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    Sowing suggestions - January

    This is going to be a month by month sowing thread. Please post what you are sowing each month, along with any good tips. (no discussions whether it is a good plan or not please ) Hopefully this will help new gardeners get to grips with succesional sowing too.
    The thread will be cleared each month with the sowing tips posted in the Growing Techniques Forum.
    One good resource is the RHS veg growing calender Veg calendar | Royal Horticultural Society.
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    I will get us started. When the perma frost lets up I am going to sow some leeks in modules in an unheated greenhouse.
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    • #3
      This month I am mainly sowing onions, a couple of early tomatoes and a few chillies and sweet peppers.

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      • #4
        Early leeks in modules in unheated greenhouse.
        A few toms.
        Early parsnips direct into ground towards the end of the month (I am just that little bit further south than most of you)
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        • #5
          Banana shallots are on my January list

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            I did the onions on Boxing Day but I've just sown leeks, some early toms, chillies, caulis and a few herbs for indoors.
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            • #7
              Still got some Garlic to sow that didnt get into the ground on the longest day due to the snow. Will be sowing some leeks in my unheated conservatory in a week or so.

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                I've sown some onion seeds (ok, and a couple of chillies!)
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                • #9
                  Onion & Toms are in the greenhouse (geminated). Chillis & Cauli are on kitchen paper in conservatory & Leeks are in poly bag in compost (awaiting germination).Trial & error on different gemination methods.
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                  • #10
                    I have sown many chilli's and will soon be sowing tomatoes. I have found a bulb of garlic that is sprouting either shoots or roots, but I'm waiting for advice on how best to plant it and which way up

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                    • #11
                      onion seeds and in modules in the propogator - ONLY till they germinate, then they are out and into the unheated GH;
                      sowed cauli today into seed tray with compost/vermiculite mix - in slightly warm conservatory;
                      same for alpine strawberry seeds (kindly given by a fellow grape);
                      sowed 9 sweetpeas into toilet roll tubes on windowsill of same slightly warm conservatory...

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                      • #12
                        Deffo chillies,may sow some sweet peppers(don't know yet)

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                        • #13
                          Got onions sown in loo rolls in kitchen until germinated then to conservatory then to greenhouse.
                          Broad beans in loo rolls in greenhouse.
                          Borage in pots in greenhouse.
                          Still got chillies to sow.
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                            Will be sowing some chillies, aubergines and onions at the weekend (probably) by which time the potting compost I've brought in from the shed may have defrosted!), some sweet peppers at the end of the month and some an experiment with some early summer caulis, cabbages and peas which will be grown under cover. Oh yes and some alpine strawberries.

                            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                            • #15
                              I've also bought my seed potatoes; I would usually wait but the ones I wanted were not being stocked [so I thought] so I bit the butler and ordered them last week and picked them up yesterday.

                              I'm going to chit only a few; to get them started and leave the rest. This will hopefully mean an earlier harvest for the chitted ones but main crops don't need chitting so why take up good space with them?

                              The potatoes I'm growing are Kestrel and Amorosa. The Kestrels give good little earlies so I'm chitting about 12 of those only.

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