The flower seed sowing thread 2021

[Containergardener]

Finally got my cosmos seeds sown having shuffled some things inside to greenhouse internal blowaway
Brightness /bright lights
Hot pink
Fizzy pink
Purity white
Gloria
Dazzler
Fizzy rose
Dwarf mix

[Babru]

These overnight frosts are causing chaos, I have flowers that could do with being moved on, daren't put them in the cold frame yet as it's so cold at night.

I agree Burnie. My windowsills are full of cosmos, geraniums etc. I need to put them in the greenhouse before hardening off next month, but the overnight greenhouse temperature has been hovering around +2. I hate my geraniums getting red leaves when they get a chill.

[Gearoid]

I sowed some calendula "art shades" in the herb garden after a good weeding this afternoon.

[peanut]

Sown nasturtiums in pots , as well as wallflowers, English marigold and hollyhocks in situ.

Ooh can I sow Wallflowers now...fab!

[peanut]

Sowed the rest of my various Tagetes, the last of my Strawberry Blonde Marigolds and African Daisies.

[Nicos]

Sown nasturtiums in pots , as well as wallflowers, English marigold and hollyhocks in situ.

[annie8]

Oh and planted a few more sweet peas to fill the gaps in my obelisk.

[annie8]

Planted out the ragged robin I started from seed last autumn and the lily of the valley I bought as pips a few months ago.

[peanut]

Sowed Tithonia Still have so much more to sow!

[Containergardener]

Sowed linaria today

[burnie]

These overnight frosts are causing chaos, I have flowers that could do with being moved on, daren't put them in the cold frame yet as it's so cold at night.

[Gearoid]

In late March I sowed:
Nicotiana Sylvestris
Rudbeckia Solar Eclipse + Cherokee Sunset
Ipomoea Lobata (already huge!)
Marigold Naughty Marietta
Cosmos Brightness mixed

All are doing well and being put outside when it's warm and sunny. I sowed some Evening Sun sunflowers at the weekend and they're already popping up so that'll be another tray to shuffle around each day.

[Containergardener]

Today I sowed my morning glory's and some canary creeper
I have one space left on a windowledge to do somehing tomorrow.

[Plot70]

Last year the frost got my runner beans.
My squashes escaped the frost because they were planted in topsoil plugs in the top of a raised bed with hot manure that was being used to boil off several wheel barrow loads of couch grass roots. The rising heat was enough to protect them.

[peanut]

I was looking at pictures from last april of the garden. It was alot further ahead with that warm weather we had last yr.
seems a long winter
I have more windowsills as I've gone upstairs now

Yes, the weather was so much more gardener friendly last year, but then some got caught out with the cold nights we got in May. I'm hoping Mother Nature will give us a break and from May onwards the nights will be tender plant friendly!