2022 - What I sowed today

Your dehydrator is going to be working overtime

I'm carp at getting lettuce to germinate, and when I do it's far too many. So I've sowed some in pots and put them in the fridge, is that the right thing to do? How long, if at all, do they have to stay there? Bren, come to my rescue.

JJB I sow a pinch in a small pot and leave them either in the GH or window sill, if there's no frost they go outside covered by a bit of net so the birds don't root around disturbing the compost.

This morning I've sown a sprinkle of radish and spring onion seeds.

I'm carp at getting lettuce to germinate, and when I do it's far too many. So I've sowed some in pots and put them in the fridge, is that the right thing to do? How long, if at all, do they have to stay there?  Bren, come to my rescue.

I just put them in the fridge overnight. It doesn't need any longer to trigger them into growth.

Thank you Bren and Martin

Now that the sweet peas have been planted outside, the root trainers are free for the climbing french beans!

Sowed four of each:
A Cosse Violette
Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco 2
Neckargold
Marvel of Venice
Selma Zebra
Tiger
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Tresnjevac

My single germinated ichi kuri squash has either come up blind or been nibbled, so it's likely I'll sow some trailing winter squash today, either that (as it's a bit late) or I'll make do with 4 trombas.

Squash today!

2 x Marina di Chioggia
2 x Butternut Waltham
1 x Baby Boo pumpkin
1 x Jack Be Little pumpkin
1 x Tromboncino

All the acorn squash sown last weekend have germinated.

Its Fruity Tuesday so I sowed:-
Siberian Podarok Cucumber
Wautoma Cucumber
Red Uchiki Kuri Squash
Giant Bolivian Achocha
Neckargold CFB

Yesterday  -
Beetroot cylindra
Turnips boule d'or & vetches red globe
Parsnip tender & true
Lettuces Paris Island cos, green oak leaf & batavia
Haricot roquencourt & slenderette
Winter cabbage January king
2 pots of mixed carrots
Trumpet vine from a pod picked from a client's garden!