  | American ground nut Apios americana £15 | A delicious flavour somewhat like roasted sweet potatoes. The tuber can also be dried and ground into a powder then used as a thickening in soups etc or can be added to cereal flours when making bread[. Tubers contain 17% crude protein, this is more than 3 times that found in potatoes. The tubers can be harvested in their first year but they take 2 – 3 years to become a sizeable crop[160 ]. They can be harvested at any time of the year but are at their best in the autumn and will store until at least the spring. Yields of 2.3 kilos of tubers per plant have been achieved. The plant itself is vining and needs something to climb up. |
 | Aquilegia “Rose Queen” Aquilegia ssp £5 | Sweet edible flowers |
 | Bay leaf Laurus nobilis £10 | Spicy, aromatic leaves used fresh or raw as flavouring in soups and strews and also for herbal tea. Dried fruits used as flavouring |
 | Carolina Allspice Calycanthus floridus £30 | The aromatic bark is dried and used as a substitute for cinnamon |
 | Caucasian comfrey Synphytum caucasicum £8 | young leaves eaten raw in salads. Older leaves used as flavouring in cooking. Dried leaves used for herbal tea.Avoid eating in quantity (older leaves toxic). Leaves used for mulch and fertiliser (dynamic accumulator). |
 | Chinese Yam/Cinnamon Vine Dioscorea polystachya (Dioscorea batatas – Decne. £8 | The tubers are edible and usually cooked. They have a floury texture with a very pleasant flavour that is rather like a potato. The tubers can be boiled, baked, fried, mashed, grated and added to soups. They store well and for a long time, and can also be left in the ground and harvested as required in the winter. This is a top quality root crop, very suitable for use as a staple food. |
 | Chocolate mint Mentha x peperita £8 | leaves used raw or cooked. Strong peppermint flavour. Herb tea. Not to be used by pregnant women. |
 | Fennel Foeniculum vulgare £8 | Leaves, seeds and stalks can be eaten raw or cooked and used for tea. Sweet anise flavour. |
 | French Sorrel Rumex acetosa £8 | leaves used raw in salads or cooked in soups and stews. Delicious lemon like flavour. Roots cooked. Juice of the leaves can be used as a curdling agent for milks. |
 | ginger mint Mentha x peperita £8 | leaves raw or cooked used as flavouring in salads, cooking and herbal tea. |
 | Horseradish Armoracia rusticana £15 | young shoots eaten raw or cooked, grated to make horseradish sauce. Young leaves eaten raw or cooked, added to salad in small quantities. Seeds sprouted and added to salads. |
 | Ladys Mantle Alchemilla mollis £8 | leaves used for tea. Medicinal. |
 | lemon balm Melissa Officinalis £8 | Leaves have pleasant lemon aroma and flavour, used ainly as flavouring in salads, cooked foods and teas. |
 | Lovage Levisticum officinale £8 | Leaves and stems used raw and cooked for celery flavour in salads, soups, stews. Seed have strong yeasty flavour and used raw or cooked, Tea made from dried leaves and grated root. |
 | Marjoram Oregano marjorana £8 | leaves used as herb in salads, soups and stews. Dired leaves and flowering stems used for tea. |
 | Marsh Woundwort (Mugwort) Stachys Palustris £8 | Tubers are a tasty nutritious food with a pleasant mild nutty flavour. raw or cooked. Although quite small, they are fairly smooth and produced in a reasonable quantity so are not too fiddly to utilize. Young shoots can be used as an asparagus substitute. Yellow dye can be obtained from the plant. |
 | Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria £8 | Young leaves, flowers and roots brewed into tea. Dried leaves used as sweetener. Young leaves and roots cooked. |
 | Mugwort, common Wormwood Artemesia Vulgaris £8 | Leaves are eaten raw or cooked and often as a pot herb. Dried leaves and flowering tops steeped to make a tea. Traditionally uesd to flavour beer. |
 | Oregano £5 | leaves used as herb in salads, soups and stews. Dired leaves and flowering stems used for tea. |
 | Oriental Borage Tachystemon orientalis £8 | In Turkey and south-eastern Europe this is wild-harvested for edible leaves, stems and flowers. Member of the comfrey family so only eat in small doses. |
