/ SCARLET EMPEROR SOW APR/JUL SWIFT Exceptionally early variety which produces lots of small round potatoes. Great disease resistance to blackleg, common scab, powdery scab and eelworm resistance. Good slug resistance. Boiling, baking, chipping, roasting and salad.

6 FIRST EARLY WINSTON An early variety that produces large potatoes and has very good drought resistance. Excellent all round disease resistance. Boiling, baking and chipping. SHALLOTS GOLDEN GOURMET A greatly improved 'Dutch Yellow' with better yields of high quality, golden rounded bulbs. Golden Gourmet stores well and has good resistance to bolting, may be planted out from January. Harvest August to September. RED SUN Attractive red tinged skin, Red Sun is arguably the best of the red shallots. Producing good yields of crisp, white fleshed bulbs of excellent flavour for cooking, salads or for pickling. Bulbs have long storage potential. Harvest August to September YELLOW MOON Yellow Moon is an early maturing variety, producing round shallots with an attractive yellow colour. It has a low sensitivity to bolting and produces a very healthy, uniform crop with excellent skin quality. ARISTA BANANA SHALLOT Semi-long with a sweet flavour and firm reddish colour flesh. Great for casseroles & stews. Bred to withstand harsh weather in northern Europe. Fine flavour, used by many chefs. We sell many of our seeds, onion sets and shallots loose - buy as many or as few as you want.

7 SPRING ONION SETS STUTTGARTER GIANT A much favoured variety with flat-shaped, yellow skinned bulbs. Stuttgarter Giant produces excellent yields and keeping properties. Sets planted in the spring should be ready for harvesting from late summer/early autumn. SECOND EARLY APACHE A second early with a very striking appearance. Scrubbed and cooked whole Apache makes a delicious change from other roasts. The contrasting colours stay bright if blanched before roasting. ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY STURON One of the all-time great onions on account of its reliability and consistency. Large straw-coloured bulbs that show good bolting resistance and have a fine flavour and store well. Harvesting from late summer/early autumn. ELFE Elfe is a distinctive, yellow potato with a smooth buttery taste. A new variety, Elfe tastes great boiled or baked and makes perfect mash. ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY TURBO This golden-brown skinned variety is late maturing, producing good yields of medium sized onions. The rounded bulbs have a crisp flesh and a deliciously strong flavour that is suitable for all culinary purposes. Height: 45cm (18"). Spread: 15cm (6"). Harvesting from late summer/early autumn. RED BARON ESTIMA Very popular variety with farmers. Large yields with early bulking properties and good drought resistance, produces heavy crops of large oval tubers with light yellow skin and flesh. Good scab and slug resistance. Boiling, mashing and baking. Spring planting. A mid-late maturing variety, Red Baron produces firm, flattish-round bulbs of a beautiful dark red colour. With eye-catching red rimmed flesh and a stronger flavour than most varieties, an attractive addition to salads. An excellent cropping red onion with good storage potential. Height: 45cm (18"). Spread: 15cm (6"). Harvesting from late summer/early autumn. JAZZY A great new salad variety, just bursting with flavour. Produces lots and lots of small potatoes. NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY

8 2ND EARLY/EARLY MAIN CROP SECOND EARLY KESTREL Attractive whole skins with purple eyes. Makes excellent chips and roast potatoes. Good resistance to blackleg and slug damage. Without doubt one of the best tasting potato varieties available, with excellent cooking uses and disease resistance. Baking, boiling, chipping, mashing and roasting. LIBERTIE Libertie has been selected for its strengths in the fresh market. It has a good response to heat stress and produces high yields of bright, attractive tubers content, combined with excellent shape uniformity. Good resistance to both common and powdery scab helps to maintain its naturally bright skin finish. DOUCE PROVENCE APR & OCT/ NOV SUTTON DWARF MAR/ NOV/ DEC WINTER ONION SETS BLOOD RED SENSHYU JAPANESE NEW Boiled or baked, Libertie has good cooking qualities. MARFONA Very popular with farmers due to its ability to produce baking potatoes very early. Good bright skin finish and a nice flavour, oval shaped, with light yellow skins and cream coloured flesh. Boiling, baking and chipping. MARIS PEER Popular second early potatoes with a very good flavour. Are good as salad potatoes. Plant produces large clusters of pretty purple flowers which are even scented. Good resistance to all skin diseases. Good slug resistance. Boiling, baking, mashing and salad. SWEET CORN SWIFT F1 Swift is a first early, extra tender variety which produces heavy cobs of superb sweet flavour and texture, with approximately 14 to 16 rows of delicious golden kernels. As this is a super sweet variety, it will need much more moisture to ensure successful germination. It is an easy to grow extra tender and sweet variety and has better vigour than most others. GOLDCREST F1 Mid-season with clean tidy plant habit with excellent husk tip protection. This variety is sure to stand out. Goldcrest will impress with its improved flavour and 19-20cm (8") long cobs along with rows of grain per cob. EARLIBIRD F1 A breakthrough in early high quality super sweet sweet corns. Recorded as the earliest cropping sweet corn in Europe. Sweet and tasty, containing many rows of kernals per cob, full to the tip.

