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  • #46
    Where to start

    Only got my allotment 3 weeks before Christmas. Cleared it best I could. I have some beds ready and I'm gagging to get going. I have ordered all my seeds, probably too many.

    I have windowsill propogators ready to start stuff too.

    So what should I start with? Any advice welcome.

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    • #47
      Hello Pants & welcome to the Jungle. Just keep your eyes on this thread & you'll see what other members are sowing.
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      • #48
        the seed sowing thread 2017

        I have several trays of onions/ spring onions and small leeks on the windowsill in the conservatory. lots of light and generally coolish (underfloor heating to 20*) will be interestin gto watch the progress.

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        • #49
          Couldn't hold myself off any longer and heated up my xmas propagator yesterday and have just started my vegetable seeds for the month, I know its only the first of the month but it's so hard being patient.... Will sow my Feb flowers next week but veg seeds as follows...

          Aubergine Black Beauty
          Artichoke Globe Purple and Green
          Tomato Moneymaker
          Tomato Alicante
          Pepper Sweet Mini Mix
          Pepper Hot Razzamatazz
          Pepper Hot Chilli Shake
          Leeks Long De Mezieres (not in the propagator)

          Will now spend the next week staring at the poor seeds waiting to see movement.

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          • #50
            It's too dark for me to start sowing until March.
            Having said that, a mouse has been eating my BB seed in the GH, so I've just put them all into 3" pots
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #51
              Sown today into propagator:

              Tomatoes:
              Pink Charmer
              Suncherry Smile
              Country Taste
              Shirley

              Aubergines:
              Early Long Purple 3
              Black Beauty
              Violetta Lunga 2

              Chilli's:
              Hotscotch
              Super Chilli
              Tabasco
              Cheyenne
              Rokita

              Peppers:
              Doux tres long des Landes
              Gourmet
              Sweet mixed
              Sweet tasty
              Corno rosso
              Topepo rosso

              Hoping to finish them off under my Christmas lights.

              The grow lights I got for Christmas obviously not the other sort ....

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              • #52
                I was due to construct a plastic greenhouse on Saturday and sow some tomato seeds. Will this be a little early since it won't be heated?

                Also was meaning to sow Cosmos and Salvia. All three have been Okayed sowing wise this month by various websites.

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                • #53
                  Lawks a-mercy! It's far too cold here to be sowing seeds. Where's global warming when you want it? (Only joking, of course.)

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by cpm82 View Post
                    I was due to construct a plastic greenhouse on Saturday and sow some tomato seeds. Will this be a little early since it won't be heated?
                    It is early, you will notice that there are many on here who can't resist the temptation to sow early though!
                    If you have somewhere warm and light to bring the tomatoes on like a conservatory or warm sunny windowsill you might get away with it but they run the risk of getting leggy- lots of seeds in a packet though so you may think it's worth a try.

                    I'm sowing now and will bring them on under growlights - there are several threads on here about it.

                    They won't go out until outside temps are up to around 10C though.

                    You might find this worth a read too:
                    http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eds_88345.html
                    Last edited by johnjohn; 02-02-2017, 08:05 PM. Reason: clarification

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                    • #55
                      Mung beans

                      ( if you can class putting in a jar and rinsing twice a day as sowing )

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                      • #56
                        Sown today into trays to germinate in cool room

                        Leeks:
                        Hilari
                        Bleu de solaise
                        Sultan
                        Gigante D' Inverno 2
                        Autumn Mammoth 2 Snowstar
                        Cairngorm

                        Onions:
                        Rossa lunga di Firenze (Spring or bulb)
                        North Holland Blood Red (Spring)
                        Katana (Spring)
                        Mammoth red
                        Ailsa Craig

                        Sown today into propagator:
                        Onion- Red Baron
                        Onion-Bedfordshire Champion
                        Basil~sweet
                        Basil~red
                        Basil~Lemon

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                        • #57
                          for the propogater today;

                          Tomatoes - latah & amish paste

                          Peppers - frigadello (sp?) & Palermo (saved from lidl peppers

                          Aubergine - black beauty

                          In greenhouse

                          Pea - shaft green Hurst

                          Radish - white icicle, a red one and watermelon one.

                          More seed sowing tomorrow

                          Going to have very full windowsills soon......
                          Another happy Nutter...

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                          • #58
                            Tomatoes: Alicante Gardener's Delight, Marmande, Mortgage Lifter, Oxheart, Plenty
                            Chillies: Apache F1, Cayenne, Thai Culinary, Ring of Fire, Habanero Chocolate
                            Allioums: Bedfordshire Champion, Walla Walla, Red Baron, Red Brunswick, Musselburgh, Shallot (Zeebrune)
                            In Euro trays 600mm x 400mm some heated on the sandbed on the table in the sitting room, some by the back door.
                            Blueberries: dropped an open punnet of reduced "Legacy"and stood on some, so rather than waste them I potted them up and put them out to stratify.

                            Still to think of the herbs, brassicas, fabaceae, amaranthaceae, salad cucurbs.
                            Wish I'd bought more of the eurotrays. Can't find any similar anywhere.

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                            • #59
                              Used up the last of my windowsill space today so no more sowing until it warms up a bit. Sob!!
                              https://roosorganicallotment.wordpress.com/
                              Growing by trial and error in Kent

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                              • #60
                                First "proper" sowings in the last couple of days:

                                spinach gigante d'inverno outside under cloche
                                32 pea meteor in rootrainers - these will go in pots outside eventually
                                4 balconi tomatoes, 2 red and 2 yellow - these will produce a crop on the windowsill and then be moved outside for more later.
                                choy sum and radish for microgreens.
                                A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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