Seed sowing thread 2022

[Peanut]

Good luck peanut ! I think our temperatures are about the minimum. Yours will go really well once you get into the dry hot East Anglia summer. Given their ancestry in South Asia it can't be too hot or too sunny for aubergines.

Thanks QW, I've managed to grow great plants covered with flowers but they didn't start to form fruit until too late in the season. This year I thought I'd gamble with an earlier sowing, a month and a bit earlier (sowed 7th March last year) in the hope I might finally get a fully grown fruit!

[Peanut]

Sowed lunchbox peppers yesterday, so sweet and crunchy you can just eat them off the plant, yummy¨!

[quanglewangle]

Thanks QW, I've managed to grow great plants covered with flowers but they didn't start to form fruit until too late in the season.

We expect flowers in May from early January sowing. Fruit pictured below is mid June. Harvest from July.

[Peanut]

We expect flowers in May from early January sowing. Fruit pictured below is mid June. Harvest from July.

I am suffering from a serious case of aubergine envy!

[quanglewangle]

I am suffering from a serious case of aubergine envy!

Hesitate to say this but the flowers do need pollination. If you are all shut up to keep the temperature up then bugs can't get in. I find [looks nervously behind him] Mrs quanglewangle's electric toothbrush works a treat

[greenishfing]

Hesitate to say this but the flowers do need pollination. If you are all shut up to keep the temperature up then bugs can't get in. I find [looks nervously behind him] Mrs quanglewangle's electric toothbrush works a treat

What a good idea! (Also looks around nervously).

[Peanut]

Hesitate to say this but the flowers do need pollination. If you are all shut up to keep the temperature up then bugs can't get in. I find [looks nervously behind him] Mrs quanglewangle's electric toothbrush works a treat

I'm pretty sure pollination is fine, gh is usually filled with hoverflies and bees and Q's, peppers and chillies all do well.

[Mark Rand]

late start this year on some and too early for others, but today I sowed tomatoes, cucumbers and their rootstocks, chillies, peppers, basil, parsley, lemon savory and dill.
All now cooking in the heated propagator.

[Mr Bones]

Aubergines sown today
Moneymaker x 12
Black Beauty x 8
Early Long Purple (free with the magazine ) x 8

[quanglewangle]

Aubergines sown today
Moneymaker x 12
Black Beauty x 8
Early Long Purple (free with the magazine ) x 8

I think we need an aubergine thread...

[Mr Bones]

I think we need an aubergine thread...

Good idea Q -'tis done

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ubergines-2022

[quanglewangle]

Good idea Q -'tis done

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ubergines-2022

Well, thanks!

[Penellype]

On 6th Feb I sowed 2 each of red, orange and yellow snackbite peppers, and balconi red and Shirley tomatoes.

[lottie dolly]

chilli peppers have started to show,so more space in the prop,hoping to get some cayenne in tomoz,then it's of to see what else i dare to sow,

[Bren In Pots]

Just a couple lettuces Valmaine and Iceberg.