(07-02-2021, 06:34 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2021, 06:11 PM)Broadway Wrote: [ -> ]Hiya TMTT
Do you multi-sow any of these?
Yep: the shallots, spring onions, radish, turnips, beetroot, spinach and leeks. Multi-sowed them last year with good success, apart from leeks as this is my first time growing them. Spinach multi-sown more due to the erratic germination/old seed and because I find their roots take a long time to fill up a module cell well enough to transplant properly.
Ok thanks, not done it before apart from Spring Onions but was looking at doing most of what you've listed this year.
(07-02-2021, 06:36 PM)Broadway Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2021, 06:34 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2021, 06:11 PM)Broadway Wrote: [ -> ]Hiya TMTT
Do you multi-sow any of these?
Yep: the shallots, spring onions, radish, turnips, beetroot, spinach and leeks. Multi-sowed them last year with good success, apart from leeks as this is my first time growing them. Spinach multi-sown more due to the erratic germination/old seed and because I find their roots take a long time to fill up a module cell well enough to transplant properly.
Ok thanks, not done it before apart from Spring Onions but was looking at doing most of what you've listed this year.
Sorry should have clarified, you plant them out as a clump?
Yes, clumps for all of them except spinach which I thin out to 1 or 2 per cell. I plant in a sort of square foot gardening way..turnips/radish/shallots/spring onions 4 clumps per square foot, spinach/beetroot 2 clumps per square foot. Not sure what spacing to do leeks at yet.
Sowed Antirrhinum, Giant Larkspur and Dahlia Bishops Children
Sown echinacea, dahlia and 25 garlic cloves ( maybe a little late for garlic , but they’re not going to turn out any worse than normal)
I know seeds all germinate at different rates so why every year do I sow stuff together to use up space. My toms have popped up and the chillies havent so the tray needs to come out of the prop and stay in the prop. Eejit.
Sowed Courgette Royal Flush F1, Cucumbers Prima Top F1 and Passandra F1 and put some Primel DFBs to sprout on damp paper.
These are all old seeds and I doubt that they will germinate. If they do, great
8 varieties of chilli
5 varieties of sweet pepper
Cosmos candystripe and Tithonia goldfinger - oldish seed and generally have no hope with Tithonia anyway. Glad I picked a nice warm day to sow
Marigold 'Red Brocade' and 'Yellow Jacket'
Gaillardia
Anise Hyssop
Cosmos 'Polidor' and 'Sonata'
Tagetes 'Starfire'
Calendula 'Sherbet Fizz'
Doronicum 'Little Leo'
Lobelia 'Monsoon'
Alyssum 'Wandering Star'