9 GREEN MANURES SECOND EARLY NADINE Exceptionally high yielding variety with bright white skins and a good entry for the show bench. FIELD BEANS WINTER TARES OVERWINTER MIX MUSTARD WHITE Good scab and slug resistance. Boiling, baking, mashing and roasting. OSPREY Excellent second early all rounder. Grown from the Kestrel variety, Osprey is famous for it's consistency and appearance. It is characterised by a beautiful smooth skin and shallow pink eyes. Grows consistently well GRAZING RYE ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY GARLIC AUTUMN PLANTING WHITE SAXON Produces large crops of long-oval shaped white skinned tubers. The flesh of Saxon potatoes is firm and yellow in colour, ideal for all kitchen uses. Saxon is widely regarded to be amongst the very best tasting of all modern potato varieties. SPRING PLANTING WHITE AND PINK Boiling, baking, chipping and roasting. SPUNTA WINTER SEED AQUADULCE BROAD BEAN SOW FEB/MAR OCT/NOV METEOR PEA SOW FEB/APR SEPT/ OCT Grown widely in Cyprus and imported to the UK supermarkets. A white/yellow fleshed variety with a waxy texture making it a good candidate for a tasty potato salad.

10 SECOND EARLY VIVALDI Very versatile second early, with a unique texture. Vivaldi has a sweet taste, making them an ideal baked potato without any added butter! A healthy choice, Vivaldi is perfect for mashing, steaming or baking. Award winner. ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY WILJA A high yielding variety with a russetted skin. Will grow successfully in any type of soil and makes very nice tasting mash, baked and boiled potatoes. Good scab resistance. Baking, boiling, chipping, mashing and roasting. High yielding, late cropper. Uniform, large tubers. Stores Cara Maincrop White/Red Eyes Short Oval well. Carolus Maincrop Yellow/Red Eyes Round Oval Fully blight resistant. Ideal for growing in an organic plot. Desiree Maincrop Red Oval Delia's favourite. High yielding, drought resistant. Harmony Maincrop White Round Good baking potato. Resistant to scab. Jelly Maincrop Cream Long Oval Medium dry matter, good storage, drought tolerant. Traditional English favourite. High yields, long growing season. Brand new variety that makes delicious home style chips. Very good yielder. King Edward Maincrop White/Red Eyes Oval Kingsman Maincrop Cream Oval Majestic Maincrop White Oval Robust, drought resistant. Can thrive in any soil. National favourite. Great for fries. Uniform shape and size. New variety that is making an impact. Red skinned and good disease resistance. Suitable for a wide range of uses, has a mild flavour and good texture. National favourite. Great for fries. Uniform shape and size. Maris Piper Maincrop White Oval Mozart Maincrop Red Round Oval Pentland Crown Maincrop White Oval Picasso Maincrop White/Red Eyes Oval Pink Gypsy Maincrop Red/White Ees Long Oval Eye catching with good disease resistance. Great blight and disease resistance and weed smothering foliage. Excellent overall disease resistance. Excels as a roast potato. Sarpo Axona Maincrop Pink Large Oval Sarpo Blue Danube Maincrop Blue Violet Oval Sarpo Mira Maincrop Red Long Oval Exceptionally high resistance to foliar blight. Setanta Maincrop Red Oval Excellent blight resistance. High dry matter. High yields, good drought resistance and excellent keeper. Distinctive flavour. Unique in the UK potato market. Award winner. A very striking appearance. A delicious change from other roasts. Stemster Maincrop Red Oval AB Anya Salad Pink Long Knobbly AB Apache Second Early Bright Red/Cream Eyes Oval AB Elfe Second Early Yellow Round Oval Good disease resistance. Sweet buttery taste. AB Isle of Jura Maincrop Cream Long Oval High yielder, good for long term storage. AB Osprey Second Early White/Pink Eyes Round Excellent all rounder. Grows consistently well. As seen on TV! Extremely popular. A unique all rounder. AB Rooster Maincrop Red Oval Award winner. AB Vivaldi Second Early White Oval Very versatile, with a unique texture. Award winner. Jazzy First Early Cream Long Huge cropper, produces delicious early salad potatoes.

