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30-03-2006, 09:41 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Sacha" wrote in message
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wrote:
Thanks. I need to pop into B&Q on the way home tonight anyway so will
buy another smaller propagator and start of soem more toms. I'll leave
the others in with the basil as a comparison.

How long have your toms taken to come through ?

If you mean ours, they were showing in about a week, I think. BUT,
you shouldn't take that as a comparison for your own. Ours are on a
heated propagating bench and are regularly misted from an automatic
sprinkler system. My husband always says, when people compliment him
on his success rate at propagating things, that with his years of
experience and the equipment he has, it would be pretty poor if he
*didn't* get it right most of the time! He reckons that most
gardeners, using a greenhouse and without heated propagating benches
might not see propagation for two weeks or longer. You really are
doing fine and you're doing the right thing in starting some more toms.

I have only been germinating and growing seeds for a few years but this was
my first useful lesson/insight:
if they fail, just grow more. They can fail because the seeds are old or
the seedlings damp off or get too leggy.
Beginners like me get all flustered if that happens. After a while you just
do it again.

Are you by any chance going to ask for a greenhouse for your
birthday? ;-))
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon