anyone getting on with their tomatoes or peppers?

[galina]

Because of the lack of space I sow usually about 10 - 15 tomato or chilli seeds per small square
pot and then pot them on to individual small pots when the first real leaves grow.  I leave them
in those pots till the roots fill the pots.  By that time is is usually warm enough to put them in
the cold greenhouse. 

I forgot to save Pretty in Purple seeds last year!  My Scotch Bonnets are the smallest and
slowest of all my chillies.  The only reason I'm growing them is that we have many West
Indian plot holders and SBs are the one they always ask for.

In the photo the chillies are (l to r) Scotch Bonnet, long hot red unnamed, Naga Morich, Little Elf and Jalapeno.

Thank you very much for taking the photo Squash.  Yes the SB do look slower, but not by much.  Size wise yes, but not so much when you count how many sets of true leaves they have.  I have just looked carefully at my PIPs and found the same.  They are producing their third set of true leaves, but the stem between each set of leaves is very short.  I'd love to return the favour and give you some seeds back when they produce chilis.

Ok on the potting on.  I wondered whether I was making work for myself - ah well.  Does save a lot of space though. 

Little Elf sounds an interesting variety.  Are they hot or sweet?  One experiment I have done this year, because you said that it worked for you, was to grow a few seeds of the very long, red sweet peppers from our Turkish greengrocer.  And those plants are quite big.

Manics - looking good!  Love the plastic knife plant labels 

One thing I have done and may need to do again this year is put 2 stacks of 5 or 6 bricks on top of each other on the window sill, topped by an extra 'shelf' to get more growing space in the upper half of the window.  But this arrangement is more prone to accidents with curtains etc and with slightly less light for the lower tier of plants. 

Good that the double wrapped greenhouse plants are going ok too.  Hopefully won't be long now and this cold spell will be over.  That will make life easier 

[galina]

[manicscousers]

Yours are looking really good Manics and you are so lucky to
have windowsills!  I've only got one and it's being used for
other plants.  I recognised Minibel, they make such nice compact
plants don't they?

The photo shows what I've still got left to pot on. The reason
there are so many is because of our plant sale in May (and also
because I can't seem to control myself when I'm sowing seeds)

ditto about the plant sale , plus, the minibel are mostly for our schools and special needs groups . Just need to take some to the poly 

Manics - looking good!  Love the plastic knife plant labels

thank you, Ray's idea