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franco

Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 113
Location: Bolton, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 7:29 am Post subject: Growing from seed
Each year I plan to grow all my veg, fruit and flowers from seed but invariably I don't and end up paying a fortune for plugs and small plants. My question is, How soon can I start planting seeds in an unheated greenhouse? Regards Franco

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 8:11 am Post subject:
I plant peppers in the kitchen in Jan Tomatoes from late Febalso in kitchen Other seeds start later in the greenhouse. Peppers and toms don't move out to greenhouse until late late March and I have fleece handy. They get planted in situ in the greenhouse/polytunnel in late April or early May. You could plant some Aquadulce claudia broad beans now though, when the soil unfreezes......

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 8:15 am Post subject:

While you can sow a lot of crops early, one of the most common mistakes people make is sowing too early. So you get your peppers looking strong and healthy in February and your tomatoes in March; whats the use of that if you can't plant out till the end of May? So you've got hundreds of summer cabbage seedlings in February, I'll bet they all damp off and die because you can't plant them out in the frozen ground...

Take your time over sowing, I'll bet things work out WAAAY better.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 10:26 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

Got to second that. I always get into sowing far too early - heated propagator going in January. Then I have the (heated) greenhouses packed with plants in pots with nowhere to go.

Very bad non-green person that I am...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45525
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 6:27 pm Post subject:
im missing growing ,i believe the pumpkins turned out ok which is good as the experiment showed they will grow in such conditions ,thanks all at rosewood for showing trust they were planted very late but the fence was piglet proof

franco

Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 113
Location: Bolton, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 10 9:10 pm Post subject: seeds
Thanks for the advice, I've decided to keep it simple this year though, just tomatoes and basil Franco

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 10 2:32 am Post subject:

No need to keep it simple. What size greenhouse? Where are the seedlings due to be planted out? What's the temperature/weather forecast?

Out-door plants, peas, beans, cabbages can be started off 2 or three weeks earlier than normal - so that up in Bolton you can get an extra three weeks of growing season for beans - could be worth it.

Some greenhouse crops have a long growing season, e.g capsicums, and if you can't get them started by mid Feb, don't bother. Some, such as ridge cucumbers, needn't be started until April.

If you're taking a punt, start off with cheap seeds, gambling 50p is no big deal.

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