Do you sow and grow your Sweet William?.
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,and willplant them
out at the end of the year about late September or before they get pot
bound.

Any tips anyone.
--
Bill. P
South/West Durham

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Do you sow and grow your Sweet William?.
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,and willplant them
out at the end of the year about late September or before they get pot
bound.

Any tips anyone.

Some people say that when the plants are about 4 - 6 inches, pick out
the tips, they will then bush out and give a much better yield. But with
120 plants, you've probably got more than enough!

I've found that they tend to self seed, so you get them coming up over
the next couple of years. This years flowering plants will also stand
through most winters and flower again next year, but not usually as
well.

Roger T

"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
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In article , says...

Do you sow and grow your Sweet William?.
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,and willplant
them
out at the end of the year about late September or before they get pot
bound.

Any tips anyone.

Some people say that when the plants are about 4 - 6 inches, pick out
the tips, they will then bush out and give a much better yield. But with
120 plants, you've probably got more than enough!

I've found that they tend to self seed, so you get them coming up over
the next couple of years. This years flowering plants will also stand
through most winters and flower again next year, but not usually as
well.

Roger T

Thanks for that Roger.
I will try pinching out the tips on some of them just to see the difference
when they flower.
--
Bill. P
South/West Durham

In article , Bill P.
writes
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,


Blimey, you're keen on Sweet Williams!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:47:30 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:

In article , Bill P.
writes
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,


Blimey, you're keen on Sweet Williams!

Or maybe a successful sower of seeds? There are a lot of the plug
plant selling companies who offer trays of Sweet William plugs in 120
plus quantities so I suppose there must be a lot of Sweet William
fanatics out there.

Some years ago, I had an overly successful sowing of foxgloves and got
to the stage of potting on about 100. Grew them on and gave lots away.

"If it grows, pot it on," is my rule.

http://www.rivendell.org.uk coming soon

"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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In article , Bill P.
writes
I have just pricked out into pots 120 ready for next year,


Blimey, you're keen on Sweet Williams!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

I do get a bit carried away when potting up seedlings Janet, I find it hard
to dump them in the compost bin.
--
Bill. P
South/West Durham

"Jake" wrote in message
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Some years ago, I had an overly successful sowing of foxgloves and got
to the stage of potting on about 100. Grew them on and gave lots away.

"If it grows, pot it on," is my rule.

http://www.rivendell.org.uk coming soon

I always give my spares to family and friends Jake. I hate to throw plants
away.
--
Bill. P
South/West Durham

Bill P. wrote:
Blimey, you're keen on Sweet Williams!
I do get a bit carried away when potting up seedlings Janet, I find it hard
to dump them in the compost bin.

Join the club. My particular 'success' this year was tomatoes!

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Bill P. wrote:
Blimey, you're keen on Sweet Williams!
I do get a bit carried away when potting up seedlings Janet, I find it
hard
to dump them in the compost bin.

Join the club. My particular 'success' this year was tomatoes!

Hi Vicky,
Tomatoes are always a problem for me. I sow twice the amount I need so that
I can pick out the best and end up potting all of them up. Once again family
and neighbours benefit.
--
Bill. P
South/West Durham

Bill P. wrote:
Join the club. My particular 'success' this year was tomatoes!
Tomatoes are always a problem for me. I sow twice the amount I need so that
I can pick out the best and end up potting all of them up. Once again family
and neighbours benefit.

Actually, to be fair, my first sowing of tomatoes this year was abysmal.
Possibly why I over-did it on 2nd sowing. I think first went in early Feb,
in JI seedling compost (which I am totally disappointed with! First time
I've ever stumped up for proper JI, and it was heavy and turned almost to
clay when it was wet!).