Seed Sowing thread 2019

[chillithyme]

Tomatoe orkado seeds, another variety added to my over the top tomatoe selection

[veggiechicken]

3 sorts of Courgette - Zucchini, All Green Bush and Black Beauty
Beth Alpha cucumbers
Trombas
6 types Climbing French beans - Hunter, Goldfield, Helda, Abundance, Purple Cascade and some ?Borlotti saved from last year

All in the propagator.

[chillithyme]

Marigold and Calendula outside

[Gillykat]

Saturday 20th

Up early to allotment to sow seeds (already 25c in greenhouse!!!)

Tray of Verbena bonariensis

4 x Winter Squash ' Waltham Butternut'

4 x Squash 'Uchiki kuri'

3 x 'Julie's Squash ~ a mystery variety which my penpal sent me (she couldn't remember name either ) She grows it on her allotment and says it's tasty so I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes

Would have sown more but ran out of seed compost!

Finished off sieving soil onto asparagus bed.

Left after 2.5hrs with shades of red on arms and face Greenhouse said it was 36c in there!!!

[Chippy Minton]

3 types of carrot - Flyaway, Nigel and mixed colours
A few old parsnip seeds (last years) to give them a chance
Beetroot Subeto
Paris Silverskin onions
Red and white spring onions
3 types of sprouts into trays as run out of space in the seed bed

[Small pumpkin]

9 varieties of carrot
1 spring onion

[veggiechicken]

144 DFBs (using my latest propagation technique)
20 CFBs
80 beetroot

[Mudsweatandtea]

Got some beans in today: cobra, scarlet emperor, borlotti and some Lima beans I found in the bottom of the seed box. Popped some khol rabbi, beetroot and some more pak choi in, as well as sowing some nasturtiums.
Lots of transplants of various veg too

[Bren In Pots]

Chard and PSB this morning.

[Bren In Pots]

Some parsnips seeds that I'd pre-chitted got them in just before it rained

[Small pumpkin]

Sown some broadbeans

And sown lots of old seeds ( or they will be next time I get to sowing ).
Very VC style mixed them all in a jug and scattered them on the raspberry bed.

[veggiechicken]

144 DFBs (using my latest propagation technique)
20 CFBs
80 beetroot

EDIT The latest technique didn't work - 164 beans are furry! Wont do that again in a hurry.

Beetroot sown conventionally in modules so its in with a chance.

Yesterday I sowed lots of melons, now in the propagator.


SP, I'm proud of you.

[Bren In Pots]

Sown more pre-chitted parsnips.

[burnie]

Sadly the one thing I was really looking forward too has failed to germinate anything, my mammoth trench celery, I followed advice given and nothing, I now unexpectedly have a whole raised bed empty that might just end up full of beans.

[Small pumpkin]

Sown more because germination wasn't good enough for my liking.
2 varieties of squash
2 varieties of pumpkin
2 varieties of bear french bean
Runner bean scarlet