Makkelijke Moestuin seeds

What are Makkelijke Moestuin seeds? Which vegetables, herbs and flowers can you buy in the shop and find in the app? And how do you sow, care for and harvest them?

All the seeds we sell are also included in the app. You can buy each variety as a single packet, and we also group varieties we've sold for longer into good-value seed bundles.

Most Makkelijke Moestuin seeds already have a detailed page in the knowledge base. Click the link in the description to read it. For new varieties without a page yet, we add one as soon as possible.

We've put some packets together into seed bundles. A bundle costs less than buying those packets separately.

But with more than 50 varieties in our range now, many are only available as single packets.

These are the seeds no vegetable garden should be without:

The Basic seed bundle includes delicious sugar snaps, cute mini heads of lettuce, sturdy cavolo nero, essential basil, and red beets. Though with the beets, I mostly pick the leaves myself and am less keen on the beets themselves.

It also includes spicy rocket, tender leaf lettuce, and colourful chard. Add radishes, carrots, calendula petals, and a few French beans, and you can put the most beautiful salads on the table in no time.

Sugar snap 'Jessy': a low-growing sugar pea with deliciously crisp pods. Read more

Spinach 'Nores type Viking': produces lovely large leaves and does not bolt quickly, so you can harvest from it for a long time. It handles cold well, but heat less well. Read more

Mini butterhead lettuce 'Gele Gotte': fun little heads that fit nicely four to a square. Read more

Cavolo nero 'Nero di Toscana': my favourite kale variety: super healthy, grows upright, and copes very well with frost. Read more

Beetroot 'Monty RZ': beautiful round, deep-red beets that store well. Read more

Rocket 'Gewone': rocket with a spicy, nutty taste. You can grow it almost all year round. Read more

Chard 'Bright Lights': a colourful mix with red, orange, and yellow stems. Beautiful to look at, very productive, and very tasty. Read more

Giant radish 'Riesenbutter': large, juicy radishes that grow as big as a ping-pong ball without turning pithy. Read more

Carrot 'Jerada RZ': wonderfully crunchy with a rounded tip; 15 to 20 cm long. Read more

Calendula 'Pacific Beauty': a useful companion plant. It improves the soil and helps keep harmful insects and soil nematodes away. The petals are edible. Read more

Bush bean 'Record': tasty, tender French beans without strings. Read more

Basil mix: a colourful selection of 4 basil varieties: lemon basil, cinnamon basil, Eastern red Dark Opal, and the familiar large-leaved Genovese basil. Read more

No Makkelijke Moestuin without climbing vegetables.

Well, that's not quite true: you can grow plenty of delicious vegetables in your raised bed without a trellis. But a trellis does make it more fun.

The Climbing veg seed bundle contains seven different vegetables that grow tall, so you put them by a trellis. Climbing beans and mangetout, for example: a square fits eight plants and gives you plenty to harvest.

It also includes vegetables that would otherwise take up too much space for a raised bed, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and climbing courgettes. A trellis keeps them under control, keeps the fruits clean and makes picking easy.

Seven vegetable varieties for an edible trellis:

Climbing courgette 'Black Forest F1': one of the few compact courgette varieties you can tie up along a trellis, making it suitable for a raised bed. Produces plenty of fruit! Read more

Tomato 'Sweety': new! Produces lovely long trusses of honey-sweet cherry tomatoes. Delicious! Read more

Flat-podded climbing bean 'Helda': delicious beans with long, broad, flat pods. Read more

Climbing French bean 'Neckarkönigin': a very productive French bean with long, tender, fleshy pods. Read more

Mangetout 'Rijspeul Heraut': a strong, reliable variety that keeps growing for a long time and gives a huge harvest. Read more

Baby pumpkin: produces pumpkins around 15 to 20 cm across, so it grows well on a trellis. Read more

Snack cucumber 'Espenada RZ': this unusual variety grows quickly and produces fruits sooner and in greater numbers than most cucumbers. You can even sow it in July. Read more

We sell the rest of our seeds as single packets. I will start with 12 varieties that are all a bit special. Not the most common ones, and sometimes not the easiest, but definitely very tasty:

