Illustrated List: Vita Sementi Italian Vegetables

Aubergine : Melanzana Prosperosa

Vegetable Fruit.

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.

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1 packet (400 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Aubergine : Melanzana Viserba

Vegetable Fruit.

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.

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1 packet (660 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Basil : Basilico Genovese (Ocimum minimum)

Herb.

The most popular Basil, essential for authentic Italian cuisine with strong scent and flavour. Basil Basilico Genovese is easy growing herb for the windowsill or outdoors.

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1 packet (4000 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Creso

Vegetable.

Attractive bright yellow, slender, stringless pencil podded ‘waxpods’ on vigorous bushy plants. Fagioli Nani Creso is early maturing and crops heavily over a long season if picked regularly.

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1 packet (40 grams) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco (Cannellino Bean)

Vegetable.

The compact plants of Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco produces pale cream-yellow pods containing 6 or 7 large white ‘cannelloni beans’, essential for a range of specific dishes. Plants quite late maturing, usually grown for the fully mature seeds harvested in the autumn.

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1 packet (60 grams) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Splendido (Borlotto Bean)

Vegetable.

Typical Borlotto. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods of Fagioli Nani Splendido are attractive red splashed cream, bulging with 6-7 cream with red streaked seeds. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn.

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1 packet (60 grams) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro

Vegetable/Salad Vegetable.

Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro is also known as ‘asparagus bean’. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender.

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1 packet (30 grams) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Beetroot : Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto

Vegetable.

Ideal for early sowings as they mature quickly, Beetroot Bietola da Orto Paonazza d'Egitto producies unusual flatter roots with deep red flesh and a sweet flavour.

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1 packet (600 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Carrot : Carota Fucino

Vegetable.

Carrot Carota Fucino is a cylindrical, blunt ended, smooth, rich orange skinned and cored 'bunching carrot'. Sow seeds regularly throughout the season for tasty carrots for salads and cooking.

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1 packet (7200 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Chicory : Cicoria Grumolo Verde

Salad Vegetable.

Forms an attractive rosette of green leaves and a small heart if grown to maturity, but Chicory Cicoria Grumolo Verde is often sown as a 'cut and come again' salad leaf.

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1 packet (6000 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Chicory : Cicoria Orchidea Rossa

Vegetable/Salad Vegetable.

The ennis ball sized, round red, white veined, crisp heads of Chicory Cicoria Orchidea Rossa add colour to salads or cooked vegetables. Boil leaves to remove bitterness, fresh leaves add zest to a mixed salad.

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1 packet (6000 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Chicory : Cicoria Variegata de Castelfranco

Vegetable/Salad Vegetable.

A creamy green, blotched red leaf chicory forming a most decorative loose heart. Colour is more pronounced as cooler winter weather approaches. Chicory Cicoria Variegata de Castelfranco is late maturing with excellent winter hardiness. Boil leaves to remove bitterness, fresh leaves add zest to a mixed salad.

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1 packet (5400 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Courgette : Zucchino Nano Verde di Milano

Vegetable.

Classic Italian courgette, indispensable for a host of dishes. Courgette Zucchino Nano Verde di Milano crops early and heavily throughout the summer if the fruits are picked regularly. Early morning picked flowers can be battered and fried or in ‘frittata’, an Italian style omelette.

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1 packet (54 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Courgette : Zucchino Tondo di Toscana

Vegetable.

Courgette Zucchino Tondo di Toscana is a versatile, round fruited variety which can be cropped from golf ball size for eating raw whole, slightly larger for slicing or stir frying, to tennis ball size for stuffing.

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1 packet (45 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£2.29

Cucumber : Cetriolo Marketer

Vegetable Fruit.

Cucumber Cetriolo Marketer produces a prolific crop throughout the summer of medium length, dark green cucumbers with short, white spines. Cucumber Cetriolo Marketer is best grown outdoors.

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1 packet (120 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89

Cucumber : Cetriolo Piccolo Di Parigi (Gherkin)

Vegetable Fruit.

Early ripening and prolific cropping, Cetriolo Piccolo Di Parigi produces short, firm fleshed, spiny skinned gherkins. Ideal whole or sliced for pickling.

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1 packet (150 seeds) Despatch: Within 14 Days	£1.89