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OH has sowed some pepper seeds and tomato seeds (sweet million).  Today I am going to sow some antirhinum and sweet peas (we already have some growing in our cold greenhouse). We are chitting our potatoes, and might have a go at some aubergines, but apart from that thought it was a little early for anything else. busy_lizzie

Nothing yet - very unlike me.  :-\

However, by the end of the month I should have hunions, chillis, peppers, aubs, toms and sweetpeas in.

Well, we don't have anything sowed or planted yet, apart from some garlic overwintering in our back garden.  We have so much work to do on the lottie before we can even begin planting anything!  I think maybe by mid - end Feb i'll have started some seeds off in a seed tray on the windowsill, and by that stage we might also have some blinking paths laid on the lottie! x

Nothing yet-will wait a month or so. It`s not so much getting things like peppers,aubies and toms to germinate as keeping them going through the cold and low light levels.

put broad beans in yesterday, about a foot high!
Overwinter leeks snips sprouts cabbage etc

Other plot is covered in fodder raddish and tares and just covered mustard with straw and poo cos the weeds were winning there.

These pictures are worth a thousand words Andy, that's the best pic of green manuring overwinter I've ever seen, even in the books! I'm going to try green manuring for sure, but not til next year - still got to figure out how it works with mulching. Ffascinated by MikeB's post on growing tares and tomatoes in rotation and really want to give it a go - like mulching, it sounds too good to be true, so it probably is (true) ;)
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currently in planning stage but on plot are garlic, cabbage, sprouts, japanese onion, early carrots, and some carrots and last years late planted onions not yet harvested.

I have a tray of compost outside and will be starting off some early peas and beans.

I will publish my plan when its finished  :D

I'm not sowing/chitting until next week, maybe the one after.  I'm itching to get going, but know it's too early for me yet.

I will be growing:

Spring Onion ~ White Lisbon
Second Early Potatoes ~ Catriona
White Onion sets ~ Stuttgarter Giant
Lettuce ~ Mixed Salad Leaves
Rocket
Leek ~ Musselburgh
Parsnip ~ Gladiator f1
Tomatoes ~ Gardeners Delight

And the boys are growing

Parsley ~ Moss Curled
and Sunflowers.

Once I've finished digging and filling my raised beds, hopefully tomorrow if it doesn't rain, then I can start chitting my spuds. ;D

hmm, sowed 75 sweetpeas, but otherwise its a bit early for me yet, only have unheated brick greenhouse / potting shed.

it hailed today  :(

I'm completely jealous. As of this weekend the allotment is covered in about 8 inches of snow. Up until now the weeds have thrived in our up-until-now mild winter, so we'll have lots of digging before planting anything in April.

While I love Stockholm, I wish I had more months to garden with.

Enjoy the seedlings everyone!

Thanks SS, chuffed with that remark.
I am very pleased how it went, will def use fodder raddish again but that must be rotated and the Tares although a bit patchy

The mustard probably failed cos it was sown too late.

Another plot used rye grass, it looks like a perfect lawn but no doubt will work well.

Will see how the thick layer of straw paper and poo works too when spring gets here.

I'm with with you Cleo it's not the sowing,  but the keeping going and i know how they feel! it was bloody cold in Nott's today, had to put me woolly hat on ;D

Started some cauli and red oinion seeds in the propogator

my radishes that were planted in modules were looking all leggy and falling over (plant deeper next time) so i spent last night on the spare room bed putting each one neck deep in a loo roll with a sprinkle of cinnamon (another experiment - never have radishes been so cosseted) and I had a bit of compost left over so started 6 Tigerella toms while I was at it.

There's a free packet with one of the mags this month so if that lot don't work, i've got a back up plan.

;D

Been late with sowing the last couple of years so we're attempting an early start. 

Sowed broad beans, early carrots, parsnips, onions, lettuce, peppers, aubergines, tomatoes.  Some will be staying under glass but beans, carrots, parsnips and onions will be going out when the cold snap's gone.

Didn't get the first lot of tomato seedlings into sufficient light quick enough this time so they're all stringy.  Might bin them and be a bit more attentive with the next lot.  ::)

Also started kitchen herbs: rocket, parsley, coriander and basil.  And useful herbs: chamomile, feverfew, meadowsweet, self-heal, skullcap, St John's wort, vervain and valerian.  I'm determined to get a proper herb garden started this year.

Just come back from Italy seeing family not been on site for few months.

Av just planted leeks.

Well something was planted 8 1/2 months ago as I should v. soon be having 2nd child (I hope it's soon anyway).  The lottie has been planned and re-planned and I haven't been able to do anything else for last month so it's waiting for OH to actually do some of the physical work down there now!!!  Although he doesn't seem as keen now!

tell him, you'll be doing some physical work soon, so he should, hope everything goes well,  :)

That's v. funny manicscousers.  Although his way to go through labour is to just keep pouring himself more booze - if the last ones anything to go by.  I don't really want him applying that to the lottie.  That's the problem with home births.  I'm sure they might have something to say if we were in hospital!!!

Broad Beans sown in November and coming up nicely. Waiting for seeds to arrive from the catalogue. Will be sowing butternut squash and melons for the first time!