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!!