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    growing from seed help please

    Im currently atempting to grow some vegatable from seeds in cluding, tomatoes, strawberrys, spring onions and sweetcorn... im using a seedling tray with a unheated propagator in my kitchen on windowseal, the temperature is about 20oc....

    5 of each was sown and yet i have one ioon that ive had to repot as bit and another onion thats just showing ( why?) my tomatoes always get too leggy and my sweetcorn never grows

    I planted about 1 month ago

    any tips on what i can do?
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    its a bit early for sweetcorn and if your toms are leggy theres a lack of light i sown my toms 3 weeks ago in a cold greenhouse and they have been emerging for the last week about 60% up strawberry seeds take ages spring onions sown 3 weeks ago in cold frame just showing

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    • #3
      This is what happens when using seed trays - things germinate at different rates and you are left with half empty trays for ages. Use small pots, sow into the pot and label each one and then you can move them about, water them etc as and when each germinates.

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        Originally posted by julie87 View Post
        im using a seedling tray
        What, with everything in one tray? That's not helping you: sow each variety in a separate pot/tray

        Originally posted by julie87 View Post
        with a unheated propagator in my kitchen on windowseal, the temperature is about 20oc
        It might be 20c in daytime, but what is it at night? Right next to the glass it's very cold and tomatoes need a nice even temp of *about* 10c, day and night
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by julie87 View Post
          my sweetcorn never grows

          I planted about 1 month ago
          Sweetcorn is a tender crop and can't go outside until after your last frost. So, you shouldn't sow it until about 3 weeks before your last frost

          If you tell us where you are ...?
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            its a seedling tray with tiny compartments in, at night i take i move it to somewhere warmer as i dont trust cat lol.

            my inlaws started their sweetcorn same time as me in same way and they doing well.

            Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
            What, with everything in one tray? That's not helping you: sow each variety in a separate pot/tray

            It might be 20c in daytime, but what is it at night? Right next to the glass it's very cold and tomatoes need a nice even temp of *about* 10c, day and night

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            • #7
              Originally posted by julie87 View Post

              my inlaws started their sweetcorn same time as me in same way and they doing well.
              They will do well under cover, in the warm. When are you going to put them outside?
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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