2022 - What I sowed today

2 each of......

Courgette - Shooting Star/Zucchini
Cucumber - Bush Champion/Mini Munch
Marrow - Long Green Bush
Squash - Butternut Chieftain/Harlequin/Table King/Uchiki/Tromboncino

And yesterday....

Sowed white lisbon and ishikura spring onions in the yard

Sowed some chantenay carrots at the plot

Oooh I might take that as my cue (pardon the pun) to sow my cues and courgettes too! Eeeeeh!! It's spring!! (She says while the sun is shining while it's SNOWING again!!)

Hiya Sarriss

I was a tad concerned it was early given my lack of a GH but decided to give it a go anyway!

I went out after a strenuous day at work yesterday, to the potting shed and sowed:
6 x Cucumber Delicatess
6 x Cucumber Vert Petit de Paris
6 x Cucumber Restina
6 x Cucumber Vorgebargstrauss
6 x Cucumber Marketmore
6 x Cucumber Burpless Tasty
3 x Cucumber Lemon
3 x Cucumber White Wonder
6 x Achocha Fat Baby
6 x Bolivian Giant
3 x Exploding Cucumber

3 x Squash Yellow Scallop
3 x Uchiki Kuri
3 x Courgette Atena Polka
6 x Tromboncino
3 x Patty pan white

I have put them into very large trays so I don't have to pot them on, and I'm lucky enough to have a frost free space for them for quite some time. So exciting and maddening at the same time - it only snowed yesterday!

2 each of......

Courgette - Shooting Star/Zucchini
Cucumber - Bush Champion/Mini Munch
Marrow - Long Green Bush
Squash - Butternut Chieftain/Harlequin/Table King/Uchiki/Tromboncino

And yesterday....

Sowed white lisbon and ishikura spring onions in the yard

Sowed some chantenay carrots at the plot

Oooh I might take that as my cue (pardon the pun) to sow my cues and courgettes too! Eeeeeh!! It's spring!! (She says while the sun is shining while it's SNOWING again!!)

Hiya Sarriss

I was a tad concerned it was early given my lack of a GH but decided to give it a go anyway!

I went out after a strenuous day at work yesterday, to the potting shed and sowed:
6 x Cucumber Delicatess
6 x Cucumber Vert Petit de Paris
6 x Cucumber Restina
6 x Cucumber Vorgebargstrauss
6 x Cucumber Marketmore
6 x Cucumber Burpless Tasty
3 x Cucumber Lemon
3 x Cucumber White Wonder
6 x Achocha Fat Baby
6 x Bolivian Giant
3 x Exploding Cucumber

3 x Squash Yellow Scallop
3 x Uchiki Kuri
3 x Courgette Atena Polka
6 x Tromboncino
3 x Patty pan white

I have put them into very large trays so I don't have to pot them on, and I'm lucky enough to have a frost free space for them for quite some time. So exciting and maddening at the same time - it only snowed yesterday!

Are you sure you have enough cucumbers

More pre-chitted parsnips.

That's quite a few cucumbers

Turnips - golden ball & Milan purple top
Beetroot- di chioggia, bull's blood & cylindra
Sweetcorn Swift

haha lots and lots of cucumbers... but it's because I don't have much luck with them. My thinking is... I have lots of seeds, and if they all survive and grow big, I can give them to people in the village, or have them donated to the flower tubs dotted about in the village to make them edible

This is what I sowed today, more exactly. I keep a record so that I stand some chance of remembering what I've sowed. I spend more time looking up and down that list in the potting shed than I do sowing! haha
2 x Squash Benning's Green Tint
2 x Courgette Yellow Golden
2 x Courgette Goldrush
2 x Courgette Black beauty
2 x Squash Small Sugar
2 x Spaghetti Squash
2 x Courgette Wanda
1 or 2 Courgette Costata Romanesco

I sowed some cress. Last year I made a note of all the things I was buying at the supermarket and decided that I would grow whatever I could, large or small.

It will live on the kitchen windowsills along with the pea shoots and basils.

Sowed courgettes and squashes, one each of:
Zephyr
Verdi di milano
Bianca trieste
Wanda
Diamante
Green machine
Lungo bianco
Black beauty
Ichi kuri
Tomba - maybe a few more than one.

I know I said I was going to stagger sowing but I couldn't decide which ones to sow first/second, so I just did one of each thinking that some won't show and I can class the re-sowing of the no shows as an intentional successional sowing. Rationalisation is alive and kicking here in the south.

^^^ That's about as sensible as my sowing of DFBs today.
Last year, I emptied all the old DFBs into a jar and gave them a stir. Today, I filled a seedtray with compost, almost covered it with beans, covered them with more compost and a plastic lid and stuck them in the GH. Anything that germinates is a bonus. You can expect me to be doing the same again with CFBs very soon - possibly courgettes and squashes too.

I'm surprised you're not picking DFBs already what with your semi tropical conditions notwithstanding haily rain.