The Seed Sowing Thread - 2017

[Jonny.D]

More Dahlias & Borage

[Guest]

cress
bigga peas (for shoots)
mixed lettuce
mustard green waves
radish
10 varieties of melon

[bario1]

Two types of sunflower, and put some sweetcorn in water to soak.

Two days later and the sweetcorn has roots and shoots! Now in root trainers.

[burnie]

Are you growing the sweet corn under cover Bario? I'm putting mine under glass as last years attempt with frames and fleece round them was only a partial success.
Planted some broad beans in pots in g/house along with a 10 inch pot with some sugar snap peas today, minimum temps are now staying at a sweaty plus 3 this week and that's inside the g/house.

[happyhumph]

Sowed some cucumber seeds, now sitting snugly in the propogater. Must sow lots of seeds this weekend!

[the big lebowski]

onion sets ,headed lettuce,money maker toms and la diva cucumbers

[Jay-ell]

Sowed some leeks today - Bulgarian Giant, Winter Giant and Many Flowered Garlic

[Small pumpkin]

Today sowing
Cauliflower
Cabbage 2 varieties
Broccoli
Kale 4 varieties
Brussels sprout 4 varieties
Leek 2 varieties
Beetroot

[bario1]

Are you growing the sweet corn under cover Bario? I'm putting mine under glass as last years attempt with frames and fleece round them was only a partial success.

Think I'm going to try them outdoors this year. I have grown them in my polytunnel the last two years but had problems with pollination. I'm hoping for a sweltering summer. I'm trying Earlybird for the first time.

[happyhumph]

Today;

Romanesco - ottobrino
Cabbage piacenza (savoy type)
PSB
white sprouting broccoli

Peas - waverax, Hurst green shaft, bijou and telephone

French beans - ferrari (dwarf) & cobra

Runners - czar & gigantes

Lots more to sow tomorrow. Hoping to get soft neck garlic in as well and maybe onion sets. Oca had started sprouting in bag so now chitting in an egg box.

[Hazel at the Hill]

First sowing session this year. Every year I say I'll sow successionally, but never do - so it's this one and the bean/pea/tender crops in about a month and that's it.

So in pots tonight are brassicas (cauli, cabbage, kale, broccoli) and tomatoes and peppers, and lettuce.

[Cadalot]

30 vending machine cups with Detroit 6 Rubidus Beetroot

[Small pumpkin]

Beetroot 2 varieties
Chard 2 varieties
Spinach
Swede 2 varieties
Turnip
Courgette 2 varieties
Parsnips in a flower bucket
Radish, beetroot & lettuce as micro greens

[Small pumpkin]

Peas kelvedon wonder
Peas early onward
40 of each.

[alan4heidi]

beware of sutton seeds rip off

received a free packet of THOMPSON & MORGAN harbinger tomato seeds two weeks ago, put them is a tray with john innes seed compost and vermiculite..at the same time in another tray I sowed SUTTONS Shirley tomato seeds , both lots are now 2 inches tall, the difference is that the harbinger seeds were free [ about 40 to 50 seeds in pack ]the SUTTOS SEEDS WERE £3.99 FOR 12 SEEDS [ ONLY 10 IN MY PACKET ] PLUS THE FREE SEEDS LOOK HEALTHIER THAN THE SUTTONS RIP OFF SEEDS..I WONT GET CAUGHT AGAIN....SUTTONS DO NOT EXIST FOR ME