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Apr 2020
11:03am, 21 Apr 2020
17,674 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
My tomato seeds have only just gone in. Will be started indoors though, before we go to greenhouse. I bought 3 plants from the garden centre a couple of weeks ago when it looked like my seeds had been lost and they’re doing ok in the greenhouse. Slow but ok.
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Apr 2020
11:24am, 21 Apr 2020
2,994 posts
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jacdaw
I always get tomato seedlings appearing in the greenhouse from last year's squashed fruit. They seem to be tenacious seed; tomato seedlings are often found growing near sewage outlets!
I thought some of the tomato seeds I had planted this year must have been mixed up, because the plants look weird, but apparently this is a "potato leaved" variety I am growing; 'bloody butcher'.
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Apr 2020
11:48am, 21 Apr 2020
11,644 posts
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D2
I've just planted out into the polytunnel half my tomato plants and outside with cloches at the ready half my courgette plants........... I hope i'm not tempting fate / frost? 
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Apr 2020
12:03pm, 21 Apr 2020
11,208 posts
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Markymarkmark
I've just planted my second set of tomato seed in the greenhouse. ( ). I'm going by the packet instructions that said "March/April sowing". So fingers crossed....
The fist set I started inside, they're now about 2-3 inches high and just developing their second set of "true" leaves, ready for potting on in a couple of weeks I reckon. (I deliberately spaced them in a tray to make it easier to do this!)
Brassicas & courgettes hardened off outside for the last few days. They need to go in the veg bed this weekend, and I need to build a cage of some kind to exclude the aerial invasions from the Cabbage Whites. (I declared war on the slugs a couple of weeks back, mostly by clearing out their favourite hiding places on the flower beds - fairly successful, and the number of trail has declined. I can live with the occasional nibbling once the plants are established, I just get grumpy when they plane the plants off at the stem!)
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Apr 2020
12:58pm, 21 Apr 2020
15,707 posts
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Rosehip
I've planted out the first batch of brassicas to see how they get on as I was running out of space in the "nursery" (dining room) They have plastic bottle rings and eggshells as slug defence and a micromesh cobbled together tent over them - if it doesn't blow away. I ordered a micromesh tunnel weeks ago, but it seems to have got lost in the post.
The rest of the veg will have to wait until I can fill the raised bed they are supposed to be going in to.
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Apr 2020
2:06pm, 21 Apr 2020
12,506 posts
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Garfield
My tomato seeds are seedlings...quite small ones. MMM, what's a good way to harden off courgettes? My small plants are sensitive to temperatures and nearly croaked on Sunday when sitting outside, though that could have been from not enough water...as they came back to life quickly after being watered.
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Apr 2020
8:37pm, 21 Apr 2020
47,700 posts
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Diogenes
Can you tell me what these weeds are? My mum’s garden is overrun by the small blue flowers (forget-me-nots?). Is the other stuff ground elder? I started digging them out today, did about 5 foot on one side, only another 60 foot to do, plus the other side (which, fortunately, is narrower).
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Apr 2020
8:49pm, 21 Apr 2020
47,701 posts
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Diogenes
This is part of the section I weeded (I only had about 45 mins). I was frustrated that I didn’t have time to sieve out all the bits.
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Apr 2020
8:49pm, 21 Apr 2020
47,702 posts
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Diogenes
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Apr 2020
9:28pm, 21 Apr 2020
26,311 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I have at least 2 squash peaking through. Carrots peas and snips still failing.....
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