Itchy fingers

**veggiechicken** · 11-11-2018, 06:06 PM

You could join me in a little experiment

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...lan_97986.html

Tomorrow, I'm going to sow Week 5 seeds and report that 3 of the 5 seeds planted on Week 1 have germinated.

Sweet peas, early peas, mangetout, broad beans can all be sown now.

**nickdub** · 11-11-2018, 06:31 PM

Not a bad time to take some hardwood cuttings. Not exactly sowing stuff I know, but it counts as propagation.

**Guest** · 11-11-2018, 06:32 PM

cress and mustard.
Greens for microveg
peas for shoots
beans for sprouts

Undercover or outside flowers - hardy annuals cornflowers, nigella, larkspur, poppies, sweet peas etc. Any perennials that would benefit from stratification

**rary** · 11-11-2018, 08:15 PM

This evening with my meal I had pea shoots, rocket and lettuce which are all growing in the greenhouse with no heating or artificial light, there is also carrot which I had transplanted once my veg bed was ready, a bit disappointed that my radish have not developed though there are plenty of leaf growth with them, you could give growing some of those a try, you don't need to make a bed for them try sowing and growing in boxes

**jackarmy** · 11-11-2018, 09:25 PM

Sowed some white lisbon spring onion yesterday due to itchy fingers lol , hopefully will come up on bedroom windowsill and then see how they crack on in the greenhouse for a while.

**bramble** · 11-11-2018, 10:13 PM

Originally posted by Baldy View Post

Haven't been to the plot for a week due to work and stuff. Its dark at 4.35pm now so opportunities to get there are diminishing.... Still too early to sow most anything indoors? Think I'm looking at January for a few indoor sowings of chillies and toms in heated prop with light...
Anything that I could sow indoors now? Sweetpeas?

Badly, I usually sow Sweet peas at this time of the year in the greenhouse.
I can only say you need to keep them well apart as they tend to become tangled into each other when they start to put out tendrils.
Otherwise I have no problem overwintering them and it gives them a head start and an early flowering in the summer.

**Penellype** · 12-11-2018, 07:15 AM

If you have some lights you could do what I did last year with carrots. I used a tall pot about 5 inches square (the sort garden centres sell fruit bushes in) and sowed 16 carrot seeds about an inch apart in all directions (use a stump rooted variety - I used Nantes Frubund). I covered the pot with a plastic bag and put it in the spare bedroom, and the seeds germinated in about 2 weeks. The carrots were ready to eat in April, having stayed under the lights until the foliage got too tall, and then moved to the kitchen windowsill. The foliage was a bit scruffy and floppy but the carrots were about an inch across and upto 4 inches long.

**mothhawk** · 13-11-2018, 07:39 AM

Originally posted by Norfolkgrey View Post

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Undercover or outside flowers - hardy annuals cornflowers, nigella, larkspur, poppies, sweet peas etc. Any perennials that would benefit from stratification

I read that oriental poppies need stratification so I sowed a generous potful of self saved seeds two weeks ago, put them outside in a poly bag so I wouldn't need to remember to water them, and left them, so I thought, till spring when hopefully they would germinate.

Well, they hadn't read the same book as me, and it looks like every last one has germinated already. As they were self saved I didn't expect many to germinate, since I haven't had a good strike rate with purchased seeds.

What am I going to do with 40 odd oriental poppies next year?

**Snadger** · 13-11-2018, 07:57 AM

Originally posted by mothhawk View Post

I read that oriental poppies need stratification so I sowed a generous potful of self saved seeds two weeks ago, put them outside in a poly bag so I wouldn't need to remember to water them, and left them, so I thought, till spring when hopefully they would germinate.

Well, they hadn't read the same book as me, and it looks like every last one has germinated already. As they were self saved I didn't expect many to germinate, since I haven't had a good strike rate with purchased seeds.

What am I going to do with 40 odd oriental poppies next year?

Ask the local drug baron what you should do with them.

I love poppyknot seeded buns.

**Small pumpkin** · 13-11-2018, 08:01 AM

Not sowing anything yet. Super hot chillies get sown next month.
It might be time to start seed shuffling. Working out what I've got, what I need and what I would like.

**Tripmeup** · 13-11-2018, 12:40 PM

I always tell myself that come this time of year that I will sow some stuff like pea shoots, cress etc in the greenhouses to keep myself going but I never do !!
I think subconsciously my brain says take a break and be ready to go again in early January

**Mark_Riga** · 13-11-2018, 10:13 PM

What's this thread doing in vegging out - should be in the Flower Mill surely??

**Snadger** · 14-11-2018, 08:23 AM

Originally posted by Mark_Riga View Post

What's this thread doing in vegging out - should be in the Flower Mill surely??

I think the majority of the sowing activity will be veg?

**Small pumpkin** · 14-11-2018, 08:32 AM

I started some tomato seeds yesterday

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