sowing seed, transplanting

We have a new slightly larger plastic greenhouse and I wonder if using

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Would it help to take the chill off overnight?. I bought one some years ago to use as a hot water bottle and it’s still warm in the morning. I think the retriever we had would have made short work of chewing through it despite the rhetoric.

Thank you very much Carillion, I can do that with carrots this year and more seeds next year

I am also bringing my tomatoes in every night but they are growing well and looking sturdy so it is worth the effort of putting them out, open air if sunny and still, otherwise my new mini lifesaver glasshouse

I have one squash showing green, phew lifesaving seems to have worked, only 8 in a packet and 4 used up this year, I want 2 squash plants, this year and not to have to buy more seeds for squash next year

I am just about to print some more labels, borage, lemon balm and parsley. All of these are going to be sown in situ, in largish pots and a planter. Parsley is so slow to germinate. I already have some in a small pot to prick out if they emerge but these new herb pots will be by the back door, so situ makes sense. The borage is in a bigger tall planter. I want bees

I re-potted sage and the mint today. Mint spreads into a circle on the pot edges so I have started again in the centre, been very careful not to put any mint roots on the ground with the old soil, can be invasive. I found a self seeded thyme and that has gone into another pot together with chives and rosemary. Herbs are all done now

craftyone, have just sent the pm

The lettuce seeds that I sowed in a little pot need pricking out now.
I just hope they will tolerate the cold temperatures in the unheated greenhouse, after being indoors at night up until now.

Same with the Sungold tomatoes, except that I will continue to bring them in at night for a long time yet. They will continue to go in the greenhouse daytime as long as the temperature in there isn't below 7°, otherwise they will grow too leggy on my not-very-light windowsills.

And the new patch of lawn I sowed nearly three weeks ago is now germinating

Morning craftyone. I'm sending you a pm about the seed tapes
I made mine a couple of weeks ago and will make some more to allow for succession sowing for the veg and herbs I like and use.
Hopefully posting a picture of the seed tapes. Put an egg in the photo to give a feel for the size. Take care x
ps. I'm in Brittany and the weather is similar to Devon/Cornwall which obviously makes a difference regarding germination.

I put a row of sweet sahara mangetout peas into a vegtrug, I managed to buy the trug support frames online and 2 fit neatly side by side. Sweet sahara are short. I sowed them along the back frame and think I will sow short borlotti along the front in a few weeks, then when the sahara are finished I will replace with little gems as lettuce does well in shade

I have ordered vine weavil nematodes, I had them once in strawberries and I think they came from sedums. They decimated all my strawberries in growbags, up high on strawberry supports. I have seen the cut edges on my sedums in the ground and had to spray them with chemical vine weavil killer. The nematodes will go into all my planters, vegtrugs and raised beds. They are evil barstewards

how did you make seed tapes?

I made my own seed tapes this year to use up seeds and to use up a few hours having been in lockdown in France for ten days now.

Great success already with lettuce.

Laid down the following seed tapes yesterday...spinach, chervil, nasturtium and peas and asparagus peas (all for salads), sorrel, lovage, dill, Good King Henry and salad burnet.

I've also in the last week germinated lemon pips to produce plants to give as presents to friends.

hard coat, too wet and rotten inside, old unviable seeds

I found that some of the best seeds have come from some good sellers on ebay

sown cucs, courgette and calendula. I am not going to have enough garden space

That was an accidental post, but if anyone has any suggestions now as to why their first leaves don't manage to 'burst' out of the seed, I would like to hear them ?
My tomatoes have sometimes been like this in the past, but they are perfectly ok this year, though sown the same way and at the same time as the chillies.

My chilli seedlings stuck in the seed

housework can wait anyway no-one coming to the house. I am glad you sciatica has improved, it is a devil

I have a squash alert:
Mine were not showing, so I carefully took the covering soil out of their pots, using gentleness and a small knife. One in each pot has started a small tail and the other one has not done anything. The compost was far too wet, I did not realise that I had soaked the water retaining mat so much. I have not replaced the soil over the seeds, I covered with vermiculite and put both pots in the mini glasshouse. I took the dead seeds out. The sun may well get the shoot started. I have to be on lookout, if nothing appears in a few days I will start again but this time, the quicker way ie carefully taking the outer hard shell off

I will now sow my cucumber and courgette in the propagator, when the mat has dried out but first need to get changed, which requires discipline

I'm working all the hours I can clearing 12 raised beds ready for planting up. Everything's late this year thanks to the weather and sciatica which has thankfully buggered off improved.

Greenhouse full of seed trays showing signs of life, seed potatoes and onion sets still not planted but the weather forecast for the weekend is terrible so I'm not worried about them still languishing in the shed.

