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(05-02-2021, 05:54 PM)Eyren Wrote: I haven't sown any chillies yet either, but I'm only growing mild varieties and they don't need as long a growing season as the hot ones. Besides, I need to check my heated propagator is still working first! If you like mild chillies l have been recommended Trinidad Perfume as being the mildest, so that's what I am growing. 
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(05-02-2021, 06:07 PM)Vinny Wrote: (05-02-2021, 05:54 PM)Eyren Wrote: I haven't sown any chillies yet either, but I'm only growing mild varieties and they don't need as long a growing season as the hot ones. Besides, I need to check my heated propagator is still working first! If you like mild chillies l have been recommended Trinidad Perfume as being the mildest, so that's what I am growing.
Yep, I have that one! Also Ancho Poblano for Mexican cooking, and Hungarian Black. I don't mind a bit of heat, but I prefer to grow for flavour - I can get bog-standard hot chillies from the supermarket if I need them. Mild varieties, not so much.
How much veg and wildlife can I pack into a 6m x 8m garden in suburban Cambridge? Let’s find out! 
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Sown 5 sorts of Purple Kales.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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I poked some of last year's shallots into modules of spent compost, ready for planting out when the ground is a bit drier. I put some razzamatazz chilli seeds on kitchen towel in the airing cupboard and brought a pot or two of compost inside to house prickings out under lights. I'm rapidly running out of room under the lights, heaven only knows what I'll do when the seedlings grow up. Watch out P windowsills beckon.
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Garlic Chives & Red Veined Sorrel
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Over the last week:
Shallots - Zebrune
Spring Onion - White Lisbon, Ishikura
Celery - Octavius F1
Lettuce - Freckles, Amaze, Salad Bowl Mixed, Mazur
Calabrese - Marathon F1
Sprouts (for leaves) - Seven Hills
Kohl Rabi - Olivia F1, Azur Star
Turnips - Sweet Bell F1, Snowball, Tokyo Cross F1
Radish - Sparkler 3, French Breakfast 4
Spinach - Violin, Amazon F1, Mikado F1
Beetroot - Boltardy, Pablo F1, Boldor F1
Pak Choi - Joi Choi F1
Mizuna
Komatsuna
Leek - Jolant
Coriander - Calypso
Parsley - Giant Italian
Need to sift some of last year's potting mix then I'll be sowing some early carrots (Mokum F1, Amsterdan Forcing 2 or 3) into pots in the greenhouse.
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^^^^ phew makes me feel so ashamed I haven't started yet.
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(07-02-2021, 03:21 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: Over the last week:
Shallots - Zebrune
Spring Onion - White Lisbon, Ishikura
Celery - Octavius F1
Lettuce - Freckles, Amaze, Salad Bowl Mixed, Mazur
Calabrese - Marathon F1
Sprouts (for leaves) - Seven Hills
Kohl Rabi - Olivia F1, Azur Star
Turnips - Sweet Bell F1, Snowball, Tokyo Cross F1
Radish - Sparkler 3, French Breakfast 4
Spinach - Violin, Amazon F1, Mikado F1
Beetroot - Boltardy, Pablo F1, Boldor F1
Pak Choi - Joi Choi F1
Mizuna
Komatsuna
Leek - Jolant
Coriander - Calypso
Parsley - Giant Italian
Need to sift some of last year's potting mix then I'll be sowing some early carrots (Mokum F1, Amsterdan Forcing 2 or 3) into pots in the greenhouse. Hiya TMTT
Do you multi-sow any of these?
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(07-02-2021, 03:40 PM)JJB Wrote: ^^^^ phew makes me feel so ashamed I haven't started yet. Don't feel ashamed, I just suddenly got a burst of gardening energy and for the rest of the month I will be a sloth
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(07-02-2021, 06:11 PM)Broadway Wrote: Hiya TMTT
Do you multi-sow any of these?
Yep: the shallots, spring onions, radish, turnips, beetroot, spinach and leeks. Multi-sowed them last year with good success, apart from leeks as this is my first time growing them. Spinach multi-sown more due to the erratic germination/old seed and because I find their roots take a long time to fill up a module cell well enough to transplant properly.
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