What to Sow in January

Beetroot Bull's Blood microgreens are very tasty little shoots that add the perfect finishing touch to salads, soups, sandwiches and many other meals with their slightly earthy beetroot flavour and fabulous red coloured leaves. How to grow Beetroot Microgreen Seeds: Beetroot is best grown as a Microgreen: Plant 2-3 teaspoons...

It's fascinating to think that many of the vegetable varieties we grow today are over 100 years old and have stood the test of time for flavour and reliability. Heritage (Heirloom) vegetable seeds are growing in popularity and a topic of much debate as to what a 'heritage' variety is....

Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Chilli) Chilli Seeds was previously the Guinness Book of Records official worlds hottest Chilli with a Scoville Rating of 1,001,304 from 2007-2011 until it lost it's crown to Trinidad Scorpion 'Butch T'. Bhut Jolokia is Native to Central America and grown as a vegetable, Capsicum chinense is a...

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...

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...

Cress Plain has all the attributes of the curled variety but a slightly stronger flavour with different leaf formations to give variation and texture to a salad. It is a dual-purpose type that can be grown indoors on your window sill or, broadcast directly into your soil outside. Cress Plain...

Lemon Drop Chilli Pepper sometimes known as Aji Lemon or Hot Lemon is a Aji type pepper with vivid yellow shiny wrinkled pods. Lemon Drop Chilli Seed pods are about 7cm long by 1-2cm and have a lovely citrusy flavour with a hot Scoville heat rating of between 30,000 -...

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...

Cayenne Red, also known as de Cayenne, is a very productive chilli pepper and matures from green to red with a medium heat. Cayenne Red is a very productive chilli pepper. The peppers are long & thin (12cm long by 1.5cm) and mature from green to red with a medium...

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...

Red Cabbage microgreen seeds produce bright red leaves with a light, mild, sweet cabbage taste. They are ready to harvest in 6 days and add a bit of extravagance to a salad and elegance to a piece of fish etc. Red Cabbage can be grown as both a microgreen and...

Ring of Fire is very useful everyday chilli that is very productive, producing long thin cayenne type pods that are 1cm wide by 6-7cm long. It's chilli peppers mature from dark green to red and measure 70,000-85,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU's). Ring of Fire is a Capsicum annuum which is...

Naga Morich is closely related to Bhut Jolokia and originates from North East India and Bangledesh. It has the common name of Serpent Chilli this is so appropriate as it is one extremely hot chilli pepper with a real venomous bite reaching up to 1,000,000-1,500,000 SHU. Naga Morich chilli peppers...

Red Trinidad Scorpion chilli pepper is one serious chilli with more than a just sting in its tail - it's an explosion! It is a bumpy shaped red chilli and a number of the pods develop a 'tail' hence the name of 'scorpion'. Red Trinidad Scorpion is Native to Central America...

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...

Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons is also sometimes listed as 'Merville de Quatre Saison' as it originates from France. It is an easy to grow heritage variety (1885) that can be harvested nearly all year round. Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons produces medium/large butterhead type lettuces with deep crimson outer...

Tomato Sweet Aperitif this UK bred tomato produces large quantities of red, shiny cherry sized tomatoes with thin skins. The tomatoes are sweet and tangy and set to rival Tomato Sungold F1 in sweet taste tests. Perfect for using fresh in salads or cooked on the vine. Tomato Sweet Aperitif...

Corn salad is also known as Lambs Lettuce or Mache. It's low growing with small thick dark green leaves that have a delicate nutty flavour. The leaves make a useful addition to a mixed winter salad. Corn salad prefers cool moist conditions and is easy to sow from mid-August to...

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...