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I have a collection of the above, as well as rootrainers - I know that rootrainers and loo rolls are good for sowing peas, beans etc - but apart from those, what type of veg and flowers do you sow in which type of container? 
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In my loo rolls, I sow my beans, peas and parsnips and plant the loo roll into the ground, this also helps with my parsnips as I know where they are (I normally do 2 parsnip seeds per roll and thin out as necessary) I had the best parsnip crop last year. In my root trainers i sow my sweetcorn as they like a long root, in modules i sow my cabbages and brassicas and beetroot and in open trays i sow my flower seeds and my salad leaves -
modules cells and seed trays get little seeds, like celeriac, or two or three of tomato size seeds, or one nasturtium/sweet pea.
Root trainers and loo rolls get big seeds, broad beans, beans, sweetcorn etc.
I did do parsnips in loo rolls a while back, but I got a bit fraught with checking for the root coming out the bottom v seed leaves and worrying if they would fork, I'm just sowing direct this year
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Really daft question time ........ Whats the difference between modules & cells please
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I also use loo roles for mi leeks. I start most of my veg of in them to be honest, for smaller seeds I cut them in half. At the moment I have lot's of Red current baby's in modules what I found growing round my current bush. I also use 3" plant pot's for mi squash, cucumbers, courgettes there not too fussed about having there root's moved.Comment
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I would say none, maybe it's a geographical thing........Originally posted by bearded bloke View PostReally daft question time ........ Whats the difference between modules & cells please
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I refer to the whole-tray as a "module", and the individual compartments as "cells"Originally posted by bearded bloke View PostWhats the difference between modules & cells please
I use newspaper pots for:
Sweet peas
Parsnips
Sweetcorn
I have used loo rolls too, but prefer the greater depth I can make newspaper pots to (they are a bit less than 2" diameter, and 6" - 7" tall - can't find pots that size!)
I have used them for Carrots - too much faff for a single-mouthful veg!
Modules:
Onions from seed
Guttering:
Peas
12" pots
Carrots (50:50 last year's used multi-purpose compost and horticultural sharp sand
Seed trays
All the rest are raised in 1/4 sized seed trays and pricked out to pots
3" Pots
Things that will be potted-on - Tomatoes and other greenhouse plants
9cm pots (a half-inch bigger than the 3" ones)
everything else that goes direct to the ground - the larger pot size gives me a bit more "holding time" if ground / weather / me! is not ready come planting-out time.
I put 3 beetroot per pot, and harvest the thinnings leaving one to grow larger, pretty much everything else gets one-per-pot.
Probably these are what everyone else uses Modules / Root trainers for ...Last edited by Kristen; 24-03-2011, 09:16 AM.K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our gardenComment
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What a great amount of very very useful info.
One thing i have wondered though, if peas like long roots then does sowing them in guttering stunt them? I know it makes them easy to raise and plant but seems at odds with the other advice.Comment
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Toilet rolls Sweet Peas,Peas
Modules Cauliflowers,Cabbages,Onions
Seed Trays Small seeds ie ColeusComment
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not aware that Peas like long roots / dislike transplanting. Joy Larkcom says either Modules or Guttering for "faff raised peas"Originally posted by ugley_matt View Post
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Originally posted by bearded bloke View PostReally daft question time ........ Whats the difference between modules & cells pleaseI'm probably wrong, but I thought that cells are the ones which have bigger and usually square individual compartments (maybe 8, 10 or 12 per tray) whereas modules are much smaller, usually rounded, and there are maybe 36/48 of them in each tray.I would say none, maybe it's a geographical thing........
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48 cell trays - brassicas, pelleted lettuce seeds, florence fennel, chard, tomatoes, chillies
3" pots - curcubits, beans, onion sets, shallots
1 litre pots - leeks
seed trays - lettuce seed (natural), celeriac, celery.
direct - carrots, turnips, parsnips.Rat
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I don't use loo-rolls for anything, can't abide the horrid furry mould they always get on them... They go in the recycling in my house. And I've renounced degradable fibre/peat pots too because they weren't rotting down properly in the soil, so the plants were getting stunted.
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Seed trays:
Salads, celery, tomatoes, chillis, small flower seeds
48 cell trays:
Onions, bigger flower seeds, pricked out flower seedlings and individual lettuces.
6 cell trays:
All brassicas (including swedes) - 2 per cell, beetroot, pricked out tomato & chilli seedlings
3 inch pots:
Sweetcorn, cucumber, courgette, marrow, pumpkin, squash
Rootrainers:
Tall peas, all beans
1 litre pots:
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Loo roll tubes - pre-chitted parsnip seeds, peas, sweetcorn, sunflowers
Module trays - chillies, toms, peppers, celeriac, shallots
Seed trays - lettuce, pak choi
3 inch pots - courgette, melon, mini pumpkin
5 inch pots - leeks, various annuals (nasturtiums, tagetes, sweet peas), butternut squashcome visit a garden
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small seeds = small modules/plugs/cells
medium seeds = a pinch in small pots
big seeds = small pots
Everything else inbetween = depends on what's handy.
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