There are various degrees of Stupidity.

[tim]

This is CRASS!!

Some 10 days ago, thought I would use our tub for Carrots.
While preparing the soil, mused that I had sown something there before - but could not confirm that. So sowed them.

Today I find the first Spring Onions surfacing!!

[tim]

[calendula]

happens to me all the time  ;D

think of it as 'intentional' companion planting

[janebb]

I did something similar this year.  I was sowing lettuce and then intended to sow peppers.  I had potting compost on newspaper on the floor and was using this to cover the seeds.  Both sets of seeds germinated roughly at the same time and I was a bit confused that they looked so similar.  It was only some weeks later when a second set of leaves appeared in one of the pots (totally different from the first) that the penny dropped.  I must have dropped some of the lettuce seed in the compost which I then spread all over the pepper seeds!

Doh!!

[tim]

Maybe the onions will keep the fly away? If there are any so stupid as to be around at this time of year.

[redrichwen]

Only yesterday i planted some overwinter cauli seedlings. Last night in bed i realised that at the weekend i'd put a row of turnip seeds in exactly the same place  :o

Shall sow another row of seeds alongside tonight, to make up for casualties.

Must remember to mark and label straightaway!!

[moonbells]

I am growing carrots and spring onions together at the moment, and they work very well. I'm just hoping that I get some carrots in time for Christmas!!

moonbells

[OliveOil]

thats ok Tim.... on saturday i planted some onion sets at the end of my leeks... then on sunday i decided to fill the gap at the end of the leeks with onion sets... then i wondered where these onion sets came from that were coming up as i was making holes for the onion sets i was trying to put in!

[Squashfan]

Yes, Tim don't feel bad. I chucked out some peat pots that didn't germinate (I thought) with squash seeds and have wound up with several small squash plants all over my back garden. Good news is, we got a small pumpkin out of it!  ;D I try and write things down now to keep that to a minimum....

[Mrs Ava]

Squashfan, I did something similar with broadbeans... all those that didn't germinate I flung the paper pots onto the garden under my willow tree.  Had a lovely show of broadbean plants this summer in the garden!  Of course I told everyone that I a had purposely grown them there to help add goodness to the ground around the tree.  :-\ ;D

[MrsKP]

my onions protected my carrots just lovely tim.  i thought that's what we were meant to do.   ::)

[tim]

I feel better now!

[Multiveg]

Squashfan, I did something similar with broadbeans... all those that didn't germinate I flung the paper pots onto the garden under my willow tree.  Had a lovely show of broadbean plants this summer in the garden!  Of course I told everyone that I a had purposely grown them there to help add goodness to the ground around the tree.  :-\ ;D

Broad beans can be used as a green manure  :D Did you get much of a harvest from them?

[Mrs Ava]

Not a bad picking and they looked very architectural.  No blackfly at all.  Plenty of flowers and pods.  Just goes to show that sometimes we can fiddle and prod our plants to much, just left to their own devices, they do good!