"chris.sperry" wrote in message
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I'm new to gardening, but have recently had a go at sowing a few spring
vegetable seeds: carrots, beetroot, lettuce, spring onions, rocket.

I'm watching my carefully prepared patch like a hawk, willing a bit of
germination to take place.

Anybody got any idea which row is likely to emerge first?

Lettuce seed comes up in a day or two under the right conditions, but
carrots take weeks so you need to weed them a lot. I've never grown
beetroot. It might say how long the seeds take to germinate on the packets
and there may be a photo of what the seedlings look like, so that you can
sort them from weeds. That's useful for carrots if you've never grown them
before. Also, another tip is to plant carrots in a line so you can see lots
of identical small plants and know they're your carrots and not a weed.