What to Sow in February

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,...

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...

Sweet Pepper Golden Summer Mix is a selection of hybrids for even better greenhouse and garden performance. Sweet Pepper Golden Summer Mix consists of a vibrant mix of yellow, orange, red, and green fruiting blocky pepper varieties. To ensure a good crop, it is best to sow with heat early and...

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Tomato Gigantomo (AGM), as the name suggests, this gigantic tomato is an outstanding beefsteak type. The large fruits can weigh more than 1kg each, but big does not mean tasteless because Gigantomo has a superb texture and excellent flavour.  This colossal beefsteak tomato, supposedly the largest variety in the world,...

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...

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...

Scotch Bonnet Red is one of the best known and popular chillies and certainly rates as our top seller. It gets its name from the Scottish 'tam o' shanter' hat it resembles. Scotch Bonnet Red is Native to Central America and grown as a vegetable, Capsicum chinense is a tropical herb...

  Biquinho Chilli Peppers originate from Brazil and are pronounced 'bee-kee-nyo' which means 'little beak' and refers to the small pointed protrusion from the pepper. Biquinho Chilli Peppers are Native to Central America and grown as a vegetable, Capsicum chinense is a tropical herb that is 70-80 cm tall. C....

Carrots are one of the best tasting veg to pick fresh from your garden. Carrot Early Nantes 2 will not disappoint as it has a lovely sweet flavour with very little core and is a blunt end variety that can reach a length of 15cm. It is a 2nd early/maincrop...

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...

This trendy Wasabi Rocket actually has the punchy flavour of Wasabi - a Japanese vegetable much like horseradish. Real Wasabi is a root veg that is very difficult to grow in the UK climate so this little leaf helps fill a gap and companies like Wagamama use it to flavour...

Alfalfa, Arabic for 'father of all foods' which is very appropriate as it is packed full of lots of different vitamins & nutrients. Alfalfa is a bean sprout and looks a little bit like Cress. It's great for adding a crunch to salads and is mild in flavour. Best eaten...

This little chilli is one of the hottest in the world at around 425,000 Scoville units and it's lantern-shaped chillies matures from green to chocolate brown. Habanero Chocolate is Native to Central America and grown as a vegetable, Capsicum chinense is a tropical herb that is 70-80 cm tall. C. chinense...

Malabar Red Spinach, also known as Malabar or Ceylon spinach, is not actually spinach at all, but the leaves do resemble it and can be eaten as such. It is actually a climbing vine native to tropical Asia and has highly nutritious, fleshy, succulent leaves against wonderfully dark red/purple stems,...

Cauliflower Snowball is described as an early cauliflower, Snowball is in fact far more versatile than that and can be used for spring, summer, autumn and winter production. A dwarf compact plant that can be set closer than other cauliflowers.First bred in America in the 1890s there probably still isn't a...

Tomato Rosella produces unusual cherry sized fruits have rosy-pink skins with flecks of orange and dark green shoulders. The tomatoes are almost seedless with a sweet taste of rich summer fruits, slightly tart with a tangy finish. Tomato Rosella is a cordon variety that is very heavy cropping and comes...

Chilli Pepper 'Basket of Fire' F1 looks as stunning as its name implies. It produces up to 200 chillies per plant and they mature in a rainbow of colours from dark purple, through to yellow, orange and finally red. Basket of Fire is a Capsicum annuum which is a species...