Had a couple Sungolds pop their heads up last night Heating turned on in that room now, gotta keep the little uns warm
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Originally posted by Sylvan View Post
Binley - how warm is your airing cupboard? Mine doesn't seem much warmer than the rest of the house. I'm wondering whether to put a hot water bottle in there.S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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If you're bad then I'm the epitomy of evil , mine have been in an unheated conservatory for days...........S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden porn
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So tempted to sow some seeds now, I have just been given a very antiquated but functional heated propogator and have very itchy faded green fingers, I hate winter! I have had all my xmas carrots, parsnips etc now and my leeks aren't big enough to do anything with yet. But I think I will get moaned at if I start filling the house with plants in January
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oh I'm all for that............it's nice to get your own back
Time to drag out the prop and get sowing then ..........S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden porn
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I've never used a heated propogator before, it doesn't come with any instructions (to give you an idea, it belonged to my grandfather who died 22 years ago) do I just plant them as normal, put water in the bottom and then I guess the idea being that it works like a heat mat under the plants?
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Originally posted by Allotment Joe View Post
Syvlan, even my feeble math deduces that 3 month old plants outside in May were not sown in January.
As I said in my first post on the thread I didn't think I'd be able to germinate tomato seeds in January in this incredibly chilly house, till Binley mentioned using the airing cupboard, but I've been sowing seeds of the more tender plants in February for decades. We normally have a couple of glorious weeks in May and that's just about it for the rest of the year. All our flowering plants tend to bloom together in June, whatever time of year the experts say they're meant to. With flowering/fruiting vegetables I wouldn't have any fruit if I didn't sow at the beginning of the year.
The tomatoes in the pic were sown on 6th February. They would have been over a foot tall by the time the photo was taken, at the beginning of May, but the pots themselves were 11"-12" high, so there were only a few inches above the surface of the compost. They had a lovely root system by the time they went out in June.
Originally posted by Allotment Joe View PostDid you not have the late frosts in June last year that wiped a lot of plants out, I'd have thought in the Pennines you would have got them harder.
My cucumbers suffered but my tomatoes were old enough (and therefore strong enough) to survive unscathed. Let's hear it for early sowing, yay!
By the way, I live in the NORTH Pennines, not the Pennines - a fish of a different stripe. Tha mun be one o' they Suvverners, wot finks oop norf starts at Watford, ist tha?
(That was actually a serious question, by the way. You haven't told us in which part of the world your allotment is situated, so we can't visualise your growing conditions)
Originally posted by Allotment Joe View PostOh yes, another pitfall to early sowing that no one has pointed out.
Frosts in the third week of June aren't an argument against EARLY sowing. They're an argument against ANY sowing!
...but why else do seed packets contain so many spare seeds?
EDIT: Allotment Joe, I've just noticed the contraction you use for "mathematics" and solved the conundrum of your whereabouts in one swell foop. You're an American!Last edited by Sylvan; 22-01-2011, 09:31 PM.The problem with rounded personalities is they don't tesselate.
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