VEGETABLE SEEDS Aubergines Beans - French Beans - Runner Beetroot Broad Beans Broccoli & Rapini Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Carrots Celery Chilli Peppers Courgettes & Summer Squash Cucumbers, Gherkins & suchlike things Fennel Flowers Grains Herbs Kale Kohl Rabi Leaf Greens for Cooking Leeks Lettuces Melons & Watermelons Mustard Greens ( for cooking) Onions - spring sowing Onions - overwintering Onions - special types Oriental Greens for cooking & salads Parsnips Peas Pumpkins & Winter Squash Radishes (salad, & cooking types) Root Parsley NEW Salad Vegetables Sweet Corn Swedes Sweet Peppers Tomatoes : Bush Types Tomatoes : Vines - Cherries Tomatoes : Vines - Larger Tomatoes : Bulgarian Tomatoes : New Centiflor types Tomatilloes & Groundcherries Turnips Unusual Tubers: Oca & Yacon

~ SWEET CORN Seed ~

Real non-hybrid sweetcorn is now incredibly rare. But the hybrids - where every seed sold worldwide is identical - are only good if you can put in all the fertilisers, chemicals and sprays to provide a standardised and identical environment in every field.

We want real corn where all the seeds are slightly different and so can do well in different soils, climates and variable weather, without having to trash the environment into some nasty standardised euro-field of sterile soil and chemical fertilisers.

So, we offer a variety of real open-pollinated corn that is particularly widely adapted and has received good reviews from all over the country.

And we think you need a decent number of seeds in the packet, as well, so we put in more than many of the big commercial companies do.

'Double Standard' Bicolour Sweetcorn - EARLY
We have finally found another real variety of sweetcorn - proper open-pollinated seed, not hybrid - so it is widely adapted, and adaptable to future change in climate or soil, and it hasn't been bred to need lots of fertiliser and sprays.

This is a modern variety, with both white and yellow kernels on each sweet cob.

We're very pleased with it as it seems quite diverse, with a good genetic base, so it should do well on different soils and conditions. Not only are the dual coloured cobs pretty, they also taste really good.

Pretty early - we generally have some to eat by mid August.

This is the earliest of our corns, it does well everywhere but particularly recommended for those in colder, more marginal areas of the UK.

Order SwDO - 55 to 60 seed £2.35

Golden Bantam Improved

In the 1920's it was improved for larger ears and staying tender for longer by Everett Clark, and released under the new name of 'Improved'. The strain we have now has been reselected specifically for home growers and market gardeners. Let us know what you think!

This one is bigger and crops more heavily than the Double Standard, BUT needs quite a lot more heat to grow well. So we recommend it only for those of you in the warmer bits of the UK, or if you're growing your corn in a polytunnel.

Order SwGI - 55 to 60 seed [CO1] £2.25