Sowing seeds

I found this lovely jar of lemon ginger jam (also has a lot of marrow in it!) in the mailbox!  It took me a little while to track down the chef – Maria.  Thanks, it’s delicious!

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Found in the mailbox!

 

Last time I wrote about the garlic beginning to sprout.  This week (25 Aug) I watered the garlic plants with diluted poo water from the horse manure soaking bins.

The weather has been so warm that I decided to plant out the seeds for a large proportion of the spring/summer crops.

22 Aug I sorted through the seeds to find those that I would plant.  I came up with quite a stack of seeds packets!

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Seeds to be planted

The next step happened on 23 & 25 August.  I took the seeds outside and laid them out in seed-raising punnets.

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Seeds and punnets ready for planting…

I filled the punnets with seed-raising mix (I like Yates Black Magic) and the seeds gently pressed in and watered.  Here they all are, waiting to germinate.

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Now they just need to grow!!!

The seeds came from a few sources.  Most were from Koanga Gardens.  Those marked with an * are seeds that I saved, other seed sources are named in the lists below.

I sowed the following seeds in 4 hole punnets:

  • Pumpkin – Hopi grey winter* x 8 holes
  • Pumpkin – Oil seed* x 8
  • Squash – Butternut waltham x 4
  • Squash – Butternut* x 4

All other seeds were sown in 6 hole punnets:

  • Capsicum – Chocolate* x 6
  • Capsicum – Rainbow x 6
  • Tomato – Dagma’s perfection* x 12
  • Tomato – Island Bay* x 12
  • Kale – Borecole x 3
  • Broccoli – Purple sprouting x 3
  • Broccoli – de Cicco (Kings seeds) x 6
  • Basil – Genovese x 6
  • Cauliflower – Purple cape x 6
  • Cabbage – Savoy Chieftain x 6
  • Coriander x 6
  • Corn – Chieftain F1 (Kings seeds) x 6
  • Corn – Sweet early gem x 6
  • Corn – Country gentleman x 6
  • Pea – Dwarf maestro x 6
  • Pea – Picton Sno x 6
  • Pea – WF Massey x 6
  • Sorrel – Sheep x 6
  • Fennel – Florence x 6
  • Zucchini – Striato d’Italia (World Kitchen seeds) x 3
  • Zucchini – Cocozelle (Kings seeds) x 3
  • Marigold – Anise x 6
  • Swan plant x 12

Since I have made this list, I realised that I did not plant any broad beans or lettuces.  I will go out and do that right now!!  I will sow:

  • Broad beans* x 6
  • Lettuce – Heritage mix x 9
  • Rocket x 3