what are you sowing?

[starchild]

Milims, you must celebrate your success - I've still planted NOTHING

[Millymollymandy]

There should be either a delete button or a button with a little X in it, near where the quote or edit buttons are. That will delete your post for you. Normally I just delete any double postings that I see but in this instance I'll leave it there as you asked a question about it.

[bodrighy]

We're lucky as we live in Cornwall and have a south facing conservatory. We have peppers, chilis, tomatoes, leeks, garlic, perpetual spinach, broad beans and runner beans sown. As we are guerrila gardening in our garden as opposed to beds we are staggering sowing to suit different areas.

Pete

[Ovalina]

Nothing sown yet - we're a month behind you all. But I am sorting out the polytun nel and planting artichokes, fruit bushes and raspberries.

Anyone in northern Scotland successfully grow any peppers, or chilli peppers? Mine germinate and grow away quite well, but never seem to grown big enough to ripen.

[Annpan]

I read that peppers need a really long season - so sowing them a month earlier might help?

My polytunnel is still not up (bad weather) but my back widowledge is loaded with stuff ready to get moved in there, once its done.

[Ovalina]

Think I got them going in March last year and still never managed to harvest any, maybe I should just grow them indoors.

[Green Aura]

Our chilli's just started sprouting again. The peppers were good but not plentiful - they were in the polytunnel. But our aubergines were useless - not a single one off 6 plants - 3 different varieties!

[red]

started sowing peas. sowed some more tomatoes to replace the ones a slug got at (slug in my propagator... well ...ex-slug now...), lettuce

[Ovalina]

I don't seem to have much luck with aubergines either. But I'm going to sow some chili peppers, salad leaf, leeks, herbs etc in a minute

[kiwirach]

besides the plug plants i've brought this year, i have sown 4 Amish Paste tomatoes, 2 melons and 2 cucumbers. need to check what to sow next....i'm trying not to have alot of one thing growing at the same time, so working on successional planting at the moment.

[Mal]

I started my chillis about 3 weeks ago on the sunny sunny windowsill above the radiator in the conservatory - I've only had 3 out of 12 germinate so I'm a little disappointed . Still, undaunted I'm going to plant out the spare seeds I had this week and see what happens.

We had some purple and some red chillis last year after sowing in February - not loads and certainly not hot enough, so this year we've gone for the ones that were described as mind-blowingly hot with the vague hope that if we have a 'summer' like last year they might still have a little bite!

[Ovalina]

That is something I've noticed with Habanero that we grew a couple of years ago - no heat - I think they need near equator temp to get them that hot. I try every year though but am wondering if it really is worth it.

[red]

beetroot, peas, woad

[pumpy]

Garlic (planted last December),looking good. Onion sets starting to show, shallots in, but nothing happening yet, peas starting to poke thro' the surface, P.S.B. broccling nicely now after looking like they were'nt going to do anything, caulies & cabbages in green house starting to shoot their 4th leaves & will be planted out in the next coupla weeks, parsnips,leeks, beetroot & spring onions being sown shortly, sweet peppers germinating(hopefully)in greenhouse, with toms & chilli peppers on the way soon. Not too long before spinach, various beans,swedes, squash & sprouts will be going in. We sorted thro' the chest freezer to-day & found several portions of p.s.b., courgettes, chillies & green beans, & we still have several onions from last year in a shed, along with some pickled beetroot.......... grow yer own?.....you bet!!!

[Fizzy Izzy]

Herbs: Rosemary, parsley, mint and basil (nothing showing yet - I posted about the basil on another thread). I thought herbs were supposed to be easy to grow but it looks like I'm not having much luck!

Lettuces, radishes, tomatoes, peppers: all seedlings now - quite pleased the peppers are growing, as it wasn't bought seed, just seeds out of a pepper that we ate.

Mangetout: shooting up quite tall now and needs transplanting to a bigger pot outside. Probably next weekend.

Cress: as others have mentioned it's so encouraging to see something growing so fast and to get a quick harvest

Carrots and onions: will be planted straight outside in pots, probably next weekend as well when we transplant the mangetout.

Quite pleased with my little garden especially since we don't really have any outside space at all. But the landlady gave me permission to put a few pots ouitside the apartment block - hopefully our veg won't get nicked!