Vegetables

Verte de Cambrai is "Dunkelgrüner vollherziger 2" type, but this corn salad has somewhat lighter green and larger leaves than Verte à coeur plein 2 and has a compact rosette forming growth. Quick growing and winter hardy. Late to bolt, hence a long h...

Corn salad Verte à coeur plein 2 has dark green, medium sized, oval shaped, long-stemmed leaves. Good level of health and resistance. Suited to overwintering in open ground, not suitable for greenhouse cultivation.

Vit is a dark green, compact corn salad with round, short stemmed and clearly veined leaves. Well-proven market garden variety. Resistant to downy mildew.

Vitella is a slightly conical Nantes-type carrot with strong upright and healthy foliage. Early maturing, potentially high yielding and uniform variety. For a Nantes variety it stores well. Smooth skin, easily cleaned. Fine flavour that improves with...

Vorgebirgstrauben is a cucumber for processing with many small, dark green fruits with firm flesh. Mixed flowering variety. Speciality for amateur gardeners.

Curly endive Wallonne (Frisée) is a very robust variety for autumn production in the open ground. Vigorous grower, withstands damp weather and the early frosts. Recommended for Baby Leaf production. Selected for a filled centre.

Wasabino is an oriental salad with light green leaves and semi vigorous growth. Leaves broad, feathery and with a prominent tongue-like curl. Relatively bolt-resistant variety. Strong, sharp Wasabi flavour.

Weiße Küttiger is a traditional, white carrot variety from Switzerland. Early to mid-season, fresh market and storage variety with a conical form. Particularly suited for selling in combination with other speciality varieties. Aromatic, slightly bitt...

Westländer Winter is a half tall curly kale variety with fine, crinkly leaves and very uniform in growth. Beautiful, palm-like development, wind resistant and high yielding. The variety has a slightly sweet aromatic flavour.

White Silver/Brilliant is a strong growing swiss chard with very broad white leaf stems and dark green leaves. Well-filled core of the rosette and therefore a high individual plant weight. Relatively resistant to powdery mildew. Also available as cal...

Yellow turnip Wilhelmsburger with a green top. A well formed, high yielding variety with solid flesh and very good keeping quality. Valuable winter vegetable. Can withstand an average amount of frost if the roots are earthed up.

Winterfürst 2 is a very late savoy variety producing medium sized, finely wrinkled, firm, round to flattened shaped heads, with grey-green leaves. Develops very slowly. Good keeping qualities. Also suitable as an overwintering savoy for harvesting in...

The variety Winterheckenzwiebel is a perennial, robust onion plant with strong foliage. Flower heads form 30-60 cm high. Fast growing, also suitable for growing under cloches. Sowing time: Beginning of March to end of April. The green leaves are harv...

Winterriesen/Verdil is a large leaved, second early spinach variety with rather tender leaves. Particularly suitable for autumn and winter cultivation. Very characteristic leaves with pointed tips at the lower end. Flavour is particularly aromatic an...

Round, yellow beet Wintersonne has healthy foliage and upright leaves. The exterior colour is orange, while the interior is yellow with faint white rings. It grows slightly slower than red varieties and has smooth skin. Particularly suited for fresh ...

Vorbote 3 is the earliest of the savoys useful for extending the range on offer in early and mid summer. Heads weigh 0.5-1 kg. Round to oval shape. Very good used freshly harvested from end of June to August. Well curled tender leaves, mildly aromati...

Yellow California Wonder is a medium-tall thick-skinned pepper with heart-shaped fruit that ripen to orange-yellow. Fruits weigh around 185g. Thick-walled fruits which break off easily when picked. Good potential yield.

Yellow cherry tomato Yellow Submarine has an open growing habit. Potato leaf type. Many small, beautiful, pear shaped fruits growing in long racemes, delicious flavour. Because of its funny shape and good taste it is known as the 'children’s tomato'....

Yellow Sweet Spanish is a visually attractive sweet onion with copper-coloured, very firm skin. Uniform onions with very good storage qualities weighing 400-500 g. Resistant to sun burn. Slow growing. Good flavour with a spicy touch.

Bell pepper Yolo Wonder has large, glistening dark green ripening to red, thick fleshed fruit of stocky form. Particularly suited to grow in a greenhouse. Healthy growth and relatively early ripening. High yielding. Good taste.

Yorokobi is a low growing, compact, dense Pak Choi of a medium to light green colour. Very broad, tender midribs on well placed leaves. Recommended for autumn cultivation. Good flavour, mild and sweet.

Zaphito is botanically a squash but can be used as young fruit like a courgette. The skin is edible too. The fruits should be harvested when they are 8-12 cm long and with a pale green colour. The fruits have yellow flesh. The plants are non-trailing...