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Seeds come to life!!!
Hyacinth Bucket
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hello fellow gardeners!!! So chuffed I've never grown from seed before so imagine my delight when I saw tiny shoots coming through!!! I've got cucumbers, beefsteak toms, cherry toms and a few dwarf sunflowers!!! I'm still awaiting my hot peppers and sweet peppers and my sweet peas. Thrilled to bits got them all inside at mo under propagators as too cold to transfer to greenhouse at mo. Anyone got any gardening jobs on the go this weekend? Roll on the warmer weather I say!!!!
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Sweet peas will be fine in the greenhouse. See the sweet peas thread for loads of good advice.
P.s. I'm sowing larkspur, lupins and more dahlias this weekend.
It is exciting, isn't it? The amazing thing is that it is just as exciting after 50 years as it is at the beginning! There are always new things to try - I've got some baby agapanthus, sown in October from seed on my 'Midnight Star'and some plumbago 'Escapade' for the greenhouse, and this year I'm going to try crimson flowered broad beans as well as the usual ones.
I've got dozens of gardening jobs, but whether any of them are 'on the go' depends on the weather this weekend. Started today with snow, so everything is wet again, just as it was starting to dry out a bit. That rules out some jobs that I am desperate to get done, but there is always seed sowing, pricking out, the greenhouse to tidy and plants that need a spring potting on. If it doesn't actually rain I might get some border tidying done or clear a bed for my new raspberries. I'm sure I'll find something to do!
CharlieBot - how are you finding growing larkspur? I grew some from seed last year and though beautiful they were a slug magnet. The flower spikes got covered in those little grey slugs. That said I'm giving them another go this year, maybe their last chance though
The greatest feeling getting those little seeds to spring into life and thinking what great big plants they will grow into in just a few short months. In my limited experience I have usually started many early seeds off indoors but due to lack of space this year I have started tomatoes and peppers off in a heated propagator under cover outdoors in what amounts to a cold greenhouse, I was unsure whether this would be successful but after less than a week the tomatoes have germinated and today I noticed that the peppers are showing signs of doing the same. I have to say that the tomatoes look better for being outdoors and aren't nearly as leggy as they usually get being indoors by a south facing window, I think that this is due to a combination of having less of a temperature spike when the sun used to raise the temperature indoors and the more consistent light conditions outdoors.
Every time I walk past my propagators I'm checking for new growth!
I moved my tomatoes, radishes, brocolli and sprouts into the greenhouse this morning. I'm hoping that my tomatoes won't be so leggy after a few days In there. My radishes are going greats guns. I also have peas and broad beans in there too and it all looks good
This time last year I had just the one greenhouse. Now I have two In my garden and two allotments! Talk about a steep learning curve!
hi buttercupdays and fruitcake and all other garden chums so glad I'm not the only one who is obsessed with checking for seedlings coming through lol!!!!! At present the seedlings that have come through are looking well. When would you advise pricking out to bigger pots. Also is it best to keep seedlings indoors until they have all come through or shall I move them into my unseated greenhouse? It's still cold here. I shall move sweet peas to g/h though thanku Charlie for that advice
I generally move seedlings into bigger pots when I can see the roots through the holes at the bottom of the original pot.
A good tip I got from our very own Monty for planting on is to fill the next pot just over half way, put the original pot in, fill around it with compost and gently take the original pot out- take out the seedling/plant and put back in the new pot. Makes life a lot easier, but I probably haven't explained it very well
That's a good tip Fruitcake, thanks.
Fruitcake, if you use an empty pot of the same size as the one your plant is currently in it's much easier - and your precious plant is not in danger of accidental damage while you are filling up around the empty pot. Works for me.