WHAT HAVE YOU SOWED FOR THIS YEAR

Ok... everyone sit down with a cuppa, this is gonna take a while...

Fruit/Veg/herbs:

Carrot (Early Nantes), Potato (Rocket), Land Cress, Rocket, Lambs Lettuce (Cheers Ziggy ), Pak Choi, Radish, Little Gem Lettuce, Winter Density Lettuce, Spring Onions, Kale (Dwarf Curled), Kale Nero Di Toscana, Perpetual Spinach, Spinach (2 varieties), Swiss Chard, Leeks, Tomatoes (Marmande, Yellow pear, Tumbling Tom Red, Brandywine Red, Tigerella) Cucumber, Sweet Pepper, Chilli Pepper, Gherkin, Aubergine, Alpine Strawberries, Parsley, Anise, Lemon Grass, Basil (minette)

Flowers:

Geraniums (Pelargoniums), Coleus (8 Varieties), Mimosa Pudica (Sensitive Plant), Cyclamen, Dahlia (3 Types), Pansy (3 Types), Verbena, Petunia, swan river daisy, nasturtium, marigold (2 types), phlox, a gazillion impatiens, aster, sweet peas, dianthus, cosmos, aubretia, begonia, amaranthus, cactus, calendula, cineraria, miscanthus sinensis, polyanthus, salvia

... aaaaaaaaaaaand breathe.

I know I know... too early on some of them... but I simply couldnt wait (and Im not the only one who suffers from this illness :WINK1: )

I will add that all of them are either indoors or in the greenhouse.

Oh, and this is the 'already planted' list... I have more ready to do, just too early yet. :DOH:

 

Blimey Luke.

Do you own a garden centre.

harryb

 

If only... that would be my DREAM job! Sadly not, however, I really do love growing from seed.

I might add though, that I dont sow vast amounts of each type, but rather, for example, 4 chilli plants, 10 dahlias etc... which, believe it or not, all have a planned location in my garden later in the year.

In particular, I have an accurate scale drawing of a small area at the front of our house for which I have estimated the number of plants I'll require to create my bedding scheme, which saves me space in my greenhouse.

Most of my seeds are in 1/4 seed trays, unless I need a large quantity!

Keeps me busy

 

Hi I'm not very good at growing from seed, as said earlier, i am trying and hoping to grow some primula vialii this year, but i don't know if i have just started them too early, or they are just not good seed , wrong place or what but 5 weeks later and there is no sign

 

Primulas can be a bit tricky Pixie, they need a period of cold to kick start them, know different people use different methods, I usually sow in my cold greenhouse in the autumn so they have the winter cold then find they sprout the following spring.

 

Hi
I stuck my Primula Vialii seeds in a tray with a lid, and placed them in the utility room where it is cold and just ignored them - today i have about 10 seedlings coming through - yeah success! :yess:

 

So far for me, I've sowed one failed lawn sowing (the seeds just either rotted or got eaten by birds - I should have listened to my dad who told me as a matter of fact that for our area I must wait til the second week in march at the earliest, otherwise 'alf'll rot an alf'll get eaten by the birds and you might as well throw yer money on't ground').

I've also done some peas and some nasturtium, and that's all so far.

Is this inside or out? We've just had a bitter winter and the ground will take a while to get some warmth back I reckon. I heard up your way you had spells of minus 25 quite a few times. We had minus 16, which is unheard of round here normally.

 

Mrs Chopper and I have been very busy planting and sowing. (Mrs Chopper has done lots more than I have, while I have also been very busy, but working on bikes). I have done some though!

Our home made propogator has been going flat out and so has the greenhouse. Been quite a production line. Soon as seeds have germinated they have been moved from the propogator into the greenhouse. Once the seedlings have two proper leaves they have been moved to the polytunnel.

So far we have sown: Four different types of Sunflowers. Snap Dragons. Cineraria, Coleus, Dwarf and Pom Pom Dahlias, Gypsophila, Asters, Begonias, Chrysanthemums, Delphiniums, Lupins, Rudbekia, Salvia, African Marigolds, Calendula, Bells of Ireland, Astrantia,Queen Annes Lace, Zinnias, Stocks, Phlox, Sweat Peas, Cornflowers, Nigella and lots of other flowers that I cannot think of at this ungodly hour of the day!

Vegatables: Broad Beans, Runner Beans, Climbing French Beans, Dwarf French Beans, Leeks, Onions, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Beetroot, Parsnips, Several different types of Tomatos, Cucumbers, Courgettes, Melons, Jalepeno Peppers, Sweet Peppers, First early potatos, Peas, Rhubarb.

Without trying to get one up on anyone, NOT ALLof this is for us. A lot of what we are growing is going to be for sale. Quite a few of the flowers are for Mrs Choppers cut flowers. Which will also be for sale.

This is some of what we are growing.



Chopper

 

Woohoo Chopper, that's fantastic, but must be a full-time job!

Clueless, the viallii seed is inside - i've now sorted it and have 10 seedlings! Yipppeeee!
I'm surpised anything survived the temperatures and snow we had this year, but the only thing i lost was a rosemary. Everything else is doing extremely well.

 

Pixie congratulations on the vialli. I love it when seeds germinate - and those are not easy ones.

Chopper, I wish I could grow a polytunnel like yours.

This year I am really into Brugmansia and Iochroma. I am growing about six different varieties of Brugmansia, as well as some cuttings of ones I grew last year. I am also trying Iochroma, with some more I. australis (I grew some last year) and 3 different varieties of I. cyaneum. Sadly my seeds of the red one I. fuchsioides won't germinate. Its all the more galling as it took a year of searching the internet to find them.

 

Nice thread!!! Oh Chopper how I would love a huge area like that for seeds. Mine are in those shelf units with a plastic cover on!

I have sown Osteospermum (which I am particularly proud to see germinate as I collected the seed from my garden last year - my first full year of gardening) and also from seed which I collected white perennial canterbury bells (similar but not sure of their name) blue salvias and fennel, although the last three have yet to germinate.. two weeks in now.

I have also sown three types of Cosmos - sweet sixteen and pure white (tall) plus mixed sonata dwarf variety (thanks to PeterS who helped me discover them)

I am growing on from small plugs upright lobelias for edging and filling in gaps, and some petunias.

Last year I grew a lot of sweet peas, but when I went to the local nursery and saw them for sale at £1 for a pot of 9 I thought this year I'd save myself the aggravation. Although to be fair I did get the free seeds in my Gardeners World magazine, so I will sow them.

I will also be sowing yellow beans, and borlotti beans when the time is right.