Our LATEST Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds
Everything online now is newly packed seed for 2025!
Any varieties showing 'out of stock' should be available by November
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. 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 envelopes are made for us here in Wales, using a reproduction 1880s envelope-cutter we designed as well.
Our Real Seed Catalogue :
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.