This celery is easy to grow and will last until the first frosts. It needs a little bit of warmth to germinate and is also unusual in that it needs light to germinate so don't cover the seed. Here you can see the seed sprinkled over the top of the compost. The white bits are perlite, added to keep the compost open and less prone to waterlogging.
Here is the next batch of seeds to be sown which include: Lettuce Little Gem, Cabbage Golden Acre, Celery Tendercrisp, Kale Black Tuscany, Onion Long Red Florence, Broccoli Di Cicco, Dill and Basil.
For many varieties, you won't need to sow the whole packet of seed all at once and you can either sow a later batch (for example to keep a supply of lettuces through the summer) or keep some back for next year. All the cabbage family seed will last for a few years if stored in a cool dry place. This won't work for seeds like leeks, onions, carrots, parsnips or beetroot though which need fresh seed each year. Unless you have a large vegetable plot for example you won't need more than a dozen cabbage plants - and a pinch of seed as seen below should be adequate while allowing for some wastage.
Please remember that the celery, basil and dill really need some warmth to get started so if you don't have somehwere suitable to sart them off now, wait another week or two before sowing them as we can still get some very cold nights.
These winter vegetables all need to be started off sooner rather than later - but they take up quite a lot of your vegetable patch for a long period of time. The leeks and sprouts are germinating indoors in small pots for transplanting out later, but parsnips will need to be sown direct in shallow drills in the ground. Once the soil is dry enough and has warmed up a little, get the parsnip seed in.
If you are short on space though, don't even think about sprouts!
Here are Brussels Sprout Evesham Special, Leek Neptune and Leek Bulgarian Long coming through. One of the best parsnip varieties for growing at home is Tender & True - you will discover that true parsnip flavour that is lost in supermarket parsnips.