The Seed Sowing Thread - 2016

[Florence Fennel]

Sweetcorn and French Marigold

[ChrissieG]

Sowed Batavia lettuce, little gem, and cosmos, in modules.

[Florence Fennel]

Nasturtium (Empress of India)

[Small pumpkin]

Seed sowing today. Peas, 4 varieties of carrots, a little experimental 6 cell tray of herbs ( parsley, dill, hyssop, orange scented thyme, coriander & Hungarian blue breadseed poppy). Other half wants to try germinating them in the airing cupboard. My experiment is to see how many days it takes for him to get board of checking for germinate

[Bigmallly]

Relocated the trays of Busy Lizzie & Petunia from the greenhouse to the heated prop to hopefully give them a kick start.

[marcofez]

Sowed lettuce today. A pinch of each.
Lollo Rosso, Black seeded Simpson, Webbs Wonderful, Little Gem, Red Chicory, Rubens Red and Oak Leaf.

[Nannysally99]

Sowed yesterday lettuce, spring onion, carrots and radish.
Loads of potatoes too

[bario1]

Yesterday I sowed:

Three types of purple sprouting broccoli (early, mid and late)
Sugar snap peas as they chit in the heated prop - i'm having to do it this way because two 'direct' sowings (i.e. in pots in the poytunnel) have failed to germinate now. Even on damp kitchen roll in the prop most are just going soft and hairy rather than sprouting!
Gave up on last year's parsnip seed as well (none germinating on kitchen roll in the prop) and bought some new from T3sco. We'll see how that does.
Marigolds and sunflowers popped up over the weekend.

[Scoot]

Yesterday I sowed:

Three types of purple sprouting broccoli (early, mid and late)
Sugar snap peas as they chit in the heated prop - i'm having to do it this way because two 'direct' sowings (i.e. in pots in the poytunnel) have failed to germinate now. Even on damp kitchen roll in the prop most are just going soft and hairy rather than sprouting!
Gave up on last year's parsnip seed as well (none germinating on kitchen roll in the prop) and bought some new from T3sco. We'll see how that does.
Marigolds and sunflowers popped up over the weekend.

I was the same with last years parsnips seeds. I think 1 out of about 200 seeds germinated on wet kitchen roll. Chucked them and started new ones which are now all in the ground in the garden.

[Vickilou]

Sowed the first of my lettuce today, boy am I running out of space why do my family think the dining table is for eating at? Don't they see every window ledge is full and don't they realise it's April

[Ms-T]

Sowed today
radishs in a pot like I saw someone on here do.
lots of old marigold seed. Well you never know .
cucumbers. Maybe a bit early.

[cristalfiona]

Some new broad beans to fill the gaps in my rows, various herbs, yet more chilli seeds as they are refusing to do anything!

[Small pumpkin]

Today's seed sowing
Spinach fiorano
Beetroot rainbow
Salad leaves harlequin mix
Salad leaves Tuscan mix
Lettuce headed mix
Lettuce little gem
Lettuce iceberg
Lettuce Tom Thumb
Lettuce lobjoits green cos
Lettuce marvel of 4 season
Lettuce freckles
Lettuce French salad mix
Parsnip tender and true
Parsnip white gem
Beetroot chioggia
Beetroot red ace
Kale dwarf green curled
Cabbage amager
Cabbage savoy
Cabbage golden acre
Melon honeydew
Melon garla
Courgette tondo di piacenza
Courgette sun beam
Squash vegetable spaghetti
Marrow long green trailing
Pumpkin hundred weight
Pumpkin Atlantic giant
Pumpkin jack o lantern
Pumpkin small sugar
Pumpkin charmant PRM
Climbing beans cobra
Tomato black krim
Tomato tumbling yellow

I've nearly finished seed sowing ( apart from all the repeat sowing)

[mothhawk]

Seed sowing today. Peas, 4 varieties of carrots, a little experimental 6 cell tray of herbs ( parsley, dill, hyssop, orange scented thyme, coriander & Hungarian blue breadseed poppy). Other half wants to try germinating them in the airing cupboard. My experiment is to see how many days it takes for him to get board of checking for germinate

Orange scented thyme sounds nice SP. Can I ask where you got the seeds from? And how do you grow it? I've tried ordinary thyme a couple of times and had no success. I suspect I don't take enough care as the seeds are so tiny.

[mothhawk]

Sowed some Red Russian kale as micro-greens as I have a big pack of self saved seeds from last year.