The reason I sow mine in the greenhouse is because I can keep an eye on the slugs, by Spring they have grown big enough to survive them. Same with Lupins and Delphiniums.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I had a packet of seeds Apricot coloured and sowed them all in the cold frame last year and planted out late summer they are doing ok in the snow and frost
Dove i live up North and have tried to sow seeds in greenhouse in jan all that happens is they rot in the compost , and i end up with very little and then have to go to garden centers to buy plants for me that isint the enjoyment of gardening i enjoy sowing & growing my heated propogater allows me to sow in Jan grow the seeds to a decent size to pot them on i put them in the greenhouse where they wiil come on and i have a decent chance of planting out
But that's my point Wills - they're not happy in the greenhouse - they don't need it and they don't like it. And January is not the best time to sow foxgloves - they're bi-ennial so they grow in one summer and then they flower the next.
Scatter foxglove seed around your garden in the summer, just as the wild ones do - within a few weeks they will grow where they have fallen - thin them out and let them continue to grow where they are.
They will form healthy plants, then in the winter they will die down and disappear. In the spring they'll reappear and grow and this time they'll grow the flower spikes and bloom.
After the flowers are over the seeds will drop and scatter naturally and it will all start again with virtually nothing for you to do. Even in Scotland they do this in the wild - they do not need the protection of a greenhouse. As you say they rot and die.
If you want to use your heated propagator can I suggest that you sow and grow types of plants that need heat to germinate rather than try to grow plants that hate it.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove i will take your advice as you know what you are talking about after last year when seeds rotted i thought i would get propogater as my garden was bare and diddint want it to happen again this year i will plant out what i have later and let them spread there seed and wait to see if they come back
Wills it is common practice to grow foxgloves in heated propagators, sowing in January - in the hope they will flower in one season. Temp is around 15 C so not a hot house. I usually have stonking great plants grown this way.
It is true enough that if one gets going with them, they self seed freely but foxgloves do not overwinter well on my damp clay plus you have to sow for two years in a row to get going with purely garden grown ones and guarantee flowers every year. So I went the propagator route again this year.
thanks Gemma i am trying to get them to flower in 1 season and i will keep them in propagator until they are big enough to pot on with a bit of luck i will have enough for the garden i have been on the thompson & morgan web site and there dosent seem to be a problem with starting them in a propagator
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Quit often just where you don't want them as well dove
Every year some pop up in my veg patch - I just transplant them into the Shady Bank
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The reason I sow mine in the greenhouse is because I can keep an eye on the slugs, by Spring they have grown big enough to survive them. Same with Lupins and Delphiniums.
The slugs don't seem to bother them here ... but it might be a case of famous last words
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had a packet of seeds Apricot coloured and sowed them all in the cold frame last year and planted out late summer they are doing ok in the snow and frost
Dove i live up North and have tried to sow seeds in greenhouse in jan all that happens is they rot in the compost , and i end up with very little and then have to go to garden centers to buy plants for me that isint the enjoyment of gardening i enjoy sowing & growing my heated propogater allows me to sow in Jan grow the seeds to a decent size to pot them on i put them in the greenhouse where they wiil come on and i have a decent chance of planting out
But that's my point Wills - they're not happy in the greenhouse - they don't need it and they don't like it. And January is not the best time to sow foxgloves - they're bi-ennial so they grow in one summer and then they flower the next.
Scatter foxglove seed around your garden in the summer, just as the wild ones do - within a few weeks they will grow where they have fallen - thin them out and let them continue to grow where they are.
They will form healthy plants, then in the winter they will die down and disappear. In the spring they'll reappear and grow and this time they'll grow the flower spikes and bloom.
After the flowers are over the seeds will drop and scatter naturally and it will all start again with virtually nothing for you to do. Even in Scotland they do this in the wild - they do not need the protection of a greenhouse. As you say they rot and die.
If you want to use your heated propagator can I suggest that you sow and grow types of plants that need heat to germinate rather than try to grow plants that hate it.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove i will take your advice as you know what you are talking about
after last year when seeds rotted i thought i would get propogater as my garden was bare and diddint want it to happen again this year 
i will plant out what i have later and let them spread there seed and wait to see if they come back 
Wills it is common practice to grow foxgloves in heated propagators, sowing in January - in the hope they will flower in one season. Temp is around 15 C so not a hot house. I usually have stonking great plants grown this way.
It is true enough that if one gets going with them, they self seed freely but foxgloves do not overwinter well on my damp clay plus you have to sow for two years in a row to get going with purely garden grown ones and guarantee flowers every year. So I went the propagator route again this year.
There is a good write up here:
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/growing-foxgloves-from-seed
thanks Gemma i am trying to get them to flower in 1 season and i will keep them in propagator until they are big enough to pot on
with a bit of luck i will have enough for the garden 
i have been on the thompson & morgan web site and there dosent seem to be a problem with starting them in a propagator 