No housework being done at the moment - other than the necessaries. Garden taking priority.

good luck, would be nice to see your own tomatoes from your own seed

10 Toscana strawberries are coming from 17 april, I had to do a shifty around the big patios earlier, before I fill big things or they get too heavy. I had 3 poppy trugs in a sale and to my delight, they each have 3 pockets on each side, they would be perfect for toscana and there will be some room on the top for a few marigolds. I am going to put the 3 parallel to the house, in a N/S direction so that each long side gets sun

I know I have ordered too many seeds but I will as always keep them in the fridge through summer and most should sprout next year

I am fretting about where to put the beans, have not got a dedicated space for the tall ones yet and certainly not much organic matter yet, brand new garden. I must not sow too many anyway, maybe a max of 4 plants, only me and I dislike frozen beans. Maybe I will grow a mix of tall nasturtiums and beans up an obelisk

I’ve just sown some dried tomato seeds squished out from a cherry tomato a few days ago, in a plastic ricotta pot saved from the recycling.
They’re on the kitchen windowsill in a ‘greenhouse’ plastic bag.
I’m not over hopeful but you never know.
Used to grow tomatoes a lot, before we started being away too much in the summer to be able to give them enough attention.

Mini glass greenhouse is built and waiting, plugs might arrive today, compost and transplant pots and trays are ready. I use a keter outdoor box as my table

Dahlia tubers arrived yesterday, they need to go into pots in a frost free place, garage will do for now. Potatoes in pots are showing green, will need to add compost to cover. I put them under shelter each night while there is frost potential

I am not growing parsnips here and have only a 1 x1 m space for potatoes, as well as in 3 pots. I chose reliable tasty charlotte for outside. . No roots here apart from carrots and beetroot, reliable boltardy. I have to restrain myself

Today I will transplant only 4 red drumheads, I only need 2 to make much red casserole to freeze for one. I keep the rest safe, just in case. I bought grazers for cabbage whites. Old days (70-80s) I used to squish eggs on leaves

I am having to be disciplined not to sow too many seeds and not too early eg 2 sqash in a pot and 2 pots and will remove one from each. Too cool yet for beans and cucumber (marketmore) and courgettes, only 1 courgette plant needed, neighbours will have courgettes for cross pollination

I have ordered veg and flower seeds, fingers crossed they will arrive safely.

I shall watch this thread for some tips thank you.
I've just realised that I didn't order tagetes.

I have a small space in a raised bed on the ground for carrots, I have carrot net, it looks a very good product and re-usable for a very ong time

Carrot sowing starts this week, half first and then half in 6 weeks. I have put the canes in and am just about to sew channels down the mesh as cane channels. 95 x 95 bed, 4 corner canes for net with a 5th cane to overlap so I can access. 4 extra cans on the inside to help support against wind

Rocket sown today and I added spinach to a few empty spaces. Not sure about the mixed leaves row but I can transplant lettuces if needed

Green and red cabbages sown in raised seed beds outside

Tomato seedlings in and out as appropriate, a bit too windy today so are in shelter outside. Their stems get nice and strong if out and a bit windy

red drumhead are up, sprouted very fast, will transfer to a cool bright window cill for a couple of days then do the in/out dance

I used slug nematodes 2 days ago, they worked wonderfully well on my allotment some time ago

The first plugs are arriving the end of this week, I hope and I put more veg seeds into the propagator a few days ago, only at 19 degrees. I see that red drumhead is waking up. I only sow on the surface and cover with vermiculite

Cucumber and courgette soon at 21, squash ony needed 19

I think I will sprout the runner and french beans on a bit of damp kitchen roll before I pop them into rootrainers.

I have sown rocket and lettuce outside yesterday. I have them bin pots as the raised bed is just a slug magnet. I also had some flower bombs for Christmas. I thought they were for the bath but they are flower seeds in little balls of clay and you just scatter. Will be interesting to see what comes up, no clue from the little Hessian bag.

Also sown some sugarsnap and parsnips direct. The parsnips with a large amount of optimism but little expectation!

Yes I’ve shown some calabrese and cauli a few weeks ago inside in trays and I’ve potted some on as they’ve got their ‘true’ leaves. Other than that I’ve also got lettuce, beets, and spring onions on the go, all started inside but now in the cold frame. Toms and peppers a good size and one cucumber constantly being moved from windowsill to windowsill as we don’t have any south facing. They will all go in my little greenhouse on the allotment eventually. Thank God I can immerse myself in gardening now and then to take mind off ‘you know what’ a little.

is anyone sowing any brassicas yet?

Today, sun is warm and first vegtrug is ready so I have sown rows of seeds and topped with a flat fleece cover
radish escala
spring onion feast
lettuce little gem and mazur
beetroot boltardy
spinach trumpet

I decided to sow outside as the temperature of that soil in a black liner is high enough

10 of my sweet peas have sprouted indoors, I want to put them out soon in a cold mini greenhouse, just waiting to see if any more come up