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Apr 2020
10:58am, 9 Apr 2020
70,546 posts
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Hanneke
Chard likes it here too, as do all sorts of alliums: ornamental as well as edible: I always leave a few to set seed and they are self perpetuating. If you don't mind having your leeks in random places all over the garden, I would recommend it! Much easier than sowing in a row I find! 
I am totally excited about my seeds and can't wait. Was just contacted by yet another client unable to get vegetable seeds. I have just harvested all the pips out of last year's last butternut squash I consumed. I am going to plant them all! And sell the plantlets on to my clients... I will be doing the same with all my remaining lettuce seeds! and so forth...
As usual, I am having difficulties growing cucmbers. I start off with a packet of 6 seeds. They all germinate strongly in a heated propagator. Then I pot them on into 9 cm pots and they look strong. Then one by one they seem to die, wither away quietly. They are not too dry or to wet. I am now left with one seedling out of six for my client. Same happened last year. He wants two cucumber plants! I planted 5 for myself, only two have germinated and are more or less ready to be potted up. I hope to God they both survive, so I can give my client one... I only need one plant.
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Apr 2020
11:32am, 9 Apr 2020
11,625 posts
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D2
I've had that with cucumbers in the past but last year I planted a different variety; the one with short fruits and they seemed ok and this year's seedling are doing ok so far.
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Apr 2020
1:25pm, 9 Apr 2020
5,701 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I’ve read it’s not a good idea to use squash seeds from a fruit as you don’t know what variety it crossed with and the resulting fruits can be nasty (and in rare cases make you ill).
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Apr 2020
1:59pm, 9 Apr 2020
12,394 posts
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Garfield
I have various sprouting plants in my germinators...I'm going to be challenged to remember what I planted!!
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Apr 2020
3:40pm, 9 Apr 2020
15,600 posts
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Rosehip
remember I was trying to germinate parsnip on wet kitchen roll?
Well, I forgot to check them for a couple of days.
They've suddenly all germinated and some have rootlets over an inch long - they're all curly trying to get away from the light!
Have put some in pots, well actually loo roll cardboard cores, and left them indoors. The rest I have torn up the paper around them and plonked them seed-side down in a couple of short rows. - will see what happens!
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Apr 2020
5:01pm, 9 Apr 2020
12,397 posts
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Garfield
Wow that's progress RH! My stepsister in law posted a photo using cardboard egg cartons for planting seeds...
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Apr 2020
5:12pm, 9 Apr 2020
46,019 posts
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Velociraptor
We've got some hefty cardboard tubes from inside rolls of carpet. I'm going to ask eL Bee! to saw them into short lengths to form biodegradable flower pots for when I have some plants to put in them.
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Apr 2020
5:16pm, 9 Apr 2020
15,601 posts
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Rosehip
I forgot there's one of those in the garage - cut into different lengths and all stood up together would make a nice display, probably last a while before they started to collapse, it's pretty dense cardboard.
Thanks for the idea
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Apr 2020
5:45pm, 9 Apr 2020
197 posts
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MDrewett
I'm trying cucumbers for the first time, I've sown two, will see if anything happens and perhaps try a couple more in a few weeks...
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Apr 2020
5:51pm, 9 Apr 2020
15,608 posts
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Rosehip
I do hope my cucumber seedlings, which seem to be doing really well, are cucumbers and not courgettes as the order I put in for more seeds of each doesn't seem to be materialising
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