OCTOBER SOWING GUIDE

 

October Sowing Guide

A busy October awaits you with plenty of sowing varieties.  Our guide below gives you about 130 fabulous choices to be growing this month – more information is on the back of every packet.

 

Baby Leaf – Astra, Red Carpet, Red Ruble, Red Wizard, Sangria the  four fab mixes and Serge for pea shoots

Beetroot – Detroit Globe & Lutz

Broad Beans to overwinter – Aquadulce Claudia, Masterpiece Green Longpod & Sutton Dwarf

Calabrese – Stomboli F1

Cauliflower – All Year Round, Atalaya, Orkney & Snowball

Chicory – Pain de Sucre

Corn Salad – D’Orlanda, Grote Noord Hollandse, Verte de Cambrai & Vit

Cress – American Land Cress, Common, Fine Curled, Varigated Land Cress and Water Cress (running water not needed)

Endive – Cornet de Bordeaux, Panaclieri & Romanesca Da Taglio

Kale – Scarlet

Leaf Beet – Erbette

Lettuce – Apache, Arctic King, Barba dei Frati, Black Seeded Simpson, Bountiful Blend, Dark Roden, Green Oakleaf, Ice Queen, Marvel of Four Seasons, Red Grenoble, Red Oakleaf, Roxy, Wintercrop

Parsley – Bravour, Extra Triple Curled, French Plain Leaf & Laura

Pea – Avola & Douce Provance

Purslane – last month for sowing the summer mix!

Radish – Malaga Violet

Rocket – Esmee, Giove, Rucola Coltivata, Uber, Voyager & Wild

Spinach – Banjo, Clarinet, Giant Winter, Harp, Matador, Medania, Renegade & Trombone

Spring Onions – Eiffel, Entita, Parade, Tipika, White Lisbon & Winter Hardy White Lisbon

Strawberries – Alexandria, Baron Von Solemacher & Regina

Texel Greens

Turnips – Goldana & Snowball

 

Oriental Choices:

Mibuna

Minutina

Mitsuba Mashimori

Mizuna – Kyoto, Red Empire & Red Streaks

Mustard Leaves – Golden Streaks, Green In Snow, Osaka Purple & Wasabina

Namenia

Orach Scarlet Emperor

Pak Choi – Green Revolution & Yuushou

Shungiku

 

Herbs – Caraway, Coriander Filtro, Marsh Mallow, Mountain Mint, Sweet Cicely & Wild Garlic

Flowers – Foxglove, Honesty, Limnanthes & Malva, Nigella Delft Blue, Orlaya, Papaver Maanzaad, Stocks Miracle Mix, lots of lovely Sweet Pea choices and the Shady Places flower mix of 28 varieties

Green Manure – Comfrey