Suggestions of seeds I could plant now please

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I need a quick project for a community group.

What seeds could I plant now? Either in pots outside or on a windowsill. Something they can take home eventually.
I feel we have left it a bit late.

Tomato, sunflower, pea, bean. Squash/ courgette if you have the space.

Peas or beans. Poppies. Marigolds.
Bat-faced cuphea lanceolata I grew last year - lovely long lasting flowers that smelt of coconut and pineapple and rose. Very unusual and beautifully weird. Very beautiful. It is a Mexican annual so sown now would be a good time to plant. www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_417j_cuphea_lanceolata_purple_passion_seeds

Try bush tomatoes not vine as they can all grow in pots.

Try dwarf french beans, courgettes, peas all in pots.

Try a deep pot with sand mixed into the compost 50/50 for carrots, and try purple carrots not orange.

Sunflowers are always good but they need deep pots as the weight will tip it over and they have feisty roots.

Try kohl rabi again in pots, they are like spaceships on stilts.

Try mixing lettuces and sow into pots for cut and come again salads.

Hardy annual flowers outside in pots - just keep an eye that they don't dry out.

Cosmos would probably work, as would nasturtiums.

Nigella and cornflowers. I love blue flowers.
Derailing, but is it too late for larkspur and delphiniums, please, kind Gardners of MN?

Not too late at all.

Are you wanting flowers or veg?

Either way though nasturtiums are a good shout. Some people consider them weeds as they grow easily and in poor soils. They are difficult to get wrong, lots of flowers and both the flowers and leaves are edible. Lovely in salads.

Some good ideas. Thanks. We have done sunflowers before. Marigolds are a good idea.

I don’t mind if veg or flowers but it has to be something that can live in a pot as I think watering a pot may be all some can manage rather than planting on.

Delphiniums started now wouldn't flower till next year. But worth starting for then.

YY to cosmos. Mine are just peeping up.

Black eyed Susan? They are pot dwellers and very pretty if you make a small arch out of wire for them to grow round.

I’d advise against Cosmos from seed. They grow like triffids before finally flowering at the end of summer.
I get mine as small plants from garden centre now.

Lavatera are quick growers with nice fat visible seedlings and pretty flowers.

I think watering a pot may be all some can manage rather than planting on.

Not being funny, I taught horticulture to SEN teens and adults for 8 years and you'd be surprised what people can do. If you sowed all the above that I said into pots, they would all grow on and all you have to get them to do is thin them out.

Zinnia, sweet peas, nasturtium, sunflower
Peas, rocket, tomato, runner beans