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grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Josie Lewis: 12 outstanding seeds to sow in March for containers and cutting gardens - Episode 266

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Cook, Arranging, Home, Flower Arranging, Grow, Arrangements, Kitchen, Vegetables, Flowers, Gardener, Veg Garden, Lifestyle, Gardening, Leisure, Home & Garden, Food, Cooking, Arts, Eating, Eat, Growing, Planting, Produce, Garden, Sarah Raven

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Seeds sown in March are the great givers of colour and fragrance in a cutting garden or container, from spring right through to autumn. This week, Sarah is joined by Josie Lewis to walk through 12 of the most trusted plants to sow now, how to fill your beds, pots and vases, and feed the birds from a single month’s sowing. In this episode, discover: Practical techniques for handling both big and dust-fine seeds, including when to sow in trays and when to direct sowSpecific tips for making the ...

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly

0:06.3

beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,

0:12.9

lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden

0:19.8

and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of

0:23.1

garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today

0:29.4

to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook-E-Torange, the podcast of me and a frequent guest, Josie Lewis, who's a head gardener at Purchill. Welcome, Josie.

0:50.2

Rorney. Hello.

0:51.4

It's a pretty, pretty Drish morning, I would say, good Scottish word.

0:55.4

Very, yes, yeah.

0:56.8

But we're going to do a couple of episodes, one this month and one next month, so one for March and one for April,

1:05.3

on really the sort of behind the scenes goings on for propagating really, mainly for the Cutting Garden with my

1:14.4

new book out this spring, but not only. And so we thought Josie would be the best person to lead

1:21.7

on that. Rebecca Cocker, who's actually our propagator, is not here today, but Josie and her work very closely together

1:28.9

and I work very closely with both of them. So we're going to just give you any sort of tips and

1:34.1

tricks of the things that we're sewing now, how to do it, to succeed and just chat away.

1:40.4

And then again, we're going to do the same in April about moving them on.

1:47.1

You know, so what we do at the next stage, how we prick things out,

1:52.2

a sort of bit on plant physiology a little bit, what we're sowing later,

1:55.2

so sort of mid-April onwards, that kind of thing.

1:58.9

So, Josie, do you want to kick off?

2:05.7

Should we start with our list and as we go through, just give the tips that we think are particularly relevant to.

2:10.1

These are kind of 12 favourite plants for sewing in March?

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