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I did some re-sowing today. 3 lots of tomatoes, two lots of lettuce and some cabbage that hadn't germinated from a sowing at the beginning of the month.
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Sunflowers, Geraniums, Marigolds
Lettuce x 2 types, Brussels, Dwarf Curly Kale
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Sown today
Honesty
Viola
2 varieties of pansy
Nicotiana
Nigella
Holly hock
3 varieties of antirrhinum
2 varieties of godetia grandiflora
Alyssum carpet of snow
Statice
Lupin pixie delight
Zinnia
Allium
Aster
Calendula
3 varieties of french marigolds
6 varieties of poppy
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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Tomatoes Mount Vesuvius for sun drying.
And some chillies- Sweet Jalapeno, Alegria Riojana & Rawit bird's eye.
All a bit late, but the seeds only arrived today!
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?
Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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Chard and tx planted broad beans
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Greetings from Salisbury
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I've had to re-sow most of my tomatoes, chillis, sweet peppers, cabbage, calabrese, caulis, you name it. The compost is not good for seedlings, clearly. I'm switching to the norty stuff and managed to re-sow almost all of it today. Pleased with that.
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Got my onion sets in today. The cheapo ones from Home Bargains Stuttgarter, Centurion and Red Baron.
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Same with me Sariss. I blame the peat free for my failures,
I would normally expect to have loads of 9cm pots full of seedlings to be pricked out at this time of year. But not much at all, so starting again.
But as my other half says “A bad workman ......”
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Bright lights Chard, mustard spinach, coriander and spicy lettuce.
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26-03-2022, 10:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-03-2022, 10:21 PM by toomanytommytoes.)
(26-03-2022, 06:02 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: Same with me Sariss. I blame the peat free for my failures,
I would normally expect to have loads of 9cm pots full of seedlings to be pricked out at this time of year. But not much at all, so starting again.
But as my other half says “A bad workman ......” Which brand of peat free is it? I understand that green waste compost can be very high in nutrients which can inhibit seed germination. New Horizon is one brand which definitely doesn't contain green waste, in fact I don't think any of Westland's brands contain green waste.
I've never used peat to start seeds in, most things get sown in a mixture of home compost, worm castings and last year's pepper/tomato/potato/courgette potting mix. This year I did use peat free compost to start tomatoes in (mixed with worm castings) because I had tomato seeds coming up from the home made compost and I didn't want any confusion, germination was very good. Depending on what's in the peat free, it can have different watering requirements than peat based. Coir for instance can look dry on the surface but will still be holding a lot of water further down, whereas composted bark dries out quite quickly.
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