What to Sow in September

Pak Choi Red Choi F1 is a colourful purple/red leaved variety with bright green stems that looks as attractive in the garden as on a dinner plate. It is easy to grow, slow to bolt and quick to crop, a tasty little leaf with a mild cabbage flavour. Pak choi...

Red Cabbage microgreen seeds produce bright red leaves with a light, mild, sweet cabbage taste. They are ready to harvest in 6 days and add a bit of extravagance to a salad and elegance to a piece of fish etc. Red Cabbage can be grown as both a microgreen and...

Kale 'Red Ruble' has been specially bred for the salad leaf market and makes a quick growing colourful tasty salad leaf with its' wine-red serrated foliage. Although it can be grown to mature leaf size it is not as suited to large leaf production as it loses its intense colour...

Mizuna is a quick growing oriental leaf that has a sweet, mild mustardy taste that gets stronger as the wide serrated (similar to rocket) leaves mature. The baby-leaves can be used raw in salads or the larger leaves can be added last minute to stir-fries. It is increasing in popularity...

Rosemary makes a fantastic garden herb, it is a perennial evergreen that has needle like pungent aroma with pretty pale blue flowers that attract bees & beneficial insects. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is great grown as an herb in the veg patch or in the garden borders. Rosemary eventually grows to...

Our Vegetable Seed Allotment Pack offers a comprehensive range of 20 seed varieties covering all the essentials and a few 'unusuals' for you to grow throughout the year. New to growing your own? Just got your first allotment? Or just need some help deciding on what to grow? Then our...

An unusual mixture containing the usual bright orange but with various unusual shades of yellows, cream and apricot with chocolate coloured centres. Calendula Art Shades Mixed (also known as English or Pot Marigold) reach a height of 45cm and the large frilled flowers will add great interest to a vase...

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) has lovely fluffy plumes of soft green leaves and produces large flat umbels of yellow star like flowers, followed by edible seeds. It is a very attractive plant that looks fantastic in the garden borders as well as the veg plot and is great for beneficial insects...

Sage Herb Seeds. Sage 'Salvia officinalis' has the best & strongest flavour of all types of sage. It is a hardy evergreen perennial that can be picked all through the year. Sage 'Salvia offinalis' grows to a height & spread of 60cm and has soft, oval grey-green leaves, with mauve-blue...

Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons is also sometimes listed as 'Merville de Quatre Saison' as it originates from France. It is an easy to grow heritage variety (1885) that can be harvested nearly all year round. Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons produces medium/large butterhead type lettuces with deep crimson outer...

Lettuce Winter density is a compact semi-cos variety. It has dark green hearts with crisps leaves with a very sweet flavour. It has excellent winter hardiness and should be sown outside in September to crop the following March to April. It is also suitable for sowing March to July for...

Corn salad is also known as Lambs Lettuce or Mache. It's low growing with small thick dark green leaves that have a delicate nutty flavour. The leaves make a useful addition to a mixed winter salad. Corn salad prefers cool moist conditions and is easy to sow from mid-August to...

Oregano is the common name for Common Oregano or Wild Marjoram, and in fact all Marjorams are from the genus Origanum. Common Oregano has sweet aromatic oval leaves which have a better flavour when used dried than fresh. Oregano produces beautiful mauve flowers that the bees & butterflies adore but...

Turnips have become a very fashionable vegetable served as a baby-veg by top class chefs in their restaurants and on TV programmes like Masterchef where dinner plates are dressed to impress. Turnip Tokyo Cross makes an ideal variety to grow at home with its round white roots, smooth skin and...

Rocket Voyager has thin, serrated dark green leaves that are not only very similar in appearance to wild rocket but also has the distinctive hot peppery flavour. Rocket Voyager is very fast and easy to grow. It can be ready to pick in 25-30 days for young baby leaf production...

The flowers in the old English country meadow wildflower mix are yellow, purple and white with a hint of red - it's a wildflower mix reminiscent of the old English country meadow. The mix contains a range of seeds that are suitable for most open sunny sites. This mixtures contains...

Salad/Spring Onion microgreens are a great way to grow flavourful thin green shoots that pack an oniony punch and make a lovely decorative garnish to top off dishes from soup to fish or chicken to canapes. LESS THAN HALF PRICE - LIMITED TIME OFFER!  Pack Size Std Price SPECIAL PRICE 100gr...

Pea Carouby de Maussanne is a very attractive large mangetout pea that has flowers so pretty they could be grown in the garden borders! Pea Carouby de Maussanne is a tall variety (75cm) that produces bicoloured deep pink/mauve flowers followed by large flat pods that grow in pairs. The pods...

Fenugreek Sprouting Seeds have quite a strong 'curryish' taste and it is better to use a little at a time. They are also a great aid for digestion. Fenugreek or "methi", is one of the most popular and widespread ingredients in India. Domesticated and harvested for more than 6,000 years,...