 | Parsley Petroselinum crispum neopolitanum £8 | Leaves used raw or cooked in salad, as garnish, cooked food. Tea made from dried leaves. |
 | Perennial kale (“Flowering Daubentons”) brassica oleracea | Perennial Kale that flowers in summer, which is very unusual for perennial kale! |
| | Perennial kale (“Purple Rib”) brassica oleracea £8 | Perennial Kale with pretty purple ribbed leaves Bred by Alan Carter |
 | Perennial kale (“silver tree”) brassica oleracea £8 | Perennial Kale with beautiful silver leaves Bred by Alan Carter |
| | Perennial kale (Nero di Toscana) brassica oleracea £8 | Perennial Kale |
 | Perennial leek Allium ampeloprasum £8 | Leaves, bulbs and bulbils can all be eaten raw or cooked. the plants are said to repel moles and insects. |
 | Perennial Wall Rocket Diplotaxis tenuifolia – (L.)DC. £8 | Leaves taste of very strong peppery rocket. |
 | Redbud Cercis canadensis £25 | Flowers are rich in vitamin C and eaten raw in salads or pickled giving a nice refreshing acid taste. The unopened buds are pickled or used as a caper substitute. |
 | Rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis £8 | young shoots, leaves and flowers used raw or cooked in soups, stews and flavourings. Tea made from dried leaves. |
 | Sea Beet beta vulgaris maritima £8 | young leaves eaten raw or cooked as a delicious spinach alternative |
 | Self Heal Prunella vulgaris £8 | Leaves used raw in salads or cooked in soups and stews. Bitterness removed by washing the leaevs. Cold water infusion of resh or dried leaves as a refreshing beverage. |
 | Silverweed Potentilla anserina – L. £8 | The roots are crisp and nutty and eaten raw or cooked. A tea is made from the leaves. Plant acts as a dynamic accumulator. |
 | Sweet lupin Lupinus Albus £12 | With young tender lupin seeds (in the green pod stage) you can just shell them out and boil them for 15 minutes or until soft. If cooking with dried lupin seeds then you will need to soak them overnight, then boil in fresh water for 40 minutes or until tender (it depends how dry they were!) Note that these are special lupins, you cannot eat seeds from normal decorative lupin plants. |
 | Tree Onions/walking onions/egyptian onions Allium x proliferum £8 | Bulb and bulbils used raw or cooked as onions. Leaves used raw in salads or cooked as per onions. |
 | Tuberous comfrey (creeping comfrey) Symphytum tuberosum £8 | root used as coffee substitute. Mainly used as soil conditioner and forage for wildlife |
 | Turkish Rocket Bunias orientalis £8 | Raw leavesand flowers used in salad. Cooked leaves make good vegetable. Flower buds and stems used as broccoli alternative, |
 | Valerian Valeriana officinalis £8 | Essential oil from the leaves and root is used as flavouring. Leaves used in moderation as a herbal tea |
 | Welsh Onion Allium fistulosum £8 | Perennial onion. Use the bulbs, flowers and leaves cooked or raw. Excellent for bees |
 | Wisteria “Amethyst Falls” Wisteria frutescens £30 | Stunning climber that flowers as a young plant after only 2 years. The fresh flowers are eaten in tossed green salads and are said to be excellent when dipped in batter and fried in oil as fritters. (NB Seeds of all Wisteria are poisonous). |
 | Yacon Smallanthus sonchifolius £15 | Tubers eaten raw as fruit or cooked in stir fry like water chestnut. Can also be juiced and boiled into a sweet syrup. Plants are not hardy and need to be overwintered in polytunnel or greenhouse. |
 | Yarrow Achillea millefolium £8 | young leaves are edible, raw, or cooked in moderation. Tastes very bitter. More known for medicinal properties and is used to treat wounds, stops bleeding, and addresses colds, fevers, kidney diseases, and menstrual pain. . Medicinal properties include astringent, diaphoretic, and anti-inflammatory uses. Yarrow’s leaves and flowers are used fresh or dried and harvested when the plant is in bloom. Yrrow attracts a variety of pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects like ladybugs and lacewings. |