New varieties for 2012

New for 2012

This year we have introduced more than thirty new varieties to our catalogue

What a growing season 2011 turned out to be: hot, dry spring; coolish, cloudy summer; warm, sunny autumn. Through it all, we managed to test well over 100 varieties of vegetables, both outdoors and inside our tunnels and greenhouses. The result of all this work is the addition of more than 30 new lines to the Sea Spring Seed catalogue.

Beetroot:

• Chioggia Barbietola: A mild flavoured beetroot with beautiful concentric rings that alternate between red and white.
• Forono: A beetroot with an elongated root to make slicing easy!

Chillies – vegetable types:

• Beaver Dam: A prolific and early producer of large, flavourful chillies.
• Draky: An early and productive vegetable chilli from Eastern Europe.
• Mulato Isleno: A poblano/ancho-type chilli indispensble in Mexican cuisine. The mild fruit are large, heart-shaped and flavourful.
• Thai Pumpkin: A pumpkin-shaped Thai chilli ideal for stuffed starters.

Chillies – spice types:

• Purple Haze: An extremely attractive, very hot cayenne chilli that starts a beautiful purple lilac.

Chillies – habaneros:

• Bellaforma: A deliciously-flavoured, mild habanero.
• Jamaican Jerk: A Jamaican variety distinguished by its large orangy-yellow coloured chillies that have a characteristic orange aroma.

Chillies – superhots:

• Bengle Naga: A productive superhot chilli producing pale green, almost white, fruit that ripen to a red. Recorded heat level: 732,000 – 923,000 SHU  
• Fire: Fire by name, and fire by nature, this chilli combines heat with looks and productivity. Approximate heat level: 572,000 SHU

Lettuce:

• Bridgemere: An oak-leaf lettuce producing soft heads of blanched leaves that have a crunchy but tender texture.
• Chatsworth: A cos-type green lettuce producing blistered, virtually bitter-free leaves.

Onions:

• Long Red Florence: A dual purpose, red skinned onion, excellent as a salad onion when young and delicious as a mature bulb.

Oriental leaves:

• Flaming Frills (Ruby Streaks) Mustard: A distinctive red mustard with frilly, deeply cut leaves that are standout additions to mixed salads.
• Golden Streaks Mustard: A light green mustard distinguished by deeply cut frilly leaves that are as attractive to look at as they are to eat.
• Green Boy Komatsuna: A tasty komatsuna that resembles an upright pak choi.
• Green Spray Mibuna: A prolific, light green mibuna producing long, narrow leaves emerging from a rosette.
• Red Giant Mustard: A more-or-less traditional mustard with broad, blistered leaves highlighted in red.
• Red Knight Mizuna: A lovely bi-coloured mizuna with wide, notched leaves.

Radish:

• April Cross: A mooli radish producing large, elongated roots with a mild taste and a crisp, juicy texture.

Sweet peppers:

• Beja: An Eastern European sweet pepper producing large, wedge-shaped fruit that change from light green to red as they mature.
• Gourmet: A bell pepper producing plenty of crunchy fruit that turn from green to bright orange as they ripen.
• Hamik: Yummy! is the only way we can describe this sweetest of sweet peppers.
• Pompeii: Thick fleshed, red bell peppers produced on short compact plants.

Tomatoes:

• Golden Crown: An attractive yellow cherry tomato producing sweet, juicy fruit. Indeterminate
• Green Zebra: A green striped salad tomato with an in-your-face tanginess. Indeterminate.
• Malinowy Ozarowski: A productive and flavourful Polish salad tomato that ripens to a pinkish red. Indeterminate.
• Maskotka: A sprawling bush variety with delicious, juicy fruit. Determinate.
• Matina: An early producing salad tomato with a sweet, pleasant flavour. Indeterminate.
• Pruden's Purple: A high yielding, large-fruited heirloom tomato. Indeterminate.
• Snowberry: An early variety producing light yellow, mild-flavoured cherry tomatoes. Indeterminate.