Uchiki Kuri Seeds

Beautifully packaged seeds to start your own Asian kitchen garden, featuring artwork by the eminent 19th Century botanist Iwasaki Tsunemasa.

Aka the Hokkaido Pumpkin, Uchiki Kuri is a bright orange squash for dark winter days. With wonderfully sweet and nutty flesh, they’re a bit like a butternut but easier to grow. Harvest when mature and they can be kept for up to three months in a cool, dry pantry. Hugely ornamental and looks attractive climbing on frames.

Monty Don has been known to grow a Uchiki Kuri or two in his own vegetable patch.

It’s almost impossible to buy this vegetable fresh in the UK and it’ll add some authentic flavour to your Asian cooking.