OCTOBER SOWING

Are you surprised that you can be sowing seeds this month?  This is just a taste of what is possible.  Six super varieties gathered together to help you to get the most from your autumn garden. Plenty of flavours to explore, with one packet each of…...

Corn Salad Verte de Cambrai – autumn sow with protection to enjoy the flavour of this small leaf traditional French variety, ideal in a mixed salad. (50 seeds)

Lettuce Wintercrop – sow this month to delight in homegrown butterhead lettuces through Christmas and into the new year.  Keep your cold-frame or unheated greenhouse occupied and productive (75 seeds)

Spinach Harp F1 – pointy leaves with a gentle serration, smooth and dark green.  Great flavour at all stages.  Chose to sow from October through to March, a true winter performer. (50 seeds)         

Spring Onion Eiffel – grab the last chance this year to enjoy sowing & growing this British bred variety.  It is cold tolerant, one of the best with distinctive upright leaves and smooth white stems ready for you into the winter. (50 seeds)

Pak Choi Prize Choi  – using cloches or a cold frame will allow you to enjoy flavourful & juicy stems in late November and December.  (50 seeds)

Pea Avola – this outstanding first early variety has excellent colour and flavour and is low growing to just 60cm.  A mid-autumn sowing will give you the earliest crop. (50 seeds)