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(10-05-2025, 10:48 AM)JJB Wrote: I put yet more sweetcorn seeds to chit. This time some new seed. Most of the others I've tried to chit failed. I'm not doing anything different and I'm wondering where I've gone wrong. Maybe old seed, but it wasn't that old. My bean and sweetcorn seeds always seem to go slimy and mouldy when I chit them, so I just sow direct into modules instead.
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Sowed lots of old gherkin seeds. Sow by dates are:-
Hokus - 2014
Cornichon de Paris - 2017
Piccolo di Parigi - 2012
Partner ?
& Bedfordshire Prize outdoor cucumber - 2016.
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11-05-2025, 06:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2025, 06:23 PM by Veggie.)
Also sown the rest of the pack of mixed courgettes & small squashes, old seeds of Yard long cucumbers, Melothrie/Cucamelon and Embercombe CFBs.
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(11-05-2025, 06:21 PM)Veggie Wrote: Also sown the rest of the pack of mixed courgettes & small squashes, old seeds of Yard long cucumbers, Melothrie/Cucamelon and Embercombe CFBs.
You're going to be overwhelmed if all your seeds come up.
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Sowed "The Czar" Butter bean type Runner bean and "Lady Di" RBs.
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(14-05-2025, 03:59 PM)Veggie Wrote: Sowed "The Czar" Butter bean type Runner bean and "Lady Di" RBs. After that, I sowed some Winter squash - Jumbo Pink Banana, Violina, Burgess Buttercup, Candlestick Dessert Delicata and 2 Baby Bear seeds. Also some rocket in the GH.
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Today it was the turn of the old Melon seeds to feel the compost under their feet.
Arava -sow by 2018
Emir 2014
Plum Granny - 2015 & 2020
Striped Tigger - 2020
Cantalun - 2019
Charentais - 2016
Minnesota Midget - saved in 2015
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(08-05-2025, 03:58 PM)Veggie Wrote: Sowed/scattered in random places lots of old Aquilegia, Calendula and Escholzia seeds. Thanks, Martin, for the reminder. I'm hoping to have some flowering for next year's I-Spy game.
Also sowed in modules, Lima "O del papa" beans, Lazy Housewife and Yard Long beans (aka Snake beans). Lazy Housewife & Yard Long beans have germinated. 
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I resowed yet some more FB that went mushy.
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(17-05-2025, 09:39 AM)JJB Wrote: I resowed yet some more FB that went mushy. Half of my Swift sweetcorn went mushy in the compost, luckily half is enough for what I need. I think the compost was too wet and the nights have been too cool for them to germinate well in the greenhouse. I'm finding my compost is drying out on the surface but is still very moist underneath. I think this is why I have such good success with germinating in coir, it retains moisture very well so I don't usually water it again after sowing until seeds have popped up. Coir also stays very loose and doesn't form a hard cap on the surface. I see a lot of professional peat-free seed composts contain a wetting agent to stop them drying out so quickly.
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