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  • #16
    Bride: usually a week or two.

    Frosty, I wouldn't but if you have the seeds and the space, then go for it.

    I sowed mine last year on the 8th Jan and got first red tomato on 8th June if that helps anyone in planning.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Lavenderblue View Post
      I am going to do this on the 5th. I will try with one each of my tomato seeds - a black one whose name I forget, a millefleur, one I saved from last year and an armish paste. I think i will start them off in the airing cupboard and then put them in the spare room. I will have to get other compost though because the stuff we have is full of flies.
      didn't i read somewhere on here about microwaving compost? would that help?
      Vive Le Revolution!!!
      'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
      Cigarette FREE since 07-01-09

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      • #18
        oooo it might do. I could try one and see what happens. I can't face the tiny horrible flies that get in your eyes saga again.
        We plant the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed - Neil, The Young Ones

        http://countersthorpeallotment.blogspot.com/
        Updated 21st July - please take a look

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        • #19
          I forgot yesterday (was watching Mama Mia and having a singsong), so today I have sown:
          4x GartenPerle
          4x Harbinger
          4x Tumbling tom
          4x Sweet Million
          4x Black Cherry
          4x Incas
          4x Tigarella

          Into propagator (not on at mo) on kitchen windowsill. Used John Innes Seed compost, and used luke warm water.

          janeyo

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          • #20
            Just sown:
            6 x Grushovka Tall Bush Tomato
            6 x Purple Ukraine Large Purple Vine Tomato
            6 x Aurora Large Bush Tomato
            6 x Gelbe Kirshen Early Yellow Cherry Chilli Pepper

            Sown in mini root-trainers [which I bought myself for christmas], 3 to each cell.

            Sown into Bulrush multi purpose compost

            Watered from the bottom - lukewarm water, using the lid to put the water into.

            Will be left on the kitchen windowsill until large enough to prick out into little pots.

            Will put outdoors on warmish days to start hardening off as soon as possible.

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            • #21
              let my compsot warm up it was what i had left from last year brought from wilkos

              i have sown today in polystyrene(had to look this up in a dictionary to spell it...lol) this came in a package last year and we thought it was perfect to grow seeds in and we had quite a lot of seeds germinate in this too.

              9 x tomato tumbling tom red
              9 x tomato alicante

              and i have also sown some peppers

              9 x shop brought peppers seeds saved from those
              9 x sweet corno di torro mixed

              have placed on the kitchen windowsill

              and watered all the seeds with lukewarm water with a green house water spray

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              • #22
                Hi all.Planted yesterday.

                24 Scotch Bonnet Chili.
                24 Prairie Fire Chili.

                Wilkos multi purpose compost.
                Unheated propagator in airing cupboard and watered daily with a fine sprayer bottle.
                " If it tastes like chicken THEN EAT CHICKEN " :- Kermit The Frog


                http://mohicans-allotment.blogspot.com/

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                • #23
                  Well as i were sowing my onion seed today i thought i may as well have a bash at growing a few early tomatoes too I have only opted for a couple of plants though as i will be sowing the bulk in about 8 weeks time.
                  Soooo...
                  1x Roma tomato
                  1x Shirley
                  1x sweet pepper 'Rubens' i think. (i saved the seed from shop brought pepper as suggested by 'Aunty Flummery') so lets see what i get

                  Sown into modules on the 28th December 2008, into B&Q peat free, multi purpose compost.
                  Wren

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                  • #24
                    Going to join in too, will let you know, (off to root in my seed box!) Although, like Pigletwillie (and I noted what he said last year), early sown indoor toms in Jan/Feb last year did not better than my Mar/Apr ones, but I'm going to try the moon planting! Will let you know!

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                    • #25
                      Hi I'm new to this but I am going to grow tomatos again this year but it sounds that all you guys have just sowed yours. Should I be doing this and if so what type and can they go in the greenhouse to start them off or should they be started off on a windowsill?

                      Cheers
                      Nicnac

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by nicnac View Post
                        Hi I'm new to this but I am going to grow tomatos again this year but it sounds that all you guys have just sowed yours. Should I be doing this and if so what type and can they go in the greenhouse to start them off or should they be started off on a windowsill?

                        Cheers
                        Nicnac
                        be aware, this is us, doing an experimental planting way earlier that you should be, if you have a few seeds to spare feel free to join in, but...........this is not the 'right' time to be planting tomatoes, which i believe is march
                        Vive Le Revolution!!!
                        'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
                        Cigarette FREE since 07-01-09

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                        • #27
                          I've added that into the original text Bride, we don't want anyone sowing their main toms too early.
                          Last edited by zazen999; 29-12-2008, 08:54 AM.

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                          • #28
                            Can I join you?
                            Yesterday I planted
                            Tomato "Tigrella"
                            Moneymaker
                            Minibel
                            Beefsteak"Big Boy"
                            Pepper-Hot ayenne
                            Pepper-Tokyo Hot
                            Pepper-Sweet California Wonder
                            &Aubergine-Bellezza Nera...(always too late sowing these...so fingers crossed for at least one fruit this year!!)
                            All planted in Asda multipurpose,in small pots,in unheated propogator on windowsill...a "pinch" of seeds each.
                            Good Luck Everyone!!...I'm already impatient awaiting the 1st shoots!!
                            the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

                            Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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                            • #29
                              (See post 4, I don't know if you can reference any other away). I moved the heated propagator from the windowsill to the table last night before going upstairs. This morning, it was on the windowsill, behind the curtain, turned off
                              The dear children had moved it to play monopoly last night, then son no2 wanted the electric for his laptop charger, so unplugged my propagator! It was really frosty, the garden has stayed white all day, so I hope this cold spell hasn't checked the seed germination too much.
                              I was not happy
                              I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
                              Now a little Shrinking Violet.

                              http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by pigletwillie
                                Good look to you all, I am waiting till mid February
                                me too! I have totally un-itchy fingers, having for years sown things far too early and lived to regret it.

                                Good luck to all of you ... don't use all your seeds now
                                Last edited by Two_Sheds; 29-12-2008, 05:45 PM.
                                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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