The Seed Sowing Thread - 2016

[bario1]

This evening - Crown Prince squash and Defender courgette.

[bario1]

This morning - second sowing of sweetcorn, 16 pre-chitted 'Lark' in 8 root trainers.

[Lumpy]

Hold your breath I'm going in.................D.F.B's and dwarf runners into large square planters and covered with bell cloches.

The outdoor Q seeds I sowed last Thursday are now up and snuggly outside under their bells.

[vixylix]

sowed:

cucamelon
cucumber - esmerald, crystal lemon and mohican
courgette - midnight, golden and tuscany
runner beans - galaxy
more borlotti beans

Need to get everything else sowed outside next weekend - its half way through may!

[Nannysally99]

Swetcorn, watercress, carrots, lettuce

[Bren In Pots]

Finally got around to sowing my runners, Serbian beans, courgettes and cucumbers.

[SusieG]

Herbs: sweet basil, thyme, tarragon

Watercress, mixed mild salad leaves, mizuna

Lady Christl seed potato x 7 into 3 bags

[bario1]

Yesterday I sowed a row of salsify just as an experiment.

[Tripmeup]

Peas, beans, radish, 4 types of lettuce, spinach and cumin

[Martin H]

Melon "Sweet Granite" and pumpkin "Atlantic Giant". Both in the heated propagator in the greenhouse.

[bario1]

Sowed two more rows of beetroot.
Also got impatient with my squashes and popped two more seeds in each pot - the first ones have done nothing! They're in a heated prop in a cupboard, so what am I doing wrong? Do they need light? My cucs and courgettes germinated fine in the same spot.
Sowed some Burpless Tasty cucs too.

[bario1]

Sowed a couple of rows of sorrel (regular and red-veined) inbetween my rows of asparagus.

[Dorothy rouse]

Melon "Sweet Granite" and pumpkin "Atlantic Giant". Both in the heated propagator in the greenhouse.

Have you grown Atlantic Giant before? I have a packet here and was going to try a couple of seeds, wonder how big they grow? The plant I mean?

[Martin H]

Have you grown Atlantic Giant before? I have a packet here and was going to try a couple of seeds, wonder how big they grow? The plant I mean?

I tried them last year for the first time but failed; ended up with one unripe fruit about the size of a large grapefruit. I blame neglect and weather. Maybe this year will be different.

[Dorothy rouse]

I tried them last year for the first time but failed; ended up with one unripe fruit about the size of a large grapefruit. I blame neglect and weather. Maybe this year will be different.

Think I'll give them a go, just hope they don't ( if they grow) take over whole plot! I don't have enough space.