Salad Accompaniments

Restaurant quality wild rocket for when only the finest ingredients will do. Use in salads, making rocket 'Pesto' and to top 'Bresaola & Rucola' Pizza's. Very peppery. Cut and come again (up to 4 times). Recommended by Cucina Caldesi as used in their recipe for 'Steak tagliata with Rocket, Parmesan and Balsamic Dressing'. Sow Mar to May & Aug to Sep.

Classic flat red onion used widely across Italy. Sweet tasting so can also be used raw in salads as well as for cooking. Outdoor sow Feb to Mar and harvest Jul to Aug. Approximately 840 seeds.

As featured on BBC Gardeners World by Monty Don on 22/12/06. This onion is a speciality of Calabria where the seed is still produced. A recent article in the UK press claims the Italian Tropea Rossa onion is one of the ingredients used to make Viagra !!!

English style. Vigorous plant! Good production. Long round fruits with dark green knobbly skin. A real cracker. Male/female so self pollinating. Sow Mar to Jun. Approximately 20 seeds.

Japanese variety. English style. Resistant, vigorous and productive. Mid - long fruits with a few spines. Recommended for forcing. Sow Mar to Jul. Approximately 15 seeds.

Red Giant from the beautiful island of Sardegna. Sow Feb to Jun and Sep to Oct. Approximately 2250 seeds.