11 VARIETY MATURITY BOIL SALAD MASH BAKE ROAST CHIPS POTATO COLOUR POTATO SHAPE SPECIAL FEATURES Abbot First Early Cream Short Oval Lovely salad potatoes or grow out for great baker crop. Tasty salad. Can be grown out to baking size. Good all round disease resistance. Very early traditional. Long-standing favourite. Great flavour. Relatively new variety. Great skin finish and makes very good chips. Accord First Early Cream Short Oval Arran Pilot First Early White Oval Casablanca First Early White Round Colleen (organic) First Early Yellow Oval Good disease resistance so ideal for an organic plot. Duke of York First Early Pale Yellow Oval Traditional favourite. Initially waxy becoming floury later. Traditionally known as Ayrshire earlies. A popular garden Epicure First Early White Round variety. Foremost First Early White Oval Traditional favourite, with large tubers. Home Guard First Early White Short Oval Good "new" potato. Regular shape. Good cropper. Lady Christl First Early Cream Oval High numbers/good yields, with attractive skin finish. Maris Bard First Early White Oval High yields. Good disease and drought resistance. Pentland Javelin First Early White Oval Easy to grow. Eelworm resistant R01. Red Duke of York First Early Deep Red Oval Traditional early, high dry-matter (Floury). Rocket First Early White Round Very early. Good under polythene. Great flavour, high dry-matter (Floury). Hebridean Sharpes Express First Early Cream Pear Shaped favourite. Swift First Early Cream Oval The earliest early, 60 days under polythene. Early, large, uniform tubers. Drought resistant. A show Winston First Early Cream Oval bench favourite. Estima Second Early Yellow Oval Good shape, smooth skin, big yields, large tubers. Kestrel Second Early White/Blue Long Oval Good for the show bench. Attractive shape. Very bright skinned, uniform tubers. Good resistance to Libertie Second/Main White Oval common and powdery scab. Marfona Second Early Yellow Oval Produces a few very large tubers early in season. A national favourite with firm texture. A good patio Maris Peer Second Early White Short Oval potato. Nadine Second Early White/Cream Short Oval White show bench winner. Big crops, stores well. Amongst the best tasting of all modern potatoes. Large Saxon Second Early Yellow Long Oval crops. Spunta Second Early White Long Cypriot style, grows big long potatoes. Wilja Second Early Yellow Long Oval Easy to grow. High yields of uniform tubers. Charlotte Salad Pale Yellow Long Oval Hugely popular salad with uniform tubers. Exceptionally good eating salad potato straight from International Kidney Salad Yellow Long Oval the garden. Nicola Salad Yellow Long Oval Resistant to eelworm R01. Smooth skin, nice shape. Pink Fir Apple Salad Pink Long Oval Flavour perfect for salads. Best cooked in skin. SALAD ANYA A salad with a distinctive flavour. Unique in the UK potato market. Anya has a distinctive chestnut and hazelnut flavour with a firm texture and knobbly appearance. Award winner. ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY CHARLOTTE A must have in the garden for a early salad potato crop. Very attractive long potato with an unbeatable creamy flavour straight from the garden to the pot! Very good levels of foliage and tuber blight resistance. Boiling, mashing and salad. INTERNATIONAL KIDNEY Commonly known as Jersey Royals but can only be called this when grown in Jersey. Exceptionally good eating salad potato straight from the garden, floury and waxy. Good scab resistance. Boiling and salad. NICOLA High yielding salad crop with a bright yellow flesh. Makes a very tasty salad potato with a waxy texture. Resistant to potato cyst nematode, common scab, potato leaf roll virus, potato virus Y and bruising. Boiling, mashing and salad.

