MAY SOWING GUIDE - LOTS !
Baby Leaves (lots of them!)
Beetroot
Beans (it is the last sowing month for Broad Beans)
Broccoli & Broccoli Raab
Brussels Sprouts (last sowing month for most varieties)
Cabbages (summer, autumn and winter)
Calabrese
Cape Gooseberry
Carrots
Cauliflowers
Celeriac (Del Veneto)
Celtuce
Chicory
Chinese Amaranth, Chinese Broccoli & Chinese Cabbage
Chillies (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Collards
Corn Salad
Courgette (last sowing month for most varieties)
Cress including watercress
Cucamelon
Cucumber (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Endive
Florence Fennel (last sowing month for some varieties)
Kale & Seakale (last sowing month for some varieties)
Kohl Rabi
Komatsuna
Leaf Beet
Leek (last sowing month for many varieties)
Lettuce
Marrow
Melon & watermelon (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Malabar
Mibuna
Minutina
Mitsuba
Mizuna
Mustard Leaf
Namenia
Okahijiki
Okra (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Orache
Onions (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Pak Choi
Parsley
Parsnips (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Peas
Pumpkins (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Purslane
Radish
Rocket
Runner Beans
Salsify and Scozonera (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Shungiku
Spinach & New Zealand Spinach
Spring Onions
Squash (last sowing month, don’t miss out)
Strawberries
Swede
Sweetcorn
Texel Greens
and you can still sow tomatoes!
Turnips
Green Manures
May’s guide for sowing herbs
Anise
Basil
Bergamot
Borage
Burdock
Caraway
Celery Leaf
Chamomiles
Chervil
Chives & Garlic Chives
Coriander
Cumin
Dill
Fenugreek
Good King Henry
Hyssop
Iceplant
Lemon Balm
Lemon Grass
Liquorice
Lovage
Marjoram
Pot Marigold
Marshmallow
Mints
Oregano
Perilla
Rosemary
Sage
Salad Burnet
Savory
Sorrel
Stridolo
Sweet Cicely
Tarragon
Welsh Onion
May’s guide for sowing flowers
Achillea
Acrolinium
Agastache
Agrostemma
Alchemilla
Ammi Majus
Antirrhinum
Aquilegia
Bells Of Ireland
Bupleurum
Catanache
Cerinthe
Cosmos
Delphinium
Didiscus
Echinacea
Eschscholtzia (Californian Poppy)
Foxglove
Hollyhock (Black Single)
Love-Lies-Bleeding
Malope
Malva
Meadowsweet
Nasturtium
Nigella (Delft Blue)
Obendient Plant (Physostegia)
Ox-Eye Daisy
Papaver
Scabiosa
Stocks (night scented)
Sweet Rocket
Sweet William
Zinnia
And the simply fabulous Flower Mixes