What to Sow in March

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...

Kale Midnight Sun is a stunning variety with deep red textured leaf with a striking pink mid vein that will turn a meal into a work of art! Kale Midnight Sun is very versatile as it is the best variety for use as a baby kale leaf and also works...

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...

Sweet Pepper Golden Summer Mix is a selection of hybrids for even better greenhouse and garden performance. Sweet Pepper Golden Summer Mix consists of a vibrant mix of yellow, orange, red, and green fruiting blocky pepper varieties. To ensure a good crop, it is best to sow with heat early and...

Purple Sprouting Broccoli Early is an early variety that produces rich purple spears of excellent quality. It can crop from November from early under cover sowings until May the following year, from late sowings. A great one for your Christmas dinner. Extremely hardy and a prolific grower reaching 90cm height...

Cucumber Bush Champion is a real winner for those with either small spaces or growing in containers and raised beds. Bush Champion produces an abundance of 20cm cucumbers from about a third of the normal space that a traditional cucumber plant takes up. It has a crisp outer skin with...

Brussels Sprout Evesham Special is a very old English Heritage variety that produces reliable early season crops (October to March). It produces lots of medium sized, sweet & crunchy sprouts that don't have a bitter taste. Brussels sprouts Evesham Special is a medium-tall but sturdy plant and has been bred...

Cabbage Greyhound is an old English Heritage favourite and the earliest pointed cabbage for early spring sowing and harvesting during summer and early autumn. Produces firm hearts of excellent flavour Cabbage Greyhound is a flavoursome cabbage that has little core and very few wasted outer leaves. Plants are more narrow in...

Tomato Gigantomo (AGM), as the name suggests, this gigantic tomato is an outstanding beefsteak type. The large fruits can weigh more than 1kg each, but big does not mean tasteless because Gigantomo has a superb texture and excellent flavour.  This colossal beefsteak tomato, supposedly the largest variety in the world,...

Tomato Consuelo F1 is an exceptional tomato with large cherry-sized fruit weighing 15-20 grams and with the most delicious sweet flavour. Clusters of 25-30 fruit are borne on long trusses and each plant can yield up to 150 tasty, bite-sized tomatoes. Trials in Northern Europe have found that it has...

Tomato Shirley produces medium sized red fruits that have a firm skin with a gorgeous sweet taste. Tomatoes are grown on short joints. One of our favourites for our greenhouse production and has good disease resistance. It is a cordon variety that requires 'pinching out' & 'topping off' but crops...

Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia is a reliable 'old favourite' variety with gardeners and highly rated with the RHS who gave it a well earned AGM in 1995 and reconfirmed its status in 2011 trials for its performance & high yields. Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia produces glossy plump bean pods that...

Tomato Gardeners Delight is a classic old favourite that is widely recommended & we can certainly vouch for its excellent taste & high yields. It is a heritage variety that pre-dates 1950. It gives a large crop of smaller red tomatoes that are very sweet & full of home grown...

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...

Carrot Eskimo is one of the tastiest vegetables to pick fresh from your garden in the depths of winter as it has excellent frost tolerance. Not too surprising given its name, but you will able to harvest from November through to January, affording a nice grow your own treat for...

Armageddon F1 Chilli Pepper is another contender for one of the hottest chillies in the world at 1.3m Scoville Units! It is a UK bred hybrid which makes the plants more vigorous, easier to grow, earlier to pick and much higher yielding and uniform than older varieties such as the...

Calabrese 'Green Magic' F1 is a lovely dark green, very smooth, with tightly packed heads, this variety has a great flavour - harvest the head first, then enjoy the delicious tender side shoots. A very early maturing variety. Sow in the spring for harvest throughout the summer. Shows good resistance...

Tomato 'Golden Sunrise' is a cordon variety, producing the most beautiful golden yellow fruits which are considered by many to be the best flavoured tomatoes there are...a tomato the colour of sunshine that will make you smile every time you see it. Early maturing and prolific, the fruits themselves are...

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...