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Alfalfa: Salad Sprouts Mixed

Salad Sprouts Mixed is a balanced blend of the best sprouting seeds to provide a crisp and crunchy medley of flavours and textures. Absolutely delicious and ideal for providing a vitamin, protein and rich fibre fresh vegetable all the year round. Sprouting Seeds are easy to grow, and can be eaten fresh, stir fried, steamed and will blend with almost any meal imaginable. Salad Sprouts Mixed is simple to produce - ready in only 3-4 days

Allium cepa Aggregatum Group Prisma F1 Hybrid

From seed! Each seed of Shallot Prisma produces a single attractive shiny reddish-brown skinned, white fleshed round shallot bulb, with a distinct flavour. No risk of transferring virus of white rot as with sets and the bulbs of Shallot Prisma store well.

Artichoke : Globe : Green Globe Improved F1

Artichoke Green Globe Improved is an artichoke with sharp spines greatly reduced and larger, heavier bearing, consistent quality globe-shaped heads. Height: 120-180cm (4-6ft).

Asparagus : Martha Washington

A very strong growing and productive strain, Asparagus Martha Washington produces long, thick spears in May and early June. Suitable for freezing.

Asparagus Pea

An easy to grow, unusual vegetable with a unique gourmet flavour. A hint of asparagus - perhaps? Asparagus Pea goes with virtually any dish. Cook whole at 3cm (1in) long, preferably by steaming, and serve with a little melted butter. No flavouring should be used as this will destroy its own delicious taste.

Asparagus Pea can also be used in the flower border as attractive ground cover.

Aubergine : Baby Rosanna F1 Hybrid

Produces an abundance of golf ball sized, bitter free baby fruits throughout the summer on dwarf plants 60cm (24in) high, making Aubergine Baby Rosanna ideal for growing in containers on the patio. Fruits hold their flavour, quality and colour well after picking.

Aubergine : Black Enorma F1

Early to crop with prolific sets of huge jet-black fruit up to 680g (1½lb). Just three plants will keep a family of four with aubergines from mid summer to late autumn. Aubergine Black Enorma is ideal for garden, patio or greenhouse. Stake plants and pick fruit regularly.

Aubergine : Calliope F1 Hybrid

The compact, spineless plants of Aubergine Calliope produce a heavy crop of baby 5cm (2in) fruits that mature to bitter free, oval, 10cm (4in) fruits of a beautiful cream streaked purple colour.

Aubergine Calliope is ideal for growing in a container on the patio, or in the greenhouse.

Aubergine : Florida High Bush

Vigorous, upright, well branched plants, Aubergine Florida High Bush produces an abundance of long/oval, shiny purple skinned fruits with tasty pure white flesh.

Aubergine : Listada de Gandia

Early to ripen, Aubergine Listada de Gandia produces a large crop of stunning white streaked, purple skinned, oval fruits up to 15cm (6in) in length of excellent flavour. Looks attractive in containers.

Aubergine : Melanzana Prosperosa

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Prosperosa produces flattened round, paler purple fruits with firm, bitter-free flesh.

Aubergine : Melanzana Viserba

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Viserba ;produces cylindrical, glossy purple skinned fruits with bitter free flesh.

Aubergine : Mixed

An array of 4 tantalising colours and shapes of aubergines, for a wide range of culinary uses, from grilling, stuffing to stir fries. Colours range through apple green, snowy white, pale pink with cream slashes and red.

Aubergine : Moneymaker F1. Hybrid

Early and reliable, Aubergine Moneymaker is high yielding, producing tasty, long, slender, matt purple fruits.

Aubergine : Orlando F1 Hybrid

Attractive, virtually spineless, dwarf plants yield an abundant crop of 'baby' fruits, 5cm (2in) in length. Aubergine Orlando produces finger-length aubergines that have beautiful dark-purple skins and are not at all bitter tasting.

Aubergine Orlando is excellent for growing in the greenhouse or on a sunny patio in containers. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Aubergine : Pinstripe F1 Hybrid

A patio edible, ornamental as well as productive in containers, or planted in growbags in the greenhouse. Compact, dwarf habit. virtually spineless plants producing a good crop of small, deeper round, purple fruits with white striping.