Lamb's lettuce 'Grote Noordhollandse': ideal for filling empty squares in autumn. Lettuce in winter and early spring. Read more

Winter pea 'Feltham First': a tasty winter vegetable. Pick the young shoots for salads, smoothies and stir-fries. Read more

Yellow French bean 'Mirador': yellow French beans with a fantastic flavour. A low-growing variety with a high yield. Read more

New Zealand spinach: the leaves of this plant taste like spinach, and it grows vigorously in summer. Read more

Nasturtium: one of the best companion plants for the vegetable garden. Bees and butterflies love it, and the plant draws harmful insects away from your other vegetables. The flowers, young leaves and seeds are edible too. Read more

Chioggia beetroot: these beets are beautifully striped red and white. They are a little sweeter than red beets, so they are also tasty raw in salads. Read more

Liquorice mint: the whole plant is edible and tastes of aniseed and liquorice. From July onwards, the flowers attract lots of bees, bumblebees and butterflies. Read more

Purple carrots: unusual deep-purple carrots with a white core. Even healthier than orange carrots. Read more

French radishes: long radishes with a white tip. They grow quickly and have a mild flavour. Read more (in Dutch)

In recent years, we've sold four special lettuce varieties: the Salanovas. They form large heads with lots of leaves of the same size. They also bolt late, so you can harvest plenty from them for a long time:

Red Crispy lettuce: this Salanova lettuce grows quickly, bolts late and produces lots of firm, frilled leaves of the same size. Read more

Red butterhead lettuce: a tender, dark red butterhead lettuce. The heads grow quickly, and you can pick from them for a long time. Read more

Green Batavia: green leaf lettuce that grows quickly and bolts late. The heads produce lots of firm, frilled leaves that stay fairly small. Read more

Oakleaf lettuce: this unusual oakleaf lettuce grows quickly, bolts late and produces lots of lobed, red-green leaves of the same size. Read more

Every year we add a few varieties: ones we include after extensive testing with other MM gardeners, or varieties we sell temporarily. By now we sell more than 50 kinds of seeds.

Sunflower 'Henri Wilde': tall sunflower with several flowers per stem. Perfect for attracting bees. Read more

Parsley: flat-leaf parsley, very tasty and stronger in flavour than ordinary curly parsley. Read more

Yellow bush tomato: the plant grows only 30 to 45 cm tall, making it very suitable for pots and raised beds. Produces masses of yellow cherry tomatoes. Read more

Coriander: this herb has a distinctive flavour you really have to love. It is widely used in curries and Asian soups. Read more

Bush basil: has smaller leaves than the better-known large-leaved Genovese basil, but is just as tasty. It copes better with drought, heat and slugs, so it is more suitable for outdoor growing. Read more

Dill: this dill variety grows compactly, produces more leaves than the common type and also flowers later. Read more

Purple kale: this kale has a beautiful purple colour that deepens in cold weather. Lovely for brightening up your raised beds in winter. Read more

Endive 'Breedblad Volhart Winter': a fine old variety for autumn. It grows slowly and stands up well to cold, rough weather. Read more

Asian salad mix: an easy-to-grow, fast-growing mix of Asian leafy greens. Unusual, spicy and tasty. Read more

Balcony tomato: produces tomatoes of about 5 to 7 cm with an old-fashioned flavour. It grows around 50 to 80 cm tall, so it fits well in an MM-mini or on the back row of a raised bed without a trellis. Read more

Marigolds: help keep nematodes and harmful insects away, and attracts masses of bees. Read more

Pak choi: delicious in Asian stir-fries. You can sow this variety both in spring and later in summer. Read more

Spinach 'Nores' type Viking: harvest the small leaves or let the plants grow on so you can pick from them for a long time. Read more

Winter purslane: tasty little plants with funny leaf saucers and white flowers. You can grow it all year round. Read more

Baby broccoli: a compact broccoli variety that fits in one square. It gives a quicker and longer harvest than ordinary broccoli and has a milder flavour. Read more

Chinese chives: a perennial chive variety with flat leaves that taste quite strongly of garlic. Ideal for salads, but also for warm dishes. Read more