They have just got in a batch of vegetable seedling plugs - a pack of 15 for £1.99.
I bought Winter Onions, Winter Cauliflower, Winter Cabbage, Spring Cabbage and Purple Sprouting Broccoli.
All I have to do is to transplant them into a proper seed module tray and water them in. Once the roots start coming out of the bottom of the module it is time to plant them out.
The seedlings are in a tiny amount of compost which is sitting in a layer of gel (it is supposed to help with water retention and you can mix it with your compost in the seed tray if you want).
A quick spin around the seeds I have recently planted -
In the blow away almost everything is starting to show - both pumpkins are going well (the Jack O' Lantern is doing best).
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| Jack O'Lantern on the left, Mammoth to the right |
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| White Lisbon Spring Onions |
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| Paris Market Carrots |
The spring onions
are also coming on, as are the carrots.
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| Kelvedon Wonder Peas |
The peas are nearly an inch high and growing noticably every day - there is even a sigle kohl rabi sprout as well.
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| Basil - at last! |
Best of all - there are a few basil coming up as well. This will be the first time I have managed to get basil to germinate in over three years of trying, so I am very pleased with this.
Nothing from any of the courgettes as yet though, but they were only planted six days ago so I really shouldn't get too impatient just yet.
On last Monday evening I planted chillis, tomato, another pumpkin 'Mammoth', borlotti, sugar snap peas and radish on the box room windowsill, so they have only had four full days so far.
The only movement is from the radish. It started to show after only two days, and this is where they are now.
Some of the seedlings are nearly an inch tall, and almost all the seeds have germinated meaning that I have two seedlings at each station.
I may try to transplant the weaker one of each pair, but I have read that radish doesn't like being transplanted, and you should seed it where it will be growing.
It will be interesting to see how the radish that I will move fare compared to those left behind.
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