What can i plant now ??????

dawnfuller

Hi,
:(Am I too Early???
Is it time yet ????
What exactly can I start to plant (seeds ) in my plastic greenhouse ??
Or on my spare room window sill??
Im just itching to start plants so I can plant out on my allotment ???
Regards

Dawn

brians_daughter

Hi dawn, i have in my propagator/conservatory

Chillis
peppers
tomatoes
cauliflower
cabbages
Early Potatoes

i do plan to grow

sweetcorn
lettuce
leeks
and will start these off at easter

I plan on keeping them in til the frost passes. If you have a plastic greenhouse you need to ensure the frosts have passed before palnting out. It also depends on where you are

Most seed packets state when ideal sowing time is for inside and outside. The further north you live the later you should start - or so my dad tells me! He works on the theory of every 50 miles further north equals 5-7 days later.

He tells me we live 250 miles north so i should be planting out a month later than the pack states ... but each to their own!

Easter is traditionally the time to start - but some start sooner, some later

painted

I have just sown loads of seeds and put them in my spare bedroom.

tomatoes
dwarf french beans
chilis
aubergines
lovage
parsley
dill
fennel
rudbekias
echinaceas
nasturtiums
Im sure there are more just cant remember!

Potatoes are chitted ready to go in soon and plenty more seeds to sow in the coming months

squack

you can germinate a lot of stuff indoors then use an energy saving lightbulb a few inches above the seedlings to grow them on

peachespeaches

squack wrote: »

you can germinate a lot of stuff indoors then use an energy saving lightbulb a few inches above the seedlings to grow them on

Can you explain how you rig this up please to hang over the seedlings? Sorry if Im a bit thick, I just cant visualise it.

For OP, you can start loads of things off now in your spare room. Look at seed packets they tell you when to sow. Are you thinking bedding plants or veg?

tomsolomon

Today I was mostly....

Potting runner beans, dwarf French beans, peas and sweetcorn....

Potting on toms, cukes, peppers and sprouts.

Going to plant out early carrots, leeks, onions and potato's under fleece in the next few days to a week, and crossing my fingers. And everything else....

The new moon cycle starts Monday so now is a good time to sow......

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/#2

gillian62

I have been starting a lot of seeds in propagators on my windowsills - running out of window sills in fact. It seems too cold at night to keep them in an unheated greenhouse.

RachelA_2

Is this your first time Dawn?

dawnfuller wrote: »

Hi,
:(Am I too Early???
Is it time yet ????
What exactly can I start to plant (seeds ) in my plastic greenhouse ??
Or on my spare room window sill??
Im just itching to start plants so I can plant out on my allotment ???
Regards

Dawn

zygurat789

tomsolomon wrote: »

Today I was mostly....

Potting runner beans, dwarf French beans, peas and sweetcorn....

Potting on toms, cukes, peppers and sprouts.

..

The new moon cycle starts Monday so now is a good time to sow......

Where do you live - near the med, round here we are still having heavy frosts and I can't put mine out til mid to late May

tomsolomon

zygurat789 wrote: »

Where do you live - near the med, round here we are still having heavy frosts and I can't put mine out til mid to late May

South West Midlands, Severn Valley, very sheltered, and I have very large window sills and a heated greenhouse.... :P

The Met five day forecast is looking good aswell......
So long as we dont have a heavy frost, all should be ok......;)

dawnfuller

Hi,
Rachel A,
It is my first time growing from seed.
Planted mangetout sweetcorn peas broccoli + cabbage seeds in poly greenhouse (cheepo one from Nettos )