Saturday, 21 February 2009

Seed and Plant Sowing

21/2 Sowed: coriander, basil, chilli cayenne, land cress, cutting celery, rocket, salad bowl, pak choi

24/2 Germinated: rocket, pak choi, mustard, salad bowl

25/2 Sowed: tomatoes- harbinger, sub arctic, garden pearl, garden delight. Leeks- musselburgh, lyon prizetaker

27/2 Sowed: Talnium, aqualegia, red hot poker, lobelia, begonia, geranium, marigold, rudbeckia, penstemon, geum, delphimium. Broad beans into modules

1/3 Sowed: Early nantes 2 & 5 in pots, greenhouse. Sweet peas- 1/2 in modules and 1/2 in paper pots

3/3 Germinated: coriander, sub arctic, garden pearl, garden delight, chilli cayenne

4/3 Sowed: sweet peas
Germinated: marigold, harbinger

5/3 Sowed: spring onions, alpine strawberry, cauliflower, rudbeckia

6/3 Germinated: chocolate daisy

8/3 Germinated:penstemon, onionsx2, leeksx2, geranium, rudbeckia, lobelia, sweet peas in modules

11/3 Germinated: broad beans, sweet peas in paper pots

14/3 Sowed: sub arctic, garden pearl, garden delight, pak choi, coriander, cutting celery, salad leaves, mustard, landcress, asparagus Pricked out: leeks

15/3 Sowed: hardy geraniums, butternut squash, courgettes- bianca de trieste, golden zucchini, defender, kojac, dundoo.
Germinated: french marigolds

16/3 Pricked out: brunswick onions

17/3 Germinated: mustard greens, rocket, sweetcorn, salad bowl

19/3 Sowed: primulas, evening primrose, astilibe, saphonaria
Germinated: lemon basil, pak choi, red hot poker, spring onions, basil opal and genovese.
Pricked out: Tomatoes- gardeners delight x7, sub arctic x10, garden pearl x10, harbinger x9, rocket x12, pak choi x12, cauli x12, geranium x12, salad bowl x12, mustard x12

21/3 Germinated: Tomatoes- sub artic, gardeners delight, garden pearl, corinader

22/3 Sowed: Potatoes, white onions 'snowball'

23/3 Sowed: Carrots 'gonsenheimer' into pots

25/3 Sowed: Chives, garlic chives, thyme, mixed herbs, southport red onions, marigold, butternut squash, pumpkin, geranium phaeum, spring onion, Brassicas:kale- dwarf green, cavalo de negro,green calabrese,italian,early and late purple sprouting (5 per module) Germinated: courgettes, cutting celery, celery, southport red onions, celeriac. Pricked out: marigolds, cutting celery, delphinum x2, chocolate daisy Potted on: asparagus into 5" pots

27/3 Sowed: Early nantes 5 carrots and sparkler radish in pots into greenhouse. Planted: turbo onions, 3 rows.

30/3 Germinated: Marigold, geranium thunbergerii, tellima.

1/4 Pricked out: lobelia, pak choi, rocket, salad leaves, mustard, cutting celery, celery

2/4 Germinated: pansy, brassicas, lemon balm, thyme

4/4 Pricked out: tomatoes- sub arctic, garden pearl and gardeners delight (3x8)

5/4 Germinated: asparagus, garlic chives, peppadew chilli ans sweetcorn

6/4 Sowed: calendula, wildflower mix, poached egg, flanders poppy, cornflower x2, foxglove x3, runner bean, french beans 2x12, climbing beans 3x8, peas- meteor x20, kelvendon and mange toute x10, beetrott- cylindra and boltary x12, swiss chard, perpetual spinach.

7/4 Sowed: carrots- nantes 2 & 5. Pricked out: geranium

8/4 Sowed: fennel, lemon basil, spicy leaf mix, mizuna, astrantia, basil, rocket, pak choi, sald bowl, mustard greens, corinander, basil dark opal, cutting celery, mint, land cress, celery, lettuce- ultimate mixed and lollo rossa, salad mix-provence, californian, tuscan, spring onion- red beard and white lisbon. Potted up: courgettes ans squash (6x1 each)

10/4 Sowed: achilla 'cerise queen', penstemon 'mixed colours' and echinaea '?'

