Cabbage (Spring)
April
This bolt-resistant cabbage can be sown in early spring for medium sized cabbages and spring greens or later in the season for larger cabbages ready in the summer.
Buy Cabbage (Spring) SeedsSo, summer's slowly drawing to a close, but we've specially picked some fast-growing varieties so that you can squeeze the very last out of the summer sun. It's also a good time to start thinking about sowing some spring vegetables.
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This bolt-resistant cabbage can be sown in early spring for medium sized cabbages and spring greens or later in the season for larger cabbages ready in the summer.
Buy Cabbage (Spring) SeedsHardy carrots such as Autumn King can still be sown for an early crop next spring. Autumn King give a reliable crop of large carrots which store well.
Buy Carrots SeedsA good variety of kale to plant at this stage of the season due to its excellent hardiness and will offering up its dark red veined leaves throughout winter.
Buy Kale SeedsThis very hardy lettuce can be sown all the way from early spring to autumn. It gives medium sized heads of lettuce with dense, crisp hearts.
Buy Lettuce SeedsThis fast-growing oriental green is ready to harvest as baby leaves in just 30 days or wait 45-70 days for full size heads.
Buy Pak Choi SeedsSecond cropping potatoes don't require chitting, so get them in the ground and soon as they arrive and they'll be ready for the plate by Christmas.
Buy Potato (Late Maincrop) SeedsThis great mixture of quick-growing salad seeds give you a great variety of texture, colours and flavours that will be ready just 25 days after sowing.
Buy Salad Leaves SeedsAn ideal variety for spring sowing due to its high resistance to mildew, this spinach will reliably produce a heavy crop of dark green, curvy leaves.
Buy Spinach SeedsAlways a favourite, this quick-growing salad onion can be sown regularly for continuous cropping all the way through spring, summer and autumn.
Buy Spring Onion SeedsA plant as decorative as it is versatile with bright coloured edible stems in yellow, orange, red, green and pink with spinach-like dark green leaves.
Buy Swiss Chard SeedsThis popular variety is perfect for harvesting as succulent, sweet baby turnips. The leaves can then also steamed as fresh greens.
Buy Turnip SeedsThis is a popular variety of garlic as it grows to generous proportions and its excellent keeping qualities, storing well into the new year.
Buy Garlic SeedsMushrooms are grown from spawns rather than seed, but it is available all year round and is surprisingly simple to grow.
Buy Mushrooms SeedsThese tasty and attractive ball-shaped radishes grow in a variety of colours - red, white, purple, gold or white and red. They can be eaten in just 28 days.
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