Welcome to Sea Spring Seeds

Vegetable seeds for the home and allotment gardener

We sell vegetable seeds of reliable, productive and good tasting varieties that are suitable for the home and allotment garden. In our search for the best varieties we run trials on our nursery in West Dorset, where we assess their growing qualities (yield, bolt resistance, etc.), and culinary features such as flavour and general utility.

•  We are best known for our great selection of chilli peppers. Many are hard-to-find or unique varieties bred by us for British conditions. Dorset Naga, one of the hottest chillies in the world, was developed by us.
• We specialise in tomatoes, and offer seed of an extensive range of both indeterminate (cordon) and determinate (bush) tomato types, that produce fruit of different sizes, colours and flavours.
• We promote container grown vegetable growing, for time-stressed adults, children and anyone without a garden.
• We sell British ethnic vegetables – varieties collected from immigrant communities.

 

 

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New tomato varieties in 2026

 

Red Fan tomato

Red Fan is a memorably good tasting tomato producing small, round fruit with a sweet, juicy flesh and tender skin. The fruit are red when ripe and measure about 30mm in diameter. They hang from long trusses that can be almost a meter long and produce over 100 fruit each.

The vigorous plants are early maturing and grow well both in the ground and 15 litre pots. All-in-all, Red Fan is a good-yielding, tasty variety that is adapted to different ways of growing.

Indeterminate (cordon) growth habit.

 

 

Cherry Falls tomato

Cherry Falls is a small statured, very early maturing variety. Its early maturing means it is a good choice for growing outdoors, while the small, bushy growth habit of the plants means they can fit comfortably in tight spaces such as on a greenhouse bench. In addition, whether grown undercover or in the open, the plants are good producers of red, cherry-like fruit.

Though other varieties are better tasting, Cherry Falls is a top choice when earliness, compactness and good yields are priorities.

Determinate (bush) growth habit

 

 

 

Green Sausage tomato

Green Sausage is a cooking tomato distinguished by plump, elongated fruit with thick flesh that matures to a yellow-tinged green. The fruit are pretty good eaten fresh, when they are a bit sweet and quite juicy. They are even better cooked, producing a sauce that looks like green pea soup and tastes deliciously fruity.

The determinate plants sprawl into large bushes over a meter wide. Though fruit ripen later than other varieties, good yields can be harvested from plants grown undercover in large pots or the ground.

Determinate (bush) growth habit.

 

 

 

 

 

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