What can I sow in May?

Yellow, strong-growing, pointed carrot 'Sonnenmöhre' Gelbe Gochsheimer has high yield potential. Very healthy foliage and a long storage capacity. Aromatic flavour.

Gesche is a round beetroot variety with a smooth skin and dark red interior. Leaves of medium vigour and fine leaf nodes on the root. Homogenous and well set roots. The variety can be harvested by hand or with the harvesting machine. Stores very wel...

Bird's Eye or Biird's Eye Gilia is a wild, delicate beauty with a sweet scent of chocolate. The finely structured summer flower has delicate, violet trumpet-like flowers with dark eyes. A second flowering is possible if cut back. Effective in wild fl...

This Kultursaat-selection Glatter Silber 3 is a classic swiss chard with broad silvery white stems and dark green leaf. Robust, tall growing variety with good yields. With protection can also be overwintered. A particularly bolt resistant selection. ...

Clarkia, Farewell to Spring or Godetia is a member of the willowherb family. The striking flowers ranging in colour from white to pink through to a vibrant purple are reminiscent of azaleas. For sun or half shade. The much appreciated and lasting sum...

Bright orange-yellow turnip Golden Ball has a rapid maturity time. Bolt-restistant, therefore good for early outdoor cultivation. Long harvest season, good storage quality. Healthy, strong foliage. Pleasant, relatively sweet flavour.

Golden Bantam is an old variety (around since 1902). It is a medium sweet variety of sweet corn. The cobs are of very good quality if harvested when milk ripe. The conversion of sugar to starch proceeds more rapidly after being picked than with the e...

Golden Gate is a sturdy pole bean with broad, gleaming yellow pods. Well-spaced growing habit making it easy to harvest. Long harvesting period with regular yields. Resistant to Bean Yellow Mozaic Virus (BYMV). An intense, very good bean aroma. ...

Ornamental summer flower with btight yellow and orange flowers. After flowering the seeds become a myriad of tiny parasols - almost like a new flowering, white with coloured starlets. Makes a good edging plant along pathways and fences but also in a ...

Granat is a quick growing yet good storing variety of red cabbage. Stores well till Christmas. Well ribbed healthy leaves. Produces good yields even in areas with a shorter growing season. Good uniform and easily cleaned heads.

Green Hokkaido is a green, trailing Hokkaido variety. Notable for its specially fine flavour and its long storage capacity. It should be marketed in succession to Red Kuri. Dark green skin, fruit flesh yellow to orange. Particularly delicate flavour,...

Green in Snow is a green Chinese leaves plant with serrated leaves and a sharp mustard-like taste. Rapid regrowth, healthy. Very frost-hardy and bolt resistant.

Early Edamame-Soybean Green Shell has particularly large beans. Can be grown on warm sheltered sites as far as northern Germany. Rich pod colour, fine well-rounded flavour, good yield. Should be harvested when still soft as with dwarf beans. Growing ...

Großblättrige Kresse is heavy cropping and keeps longer than ordinary cress after its cut, hence an ideal cutting variety for growing in soil. Larger plants make good addition to oriental salad mix. Very frost-hardy.

Haferwurz is an old almost forgotten root vegetable. Cultivation and marketing as for salsify. Sweet aromatic flavour. In England it is known as Vegetable Oyster. Very decorative, purple flowers in the second year.

Curly kale Halbhoher grüner Krauser is a traditional variety with a medium level of frost resistance and a good potential yield. For harvesting until January. Dark green, wrinkled, medium sized leaves. Outstanding flavour.

Parsley root Halblange forms a medium long, smooth and skittle shaped root. Produces a high yield and is comparatively easy to harvest. The plain leaves can be used like ordinary parsley. Has an intermediate level of resistance to downey mildew, henc...

Halblange Weiße is a very uniform and well formed wedge shaped parsnips root with tall growing, strong and healthy leaves. Creamy white in colour, very high yielding variety.

Medium early, broad podded, green pole bean Helda is suited to both greenhouse and open ground. Strong and reliable with a long season.

Helios is a vigorous and robust yellow French bean with slightly curved pods. Pod length 16-18 cm. Early and productive, black seeds. Good flavour.

Hirschhornwegerich is a rosette forming salad plant 20-30 cm high. Its early growth is slow, later vigorous and very healthy with very high yields. Repeated cutting possible, very frost hardy. Transplanting recommended. Perfect for adding to Baby Lea...

Salsify Hoffmanns Schwarze Pfahl is a thick, firm fleshed and tender root. Deep, loose soil free of stones is important to achieve high quality. Stump rooted with virtually no forking. Fine black brown surface colour.

Hokkai Green is a Japanese Edamame variety with particularly attractive pods and large beans. Grown like Green Shell and ready for picking about 1 week later. Good yield potential. Healthy and stable plants with compact growth. Fine, well rounded fla...

An old cottage garden biennial plant. The flower stems grow from a rosette of leaves and can reach 200 cm in height. Cut back in winter. It is ideal for planting along walls and fences or towards the back of a flower border. Althea rosa typically ger...