Sowing forecast for May

The vigorous autumn variety Smaragd is a savoy variety with medium to dark emerald green, strongly crinkled surrounding leaves. Firm round to oval shaped heads, medium sized inner stem. Good and delicate flavour.

A single-coloured, low growing snapdragon with wonderful, dark red velvety blossoms and dark green leaves. It lasts many years in protected situations. This summer flower is a much loved cut flower and provides a good mass effect with its pure colour...

A tall mixture of this delicately fragrant, well-loved cottage garden plant in many vibrant colours! Snapdragons are relatively slug resistant and in protected areas can last many years. It is ready for cutting when 3 to 5 flowers on the lower part o...

Solara is a productive, healthy courgette with glowing yellow fruits. Short barrel-shaped fruits with a yellow-green neck. The plants do not branch and display a strong and open growth making the harvest of courgettes easy. Yellow spots on the leaves...

Conical carrot Soletta has violet outer skin and a playful range of yellow, orange and violet tones inside. A somewhat broader and courser crown but with a uniformity of form. Fast development (ca. 100 days). Do not sow too early, since violet carrot...

Solor is a trailing, orange coloured, thick fleshed Hokkaido squash with uniform shape. Very good storage quality. Sow between 10,000-12,000 seeds/ha. Solor is somewhat darker and smaller in comparison to Red Kuri.

Solvita is a vigorous carrot with a high potential yield for processing. A long truncated root type with a conical shape. Rapid early growth and very healthy, strong leaves. Strongly aromatic and sweet carrot taste.

This jolly, colourful flower mixture of long-lasting flowers, consists of mainly low-growing annuals. The seeds should be sown thinly. The mixture includes: Clarkia, Californian Poppy, Godetia, Dwarf Convolvulus, Toadflax, Love-in-the-Mist.

Variety Sora is a firm fleshed, crimson radish with a beautiful, round shape, medium long leaved. Sora remains crisp and tender for a long time even when it grows bigger. The best rooty taste.

Visually appealing mix of the Asian lettuces Mizuna, Red Giant, Moutarde Rouge Metis and Green in Snow. This mix is ideal for one to two harvests.

A pretty, tall growing Strawflower mixture whose warm, sunny colours range from orange, yellow, white, pink, salmon through to violet. A traditional dry flower that makes a colourful and long-lasting show in the sunny flower border. Ready to cut as s...

Sturon is a second early, round, yellow-brown skinned variety for both food and set production. High yielder and good keeper.

The variety Stuttgarter Riesen is an early to second early, flattened globe shaped, yellow onion with very good keeping qualities and fine flavour. Also a good variety from which to produce onion sets.

Sugrano is a vigorous tall sweet corn. Cob size is similar to Tramunt. SH2 type with an intense sweetness and well rounded flavour. Around 100 days to maturity. Recommended alternative for sweet corn Mezdi (medium) [G457], which has been discontinue...

The annual summer savory Saturn has a height up to 50 cm. Tall growing, direct sowing possible, harvest just before flowering. A second crop from a July sowing also possible. Also available as seed discs.

Small seeded, rapid growing green manure and protein rich fodder plant. Strong weed suppression with its large amount of green mass, strong root penetration, good soil structure, high level of nitrogen fixing. Not winter hardy. Sowing depth: 2-5 cm....

Good green manure plant with a large green mass, can also be used as fresh fodder or as silage. Can be left standing over winter as cover for helpful beneficial organism. Can be sown till the end of August. To produce flowers it should be sown by the...

Small flowered, dark yellow sunflower with a brown centre. Flower diameter approximately 10 cm. The plants grow up to one metre high, branch out and produce many flowers. Long and very upright side shoots and lasts well in a vase. Ideal for cut flowe...

Strongly branching variety producing many bright yellow flowers with dark centres in late summer. Regular cutting for the vase will encourage more flowers. This sunflower with its many small flowers (diameter around 10 cm) as also a valuable bee plan...

Long flowering, branching and notably homogenous sunflower with a warm orange yellow colour. Diameter of flowers approximately 15 cm. The very firm stems result in a high yield of long lasting cut flowers. The long picking season make them an attract...

Develops undivided strong stems that grow to a length of 150 cm. The flowers are like golden yellow suns some 25cm in diameter with large dark centres. Particularly harmonious flower form. Very attractive as a single cut flower in a large vase which ...

This extraordinary and colourful sunflower is rich in contrast with its lemon yellow petals and black centres. The branching, half-tall plants need full sun and a rich soil. Ideal for cut flower growers.

An unusual sunflower with expressive, velvet red-brown colour, an eye catching plant bfor the cottage garden. The diameter of the flowers reach 20 cm. Rich soil and plenty of water are needed for strong plants. Ideal for cut flower growers.

Sunflower 'La Torre' has more than one stem, a branching habit and grows up to two metres high. The flowers tend to be small, around 15 cm in diameter and appear in pale yellow, yellow and red tones. It is an excellent cut flower. Sunflowers need ric...