This is a vigorous hybrid basil which will give you a high yield. It is both sweet and spicy. It has the added benefit of being disease resistant. Annual Price for 50 seeds

BASIL, PURPLE RUFFLES Annual A handsome variety with large, shiny, purple-black leaves and a spicy, strongly aromatic flavour 50 seeds SOW: In pots or plug trays (avoid using seed trays) in spring. Use bottom heat or wait until mid-spring, water well early in the day. Transplant the seedlings when large enough & after frost risk has passed. GROW: Spring – sow them. Summer – pinch out to prevent flowering and harvest leaves Autumn – bring a pot into the house, dig up old plants from the garden and prepare for next year. This basil will earn its place in your garden (with its serrated and ruffled leaves) and in your kitchen (by its flavour).

Aromatic dark red-purple leaves with pink flowers looks stunning and tastes delicious. For colour in salads as well as adding flavour to casseroles, roast meat and fish. Annual Price for 50 seeds.

This is the most popular basil, it has a beautiful flavour, use in pasta and salads. It combines very well with garlic in cooking. Annual Price for 50 seeds

Has lush, deep green leaves, purplish flower buds and stems and carries anise overtones to its sweet basil scent. It is added by the big handfuls in whole leaves, to green and red curries and spicy stir-fried dishes; add sprigs of it to vegetable platters to be nibbled on with spicy salads and chilli dips. Price for 50 seeds

The bright lavender blooms, with their spicy scent, will attract bees and butterflies to your garden. You can use them as cut flowers too. The leaves go well with meats or you can make a tea from them. Perennial. Price for 50 seeds.

Easy to grow, this is a beautiful plant that is very attractive to bees. The flowers are edible while the young leaves can be cut up into salads to enjoy their cool cucumber flavour. They can also be added to homemade mayonnaise. Annual Price for 25 seeds

A popular Japanese root vegetable. The taproot can be used in a similar way to potatoes for baking, roasting, boiling and frying or try them simmered in soy and rice wine until tender! The best time to dig them up is when the root is full of vigour at the end of its first year of growth. Biennial. Price for 25 seeds.

Caraway is a biennial. The seeds are used for flavouring cakes while the young leaves can be added to salads.  Price for 50 seeds 

Foliage is delicate and lacy and grows to about 20 cm high in the first year and then reaches about 60cm in the second. In the second year, flat, umbrella like clusters of greenish white flowers appear on the stems above the foliage and in midsummer ripen into seeds