Growing guides

How to plant, water and harvest everything in your box.

  • Asian Greens

    Ready in 3–7 weeks

    A fast cool-season green with reddish-purple, spoon-shaped leaves and a mild mustard bite. Pick the outer...

  • Coriander

    Ready in 3–5 weeks

    Fast, fragrant and in a hurry to bolt. Coriander is ready to pick in three to...

  • Lettuce

    Ready in 3–12 weeks

  • Mesclun

    Ready in 3–5 weeks

    A whole salad from one planting. Mesclun is a mix of young leaves you cut and...

  • Radish

    Ready in 3–6 weeks

    The fastest thing in the garden means it's fun and easy to grow! Plant seedlings and...

  • Rocket

    Ready in 3–4 weeks

    Peppery, fast and hard to kill. Rocket goes from seedling to salad in about three weeks,...

  • Carrot

    Ready in 4–6 weeks

    Sweet baby carrots in about a month. Plant the seedlings straight and deep, keep them damp,...

  • Dill

    Ready in 5–6 weeks

    Feathery, aniseed-sharp and quick. Dill gives you something to pick in four to six weeks, and...

  • Spinach

    Ready in 5–8 weeks

    Dark, iron-rich leaves in five to eight weeks. Spinach likes it cool and bolts the moment...

  • Silverbeet

    Ready in 6–10 weeks

  • Endive

    Ready in 7–9 weeks

    The bitter one, and better for it. Endive makes a broad frilly head over six to...

  • Kale

    Ready in 8–11 weeks

    The toughest green in the box. Kale crops right through winter, and a frost makes it...

  • Cavolo Nero

    Ready in 8–10 weeks

    The dark crinkled Italian kale. Cavolo nero takes eight to ten weeks, stands through frost, and...

  • Broccoli

    Ready in 9–13 weeks

    Two harvests from one plant. Cut the central head at two to three months, leave the...

  • Beetroot

    Ready in 10–13 weeks

  • Broad bean

    Ready in 10–12 weeks

    Plant them now, pick them in spring. Broad beans shrug off the cold, feed the soil...

  • Strawberry

    Ready in 13–22 weeks

    Plant in winter, pick from late spring right through summer. Give the crowns room, mulch underneath,...