time-line?

Ages ago now I was given a link to a website which had a time-line of when you could sow various kinds of seeds throughout the year. I seem to have lost the address. Does anyone know of anything like this please?

 

there's a very good seed-sowing guide you can get from T+M which I use. It isn't exactly a time-line but it has all the info you'd need, I think http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/kww2055/2
I've seen a time-line, but I can't remember where - I'll keep looking for a bit. A vague memory is that I saw it on Nicky's seeds..... :rolleyes:

 

try this - it's a calendar, rather than a time-line, but could be useful...
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/calendar.htm

 

I know what I want to grow and eat or look at, so I buy the seeds I need and extract the sowing data from the packets and/or books.

I use a simple home-brew spreadsheet (MS Excel) and simply enter the names of the seeds I've bought and want to sow in one column and the earliest and latest dates for sowing in the next two columns. In the next column I enter the actual date of sowing and in the next the date of planting out. In the last column I enter any notes about how how well or otherwise things went.
I can sort the list by plant names, earliest or latest sowings etc and I keep a printed list which I annotate with actual sowing/planting/harvesting and then update the spreadsheet later.
Makes life simpler working from a list of what I WANT to grow rather than a massive list of what I COULD grow.

 

Take your point, Dave!! Trouble is, you have to be prepared to put in that bit of work first....

It's exactly what I always intend to do, but haven't quite got around to it yet! Maybe this winter....

 

Thankyou all for your replies! The reason I asked is that I moved into a new house a couple of months ago and have an entire garden to fill which would work out extremely expensive if I bought plants from the garden centre. I've just got a new greenhouse sorted and wanted to have a go at growing from seed but being a beginner I wasn't at all sure of what i could start off with now. I looked at seed websites (like suttons) but it was taking me an age to go through each type of seed and see when it could be sown, hence the time-line idea. Your replies have been most helpful and I will be purchasing some seeds shortly. Wish me luck!

 

we do! :D

Have fun... I did last year, doing exactly the same thing!

 

Mel we did have a "seed I have sown today" and "propagation this month" thread running last spring which you could find in the search bar (top of page, check back a year )it is still there. We will all no doubt be posting our sowings again from january on.

 

Excellent Strongy, will have a look for it now.

 

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000005
Think this is it Mel

 

Hi Mel. I don't see why you cannot grow quite a lot now. Have a look at this thread http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000028 . These are all annual/biennial plants that Christopher Lloyd says that he sowed in the autumn. I sowed these at the end of August and they are all doing well.

Also have a look at this method http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000032 . I am just trying this. The beauty of this method is that you only need to use a small amount of seed, and only pot up the successes. If you keep the seed packets (I only ever use half a packet at a time - leaving some for a second go) you can sow the rest in spring if the autumn ones fail.

The other approach, which is what I took when I started four years ago, was to go through the seed catalogues and buy first year flowering perennials (these are all marked in the catalogues) - preferably those that flowered for a long period. I sowed these at the end of February and had a pretty good show later in the year. I would recommend Verbena Bonariensis, Centranthus, Linaria purpurea, Achillea Cassis and Echinacea - all are first year, long flowering. I also bought some single plants for which you cannot get seed (named varieties that do not come true from seed), with a view to dividing them up after a year to get more plants.

 

I found a couple of seed sites the other day that was interesting on seed germination. you could google tom clothier seed germination or the seed site . I don't know how to post the web add on here, sorry.