11/4 Germinated: pointed pepper, salad bowl, spicy leaf, rocket, mizuna, pak choi, mustard greens

12/4 Germinated: lettuces- lollo rosso and ultimate mixed and basil

13/4 Sowed: baby sweetcorn, chinese cabbage, lettuce-'little gem', pea 'celebration', turnip 'oasis', french bean 'creso'. Pricked out: geranium 'phaeum'. Germinated: calendula, cornflower x2 and night scented stock. Basil

16/4 Germinated: peas kelvendon, meteor, mange toute, spinach beet, french bean (1st sowing) swiss chard, cylindra beetroot and achilla. Pricked out: sweetcorn 3" square pots

17/4 Germinated: fennel, corinader, dark opal basil, lemon basil, basil and land cress (all these germinate quickly with the heated propagator but grow very leggy. Perhaps not enough light in conservatory?) Pricked out: southport red onions and celeriac. Potted up: courgettes

18/4 Potted up: sub arctic plenty x6 in 12" pots, pumpkin and geraniums. Planted asparagus 2 row ginjlim and 2 row backlim

19/4 Germinated: turnip, spinach, little gem, penstemon, achilla and echinaea. Potted up: harbinger x6 in 12" pots, garden pearl x6 (3 per large tub) Sowed: row of carrot sugarsnax, boltardy beetroot and sparkler/french breakfast radishes in raised bed

25/4 Germinated: celebration pea, mini sweetcorn, bean cresto. Pricked out: salad bowl, ultimate, lollo rosso, teasel and fennel

26/4 Germinated: salad tray Pricked out: Brassicas

2/5: Planted out: turnips, spring onions, cylindra beetroot, sweet peas, delphinium (into seed bed) Sowed: radish french breakfast/ sparkler

3/5 Planted out: tray of onions? runner and french beans (too windy!)

4/5 Sowed: beans-tendergreen, cobra, borlotti, blue lake, streamline (8 0f each in modules) pea-meteor, sugar pod, kelvendon. broad bean, foxglove alba and excelcior, astrantia, 3x salad mix, early nantes 5, paris market (carrots in containers)

5/5 Planted out: peas (from 6/4 sowing)

9/5 Sowed: carrot nantes 5 and autumn king, ultimate lettuce, radish rainbow, outdoor in bed

13/5 Planted out: sweetcorn, courgette, pumpkins, squash

14/5 Potted up: Tomatoes

16/5 Sowed: spring onion, white lisbon and ishikura. Butternut squash, hunter. Potted up: salad tray. Germinated: salad tray, peas. Planted out: marigold, rudbeckia.

17/5 Planted out: alpine strawberry, grenn calabrese, dwarf kale (in final positions 12" apart) Early, late and italian PSB (in seed bed to transplant later) Sowed: mixed mesclun.

19/5 Planted out: peas celebration and delphinium.

21/5 Sowed: radish. Germinated: peas, beans, salad tray, lupins. Planted out: cutting celery

22/5 Sowed: thyme, lovage, oregano, bob sunflowers 'lemon queen'. Planted out: asparagus 'connovers collosal' and flanders poppy.

28/5 Sowed: radish french breakfast. Planted out: 2nd sowing of beans (first sowing planted out too early and dont look so good)

29/5 Sowed: Artichoke 'green globe' Planted: Peas, 'meteor' kelvendon wonder' 'sugar snap'. Dwarf beans 'ferrari', 'tender green' and Fennel.

1/6 Germinated: mesclun mixture, sunflower 'bob the builder' Planted: teasel, achilla, tellima. Potted on: pointed pepper

2/6 Sowed: carrots 'paris market', 'early nantes 2 & 5'

5/6 Pricked out: Lupins.

6/6 Planted out: lettuce Potted up: chillies

7/6 Sowed: dwarf bean 'valour', pea 'kelvendon wonder', 'meteor' and green primrose seeds. Planted out: Fennel and broad beans

14/6 Germinated: Peas and beans as above

18/6 Planted out: Fennel and chard

26/6 Pricked out: Artichoke

27/6 Planted out: Peas and beans from 7/6 sowing