The Seed Sowing Thread - 2016

[Small pumpkin]

Today I've sown
Leaf radish sangria
Cress
Gourmet cress bubbles
Mizuna
Brady leaf Californian mix
Lambs lettuce

[muddled]

Today I've sown

Gourmet cress bubbles

goodness! they sound interesting! what are they?

[Guest]

Got to sow my second lot of melons today. Melon - Banana

[Gillykat]

Sowed replacement brassicas as I knocked my last batch over before they'd even germinated the other day!

6 x early Purple Sprouting Broccolli
6 x Cabbage 'greyhound'
6 x Kale 'Nero di Toscana'

Had a few more seeds to sow but spent so much time chatting to my neighbour Tony who I haven't seen since last autumn....just like the swallows he migrates to warmer climes (Spain) to avoid the winter ....that I ran out of time! Mainly flower seeds and biennials & perennials so no mad rush - I'll get them done tomorrow afternoon or Thursday

[bramble]

Sowed lettuce Little Gem and Lolla Rosa in the greenhouse.
Made supports for my Kelsae onions which I potted on recently.
Sowed Dahlia seeds.
Potted on some tomato and chillis that needed to be moved.Potted on my first lot of Dahlias which germinated a few weeks ago.

[hamamelis]

Sowed some lettuce and sunflowers, went to sow some rainbow chard, only to discover the pack was empty.

Now quite cross with mid 2015 me for putting an empty pack away, so late 2015 me thought I still had some and didn't buy a replacement.

[Florence Fennel]

Sunflower Evening Sun

[bario1]

Sowed 8 sunflower 'Teddy Bear' in 4 pots after admiring someone's in last year's vine show.
Sowed 20 or so French marigolds
Put a whole load more of last year's parsnip seeds on damp kitchen roll to chit - nothing sprung from the last lot, might need to buy a new pack :-(
Put a whole load of sugar snap peas on kitchen roll to chit - the ones i sowed last month just rotted in their pots :-(
Put some loopin seeds in water to soak till tomorrow, then i'll sow them.

[bario1]

Sowed 12 sweet peas this morning.

[Lisasbolt]

This last week, i have sown my sweetcorn that are coming up nicely. Lots of different salad leaves, but i have let the bed dry out every day so i do not know what will come up. 4 different types of sunflowers. a few pots of basil, and loads of spinach i know this will run quickly to seed but i will get a nice harvest first .....i hope

[Florence Fennel]

Sowed runner beans Prizewinner (free GYO mag) and Enorma in modules and now rain stopped play

[cristalfiona]

Over the past couple of days I have sown lots of flower seeds including sweet peas, sunflowers, borage and several others I can't remember.
I also put a new batch of about 6 types of chili seeds (I accidentally killed the few that germinated before), roma tomatoes, as well as 2 different melon types, cucamelon, cucumber marketmore and crystal lemon into the heated propagator last night. I checked it this morning and 5 of the (melon etc) seeds had already sprouted! Though I'm not sure which ones without checking my list. Those will be going into pots tonight and I'll be putting okra seeds in to replace them as I forgot those yesterday.

[Ms-T]

Sowed Basil and garlic Chives in pots , so I don't pull them up like last year.

[Gillykat]

Potted up into modules 11 x white onions and 10 red onions which a customer brought into shop for me

Potted up 15 Lily of the Valley pips.

Sowed seeds of following veggies....

8 x Little Gem Lettuce
6 x Beetroot 'boltardy'
20 x Turnip 'Purple Top Milan'

Off to do my tomatoes now as I'm starting them off in a propagator on living room window.

[Dorothy rouse]

First seeds planted outside this morning

Mixed salad, mizuna, herb salad, radish,s onion, rocket and beetroot!

All potatoes now planted, ( includes 11 bags of Charlotte's)

Now I'm off to pot up some tomatoes