Seeds

[cheerypeabrain]

My seeds arrived from D T Brown yesterday.... : I've sown the eryngium (dwarf Blue Hobbit) and the Lysimachia atropurpurea as they have to have a period of cold in the CF.....the gerberas, and pepino are germinating...I can see the weeny little roots emerging from the seed cases and going down into the compost.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


I MUST now hold off until March with the other seeds....

[cheerypeabrain]

4pygmies said:

It's entirly MrsB's fault with her Brown Turkey Fig question but I couldn't stop myself buying some seeds at the GC this morning...all 50p off you see.....

Sunflower Pacino - only 16" high....aw.....sweet...
Sunflower Ruby Eclipse
Sunflower Jammie Dodger both lovely reds and yellow shades
Erigeron - keep meaning to sow this...keep forgetting...
Rudbeckia Goldsturm - not a sign of them last year, I will not give up.
Cabbage Savoy - despite my fleece cages etc they are always infested with critters. I'll have another go - we love savoy cabbage.

I shall have to be more careful in GC's in future...

YAY!

it's a slippery slope ent it duckie?

[4pygmies]

And I forgot to mention the packet of beautiful dark purple leaved Oxalis triangularis corms (are they?) , the unheated propagator and the lovely Saracenia purpurea......

[cheerypeabrain]

I pricked out the larger dahlia seedlings today into individual 3" pots, and the chrysanthemum 'snowland' into a tray....YAY!
Put them back into a (ventilated) heated propagator on a low heat until they get a bit bigger....

[cheerypeabrain]

Pricked out the geranium moulin rouge this arvo...

[roan]

cheerypeabrain said:

Pricked out the geranium moulin rouge this arvo...

F1 Hybrids are very nice, our council uses them a lot along the divider down the centre of our main street, as well as in the centre of roundabouts.

Of course strictly speaking they are Zonal pelargoniums ;D

[cheerypeabrain]

You're not wrong.... ;D

[4pygmies]

OOOH! I just sowed my first seeds of 2008! A tray of pots with broad beans, one in each! Which was nice.....

[Sweetleaf]

We have torrential rain ! Ive just been watching it from my window, dont think Ill go to the GH after all this afternoon. I shall stay here instead, and gloat over my seed packets.

[4pygmies]

sweetleaf2 said:

We have torrential rain ! Ive just been watching it from my window, dont think Ill go to the GH after all this afternoon. I shall stay here instead, and gloat over my seed packets.

Oh no! What a shame....it's not a bad day here but it's very very breezy...I decided my back wouldn't like digging in that so I sowed seeds and lit the fires instead! Why is it always a lovely gardening day when we're at work?

[Sweetleaf]

Murphys Law Im afraid, always happens to me .. oooooh Lightning! Free fireworks display babe...

[4pygmies]

Well what do you know? It's just started pouring! The sun is shining though.........oo might see a rainbow! There was a glorious one on view from the leek shed yesterday. Right purty it be. Norfolk is quite good for rainbows I believe....maybe it's the lack of hills encourages them...I think they are timid things..

[Sweetleaf]

4pygmies said:

Well what do you know? It's just started pouring! The sun is shining though.........oo might see a rainbow! There was a glorious one on view from the leek shed yesterday. Right purty it be. Norfolk is quite good for rainbows I believe....maybe it's the lack of hills encourages them...I think they are timid things..

Did you see one then?

[4pygmies]

Yep, right over the school playground and into the forest. Luffley.

[4pygmies]

Look! It's the middle of February already! In my head that means it's reeeeally March which means I can get going with the seed sowing..hehehee......I shall gather up my stash of cardboard loo rolls (first checking for monsters cos there was a HOOOGE spider lurking in the bag last September) and sow my Parsnips seeds in them. Plus I may seek out my fairly knackered but still usable station seed trays and use them to sow a load of hardy annuals...waste not want not. I shall sow early peas in pots too...it will push me to keep going with the digging if I am accumulating a queue of stuff that needs a home...
I am being VERY grown up though and won't sow anything that needs heat yet....




...although Mum's house is much warmer than mine and she has bettter windowsills too.......

[debbiem]

How exciting, it's all kicking off, isn't it?
I've planted some Petunias which are sitting on our windowsill not doing very much - I might move them somewhere warmer. And I've got 2 trays of Cat Grass growing outside in a sheltered spot for the chickens, if that makes sense! ;D

[bogmyrtle]

I don't normally buy seeds but they leapt out at the basket this morning at Morrisons ;D

Sunflowers (hubby & I are having a competition as to who can grow the tallest!) - Giant Single and also Velvet Queen (if enough grow these are for cut flowers for the house!)
Sweet Pea - old spice mixed (heavily perfumed heritage climber)
Wildflowers - wildlife mix, cornfield & poppies - all for teh side front garden.

[Sleepy]

bogmyrtle said:

I don't normally buy seeds but they leapt out at the basket this morning at Morrisons ;D

Sunflowers (hubby & I are having a competition as to who can grow the tallest!) - Giant Single and also Velvet Queen (if enough grow these are for cut flowers for the house!)
Sweet Pea - old spice mixed (heavily perfumed heritage climber)
Wildflowers - wildlife mix, cornfield & poppies - all for teh side front garden.

I am intrigued to know what the 'Old Spice' sweet peas will smell like ;D

Nahhh... they won't.... will they?

Can you get Sweet pea Hai-Karate too?

Or Sweet pea Pagan Man? ;D

[bogmyrtle]

admin said:

bogmyrtle said:

I don't normally buy seeds but they leapt out at the basket this morning at Morrisons ;D

Sunflowers (hubby & I are having a competition as to who can grow the tallest!) - Giant Single and also Velvet Queen (if enough grow these are for cut flowers for the house!)
Sweet Pea - old spice mixed (heavily perfumed heritage climber)
Wildflowers - wildlife mix, cornfield & poppies - all for teh side front garden.

I am intrigued to know what the 'Old Spice' sweet peas will smell like ;D

Nahhh... they won't.... will they?

Can you get Sweet pea Hai-Karate too?

Or Sweet pea Pagan Man? ;D

That's why I put heritage climber! My thoughts exactly - I have three brothers and the youngest of them is 12 years older than me & in those days (60s) they always had Old Spice from little me for Christmas, birthdays!

[cheerypeabrain]

In the Seventies when I was a youngster it was 'Brut' (Splash it on all over) and 'Denim'...even the girlies used to wear Brut...when they weren't splattered with Aqua Manda or 4711 ;D

[cheerypeabrain]

oops...went a bit off topic there

Anyway, I'd sown some thyme seeds yesterday...they are germinating already!

With thyme (as with things like Lobelia) I'm never sure how to prick them out...as a clump? or singly do tell....

Confused Of Leicester

[elsie]

I don't know if it is the right way to do it but I would prick out tiny clumps CPB

I have sown
Chillies ( 3 varieties)
Aubergines ( 2 varieties)
Peppers (3 varieties)
Petunias
Cape Gooseberries (Thankyou CPB)
Heliotrope

and I have put my Gloxinias and Begonias in trays to get them going

It does feel good

[cheerypeabrain]

I was going to ask whether I should start off my begonias yet (pendula for baskets) ;D

Maybe this weekend...

Sounds like you had a lovely time Elsie ;D

[elsie]

Can't wait to get all my cuttings potted up now ;D

I would start your begonias off now

[cheerypeabrain]

OK I will ;D