Growing from Seed

**FionaH** · 16-07-2009, 03:06 PM

lettuce and radish prefer cool conditions I think

**Fat Bob** · 16-07-2009, 04:10 PM

With all my lettuce, radish and rocket, I just used grow bags outside on a table and cut squares for each type and sowed the seed, then planted a 2ltr coke bottle in the middle of each one for watering.

They seem to do much better outside and they germinated really quickly.

**jimfin** · 16-07-2009, 04:14 PM

Originally posted by Fat Bob View Post

With all my lettuce, radish and rocket, I just used grow bags outside on a table and cut squares for each type and sowed the seed, then planted a 2ltr coke bottle in the middle of each one for watering.

Whats the idea of the coke bottle!!! How do you tell how much water the give?

**rustylady** · 16-07-2009, 05:19 PM

None of these should be in the greenhouse in summer. Radish don't do well in seed trays - a 6" half pot would be better. Lettuce hate being hot - do you have any open ground or is it all pots & greenhouse? I start my lettuce in cell trays, just a few seeds per cell, and when they're a reasonable size I plant them out into either the garden or plant troughs (same with rocket)

**zazen999** · 16-07-2009, 05:33 PM

The greenhouse thing is one reason why they are wilting, the spraying and not watering is another.

Yes! Get them in a tray with some water, do this every day.

**Fat Bob** · 16-07-2009, 06:15 PM

Originally posted by jimfin View Post

Whats the idea of the coke bottle!!! How do you tell how much water the give?

I got it off here somewhere.

Cut the base off a 2ltr pop bottle, take the lid off! then plant upside-down in a hole in the middle of the grow bag.

The water goes into the base of the grow bag and is leeched upwards.

It is easy to water because you just fill the bottle and the seedlings don't get battered.

**SMS6** · 16-07-2009, 08:53 PM

I grow my radishes in drain pipes, outside - they seem to do okay

**Alice** · 16-07-2009, 09:05 PM

Jings Jimfin. Where are you growing and what are you trying to do.
Lettuce, radish and rocket will do well in containers if that is all you have. But they do like cool, damp conditions. They won't like being in the greenhouse.
If they are in trays then transplant them on into bigger pots (or the ground if you heve some) keep them cool and damp and stand back. You don't need to single them out. Just rip clumps from the tray and plant.
Good luck with the project.

**Two_Sheds** · 17-07-2009, 06:57 AM

Originally posted by jimfin View Post

They are in a seed tray and I give them a spray of water every day.

spraying water will encourage mould and rotting.
Plants take up water through their roots (not their leaves), so always try to water the roots, not the soil surface

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