APRIL SOWING GUIDE

APRIL SOWING GUIDE - LOTS !

Artichokes & cardoon

Aubergine

Asparagus Pea

Baby Leaf varieties including Molokhia                                                           

Remember to check your packets for more details & be prepared to protect during unpredictable weather!

Beetroot

Beans: Broad Beans, French Beans & Runner Beans

Broccoli & Broccoli Raab

Brussel Sprouts

Cabbages

Calabrese

Cape Gooseberry

Carrots

Cauliflowers

Celeriac

Celery

Celtuce

Chicory

Chillies

Collards

Corn salad

Courgette

Cress

Cucamelon

Cucumbers

Endive

Florence Fennel

Kale & Seakale                                                  

Some vegetables will need to be sown with protection: use cloches, a cold frame, a polytunnel or unheated greenhouses – you may well need fleece to cover on the cold nights for extra protection.

Kohl Rabi

Leaf Beet

Leeks

Lettuce

Luffa (loofah)

Malabar, Mibuna, Mitsuba & Minutina

Marrows

Melon (& watermelon)

Mustard Leaf

Namenia, Okahijiki & Okra

Onions

Orach

Pak Choi

Parsley

Parsnip

Peas

Pepper

Pumpkin

Purslane                                                                          

Wait until later in April before starting Runner Beans, Courgettes, Cucumbers, Marrows, Sweet Corn and Tomatoes (none will be happy if caught by a late frost so keep them protected)

Radish

Rhubarb

Rocket

Salsify & Scozonera

Spinach

Spring Onions

Squash

Strawberries

Swede                                                                       

Some will need to be sown in the warmth – we don’t use propagators ourselves, but we do sow indoors and fill up many of our windowsills!

Sweetcorn

Texel Greens

Tomatillo & Tomatoes

Turnips

April’s guide for sowing herbs

Anise

Basil

Bergamot

Borage

Burdock

Celery Leaf

Chamomiles

Chervil

Chives & Garlic Chives

Coriander

Cumin

Dill

Fennel & Fenugreek

Hyssop

Ice Plant

Lemon Balm & Lemon Grass

liquorice

Lovage

Marjorams

Pot Marigold

Marshmallow

Mints

Oregano

Rosemary

Sage

Salad Burnet

Savory

Sorrels

Strawberry Sticks

Stridolo

Tarragon, Mexican & Russian

Thyme

Welsh Onions

April’s guide for sowing flowers

Achillea

Ageratum

Alchemilla

Ammi Majus

Antirrhinum

Aquilegia

Aster

Bells Of Ireland

Bupleurum

Calendula

Candytuft

Canterbury Bells

Catananche

Chrysanthemum

Cleome

Corn Flower

Cosmos

Dahlia

Delphinium

Dianthus

Didiscus

Echinops

Eschscholtzia (Californian Poppy)

Evening Primrose

Foxglove

Gaillardia

Gypsophila

Hollyhock (Black Single)

Larkspur

Limnanthes (Poached Egg plant)

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Malope

Malva

Marigold

Meadowsweet

Nasturtium

Nigella

Ox-Eye Daisy

Papaver – fab poppies

Rudbeckia

Scabiosa

Stocks, Night Scented

Sunflowers (Helianthus)

Sweet Peas

Tagetes

Zinnia

Flower Mixes: Summer Picking, Bee & Butterfly, Boost and Speedy Summer, Multicoloured Carpet and the fabulous Shady Place Blooms