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accidentally sowed tomatoes in multipurpose compost

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  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    eek re your toe. 
    Yes quite possible re finger.
    I wonder what the chances are of getting my husband to (learn to) prick out and pot on seedlings and plants is. Um...
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    REMF33 said:

    I wonder what the chances are of getting my husband to (learn to) prick out and pot on seedlings and plants is. Um...
     :D 

    I knackered my rotator cuff a few years ago and there's a piece of broken bone lodged in there, but they said it was fine and wasn't going to move. Not sure if that's still the case. I sound like you now!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Don't worry,  they don't put plaster casts on fingers, but I would get it looked at, you might have created a false joint.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Ive always had no issues sowing tomatoes in multi purpose. Good luck.
    Happy Gardening
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I usually use seed compost but it’s quite pricey so won’t bother if many of you don’t. 

    Tomatoes can be found growing on railway tracks. The reason, and I’m struggling to be polite here, is undigested seeds and train waste. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    edited March 2023
    A few years ago, I experimented, with the tomatoes,seed compost/multi purpose/those brown block things you soak,no difference between any. I always sow in quarter trays,they fit nicely in the,(north facing) kitchen window sill. This year, because of health stuff,I didn't sow (phone just auto corrected sow to DIE, nope, report of my death have been vastly exaggerated!!) in January, hubby did them in full size trays... they don't fit the window sill, In February. They're in seed compost, says on the package they have to be kept at 18/20/25c. Guess what, they're on the conservatory table,goes down to 9c, if it's frosty outside,and they have germinated!!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited March 2023
    I have a small forest of seedlings in the unheated polytunnel already.
    they just appear every year from fruit which has dropped.

    Devon.
  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    Ah Nanny Beach that's my kind of approach!
    They clearly are pretty tough. I do hope you feel better soon if not already.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It'll go down to 9 @Nanny Beach, but it'll also get up to a fair temp when the sun's out at this time of year which will mean they get enough warmth to germinate. My kitchen is roughly 11 or 12 overnight, but in the sun, it gets to around 18 or 19 for a while, so seed will germinate, but it's what happens afterwards that matters. I sowed basil recently as an experiment, and it's germinated, but it isn't really growing because the temps aren't consistently high enough for it. 
    Glad your death was slightly exaggerated...  :D

    Don't think I've ever used seed compost.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Last year my French beans declined to germinate in the lovely soil from the compost bin I sowed them into, within the beautifully constructed frame I had made.  I did however, get a small forest of tomatoes plants there.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
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