2021 What I sowed today

My first sowings apart from peashoots.

Radish French Breakfast
Black cherry toms
Black Russian toms
San Mazano toms
Aubergine Viserba
Basil
Mixed salad leaves
Ricca Rossa
All your round Salad Bowl
Marigolds.

First proper sowings of the year (I'm not counting the indoor herbs!)

Tomatoes:

• 2 tumbling: Cherry Cascade and Peardrops F1
  
• 2 cherry: Sungold F1 and Black Cherry
  
• 1 baby plum: Santonio F1
  
• 1 outdoor bush: Outdoor Girl
  
• 3 other cordon: San Marzano, Costoluto di Parma, Principe Borghese
  

The rest:

• 3 varieties of chillies (Ancho Poblano, Hungarian Black and Trinidad Perfume)
  
• 2 varieties of pepper (Lipstick, Sweet Chocolate)
  
• Aubergine "Black Beauty"
  
• Crimson-flowered broad beans
  
• 2 varieties of old-fashioned sweet peas (Painted Lady, Cupari)
  

Tomatoes, chillies, peppers and aubergines are in the heated propagator; beans and sweet peas in a couple of rootrainer trays. Just need to set the timer for the propagator lights and I'm in business!

Peas - douce de Provence.
Leeks - Musselburgh and bleu de solaise
Sweet peas - home saved from 2018 found lurking so unlikely to be any good!

Peas - douce de Provence.
Leeks - Musselburgh and bleu de solaise
Sweet peas - home saved from 2018 found lurking so unlikely to be any good!

Morning PP

How do you sow your leeks please, one pot initially?

I just use a deep pot filled with damp mpc (not seed compost) sprinkle the seeds on top and lightly cover

I just use a deep pot filled with damp mpc (not seed compost) sprinkle the seeds on top and lightly cover

Is the pot left outside boss?

I keep mine in the greenhouse until about 3" tall

The same as the boss, although mine are outside and inside a loose bag.
They'll stay in the pot until planting out in June whatever size they've reached; even when no bigger than a darning needle they'll produce wrist-sized leeks by winter.

Thanks Boss/PP

Today I plan to sow:-

Igloo Cauliflower

Kale-Borecole  Siberian

Calabrese Parthenon F1

Larkspur Giant Imperial Mix

All will be sown in modules, maybe kept indoors until they germinate then put on staging in cold greenhouse.