Anyone else over run with seedlings indoors!!

[gunnerbee]

Just wish i had a heated greenhouse, they are everywhere!!

[gunnerbee]

[springbok]

I dont heat my greenhouse at all.  Its in a sunny position and all my seedlings are in there doing really really well. 

I check the temp at night and on frost it drops to a min of 4 degrees, but the seedlings are coping with that.

[dtw]

I just transplanted all my chillies into poly-pots, and most of them are dying.  :(
So I shall have to re-sow the lot.  >:(

[springbok]

I just transplanted all my chillies into poly-pots, and most of them are dying.  :(
So I shall have to re-sow the lot.  >:(

oh no :(  I did that on saturday, and they are in the greenhouse doing ok :)

[gunnerbee]

 dont heat my greenhouse at all.  Its in a sunny position and all my seedlings are in there doing really really well. 

I check the temp at night and on frost it drops to a min of 4 degrees, but the seedlings are coping with that.


What have you got in your greenhouse??

[GrannieAnnie]

Is that 4 degrees Centigrade?

[OllieC]

I should hope so Grannie!!

[springbok]

What have you got in your greenhouse??

Chillis, tomatos, leeks, onions, petunias, verbena, sapiglossis, dahlias, gosh, tons of seedings, thats a just some of them

[gunnerbee]

ive kept my chillie and toms indoors at the moment, although i have taken some to my Dads heated greenhouse, but dont like to poke about in there too much as its only a month since he died, and dont want to move his things around that are happily growing still.

[Barnowl]

In my experience most Chillies get really unhappy below 5degC and frost exposure kills them pretty quickly.

Orozco seems a bit tougher but it comes from eastern europe

[Ren1]

I don't have a greenhouse so have started toms & chillis inside - lots of them!!!

[Lauren S]

So far I have chillies, toms, flowers galore, cukes, melon, onions, cabbage, cauliflowers all happily growing away in my mostly unheated greenhouse. I have only put the heat on twice last week and that is all. Last year I think I coddled my seedlings way too much, 4 star accommodation they got  ::). This year they are going to be roughing it. ::) A bit like a camping holiday,only under glass, not a heated luxury caravan holiday   ;D

[gunnerbee]

Thats interesting lauren s, did you germinate the melons indoors first though, before putting them in an unheated greenhouse?

[GrannieAnnie]

Just wish i had a heated greenhouse, they are everywhere!!

Ditto. I planted early. Now I'm paying the price. It is seedling triage time now deciding which will live, which will die.
But it occurred to me: this is a form of Winter Entertainment for me watching seeds sprout. Whether they live or die it is more interesting than most entertainment and cheaper than the insane asylum.  :D

[Lauren S]

Thats interesting lauren s, did you germinate the melons indoors first though, before putting them in an unheated greenhouse?

Nope, they just came up on their own in the greenhouse. They were my own saved seed too, which is exciting.

[Barnowl]

My GH is frost free thanks to a small heater, but this only comes on below 5 deg C, so I'm trying a layer of sand in my electric propagator to try and keep the temperature steadier overnight as the outside temperature drops. We've had some pretty heavy frosts in the last few days, but it seems to be working so I'm going to try germinating a few seeds in it.

[gunnerbee]

oh Bug***r it,  ill stick some melons in the greenhouse then too lol.

[Tee Gee]

I wont start to do any serious seed sowing until the second week in April (week 10)

Then my programme is;

Week 10; 34 varieties of various

Week 11; 11 varieties ditto

Week 12; 22 varieties ditto

Week 13; 38 varieties ditto

Week 14; 11 varieties ditto

Week 15; 21 varieties ditto

Week 16; 20 varieties ditto

Week 17; 20 varieties ditto 

and thats not accounting for the Dahlia & Fuchsia cuttings I will take.

Then I have to prick out, harden off & plant everything including my onions, shallots & potatoes.

[gunnerbee]

my onion seedlings need prickng out now, planted them on boxing day, and they seem to be better stronger seedlings in an unheated greenhouse.

[RosieMcPosie]

we've got approx 30 small pots of chilli seedlings (about 4 in each pot) and the same of toms, sweet potato slips in jiffy sevens, globe artichokes, borage, chives, garlic chives, pinks, rocket, urrrrrm ooooh parsnips in toilet rolls, seed potatoes chitting,  can't remember what else now! so yes we are also over run with seedlings indoors :D