Topic: We have germination!

[grawrc]

I've got no heated propagator, and nuffink else either?????

[Amazin]

I have envy

 ;D

[joji]

Mine are all in an empty fish tank with no hood, no heater and watered every other day. :)

[amanda21]

I have a baby sweetpea!  First ever thing grown so dead chuffed.  They were in toilet rolls in our only slightly heated conservatory.


Ooo just been to check them (again!) and I have some marigolds up too.  Isn't it weird how you can sow a whole tray full at the same time and yet they all pop up at different rates...?

[Doris_Pinks]

Nothing sown here either..........but my fingers are getting itchy and I keep fondling my seed packets! ;D

[joji]

:o D P  :-[  ;) ;D

[Svea]

checking last year's sowing thread, i am happy to report that i didnt start sowing until the 13th march 2005. hence, whilst i congratulate all of you new mothers and fathers, i wont be starting with the seed business until i return from my winter holidays :D

please start a new 'the sowing thread 2006' - where everone can record sowings, showings and planting out times. it worked very well last year, i thought - especially as i didnt keep a record of my times :blush: but i can now check back to it so it's all dandy :)

[joji]

Just sown spring onions & asparagus this morning. :)

[Rosyred]

I planted two types of tomatoes early January along with strawberries and aubergine but nothing is showing boo hoo..............

[Jesse]

Rosyred where are you germinating your seeds, do they have heat?

[grawrc]

Well I am on holiday for the next week yippee  ;D ;D ;D so i'll be sowing and weeding and digging and raking and and ... what if it freezes over.. :'( :'( :'( :'(

[amanda21]

Me too grawrc - am hoping for a spring like half-term but think I may be a little optimistic judging from the forecast earlier!   :(

[Jitterbug]

Well done Amanda 21!

It is always lovely to see new life popping out of the soil.  I planted sweetpeas in toilet rolls last year and they did not do that well - I thought they were more hassle than it was worth.  However, this year I will be putting them directly into the ground on 1st March - which I believe is the best time to grow them.  Also I do not have space like that - I am concentrating on planting new babies for my cottage garden this year - at the moment it closely resembles an excavation site - or is mud pit a better name? 

But good luck with your bunch of new babies!!  I am sure that by next year you will be a seasoned gardener and taking your own cuttings!

[carloso]

nice going i have some strawberrys on the go which look good also beans are poking out of the soil  i started some pes in cups but i also started some okra a little to early and they are right leggy lolol but hey they just stand out above the crowd  ;)

carl

[gtm41658]

Planted some cucumber seeds on Saturday - (11/2). One of the seeds has germinated already!!!

[Debs]

Nothing sown here either..........but my fingers are getting itchy and I keep fondling my seed packets!

Give in to yer urges DP!! ;D

After reading all these replies, I gave in on Friday 24th

( reminder to self of date sown & can do a 'search' if I forget!!)

Have sown a few (12-18) of following:

Tomatoes (Big Boy for g'house & italia plum for outdoors)
Autumn Calabrese
Celeriac - in seed trays & modules, which I shall mollycoddle until
                big & strong (said with much hope )
Lettuce - Lollo Rosso & Little Gem
Courgette -Zucchini?

All sown after daughter  :-* helped to wash down greenhouse with Jeyes.

Greenhouse heater set for 10-15 C

Debs

[gardening giraffe]

Hi
I have sown some tomato seeds, peppers and sweetcorn which are keeping nice and warm on the windowsill upstairs in spare room. Looking forward to seeing the new shoots.  :)