Seed sowing thread 2018

[Snowwhyte]

It was a fairly nice day so I finally got around to some seed sowing. I sowed some Californian peppers and jalapeño peppers, Italian kale, curly kale, rainbow chard, minicole cabbage, avalanche cauliflower, Evesham Brussels, broccoli, purple sprouting broccoli, celeriac and a bunch of Kelvedon wonder peas for the shoots.

[mothhawk]

I can't read this thread, it's inducing panic...

*Repeats to self: it's cold up here, don't need to sow yet...

Chill out 1Bee, I've sown nothing too, except a few flower seeds. I look at my windowsills and think, well this is nice, no leggy overgrown veg seedlings that I can't put out 'cos it's too cold, and can't pot on 'cos I'm out of room.

I shall start sowing in April, so that as soon as seeds pop up their heads, they can go outside under a cloche to grow strong and straight. They'll catch up just fine. Folk have been growing veg by sowing them outdoors when the weather was right for centuries, it's only the modern world's need for haste, and our desire to grow exotics that tempts us to start earlier and earlier.

[bramble]

My dahliad seeds have started to germinate already.
Sown less than a week ago.

[Small pumpkin]

Today
Broad beans
And first 7 varieties of carrots

[Greenleaves]

Broad Beans ( 2 batch)
Titan Beetroot
Brigadier Cabbage
Golden Acre Cabbage
All Year Round Cauliflower ( 3rd batch)
Excel Cauliflower
Montgomery Sprouts

[bario1]

36 pre-chitted sugar snap peas in 6 pots in the greenhouse.

[Jungle Jane]

Today I sowed these 22 varieties of tomato,they’re under my grow light -
Aranyalma
Artisan Pink Tiger
Black Cherry
Black Icicle
Black Opal
Cherokee Purple
Cream Sausage
Cyril’s Choice
Halina
Halms Gelbe
Japanese Trifele
King Humbert
Lima Korai
Lukullus
Moskowsi Ultra Skorospelyi
Mountain Princess
Nectar Rose
Orange Banana
Peacevine Cherry
Pendulina
Radana
Zlatava

[Scoot]

Going to go up to B and Q on saturday and get my compost. then hopefully i might get some seeds started on saturday and into next week.

I got my compost this morning from B&Q and hadn't planned on having a massive sowing session, but...

I took the bag of compost outside and into 1 of my growhouses. When i unzipped the growhouse i felt the heat from inside and had an immediate thought that I needed to sow something in there.

So I ended up sowing my Onions, Sprouts, Cabbages, Turnips and Swedes. I know it's going to turn cold again next week but when i felt the heat of the sun on my neck and head, and also felt the heat coming out of my growhouse, I just couldn't help myself.

At the end of the day, if nothing germinates, I can always sow again in 2 or 3 weeks time.

[burnie]

With the Beast from the East3 due next week I decided I would wait till it's gone before sowing seeds...............yeh right, no patience at all. I bought a wee window sill propagator, unheated and I've just planted PSB, Romanesco, Golden Acre Primo cabbage and some Leeks and put it in the blowaway inside the greenhouse. Looks like some early Radish are growing in the greenhouse border too.

[Scoot]

With the Beast from the East3 due next week I decided I would wait till it's gone before sowing seeds...............yeh right, no patience at all. I bought a wee window sill propagator, unheated and I've just planted PSB, Romanesco, Golden Acre Primo cabbage and some Leeks and put it in the blowaway inside the greenhouse. Looks like some early Radish are growing in the greenhouse border too.

Knew there was something else i forgot to plant the other day, my purple sprouting broccoli. I will have to do that on Friday when I'm off.

[Bren In Pots]

Just PSB this afternoon.

[Small pumpkin]

Re sown Indian moon tomatoes. So I'll probably end up with five of the things now! Due to my impatience . 3 - 10 days germination. First lot have been in 7 days and no sign.
Watch the little bu@@ers appear tomorrow .

[bramble]

Sowed some flower seeds this afternoon.
Rudbeckia.
Zinnia.
Portulaca.
Wondering if anyone has grown Portulaca as this is my first time growing them.?

[burnie]

Peas and Broad Beans in the root trainers

[DMU_Blue]

New poster!

Planted A few kinds of Chillis.

Jalapeno (died and restarted)
Hungarian Hot Wax
Pepperocini

All growing nicely.

Peppers just beginning to germinate

California Wonder Sweet Pepper
Romano Mixed Sweet pepper

Two lots of Tomato seeds to be potted next week or the week after

Courgettes planted and germinated but look a bit tall to me even under a grow light. Will see how they go.


Greenhouse arrives in 2 weeks