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A few days ago I sowed some dianthus plumarius (cottage garden pinks) Sonata on the kitchen windowsill. I was expecting to wait some time for germination but they've started to pop today.
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Sowed Sweetcorn "Goldcrest". Can't remember the last time I tried to grow sweetcorn but I have a few hundred seeds, so, let's give it a go!
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Sown some micro greens
Mixed radish
Rocket
Cabbage
Swede
Lettuce
Mustard
Mizuna
Cress
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(18-06-2024, 01:39 PM)Veggie Wrote: Sowed Sweetcorn "Goldcrest". Can't remember the last time I tried to grow sweetcorn but I have a few hundred seeds, so, let's give it a go! eBay nutsncones by any chance?  It doesn't say on my packet how old the seeds are, but I've had much better germination from the Goldcrest than the Swift from DT Brown and Premier Seeds.
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Spot on, TMTT! with 250 seeds in the packet, unlike some of the other companies.
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I have a sunflower and pumpkin seed mix that I sprinkle on my porridge, so on Monday JFF I put some sunflowers on damp kitchen roll to see if they would germinate, not really expecting them to. Today they nearly all had a half inch root on them! So I've potted them up, of course, though where in my garden I shall squeeze in 24 sunflowers I don't know.
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Sowed Vita Longa carrots in the ground, Detroit beetroot in modules, Giant Winter leeks in modules and some Rocket in GH2.
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(01-07-2024, 08:32 PM)Veggie Wrote: Sowed Vita Longa carrots in the ground, Detroit beetroot in modules, Giant Winter leeks in modules and some Rocket in GH2. Last week's sowings of Detroit beetroot & Rocket have germinated. 
Today I've sown Bijou mangetout, Buckles Black (red pod) Runner beans, Courgettes including some round ones, Delicata/Candlestick winter squash, Mr Fearns Purple-flowered CFB (old), Madeira Maroon CFB (very old), Meraviglia di Venezia CFB (not so old), and some random mixed beans.
All sown in modules in GH3.
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Sown salad rape ( very unfortunate name for a crop )
Dill mammoth
Chocolate habanero. ( hope to over winter as a young plant )
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Monday is for sowing seeds and this week its Leaves. Unfortunately, its also chucking it down so I was a bit restricted in what I could sow. In modules:-
Ruby Chard
Wong Bok Chinese cabbage
Mibuna
Mixed baby Leaves
Speedy Mix salad leaves
Mixed lettuce
Nine Star Perennial broccoli (old seeds).
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