What to Sow in February
February is the start of the season to start sowing tomato and chilli seeds indoors. By sowing seeds early on in the year, you can be enjoying tasty crops for a larger part of the year. While Brussels sprouts, leeks, onions and spinach can all be sown undercover. It's also a good idea to start off Beans & Peas indoors this month for more early crops!
Below is our full range of seeds, suitable for sowing in February...
Basil Sweet Genovese Herb Seeds, the 'Classic Italian' are the best variety of basil for Italian pesto and tastes fantastic with fresh tomatoes (home grown of course), slices of mozzarella & a drizzle of virgin oil -a perfect side salad for a balmy summer's day BBQ. Basil is the basis...
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Cucumber Party Time is all-female parthenocarpic “snack-type” producing three or four delicious fruits at every node every few days. These crunchybite-sized fruit are perfect lunchbox snacks. ‘Party Time’ has excellent resistance to powdery mildew and performs across a range of climates, but is best grown in an unheated greenhouse or...
£2.75
Cucumber 'Merlin' is perfect for the greenhouse or a polytunnel. This all-female variety produces excellent crops of short, smooth skinned fruits measuring up to 15cm, with a mild flavour and no bitter aftertaste. Fruits are produced at every node, every few days so you can be sure of a bumper...
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Cucumber Calimbo is a pickle lovers perfect variety for home garden cultivation. Vigorous vining type plants benefit from vertical support on wires in a greenhouse or polytunnel. The all female parthenocarpic plants produce masses of tasty, dark green, non bitter gherkins. When growing cucumbers, harvest regularly to encourage, long continuous production....
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Catnip (Nepeta caparia), also known as Catmint is a hardy perennial herb, Lemon-scented, it makes a most refreshing tisane or tea which was drunk far more before tea arrived from China.It grows to a height of 3 to 4 feet and has featherlike, light green foliage and small clusters of...
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Lemon Mint is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is native to the southern United States and northern Mexico. Common names include lemon bee balm, lemon mint and lemon bergamot. When crushed, the leaves emit an odour reminiscent of lemons. Lemon Mint (Monarda citriodora) is a short-lived...
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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
Basil Siam Queen is a great strain of Thai basil, very popular in oriental cooking. The dark green leaves and the purple flower spikes make this basil an ideal ornamental herb too. Can be grown in pots in the patio area or in a windowbox. Height 30-40cm.A colourful basil variety...
£2.15
Cucumber Bush Champion is a real winner for those with either small spaces or growing in containers and raised beds. Bush Champion produces an abundance of 20cm cucumbers from about a third of the normal space that a traditional cucumber plant takes up. It has a crisp outer skin with...
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Basil Sweet Thai Herb Seeds are an eastern Basil used in many Thai and oriental dishes and adds a spicy aniseed/basil flavour to food. It can be used raw in salads or tossed into Thai curries just at the end of cooking. Sweet Thai Basil grows to around 30-40cm tall...
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Parsley Plain Leaf Herb is also known as French Parsley and has serrated fine leaves that are generally regarded to have a slightly better flavour and texture than curly parsley. It is the one that the continentals grow and use and is the 'true Parsley variety'. Parsley is one of...
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Borage is an annual herb with pretty little vivid blue star shaped flowers and hairy grey/green leaves. It is very easy to grow and will reach a height of 30-50cm. Borage leaves can be added to salads and taste like cool cucumber; the pretty flowers can be frozen in an...
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Lime Basil seeds are easy to grow and produce a compact dome shaped plant that looks very stylish growing in terracotta pots. It has small to medium sized mid-green leaves that have a lovely fresh aroma of limes Basil Lime Herb Seeds take around 2 months from sowing to cropping...
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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...
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Rosemary makes a fantastic garden herb, it is a perennial evergreen that has needle like pungent aroma with pretty pale blue flowers that attract bees & beneficial insects. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is great grown as an herb in the veg patch or in the garden borders. Rosemary eventually grows to...
£2.45
Oregano is the common name for Common Oregano or Wild Marjoram, and in fact all Marjorams are from the genus Origanum. Common Oregano has sweet aromatic oval leaves which have a better flavour when used dried than fresh. Oregano produces beautiful mauve flowers that the bees & butterflies adore but...
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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...
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Cucumber Mini Munch F1 is an ideal lunchbox snack when harvested at just 7cm (3in). The 8-10cm (3-4") fruits are mid-green in colour, smooth, firm and crisp with an exceptionally good taste and flavour. Sets well even in cooler conditions. Long cropping period. When growing cucumbers, harvest regularly to encourage,...
£2.99
Summer Savory Herb Seeds is a hardy annual that has slender pinnate leaves with small white flowers tinged with mauve. It has a slight peppery taste and is a useful alternative to sage or thyme. Summer Savory is a good companion plant next to Broad Beans as it is thought...
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Cucumber 'Marketmore' is an open-pollinated ridge cucumber that's a reliable and heavy-cropping cucumber producing a tasty harvest of dark green, cylindrical fruits from July onwards. It's the best variety to grow outdoors. Top tip:Once you see the tiny cucumbers on the plant, water with tomato food every week. The cucumber...
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