Welcome to Our NEW 2025 Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds
Announcing GUEST VARIETIES!
We're releasing a few packets of some exciting new varieties that we think should do well, but haven't tested fully yet, as a crowd-sourced trial across the country. Join in with our research and try these interesting new veg - if enough people email to say they're great, we'll add them to the catalogue permanently. Type 'guest' in the search box to find them all!
And a new Free Printable Sowing Calendar!
Check on your device or print it out for quick reference when planning your planting. Get it here!
Welcome! Our heirloom and heritage vegetable seeds are chosen for home gardeners, with fantastic germination and great flavour.
Here you'll find top quality seeds for the best vegetables we've found to grow in the UK.
Exciting new varieties of tomatoes, beans, peas, squash and more unusual seeds are added to the catalogue every year.
How We Are Different
Everyone who works here is a gardener, so we know what you want - we only offer really good seeds.
Our varieties have been chosen from hundreds of trials & taste-tests on our farm in Wales.
We hope you enjoy these vegetables as much as we have enjoyed tracking them down and trying them out. Try something new in the garden this year!
Our aim? To offer you the highest quality seed of the best varieties, in decently sized packets, at a fair price.
- best wishes for a great season from Ben, Kate, Catherine, Tam, Ian, Howard, Josie, Melissa, Ben M, Eve, & Rhiannon
Traditional Open-pollinated Seed
We specialise in varieties that do really well and taste great when grown on a garden scale - a catalogue of real seeds for real gardeners wanting to grow proper vegetables.
Because all are open-pollinated (non-hybrid), if you wish you can even save your own vegetable seed
for future years, using the instructions we supply. There's no need to buy new seed every year.
BeautifuL Paper Packets
To reduce plastic waste, we use paper envelopes, and small runs are packed by hand using these brass scoops we made ourselves:
We also have two of the last existing Ballard-Brown seed packing machines. Weighing 1000lb in cast iron and brass, and built a hundred and twenty years ago, these amazing devices have been in constant use ever since.
Invented by Mr H. H. Cummings in 1884 , it picks up and opens a paper packet, put in seed, glues the flap, folds it over and stacks them neatly in a wooden tray. They do this once a second, and can fill thousands of packets in a day, accurate to +/- 0.1 grams! Originally steam powered, ours are now run by an electric motor.
You can see them in action on Youtube
We designed our own beautiful paper packets , inspired by the Art Nouveau works of Mucha.
The 1880's-pattern envelopes are made for us in Scotland, using a reproduction envelope-cutter we designed as well.
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We think businesses should be an ethical partnership between the staff and customers, giving both a fair deal. Our goal is to supply excellent seeds at fair prices, to be a good employer, & to educate people about home seed-saving.
None of these seeds are hybrids, so if you want, you can save your own for future use: no need to buy new each year. It's easy & you'll get great seed adapted to your area. Instructions included.
~ We have now sent out over 360,000 sets of free home seed-saving instructions~
We will immediately refund or replace if you are in any way less than delighted - even including the flavour of the resulting crop! For more details see our terms and conditions.
A fine crop of Sutherland Kale in flower.
The Real Seed Catalogue is produced by The Real Seed Collection Ltd, a family-owned company registered in Wales No.5924934
VAT No 841181938 ~ DEFRA registered Seed Merchant No 7289 ~ Powered by 100% Renewable Electricity.
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