Farming Veggies at Home
Grow what you eat
Thirty vegetable varieties chosen for a British growing year, in one box with degradable pots, bamboo markers and a pair of gloves. Or buy the varieties you want more of, one packet at a time.
SEPTEMBER · What to sow this month
Warm soil, shortening days. Sow what cuts, not what fruits.
Lettuce Mix outdoors while the soil is still warm, Giant Spinach in the first half of the month.
Sow nowAutumn and overwintering bagWhat genuinely goes in as the season closes: spinach, overwintering peas and salad under cover.
Sow nowLettuce MixCut-and-come-again leaves in four colours. The one crop on this list that will give you something to eat in January.
Sow nowGiant SpinachLarge-leaved spinach for spring and autumn sowings. Grows fastest in the cool weeks at either end of the season.
Buy by when you will sow it
Four bags, each one a subset of the box grouped by sowing window. Between £1.32 and £1.48 a variety instead of £1.75 — and you are not left holding seed for a month that has passed.
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Autumn and overwintering bag
Aug – Nov
£3.95 -
Early sowings bag
Under cover · Feb – Apr
£2.95 -
Spring beds bag
Mar – May
£5.50 -
Summer succession bag
Jun – Aug
£5.50
The whole year in one box
Seeded Box Kit · £12.99
Thirty varieties, six degradable pots, six bamboo markers, a pair of gloves and instructions worth reading. About 43p a variety — roughly a third of what the same thirty cost as single packets. We would rather say that plainly than hide it.
Growing guides
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Guide
What to sow this month
Twelve months, what goes in outdoors and what goes in under cover — including the months where the honest answer is nothing.
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Guide
Starting seeds under cover without a greenhouse
You do not need glass. You need light, and that is the part most people get wrong.
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Guide
Growing veg in containers and window boxes
Depth decides almost everything. Leaves need very little, roots need a lot.
Ask the assistant
It knows the catalogue, the guides and your order
Not a search box with a chat window bolted on. It reads the sowing data on every product, the growing guides, what is in your basket, and — once you sign in as the demo customer — your orders. Try one of these.
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