What to grow now that spring is finally here

March is a great month to get sowing and growing a plethora of wonderful plants for your garden. Here’s some inspiration if you want to buy seeds online:

Flowers:

• ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Amaranthus sends out velvety red spikes of flowerlets that stay in bloom for most of the summer. Use these to add fountains of colour wherever you sow.
• Calendula Lemon Zest gives wonderful light yellow flowers, and better yet, the flowers can be eaten! They’re tough plants too, so you can be sure that they’ll be brightening up your border whatever weather we have for the rest of spring.
• Sunflower Total Eclipse is Seeds by Post’s collection of deep red and buttery white sunflowers. The two types together contrast wonderfully.

Vegetables:

• Try planting courgette zucchini this month. It’s a variety with pale to dark green stripes, which make it pleasing enough to look at, and it has a good flavour too.
• March is also the month for Redhead broccoli. You may know how healthy cruciferous vegetables are, and this variety is more vigorous than other kinds of purple brassicas.
• You can also plant little gem lettuces this month. In every pack we sell, there’s five metres of seeds, which will give you a big crop of crunchy, succulent leaves.

Herbs:

• Thyme is easy to grow and is delicious when paired with hearty meat. Plant it now, and plan a venison dinner.
• Moss curled parsley can be planted now. It’s an old folk remedy for bad breath, and is often paired with garlic to prevent halitosis that may come from delicious Mediterranean food.
• Basil lemon gives a lovely zesty flavour to food. Try burning some on a BBQ to give the meat a smoky lemon character.

Buy seeds online from us at Seeds by Post, and you can get these excellent plants at very reasonable prices. We stock a great range. What’s more by using top quality seed companies, you can look forward to seeing spectacular results in your gardens this year. March is an excellent time to buy seeds online.

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