is anybody NOT sowing at the moment?

[craigpugh]

well, I'm in sunny (but snowy) sheffield so i always excuse myslef not getting going sowing until usually i'm too late! My plan this year was to buy loads of plants whenj our alotment group has its annual plant sale event thing. the notice for it has just gone up though and I'm down south that day for a wedding.

On the topic of sowing then, I have got garlic in from last autumn, red onions and red shallots, aspragus crowns went in last weekend only cos they were starting to rot so i had to chance the cold. I've planted broad beans, and just this weekend sowed a first row of carrots and parsnips. My allotment pal has a row of peas and a single rogue broad bean (he didnt plant any) poking through. I also planted some jerusalem artichokes dug up from my neighbor's plot.

Upstairs in the atic room i have leeks sown but not yet up, globe artichokes potted up, and taters chitting.

[Sue]

I have to start early sowing as there's just no room for everything otherwise, The greenhouse is full and I've counted up 183 pots of seedlings around the flat - can't fit anymore in yet still more to sow.... My flowers seedlings, leeks, carrots, onions all survived the recent cold snap wrapped up in fleece in my unheated greenhouse, even some tomato seedlings I took up to the allotment by mistake. I've got peppers and chillis in the greenhouse in an unheated propagator covered in fleece and they survived as well. Broad beans and peas out in the ground unfleeced and they were fine, everything else is growing under fleece and was relieved to see today that they are still OK. Here in Kent we had a brief dip in temperature to minus -2C but only one heavy frost and hardly any snow settled so we have been a lot luckier than some.
I see from my allotment diary that we had snow at Easter last year and as everything was fleeced up including the potatoes nothing got lost. So there's hope for us all.
Sue

[GardenFan]

Been sowing thick and fast since Jan, it's keeping my window sills busy and given the recent weather (winters back) I have to bring more in from the greenhouse (and my OH is not happy )

Toms sown at the start of Feb are now 8/9 inches tall, only two chillis took in the first attempt and now around 7 inches tall. My second attempt and three more took but are still little babies. My third attempt will be around the end of the month where the light and temp levels should be good enough to get more (I hope). I also have sown and planted some hardy peas and also have on the go more peas, pumpkins, sweetcorn and cape gooseberries. I planted my early tats two weeks ago and they are just fine (despite the cold, wet, nasty weather). I think by the end of the month I'll be moving the toms into the greenhouse, its just a bit mad at the moment