What to Sow in March

Radish French Breakfast is an easy to grow and quick to crop veg that can pep up your salad (the leaves can be used in salads too!) It is a long oval type with white tips that have a flavour of medium intensity. Radishes don't need much space and are...

Mustard (Sinapsis Alba) is fast-growing green manure that can be sown from March to September. It has a growing period of 1-2 months and can reach 60-90cm tall. This half-hardy annual grows on most soil types but particularly likes fertile ones. It may require additional watering in dry periods especially...

Greek Basil has small oval green leaves with a slightly softer sweeter flavour than the more traditional Basil Sweet Genovese. It is easy to grow and will keep producing new fresh leaves if regularly picked through the season. It is such a useful culinary herb for the kitchen. Greek Basil...

The Flyaway Carrot is one of the best tasting vegetables to pick fresh from your garden. This variety has some resistance to the dreaded carrot-fly, but sow seed thinly to reduce the need for thinning as carrot-fly are attracted by the sweet smell. It is considered good companion planting to...

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...

Lettuce All Year Round is a butterhead lettuce with lovely compact crisp hearts. As the name suggests, it can be sown all year round - Autumn sown ones will need to be sown under cover but will be ready to harvest in the spring. Can be sown March-August and excellent...

Pak Choi Red Choi F1 is a colourful purple/red leaved variety with bright green stems that looks as attractive in the garden as on a dinner plate. It is easy to grow, slow to bolt and quick to crop, a tasty little leaf with a mild cabbage flavour. Pak choi...

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...

Mizuna is a quick growing oriental leaf that has a sweet, mild mustardy taste that gets stronger as the wide serrated (similar to rocket) leaves mature. The baby-leaves can be used raw in salads or the larger leaves can be added last minute to stir-fries. It is increasing in popularity...

Chervil has light green, fine fern-like leaves with the taste of somewhere between light aniseed & Parsley. It is considered to be one of the unsung heroes of many a dish because it enhances the flavour of other herbs in a meal. Chervil is used extensively in France where it...

Landcress also known as American Land Cress is a quick to crop salad type leaf that only takes between 7-8 weeks to begin cropping. It has a similar peppery flavour to watercress and is often used as a substitute for watercress in recipes but it is much easier to grow....

Rosemary makes a fantastic garden herb, it is a perennial evergreen that has needle like pungent aroma with pretty pale blue flowers that attract bees & beneficial insects. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is great grown as an herb in the veg patch or in the garden borders. Rosemary eventually grows to...

Salad/Spring Onion microgreens are a great way to grow flavourful thin green shoots that pack an oniony punch and make a lovely decorative garnish to top off dishes from soup to fish or chicken to canapes. LESS THAN HALF PRICE - LIMITED TIME OFFER!  Pack Size Std Price SPECIAL PRICE 100gr...

Lettuce Lollo Rossa is a very attractive continental red lettuce with crisp frilly leaves. It adds colour and vibrancy to the salad bowl and also looks great in the garden or in a pot on the patio. Lettuce Lollo Rossa is a loose heart type that can be harvested as...

Lettuce Green Salad Bowl is a loose-leaf open hearted variety (lots of individual leaves) with light green frilled leaves. It grows to a height of 15cm and as its name suggests it looks great and is well suited to growing in a container. Lettuce Green Salad Bowl should be picked...

Produces big, bold & brash plate sized daisy like yellow flowers with rich brown centres that grow quickly & easily. Giant Yellow Sunflowers are a real treat for wildlife as the birds will feast off the seed heads in autumn. Produces big, bold & brash plate sized (30cm across) daisy...

Lettuce Winter density is a compact semi-cos variety. It has dark green hearts with crisps leaves with a very sweet flavour. It has excellent winter hardiness and should be sown outside in September to crop the following March to April. It is also suitable for sowing March to July for...

Pea Shiraz has very pretty bi-coloured pink and purple flowers followed by striking dark purple flat mangetout pods, this plant wouldn't go amiss in the ornamental garden it looks so good! The pods that have a sweet delicious pea taste and the crisp crunch so associated with home grown freshly...

Fenugreek Sprouting Seeds have quite a strong 'curryish' taste and it is better to use a little at a time. They are also a great aid for digestion. Fenugreek or "methi", is one of the most popular and widespread ingredients in India. Domesticated and harvested for more than 6,000 years,...

The Pond Edge & Wetland Wildflower Seed Mix meadow seed mix contains 17 varieties that are suitable and can thrive in and around the pond edge and/or wetland areas. Once established, from year 2 onwards, the aim is to have different species of height, colour, and appearance from May through to...