Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: beki on March 11, 2008, 13:32
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I only planted them less than 48 hours ago, but already i see tiny little green shoots appearing!!! :D
I've done them in an old water butt, and i planted them on sunday afternoon, and thought the weather yesterday might have finished them off before they'd had a chance!
I'm so pleased! :D
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Pictures or it din't happen! :lol:
Good for you, I sowed some carotts myself in a tub, but nothing showing yet.
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LOL.. if you insist :wink: :lol: Although, to be fair, there's not much to see.. just a few little green spots on the surface :lol:
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l152/bekiboo26/100_4111.jpg)
Do you believe me now? hehehe :lol: :wink:
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Nice weeds there. 8) I get me coat. :lol:
Seriously though, hard to be certain from the picture, but even radish takes longer than 48 hours. I don't know where you are but my garden is definitely cold yet for them to germinate.
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:shock: don't say that!!! :shock: :lol:
you might be right.. i just thought it must be carrots, cos they're coming up in patterns (circles) the same as i sowed them...
please, don't tell me i have weeds already :shock: :roll:
i'm in kent, by the way :wink:
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here are my broccoli that i planted at the same time (sunday afternoon)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l152/bekiboo26/100_4116.jpg)
i hope it's safe to say THEY'RE not weeds... cos if they are, i'm in trouble!!! :shock: :lol: LOL
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i hope it's safe to say THEY'RE not weeds... cos if they are, i'm in trouble!!! :shock: :lol: LOL
beki they are not weeds at all. well done. you will appreciate the satisfaction in the coming season. :lol:
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here are my broccoli that i planted at the same time (sunday afternoon)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l152/bekiboo26/100_4116.jpg)
i hope it's safe to say THEY'RE not weeds... cos if they are, i'm in trouble!!! :shock: :lol: LOL
Lovely broccoli them, very safely. 8)
Look I'm not saying it can't happen, but at this time of year outside, sooo unlikely. :lol:
Whereabouts are you Beki?
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i'm in kent, by the way :wink:
yeah... the broccoli are indoors in a propagator on my chest of drawers under the window.. the carrots are outside in a water butt and have weathered 2 storms in 3 days and i only planted them 3 days ago :lol:
:lol: poor things.. if they HAVE started to poke their heads up, they're probably on the way back down now!!! :lol:
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I'm sorry, I missed you said that already. :oops:
Take a photo of them in a weeks time if you can. It might be much warmer in Kent, but that will be still a record. :)
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might be my eyes or a trick of the light but they don't look like carrots to me. leaf shape doesn't look right. are you sure you didn't get your seeds mixed up?
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I'm sure. I got them straight out of the pack. I opened the pack as i was sowing them.
First pic is carrots (i can't see a leaf yet? :? ) and the second is broccoli :wink:
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Carrot, as dd suggests has differently shaped leaves, first two seed leaves are longish and thin, these haven't opened yet, but are roundish, hence I said 'weed'. :wink: It is a bit likely that some weed seeds in the compost germinated in the Sunday sunshine.
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my carrots have germinated outside (sewn 2+ weeks ago) and Im in northern ireland. They were in a raised bed with a layer of fleece - no sign of parsnips yet though of course....
2 days seems super quick. could the seeds have been damp in the packet and already 'softned up'? or were they foil packed
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I think you're right - they're probably weeds or something, as they haven't changed shape at all yet.. they're just teeny green blobs :lol: it's probably algae or something :oops: :lol:
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My carrots planted 02/03 under a cloche have failed to show yet, just sown some more today.