We offer perennial vegetables, herbs and fruit. We are a plant nursery and grow our own plants peat free without harmful chemicals. Prices are subject to change and availability naturally changes throughout the year.
Our 2022 bareroot season is here – order now
This means the plants that we’ve grown all year (and in some cases the year before too) are now at a point where they can make it to your garden! But not for long, they won’t wait ’til Spring. Only available until the end of March.
Buying bareroot plants from us, you can be confident that they have been grown without harmful chemicals, peat free, and they’re offered plastic free.
We have lots of colourful oca, a few skirret offsets, some special bareroot Szechuan pepper trees! How about a bundle of roots? Oca, sunchokes, and skirret for £22. More interesting than carrots.
See the stocklist, e-mail your order, receive confirmation and payment options, collect on a Saturday or Monday morning.
And if you’d like a list of everything we’re planning to grow in 2023, well here it is, with 96 varieties of edible and useful plants.
Hyssop – An Easter Tale
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they…
Plant profile: Skirret £8
2 litre pot Sium sisarum. A perennial parsnip. Well, sort of. Skirret was a vegetable that the Romans introduced to the British isles. Probably from China before the…
Plant profile: sorrel
Rumex acetosa I’m not sure whether to describe sorrel as a ‘humble green’ or not. It’s zingy, it’s surprising, it’s versatile. Maybe not humble. It’s just that it’s…
Plant Profile: Jostaberry, Black Lace Elder
As the days finally become colder it’s worth taking stock of spaces in the garden or replacing small fruit shrubs that are no longer productive. Every year I…
Plant profile: Dyers Coreopsis
Earthed Up! grow edible and useful plants and we have a range of plants for dyeing fibres, such as perennials Madder and Dyers chamomile. The range also includes…
Plant profile: Perennial kale
Kale, the super food of millennials. Also popular with sheep. And rightly so! Kale is a nutritious green, packed with vitamins. It’s particularly high in vitamin C and…
Fruit trees
For the first time, we also have fruit trees available! Grown by social enterprise Sheffield Fruit Trees, who share our ecological and co-operative values.
We have just 6 potted trees left, at £25 each. These are available for collection now.
Apple Ellison’s Orange MM106 Cox style, juicy, scab resistant.
Apple Allington Pippin M26 Crisp and juicy from Lincolnshire.
Crab Apple Liset MM106 Red buds and flowers, deep red cherry-like fruit.
Apple Yorkshire Cockpit M26 Sharp, soft and juicy cooking variety from 1831
Cambridge Gage SJA Reliable, good cropper, self-fertile. Sweet fruit.
Vranja Quince Eline Very large fruit and a good crop of them!
Perennial vegetables
Root crops
Skirret
Introduced by the Romans but unfortunately largely forgotten. A perennial parsnip, sort of. Delicious, nutty roots form like fingers, cook by boiling or roasting briefly. Some roots have a tendency to have a woody core. Great pollinator plant, being an umbel it’s attractive to hoverflies. Grows to 1.8m. Unfussy – sun to semi-shade, does better when wet.
£8
2 litre pot. Available bareroot in the autumn.
Sunchokes
Perennial plant for edible tubers harvested in autumn, also a good seasonal windbreak. Grow in sun. In the sunflower family, so in some summers will produce small sunflowers. Very little care needed, good famine plant. Contains inulin, which some may find a little hard to digest. Roast like potatoes but not for as long, or can be pickled.
£4
9cm pot or tubers
Chinese artichokes
Perennial plant for the small, crunchy edible tubers harvested autumn through to spring. Use like water chestnut in stir fries or just snack on it raw. Looks like a mint, is related to mint, doesn’t smell. Grow in sun or part shade.
£6
2 litre pot or tubers
Leaf crops
Perennial kales
Taunton Deane – growing to large shrub size, over 2 metres wide and high. Hardly ever flowers, so is long lived. Purple tinged stems. Mild flavour.
Daubenton’s – low-growing with small leaves that are good in salads or cooked.
£8
2l pot
Good King Henry
Perennial kale growing to large shrub size. Hardly ever flowers, so is long lived. Purple tinged stems. Mild flavour.
£6
9cm pot
Minutina
Also known as buckshorn plantain owing to its relation to those native plants. A perennial salad leaf, good as a base. Evergreen for us!
£7
2l pot with several plants
Purple plantain
A beautiful purple leaves form of broad leaved plantain. It looks great, grows well, young leaves can be eaten and they are used medicinally on the skin.
£5
9cm pot
Fruit
Gooseberry Black Velvet
A gooseberry-worcesterberry. Strong, upright bush giving good crops from the second year. The fruit is sweet, red and delicious.
From £8
5 litre pot or bareroot
Jostaberry
A hybrid berry, cross of gooseberries and blackcurrant. Fruit the size of gooseberry, tastes like a mild blackcurrant; good to add to preserves and desserts or stewed with other fruit for porridge, muesli etc. A fast, strong growing shrub to 2m. Soil grown.
From £10
5 litre pot or bareroot
Herbs
Mixed kales and herbs
Red Russian kale, Cavolo Black Magic kale, Coriander, and others soon: basils and more annual herbs.
£2, 8cm and £5 for 3.
Comfrey Bocking 14
Deep rooting perennial mineral accumulator, high in potassium. Leaves can be cut to make plant feed or added to your compost heap. Can be cut up to 4 times a year if in fertile soil. Left to flower, it provides nectar adored by bees. This variety doesn’t produce viable seed so is propagated by roots.
£4, 9cm or root divisions in winter
Marshmallow
Attractive perennial growing to 1.2 m. Small purple-centred flowers later summer. Leaves eaten raw or cooked, also flowers raw. Roots are used medicinally.
£6, 9cm or divisions in early Spring.
Mints
Moroccan (top photo), Chocolate mint (bottom photo), Black peppermint, Bowles mint, Strawberry mint. A delectable selection for different uses. Strawberry mint is delicate, good in salads or summer cocktails. Moroccan is a strong all rounder, for youghurt dips or on your new potatoes. Peppermint and Bowles make nice teas.
£4, 9cm
£6, 2 litres
Fennel
Native, perennial herb. Architectural. Self seeds moderately. Great for snacking on in the garden with its aniseed flavoured leaves. The tall umbel flowers are great for pollinators. If left to set seed, these can be harvested for use in sauces, breads etc.
£5 9cm
£7 2 litres
Korean Mint
Agastache rugosa
A lovely perennial herb for people and bees, spikes of purple flowers. Has a mild aniseed flavour great for tea, or leaves used in stir fries. Clumps up year on year.
£5, 9cm pot
Dye plants
We are growing dyer’s chamomile, madder, woad, and weld.
We have many, many more plants. This is just a selection. We don’t sell by mail order, please come and see us to discover our full range.
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