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and if its cold on a night Stray

you have to bring them in to watch emmerdale ;-)

And when they start to grow..... talk to them kindly.

Stray if you want them to grow faster
you have to run round the pots three time morning noon and night especially if there's a full moon
while chanting grow grow grow

makes the grow right big and strong

HONEST ;-)

lol WEND, oh im good i even watered them this morning, they are outside but have a sunshine garden, sun all day if its shining,

can however bring them in, and put them at my fench doors, if the weather turns :-D

im glad they can take 3 weeks to start as i need some bigger pots if they do take, and cant get none till littman goes back to school as all my money goes on days out when hes off,

no one likes radish's so i dont mind if they dont take lol, i dont like tomatoes either but im hoping littleman will see them grow and try them,

It takes time to learn Joy, when she has absorbed the knowledge she will then get enthusuastic and there will be no holding her. Will there stray?


Puss, Ok send photos if I am likely to recognise them. Not if they still all look the same though. And tell me what you think you planted!! :-S

she did her scallions the same Fred
one each peat pot
but give her her due she is only learning

and she is keen

she has just come in and asked do you think my seeds will be through yet no hun you only planted them yesterday pmsl ;-)

That's what i would call ,strict radishinoning .lol. radish always do well ,wether in a row ,or broadcast close together ,luvvvvelly stuff with my salads,Fred.

i had to laugh when i went to strays
she was putting one raddish seed in each peat pot lol
where as i just sow straight into the soil ;-)

Yes the veg garden is quite large but do have a small holding. We grow in deep beds which make things easy as we dig manure in the pot beds each year and just hoe the rest so its not too bad in terms of work.

We do really need to cut back as both of us creak. Any waste goes to our friends down the road who keep pigs. Last year was amazing for peaches and our small tree had over 500. I am praying for more rain this year to avoid a hosepipe ban.

Kay

Ooooop in the frozen north i isss ,at least ,so my sister used to say.Newcastle Upon tyne he he so i tend to use the old gardeners adage ,[neeeer cast a clout ,till may is out ] though ,what a clout is ,i have no idea ;-).
Corn seeds ,wow ,you have one heck of a size garden then ,i'm afraid i had to give my allotments up after heart surgery ,and now ,with arthritis in the hips ,i am down to a small veggie patch .
I suppose that in all i must use about 140 cups all told to start all my seedlings in.but even in allotment days i used the same method,but i grew most of my stuff for showing ,i wasn't so fussy with the food side of things .
I now grow a dozen ,Brussel,a couple of rows of cabbage ,a couple of barrels with my tatties in,enough for the missus and me ,to not have to buy much in the way of veggies,and it keeps me active.
Your idea of the damp kitchen roll is simular to the way i started my leek pods in my show days ,transfering the pods to cups first ,then to bigger cups ,to pots and then bigger pots,until the leeks went into the trench in early june.all that work for two shows ,he he ,i must have been barmy :-D.
Fred.

I grow about 60 sweetcorn plants so rather too many for cups but actually start germination on damp kitchen paper by the Rayburn in the kitchen and when I am sure they have started to sprout I plant them in the gutters. (I plant out before the roots merge)

Don't know how far north you are Badger but in Herefordshire I resist starting them off until the beginning of May, although it is so tempting start before.

Last year wiped out all our over wintered spring greens but this year they survived even the cauliflowers :-)

had a lovely day yestreday sat in my rocker, im sure i saw grass grow, been putting my runners out for the day time sun then back in at night, im hoping that the seedlings i have growing without identification soon show me there true meaning, i know what ive got but dont know which is which just yet, i will take pictures and email them,

our fred can i have your email addy so i can send you pictures, i can also send them Ann.

well all have a lovely day in the garden and get your hats on. :-D

With the price of sweetcorn seed ,i now start mine off in
the greenhouse ,in plastic vending cups, £1 for 60 in the pound store ,after putting small holes in the bottom with a stanley knife [watch the fingers]
Any seed planted in these are easy to transplant using the bulb planter that you can get anywhere ,[and the cups are reusable],this means that when you transplant ,the roots are not disturbed,and plants tend to grow on far better.
Up north here it is far too early to plant Parsnip ,or Carrot which like a warm soil to germinate easily but as K says an ideal time to plant lettuce ,such as Cos ,which is pretty weather hardy :-).Fred.

A friend told me last year that lettuce like to germinate at lower temperatures which could explain why I had found problems with germinating them in a hot summer.

We have most problem with germinating carrot seeds which can be very patchy. I cover them with a fleece to stop the sun baking them and water regularly but I think they prefer rain

To keep the mice away from pea and sweetcorn seeds I sow them in gutters in the greenhouse to plant out later

Stray do not, repeat, do NOT dig the seeds up to see if they have rooted, most of them will take well over two weeks, maybe over three to germinate. Lettuc will probably be the quickest if you planted it.

Blimey, O'Reilly - thought I was seeing things there for a minute. Stray posting on the gardening thread :-S

Good on you gal - done well. Make sure you keep them warm when winter returns on Monday. Where are they? Not outside, I hope :-0

you do realise im inpatient, ill be fumingggggggg come tomorow when there is no green shoots! lololol,

then ill forget to water them, "sighs"

guna go get some large pots at the weekend, for when my little seeds sprout :-D

Someone will be ooooohing ,and aaaaaaring come tomorrow morning won't they Stray ,lol, join the club ,sounds like you could do with an allotment more than a garden with all those seedlings :-).
Get yourself some oinkment he he ,to rub on those sore spots ,and well done , Fred. :-D :-D

:-D ok ill admit it i did enjoy planting the seeds, but nothing ever grows for me :-(

so fingers crossed, will be nice to grow somthing,

:-D :-D Well done Stray, you deserve a brownie point!!