Approximate root length: 20cms (8 inches). Early maturing Nantes with smooth conical roots. Ideal for salads, due to good colour, with vigorous foliage making pulling easier. Bred to give increased Hybrid vigour, garden performance and flavour, thus increasing your harvest. Due to their wide ranging pest and disease resistance, there will be no need for the use of … click for more

A new hybrid of high calibre, producing heavy, cylindrical, well-coloured roots with impeccable flavour. With strong tops, meaning easier lifting, 'Kingston' also boasts good storage qualities, and is ideal for winter stews, casseroles and as a steamed vegetable. Versatile, easy to grow variety for the garden. Ideal for winter storage.

Quick maturing, cylindrical, tender sweet orange roots.

Approximate root length: 15-18cms (6-7 inches).

High yielding, very juicy, crisp and sweet, top quality, long, conical roots and small core. Ideal for juicing or fresh eating. Can be sown indoors from January onwards. Suitable for growing under glass, frames and containers.

Highly commended by the Royal Horticultural Society, UK. It is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they are fetching high prices in the shops. A very important autumn sowing vegetable breakthrough.

Root length: 15-20cm (6-8in)

A quick growing second early Nantes. Produces heavy crops of cylindrical, smooth-skinned, good flavoured, coreless bright orange roots, which resist cracking once washed. Stores well for winter use.

Root length: 3-5cm (1½-2in)

Deliciously tender, bite-sized, round carrots, with a very smooth skin. Early maturing and uniform. Ideal for containers, high density cropping or even in a windowbox. Suitable for clay soils where carrots are only dreamt of.

Approximate root length: 20-25cms (8-10 inches).

A smooth, rich purple skin contrasts with the deep orange flesh when washed and diced into chunks. Produces long, heavy roots best eaten raw when full of flavour and nutritionally high in antioxidants and Vitamin A. The colour and flavour are less intense if steamed or cooked.

Unique breeding over many years has resulted in a true F1 mixture of pastel shades with a diversity in skin and core colours, ranging from white to pale yellow through shades of orange. Washed sliced roots are sweet, juicy and tender, adding an exciting contrast to any salad or cooked dish. All colours are high in vitamins and other nutrients.

New 2008

Slender, tapering, red skinned roots up to 28cm (11in) in length, have a sweet pinkish flesh that holds its colour when steamed. Ideal for brightening any dinner plate, or used raw as a colourful addition to a salad.

Approximate root length: 12-15cms (5-6 inches).

Excellent as a Maincrop variety, with superb storage capabilities. Produces larger, cylindrical, smooth, more blunt ended roots than Flyaway, with the sweetest of flavours. Good early vigour, with good skin and core colour when later sown, as a Maincrop.

Experience a flavour sensation with this extra sweet carrot, which also contains high levels of beta carotene. Long, 25cm (10 inch) roots of exceptional quality, so sweet you can just lift the roots, wash and serve in chunks in salads.

Deservedly well-known, rich, orange/red-fleshed carrot, crisp and sweet. Excellent for a very early and successional sowing. Described as an intermediate, stump-rooted variety.

Sytan has shown a good tolerance to carrot fly during its many years of rigorous assessments. With an exceptional taste from early sowings, the finger-shaped, rich orange, coreless roots are ideal raw, boiled or steamed.

New & Exclusive 2008

An early maturity sister line to Sugarsnax producing slightly tapered, 13-15cm (5-6in) blunt ended, smooth, rich orange roots. Outstanding juicy and tender sweet flavour. Delicious eaten raw in salads, used for juicing or as a cooked vegetable.

High in Beta-carotene and Vitamin A and rich in antioxidants.