Topic: Sow.....what have you sowed?

[Mrs Ava]

Okay, everyone is hinting that they are thinking of sowing this that and the other, but what have you actually got in pots or trays growing away?

I shall start.

6 different tomatoes
caulis
red cabbage
sprouts
leeks
lettuce
kohl rabi

Actually, they are what I have just germinated, I have a few other things in pots and trays but nothing showing through yet.  The brassicas have only just started to poke their noses up today.

So come on, what have you go, be brave, I know some will say, it is tooooo early, but I know you can't all be waiting.

[legless]

stocks
sweet peas
chives
basil
rosemary
thyme  
a few tomatoes to encourage me to build my polytunnel!

and of course the potatoes are chitting.

[Doris_Pinks]

Had a sow day yesterday!
In unheated greenhouse
3 types of peas in guttering.
In house
6 types of Tomatoes (ok, no I don't know where I am going to put them all!!)
2 Types of leeks, Musselburgh and King Richard

Then flowers
Nicotiana, (white and acid green)
Black eyed Susan
Chinese Purple Bell Vine
Mina Lobata
Bupleurum
Canary Creeper

And still eyeing up my seed packets!! :-)

[minerva]

 :o ok actually growing as plants
tomatillo
holyhock
stocks
viola
sweet pea
nasturtum
delphinium
auborgine
tomato x 4
chilli x 1
peas
basil
lemon grass
teasle
sunflower
and 4 more propigators with no signs of life yet, also 2 root trainer propigators and 35 small pots. and i have not even started on my march sowings , my other half is seriously pissed off with me, and i put his name down 4 the lotty next to mine wich has come up so now i have twice as much room and reason to sow even more seeds, i think that it could be a bit of an indicator of how buisy my real job is at the moment.
sam
xx

[Ceri]

for the front garden lots of annual climbers this year
dolichos lab lab, morning glory, eccremocarpus tresco in trays
for the lottie:
gardener's delight & alicante toms and leeks all in pots
for the herb beds my husband has promised to make me in the back garden: basil, parsley
in the old herb bit now: 3 thymes, parsley (covered in snow!), rosemary
in the lottie now: garlic, elephant garlic and onions (donated by legless)

[Garden Manager]

Nothing! - As yet. Plenty to do though. Got a list (in my head) of things i want to sow.

Its just getting around to it.

Sorted out all the pots and trays i'll need today, so i shall be sowing soon.

[campanula]

sweet peppers, toms (x4types) lettuce(x6types)broad beans, strawberries, raspberries,peas (x2), melon,parsley
flowers: aquilegies, echinaceas(x2) cobaens scandens,calendulas, tithonias, sunflowers (X4 varieties)
cleomes, brachycombe, stipa tenuissima, briza maxima, Waldenburgias, campanulas, delphiniums,larkspur, incarvilleas (cheron,my faves),cornflowers, nasturtiums (X3) verbena bonariensis, asarinas, oriental poppies, godetia tenella, anagallis, osteospermums, kitabelia, alliums, mirabilis, arbutilons, gazanias, dimorphothecas, sweet peas (Many types) ipomeas (x3) convolvulous tricolour, pyretherum, rudbeckia (x3).......and more including many summer bulbs, but cannot remember. I have built a new coldframe, 5m x 1.2m so have gone quite mad!!cheers, suzy

[Mrs Ava]

Campanula, you have melons sowed already?  Wow, now I know I am impatient, but the squashes are the last thing I sow.   Got some great things growing there folks, aint spring grand!  After reading all of your lists I have itchy fingers to get down to the greenhouse and do some more sowing.

Mental note/shopping list:  Labels!

[aquilegia]

I have sowed
five toms (four have come up so far)
two varieties of sweetpea (one single seed has germinated - think I didn't cut the case enough)
five aquilegias (only sowed this and last weeks)
delphinium (sowed last week)
chives (sowed yesterday)
leeks (sowed yesterday)
lobelia (coming up nicely)
iris (sowed last week)
ragged robin (sowed last week)
Verbena Bonar-wotsit (sowed yesterday - have to sow some more for my mum now)
Echinacea (sowed yesterday)

probably something else I've forgotten about.

I have the labelling thing sorted - I cut up any suitable plastic that isn't much use for mini-greenhouses and write on that with a permanent marker (it actually is - after one dried, I ran it under the tap and it stayed!)

[rdak]

summer savory
thyme
rosemary
perennial sunflowers
dwarf heliotropes
evening primrose
a few aubergines (courtesy of EJ)
alpine strawberries

1st earlies and onion sets about to go in.

[traceym]

At the last count i have sown 102 trays,3 of leeks,1 of carrots,2 of parsnips in peat pots,salsify,chard and lettuce,the rest are mainly perennials and a few annuals.
when its time to pot them all on i,m calling in the troops.

[Tenuse]

I am trying to restrain myself as my lottie is not dug yet!

But so far I have not been able to resist sowing:

12 seeds of Tomato "Roma"
12 seeds of Tomato "Tigerella"
40 seeds of Onion "Bedfordshire Champion"
40 seeds of Onion "Brunswick"
9 seeds of Sweet Pepper "Carnival"

and I have just started off some CCA lettuce seeds, coriander and basil (for the windowsill).

And of course I have 22 tubers chitting.

Methinks I am being quite restrained really!

Ten x

[Ceri]

forgot to add 5 different potatoes chitting away nicely

[busy_lizzie]

The seeds we have sown are, red onions, leeks,sweet peppers, 3 lots of toms, sweet corn, peas and brccoli.  Flower seeds: sweet peas, pansies, taggetes and sunflowers.  we have our potatoes chitting nicely and some onion sets in a composted tray. Lots of them up now. Some trays on an old pasting table in front of the spare bedroom window and also scattered all through the house on windows. We have a greenhouse outside in the garden but it is too cold at the moment for anything.  The snow is  gradually clearing now, and it is a lovely day today.  Hopefully things will be nicely dried out for some work at the lottie over the weekend.. :D busy_lizzie

[busy_lizzie]

Minerva, Have just noticed you have some teasle on the go.  can I ask where you got them from?  Thanks!  :) busy_lizzie

[minerva]

i bought the seeds from culpepper herbs, in Bath, i have lots left if you would like some?

[Gardengirl]

OK here's a few more:

Already germinated:
Busy Lizzies - Bush Sweet Pea - Linum - Cineraria - Trailing Verbena - Trailing Blue Felicia

Waiting to germinate:
Toms (Moneymaker) - Nasturtium - Pansies - Dwarf Verbena - Dwarf Antirhinums.  

Also going to pot up some dahlia tubers which have been over-wintering in my greenhouse and also sow French Marigolds a bit later as they tend to germinate very quickly.

Forgot to mention my large tuberous begonias which will be going into pots - have red, white and pink.

[Moggle]

Petunias
Marigolds
Sweet Peas
Sweet Peppers
Chillis
Basil

I sowed all last weekend, apart from the Basil, which was the weekend before. The marigolds germinated overnight! The rest of them are have germinated although the chillis are a little slow.

The basil germinated ok, but now seems to be going nowhere, so I dunno if they're too cold or too close together or what.

I also have my tomato seeds to go in and some coriander which I will probably do tomorrow.

Only some of the sweet peas came up, but I didn't soak them or scratch them or anything, so I guess it's my own fault. Planting on the balcony, so not much room for too many of them any way.

[Mrs Ava]

Pah, my chillis and aubergines are taking forever to come up!  Hmmmm.....toms came up almost overnight, fastest I have ever known!

[aquilegia]

two sweet peas were up this morning!