Anyone else getting twitchy?

[HeyWayne]

This weekend I actually managed to get into my shed - to get the seed trays (I was originally looking for my saved egg boxes, but either the mice, or LadyWayne got rid for me) so that I could start chitting my spuds that arrived on Friday.

Whilst in there I looked wistfully at my heated propagator and my windowsill propagators and started to get a little sweaty thinking I really should be planting some seeds by now surely!?

That siad, I recall last year having to throw some leggy seedlings away due to impatience.

I then went to water the onions, garlic and floral bulbs in the greenhouse to feel better.

[shirlthegirl43]

Well, we have lovely little autumn calabrese, summer sprouting broccoli, primo cabbage and cauliflower seedlings in the greenhouse so I don't have itchy fingers now. Must get some more stuff in for the successional planting soon - oh yes, and dig more garden so they can be planted out when they are ready!

[piskieinboots]

Anyone else getting twitchy? .

yep - darn shame I have no pots to sow into innit

[Nicos]

I'm getting really twitchy ...can't wait to get started now- we had a few warm sunny days- and I think that's set me off...and then it's drizzled and blowy cold winds again.
Darn!!!!

....best get back to the painting the iron bedhead ( makes a change from hacking down walls!!!!)

[Rhona]

Exactly the same! Just re-read my garden diary for the two previous years and I started early, then everything got leggy etc., and yet still I want to do the same now! Got some corn salad and leaves growing (slowly) so that's quite nice. They've survived all winter, outside, so quite pleased with the little fellas!

Going to scratch the itch with planning some raised beds for the allotment I think.

[zazen999]

Onions and lettuces keep my twitchy fingers occupied all winter. Plus the early toms and peppers of course.

Main sowing not for weeks yet. i put some celery in last week in the hope that it would take its usual month...and it has started coming up already.

Plus PW's Dwarf Bean pots and the pea top pots, which are taking up my kitchen windowsill...and keep me happy waiting for each bean to sprout.



Not long now though...

[lainey lou]

another twitcher down here! 'specially since I now have a greenhouse to play with.
Oh thinks I'm mad, keep getting my seeds out, just for a look!

[Flummery]

The mixed spicy salad leaves I sowed in November in the cold greenhouse won't be long before they are gracing a plate. Other things in the greenhouse haven't popped up yet but include my own breed F1 peas and two types of broad bean - all in root trainers or modules. Also onions - from seed and sets - in modules.

You've got to put SOMETHING in haven't you?

[SlugLobber]

VERY twitchy and very frustrated that I didn't have time to sow anything over the weekend. The lawn needs cutting, too!

I have read in more than one manual, though, that if you DO get leggy seedlings, just re-pot the seedling and bury the stem until it's 'normal' seedling height. Solves the problem, apparently (haven't tried it!).

Onions I'm glad to say were done in the Autumn and are going great guns, so at least I'm ok, there!

[Flummery]

VERY twitchy and very frustrated that I didn't have time to sow anything over the weekend. The lawn needs cutting, too!

I have read in more than one manual, though, that if you DO get leggy seedlings, just re-pot the seedling and bury the stem until it's 'normal' seedling height. Solves the problem, apparently (haven't tried it!).

Onions I'm glad to say were done in the Autumn and are going great guns, so at least I'm ok, there!

Wayhey! Mowed my (remining tiny bit of) grass at weekend!

Re-potting works with some seedlings - notably toms and peppers. However, some types are prone to rotting off.

[HayleyB]

Twitchy and fretting, I just know that as soon as I start sowing it'll get cold again, I so need this year to be a success.......

[Eyren]

*twitch, twitch*

Actually, I haven't the energy to twitch - I wore myself out at the weekend, what with shovelling free compost into sacks, weeding and digging a bean trench. This coming weekend I'll be focusing on the leafy veg, and maybe setting up my propagator so that I can just switch it on ready for sowing tomatoes, etc. in two weekends' time

[LizyDrippin]

I've got weeks to go before I can really start anything,

My garden seems to be a frost pocket can't guarantee frost free until end of May even with fleece

I started some cress though, that's taken the edge off the twitching, I can a difference every time I look at it, which is about every five minutes

[dexterdoglancashire]

[QUOTE=HeyWayne;382300]

I recall last year having to throw some leggy seedlings away due to impatience.

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So true, so true. Thats exactly what Ive done this year!

[miffy]

Very twitchy, i keep getting out my seeds packets and reading them over and over again like by just looking at them they will grow as it by magic! Hubbie is getting fed up of me talking about it, he is looking forward to me being locked in the greenhouse or up the lottie out of trouble!!