The seed sowing thread 2014!!

[Thelma Sanders]

I'm just sowing lots more sweet peas, plus - Amy Sweet Hungarian wax, Black wax chilli, Mila's Bulgarian red sweet pepper and Dedo do Mocha sweet Aji pepper in the propagator

[mothhawk]

Just checked the second lot of sweet peas I put to chit. Thirty out of thirty-one seeds have chitted, hurrah! so I need to get the module trays out, pot them up and stick them outside under a cloche.

Done. Sowed some verbascum seeds too. Just read the packet and it says germination 1 - 3 months Should have started them earlier!

[bramble]

Tomatoes, chillis, celeriac and cauliflowers have germinated. have a feeling i may be sowing more caulis as they have gone quite leggy but will wait and see.

[marcofez]

Sowed today,
40 cell tray of Banana & Prisma F1 Hybrid Shallots
Lathon self blanching Galaxy & Del Valarno Celery
Summer Purple sprouting broccoli and the herb, Dill.

[lottie dolly]

sowed at the lottie,more leeks musselborough,a few oragon sugarpod peas,early onward peas 5 to a pot x16,banana shallots a few sprinkled in modules,broad beans the sutton,and yellow and green courgettes just as a try,

[Bigmallly]

Good luck with the Courgettes lottie..........treat them with kid gloves..........

[binley100]

Wildflower mix round the edges of our parking area at home and by my hedge at the lottie ..

[Martin H]

Good choice Binley, wallflowers love mortar and rough stony ground.

[binley100]

Are wallflowers wild ....

[Martin H]

They probably are somewhere...

[veggiechicken]

Are wallflowers wild ....

They probably are somewhere...

Siberia
Wild Flower Seed: Siberian Wallflower(Cheiranthus allionii)

[Martin H]

My mum used to grow Siberian wallflowers for bedding in the front garden. They are lovely. That rich yellow that goes on looking good for weeks.

[Ladyslip]

Finally made a start yesterday and sowed Chillis......and toms,,,Italian plum super marmande and black cherry.......I actually had a packet of cherry tom seeds unopened to find the sealed foil pouch was empty I'm away this week so will plant again at the weekend good to see not too late with me broadbeans !!

[AllInContainers]

Took the lids off a couple of windowsill prop's today. The first has my dahlia yams (5/6 sprouted), queensland arrowroot (3/6), golden pearls (5/6), wonderberry (1/6), and inca berries (0/6). The second has yellow strawbs (8/10), black strawbs (4/10), blue strawbs (1/10), and giant red strawbs (6/10). Many of these would benefit from the lid still being on, but some of the eager ones are getting very leggy. My 72 cell windowsill planter has the wild white alpine strawbs in, and they're teeny weeny little pathetic things so I'll be leaving the lid on that a while.

More seeds just landed today too from a late night drunken spree a few days back Not too painful on the wallet though thankfully:

• Nigels Outdoors Green Chilli,
• Pyramid Rainbow Chilli Pepper (for the lounge windowsill as I wimped out of calamondin oranges),
• Sweet Granite Early Melon,
• Minnesota Midget Canteloupe,
• Bulgarian Giant Leek

[catgirl]

I sowed some broad beans (witkiem manita) in one of my raised beds today. It says on the packet to sow between February and May but May seems a bit late to me.

I've already got sweet peppers, aubergines, galia melons, cherry tomatoes and celeriac seedlings growing on a warm windowsill. I've also just put the leeks, onions and cauli's in the (bubblewrapped) greenhouse, what with the weather being so mild. It easily reaches 15 degrees in there on a sunny day so I'm thinking they should be fine. And it frees my windowsills up for more seed trays!

The problem I'm having is that I've been told I'm top of the waiting list for the allotments just down the road from me, and that they think a half plot will come up soon. But of course I don't know whether that's going to be in March or July! So it's hard to know how much to sow of anything.