The Seed Sowing Thread - 2017

[Lardman]

Cutting right back this year,

Toms:
Shirley
Rio Grande
Sungold
Sweet Aperitif
Black Cherry

Cuke
La Diva

[bario1]

^^^wallflowers? I am intrigued, do you usually sow them around now? If so, when do they tend to flower?

Nope, never grown them before - the packet didn't actually say when to sow, it just said they flower in the Autumn and again in the Spring! When are you supposed to sow them?

[Guest]

Biennials are June/ July sowing for flowering the following year. You can sow them early spring to flower same year but they aren't meant to be as good. I have only sown wallflowers once and the same plants are rather leggy and ancient. I think they are 3 years old now

[bario1]

Ah well, see what happens, I can't unsow them!

[happyhumph]

Melon minnesota midget
Sokol breadseed poppy
Santoh pak choi
Huauzontle (yippee!)
Mystery tall perennial kale from VC
Daubentons perennial kale from VC

Also put Oca in pots in gh.

[Jungle Jane]

Seed potatoes in bags - one with arran pilot & one with charlotte

[Florence Fennel]

Beans, beans and more beans, parsnip, carrot, caca salad, nasturtium and mesembryanthemums

[johnjohn]

The day of the brassica:
Pak Choi Green Revolution
Broccoli Summer Purple
Calabrese Beaumont
Calabrese Samson
Cabbage Hispi
Cabbage Savoy King
Brussels Bosworth
Brussels Nelson
Cauli Amsterdam
Cauli Cheesy

[Lumpy]

More beetroot - red, white, yellow and striped.
Multi coloured carrots with the seeds all mixed together - small things please little minds.
Spring onions.
Broccoli Raab - never tried it and can't remember if its the so called 30, 60 or 90 day wonder veg.
More sugar snaps.
The last of the broad beans.
Lovage.

Off for a lie down.

Oh Oh Oh and a mixed oriental mustard mix.

[Bigmallly]

Direct sown, 2 small beds of Beetroot & 1 bed of Parsnips.

[Small pumpkin]

Yesterday's sowing
Carrot red samurai, bolero, Amsterdam2, all sown in the bed
And purple haze sown in FB.

[Jay-ell]

Must be an exotics day sown :-

• Red Dahlias
• White Dahlias
• Purple Dahlias
• Babingtons leek
• Litchi Tomato

I have to wait until the bees have finished with them before I'm allowed to eat the dahlias though

[Jungle Jane]

The other day I sowed the last 40 of my tomato seeds,on the bathroom windowsill,they haven't germinated yet. Totals at 29 tomato varieties,most of them new varieties thanks to the tomato seed circle & Scarlet Yesterday I sowed about 20 leeks in a deep container they're outside in the blowaway with the door wide open,2 large containers with rooster main crop potato & 2 potato bags with Charlotte second earlies. I used some old potato compost with BFB added for dwarf peas,they're in two large containers,one has twinkle peas & one with Avola peas,carrot seeds will be added when I know where the peas are...haven't sowed any carrot seeds yet

[Nafets]

8 bush cucumbers
4 rows of boltardy beetroot
2 pots of spring onions (white lisbon and apache)
a dozen ish leek

[Small pumpkin]

4 varieties of pumpkin
9 varieties of squash
Another 2 varieties of courgette
Kalettes
More beetroot
More turnips