Description Rouge de Florence, is also known variously as; Rossa di Firenze, Rossa Lunga Di Firenze, Rossa di Toscana, Long Red Florence, Florence Simiane, Italian Torpedo or Italian Red Torpedo. An outstanding long, red onion that I find a joy to both grow and to eat. I love this onion, the shape the colour and the outstanding [...]
Winter Lettuces
Winter Lettuces are varieties of lettuces that can be sown late in the season, will tolerate cold and low light levels and still provide leaf pickings for the salad bowl right through winter and into spring. Some of my favourite lettuces are these hardy types because they have robust flavours, crisp leaves and good textures. [...]
Tomato, White Rabbit
Indeterminate Cherry Tomato. Early-mid season: 65-80 days Description Small cherry sized tomatoes that mature from creamy white to yellow when fully ripe. Flavour A warm very unusual fruity flavour not really tomato like and not acid but delicious in its onwn right. Makes a wonderful cocktail with a mixture of coloured cherry tomatoes. Plants Huge [...]
Tomato, Caro Rich
I like to keep good records of my favourite varieties; the ones that I grow and save seeds for. It is full-on tomato season here so I thought I should catch up with the tomatoes and write up some of the best varieties. Indeterminate. Mid-early season: Said to be 80 days from transplant, though I [...]
Kale, Black Tuscan
Kale, Borecole or Colwort, Brassica oleracea var. acephala Cruciferae [Brassicaceae] commonly known as the mustard family A Lacinated kale also referred to as Nero di Toscano, Cavolo Nero, palm or dinosaur kale. This is one of my all time favourite winter greens and to my mind one of the best winter greens you can grow. [...]
Chilli, Lemon Drop
Chilli, Capsicum baccatum, Lemon Drop An Aji variety from Brazil or, according to the Chilliman, its origin is Peru where it is known as ‘Kellu Uchu’. Citrus-flavoured hot lemon yellow chilli pepper. Some sources list this variety as C.chinense but Kokopelli list it as C.baccatum which matches its botanical characteristics. Plants Beautiful arching plants grow to [...]
Chile de Arbol
Chilli, Capsicum Annuum, de Arbol also known as Tree Chilli Origin Oaxaca and Jalisco states in Mexico. According to the chilli database these chillis are sometimes called pico de pajaro (bird beak) or cola de rata (rat tail). Plants are extremely vigorous, growing into 5ft tall plants in a single season, hence the name, which in Spanish [...]
Pepper, Doux D’Espagne
A long, sweet tapering pepper, also known as Sweet Spanish Mammoth, an heirloom pepper, which dates back to 1859 according to Thomas Etty. I first grew this pepper in 2006 and it did so well, providing huge crops of delicious sweet peppers, that I have grown it each year since. I usually grow 6-12 plants, [...]
Aubergine, Szechuan
Solanum Melongena. Aubergine var. Szechuan A Chinese aubergine, collected by Joy Larkom in Chengdu, Szechuan province, in 1994. This variety is now kept by the Heritage Seed Library, which is where I got my original seeds from. I first grew this variety of aubergine in 2008 and I was immediately impressed with it. After only one [...]
Tomato, Noir de Crimée
Mid season tomato Indeterminate. (70-80 days) Large fleshy tomatoes maturing to a dark red-brown, with green shoulders. Flavour is wonderful; rich, salty and slightly smoky one of my favourite tomatoes. Fruit are 6-10cm round, thin-skinned and juicy. Medium yields on compact bushy plants. Good all rounder for cooking, salads or eating straight from the vine. [...]
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