[Ladybirdsmile]

Think I may have gone mad buying veg seeds. I have built 6 raised beds all 4ft / 6ft.
 And bought all these seeds to grow in them, will I have room ?? to grow all . :oops:

Cabbage: Greyhound / Golden acre / Savoy: resolution F1.
Carrots: early Nantes 5 / Autumn king 2
Perpetual Spinach – leaf beet
Applause Sweet corn
Musselburgh Leeks
Broccoli Purple sprouting
Parsnips Lisbonnais
Bedford-Fillbasket Brussels sprouts
Courgette F1
Ambassador Peas
All year round Cauliflower
Boltardy Beetroot
Best of all Swede

Potato’s: Sante / Yukon gold / Arran pilot
Onions / shallots and garlic

all help and advice welcome

Seeds to grow in Greenhouse

Mixed salad leaves  
Tomatoes: Beefsteak / Gardener's Delight
Cucumber Palermo F1
Corno di Toro Sweet Pepper
Joe's long - Medium-hot red chillies

[WG.]

In a word, no.

But, fear not, everything except parsnip, potatoes, onion, shallots and garlic will keep for use next season and beyond.

[paintedlady]

...nothing wrong with enthusiasm!    Unless you intend only growing a handful of each, I personally think you may have a bit too many for the size beds.  Someone else might think differently.  At least you could start off with one crop and then follow on with another crop eg start off with 1st early potatoes and after digging up have your leeks or brocolli ready for planting in.

How about drawing up a plan of your beds, work out the measurements and the spacings between plants, also a rough guide of how long one crop will be in the ground before ready for another crop.  You could then group certain ones that like the same conditions together.

Its all good fun really!

[flowerlady]

Isn't buying seeds part of the fun!!  

If space gets to be very short you could always consider interplanting ... carrots amongst the onions ... courgettes and squash below the sweet corn .... lettuces below the cabbages as they will be ready later ?  

[paintedlady]

Isn't buying seeds part of the fun!!  

... I go into say, Wilkos or B&Q, to buy something totally unrelated to gardening and walk out with a handful of seeds as well that look interesting but I don't REALLY need.  Its easy to be cocky while sitting behind this desk reading what others do, but secretly I think we are all guilty of it but don't say anything

[ditchdigger]

Plant one of each.

[cooperman]

hmmm half the fun is browsing the catalogues, I have sent off two orders, one to The Real Seed Company and one to Seeds of Italy......
The former are very efficient and have got them already! If you are that interested I could put a list up.... let me know...

[Sally A]

It would be interesting to know what you've ordered and how they grow from Seeds of Italy, they always do so many seeds in a packet.

I've been tempted, but I'm scared I might be trying to force a mediterranean plant to grown in our soggy climes, and would hate to waste space with a duff crop.

[cooperman]

a lot of people do not realise that a LOT of Italy is actually an Alpine climate, so if you do a bit of research you can find the varieties that work there will doo fine here too.... get ordering! hehe

[cooperman]

oh yes - heres the list....
Seeds of Italy
all will be outsiders 'cept the Pepper

Tomato Monte Carlo, San Marzano and St Pierre
Potato Primura (first timer for me, always wanted to try)
Lettuce Bionda a Foglia Liscia
Pepper Corno Rosso
Spinach 7R F1

I shall update on here later in the year.....

ciao!

[fletch]

... I go into say, Wilkos or B&Q, to buy something totally unrelated to gardening and walk out with a handful of seeds as well that look interesting but I don't REALLY need. Its easy to be cocky while sitting behind this desk reading what others do, but secretly I think we are all guilty of it but don't say anything

I totally know what you mean PL.... I have 42 (I'm not exaggerating) packets of seeds to sow. They are not all veg by any means, in fact, mostly flowers etc.... but where the heck I'm gonna put them all............ I went to my local GC last Friday to get some parafin for my new greenhouse heater.

Naturally I came away with sweetcorn seeds, garlic sets, dahlia tubers..etc...etc..etc...

[Trillium]

Only 42? You obviously have no idea what's on my list  

[Ladybirdsmile]

Thanks everyone, I’m going to try plan my veg plots on paper first and see what will grow with what and the time of harvesting them, grow most seeds in pots and transplant when I get space and buy some large tubs to grow carrots & peas and grow bags for  Courgette. Grow potatoes in compost bags and give it my best shot.
Fingers crossed

 :o