Suttons Seeds Awards and Accolades

Suttons Seeds is committed to providing total quality and service excellence. We constantly strive to not only meet but exceed our customer expectations – but don't just take our word for it, below are just a few of our recent awards.

GIMA Best Growing Product (July 2011)

Suttons For Your Space range won the coveted Best Growing Product at the GIMA Awards in Manchester last night. This is the 2nd year in succession that Suttons has won the Best Growing Product Award.

Which? Gardening Best Buy Sweetcorn (July 2011)

Suttons Seeds 'Swift' Sweetcorn was awarded a Which? Gardening Best Buy for its early maturing, producing decent sized crops (180-230g) and having the best taste and sweetness. 19 varieties were tested and included many of the newest type of sweetcorn (early tender sweet varieties)

Hampton Court Silver-Gilt Knightian medal (July 2011)

Suttons Seeds provided most of the plants for the Edible Garden and was awarded the Silver-Gilt Kightian medal, its story boards explain how the commercial practice of growing fruit and vegetable by grafting pest and disease-resitant root systems to the best-flavoured plants is now available to amateur gardeners.

Which? Gardening Best Buy Sweet Peppers (February 2011)

Suttons Seeds 'Magno' Grafted Sweet Pepper Plant was awarded a Which? Gardening Best Buy for having the highest ripe yield. Pitted against 18 other varieties, it was highly praised for its heavy crops and the superb quality of fruits produced.

Which? Gardening Best Buy Seed Brand (October 2010)

The top ten seed brands were tested by Which? Gardening members and the top ten most popular vegetables and flower varieties assessed. Scores were based on how well seeds germinated, the quality of the packet instructions and survey respondents' ratings for variety, choice, descriptions and value for money, taken into account. Suttons Seeds was awarded Best Buy Seed brand!

Which? Gardening Best Buy SpeedyVeg (May 2010)

Consumer magazine Which? Gardening tested Suttons Seeds 'SpeedyVeg' to ensure these seeds live up to their name; and they did! Which? Gardening stated that Suttons Seeds SpeedyVeg is 'Spot on'.

1st Place: Radish 'Jolly'
2nd Place: Turnip 'Atlantic'
3rd Place: Lettuce 'Lollo Rossa'

Which? Gardening Best Buy Tomato for Outdoor Growing (April 2010)

Suttons Seeds Tomato 'Orkado F1' came out top as the best outdoor growing tomato! The variety was subject to rigorous tests that determined its strength of flavour, texture and appearance, as well as the all important juiciness, skin thickness, colour and shape.

Which? Gardening Best Buy for Informative Packets (October 2009)

17 seed suppliers were tested, with Suttons Seeds coming out top for our impressively high seed germination and quality of instructions on packets. Suttons Seeds catalogue and website were also praised in the tests for their wealth of helpful advice and photographs.

Gardeners World Awards 2009

Voted for by the gardening public, Suttons received top rankings in the following categories;

Favourite Online / Mail Order Supplier
Best for Service
Best For Choice
Best For Quality

ISO 9001:2000

Suttons Seeds is the only UK seed company to have achieved the ISO9001:2000 International Quality Standard award across ALL its business operations!

Investors In People

Suttons Seeds has held the Investors In People award since 1996, the national standard for staff training, communication and involvement. Suttons strives to run the business ever-more efficiently to meet our customer needs, and investment in staff, equipment and processes enables us to be better placed to do that.

Holders of the Royal Warrant - as suppliers to the Royal British households

Total commitment to both quality and service excellence has been the key to Suttons Seeds remarkable history. We are privileged to have held the prestigious Royal Warrant since 1858 and still supply seeds to several Royal households today.