seeds

Hi all, Now I have a greenhouse what seeds can I plant in it? It is heated to keep it frost free. I have usually had to wait at least another month.
I would like this year to grow lots of peas and salad veg., also to try to grow some hanging basket plants.
I also have a small heated propagator. What could usefully go in that?
Didn't know whether to put this in greenhouse or here.

[ 29. January 2006, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Liz ]

 

Hi Liz - glad to hear you got your greenhouse - but do wait another 3-4 weeks before planting seeds. The light is still not good enough - and you could end up with some spindly weakly plants.

Re the propgator - I usually use a covered propogatore in my greenhouse until the seeds germinate and then take the lid off - to aid ventilation and stop too much heat build up.

Can't help with the veggies - but how about choosing some busy lizzies and trailing fushsias for your hanging baskets. Busy Lizzies can be grown from seed easily enough - but I would get the Kindergarden tots for fuchsias and other hanging basket plants. A greenhouse means that you can grow them to quite a size in pot and basket before you get them outside after the frost is gone.

 

sweet peas could be sown... use deep pots not too warm
you could sow winter / all the year lettuce in large trays
leeks... deep pots not too warm
propagator:
dahlia could go in a propogator. to get cuttings.... not too warm tho, pop on a tray half buried in compost, dont overwater
tomatoes can be sown, but must be kept warm, any check and you ll get "christams trees" sow in propagator

 

Hi both thanks for suggestions. I am getting another propagator for my birthday so I can start tomatoes and sweet peas in my present one. What about broad beans?
I have got [fingers crossed] fuschias, geraniums,and lots of little plants in the greenhouse from last year- surprise survivor lysimachia 'outback sunset' which even has flowers on it. Surprise death, heliotrope.
I usually manage my own lobelia from seed, even without the greenhouse, but would like to add some busy lizzies and the new scented petunias and some trailing leafy plants.

 

id go for lots of geranium seeds
broad bean dont want the heat of a propagator imo
nor sweet pea imo
i d go for dahlia cuttings ..

 

Hi, I have had an allotment for 3 years, and it was in a sorry state when i took it on it had not been touched for years. Because i had no choice i decided to start off my broad beans in my green house, these i started in February in 2 inch cells and when well rooted planted out in situ on my allotment. I had a great crop of broad beans and as early as everyone else. I now sow direct, because it is a waste of compost and time.
I do at this time of the year sow in my greenhouse, onions, leeks and cauliflowers, all are sown in 2 inch cells, and the cells covered with a glass sheet, turned daily, and removed when seeds have germinated. All are grown on and planted in the ground when the soil warms up usualy in March.

 

hi liz,whats your secret for lobelia?i tried last year and was disappointed although i did manage a few, i still ended up at the nursery.i just love to see lobelia in hanging baskets,(husband bugs me for variations)but theres something about masses of lobelia on its own that sofens me up.marvelous,wounderful husband has lovingly taken down Avery in back yard and bought me a second hand 8 by 4ft greenhouse and hopefully well get the last of the glass in today(last year was always trotting off to allotment to check greenhouse contents)so backyard greenhouse is my idea of Heaven.

 

Hi all, On advice from this forum i didn't plant my broad beans in Autumn, thought I'd try in greenhouse in loo rolls, ditto sweetpeas about now.
The lobelia is such tiny seed and germinates so profusely I mix it with dry sand for sowing to thin out the seedlings, Then I just leave it to get on with things. I don't bother pricking out, just break up the seed tray into pluglike sections, then straight into baskets. It's my favourite for baskets too,although lately I've been adding Bacopa [sutera cordata] which you'll see in the nurseries. There's a great variegated one.