Seed sowing thread 2024.

[peanut]

Sowed purple beauty and lipstick sweet peppers.

[Containergardener]

Planted the sprouting Broad beans and chilli's that had been chitting/soaking
Sowed 4 types of tomato

[Jungle Jane]

Today sowed a tray of petunia bonanza & a tray of foxy foxgloves (flower in the first year). Sowed cells of sweet peppers Amy & snack bite,also lettuces marvel of four seasons & oakleaf smile

[ameno]

Sowed 12 tenderstem broccoli seeds and 60 or so mangetout seeds indoors.

[Penellype]

Sowed 1 courgette Sure Thing as an experiment - this is the last of an old packet of seed, so I didn't want to rely on it later. If it germinates I intend to try growing it in the greenhouse for early courgettes, if it doesn't, nothing lost.

[peanut]

Today I sowed limoncito, shimmer, sungold, supersweet, suncherry, sweet aperitif, sweet million, sweet baby, and sugargloss tomatoes.

[Penellype]

So far this year I have sown:

January
Peas for pea shoots
Microgreens
Onions (sets), beetroot, lettuce and spinach in a hotbed
Tomato Balconi red and Shirley for growing in the house
Pepper Snackbite for growing in the house
Bean Sonesta for growing in the house

February
Microgreens
Beetroot and spinach in modules
2 sowings of Pea Meteor about 10 days apart in modules
Pak choi in modules
2 sorts of lettuce in pots
More tomato Shirley for growing in the house
More bean Sonesta for growing in the house
Parsley and chervil in modules
Pea (half pint) in the hotbed

March
Microgreens
More snackbite peppers for the greenhouse
Another sowing of Pea Meteor (1 more to come any day now)
Kohlrabi in modules
Tomato Alicante to test seed viability
More lettuces
Florence fennel in modules
Courgette Sure Thing in a pot, as an experiment (much earlier than usual)

Apart from the seeds sown in the hotbed, all of these were sown in the house and grown on under lights. Only the peas and pak choi have so far gone outside. Several sowings of lettuce have failed to germinate.

[peanut]

Today I sowed the last of my tomatoes (famous last words) lldi, crokini, honeycombe and rose de berne. Cylindra beetroots, Gustav's salad lettuce, white lisbon, pompeii and north Holland blood red spring onions.

[Containergardener]

Sowed pepper heatwave, oriental salads, more antirrhinum

[Containergardener]

Not done well with my bigger toms germinating this year, plenty cherry ones

[Containergardener]

Sowed various flowers and more toms, tomatillo , chard, salad, peas, fennel

[Mark Rand]

Got more sweet pea Old Spice chitting on some damp kitchen towel. Didn't get amazing germination from the first batch, although the other variety (Royal Garden) were almost 100%.

[MelanieSW]

Indoors - This weekend I finally sowed my tomatoes (as usual I got carried away and ended up with 8 varieties rather than the 4 I had in mind).
Also the brassicas - Brussels, PSB, calabrese, red and white cabbage, and kohlrabi).

And on the allotment - root parsley, Korean mint, chicory and radishes.

[Bren In Pots]

Todays sowings
Toms
Black cherry
Gardeners delight
Mini bell

French marigold's
Basil

Flat parsley
Coriander

[peanut]

Over the last few days I've been chitting then potting my cucumbers, diva, passandra, delistar, party time and mini munch, all old favs.