Showing posts with label Seed Sowing and Germination 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seed Sowing and Germination 2009. Show all posts

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