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I sowed some Fordhook Giant chard. Also transplanted into 2" pots (because the ground isn't ready for them yet) some old saved broad bean seeds, a big handful of which I had chucked in a tray and covered up with spent compost. I didn't expect them to grow but lo and behold all but a couple sprouted. I had neglected to furtle to check them, so the seeds had 4" roots. 60 of them in pots now.
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I sowed my tomatoes today. Far too many as usual. I have resolved to cull unwanted and weedy ones rather than retain every one.
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04-03-2025, 10:45 AM
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^^^ if you really want to know all the varieties, I'll do a list but otherwise I won't bore you, there's not many new ones.
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Lots of sowing yesterday -
Red & green cabbages, blanching and cutting celery, celeriac (haven't tried growing it for years as it is usually too hot and dry, but after two unrelentingly wet summers, I thought I'd give it another go. Cue drought...), lettuce, leeks, beetroot, okra, pumpkins, NZ spinach and some started flowers - verbena bonariensis & gaillardia - but I must go through the rest of the flower seeds!
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First sowing of the season for me. I sowed one 70 plug tray of cottage garden seeds & one tray of Beee friendly seeds. Both on windowsills for the time being!
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Scattered some old chard seeds in VP4.
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Celery - Red Stalk
Broccoli - Sprouting
Kale - Emerald Ice
Lettuce - All Year Round, Little Gem
Leek - Poireau Perpetuel
Beetroot - Cardeal
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3 varieties of spring onions
Mixed lettuce
Red salad bowl
Oriental spicy mix
Spinach baby leaf
Mustard red frills
Rocket
Onion silver skin
Shallots
Okahijiki (Japanese seaweed on land)
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Brokali Apollo
Brokali Matsuri
Broccoli Calabrini
Broccoli Skytree
Kale Dwarf Blue Curled
Kake Emerald Ice
Beetroot Detroit 6
Beetroot Boltardy
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(05-03-2025, 02:38 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Okahijiki (Japanese seaweed on land)
Love the sound of that, and that it's a tumbleweed too!
Sowed flowers today
Morning glory - pink and classic blue
Poppy - collected seeds from a self-sown pink & cherry glow
Sunflower - ring of fire
Echinacea pink
Dahlia Bishop's children
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