Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato ‘Il San Marzano Lungo’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
The large, cylinidrical fruits of cordon Tomato ‘Il San Marzano Lungohave deep red skins and dry, meaty flesh, making them superb for cooking, and unsurpassable for making sauces. This flavoursome plum tomato is early to ripen and crops well over a long season. Height: 200cm (79). Spread: 50cm (20)
Tomato ‘Principe Borghese’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
BushDeterminateEgg sized, deeper than round plum fruits. Tomato Pomodoro Principe Borghese has a characteristic sharp taste as ‘vine ripenedfruits for salad and ideal as a sun dried variety. A huge cropping tomato over the season.
Tomato ‘Roma Nano’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Semi-BushTomato ‘Roma Nano’ is a traditional plum tomato producing juicy, fleshy fruits with very few seeds, making them ideal for pastes, soups, sauces and sun drying. This semi-bush variety can be grown in the greenhouse but will have a richer, fuller flavour if grown outdoors. Grown as a semi-bush variety, it is easy to grow
Dwarf Bean ‘Splendido’ (Borlotti Bean) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
The broad, 13cm (5) pink-red pods of this attractive variety each contain 6-7 cream and red streaked Borlotti beans. The immature pods of Dwarf Bean ‘Splendido’ can be harvested and used as French beans, but are best left to mature and harvested for the full sized seeds in autumn. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Dwarf Bean ‘Impero Bianco’ (Cannellini Bean) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Each pale creamy yellow pod contains 6 or 7 large white cannellini beans that are delicious when added to soups and casseroles. Dwarf Bean ‘Impero Bianco’ is compact and late maturing – harvest the fully mature seeds autumn for the largest, tastiest cannellini beans. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Blueberry ‘Goldtraube 71’
This late season Blueberry produces heavy crops of large, dark blue berries with a lovely sweet flavour. Blueberry ‘Goldtraube 71’ is a reliable, self fertile variety that will consistently bear good crops each August.
Blueberry ‘Spartan’
A mid to late season cropper, producing good yields of tasty blue-black coloured berries from July to August. Blueberry ‘Spartan’ is an attractive bushy plant with white spring flowers that are loved by pollinating insects. In autumn, the small leaves turn to bright shades of orange and red which make a superb feature.
Blueberry ‘Duke’
A later flowering variety of this ever popular fruit, Blueberry ?Duke? produces firm, medium sized, light blue berries with a sweet flavour that also retain their freshness a lot longer than most varieties too. Upright bushes can become laden with up to 20 lbs of fruit when mature. Height and spread: 150cm (59).
Lingonberry ‘Miss Cherry’
Lingonberry ‘Miss Cherry’ produces generous clusters of bright red fruits from September that are similar to a cranberry. The berries have a sharp, tart flavour that brings an excellent acidity to preserves, sauces and pies. Lingonberries, or Cowberries as they are sometimes known, show superb hardiness and disease resistance.
Wild Rocket (Rucola Selvatica) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Slower growing and with a more serrated leaf than Cultivated Rocket but Wild Rucola Selavativca is increasing in popularity to add to Cultivated Rocket as a mixed salad ingredient
Salsify ‘Scorzobianca’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Often called the ‘vegetable oysterbecause of its flavour. Salsify Scorzobianca produces slender, parsnip-like roots, white skinned and fleshed. Ideal for lifting in the autumn for storing, or can be left in the ground and lifted as required. In the spring the tender shoots of Salsify Scorzobianca make an appetising green vegetable
Tomato ‘Cuore di Bue’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
An ‘Oxheart typewith a distinctive, ribbed, heart shape that produces large, meaty beefsteak tomatoes, each weighing up to 200gm. The fruits of Tomato ‘Cuore di Bue’ are late maturing and ripen to an attractive orangey-red colour. The creamy flesh has a superb flavour and is ideal for adding to salads or eating with slices of
Ulmus minor subsp. sarniensis
A less spreading, conical, fully hardy, deciduous, upright- branching, medium- height tree. Ulmus minor subsp. sarniensis is an upright,deciduous tree with a slender, conical habit. Its flaky, grey-brown bark is more noticeable during the winter, and as the tree matures.
Blueberry ‘Bluegold’
This mid to late season variety produces good crops of deliciously sweet, deep blue berries with a lovely firm texture. The fruits are borne in clusters in late July and August and will often keep longer than many other varieties. Blueberry ?Bluegold? is a particularly attractive variety for its white spring flowers, golden autumn foliage
Blueberry ‘Darrow’
Blueberry ‘Darrow’ is a late season variety producing good crops of exceptionally large fruits in August, especially when grown with another variety to increase pollination. The enormous Blueberries have a pleasantly sharp flavour and excellent firm texture.
Basil ‘Classico’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Essential for authentic Italian cuisine, this sweet basil is one of the most popular varieties, with a strong scent and distinctive fresh flavour. Try growing Basil on the kitchen windowsill or in convenient containers outside the back door. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Beetroot ‘Paonazza d’Egitto’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
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
Cucumber ‘Cetriolo Marketer’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Outdoor typeCucumber ‘Cetriolo Marketer’ produces prolific crops of medium length, dark green cucumbers with short, white spines. The climbing variety is best grown outdoors against a support. Height: 3m (9′). Spread: 45cm (18)
Kale ‘Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Increasingly popular, Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa can be used as a ‘baby salad leafto add colour, texture and taste to mixed salads. The mature plant of Kale Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa can also be used as a winter hardy vegetable when fresh produce is in short supply.
Lettuce ‘Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo’ (Loose-Leaf) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
A loose leaf ‘picking lettuce’, Lattuga Rossa a Foglia Riccia da Tavolo produces abundant bronzed leaves to add to salads, and sandwiches, or used as a garnish. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds
