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...
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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Onion Shallot 'Matador' F1 is a an excellent variety that produces reddish brown bulbs with good flavour. It is a high yielding variety which has a high dry matter content that aids storage. Shallots grown from seed have the advantage of producing large single bulbs rather than bunches of smaller...
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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...
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Onion Red Baron is an excellent red onion that doesn't easily bolt and stores well. It is a semi-globe type with deep crimson skin colour and has a nice crisp texture. Red Baron onion has a milder onion flavour than it's white cousin and has concentric rings of red &...
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Onion 'Toughball' F1 is the best over winter Japanese type onion from seed. It is a high yielding, medium early variety, producing good quality, globe shaped bulbs. Toughball has good tolerance of Botrytis and Downy Mildew - essential for overwintered onions. Recommended as a fine, fast growing variety ideal for...
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Salad Bunching/Onion Ramrod is a distinct salad onion that has proved itself in the marketplace. Very versatile, being used for both spring and autumn production. Ramrod is winter hardy, making it a good variety for drilling in the autumn. The plants have long white stems, green tops and a mild, sweet...
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Onion Bedfordshire Champion is the vegetable growers onion of choice. This heavy cropping variety has retained its popularity for over a hundred years and produces large globe-shaped, golden brown skinned bulbs with crisp white flesh and a mild flavour. This reliable onion is well suited to the UK climate with...
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