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    Ooh eck theyve germinated !

    Hi all

    It looks like I got a little over excited with the heated propagator I got for Xmas. Last weekend I sowed some chillis, sweet peppers, melons and toms. Last year I had poor germination with my cuc's so I sowed some of them also. Well blow me down, the cuc's and toms have come up already. Now I'm beginning to panic. I will shortly have to re pot them but I can't use my windowsills as my cats knock everything down. I do have a polytunnel but it's not heated. Would they be ok in there ? Have I kinda kicked myself in the foot with my enthusiasm ?
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    Yes the cats would be OK in the poly tunnel, however I suggest the compost bin or even better a deep hole.
    Jimmy (Dedicated cat hater)
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      Put them in the polytunnel if you have nowhere else to put them, you can always sow some more later if they don't make it.
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      • #4
        lol at jimmy!
        I think you are going to struggle keeping them all alive til after frosts if you have nowhere heated to put them. And it's a bit early still for cucumbers.

        I put my toms and chillis into an unheated g/h last year, once they were about a foot or more high but not until about end of march april and then I had to wrap and unwrap them everynight with fleece for what felt like weeks lol.

        You are a bit further south than me though so you may get away with it?

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        • #5
          Can't you ask the famous Guernsey Tomato Growers for a little corner in their heated polys
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            First lesson learned, I reckon! Only germinate what you can cope with.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by piskieinboots View Post
              Can't you ask the famous Guernsey Tomato Growers for a little corner in their heated polys
              Haha if only. Oh well. I will give it another week. To give you an idea of how much milder we canbe, but not always. Whilst you guys had inches of snow for weeks we had a couple of skiddy icy days and that was the lot much to my kids dismay ! Prob over here is the strong winds that knock everything flat.

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              • #8
                Could you knock up some sort of netting barrier to keep the cats out of the window, but seeing as I know nothing about cats so thats probably a daft idea.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                  Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
                  Put them in the polytunnel if you have nowhere else to put them, you can always sow some more later if they don't make it.
                  I agree with BM, you may have the last laugh as its milder where you are.

                  If not then its not a mistake more of a learning curve

                  Good luck
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                  • #10
                    A propagator hummm.... it is amazing what makes us gardening folks excited
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                    • #11
                      What about using your bathroom and close the door on the cats? At least maybe you can save some of them that way and put some in pots covered with a poly sheet close to the house wall, that may help?

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                        Originally posted by Jimmy View Post
                        Yes the cats would be OK in the poly tunnel, however I suggest the compost bin or even better a deep hole.
                        Jimmy (Dedicated cat hater)

                        lol. spat my breakfst out

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                          Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                          First lesson learned, I reckon! Only germinate what you can cope with.
                          I must remember that one this year.



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                          • #14
                            Possibly a bit of overkill, but you could repot them into a big pot, either ceramic or terracotta which would be too heavy for the cats to knock over. It's really only little plastic pots that they will knock off the sill.

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