Year Round Vegetable Seed Collection

The top outstanding, everyday vegetables which will provide you with veg all year round. If I was cast off to a desert island, and had to grow my own food, these are vegetable seeds I would take.

These 15 packets of seeds come in a stylish Sarah Raven seed tin (18x16cm (depth 8cm)) which you can re-use. You'll also receive detailed sowing instructions and a month by month successional sowing and harvesting chart.

If you'd like to give this as a gift, we will send it out wrapped in tissue paper in our lovely Sarah Raven gift box. You will also receive a lovely gift card and envelope to enclose with your gift.

For harvesting late spring to early autumn:

• Artichoke 'Violet de Provence' – elegant, beautiful and delicious
• Broad Bean 'Stereo' – late season, bred for soft, delicious bean skins, so never needs shelling
• Carrot 'Nantes 5' – for early, delicious sweet carrots
• Courgette 'Romanesco' – superb texture and taste and good large flowers for stuffing
• Cucumber 'La Diva' – delicious, miniature cucumbers for growing inside or out
• French Bean 'Blue Lake' (Climbing) – the best flavoured climbing French bean
• Tomato 'Sungold' – sweet cherry tomato, for eating whole and raw and for making sauces and soups

For harvesting in autumn, winter and early spring:

• Leek 'Autumn Giant' – tall and straight with dark green leaves and super-straight, white stems.
• Purple Sprouting Broccoli 'Red Arrow' – a good producer in March and April, when there's little in the garden to eat
• Spinach 'Medania' – as a baby leaf salad or fully grown, this has the best flavour and texture of any spinach I know and is slow to bolt
• Squash 'Red Kuri' – elegant climbing squash with good productivity and flavour

For harvesting almost all year:

• Beetroot 'Boltardy' – lovely, sweet round beetroot
• Chard 'White Silver 2' – delicious leaves and stems for six months of harvest
• Lettuce 'Salad Bowl' – the best ever cut-and-come-again lettuce which produces for months at a stretch
• Lettuce 'Solix' – a beautiful crimson-purple oak leaf lettuce, which is really slow to bolt and has a good shape