Omlet Smart Autodoor - New in box

[Cinnamon]

A new thead for the 2010 season

 

Today I have sown my Sweetpeas & my first early Peas,which are low growing & will be in a big pot on the patio,growing up a bamboo wigwam.

 

Its such a lovely day that I had to sow something......

[stoice]

I just got GW magazine with some free sweet pea seeds. I bought my plants last year with cane basket and wigwam attached. I'd like to fill it again this year. Will your seeds and young plants be outside yet? I have some fleece i could wrap the basket in but I'm thinking it may still be too cold to plant outside yet (Don't have a green house). If not for outside yet, do they transplant well? I have a sunny window sill i could plant the seeds in loo roll and transplant later.

 

Same question for lots of my plants-and-veg-to-be really, what can be planted outside (Can make a closh (sp?)) and what needs starting indoors?

 

As you can tell, I'm a bit of a gardening novice. Any advice would be great.

[Cinnamon]

I have done mine in cheapo Aldi pod trays with a clear cover,& they are on my windowsils for the moment

They won't be going out for a good few weeks yet,& will need to be hardened off to get them used to the cooler conditions before them anyhow - my sunny porch is perfct for this as its unheated so colder at night

 

I reckon they will go strainght from the tray I have them in,into the ground (I hate transplanting into bigger pots!)

[stoice]

Thanks, Cinnamon, exactly what i needed to know.

[Couperwife]

4 lots of tomatoes

 

heavens knows what they are called (well - kev does, so we are fine )

 

there will be a lot of tomatoes up in sunny Teesside

 

cathy

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[docsquid]

Yep - four lots of tomatoes went in today - Shirley, Marmande, Black Russian and a yellow one Golden somethingorother.

 

Also squash, courgette and chilli peppers for the greenhouse. I'm getting some other greenhouse plants grafted onto commercial rootstocks so we'll see how they compare with the normal squash, peppers and tomatoes that I'm growing from seed, both in and outside the greenhouse.

 

Also prepared greenhouse raised beds so the soil can start warming up and put soil, compost and chicken poo into the onion beds ready for planting the sets.

 

Will start runner beans and french beans a bit later on - I always do these too early!

[Daphne]

Does putting some dahlia tubers into pots in the conservatory count? I'm sure this is too early, but like you I am very impatient! I did my sweetpeas indoors about a week ago as well

[Cinnamon]

I won't be doing my toms for another month as my greenhouse is unheated & I don't want them to go all leggy on the windowsils.

I might start my Courgettes ff though.........

 

I love this time of year

[Old Speckled Hen]

Tomatoes and sweet peas are in.

Also some spuds in a grow bag. I read in some gardening magazine that earthing up potatoes in a special planter doesn't increase productivity so is largely a waste of time and that the best thing to do is split a grow bag in half and plant two or three spuds 10inches deep in each half and leave them.

I dug over the raised bed in the greenhouse incorporating the two MOLEHILLS I found in it

[Cinnamon]

Courgettes - sorted

[chickencam]

I want to do radishes, spring onions, early lettuce and leeks in my raised beds, but they need topping up with new soil and I have a really sore back at the moment so can't do it. Will have to wait for the weekend when OH can do the heavy stuff.

[Snowy]

Tomatoes Several varieties. Need to do some soil shifting myself and get the beds composted - all that chicken poo has given me some lovely compost, it just needs some muscle to shift it all

[Lesley]

I hired in some muscle today! - had my son shifting FYM onto the beds in the polytunnel

 

Tomatoes and chillies sown today.

[ladyjulian]

My Beloved Cohab has made me some huge cold frames out of old windows, so today I sowed my carrots, parsnips, radishes, sweetcorn, brussels sprouts, kohl rabi and 5 varieties of tomatoes into compost in seed trays. They should be snug enough in their cold frames.

 

Although now the BBC news tells me the lovely weather's going to stop & go frosty. Typical.

[Cinnamon]

Its been frosty here all week - have had to de ice the car windscreen every morning!

 

I am still holding off, but wondering about getting my onions in......any advice???

Maybe the ground should warm up a bit first

 

My first little seedling has poked his head through,Oh, & my overwintered garlic is shooting

[Redwing]

I'm going to put my onions in but cover them with a layer of fleece Cinnamon

 

maybe try a few and do another lot in a couple of weeks?

[Cinnamon]

The urge has passed me by now...its darn cold too!

Maybe at the weekend though.

Now,ehre did I stash that fleece?

[Snowy]

The sunny weather sent me down to the allotment today! The urge is back! Cleared a bed ready for my carrots and parsnips; added compost to the bean bed and planted broad beans - a bit late I know, but it was last years packet so if they don't come up, I've lost nothing

[TAJ]

Seeds sown today are three types of tomatoes - big ugly reds, plum shaped purple and yellow tiny ones - the ones you get 100s of flowers on. Plus some early peas.

 

I have planted a Comice Pear tree - bargain from the local garden centre - normally £24.99, but if you belong to their garden club (free) they are on offer at £9.99, plus if you spent over £10 (which obviously I did!) you got a free herb in a terracotta pot (normally £4.99).

 

Tracy

[Madchook]

Got my hands dirty today, sowed cayenne chilli, razamataz chilli (those upside down colourful ones), rosemary, thyme, chives, coriander, pink accordian tomatoes (prob won't work, 2yr old seed and never got fruit before despite growing into triffids). And I have two polythene bags of chitting parsnip seed in the airing cupboard (I chit them and do the loo roll method), Dunno why I am insisting on trying the old seed when I actually bought new this yr, but I seem unable to not give them a chance!)

[docsquid]

My tomatoes failed to germinate despite all my tender efforts, so another lot have gone in a different compost. Courgettes germinating, as are the greenhouse salads and carrots. Chillis also germinating.

 

Will need to do runner beans soon, but not yet.

[Cinnamon]

I got a free salad mix with my lakeland catalogu today,& if its the same as lasy years one,it is super.

I am going to find a nice pot & do it on the windowsil of th kictchen,for some early leafs

[Valkyrie]

Haven't sown my seeds yet, but I have planted 10 raspberry canes on Friday. Still have some room in the bed for a few strawberries. Yesterday was clearing out more of the greenhouse (have to get some sealant for the windows as they still leak when it rains), so I'm almost up and running. First on the agenda this afternoon will be parsnips, then I can cover them with glass so the girls can't dig in that bed any more.

[Couperman]

tomatoes - to replace the first batch that got frosted when I forgot to light the greenhouse heating candle (we have two survivors called Bruce and Arnie)

Kale - 2 types.

75 Parsnips - 2 types.

Telephone peas - saved from last year.

Preans - Saved from last year.

Cayenne Peppers.

Sweet peppers.

 

The tomatoes and peppers I sowed in trays and put in an electric propagator.

The parsnips I sowed indoors in loo rolls. I will so some direct as well in case they don't work out.

Everything else I sowed indoors in little cardboard pots that I recycled from work. They are actually little cardboard surrounds for coffee cups to stop you burning yourself (I am grateful to Elfen Safety for those, they are ideal )

 

So hopefully by the time they are all up the weather will be warm enough to transfer to the greenhouse.

 

I am going to save seed from Bruce and Arnie if they make it. I might have accidentally produced a frost proof strain of Tomato!

 

Kev.

[Cinnamon]

Got my dwarf French Beans in today.

Am still holding off on the Tom-Toes until April