What to Sow in March

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Pea Meteor (First Early)(Pisum Sativum) is one of the earliest peas for harvesting. Ideal for growing in the garden and exposed areas, as an October - November sown crop. This superb first early, round seeded variety produces an abundance of small, but well-filled pods. A superb pea for your first...

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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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Lettuce Webbs Wonderful is an old favourite with gardeners as it is consistently a reliable performer. It is an 'Iceberg' (crisphead) type that has a large head with frilly edged leaves and a crisp tight centre. Lettuce Webbs Wonderful is very slow to bolt and so makes an excellent performer...

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Onion 'Ailsa Craig' is a maincrop onion, an old, tried, tested and favourite variety, suitable for spring or autumn sowing. This enduringly popular and well known variety makes a splendid choice for the show bench and is equally good in the kitchen. The quality, large, globe shaped bulbs have a...

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Perpetual Spinach is a great easy to grow 'cut & come again' productive little plant that is winter hardy. It is a beet leaf that tastes like spinach but doesn't bolt like spinach and produces the earliest fresh veg of the year. It can last for up to 2 years...

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Swiss Chard Bright Lights is a striking-looking plant with stems that vary in colour from red, pink, white, violet and golden yellow. It looks fantastic in the garden or in containers and on your dinner plate. I saw it at RHS Wisley where they had planted up a raised brick...

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Padron Chilli Peppers are the variety traditionally used in Spanish tapas. They are used whilst green & immature and are very mild, however, 1 in 10 may be hot - a game of chilli roulette!! Padron Chilli Pepper is a Capsicum annuum which is a species of the plant genus...

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Broad Bean The Sutton is a gardeners old favourite variety as it is reliable and produces plenty of pods filled with 5-6 lovely nutty-tasting white broad beans. It has very pretty flowers that are white with nearly black splodges on the centre lips. Broad Bean The Sutton is an excellent...

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Kale Red Russian is more tender to eat & has a sweeter flavour than the more traditional varieties of curly Kale. It has grey/green 'oak leaf' shaped frilly leaves with attractive purple veining, which get deeper in the cold. The young leaves are good for 'baby leaf' use in salads,...

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Cabbage Red Drumhead is an heritage variety dating back to 1860, that is and easy to grow dark burgundy red cabbage that is good looking, tasty and packed full of vitamins. It produces crisp, firm and crunchy hearts that are great raw, cooked or pickled with vinegar. A compact variety...

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Radish Cherry Belle 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 small globe type that is crisp, sweet & mild. Radishes don't need much space and are great used to intercrop...

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Tabasco chillies are used to make the famous Tabasco hot chilli sauce which has a dry smoky taste so useful for spicing up & adding flavour to food. Tabasco is a Capsicum frutescens which is a wild chilli pepper having genetic proximity to the cultivated pepper Capsicum sinense native to Central...

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Mustard Golden Streaks has fine feathery foliage with a mild peppery taste that will add flavour to any mixed salad. The seeds are easy and quick to germinate and leaves can be ready to eat in as little as 6 weeks. They can even be used at the seedling stage...