MARCH SOWING GUIDE

MARCH SOWING GUIDE

MARCH SOWING GUIDE - with LOTS of choices of FLOWERS, HERBS and VEGETABLES

Artichokes and Cardoon – tasty and dramatic

Asparagus – amazing perennial cropping

Aubergines

Baby Leaf varieties ­– 16 choices

Beetroot – a dozen delicious choices and a collection

Broad Beans and Peas

Broccoli Raab

Brussels Sprouts & Flower Sprout

Cabbages - summer and autumn cropping choices

Calabrese – varieties for summer & autumn

Cape Gooseberry

Carrots - 20 varieties

Cauliflowers

Celeriac & Celery

Chicory - Pain De Sucre

Chilli: even the names are delicious - Biquinho Red, Bishops Crown, Cayenna, Midas, Onza, Orzoco… and more

Collard – Morris Heading

Corn salad

Courgette - Midnight F1

Cress & Land Cress

Endive

Florence Fennel - Zefa Fino

Kales: Black Magic, Cottagers, Emerald Ice, Kapral, Midnight Sun, Red Russian & Scarlet

Kohl Rabi: Early White Vienna, Korfu & Quickstar

Leaf Beet including Perpetual Spinach

Leeks – lots of lovely varieties!

Lettuce – 37 choices

Melons & Water Melon

Okra

Onions

Parsley

Peppers

Radishes – 10 choices

Rocket – from mild to the spicy Wasabi

Salsify

Spinach – lots of spring choices

Spring Onions – more than a dozen can be sown in March

Strawberries

Sweetcorn Ambrosia & Golden Phoemix

Swede

Texel Greens and Tomatillo

Tomatoes – don’t miss Toms for Cooler Climes

Turnips

Winter Purslane

 

Early oriental choices include Chinese Amaranth, Chinese Broccoli & Chinese Cabbage Rubicon, Malabar, Minutina, Mitsuba, Mizuna Red Empire, Mustard Leaves, Namenia, Orach, Pak Choi & Shungiku.

 

Green manure – comfrey, clover, field mustard & phacelia

 

March guide for sowing herbs

Basil

Borage

Celery Leaf

Chamomile

Chervil

Chives & Garlic Chives

Coriander

Cumin

Dill

Fennel & Fenugreek

Good King Henry

Hyssop

Ice Plant

Lemon Balm & Lemon Grass

Lovage

Pot Marjoram & Sweet Marjoram

Pot Marigold

Marshmallow

Mint in variety

Oregano

Sage

Salad Burnet

Savory & Sorrels

Strawberry Sticks

Stridolo

Sweet Cicely

Tarragon – Mexican and Russian

Thyme in variety

Welsh Onions

March guide for sowing flowers

Achillea

Agastache

Ageratum

Alchemilla

Ammi Majus

Antirrhinum

Aster

Bells Of Ireland

Calendulas (4 choices)

Candytuft

Canterbury Bells

Carnation

Catananche

Cerinthe

Chrysanthemum

Cleome

Corn Flowers (4 choices)

Cosmos (6 choices)

Dahlia (4 choices)

Delphinium

Dianthus

Didiscus

Eryngium

Evening Primrose

Foxglove

Gaillardia (including a bloomin colourful mix)

Gypsophila

Larkspur Frosted Skies

Limnanthes (poached egg plant)

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Malope

Malva

Marigolds (5 choices)

Meadowsweet

Nasturtium (5 choices)

Nigella Delft Blue

Ox-Eye Daisy

Papaver (poppies)

Penstemon

Rudbeckia

Scabiosa

Stocks (Night Scented)

Sunflowers (Helianthus – 9 choices))

Sweet Peas (lots and lots of these)

Tagetes

Verbena

Zinnia

AND some fabulous Flower Mixes!!