What to Sow in March

The flowers are highly scented and are a mix of single colours from white to lavender, pink to red & cream. Sweet Pea Galaxy Mixed are floriferous annuals that can keep flowering from late Spring until the first Autumn frosts and with a little bit of care, feeding and regularly...

Garlic Wild Ramsoms is a British native perennial herb, wild relative of Chives. It can be found on the banks of streams and in shaded wooded areas. Carpeting the ground with white flowers and their strong garlic fragrance. Broad spear shaped leaves and most attractive white flower heads composed of tiny...

Holy Basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum or Ocimum sanctum) also called tulsi. This basil with green to purple leaves (the hotter the summer, the deeper the purple) and purple stems that exudes a delicious, sweet, clove-like aroma. It contains high levels of the essential oil eugenol and it has been used in...

Herb Hyssop Blue is a hardy, evergreen perennial herb with aromatic flowers and foliage. This herb plant is the perfect addition to containers or pots, creating a stunning display of blue and purple. A great herb for attracting pollinators to your garden, bees love this variety. Herb Hyssop Blue is...

Kale Emerald ice is an exceptionally fine flavoured variety that has the best eating quality of all the kales. The textured ruffled leaves of Kale Emerald Ice develop a striking contrasting white centre as they mature and have the sweetest flavour - even the leaf stalks taste like candy and hold...

Mustard Red Giant, also known as Japanese Red Mustard, is a traditional mustard with broad, blistered leaves highlighted in red. Left to grow, the leaves become big and bold and are a tasty addition to stir fries. They are also ideal for salads when harvested at a smaller, and more tender,...

Mustard Red Frills is a red mustard variety which looks good with its serrated red leaves and a mild fiery mustard flavour.You can sow these oriental red mustards little and often and eat them as mini micro greens, or let them grow on a few centimetres in leaf size and use...

Phacelia Tanacetifolia is a quick growing hardy annual green manure that germinates at low temperatures and is ideal for sowing from March until September. It will grow up to 1m in height and is tolerant of cold temperatures and may over-winter if it's not too cold. It suits most soil...

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...

Peppermint has attractive, fragrant dark green serrated leaves and produces little mauve flowers. It has a strong flavour so use sparingly, great in puddings, chocolate mousse and tea infusions. It is best to remove the flowers as soon as they appear as they will reduce leaf production. Peppermint grows to...

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...

Parsley Plain Leaf Herb is also known as French Parsley and has serrated fine leaves that are generally regarded to have a slightly better flavour and texture than curly parsley. It is the one that the continentals grow and use and is the 'true Parsley variety'. Parsley is one of...