All of my seeds are sown on a spare table indoors, Never had propagator or lights. if you wait for Nature’s Own they’ll be fine. My tomato seeds were sown a few weeks ago, potted on now and some more sown last week. When they are of good size I keep them in the conservatory, slightly warmer temperature than an unheated GH. They then go out in the GH probably be May. Then plant out in June, some stay in the GH, the Italian ones. I sow the runners and French beans indoors 1st May, by the 1st June they will be about 15” tall, and ready to go out. I will then sow my parsnips direct. I found out the hard way that it doesn’t really work trying to get an early start, they won’t grow until the weather conditions are right for them. We live and learn 🙂
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Tomatoes need a long season of light so you have to start them early and grow them on in ever increasing pots until it's safe to plant them out and that means after the last frosts. It's been cold even here so I gave mine bottom heat - 18C from a heat mat - indoors and plenty of light once germinated.
I sowed my 2nd batch on the 2nd and they are not all yet thru but the earliest now have their first true leaves. I sow one seed per cell in a tray so there is no root disturbance moving then on to bigger pots.
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All of my seeds are sown on a spare table indoors, Never had propagator or lights. if you wait for Nature’s Own they’ll be fine. My tomato seeds were sown a few weeks ago, potted on now and some more sown last week. When they are of good size I keep them in the conservatory, slightly warmer temperature than an unheated GH. They then go out in the GH probably be May. Then plant out in June, some stay in the GH, the Italian ones. I sow the runners and French beans indoors 1st May, by the 1st June they will be about 15” tall, and ready to go out. I will then sow my parsnips direct. I found out the hard way that it doesn’t really work trying to get an early start, they won’t grow until the weather conditions are right for them. We live and learn 🙂
I did all my veg from seed this time around.
I'm thinking tomorrow to buy a few Tomato plants, stick them in conservatory / greenhouse and keep potting them up until about 2 foot / a yard tall , I've done 5 from seed. My courgette plant big leaves have wilted somewhat but the new growth leaves nest the main stem still seem green if not small after being in a 3 litre pot for a while, I don't think it's transplant shock, so I've sown 2 of them a bit ago into 9cm pots.
As I'm in the Midlands yes it's too cold outside for anything you have mentioned @roylewis1979 I am just about to plant french beans in the conservatory this week, planning to plant them out mid May, at that time I also sow direct to cover any losses. Anything else stays in the conservatory till the greenhouse warms up to above 5° and up to 10° at night. Outside it's late May before anything can stay out that you have mentioned.
My cold frame would be too cold at night for courgettes at the moment. When it gets to be reliably above maybe 5 or 6 degrees at night out in the open, I might think about putting my toms, cukes and courgettes in there, closed up tight at night and maybe with a blanket of horticultural fleece as well. They are starting to outgrow my indoor space.
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Flaming Frost, that's a misnomer if ever I heard one! I personally don't direct sow anything, you're trying to complete with slugs,mice, weather and soil conditions,you may get away with sowing beans in coldframe.mine are in a frost free green house.courgettes, peppers, toms start off kitchen window, then conservatory,early may, greenhouse, some folks sow late to put out after last frost,I sow early,normally January,so they're a decent size to go out.Runners and dwarfs grow fast, think Jack and the Beanstalk,plant them 1st May,one seed per pot or module
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if you wait for Nature’s Own they’ll be fine.
My tomato seeds were sown a few weeks ago, potted on now and some more sown last week.
When they are of good size I keep them in the conservatory, slightly warmer temperature than an unheated GH. They then go out in the GH probably be May. Then plant out in June, some stay in the GH, the Italian ones.
I sow the runners and French beans indoors 1st May, by the 1st June they will be about 15” tall, and ready to go out.
I will then sow my parsnips direct.
I found out the hard way that it doesn’t really work trying to get an early start, they won’t grow until the weather conditions are right for them. We live and learn 🙂
I sowed my 2nd batch on the 2nd and they are not all yet thru but the earliest now have their first true leaves. I sow one seed per cell in a tray so there is no root disturbance moving then on to bigger pots.
I'm thinking tomorrow to buy a few Tomato plants, stick them in conservatory / greenhouse and keep potting them up until about 2 foot / a yard tall , I've done 5 from seed. My courgette plant big leaves have wilted somewhat but the new growth leaves nest the main stem still seem green if not small after being in a 3 litre pot for a while, I don't think it's transplant shock, so I've sown 2 of them a bit ago into 9cm pots.
I am just about to plant french beans in the conservatory this week, planning to plant them out mid May, at that time I also sow direct to cover any losses.
Anything else stays in the conservatory till the greenhouse warms up to above 5° and up to 10° at night.
Outside it's late May before anything can stay out that you have mentioned.