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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 19, 2011 17:56:16 GMT
Sounds like all your seeds are coming on well. Mine are now. I'm pretty sure now that I've lost my touch and have been sowing them into compost that is too wet. I'll not sow any more (I promise) until I buy some new compost. The stuff I've been using is old and I think between that and my heavy hands, only the stronges of seeds is coming through. I've used both old and new seeds and the result is the same.
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 19, 2011 18:08:39 GMT
I've done the same in the past LG and still do occasionally  I reckon its a sure fire way to get failures. What I do now is keep my compost bag sealed so it stays moist, if I pre fill trays or pots etc I try and keep them covered with a prop lid to keep it moist. I gently spray the surface once I've sown too. I only soak in a small amount of water if I really need to. |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 20, 2011 16:33:18 GMT
Fired up the big heated propagator and got started this morning.
Lisanthus Cinderella Blue and Arena Green
Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff
Nepeta Clarkei
Gazania Big Kiss yellow Flame and Sunshine Mixed
Stocks Fragrant Bedding Mix
Melianthus Major
Balsam Extra Dwarf
Veronica Blue Bouquet
Cleome Cherry Queen
Sweetpeas Cupani and Skylark Mixed
Put some Ricinus seeds into soak (Impala and New Zealand Purple)
Brought the colocasia and bird of Paradise pots in from the laundry, top dressed them and left them in the conservatory.
Put the canna (Tropicanna) in a pot in the conservatory to start it off....
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 20, 2011 19:12:45 GMT
I've no more room in the HP now until some stuff needs potting on  I suppose I could always sow in readiness, get half the sowing fix ;D |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 21, 2011 13:32:33 GMT
I've potted on some Splish Splash today.
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Post by Jilly on Feb 21, 2011 16:19:16 GMT
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 21, 2011 20:49:21 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 21, 2011 21:50:56 GMT
Ooooh I've got Lupins, Cosmos Sensation and some Delphiniums up ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 22, 2011 17:48:37 GMT
Wow...can't beat it can you dearie? I put the ricinus seeds in pots now...
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 23, 2011 9:25:55 GMT
I am going to have to pot on the nasturtiums, cosmos, cerinthe, tomatoes and artichokes. Now...where to put them all...  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 23, 2011 14:46:26 GMT
The stocks, gazanias and coboea scandens are all germinating.
;D
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Post by Tig on Feb 23, 2011 16:52:39 GMT
I've potted on all the ricinus today and put them in the dining room where it is a bit cooler, I need to stunt their growth or I'll have to build an extension for them!!
Must sow my cobaea & gaillardias. All the sweetpeas were sown today, outside in situ.
x Tig
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 23, 2011 17:14:22 GMT
I sowed a few Cerinthe outside in the garden. I've got a few self seeders there and they've come through the winter so we'll see what happens.
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Post by Geranium on Feb 23, 2011 19:33:50 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 23, 2011 21:26:28 GMT
I sowed some Stocks and Cerinthe today. I sowed Agastache Apricot Sprite last year Geranium, love it  |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 23, 2011 21:56:13 GMT
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 24, 2011 8:08:14 GMT
I took an agastache (Liquorish blue) grown from seed to GW Live in 2009...and was filmed giving it to Carol in the plant swop tent ! I am usually a very shy person and would run a mile rather than be filmed, but I was sooo excited at meeting Carol, and she was soooo nice to me that I didn't care about the film crew...
Last year I took an astrantia...and they asked me to be filmed again. I said that I'd been filmed last year and would rather not...so we decided to give somebody else their 30 seconds of fame....
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Post by Amber on Feb 24, 2011 8:15:11 GMT
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 24, 2011 8:15:34 GMT
I remember that CPB. |
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 25, 2011 13:32:15 GMT
Courtesy of Tig I have sown the following today:
Mina Lobata
Rhodochiton Purple Bell Vine
Hordeum Jubatum
Lobelia Tupa
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 25, 2011 15:31:20 GMT
I remember that CPB. Oh dear..are you still having nightmares? |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 25, 2011 15:35:56 GMT
Arfnoon...my dahlia seeds have germinated. I'm pretty sure I only sowed about 4 seeds...and there are 8 seedlings...erm... Maybe the labels were switched....  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 25, 2011 17:32:19 GMT
Funny how that happens. I noticed today that Hannah has a few things growing in one of her sweetpea pots.
I'll be growing the mina lobata too but since they can't go out until after frost I was going to leave them until I'm sowing the morning glory. Should I be sowing them now? Has anyone sown them before and are they difficult to germinate?
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 25, 2011 17:54:43 GMT
No more difficult than ipomoeas...I won't be sowing mine until late March-early April...when I sow my MGs.
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Post by andy on Feb 26, 2011 6:23:55 GMT
Ive got to stop going to garden centres. Jusr "popped in" to the local wyevale yesterday and came home with another 8 packets of seeds which will go in today  silene jack flash penstemon true blue aqualegia sunshine eschscholzia summer sorbet aqualegia nora barlow hollyhock fiesta time poppy candy floss poppy blackcurrant fizz |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 26, 2011 15:48:57 GMT
oooh....what a lucky boy ;D
I am trying to hang fire until the seeds I already have in the big heated propagator have germinated. When I start pricking out I plan to bring the 'innards' of the PVC GH into the conservatory to put all the pricked out pots in. Hopefully they will have enough of light as well as being warmish...
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Post by mowgley on Feb 26, 2011 17:49:22 GMT
Sown today
Aster duchess mix
marigold sparky mix
Only a few packets left to sow now ;D
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Post by purplejulia on Mar 2, 2011 13:20:36 GMT
I have been sowing a few seeds too this week
Viola Brushstrokes
Rudbeckia Goldstrum
Nicotiana - sylvestris and Roulette Mixed
Veronica Longifolia
Verbena Bonariensis
Ageratum Blue Mink
Anitirrhinum Majus
Cosmos Dwarf Sonata - green shoots sprouted the next day!
Lobelia String of Pearls
Nasturtium Top Mahogany
Schizanththus Butterfly Flower
Rhodochitin Purple Bell Flower - Thanks for seeds Tig
Datura Ballerina - will try again with my last 4 seeds!
Penstemon Lilac Frost
Aquilegia Blue Tower
I will sow my Cleome seeds from Tig after a few days in the fridge.
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Post by Barbara on Mar 3, 2011 15:47:09 GMT
Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when do I pot on my tithonias please .  |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 3, 2011 15:50:30 GMT
I don't know if it's right Barbara but I pot stuff on when they get their first proper leaves.
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I reckon its a sure fire way to get failures. What I do now is keep my compost bag sealed so it stays moist, if I pre fill trays or pots etc I try and keep them covered with a prop lid to keep it moist. I gently spray the surface once I've sown too. I only soak in a small amount of water if I really need to.
I suppose I could always sow in readiness, get half the sowing fix ;D
