What to Sow in December
Below is our full range of seeds, suitable for sowing in December. The added benefit of winter sowing is that you’ll get a much better succession of harvests later on, compared to the fewer you’d get from spring sowings. Our top 5 ideas for vegetable seeds to sow in December are: Broad Beans, Onions, Mustard, Corn Salad (Lambs Lettuce), Microgreens
Even in the depths of winter, you can keep sowing and growing. To boost your chances of success, consider investing in a heated propagator. If sowing in a greenhouse, ensure it’s well-insulated and consider using a heater to stop the temperature from dropping too low.
Onion 'Toughball' F1 is the best over winter Japanese type onion from seed. It is a high yielding, medium early variety, producing good quality, globe shaped bulbs. Toughball has good tolerance of Botrytis and Downy Mildew - essential for overwintered onions. Recommended as a fine, fast growing variety ideal for...
£1.95
Mustard Golden Streaks has fine feathery foliage with a mild peppery taste that will add flavour to any mixed salad. The seeds are easy and quick to germinate and leaves can be ready to eat in as little as 6 weeks. They can even be used at the seedling stage...
£0.50 £0.50
The Sow Hot Chill Seed Collection contains 12-star performers that have been carefully selected for intense heat and flavour...be warned...when the lowest Scoville rating is a mere 100,000 and the highest is one of the world record holders at 1.5m, you know that you are in for some really hot...
£29.95
Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia is a reliable 'old favourite' variety with gardeners and highly rated with the RHS who gave it a well earned AGM in 1995 and reconfirmed its status in 2011 trials for its performance & high yields. Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia produces glossy plump bean pods that...
£1.95
The flowers are highly scented and are a mix of single colours from white to lavender, pink to red & cream. Sweet Pea Galaxy Mixed are floriferous annuals that can keep flowering from late Spring until the first Autumn frosts and with a little bit of care, feeding and regularly...
£1.95
The Sow Salad Bowl Collection Box is designed to provide a wealth of colour, flavour and texture to your summer salad. This collection box offers a wide variety of traditional salad leaves as well as some more unusual types. In addition to leaves, the collection also includes other salad essentials...
£19.95
Kale 'Red Ruble' has been specially bred for the salad leaf market and makes a quick growing colourful tasty salad leaf with its' wine-red serrated foliage. Although it can be grown to mature leaf size it is not as suited to large leaf production as it loses its intense colour...
£1.55
This Sow Chilli Seed Collection contains 12-star performers that have been carefully selected for heat, colour and flavour to give the best all-around chilli experience. Growing homegrown chillies is a rapidly expanding hobby, as the trend for growing your own and the awareness that chillies are not just generic red...
£19.95
Onion 'Ailsa Craig' is a maincrop onion, an old, tried, tested and favourite variety, suitable for spring or autumn sowing. This enduringly popular and well known variety makes a splendid choice for the show bench and is equally good in the kitchen. The quality, large, globe shaped bulbs have a...
£0.99 £0.99
Herbs are the unsung heroes of the dinner table – a pot of herbs growing by your kitchen door where it is easily accessible will mean your just a couple of snips away from a bunch of fresh home-grown fragrant herbs that will jazz up and transform a meal. We have...
£14.95
Our Vegetable Seed Allotment Pack offers a comprehensive range of 20 seed varieties covering all the essentials and a few 'unusuals' for you to grow throughout the year. New to growing your own? Just got your first allotment? Or just need some help deciding on what to grow? Then our...
£29.95
Sow Tomatoes has been curated to appeal to the real tomato lover...it has been designed to offer a broad appeal of sizes, colours, and tastes. You will find some absolute classics in the range as well as some more unusual and new varieties. In addition to Tomatoes, the collection also...
£19.95
Holy Basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum or Ocimum sanctum) also called tulsi. This basil with green to purple leaves (the hotter the summer, the deeper the purple) and purple stems that exudes a delicious, sweet, clove-like aroma. It contains high levels of the essential oil eugenol and it has been used in...
£2.15
Lettuce Freckles is an unusual semi-cos heritage variety that has bright green leaves with splodges of burgundy/red - the red darkens as the lettuce leaf matures. An excellent 'cut & come again' variety - just snip a few leaves at a time to ensure fresh new leaf production. It can...
£1.55
Mustard Red Giant, also known as Japanese Red Mustard, is a traditional mustard with broad, blistered leaves highlighted in red. Left to grow, the leaves become big and bold and are a tasty addition to stir fries. They are also ideal for salads when harvested at a smaller, and more tender,...
£1.55
Mustard Red Frills is a red mustard variety which looks good with its serrated red leaves and a mild fiery mustard flavour.You can sow these oriental red mustards little and often and eat them as mini micro greens, or let them grow on a few centimetres in leaf size and use...
£1.55
Not so long ago Cress was as near as we got to a microgreen and although little Cress shoots still pack a peppery punch to an egg sandwich or salad, the advent of TV shows like MasterChef have shown how easy it is to pimp up our dinner time with...
£14.95
Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus Minor), also known as Hay Rattle wildflower seed, is the must-have plant if you are wanting to successfully grow a wildflower meadow. It is a parasitic plant that will reduce grasses by weakening them and allowing the annual and perennial flowers to establish themselves. Monty Don refers...
from £3.45
Rocket Wild Rocket (Arugula), has thin serrated dark green leaves that have the distinctive hot peppery/spicy flavour making it a great tasty alternative to the usual Rocket. But still very easy to grow! The young leaves can be picked in succession and are great for an accompaniment to salads. An...
£1.65
Lemon Basil has aromatic small ovate green leaves with a lovely lemony basil flavour. It is a very versatile herb and perfect to use with fish, chicken, Oriental style dishes or as a fresh leaf torn into a summer salad, baked with cakes, infused with vinegar or even an ingredient...
£1.95