I'm going to sow some summer bedding plants for my hanging baskets today
I did think about sowing direct in the hanging baskets but I don't have room to hang 7 baskets indoors, also I've bought some plug plants this week (fuchsia delta Sarah) that need potting up
I'm waiting a couple of weeks till light levels and day length get better. I've been caught before sowing too soon and then having to cope with leggy seedlings. Can't use the greenhouse till April when I can start taking out the big pots of plants stored for winter protection.
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I am growing bedding Lobelia from seed for the first time this year. Now they have germinated should I give them a feed? They're in sterile compost. If so should I use tomato fertiliser or miracle grow and at what strength?
I've sown some salad bowl lettuce , spring onion, broad beans, mange tout, beetroot and leeks in a cold polytunnel.My brain tells me I was a bit early, but it was more of an experiment . Salad bowl are up and beans, mange tout are coming up too.
Ok, so I am going to try and wait until March. (But am going to sow peppers on Wednesday as I have lot them and just can't wait . I brought a pot of daffodils in from the garden last week and they have opened nicely. Hurry up spring )
I sowed Lobelia, Busy-Lizzies and sweet peas 3 days ago. Sweet Peas are on a windowsill in the study which is quite cool and the others are in heated propagator on the kitchen windowsill. I have a heated by a cable cold frame in the greenhouse and a cold frame just by the kitchen wall for later.
Other seeds I'll sow in March. Have 2 more heated propagators.
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I'm going to sow some summer bedding plants for my hanging baskets today
I did think about sowing direct in the hanging baskets but I don't have room to hang 7 baskets indoors, also I've bought some plug plants this week (fuchsia delta Sarah) that need potting up
Clueless
I'm waiting a couple of weeks till light levels and day length get better. I've been caught before sowing too soon and then having to cope with leggy seedlings. Can't use the greenhouse till April when I can start taking out the big pots of plants stored for winter protection.
I've sown lots and put them out to get chilled but they're getting drowned instead
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am growing bedding Lobelia from seed for the first time this year. Now they have germinated should I give them a feed? They're in sterile compost. If so should I use tomato fertiliser or miracle grow and at what strength?
no need yet ashleigh
you would be better to wait until you can repot to a bigger pot and use a MP compost for about 6 weeks than you can start to feed
Clueless
Thanks Clueless
I've sown some salad bowl lettuce , spring onion, broad beans, mange tout, beetroot and leeks in a cold polytunnel.My brain tells me I was a bit early, but it was more of an experiment . Salad bowl are up and beans, mange tout are coming up too.
Ok, so I am going to try and wait until March. (But am going to sow peppers on Wednesday as I have lot them and just can't wait
. I brought a pot of daffodils in from the garden last week and they have opened nicely. Hurry up spring 
)
I sowed Lobelia, Busy-Lizzies and sweet peas 3 days ago. Sweet Peas are on a windowsill in the study which is quite cool and the others are in heated propagator on the kitchen windowsill. I have a heated by a cable cold frame in the greenhouse and a cold frame just by the kitchen wall for later.
Other seeds I'll sow in March. Have 2 more heated propagators.
What kind of compose should I get for seeds please?