Anyone started Toms yet?

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Anyone started Toms yet?
« on: March 03, 2015, 19:54 »
I've a few in the heated GH but should have been more patient and waited until now at least.

Anyone else got any going?  Or anything else for that matter?  I'm tempted to start off some lettuce and Pak Choi.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2015, 20:12 »
I've got some peas growing in flower buckets in the cold greenhouse.
Seedlings of a couple of early toms in small pots on the window-ledge, and a tray of peppers to pot on soon, they'll be staying in front of the window in the spare bedroom 'til it's warmer.

I've just got my seed box out again  ::) to sort out what toms I'll be sowing next week, and destined for the cold greenhouse at the end of April/beginning of May.

Need to sow parsley soon, and more peas in the ground as soon as this cold weather is over, maybe get the plastic on next week, to warm the soil.

Oh nearly forgot the early cabbage, it's struggling on in the cold frame - don't know if it will come to anything  :unsure:

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2015, 20:19 »
Started the toms and cape gooseberries a few days ago.
Celeriac seeds are up, so are broad beans and leeks.

Have started off penstamons, cup and saucer plants, pansies, nicotiana, cerinthe and blue salvias, Brussels and calabrese.

Also started some dwarf peas but didn't plant the rest as rain stopped play. :(

Will carry on with the peas and  mange alls,  parsley and parsnips tomorrow. Then I will have a dig around in the seed box to see what will be next.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2015, 17:38 »
I don't have a heated green house so everything starts life in a heated propagator in the kitchen then migrates to the cold green house. So far, I've started off 8 varieties of tomato(just pricked them out into 3" pots), leeks, onions and peppers. I know all the pros and cons but I just can't wait to start, I tell myself every year to be patient with the seeds but I just can't!! :nowink:

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2015, 18:49 »
I've got loads of spring onions growing well in modules or pots in batches of six or so. Little gem lettuce just showing through. Toms and chillies about 3-4" high. Sowed tagetes, psb, kale, mesembryanthemum today. Nothing planted or sown in garden yet as on cold clay soil but poised to sow beetroot, parsni and radi.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2015, 01:46 »
I've not sown anything yet. The weather is starting to warm up now and tbh if I sow now or later in the month it won't make much of a difference as everything eventually catches up. May start some serranos soon but who knows.
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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2015, 14:26 »
I don't have a heated green house so everything starts life in a heated propagator in the kitchen then migrates to the cold green house. So far, I've started off 8 varieties of tomato(just pricked them out into 3" pots), leeks, onions and peppers. I know all the pros and cons but I just can't wait to start, I tell myself every year to be patient with the seeds but I just can't!! :nowink:

I have just sowed tom seeds (two varieties) - two days ago - and they are in propagators on the kitchen windowsill.  I will be moving them to unheated greenhouse once they are established, and from there they will grow on, in pots, in the greenhouse.  No point in growing them outdoors up here, even the so-called outdoor varieties (been there, tried it), and now is probably the earliest time to sow them, for me.  I hope your early sowings are successful - I know what you mean about not being able to wait, but I have had to learn to do so, living here!

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2015, 19:07 »
Man in garden centre today buying toms, me thinking, ooh, too early.

No heated greenhouse.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2015, 22:55 »
Started a week ago 👍 first year as a greenhouse owner, super excited and slightly nervous.
its good to get dirty.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2015, 07:53 »
Just sowed latah and tumbling tom in bay window heated propagator.
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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2015, 08:20 »
Sowed my toms a couple of weeks ago. They get carried to the poly tunnel to be in good light during the day then brought in to the house at night to keep warm. I keep a cover over them if its a cooler day to keep the temp up a bit. Will need potting on in a week or so.........will need several journeys back and forth then.
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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2015, 08:51 »
Sowed mine and then the kids all came home so they got moved to the freezing cold porch where they stayed. They have done great.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2015, 12:24 »
you put the kids in the cold porch BQ  ohhhh shame   .. well better look after the seeds i guess lol

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2015, 15:38 »
you put the kids in the cold porch BQ  ohhhh shame   .. well better look after the seeds i guess lol

Seeds first......... The toms and cues I sowed all love it out in the porch and it trully is freezing??????? Growing well and will soon need potting on.

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Re: Anyone started Toms yet?
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2015, 16:31 »
Sowed mine on the 1st March and they've all popped their heads above the ground. The trays of plugs will go in and out for a few weeks until they're big enough to be potted up.




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