The weather

I got a bit too keen and planted some new spuds,broadbeans and lettuce about 3 weeks ago hope the weather would flip across into spring suddenly like it does but that has not happened and only now is the cold weather breaking.
No signs of any thing showing so should I assume every thing has not germinated and resow? I used mixture of pots out side and a small patch of land I now have. So I am limited for space.

 

Soil temperature and air temperature probably to cold for germination, anything below 5 centigrade not going to happen.
I would wait another couple of weeks till temperature rises, your seeds and spuds will not have gone anywhere, I presume seed bed ok and not waterlogged?

 

Agreed. The air temperature alone isn't going to do it - soil here is very cold still - so it needs a period of warm weather to then warm the soil too. Or cover the soil with a cloche or clear plastic to help hurry-up its warming.

 

I'm in the same position, captainhastings (good name, by the way ). I've got some seed potatoes in grow bags that I put in at the start of March, and nothing's happened. I had a root around the other day, and the spuds are still there, and are nice and firm so they haven't rotted off even though they were covered with snow at one point. So I'm hoping the first bit of prolonged warm weather and they'll start growing.

Not so hopeful about my peas though. I thought peas were ok in cold weather. I planted some weeks ago and nothing's come up. I rooted around (not that I'm impatient or anything, but I like to see what's going on), and they were there and looked like they were starting to shoot. Still nothing a week or so later.

(Not been on here for a while. Blimey, there's a lot of smileys to choose from now. )

Jo

 

Welcome back Jo Sara We like smileys .

I was going to say the spuds will probably be ok too

 

Should be fine, particularly as plants, but seeds may well rot in wet & cold soil, and risk that mice will eat them too - the longer before the sprout the more opportunity the mice have . But Peas (along with most other things) are genetically programmed not to germinate if the conditions are too cold / not right as if they germinate they won't have conditions that will make them happy growing

 

Thanks for the replies so general opinion is the seeds are just dormant waiting for the weather then they will be like jack and bean stalk