Welcome to the World of Italian vegetables.

Grow for Flavour- Eat with Gusto

Here you will find a wonderful range of new varieties of familiar vegetables and herbs as well as others, such as cavolo nero, cima di rapa, chicory and radicchio, that will be known by those with an Italian background or an interest in Italian food and travel.

The Italian Gardener sells vegetable and herb seed from Franchi Sementi SpA, one of the largest seed producers in Italy, and a family owned business since 1783. Italians are very fussy about their vegetables. For more than 220 years, Franchi have won the support of gardeners by offering a range of heirloom varieties, selected for their taste rather than “supermarket” characteristics of transportability and uniformity. Franchi vegetables deliver on quality and flavour.

Maggie Beer says that The Italian Gardener provides a direct link to Italy for her vegetable garden. "Not only do they have all the specialist herbs and vegetables I've come home hankering for after trips to Italy, but when I plant their seeds in my garden in the Barossa Valley, the result is exactly what I remember seeing in markets in Tuscany."

"Some of my favourite meals have come from produce grown from seeds from the Italian Gardener- artichokes, cavolo nero and the most wonderful varieties of tomatoes to name a few....

Steve Manfredi, executive chef, Bells Restaurant, Kilcare on the central coast of NSW comments “I love the fact that many of these seeds are Italian heirlooms and many just can't be found easily anywhere else.”