Grow Your Own Fresh Vegetables this Autumn and Winter
Explore our range of Mr. Fothergill's seeds, featuring classic garden favorites and unique varieties to enhance your culinary experience.
Autumn Sowing Vegetable Seeds
1. Beans: Broad Beans - Early Long Pod (50g)
The Early Longpod broad beans are an excellent green-seeded variety, producing very long pods and giving high yields of well-flavored beans. Broad beans grow well in most soils and like all legumes are a fantastic soil improver.
2. Beetroot: Crimson Globe (350 seeds)
A very easily grown vegetable, and extremely versatile. Eat it fresh or pickled in salads, or use hot served with a white sauce. This deep crimson variety is extremely popular for its fine flavor. Beetroot grows well on most well-cultivated soils. Ideal for deep freezing.
3. Asian Greens: Bok Choi (500 seeds)
Popular for Asian dishes. Quick and easy growing annual, prefers cool weather, and tolerates light frost. Bok Choi has a white stem, and is a bigger growing plant resulting in higher yield.
4. Broccoli: Marathon F1 (50 seeds)
Superb early variety that produces high-quality, attractive smooth dome heads with tight green beads. Heads can weigh between 350-400gm and have good resistance to white rust.
5. Cabbage:
Golden Acre (250 seeds): Slow bolting heirloom variety, medium-sized round solid heads with few outer leaves. Compact plants ideal for confined areas. First-rate quality and flavour.
Red Ruby Ball F1 (50 seeds): An excellent pickling variety, adding color and interest to salads and coleslaw. Solid heads with few outer leaves.
Sugarloaf (500 seeds): A strongly recommended variety with excellent flavour, whether cooked or served cold in salads. Compact, conical heads mature over several weeks.
6. Carrot:
Manchester Table (2000 seeds): Long, smooth skinned and cylindrical roots with fine flavour and rich color.
Harlequin (350 seeds): Nantes variety in an unusual mix of colors. Purple, orange, yellow and white roots, and each color tastes subtly different. Excellent source of Vitamin A and antioxidants.
7. Cress: Fine Curled (5000 seeds)
Quick and easy to grow as an attractive garnish and a tasty addition to salads and sandwiches.
8. Kale: Dwarf Green Curled (400 seeds)
Delicious winter vegetable, produces leaves, does not form a head. Excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A. Contains powerful antioxidant properties.
9. Lettuce:
Great Lakes (1250 seeds): This is the lettuce to grow for Summer salads. A large crisp head variety, the seed may be sown to produce a succession of crops. Strongly recommended.
Iceberg (1000 seeds): The most widely grown lettuce. It has a tightly packed, crisp and very crunchy heart with sweet and delicious leaves. Easy to grow, hardy and reliable.
Red and Green Salad Bowl Mixed (1250 seeds): This mixture will brighten up all your Summer salads with both red and green leaves. A crisp, tender, 'non-hearting' variety.
10. Onions:
Early Californian Red (450 seeds): Red onions add color as well as flavor to cooked dishes and especially to salads. Under the blood red skin the white flesh is mild but full of flavor.
Hunter River Brown (450 seeds): Our choice as the best all-round early onion, Hunter River Brown produces a large, globe-shaped onion with a light brown skin. An excellent keeper, ideal for Autumn sowing.
11. Pak Choi: Chinese Greens (500 seeds)
Easy and quick to grow Asian Greens. Great in stir-fried dishes or steamed.
12. Parsnip: Hollow Crown (500 seeds)
You can squeeze this variety into a smaller space than most others, as it produces rather compact, conical roots. Like carrots, they give good value for money for the space they occupy.
13. Peas: Sugar Snap (40g)
Picked young, the fleshy pods can be treated like French beans, cooked and served whole. Older pods should be stringed, but still cooked whole. Try serving the pods raw in a salad.
14. Radish:
Easter Egg Mix (400 seeds): Red, purple, pink and white radishes. Round, delicious roots, quick and easy to grow. Great for kids.
Scarlett Globe (500 seeds): A 'must' in every garden, particularly as a row of radishes can be squeezed in as a 'catch crop'
15. Silverbeet:
Fordhook Giant (300 seeds): This tasty, versatile and easily grown vegetable will provide a continuous crop. Cook the stalks and eat as celery - the rich leaves as spinach.
Bright Lights (150 seeds): This striking, colourful Silverbeet is so versatile. You can harvest as baby leaves or at full size, eat young leaves in salads, steam or stir-fry when mature. A rich source of vitamins, minerals and fibre makes it a great choice for healthy eating. Suitable for pots or the vegetable patch.
16. Spinach: Perpetual Leaf (250 seeds)
Provides a continuous harvest over a long period, has a mild delicate flavour ideal for sandwiches or steaming, and grows well in pots or the garden. Resists bolting.
17. Swede: Best of All (500 seeds)
The name speaks for this variety. Best Of All is a hardy and easily grown globe Swede with a purple top and yellow flesh. The mild flavour and smooth texture is outstanding. Swedes grow well in any good garden soil, but do best in rich,
There are loads more seeds varieties - contact us now if you have a particular variety in mind.
Order now for Autumn / Winter sowing and relish the harvest.