What to Sow in January

Aubergine Matti is a disease-resistant Matti Gulla variety. It is very productive and easy to grow. Matti is a village in Karnataka, India famous for this type of aubergine/eggplant. The Matti plant produces small round green-skinned fruits with white stripes that grow to 5cm in diameter. Aubergine Matti is used...

Sweet Pepper Patio Sweety Pie is a compact and vigorous growing plant, producing 25-30 fruits per plant, making it an ideal variety for growing in containers. It produces firm thick-walled fruit leading to a crisp and crunchy mini pepper. This makes for a great introduction to peppers for children. To...

Tomato Sungold is our highly recommended variety. It has the sweetest & delicious small orangey/yellow fruit that are suitable to eat raw or cooked. It looks delightful on a plate especially when mixed with other fresh red tomatoes and is easy to grow.  Tomato Sungold produces a heavy crop that...

Aubergine Moneymaker F1 is an excellent all-rounder producing a crop of about 8 large (about 100g) purple, shiny delicious fruits that don't have a bitter taste that some varieties do. It is an early maturing aubergine. Aubergines can be grown outside in very sheltered sunny sites next to a south...

Gusto Green is a very attractive medium/hot Chilli plant with pods that mature at the green stage, unlike its Purple cousin. Gusto Green is a Capsicum annuum which is a species of the plant genus Capsicum native to southern North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. This species is...

Tomato 'Burpee's Super Sauce' is the world's largest sauce tomato...each fruit can weigh up to 500gr and measures up to 12cm in length!  Super Sauce produces litres of luscious, seedless sauce from a single plant harvest. Easy-to-grow, indeterminate, disease-free plants yield a summer-long supply of the exquisitely-flavoured arinara sauce, plus...

Tomato Buffalosteak F1 AGM produces extra-large juicy tomatoes which can grow up to 500gm each. This variety is ideal for slicing or stuffing. It has intensely good colour and an excellent meaty type flavour. Tomato Buffalosteak fruits have a delicate, sweet flavour that’s delicious sliced into sandwiches and burgers. The fruits...

Aubergine 'White Sausage' is an eye-catching variety producing good yields of slender, creamy-white fruits about 20cm long with thin skins and firm flesh. Early to mature, compact plants which are especially well-suited to growing in pots in the greenhouse. Shows good disease resistance. Height: 75cm. Spread: 60cm. Aubergines can be...

Leek Below Zero is a British bred leek that combines the vigour of an F1 Hybrid with extreme cold tolerance to produce superb quality leeks that can withstand the harshest of weathers. Below Zero produces pure white stems with dark leaves that stand well over a long period without bolting. This...

Tomato Romello F1 is the first hybrid  bred expecially for patio/container growing. It produces grape sized fruit that are blight tolerant. It is a determinate type producing abundant yields of tasty, high quality, bright red, grape-sized fruits. It is a vigorous variety with a compact, uniform trailing habit that can...

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...

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...

Chenzo Chilli Pepper is an unusual compact plant (55 high by 50cm wide) that produces lots & lots of 5-6 cm long jet black chillies. It branches arch into a neat dome and the fruits hang like jewels below the bushy foliage. Chenzo Chilli Pepper is a Capsicum annuum which...

Hot Thai chilli peppers originate from Thailand and are very productive plants. They produce up to 200 small pods that measure about 2cm long by 1cm wide and have a hot Scoville rating of between 50-70,000. Hot Thai Chilli Pepper is a Capsicum annuum which is a species of the...

Tomato Crimson Crush F1 is legendary for its resistance to blight. Crimson Crush will provide great yields of exceptionally fine tasting, large, round tomatoes (each weighing up to 200g). Bred for outdoor growing. Tomato Crimson Crush F1 has been bred to be resistant to Late blight, Early Blight and fruit...

Tomato Lizzano F1 is the most blight tolerant variety available. It is a semi-determinate type producing abundant yields of tasty, high quality, bright red, baby cherry-sized fruits. It is a vigorous variety with a compact, uniform trailing habit. Tomato Lizzano trusses hang down all sides of a container or hanging...

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...