[kosh42|EFG]

All of mine are planted out now, but the last one that went in was a day before it was really sunny and the poly tunnel got up into the 30's. I think the roots in the small pot weren't developed enough to get moisture up quickly and the went very wilting... Have removed all of the damaged leaves and will see how they go.

The best performing are my Ildi cherries, which I didn't sow until mod-Feb. Both are over two foot tall with multiple flower buds. My only problem now is what to do with my spare one that's still in the spare room...

[AmandaLouise]

Hi

these are gardeners delight, sowed about end of Jan, quite tall,  have just been pinching out the tiny leaves in the elbows of the plant.  No flowers as yet.

[mumofstig]

I have just brought all of mine in form the greenhouse for the next few days.

Even with the polysheet cover I made, I don't think they'd like the 4C we're forecast for the next few nights  better safe than sorry.
Just the experimental one left out there, so I can show the difference between the cold grown and the warm!

[starry]

just to report in...... after sowing some tomatoes on the 6th of January to see how they would get on and whether or not I would gain anything, bearing in mind if I had a heated greenhouse or any green house I could have put them in when they had been big enough to transplant it might have been a different story, but I can say I gained absolutely nothing!!, they all did really well but the seeds I sowed some months later actually over took the original ones so I shan't be doing that again and cluttering up my conservatory   

[LilacSandy]

I have two tiny fruit on one of the January sewn ones  and then I went and snapped another lage one in half when moving it.  . 

[DD.]

Starry - ditto!

[Ivor Backache]

just to report in...... after sowing some tomatoes on the 6th of January to see how they would get on and whether or not I would gain anything, bearing in mind if I had a heated greenhouse or any green house I could have put them in when they had been big enough to transplant it might have been a different story, but I can say I gained absolutely nothing!!, they all did really well but the seeds I sowed some months later actually over took the original ones so I shan't be doing that again and cluttering up my conservatory   

Starry - ditto!

I am the opposite.
Phase 1 sowed 15/1/12 are now 3' tall on average, bearing fruit, 4th truss flowering
Phase 2 sowed 4/3/12 are now 18" on average. 1st truss showing.
phase 3 sowed 1/4/12 are now 4" tall now in their intermediate pots.

All grown on kitchen window, transferred to bedroom windows and then into unheated conservatory. Had hoped to start climatising, but not much hope of that before June.

[LilacSandy]

I have lost most of my Feb sowing and a lot of the March because of the appalling weather we have had lately and I do not have a heated greenhouse to grow all of them on, I also had a bad attack of whitefly.

I will have another go next year as the weather is different every year, last year the early part was good for tomatoes but the summer was dreadful and the previous year I had plants growing everywhere and was struck by late blight.  My feeling is that if I stagger sowing a few every month from Jan onwards then I shall be sowing some in the optimum month for that year.

[azubah]

My tomatoes have 3 trusses of flowers on.
The are coming much lower down due to the cold weather. They are not setting yet so will be late this year.
I am expecting a huge glut when it warms up.

[starry]

just to report in...... after sowing some tomatoes on the 6th of January to see how they would get on and whether or not I would gain anything, bearing in mind if I had a heated greenhouse or any green house I could have put them in when they had been big enough to transplant it might have been a different story, but I can say I gained absolutely nothing!!, they all did really well but the seeds I sowed some months later actually over took the original ones so I shan't be doing that again and cluttering up my conservatory   

Starry - ditto!

I am the opposite.
Phase 1 sowed 15/1/12 are now 3' tall on average, bearing fruit, 4th truss flowering
Phase 2 sowed 4/3/12 are now 18" on average. 1st truss showing.
phase 3 sowed 1/4/12 are now 4" tall now in their intermediate pots.

All grown on kitchen window, transferred to bedroom windows and then into unheated conservatory. Had hoped to start climatising, but not much hope of that before June.

Hi Ivor so what varieties have you sown ?? mine were 2 types of plum and a large Italian variety called "cuore" and one of the plums is "Roma"

[Dora5]

I have a first 'baby' tomato from the 9th January sowings...

[LilacSandy]

Me too.   

[annie b]

those with tomatoes I salute you! But after a really good crop last year....I'm having a nightmare! I sowed some Roma, cherry tomatoes adn brandwine....have one roma left, a couple of cherry tomatoes and one piddly widdly brandywine.

Am going to trawl around the open gardens locally to see if I can get anymore plants. Grr....


The good news I ahve lots of curly kale plants which seem to be thriving!

[snowdrops]

those with tomatoes I salute you! But after a really good crop last year....I'm having a nightmare! I sowed some Roma, cherry tomatoes adn brandwine....have one roma left, a couple of cherry tomatoes and one piddly widdly brandywine.

Am going to trawl around the open gardens locally to see if I can get anymore plants. Grr....


The good news I ahve lots of curly kale plants which seem to be thriving!

I have loads left over, a bit straggly but most with flowers either gardeners delight or sweet million mainly + a couple of others if you want to collect them. Where in Leicestershire are you?

[annie b]

that's really kind of you snowdrops..have only jsut dseen this message! And i was giving a talk in Barwell the other night! Will dm you....