Home > Growing tips & recipes > Grow Buddies Subscription – November 2026 4 min read 29.09.2026 Grow Buddies Subscription – November 2026 Welcome to your November growing guide! Here’s what’s in your box: Microgreen Parsley Pea Shoots Lettuce Arcade Baby Leaf Your November growing challenge: Grow a salad on your windowsill. Microgreen Parsley Pea Shoots Sowing info Soak Parsley Pea seeds in water for 8–12 hours (up to 24 hours is fine, but not longer) to soften the shells and speed up germination. Spread the seeds densely across the surface of peat free compost or coir and cover with a thin 1-2 cm layer.Can also be grown on soil free microgreen mats. Growing info Keep the tray in a warm spot until germination, which usually takes 3-5 days. Once the shoots appear, move them to bright, indirect light. Microgreens are ready to harvest in 14 – 21 days, when 10-15 cm tall; snip just above the first leaves to encourage a second or even third cut. Blog – How to sow and grow microgreens Lettuce Arcade Baby Leaf Sowing info Surface sow onto moist compost and just cover. Lettuce will not germinate in hot weather, so do not supplement heat and avoid sowing in the hottest days of summer. Plant out after last frost. Growing info Heat tolerant and slow to bolt. When you harvest lettuce, you can just remove the lower, outer leaves to significantly extend your harvest period as the plant will continue to grow. Regular succession sowing will ensure a continuous crop. Blog – How to sow and grow lettuce Meet the author Nelly Nelly works in the She Grows Veg marketing department and is an incredible cook! She's learning how to grow veg fast in her very own container garden. Her favourites so far are the Dwarf Sunflower called 'Sunspot' and our Dwarf Pea called 'Tom Thumb'. Previous Leafcutter bees: what’s cutting circles out of your leaves? Next Get Growing Seed Subscription – November 2026
