What to Sow in March
Broad beans are a welcome crop in early summer, and can be sown outdoors in March. Beetroot is another crop that can be sown in lower temperatures in March. If you have a partially shaded area then Swiss Chard is a beautiful crop to sow now. You can also start to sow Lettuce indoors and enjoy tasty leaves for months to come.
Below is our full range of seeds, suitable for sowing in March...
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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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...
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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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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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Mmmm, not sure about the name but it is reputed to have 'no repeats.' Cucumber Burpless Tasty Green is a real winner in other ways it is an excellent variety to grow outdoors and is easy to grow. It has a crisp outer skin with a sweet juicy centre that...
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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,...
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Cucumber Lemon is an unusual round yellow cucumber. They are at their best when picked about golf to tennis ball size and are still a pale yellow colour. They are mild, fresh-tasting with crisp skin. They are easy to grow, although take a while to begin to fruit but once...
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