The Seed Sowing Thread - 2016

[cristalfiona]

Put spring onion and carrot chantenay seeds in to chit - I'm not having any luck get direct sown seeds to work this year, but have had results chitting nantes carrots and radish so far.

[Ms-T]

Sowed French Marigold and beetroot into cells

[Small pumpkin]

Today I've sown
carrots purple haze ( for me & the carrot bucket challenge), rainbow mix, chantenay red cored, beep purple & Yellowstone.
Spring onions
And I've re- sown all my enorma & streamline runner beans. Because I was having a rummage about and discovered they were all soft, squishy ( and some blowing bubbles!). So 7 year old seeds is not the way to go people

[Chris11]

First courgette seedling up today after just 5 days in heated propagator

[peachmonster]

Sowed 6 courgette defender, 16 climbing French beans (blue lake) and some nasturtium. All sown into pots or modules and put in propagator.

[Frana]

Sowed a load of beetroot seeds in modules with a compost/vermiculite mix and put them in the greenhouse.

[Jay-ell]

OK today has been the cucubit family. I've sown

Winter Squash

1. Pumpkin Hundredweight
2. Pumpkin Dills Atlantic Giant
3. Dubiously named “Giant Pumpkin” of uncertain origin
4. Pumpkin Jack Be Little
5. Pumpkin Small Sugar
6. Kabocha
7. Sweet Dumpling
8. Cha Cha
9. Vegetable Spaghetti
10. Uchiki Kura
11. Waltham Butternut
12. Golden Hubbard

Courgette/Summer Squash

1. Zucchini
2. Tondo di Pienza
3. Romanesco
4. Coucouzella
5. Black Forest
6. Shooting Star
7. Tromboncino Albenga
8. Polo

Cucumbers

1. Chinese Slangen
2. Marketmore

Melons

1. Honeydew
2. Water Melon Sugar Babe

Now I look at the list I know that theres a few I've not sown so I'll have to sort out those seeds and them in.

[arch01]

OK today has been the cucubit family. I've sown

Winter Squash

1. Pumpkin Hundredweight
2. Pumpkin Dills Atlantic Giant
3. Dubiously named “Giant Pumpkin” of uncertain origin
4. Pumpkin Jack Be Little
5. Pumpkin Small Sugar
6. Kabocha
7. Sweet Dumpling
8. Cha Cha
9. Vegetable Spaghetti
10. Uchiki Kura
11. Waltham Butternut
12. Golden Hubbard

Courgette/Summer Squash

1. Zucchini
2. Tondo di Pienza
3. Romanesco
4. Coucouzella
5. Black Forest
6. Shooting Star
7. Tromboncino Albenga
8. Polo

Cucumbers

1. Chinese Slangen
2. Marketmore

Melons

1. Honeydew
2. Water Melon Sugar Babe

Now I look at the list I know that theres a few I've not sown so I'll have to sort out those seeds and them in.

You don't happen to like winter squash, do you?

[Jay-ell]

You don't happen to like winter squash, do you?

DUNNO - I'll find out this winter

[Jay-ell]

You don't happen to like winter squash, do you?

DUNNO - I'll find out this winter

[Gillykat]

DUNNO - I'll find out this winter

Hahahaha that's the way I'm looking at it too! Never eaten squash or pumpkin in my life but growing three/four varieties this year. My veg were SO delicious last summer that it's made me more adventurous with food I grow

[Vickilou]

OK today has been the cucubit family. I've sown

Winter Squash

1. Pumpkin Hundredweight
2. Pumpkin Dills Atlantic Giant
3. Dubiously named “Giant Pumpkin” of uncertain origin
4. Pumpkin Jack Be Little
5. Pumpkin Small Sugar
6. Kabocha
7. Sweet Dumpling
8. Cha Cha
9. Vegetable Spaghetti
10. Uchiki Kura
11. Waltham Butternut
12. Golden Hubbard

Courgette/Summer Squash

1. Zucchini
2. Tondo di Pienza
3. Romanesco
4. Coucouzella
5. Black Forest
6. Shooting Star
7. Tromboncino Albenga
8. Polo

Cucumbers

1. Chinese Slangen
2. Marketmore

Melons

1. Honeydew
2. Water Melon Sugar Babe

Now I look at the list I know that theres a few I've not sown so I'll have to sort out those seeds and them in.

Good grief
How many acres have you got good luck with them all, wish I could experiment more

[Jay-ell]

Good grief
How many acres have you got good luck with them all, wish I could experiment more

Well, partly using them as a weed suppression layer. Had a couple of pumpkins last year and made soup and mash which was nice. Also tried butternut spaghetti and of course there's courgette crisps.

[Jay-ell]

Anyway today has been peas and onions.

Snowball Onions
Stutgarter onions
Red ones whose name escape me for the moment
Golden Gourmet shallots
Germidor garlic
transplanted a couple of elephant garlic bulbs

Peas were all tall varieties
Champion of England
Boddington soup
Lord Leicester
Serpette Guiloloteau

[vixylix]

Slightly late but at the weekend I sowed:

* sweet pea scented
* cosmos summer sensation
* gold rush currant tomatoes (thanks lisasbolt )
* Marconi purple (thanks Ms-T )
* sugar snap peas
* rhubarb glaskins perpetual

Tomorrow: Mini Pop sweetcorn and hopefully some lettuce, beetroot and spinach