[sunshineband]

Glad to hear the black krim are up now DD 

They took their time

[DD.]

Only one out of two. 

[digalotty]

popped in some gardeners delight  :happy:

[stompy]

I sowed toms, gardeners delight/garten pearl/sungold/alicante and peppers clifornia wonder and chillie jalapeno last weekend, this is the first time have had some time spare to get going.

The sungold/gardeners delight/alicante and garten pearl are all up and on the kitchen windowsill where it's cool but not cold so should grow slow and stocky for now.

2 of the jalapeno have begun to show but i think they have damping off disease so will see how the others fare in the same pot when they come through.
If it's bad news i'll do another sowinig in microwaved compost  

[azubah]

My tomatoes sown 20th January are still looking good.
I sowed more today as backup, and because I need more.

[DD.]

Second Black Krim has come through, that's 12 days after the first!

[mumofstig]

Better late than never 

[barbarella]

Although it is true that the young plants still need light, if the plants are given lots of extra heat they will want to romp away and will become drawn. If sown around now, they should all be up in say two weeks, if you can then put them somewhere that gets all available light and keep them somewhere around 10 degrees, they will not try to grow as quick as if they were being kept at say 15 degrees. I did it like this last year and had upto 9 trusses to the roof and was picking them well into september.
 

Thanks Totty - that is a really useful tip - so good I thought I would transfer it to the top of the pile
I sowed my tomatoes and chillies on Monday 13th on a mini propagating tray on our north facing kitchen window sill, following Monty Don's advice.  In previous years I found that early sowings got a bit drawn but I hadn't thought it might be the temperature so I will get them off the propagator as soon as they germinate and maybe into the frost free greenhouse.  But the temp in the greenhouse fluctuates so much at the moment - from 6 to 20+ degrees.  Oh help - what to do for the best??

[azubah]

When it gets warm enough during the day I put my tomatoes in the greenhouse, but take them in at night. I don't let them get below 10°C.

[starry]

OK so its now about 6 weeks since I sowed my tomato seeds 2 varieties of plum and 1 large Italian variety!!  I have approx six of each had a few casualties on the way but all now about 2 inches high got their second lot of leaves some are even getting their third, have been combing them 3/4 times a day following a recent thread and they are looking good (also have 4 chili plants growing (jalapenos)   also just started off some home harvested tomberries seeds whether they germinate or not I don't know on wards and upwards 

[mattwragg94]

just sown my sunbaby toms

[Auntiemogs]

Only one Shirley's Pixie out of three came up but it does seem to be a sturdy little thing considering the available light.    I shall put the other two down to the coir pellets which dry out very quickly so I won't be using them again.
Most of the ones on my previous list in (sans cucumbers DD). 

[DD.]

As we are getting to the time of year when would probably be sowing tomatoes anyway, I think we should now call a halt to the "I've just sown" posts.

This thread was intended to see how very early sown ones got on.

[barbarella]

When it gets warm enough during the day I put my tomatoes in the greenhouse, but take them in at night. I don't let them get below 10°C.

Thanks Azubah!

[kosh42|EFG]

Mine sown 1st Jan are still looking OK, but a little drawn. Tomorrow I plan to put small stakes in the pots to tie them to and also fill the pots to the rim with more compost that will stabilise them a bit and give more opportunity to grow some extra toots...