Seed Sowing thread 2019

[kobzy_garden]

sowed peas- Douce provence and cabbage Langedjik in the greenhouse

[Selymbria]

Are you sowing for growing it later in GH?

[bario1]

Just sown Spring onions and leeks (free trial ones) indoors.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

I have fallen in love!!!

Just got back from taking young Madame up to the stables, yep! I got the best job of mucking out whilst she tacked him up and went for a good old 2hr ride, this was not in the original plan!

But all are happy, Opal the horse himself gets awarded a few mints, Scarlett walks away with a grin like a Cheshire Cat and both Dave and Lynsey the horses owner are well chuffed that there is somebody so small in weight can actually ride him since their daughter is now far to big, and he was getting fat!

I digress!

On the way home, nipped into the local GC to pick up a bag of compost, never been a lover of the more expensive stuff, added this, added that etc

But grabbed a bag of Levingtons seed compost, so light and fluffy and smells like heaven!

Yep! I'm sad! And tell ya what, I would sleep in this stuff!

[Selymbria]

Is it levington john innes seed compost?

[muck lover]

I have sown leeks onions and a few tomatoes. I can’t help thinking it’s a bit early but all the grapes can’t be wrong!

[Chestnut]

I have sown some salad leaves, celery, aubergines, and a few chillies and tomatoes indoors.

[veggiechicken]

Sown 4 half trays of Lucky Jar Flower seeds
Sown one Mushroom tray thingy with Texel Greens and Dwarf Curly Kale to check whether the first leaves on curly kale are smooth or curly (as Suttons say they they're smooth).

You can never 100% trust anyone who wants to sell you something at an inflated price.

[bramble]

My 4 red cabbage seeds and my 8 calsbrese seeds have germinated.

[SarrissUK]

Today I've really gone to town with sowings....
Cayenne
Hopscoth peppers
Lots of tomatoes
Corecole Kale 'Scarlet'
Purple Scalet Kale
Rossignol kale
Dwarf curly kale
Brussel sprouts 'Evesham special'
California Wonder peppers
Spring onion
Leeks
Onion 'Ailsa Craig'
Kalettes
Aubergines - two types (might as well use up the seeds)
Kohl rabi
Lots of chard

The compost from Wickes seems excellent - smells nice and earthy, lovely consistency. I hope it all does well. Now set out on a pasting table behind my dressing table in my bedroom!

[kobzy_garden]

Are you sowing for growing it later in GH?

No, all will be grown outside.. peas in trenches a first for me as before the slugs used to decimate everything and cabbage seems to be doing really well over wintering so be interesting to see if i can get similar results in summer... got to watch out for those pesky white butterflies as last year I saw so many of those laying eggs on my gigantic broccoli leaves. Managed to squash loads before any damage as well as the wrens feeding their young helping to manage numbers so all is good!

[Gillykat]

I have fallen in love!!!


But grabbed a bag of Levingtons seed compost, so light and fluffy and smells like heaven!

Yep! I'm sad! And tell ya what, I would sleep in this stuff!

Deano, I think I speak for us all when I say we know EXACTLY what you mean!

I've got two giant bags of their multipurpose in my greenhouse for potting things on and yep, it's so fluffy and tactile. I feel like I'm pampering my wee plants and tucking them up into a lovely soft bed

Needless to say.....my non-gardener husband thinks I'm nuts Just wait till I have chickens to pamper too!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Is it levington john innes seed compost?

It Is! .............And it's beautiful stuff!

[SarrissUK]

Working from home today, and in my lunch break I sowed Rubine brussel sprouts, cauliflower and Monarch celeriac. All in the time it took to sort my lunch out

[Madasafish]

Lots I want to sow but with 3cms of snow.. wait till mid Feb