What to Sow in March

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...

Pea Shoots microgreens produce delicious sweet-tasting, crunchy pea tips. Their twisted tendrils and leaf tips make a fabulous looking garnish to top off a dish like a Masterchef Pro. They are as easy to grow and can be grown all year round indoors or under glass. Pea Shoots can be...

Broccoli Calabrese seed is an excellent quality seed and produces a wonderfully large, juicy and peppery tasting sprout, with a good yield. Broccoli Calabrese has been shown to contain high levels of glucoraphanin, the precursor to sulforaphane. If you are looking to increase your sulforaphane consumption, this is the seed...

Spring/Salad Onion White Lisbon is an excellent salad onion that is relatively low maintenance and not only suited to overwintering producing early crops but good for successional spring/summer cropping too (sow at 3 weekly intervals). Salad Onion White Lisbon is very quick growing and produces the classic bulb type salad...

Caliente Mustard 199 is an excellent green manure that has biofumigant properties. (Biofumigation is the suppression of soil-borne pests & diseases by the release of naturally occurring gases). By combining the lush organic matter with the plants biofumigant properties the activity of beneficial soil microbes is increased, so they can...

Amaranth Red (also known as Calaloo, Rajgira, Lal Saag) have intense reddish leaves with cherry pink stems and has a slightly nutty flavour. It is very easy and quick to grow and can be eaten as a microgreen, babyleaf or up to mature leaf size. Interesting facts...Aztec tribes consumed Amaranth...

Pak Choi is an unusual all year round veg that is becoming ever more popular with its use in oriental stir-fries and salads, it has a mild cabbage flavour. Pak Choi Yuushou is a green leaved variety that is great for overwintering as well as for maincrop sowing. (Green stemmed...

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...

White Clover 'Barblanca' makes as excellent long-term green manure. It has good frost tolerance and once established can last from 2-5 years. White Clover makes a good weed suppressant as it produces a fair amount of foliage and is able to fix nitrogen. White Clover 'Barblanca' is a low growing...

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...

Spinach Medania has large mid to dark green leaves that are slightly blistered. The leaves measure about 17cm by 11cm wide when mature and taste mildly sweet & earthy but are juicy and tender. Spinach Medania produces lots of high quality leaves. It can be harvested young as micro leaves...

Lettuce Little Gem produces small, crisp & crunchy compact lettuces with dark green leaves that are considered to be the sweetest of all lettuces. Lettuce Little Gem is a quick maturing mini Cos type lettuce which can be sown in March/April to give an early crop in May/June or sown...

Beetroot Burpees Golden is an unusual beetroot in that the roots are orange/yellow in colour unlike normal red beetroot. It does not stain or bleed like the red ones and it goes a golden colour when cooked. Burpees Golden has a sweet flavour and good texture when picked at golf...

Florence Fennel Zefa Fino is a quick maturing fennel that produces very uniform bulbs of excellent quality. The bulbs are white of medium to large size and slightly flattened round shape. They have a lovely aniseed flavour, and the foliage can also be used as a garnish (harvest a few...

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....

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...

Winter Tares 'Vicia sativa', also known as 'Vetch' is a hardy annual that can be sown March-May or July-September for over-wintering. It is good at nitrogen-fixing and is extremely competitive against weed suppression, forming an aggressive canopy rapidly on heavier soils but avoid acid or dry soils and dig in...

The flowers in the 100% General Purpose Wildflower meadow seed mix are yellow, purple and white with a hint of red - it's a wildflower mix reminiscent of the traditional English country meadow. The mix contains a range of seeds that are suitable for most open sunny sites. This mixture...

Salad Rocket or Plain Rocket (Arugula) has long dark green serrated leaves and the usual peppery flavour associated with rocket. It is quick to crop and so easy to grow, just regularly pick fresh individual leaves as required to ensure new leaves continue to grow. There is no need for bags...