Illustrated List: Easy-to-Grow Vegetables

Bean : Climbing Bean : Cobra

Massive crops of mid green, smooth, round, stringless pods about 18cm (7in) long. Climbing Bean Cobra is a highly attractive mauve flowered variety, a delight in the border, and with an exceptional flavour. Huge yields of these flavoursome beans over a long cropping season. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Carrot : Sugarsnax 54 F1 Hybrid

Experience a flavour sensation with this extra sweet carrot, which also contains high levels of beta carotene. Carrot Sugarsnax 54 produces long, 25cm (10 inch) roots of exceptional quality, so sweet you can just lift the roots, wash and serve in chunks in salads.

Cucumber : Green Fingers F1 Hybrid

Ideally for outdoor growing. Allow plants to trail along the ground or climb up a trellis. Early to set, Cucumber Green Fingers produces finger-sized 10-12cm (4-5in), smooth skinned, firm, crisp and bitter-free fruits. Pick regularly for a long season of production. Cucumber Green Fingers is ideal for adding to children's lunch boxes. Excellent powdery mildew tolerance.

Herb : Rocket : Skyrocket

Combines the speed of Salad Rocket and the flavour of Wild Rocket. Rocket Skyrocket has an upright habit, so keeps the attractive serrated leaves clean and disease free. Pungency increases as the plants develop. Rocket Skyrocket is best cut as small leaves. Slow to bolt.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Lettuce : Salad Bowl

All-American Gold Medal winner. Salad Bowl Lettuce is large, medium-green, slow bolting, non-heading and decidedly tender. Don't pull the whole plants - be selective - go down the row choosing only the largest, tenderest leaves. This way Salad Bowl Lettuce will continue to replace itself the whole season

Salad : Herby Salad Leaf Mixed

Add tastes and textures to your mixed salads, sandwiches and garnishes. Sow Herby Salad Leaf Mixed regularly all the year round for a constant supply of 'salad leaves'. Pick nutritious salad leaves in under 30 days from sowing during summer months. Herby Salad Leaf Mixed is ideal in containers on the patio. Good source of provitamin A, vitamins C & K, and folate. CONTENTS: Green lettuce, Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Greek Cress, Giant Red Mustard and Chicory Puntarelle.