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Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: adri123 on January 25, 2014, 09:05

Title: Sowing Tender Plants in my set up/Location?
Post by: adri123 on January 25, 2014, 09:05

I'm all geared up and ready to go...

1. Heated and artificially lit propagator. 

2. Mini Greenhouse inside the Polytunnel which has a cold frame parrafin heater inside

3. Then the Polytunnel itself.

I'm in the Peak District.

When would you consider sowing Aubergines, Peppers, Toms etc?

TIA

Adri

Title: Re: Sowing Tender Plants in my set up/Location?
Post by: New shoot on January 25, 2014, 09:22

I garden down south Adri with an unheated greenhouse, but the earliest I have ever started peppers and aubergines is mid February. They do need a long season to get a worthwhile crop, but starting extra early can mean you get very tall spindly plants.  Shorter plants with more branches will be way more productive.

Tomatoes grow so fast, I personally don't sow until mid March.

You have a good set-up there, so I would do a 2 stage sowing.  Get the aubergines and peppers going in a few weeks, then break out the tomato seeds  :)

Title: Re: Sowing Tender Plants in my set up/Location?
Post by: DD. on January 25, 2014, 09:24

Items 2 and 3 are the critical ones.

It's all well and good starting things early, but it appears you have nowhere with substantial warmth to transfer them to.

Title: Re: Sowing Tender Plants in my set up/Location?
Post by: adri123 on January 26, 2014, 12:35

Thanks for the replies.

Good advice....not sure I'm able to wait though.  As an experiment I think I'll get some seeds from a supermarket pepper and see whether they grow before trying out my proper seeds....

CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Title: Re: Sowing Tender Plants in my set up/Location?
Post by: New shoot on January 26, 2014, 13:08

Quote from: adri123 on January 26, 2014, 12:35

CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

There's a few of us on here that understand and feel your pain  ;)

Mustard and cress?  Sprouting seeds or micro greens on the windowsill?  Join in the onions from seed 2014 thread and grow along with everyone else?

That's how the rest of us are keeping those itchy seedaholic fingers happy  ;)  :D