Sown Seeds

I've been away for a few days this week, so I haven't paid much attention to the flower seeds and I've just watered them and I've got some of the large cosmos up. 

Photos will follow, once they are of a size to be interesting. 

Sowing flowers

I've sown some flowers today, both for companion planting with the veg and for Mark's borders. 

In no particualar order:

agapanthus - seed saved from Heligan 

cerinthe - seed saved from our own plants

sweetpea - lilac - seed from two_sheds

sweet pea - cupani - suttons

sweet pea - burnished bronze - kings seeds

white cosmos - seed saved from heads taken from someone else's garden [can't remember who]

big white cosmos - seed taken from seed head at Ryton

silene - jack flash - thompson and morgan

garlic chives - suffolk herbs

marigold - lemon gem - thompson and morgan

nasturtium - cobra - thompson and morgan

echinacea - seed saved from our plants - I tested 4 seeds last week and 3 germinated - so I'm hoping these grow as we've never been able to get bought seed to actually grow. 

As I was sowing sweetpeas...even though it is a flower day today - I decided to pop a handful of 

peas - kelvedon wonder and 

bored beans - aquadulce 

into deep pots.

Japanese Anemones

Today, I dug out some Japanese Anemones for two Grapes, one to go to Suffolk/Norfolk and one to France. I'm hoping they can take good root cuttings as the roots are nice and thick. 

Tomatoes and Onions germinated

These are my onion seedlings; all are up apart from the banana shallots - sown on 29th Dec 2008. 

These are my Purple Ukraine tomato seedlings, sown on 27th Dec 2008. All tomatoes are up, but the chillis haven't shown any sign of movement yet. 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Tuesday 6th Jan 2009

Just a couple of pictures taken at the park. I didn't venture too far into the wilds as it was very cold and I had my 7 months pregnant friend with me [excuses, excuses...]

Alberto's Locoto Rocoto

Alberto's Locoto Rocoto

Grown from RealSeeds seed. 

Sown 3rd Feb 2008

Potted on, hardened off and grown in pot; brought indoors Dec 2008. 

Peppers started going red around Christmas time. 

82cm from top of soil to top of plant. 

We are trying to overwinter and see how long we can keep it going. the foliage started getting a bit wild, so it was trimmed back in Sept/Oct 08. 

December round up

We will have dug over and prepared all beds at the allotment by close of play New Year's eve. 

Other recent activity is: 

Sowing a pea pot, to use the fresh pea tips in rice dishes etc. 

Planting out broad beans and peas into the lottie, for an early crop

Popped more garlic [given to me by Finedon Dandy from the Vine], into modules on the 29th and put outdoors to get frosted. 

Sowing early toms  on the 27th Dec: 

6 x Grushovka

6 x Aurora

6 x Purple Ukraine 

Sowing early chillis on 27th Dec:

6 x Gelbe Kirshen Early Yellow Chilli

Sowing alliums on 29th Dec: 

Shallots: Zebrune and Banana

Leeks: Blue de Solaise and Lyon 2

Onions: Mr Allen's Reliance, Golden Bear F1, Redbeard, Red Baron, Brunswick, The Kelsae, Bedfordshire Champion and some spring onions, Elody. 

Overwintering Chillis, including Alberto Rocoto which was brought indoors this month and the pepper started turning red - it's looking very healthy so far; and possibly a Numex Twilight which we bought in France which is looking really good. Can't wait for the next flush of flowers to start both of these off again in Early Spring.