French Butterhead , Summer butterhead lettuce with lovely compact crisp hearts. It can as the name suggests be sown all year round – autumn sown will need to be sown under cover but will be ready to harvest in the spring. Can be sown March – Sept & excellent for successional sowing, slow to bolt. Develops large well-folded heads & succulent creamy-yellow hearts. Maturing time approximately 10-14 wks

Wonderful, strong, subtle onion flavoured glaucous blue leaves just waiting to be cut & thrown on your potato salad and with loads of strong round (cute) purpley blue flowers. Ht: 9 inches, Very Hardy, perennial, edible herb (Slug resistant)

En choy (China) , Annual, Striking long lasting intense cherry red large ovate flowers & red edible leaves with a flavour like ‘spinach with a twang’. Can be grown as Micro greens or baby leaf in salads, Best harvested young for salads or steam as spinach when mature. Not hardy but thrives during the summer in the warmth, At about 4 to 6 in high, treat as cut & come again, trimming leaves as needed

(Chenopodium foliosum) Herb of the goosefoot family, grown in Europe for centuries. Very showy bush, grown for its nutritious triangular toothed spinach-like leaves & tender shoots, cooked like spinach (steamed). Has small spherical clusters of tiny reddish-green flowers wrapped around shiny red mulberry-like fruits (Aug) about a millimeter wide

South American counterpart to Central American Amaranthus cruentus, domesticated Grain sources in Central & South America as early as 4000 BC. Very high in nutrition, many parts of the plant, including the leaves & seed, are edible as a cereal grain, or ground into flour. Upto 6 ft high, with large, almost tropical leaves, through which the familiar tassels cascade to the ground

Upland Cress - cut & come again , Barbarea verna - cultivated as a leaf vegetable in UK since the 17th century, that rare find - a veg that actually prefers shade & grows on land (Still likes the moist), but not in water. Tastes close to watercress, but more peppery & subtle & enjoyed more when picked young.  Use sparingly in salads or as a spinach substitute. HARDY, perennial - Cut & Come again

(Trumpet Group) Deciduous - dutch origin in 1999, dark violet on base of leaf, globular shaped flowers 22cm above plant, ht: 30 inches (72cm), flower inside pale violet blue with purple tint,  dark violet midriff, base dark violet blue, slightly nodding

Poblano Grande , Capsicum annuum. Produces good yields of 4-in long by 3-in at top,tapering to a blunt point. Peppers mildly hot & turn from green to red when mature with green stems, dark green leaves & white flowers. Excellent for making chili powder! Plant Ht: 36-in, Known as Poblanos when fresh or Ancho when dried. (Spicy, Warm to Mildly Hot Pepper 1000-5000 SU)