Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Benny130 on March 25, 2020, 19:28
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Hi all,
should I be doing so now??
thanks in advance!
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Yes, but no hurry, I haven't sown mine yet either ::)
This may be of interest https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=26363.0
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I've just sown two dozen seeds into a 10" pot. Kitchen windowsill until they show, then outside into a cold frame until 9" high. Then open ground.
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Started mine a couple of weeks ago in an plastic tray I bought mushrooms in. Once they're all germinated and standing upright they'll go into a deep trough filled with compost and manure pellets, spaced out a few inches apart. When they're pencil thick and the weather is good they'll go in the ground.
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Hi guys and gals.
Mine are going in today maybe boiler cupboard first till germinated then windowsill then unseated greenhouse .
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Mine went in a seed bed a few days ago, covered with black plastic to increase warmth and protect from frost. I inspect them daily.
Cheers, Tony. :)
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I had considered sowing mine slightly later than usual this year as I had a bad infestation of allium leaf miner last year. I was hoping that this would help avoid attack from the first batch of eggs (laid March-April apparently). And then I'll plant them under enviromesh, hopefully avoiding the second infestation (August-October). But on second thoughts they are unlikely to be attacked while sitting in my cold frame anyway so perhaps I'll just sow them today in lockdown!
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Sowed mine a couple of weeks ago, and because the packet had a 'sow before' date of Jan 2020 I saved myself the usual faff of trying to sow them individually by sowing much more thickly in case the viability was low.
Yup, you've guessed it - now got a lot of faffy thinning out to do! :lol:
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I sowed mine 16th feb and I do multi sow roughly 4/5 to a module and plant them like that no thinning out and we do ok. We don't need massive leeks just plenty of them, 38 modules x average 4 150 plus leeks.
here's mine from today