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Time to sow chillies and onions

Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
in Fruit & veg
Now is the time to sow onions and chillies under cover. They need to be kept frost free, slightly damp in a light position, not very warm. I put transparent food trays over the seed pans until the seedlings come through, which can take several weeks. They both have long germination and growing periods.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Bit later here for me,  I sow onions and leeks mid February. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • scrogginscroggin Posts: 437
    I don't grow onions from seed but I start my chillies from seed in a propagator in mid February.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I was told by a top local veg. exhibitor to sow my onions on New Years Day. Each to their own. He also told me to plant gladioli corms on April 26th to have them ready for the local Spring Flower Show. I wonder what he would make of the climate changes going on now bless him.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    No space for Onions and Leeks here but too early for Chillies for me.  In fact, I have so many chillies from previous years that I don't have to do any more for the next decade  :D  Will be growing Peppers tho ( Palermo) and Feb in a propagator is about right for me.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I still have Hungarian Black, Lemon Drop and Hungarian Wax plants in the polytunnel with fruit ready to pick and process.  I don't need to plant any this year unless I go for another flavour.

    Poor onion crop from red, white and brown onion sets recently so I'm planning to sow some pink Niort onions but not before next week's frosts are over.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    Here in Wiltshire, the best time for chillies (the mild version) is the last week of January  (my date is always the 25th of January). I keep my ones on the window edge in the living room and they remain there until it's warm enough outside (above 10 degrees over night). They need 2.5 months to have flowers and 3.5 to 4 months to develop fruits. First chillies ready to eat will be end of June.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    A bit early for peppers here but my FIL instructs sowing onions and leeks in January.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited 12 January
    bigger the onion plant before the day length
    causes bulbing the bigger the final onion. 
     
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