Sage - Salvia officinalis
Culinary use:
Not only is sage a key ingredient in chicken or turkey stuffing, it's a good, useful herb in wintery stews and casseroles and is also good with a lot of pork dishes and pasta.
Cultivars and varieties:
Salvia 'Dyson's Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia 'Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia greggii 'Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia jamensis 'Hot Lips' [AGM] - An evergreen shrub, growing to a metre tall and a metre wide. Small scented leaves. The first flush of flowers are fully white or fully red, subsequent, later flowers are white and bright red. It will continue to flower until the first frosts.
Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' - The flowers are red early in the season, but appear white with red tips from early summer.
Seeds to sow now:
Indoor or in a heated greenhouse
Coriander
Cress
Forget-me-not
Ornamental pepper
Outside
Antwerp hollyhock, Fig-leaved hollyhock, Hollyhock
Aubretia, Rock cress, Aubrieta, Aubrietia
Basil
Beet, Beetroot, Chard
Beetroot
Beetroot, Garden beet
Borecole, Kale
Bristly hollyhock
Broccoli
Cabbage
Candytuft
Cardoon
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Cornflower
Delphinium
French bean, Fine bean
Italian beetroot, Beetroot, Garden beet
Kohl rabi
Love-in-a-mist
Marrow
Nasturtium
Normandy sorrel
Ornamental winter kale
Radish
Spinach
Spinach, Summer spinach
Spring onion
Sweet pea
Sweetcorn
Swiss chard, Ruby chard, Rhubard chard
Turnip
Other things to plant outside now:
Bare root roses
Outside under cover
Sweetcorn
