Got me seeds today
Hi there winter gardeners!
I got my seeds from The Organic Gardening Catalogue today. I have: Purple Hot Pepper Jumbo Sweet Pepper Habanero Ring o Fire Cayenne Pepper Tomato - Gardeners Delight Tomato - Golden Sunrise Tomato - San Marzano (Plum) Tomato - Burpees Delicious Aubergine - Black Beauty Herbs - basil, marjoram and some other stuff. Seed potatoes My question is, on the packets of most of these seeds, it says sow December - March. I have a 12x8 greenhouse, but it's unheated. I do have a small electric propagator - should I sow them in there (if they'll fit). Not sure what to do. I could sow them on the window sill but I don't want them to get too leggy. Ideas? I fancy sowing them this week. -- Mark Allison SQL Server MVP http://www.allisonmitchell.com |
Got me seeds today
In article , "Mark Allison" nomail@please writes: | | My question is, on the packets of most of these seeds, it says sow | December - March. I have a 12x8 greenhouse, but it's unheated. I do have a | small electric propagator - should I sow them in there (if they'll fit). Not | sure what to do. I could sow them on the window sill but I don't want them | to get too leggy. | | Ideas? I fancy sowing them this week. Far too early. Don't even think of sowing seeds for a month yet, and possibly even longer for warm-climate plants. The problem isn't the temperature - it is the light, almost total lack of. Subtropicals etc. are adapted to growing fast once they start, and will not do well if kept warm and half-dark. You can get away with the hardiest of plants because they are adapted to growing slowly - so you plant them outside and they will do that. But it won't work for warm-climate plants. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Got me seeds today
In article , "Mark Allison" nomail@please writes: | | My question is, on the packets of most of these seeds, it says sow | December - March. I have a 12x8 greenhouse, but it's unheated. I do have a | small electric propagator - should I sow them in there (if they'll fit). Not | sure what to do. I could sow them on the window sill but I don't want them | to get too leggy. | | Ideas? I fancy sowing them this week. Far too early. Don't even think of sowing seeds for a month yet, and possibly even longer for warm-climate plants. The problem isn't the temperature - it is the light, almost total lack of. Subtropicals etc. are adapted to growing fast once they start, and will not do well if kept warm and half-dark. You can get away with the hardiest of plants because they are adapted to growing slowly - so you plant them outside and they will do that. But it won't work for warm-climate plants. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick Maclaren6/1/04 11:44
In article , "Mark Allison" nomail@please writes: | | My question is, on the packets of most of these seeds, it says sow | December - March. I have a 12x8 greenhouse, but it's unheated. I do have a | small electric propagator - should I sow them in there (if they'll fit). Not | sure what to do. I could sow them on the window sill but I don't want them | to get too leggy. | | Ideas? I fancy sowing them this week. Far too early. Don't even think of sowing seeds for a month yet, and possibly even longer for warm-climate plants. The problem isn't the temperature - it is the light, almost total lack of. Subtropicals etc. are adapted to growing fast once they start, and will not do well if kept warm and half-dark. You can get away with the hardiest of plants because they are adapted to growing slowly - so you plant them outside and they will do that. But it won't work for warm-climate plants. Re the tomatoes: Admittedly, ours are grown in a professional prop house on heated benches but our tomato seeds are in now. Ray tells me that when his family grew them commercially, they sowed them on 26th November! -- Sacha (remove the 'x' to email me) |
Got me seeds today
In article , Sacha writes: | | Re the tomatoes: Admittedly, ours are grown in a professional prop house on | heated benches but our tomato seeds are in now. Ray tells me that when his | family grew them commercially, they sowed them on 26th November! With horticultural lighting, I assume? You can certainly plant out much earlier than I can, but I have trouble with weediness sowing even in late February. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
...but I have trouble with weediness... Do you mean that the plants were small in size, or that you were plagued by unwelcome "plants in the wrong place". -- Nick Wagg |
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In article , Nick Wagg writes: | Nick Maclaren wrote: | | ...but I have trouble with weediness... | | Do you mean that the plants were small in size, | or that you were plagued by unwelcome "plants in the wrong place". The former :-) Tall, spindly, and unhealthy. In some cases, I scrapped them and sowed new ones. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Frogleg writes: | | And I thought *I* was the Light Nazi! :-) A look at wunderground.com | reveals the following sunrise/sunset numbers for today: | | Cambridge, UK: 8:07 AM GMT 4:02 PM GMT | | Hampton, VA, USA: 7:19 AM EST 5:03 PM EST | | Close to 2 hrs difference in sunlight, 'though of course this changes | as the seasons progress. It's worse than that. Because the sun is lower in the north, the light levels are closer to the square of the day length, so Hampton is getting 45% more light. And that doesn't account for the absorption effects (cloud and otherwise), which could easily make that 45% into 90%. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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It's worse than that. Because the sun is lower in the north, the light levels are closer to the square of the day length, so Hampton is getting 45% more light. And that doesn't account for the absorption effects (cloud and otherwise), which could easily make that 45% into 90%. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Thanks. I live in Bedfordshire, so my predicament is not as bad as living as far north as Inverness. So, you reckon around March time for all my seeds? Thanks everyone. |
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Nick Maclaren6/1/04 2:52
In article , Sacha writes: | | Re the tomatoes: Admittedly, ours are grown in a professional prop house on | heated benches but our tomato seeds are in now. Ray tells me that when his | family grew them commercially, they sowed them on 26th November! With horticultural lighting, I assume? You can certainly plant out much earlier than I can, but I have trouble with weediness sowing even in late February. I don't know if Ray used such lighting in Upshire but will check later. But we don't use any here. I am only talking about tomato seeds, though and not the other, more exotic, things mentioned by the OP. Once the seedlings are ready for potting on, they go into 'long toms' for the few that we sell and our own go into bags of compost and are kept in the biggest glasshouse. And as an aside, so many people commented favourably on my personal hanging basket of 'Tumbler' tomatoes that we're going to plant some up for sale this year, along with the more usual flowery ones. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the 'x' to email me) |
Got me seeds today
Nick Maclaren6/1/04 2:52
In article , Sacha writes: | | Re the tomatoes: Admittedly, ours are grown in a professional prop house on | heated benches but our tomato seeds are in now. Ray tells me that when his | family grew them commercially, they sowed them on 26th November! With horticultural lighting, I assume? You can certainly plant out much earlier than I can, but I have trouble with weediness sowing even in late February. I don't know if Ray used such lighting in Upshire but will check later. But we don't use any here. I am only talking about tomato seeds, though and not the other, more exotic, things mentioned by the OP. Once the seedlings are ready for potting on, they go into 'long toms' for the few that we sell and our own go into bags of compost and are kept in the biggest glasshouse. And as an aside, so many people commented favourably on my personal hanging basket of 'Tumbler' tomatoes that we're going to plant some up for sale this year, along with the more usual flowery ones. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the 'x' to email me) |
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