Leeks, Sprouts & Parsnips.

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.