Crop Finder - Crops to Sow in: January
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Crop
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Family
Agrimony
A refreshing tea can be made from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and stems. A yellow dye is made from the roots. The plant does not mind some sha...
Blackberry
The Blackberry will grow almost anywhere in temperate climates. It thrives in most soils except those with poor drainage. The fruit is produced ove...
Blackcurrant
Fruit can be 10mm or more in diameter. They can be eaten raw but are more often cooked. The dried leaves are a tea substitute and are sometimes added...
Blue Bread Seed Poppy
The edible seeds are produced within the characteristic heads - they are ripe when the heads are dry (brown). Used to add a nutty flavour in bread an...
Chilli Peppers
Large range of different varieties available - not all are scorching hot either. Quite easy to grow but need heat¬ good light and a long growing seas...
Clary
Tolerant of most soil types, but needs full sun and will struggle in wet winter soils. Leaves are used as a flavouring in cooked foods, similar to sa...
Cloudberry
A low creeping perennial related to the blackberry. The ripe fruits are golden-yellow, soft and juicy, and are rich in vitamin C. When eaten fresh, c...
Costmary
Fresh leaves can be used sparingly in salads and cooking. Dried leaves used to make tea. Used before hops to flavour beer. Tolerant of soil types, it...
Elecampane
Grown more for medicinal purposes, this hardy perennial is most often grown from root sections from which it easily establishes new plants. Sow in sp...
Garlic
Love the taste of this pungent bulb! Quite hardy, needs a long growing season. Grow from the cloves planted in late autum. Some varieties can be plan...
Herb Patience
This very useful perennial can produce fresh greens as early as February in a mild winter/spring. The large leaves are picked and eaten like spinach....
Liquorice
Grown for its flavoursome roots, the plants can take 3 seasons to mature. Generally tolerant, but production of large roots requires deep, well culti...
Red and Whitecurrants
Red currants are slightly more sour in taste than Blackcurrants and used more in cooking, jams, etc than eaten raw. Fruit can be 10mm or more in diam...
Rhubarb
Large, crisp, juicy stalks are produced from plants that are regularly fed with a mulch of garden compost or well rotted manure. Plant out the crowns...
White horehound
Leaves used to flavour herb beer (Horehound ale) or liqueurs. A cough remedy tea is made from the fresh/dried leaves (it might be the large amounts o...
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