look a likes

You have to keep all brassicas well labelled.  To me they all look the same for the first few weeks or so.  They do all certainly look very similiar.  I need to pot mine on now but I have run out of space in the greenhouse.

Sowed sprouts, cabbage and broccoli I think side by side in pots last year. Exactly the same problem. all got mixed up. 

It's not only brassicas that look a like when they are small!  the other day a man came round after I advertised my friend's old Sky box on Freecycle.

He said "I came a couple of years ago and you gave me some tomato plants.  You also gave me a cucumber plant.  Well, it wasn't a cucumber, it was a melon".  He said "I thought melons were hard to grow, but I looked after this plant and it grew me a lovely melon.  I saved the seeds.  Washed and dried them like you said and kept them in a brown paper bag in cool conditions, then last year I planted some and I had lots of lovely melons, and I saved the seeds from them to plant this year!"

And do you know, I've never yet grown a decent melon myself!!!!   

hi all
 To save labeling every pot or tray of plants we use coloured lollypop sticks, just label one pot with itsname and just put a coloured stick in the rest, used to do it when we ran a small nursery, save getting everything mixed up.
johnhar

What a good idea!  I have two different types of tomatoes, one cordon and the other bush.  My husband repotted them for me and didn't label them