Seed sowing thread 2018

[Small pumpkin]

Today sown more peas ( a regular customer wanted considerably more that I'd planned for )
And beetroot crapaudine

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

In the last week or two:

Indoors:
Summer savoury - just started showing
Marigold - three strong looking seedlings
Calendula - nothing yet
Basil - lots of seedlings in propagator tray. Due for pricking out soon.
Busy lizzies - also germinating well in heated propagator (lid off)
Cosmos - potted first leggy batch on, buried up to seed leaves. Seem ok but sowed a few more just in case.

Under cover in plastic growhouse:
Ishikura bunching onions - no signs yet
Perpetual spinach - just coming through
Swiss chard - nothing yet
Leeks in planter as seed bed - nothing yet
Lettuce and rocket - only sowed a few days ago

Direct in raised beds:
Parsnips - didn’t chit, should I have?
Carrots - early Nantes and a chantenay
Radish - just to see how quickly they’d grow. Took about a week but over half gave come up in the last few days.

Also potato sprouts just showing. I’ve got a few seed potatoes left to sow.

[Bren In Pots]

Bolthardy beetroot
Rhubarb Chard
Bright lights Chard
and another pinch of spring onion seeds.

[Small pumpkin]

Sown In the salad bar red salad bowl & baby leaf Californian mix.
Re sown 6 varieties of lettuce ( first lot got slightly cooked when I had my day out on Monday ) 2 varieties of parsley ( they're just not playing nicely )
10 varieties of Micro greens / herbs in guttering.
Also Watercress.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Update - all radish seedlings up, swiss chard and perpetual spinach popping up in every module and early signs of rocket and bunching onions.

Got a few more seed potatoes in grow bags today - Nicola and Orla. I've got a few Casablanca left which I'll do in a few weeks.

[Scoot]

Just reading this thread and noticed one or two people on about sowing lettuce. I forgot all about mine so will go out now and do it. I have some pots ready to sow with something. So will do one now and one next month.

[bario1]

Courgettes Defender, Milano, and Romanesco.
Kale Nero, Pentand Brig, Red Russian and Hungy Gap.
Squash Burgess Buttercup.

[self-contained]

A big tray of pea-shoots
Some cress and mustard

[WeeGarden]

All my squashy things;
Courgette - Soleil, Sunstripe, All Green Bush
Tromba D'albenga - for the contest
Cucumber - Burpless Tasty, Marketmore, Crystal Apple
Cucamelon
Squash - Butternut Orange Sonca, Blue Kuri kabocha, hairy gourd, winter melon

[bario1]

Two Harlequin squashes.

[bario1]

swiss chard and perpetual spinach popping up in every module

Get them in the ground ASAP CP, I find they hate being in small pots, probably because they have a long tap root.

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I sowed a big tub of purple haze carrots & threw some seeds amongst my meteor peas in the ground,I’ll sow a few parsnip seeds direct there today maybe if I remember. Planted two big tubs of main crop rooster & pink fir apple & two more potato bags of first early Lady C. I don’t think my dahlias are coming back this year I’ll have to find some seeds...

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Get them in the ground ASAP CP, I find they hate being in small pots, probably because they have a long tap root.

Thanks, I'll probably give them a few weeks to develop a couple of non-seed leaves and then get them in. I'll thin them soon as each seed cluster has successfully germinated 3-4 plants.

[Small pumpkin]

9 varieties of Carrot. 3 of those are a second sowings as the first lot have come up.
Spring onions

[bramble]

My sweet corn Lark has germinated.
Bolthardy broccoli.
Calsbrese .