The seed sowing thread 2014!!

[darcyvuqua]

I've sown some fatalii and some lemon drop chillies and some broad beans

[WPG]

I know parsnip seeds should be fresh, but today I sowed a few dozen of last years Albion seeds into grow tubes. Couldn't bear to throw them out, so they've been is a sealed pack in my fridge for the past year....nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[snakeshack]

The seed sowing thread!!

Today I put in onion and shallots sowed pak choi, scozonera , beetroot , spinach beet , Chinese cabbage, radishes & little gem lettuce outside. Inside I potted up tomatoes and 58 chillies into 4 inch pots , getting tight for space on the window sills now both at home and at mums.


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[The Cobra]

Yesterday I sowed the following into seed module trays:
Sweetcorn
Beetroot
Carrot
Cabbage
Purple sprouting Broccoli
Squash
Spring Onion

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Got a bit of an earlier finish! Oh! and it rained!

But sowed a few "Brassica's"

Cabbage....Ruby Perfection, Duncan, Kilaxy, Golden Acre and Offenham 2, was gunna do the PSB n other calebrese (Broccoli in old mans terms) but been at it since 4am this morning! Got eyes like "Racing Dog's Go-Nads"

Talking about beds BM! Think mine is shouting!

[Tripmeup]

Some cucumbers.

Pickling ones- Piccolo Verde di Parigi
Marketmore
Carosello Mezzolungo di Pougnano

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Having so far resisted the urge to sow curcubits, I might have to get some on the go later.

[rhonsal]

Think i might have boobed by using a heated propogator!

I had a day off on Monday so decided as it was miserable outside i'd start some courgettes and squashes seeds, and put them in the heated propogator - i then had to go away for 2 days for work and when i got back they had all sprouted ad gone a bit leggy!

Hopefully they'll be ok but i've never had seeds sprout so quickly!

[MrsCordial]

I'd love a heated propagator - might put it on my Christmas list (a constant work-in-progress!).

Today DS, 5, and I sowed in trays:

Dwarf beans - Safari and Speedy
Tomato - Millefleur
Cucumber - Wautoma (though only one of the previous set I sowed has germinated)
Courgette - Verde de Italia
Kohl Rabi - Azur

DD, almost 12, and I sowed in trays:

Kohl Rabi - Gigantic
Peas - Kelvedon Wonder (I know peas don't need starting off indoors but DD wanted to and I think it's as important to cultivate enthusiasm as technique at this stage!)
Pumpkin - Cheyenne Bush
Strawberry - an Alpine variety

All my windowsill trays and odd pots are now full, as are all useful windowsills and quite a few other spots. No more sowing for us til something can go outside.

[The Cobra]

Today I sowed Tomato seeds in the heated prop, Spinach outside and I've potted on all my chilli seedlings into individual pots

[Alison]

Sowed tomatoes and tomatillos in the propagator, more leeks in the conservatory and peas, mange tout and 4 types of lettuce in the greenhouse. Also potted on a load of plug plants I got last week, some bare rooted strawberry runners and pricked out some Brussels sprout seedlings. About to go up the Lottie now to sow some early carrots in the tunnel as well as plant out some lettuce plants (also in the tunnel)


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[WPG]

I was spring cleaning today, and found an unopened packet of Evesham Special brussell sprouts which had fallen down behind a radiator. The packet says sow by 2009, so it's been stuck in a very hot place for at least five years. But I didn't have the heart to throw them out, so sowed them just in case.

[jayjaybee]

I'm returning to gyo forums after a time away. I have sown in the last week:

Cabbage, kales, broc, psb, lettuce, various flowers, 6 varieties of tomato, aubergines, peppers, leeks
I have resisted planting potatoes yet or sowing cucurbits/beans. I know from experience that the greenhouse is too small to accommodate them if sown this early.

[batman]

What varieties of tomatoes did you sow?


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[jayjaybee]

What varieties of tomatoes did you sow?


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Hi Batman, if you were asking me, my toms are:
Shirley, hildares (lidl), gardeners delight, sungold, golden cherry, marmande, roma, sun cherry, black russian. A bit of a overkill but can't resist experimentin. All on the kitchen windowsill for untimate planting in g/h and out door and giving to friends