Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Starting Sowing Vegetables In The In-house Potting Shed.

Now my polytunnel is in a ground/plastic under repair position.   I have decided to start my seed propagation indoors.

This was no mean feat and it took us the best part of an hour to move the flotsam and jetsam and detritus of every day domestic life like black bin bags full of clothes.

Spare boxrooms are like sheds.  The more you have the more you will fill them.

Any road any way:

🌰 Onions ("Snowball") sets pressed into plastic planting modules half filled with potting compost.  This method works far better than pushing the poor onion sets in the cold and very wet soil.  We'll have a look at their progress in a few weeks.
We also sowed 🍅 tomatoes,  leeks, lettuce and cabbages.  
Then we sprayed them with a mist and cut along the seam of a polythene bag and covered up the trays.  Hopefully the dogs and cats will leave them alone?

Anyone else making their spare bedroom into a chitting room/potting shed?  It's got to be better than rebuilding your motorbike in the front room or kitchen?

I feel my pre spring growing itchiness stress wearing off after our indoor sowing adventures. 

This will be the third incredibly wet winter on the trot.


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10 comments:

  1. JayCee18 February 2025 at 07:21

    I am not going to show P this post - it will give him ideas and my sewing room would soon be full of dirty old plant pots!!

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  2. northsider 18 February 2025 at 07:45

    From a sewing room to a sowing room JayCee. It's time for man caves to appear in domestic abodes.

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  3. Poppypatchwork18 February 2025 at 08:04

    I am banned from using our spare bedroom, but I do have my sunny greenhouse, still not foing seeds yet. I do use my kitchen window sill.

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  4. northsider 18 February 2025 at 08:07

    I can't believe how warm and comfortable I was planting onion sets and sowing vegetable seeds Marlene. It's much better than a cold greenhouse or polytunnel or veg plot at this time of year. I even listened tome heavy rock music on Spotify on my mobile phone.

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    1. Poppypatchwork18 February 2025 at 09:23

      My greenhouse ir raised in a sunny spot, it was lovely and warm inside today

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    2. northsider 18 February 2025 at 10:00

      Great stuff Marlene. Is it south facing? I am thinking of making one out of old doors and windows and corrugated plastic sheeting for the roof and block walls. It's sadly getting too rough here for polytunnel plastic.

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    3. JayCee18 February 2025 at 10:13

      Your greenhouse idea sounds great Dave. That should stand up to all our Winter storms.

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    4. northsider 18 February 2025 at 10:20

      Hopefully JayCee. It won't be very big unlike my old polytunnel. But I can grow outside where that was. Anyone got any old UPVC doors or windows they don't want?😊

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  5. Jules18 February 2025 at 08:57

    Some of my seed trays are on the kitchen countertops and my lemon trees are still in the dining room. I'm not sure I'll have room for anything else, just yet :)

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  6. northsider 18 February 2025 at 09:16

    Have you got an allotment Jules? About thirty years ago we lived upstairs in a council owned flat and I grew potatoes 🥔 in a large plant pot in the upstairs window. We also rented an allotment and I would ride my bike down the road with Netto plastic carrier bags full of our homegrown vegetables. I often nearly fell off I was that overloaded like a French Johnny onion seller.😃

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Starting Sowing Vegetables In The In-house Potting Shed.

Now my polytunnel is in a ground/plastic under repair position.   I have decided to start my seed propagation indoors. This was no mean feat...