Favourite Culinary Varieties

Cawood Delight – an outdoor variety with the beautiful colour of a forced. Excellent for cooking.

Crimson Red – has a sharp distinctive, but sweet, flavour.

Champagne – can be forced to provide sticks as early as February and can be grown outdoors as well.

Queen Victoria – an older variety still loved for its heavy yields and good flavour.

Reeds Early Superb – a lovely dark colour when forced, with a distinctive earthy flavour.

Stockbridge Arrow – a high yielding, modern, main crop variety with excellent colour and flavour. Easily distinguished in the forcing shed by the arrowhead shaped leaf.