The Seed Sowing Thread - 2016

[mrose]

More sweet peas, some cosmos, more alpine strawberries, and a couple of artichoke seeds (3 purple, 3 green). Having to be quite strict to ration windowsill space, though my partner just suggested shelving for seedlings unprompted, so I may get more space soon!

[marcofez]

1 forty cell tray of "Bristol F1" onions and 1 forty cell tray of "Vento F1" onions. Then off home to listen to the football on the radio! Bloomin cold on the lottie!!

[jackarmy]

popped ten Ring of Fire and four Tabasco chillis in the rop right now . England on the attack again .

[mrose]

Sowed a pack of broad beans (~35) outside today.

[vixylix]

Lots sown today:

Tomatoes:
Venus
Tumbler
Tigerella
Golden Queen
Pomodoro
Red Cherry
Black Cherry
Red Pear

Aubergine pinstripe (courtesy of Garden Gayle and the VSP)
Lemon Basil
Strawberry Temptation (second sowing of these - only one of the previous survived)
Burpless Cucumber
Onion - Long de Florance Simane
Lavender - Vera
Pepper - Long Red Marconi

[Bigmallly]

Sowed 8 Orkado toms yesterday & 8 Chinese Slangen Cucumbers today.

[Guest]

6 days to seedy blast off. I am getting excited and I have been so good.

And yes - stuff valentines I will be too busy playing with seeds

[Lisasbolt]

And yes - stuff valentines I will be too busy playing with seeds

Couldn't think of anything more romantic hope your OH does not mind.

[Guest]

Couldn´t think of anything more romantic hope your OH does not mind.

I don't think either of us have ever been that fussed about being romantic and that is probably a good thing with two toddlers. Infact we spent the weekend disagreeing wether we will have been married 7 or 8 years in March

[Lisasbolt]

I don't think either of us have ever been that fussed about being romantic and that is probably a good thing with two toddlers. Infact we spent the weekend disagreeing wether we will have been married 7 or 8 years in March

Could not agree more, after working many years in restaurants seeing how they rip you off and the commercialised BS of it all. To be honest i do not need one day for my OH to tell me he loves me (visa versa) we should be doing it all the time not because the big CEO´s tell us so. Whoops a bit intense there
Lets called it Feb 14th seed sowing day enjoy

[Nicos]

Just put about 50 espelette seeds onto wet paper , cling filmed and left on low heat radiator.
The seed is about 5 years old but should be viable.

They are my first seeds of the year.....Yey! ...the sowing season has begun

[Jungle Jane]

Just sowed some elefant leeks in some new compost,it's quite good price £2.49 for 40litres goodlands mpc from a farm shop near me. First seeds of the season for me too,compost & pots staying in the kitchen for seed sowing urges day & night.

[Martin H]

Today I sowed peppers:

Chilli Pepper "Early Jalapeno"
Sweet Pepper "Kaibi Round No 2"
Sweet Pepper "King of the North"
Sweet Pepper "Orange Bell"

5 seeds of each in a small pot of JI seed with a little MPC mixed in, in a heated propagator in the cold greenhouse.

[Lisasbolt]

I have sown into modules spinach (matador)
sweet pepper topepo rosso
sweet pepper doux tres long des landes
sweet pepper colour spectrum
and a couple more jalapeno

[Bren In Pots]

I've sown my first seeds of the season just some mixed lettuce but its a start.