[prakash_mib]

Is it me or something else? have been using sowing and cutting compost (expensive one) from Beeq uptill now and over the last week I bought loads of westland with added johns inn and sowed my louffa and other squash varieties. blimey they are sprouting and gosh they look healthy and beautiful. have i done anything wrong/right or is it the weather making the sprouts coming good even indoors?

[darthpaul]

My seeds are also doing great - Check them out

[bluelou]

I used sowing compost last year and the seeds did not do will. This year i have used a multi purpose compost and they are doing great.

[compostqueen]

Well done but int it a bit early for squashes?  Or is luffa going in the greenhouse. Scuse my hignorance    I ask as I think I have some luffa seed in my tin 

[diggerjoe]

just by chance I picked up a small 10 litre Westland lightweight compost I know its expensive but i needed it for work to pot up our chilli challenge and wow its wonderful stuff the chillis are lovin it infact even though I may sound strange I would be happy sitting in it lol. Ive bough some more for my special plants.

[prakash_mib]

Well done but int it a bit early for squashes?  Or is luffa going in the greenhouse. Scuse my hignorance    I ask as I think I have some luffa seed in my tin 

just trying my luck.. i've been reading a lot about temperature zones and the region i come in is 9B so probably to start in mid april (like sweetcorns). I dont have greenhouse. everything will be chucked out one by one from mid of may onwards. the other squash i mentioned is bitter melon (squash/gourd... confusing).
I have got 15 seeds of each (louffa, bitter melon, snake gourd) so trying 5 /batch.

[compostqueen]

Is this the peat free Westland you're speaking of??  They also do a peat based one which is why I'm asking, as I need some compost

Ta

[JayG]

I have used Westland with JI several times and it has always been very reliable although I'm afraid it's not peat-free.

(An old dear for whom I fetch compost grows nearly all her stuff in pots and containers and won't let me buy any other brand!) 

[compostqueen]

I wondered what Prakash was using

[prakash_mib]

read the whole bag and it does have some peat in it (am cheating!!! arent I)
but remember i used the saw dust Beeq sowing compost to grow my tom and cues seedlings and they are as bad as it can be.
I used westland with JI multipurpose compost for growing sweetcorns, lablab, snake gourd, bitter melon, climbing variety of squash, louffa and all had 100% germination (well I had one seed rotten in lablab but still can live with that) will certainly post some pictures of the seedlings today when i reach home as they are absolutely beautiful.
P.S: I have used the same to pot my seedlings as well. and the cues seems to like them! ("unconcerned" hope you read this) and my leggy okras, toms etc.

[compostqueen]

ok then so it's the peat based one. They do the same potting compost with added John Innes but with peat free, which is why I asked

Thanks

I'm off to get some as some of my plantlets need potting on 

[prakash_mib]

  read my post myself and gobsmacked by myself. Till last year All i knew was put a seed and they will grow. now am talking about sowing compost, composition, seedling, potting and all the stuffs.
well done prakash! you have learnt a lot in this site! 

[Aidy]

I am a levingtons man, however Geoff next door but has always said his westland has been superb, never had problems with it.

[prakash_mib]

some of germinations in westlands

louffa and the one farthes visible on left is bitter melon.


sweetcorns - all of them


lablab. the small ones are garden huckleberries(Beeq ones).

[sclarke624]

I use old compost the potatoes grew in the previous year and always get great germination, but then I have to be different.  LOL