12 SALAD PINK FIR APPLE Popular in Victorian kitchen gardens this knobbly salad potato has an unrivalled nutty flavour. Cooking with the skin on will retain its pink skin colour. Baking, boiling, chipping and salad. MAIN CROP SARPO AXONA Axona is related to Sarpo Mira but with even better characteristics that make it easier to grow, easier to cook and with a superb taste. Great blight and disease resistance and weed smothering foliage. The potato plants come up and fill the available space with stunning dark green foliage and eye stopping pink flowers that is untroubled by Potato Blight and other diseases such as virus and silver scurf. NEW SARPO BLUE DANUBE Has excellent overall disease resistance but, unusually for a Sarpo, does not have high resistance to foliage late blight. However, it has strong resistance to late blight of the tubers. This translated to a variety that may develop potato blight on its leaves just as it is reaching full maturity but this in no way effects its harvest or yields. Because of its rapid growth, striking form and strange tuber colour, this makes for a great project potato for kids. Once harvested, Blue Danube can be used for any cooking purposes where high dry matter is desired and it excels as a roast potato. Because of its inbuilt dormancy it can be harvested in autumn and then kept in a cool dark place right though until spring without sprouting or softening. SARPO MIRA A pale red tuber with a fluffy texture renowned for it's excellent resistance to blight, dry and floury texture which are best suited to roasting and chipping.

13 MAIN CROP PINK GYPSY Be the envy of the show bench with these attractive potatoes. Early main crop with great disease resistance. Excellent flavour. Tubers have good resistance to bruising and splitting. Trials have found good resistance to powdery scab, common scab, skin spot and dry rot MAIN CROP CARA Big-yielding variety with an attractive skin. Good resistance to blight and is good for long term storing. Plenty of size and is a good one to grow for a baker crop. Good slug resistance and excellent drought resistance as well as good all round disease resistance. Boiling, baking, chipping and roasting. ROOSTER Rooster potatoes have a deep red skin and shallow eyes. The flesh has a lovely smooth texture and it tastes as good as it looks. TV campaigns featuring Marcia Cross and Jesse Metcalfe have helped make Rooster an extremely popular main crop. A unique all rounder. Award winner. ALBERT BARTLETT NOT AVAILABLE LOOSE 2KG NETS ONLY CAROLUS An attractive parti-coloured variety with light yellow flesh colour. Tubers are uniformly oval in shape. Cooking type is slightly floury but with excellent taste and flavour. Has a reasonably high dry matter making it suitable for home frying. Can be grown on most soil types but does prefer irrigation. Avoid planting in light sandy soils. This variety has excellent resistance to both foliage and tuber blight. Boiling, mashing, superb roast potatoes. NEW SETANTA This superb potato has a reputation for being drought tolerant and free of pests and diseases, making it an ideal choice for the organic home gardener. Being one of the most blight resistant potato varieties available in the UK makes them a great variety for the allotment grower. Add excellent scab resistance, combine it with great taste and you've got all the makings of an excellent all-round potato to grow at home. DESIREE The most popular red-skinned variety in the UK giving great crops of large potatoes. A good culinary potato which boils well and has a delicious smooth texture. Heavy cropper and early bulking with high resistance to drought and good resistance to potato virus Y and powdery scab, mis-shapes on heavy soils. STEMSTER A tasty red-skinned variety that produces lots of bold potatoes. Very good grown in soils that dry out quickly as it has good drought resistance. HARMONY Produces large crops of clean white skinned tubers that are very resistant to scab. Harmony is a very good baking potato. Baking, boiling and mashing.

14 MAIN CROP JELLY Jelly is a smooth skinned, long oval variety with rich yellow flesh. With medium dry matter, long dormancy and good storage qualities, Jelly has been selected across Europe in dry climates because of its drought tolerance and common scab resistance. Disease resistance appears robust with no significant weaknesses. MAIN CROP MARIS PIPER Probably the best known potato in Britain and one of the most versatile with an attractive plant with purple flowers. Oval shaped with white skins and cream coloured flesh. Baking, boiling, chipping, roasting and mashing. Roasting and chipping. KINGSMAN Kingsman was brand new for It produces big, bold, uniform tubers. It has good disease resistance including golden potato cyst nematode. MOZART Attractive red skin with yellow eyes and flesh. High-yielding crop with good disease resistance makes ideal mash, roasts and wedges. These potatoes make great home-style chips. KING EDWARD A well known favourite in the potato world. Attractive white skins with bright splashes of red. Makes the ideal roasts and baked potatoes but is also good boiled with a strong, aromatic flavour. Good scab resistance. PENTLAND CROWN Bred near to the Pentland Hills outside Edinburgh this variety produces large crops of bold potatoes. It has a good resistance to scab which can be unsightly on the potato skins. Baking, boiling, chipping, mashing and roasting. MAJESTIC A very popular variety in war-time Britain. It produces lots of potatoes with plenty of size. PICASSO Bred from Cara but reaches maturity up to 3 weeks earlier. Great tasting variety with high disease resistance. Makes nice roasts and mash. Baking, boiling, chipping and roasting.