The Seed Sowing Thread - 2017

[Pants]

Where to start

Only got my allotment 3 weeks before Christmas. Cleared it best I could. I have some beds ready and I'm gagging to get going. I have ordered all my seeds, probably too many.

I have windowsill propogators ready to start stuff too.

So what should I start with? Any advice welcome.

[Bigmallly]

Hello Pants & welcome to the Jungle. Just keep your eyes on this thread & you'll see what other members are sowing.

[Molliedollie]

the seed sowing thread 2017

I have several trays of onions/ spring onions and small leeks on the windowsill in the conservatory. lots of light and generally coolish (underfloor heating to 20*) will be interestin gto watch the progress.

[lmayhow]

Couldn't hold myself off any longer and heated up my xmas propagator yesterday and have just started my vegetable seeds for the month, I know its only the first of the month but it's so hard being patient.... Will sow my Feb flowers next week but veg seeds as follows...

Aubergine Black Beauty
Artichoke Globe Purple and Green
Tomato Moneymaker
Tomato Alicante
Pepper Sweet Mini Mix
Pepper Hot Razzamatazz
Pepper Hot Chilli Shake
Leeks Long De Mezieres (not in the propagator)

Will now spend the next week staring at the poor seeds waiting to see movement.

[Two_Sheds]

It's too dark for me to start sowing until March.
Having said that, a mouse has been eating my BB seed in the GH, so I've just put them all into 3" pots

[johnjohn]

Sown today into propagator:

Tomatoes:
Pink Charmer
Suncherry Smile
Country Taste
Shirley

Aubergines:
Early Long Purple 3
Black Beauty
Violetta Lunga 2

Chilli's:
Hotscotch
Super Chilli
Tabasco
Cheyenne
Rokita

Peppers:
Doux tres long des Landes
Gourmet
Sweet mixed
Sweet tasty
Corno rosso
Topepo rosso

Hoping to finish them off under my Christmas lights.

The grow lights I got for Christmas obviously not the other sort ....

[cpm82]

I was due to construct a plastic greenhouse on Saturday and sow some tomato seeds. Will this be a little early since it won't be heated?

Also was meaning to sow Cosmos and Salvia. All three have been Okayed sowing wise this month by various websites.

[Snoop Puss]

Lawks a-mercy! It's far too cold here to be sowing seeds. Where's global warming when you want it? (Only joking, of course.)

[johnjohn]

I was due to construct a plastic greenhouse on Saturday and sow some tomato seeds. Will this be a little early since it won't be heated?

It is early, you will notice that there are many on here who can't resist the temptation to sow early though!
If you have somewhere warm and light to bring the tomatoes on like a conservatory or warm sunny windowsill you might get away with it but they run the risk of getting leggy- lots of seeds in a packet though so you may think it's worth a try.

I'm sowing now and will bring them on under growlights - there are several threads on here about it.

They won't go out until outside temps are up to around 10C though.

You might find this worth a read too:
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eds_88345.html

[Small pumpkin]

Mung beans

( if you can class putting in a jar and rinsing twice a day as sowing )

[johnjohn]

Sown today into trays to germinate in cool room

Leeks:
Hilari
Bleu de solaise
Sultan
Gigante D' Inverno 2
Autumn Mammoth 2 Snowstar
Cairngorm

Onions:
Rossa lunga di Firenze (Spring or bulb)
North Holland Blood Red (Spring)
Katana (Spring)
Mammoth red
Ailsa Craig

Sown today into propagator:
Onion- Red Baron
Onion-Bedfordshire Champion
Basil~sweet
Basil~red
Basil~Lemon

[happyhumph]

for the propogater today;

Tomatoes - latah & amish paste

Peppers - frigadello (sp?) & Palermo (saved from lidl peppers

Aubergine - black beauty

In greenhouse

Pea - shaft green Hurst

Radish - white icicle, a red one and watermelon one.

More seed sowing tomorrow

Going to have very full windowsills soon......

[JustPotteringAbout]

Tomatoes: Alicante Gardener's Delight, Marmande, Mortgage Lifter, Oxheart, Plenty
Chillies: Apache F1, Cayenne, Thai Culinary, Ring of Fire, Habanero Chocolate
Allioums: Bedfordshire Champion, Walla Walla, Red Baron, Red Brunswick, Musselburgh, Shallot (Zeebrune)
In Euro trays 600mm x 400mm some heated on the sandbed on the table in the sitting room, some by the back door.
Blueberries: dropped an open punnet of reduced "Legacy"and stood on some, so rather than waste them I potted them up and put them out to stratify.

Still to think of the herbs, brassicas, fabaceae, amaranthaceae, salad cucurbs.
Wish I'd bought more of the eurotrays. Can't find any similar anywhere.

[forgetmenot]

Used up the last of my windowsill space today so no more sowing until it warms up a bit. Sob!!

[Penellype]

First "proper" sowings in the last couple of days:

spinach gigante d'inverno outside under cloche
32 pea meteor in rootrainers - these will go in pots outside eventually
4 balconi tomatoes, 2 red and 2 yellow - these will produce a crop on the windowsill and then be moved outside for more later.
choy sum and radish for microgreens.