Assortment - Traditional French varieties
This assortment includes 10 carefully selected French varieties of vegetable plants. Traditionally used for hundreds of years, these seeds perpetuate their rich genetic heritage in every garden. Preserve a living cultural treasure and discover authentic vegetables inherited from past generations.
Seeds for the assortment - Traditional French varieties are sown from February to October, depending on the variety.
Varieties for the Traditional French Varieties assortment
This assortment includes :
-Violette de Toulouse" eggplant
This variety, native to the Toulouse region, produces a large number of elongated, cylindrical fruits with very white, sweet flesh, 20 to 22 cm long.
This old Franc-Comtois variety produces elongated, yellow roots with sweet flesh. It keeps very well and is considered a fodder crop, but is also appreciated as a vegetable for its gustatory qualities.
This old variety produces cylindrical roots, swollen at the bottom, 12 to 16 cm long. The flesh is tender with a fine, slightly sweet taste. This turnip lends itself well to forced cultivation. Harvest the roots when they are still young, as they tend to become hollow.
This old-fashioned variety produces a large number of round, dark-green fruits with white spots and fine, slightly protruding ribs. They can weigh from 600 g to 1.5 kg and keep for several months. The round Nice zucchini is a vigorous grower in the vegetable garden.
-Petit Marseillais" bell pepper
This highly productive, compact French variety offers elongated, lobed, slightly crinkled and misshapen fruits, about 10 cm long, yellow-orange when ripe. Their very fine flesh reveals a sweet, barely piquant flavor.
Even at low temperatures, this old-fashioned variety produces an abundance of irregularly-shaped red fruits weighing around 250 g. Their firm flesh has a sweet, slightly spicy flavor. Their firm flesh is highly appreciated for its flavor.
This ancient variety produces very ribbed, spherical fruits that can reach 50 cm in diameter and weigh up to 20 kg. Their green skin turns ochre as they ripen, enclosing firm, musky, sweet flesh. Fruits keep for 4 to 9 months.
-Cabbage "Pointu de Chateaurenard
This very old, early and hardy variety, adapted to spring cultivation and southern regions, produces a beautiful apple with smooth, green-blue leaves, slightly tinged with red, weighing around 1 kg and ending in a point. Not very sensitive to bolting.
-Rougette de Montpellier" head lettuce
This very old variety, also known as "Rougette du Midi", produces a small head with green leaves tinged with red, very crunchy and tasty.
This old variety, which is not very sensitive to cold, produces large, long white stalks topped with blue-purple leaves. Their thick flesh offers good flavor.
