Vegetable seeds Ireland – Open pollinated seed grown and saved in West Cork.
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Sourced from Irish Seed Savers, this is a selection from ‘Scarlet’ so has the attractive clusters of red flowers. The dried beans are a deep shiny black colour and great for stews etc. Grows vigorously.
Average 10 seeds per packet.
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Wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris) is a crop for the colder months which provides very nutritious but somewhat bitter leaves. Very rich in Vitamin C. Much easier to grow than Watercress, it will tolerate poor soil and variable conditions.
Sow in August and September. The lower temperatures at this time of year can help encourage seed germination. Some leaves can be harvested from early the following year. Plants will grow taller (~60cm tall) in their second year.
Average 250 seeds per packet.
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Winter Purslane (Claytonia perfoliata) is an easy to grow hardy salad crop. Also known as Miner’s Lettuce, its wild relative if found all along the North American Pacific coast. The leaves are succulent and mild in flavour. Eat raw in salads or used like spinach for cooking.
Average 2000 seeds (1g) per packet.
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I picked seed for this up when on holidays in Thailand. It is a radish (Raphanus sativus) native to south Asia which is grown not for its roots, but for the extra long, crisp pungent seedpods. The pods are best picked when young and green. They are good eaten raw, chopped into salads, stir fried or pickled.
Being selected for quickly producing masses of long seed pods, I thought this type of radish would be a good candidate for producing seed outside in Ireland. It did so in 2022. It might be a good variety for producing seed for radish microgreens for the same reason.
If growing just for eating, I would sow just a few plants as they are large sprawling things. They fall over easily too so support is useful. Successional sowing will help spread out the harvest.
Average 100 seeds per packet.
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An interesting cross of mizuna and tatsoi. Mizpoona has a mild mustard flavour and young frilled leaves are flavourful without being overpowering. Resembles a giant mizuna more so than tatsoi. Very vigorous and cold hardy plants which will produce a lot of leaves. The larger leaves are ideal for lightly cooking or stir-frying. Bred by legendary plant breeder Frank Morton.
Average 250 seeds per packet.
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Red Russian is an extremely frost hardy and tender kale. It is also known as Siberian kale and sometimes Ragged Jack kale due to its serrated and feathery leaves. The blue-green leaves are rippled with purple veining. The leaves are much softer than other kales and are particularly good for harvesting young as baby kale. Sow in Spring and again in late Summer for an overwintering crop.
The Russian kales (Brassica napus) are a different species than the other kales (B. oleracea) so will not cross if growing for seed. They are, however, the same species as Swedes (usually refereed to as turnips in Ireland and rutabagas in North America) and oilseed rape so can cross with these. As a biennial, it will flower and set seeds the following summer from planting. If you have the space you can leave it there and collect seed from around late July.
Average 150 seeds per packet (0.5g)
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A sweet pepper sourced from Poland, ‘Nokturn’ (Capsicum annuum) has good sized fruits with an amazing plum purple colour. As they ripen a cherry red colour comes through and it is worth waiting until then to harvest them as the flavour will be much sweeter. They have a nice crunch and can be used any way you would use a bell pepper.
The fruits weigh 50-90g and are triangular in shape. Plants can be up to 80cm tall and might need staking. To save pepper seeds allow the fruit to mature until the skin is wrinkly. The seeds will then be ripe enough. Peppers will cross pollinate so take care if you have more than one variety.
Average 15 seeds per packet
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A small bushy (determinate) tomato plant suitable for growing in pots and containers. Ideal for conservatories and balconies where space is limited. Plants get about 20cm tall and produce a good amount of orange cherry tomatoes. A 10 – 15 litre pot with good potting compost is sufficient.
Average 20 seeds per packet.
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‘Rosela’ is an early lettuce (Lactuca sativa) with large crinkled leaves that have a burgundy red colouring. Can be used as a cut and come again lettuce by harvesting outer leaves or harvest as a whole head which is ready in about 50 days from sowing. Crisp and good taste perfect for salads and sandwiches.
Being an early variety means it has a relatively short vegetative period and so is a good variety for saving seed from in Irish conditions where plants need to flower and set seed before the weather conditions decline. It is cold tolerant so with successional sowing you should be able to have fresh leaves most, if not all, of the year round.
Lettuce is best grown as transplants. Can be started off in modular trays from as early as January if you have a heated propagator (be careful to not let lettuce seed get above 23°C as the seed can go dormant then and not germinate). Sow seeds very shallowly or just sit on top of the compost and water gently. From spring no additional heat should be required.
Average 100 seeds per packet.
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‘Gardener’s Delight’ is considered by many as the best cherry tomato. Produces large amounts of bite sized cherry tomatoes with exceptional flavour. An indeterminate variety so needs stringing up and side shooting. Will grow to about 2 meters height if allowed.
Average 20 seeds per packet.
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Kale ‘Dwarf Green Curled’ is recorded as a Scottish heirloom dating back to the 19th century. As the plants don’t get as large as other varieties they are ideal for smaller growing spaces or for closer planting and the harvesting of smaller leaves. Their short stature also makes them more suitable for exposed and windswept sites.
Average 150 seeds per packet.
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A very early and productive pea. Being a round seeded type, First Early May is frost hardy and suitable for autumn sowing to get the earliest crops. Grows to about 140cm so needs support like most garden peas.
Average 50 seeds per packet.
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‘Green Beauty’ is a tall (2m) purple flowered pea which produces tender flat pods ideal for steaming and stir frying. They get very large when not picked but remain tender even at full size.
The french term ‘mangetout’ means ‘eat all’ and refers to peas in which the whole pod is eaten with the small undeveloped peas inside. They are also refered to as snow peas.
Average 50 seeds per packet.
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‘Mira’ is a red butterhead lettuce (Lactuca sativa) which produced the largest heads in a winter trial in 2025. Leaves are soft and tender and form a loose head. The head can be harvested all at once or leaves can be taken from the outside over multiple harvests. It is a medium early variety. Earlier maturing varieties of lettuce tend not accumulate as much nitrates as slower growing varieties.
Lettuce is best grown as transplants. Can be started off in modular trays from as early as January if you have a heated propagator (be careful to not let lettuce seed get above 23°C as the seed can go dormant then and not germinate). Sow seeds very shallowly or just sit on top of the compost and water gently. From spring no additional heat should be required. Butterhead lettuces are ideal for winter sowing and can be seeded until the end of September.
Average 100 seeds per packet.
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A very productive chili (Capsicum baccatum) from Russia. The fruits are plentiful, thin walled, yellow fleshed, hot and have an amazing citrus aroma. Good for using many ways. With so many I was able to dry them for powder and make a fermented hot sauce. Ripens from green to lemon yellow and the pods are about 10cm long. Plants were about 80cm tall.
Start seeds as early as possible with supplementary heat and light if necessary.
Average 12 seeds per packet.
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Also known as ‘Rose de Bern’, a heirloom pink beefsteak tomato with excellent flavour. Has a tangy and slightly acidic taste. Fruits are between 5 and 7cm in diameter.
Average 20 seeds per packet.