What to Sow in May

Rocket microgreen is perhaps the most popular salad green in the world! Equally the most popular ingredient in salad mixes. The same mild peppery taste can now be enjoyed in microgreen format. Rocket microgreen taste intensifies the smaller that you harvest the plants, with taller plants being milder.  Rocket is...

Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum), also known as Garbanzo or Chana, are one of the most nutritious and protein-rich seeds. Chickpeas are also the easiest seed to sprout and are a great way to start sprouting for anyone wanting to try for the first time, taking only a few days before you...

Lentil Green Microgreens are one of the most popular microgreens, certainly one of our favourites too! Lentils come in many colours but this particular variety is light green in colour and as it sprouts it reveals inside its light yellow colouring. Lentils are fun and easy to grow, both as...

Mustard White microgreens have a wonderful spicy warm flavour, some say it tastes like a mild version of horseradish. Mustard is a very quick growing crop and can be ready to harvest in as little as 7 days.  White Mustard is a rich source of Kaempferol and Apigenin, plant compounds...

Amaranth Red Army (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 microgreen, babyleaf or up to mature leaf size. Interesting facts...Aztec tribes consumed Amaranth for 80% of their diet!Amaranth...

Radish Sango microgreens have the most amazing deep red/purple leaves that will liven up any plate. They are rich in vitamins and are suitable for sprouts or microgreens. Radish shoots have a slightly spicy flavour and will be ready to eat in 2-3 days for shoots and 7 days for...

Radish Daikon microgreens have beautiful white stems and deliciously light green leaves. Unlike other radishes, Daikon is less spicy and has a sweet and light peppery taste. They are rich in vitamins and are suitable for sprouts or microgreens.   Radish shoots have a slightly spicy flavour and will be...

Swiss Chard Bright Lights microgreen brings a rainbow of colours onto the plate, with a light spinach flavour.  Please note that Swiss Chard can only be grown as a microgreen. Not suitable for sprouting. How to grow Swiss Chard Bright Lights Microgreen Seeds: Equipment3 x Growing traysGrowing mediumRocket Wild Seeds Culture...

The Sow Hot Chill Seed Collection contains 12-star performers that have been carefully selected for intense heat and flavour...be warned...when the lowest Scoville rating is a mere 100,000 and the highest is one of the world record holders at 1.5m, you know that you are in for some really hot...

Wheatgrass contains an abundance of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The seeds germinate rapidly into beautiful greens that can be juiced or used to enhance the flavour of your favourite salad. Wheatgrass contains 20 amino acids, several hundred different enzymes not found in other foods and as many as 92...

Malabar Red Spinach, also known as Malabar or Ceylon spinach, is not actually spinach at all, but the leaves do resemble it and can be eaten as such. It is actually a climbing vine native to tropical Asia and has highly nutritious, fleshy, succulent leaves against wonderfully dark red/purple stems,...

Cauliflower Snowball is described as an early cauliflower, Snowball is in fact far more versatile than that and can be used for spring, summer, autumn and winter production. A dwarf compact plant that can be set closer than other cauliflowers.First bred in America in the 1890s there probably still isn't a...

Pink Kale, also known as Red Kohlrabi, tastes like mild sweet red cabbage, some would say also has a milder turnip flavour too, but the taste is more round than red cabbage sprouts. Pink kale sprouts are cultivated from pink cabbage, which is a sister of red kale/cabbage. Pink Kale...

Red Clover microgreens are a lovely light green and have a fresh, mild sweetness. They’re very similar to alfalfa sprouts, but with plump, crunchy cotyledons. Also unlike alfalfa sprouts, they don’t hang onto their seed hulls, which means less work for you! In fact, these microgreens are hardly any work...

Garlic Chives/Chinese Leek is one of the most gourmet crops in the world of microgreens. A crop of Garlic Chives looks like a bunch of miniature scallions - or perhaps miniature chives are more correct in this case. Either way - they are visually stunning and they have a mild...

The Sow Salad Bowl Collection Box is designed to provide a wealth of colour, flavour and texture to your summer salad. This collection box offers a wide variety of traditional salad leaves as well as some more unusual types. In addition to leaves, the collection also includes other salad essentials...

Sow Tomatoes has been curated to appeal to the real tomato lover...it has been designed to offer a broad appeal of sizes, colours, and tastes. You will find some absolute classics in the range as well as some more unusual and new varieties. In addition to Tomatoes, the collection also...

Catnip (Nepeta caparia), also known as Catmint is a hardy perennial herb, Lemon-scented, it makes a most refreshing tisane or tea which was drunk far more before tea arrived from China.It grows to a height of 3 to 4 feet and has featherlike, light green foliage and small clusters of...

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...