SOWING SEEDS 2019?

I never seem to be able to grow sweet peppers or melons let me know how you do

 

Sweet peppers, I find are very weather dependent. You sow and you get a good summer
I tried melons last year, I think it's what my kids describe as ' an epic fail '

 

I've grown melons ( or should I say 1 melon) twice now from seed from a supermarket fruit. It was a lot of faffing around for only 1 each time..but they were tasty

 

I think I'll stick to chillies, thanks @Upsydaisy .
Aldi seems like a better option

 

The kids sowed impatiens ancient seed
I told them, even if it's doubtful, there is always hope!
I do believe some of my old seed might germinate. Always hopeful

 

Whats the best cucumber to grow for outside? Last year my cucumbers had really tough skins

 

I've got a leek
Ok , so not even enough to make soup but it's a start

 

@lowrider69 i believe the best outdoor cuc is marketmore, it's readily available too
I've grown it in my greenhouse before and it's lovely
The weather here isn't good enough to grow cucs outside but you should be fine.
Outdoor cucs tend to have thick skins, ( someone will correct me if I'm wrong ) I think my marketmore did
Just peel them makes them look posh in sandwiches

 

yea I got 1 off my melon last year but it wilted, I cant seem to grow sweet peppers which is a shame I,m in south Devon so quite warm here.
I tend to try and grow foods at the back and flowers out the front, not done onions or carrot yet never done them before though, not sure how to get large onions or carrots to grow big and you only get 1 don't you?.

 

TBH Lowrider I'm not too successful with bell/sweet peppers, chillis grow no problem for me though. I'm growing the long, sweet peppers in the polytunnel, they didn't set fruit until the end of the summer.. same the year before. I just think they need a really long growing season and bit of help with pollination but that's just my own personal experience :/

just seen the bit about onions/carrots, I have found starting the onions off in cell trays works for me, they get a good root system down early and I normally transplant them out on a sunny day like today (but later on in March). I find the roots help get them established more quickly than just putting a set in the ground, I also cover with netting to stop the birds pulling. I haven't been succesful with onions from seed yet, I keep forgetting about them mid-season and then turn a blind eye

Carrots - i've been using a raised box last 2 years but have trouble with carrot fly even with using "resistafly" and "flyaway" seeds, I even put garlic in thinking it will deter them.. maybe its just straight up onions that work I don't know. The few decent carrots never make it home, they are so sweet and lovely to eat raw..but literally had like 5 the whole of last year. I'm going to try the small round type (chantenay) in tubs again this year with some envriomesh on the rasied box..

 

I grew Cucino F1 for the first time last year; no greenhouse so they were started off in the propagator then moved out. Really tasty fruit and loads of it - far better than the full-sized varieties we tried.

 

Possible disaster today I asked my wife to open the greenhouse door later in the day if it got warm again, (still a frost about when i left for work) unfortunately she forgot and when i got home and went in the greenhouse 10 hours later the temperature had hit 39° during the day being in small cell trays the majority of my seedlings had seriously wilted, I've resoaked the capillary matting and had to spray them too but i think some are to far gone, hoping they will pick up overnight, just have to wait and see in the morning

 

Just sown a number of hardy perennials that require warmth and/or can be slow to germinate. Including Enkianthus campanulatus , Rehmannia elata and Schizostylis coccinea.

 

I need to grow some nice hardy perennials flowers for the front garden no ideal what yet though

 

Not actually sown yet but this is this years list ( so far ☺)

Abutilon Bellevue
Achilllea Summer Berries
Agastache Golden Jubilee
Ageratum Blue Skies
Agrostemma (2 )
Amaranthus Josephs Coat
Antirrhinum ( 3 )
Asarina Mixed
Aster Andrella Single Mix
Aster Blue Ice
Aster Blue Ribbon
Aster Ostrich Plume mix
Aster Duchess mix
Aster Big Boy mix
Aster Spider Chrysanthemum Mix
Aster Milady mix
Bidens Ferulifolia
Black eyed susan ( 2 )
Calceolaria Biflora
Candytuft
Campanula mix
Carnation mix
Celosia Flamingo Feather
Cerinthe
Clarkia
Cleome
Cobaea Scandens
Coleus
Convulvulus Royal Ensign
Coreopsis Mardi Gras
Cornflower ( 6 )
Cosmos ( 10 )
Dahlia ( 2 )
Dicentra Macrocapus
Emilia Irish Poet
Echium Blue Bedfer
Gazania
Godetia
Gypsophila Covent Garden
Helianthemum mix
Hollyhock ( 2 )
Honesty
Impatiens Balsamina
Larkspur
Lavatera
Lavender
Limnanthes ( 2 )
Linaria
Linum (3 )
Malva Sylvestris
Marigold ( African and French )
Mesembyanthemum
Monarda mix
Morning Glory ( 9 )
Mimulus
Mina Lobata
Nasturtium (5 )
Nicotiana ( 2 )
Nemesia .Waves
Nigella ( 3 )
Penstemon ( 3 )
Phacelia
Poppies ( 12 )
Ragged Robin
Ratibida
Rudbeckia ( 2 )
Salvia ( 3 )
Scabious
Schizanthus
Sisyrinchium Brachypus
Statice
Sunflower ( 6 )
Sweet Pea ( 7 )
Sweet Sultan
Sweet William ( 4 )
Tropaeolum Canary Creeper
Verbascum phoeniceum
Viola Midnight Runner
Woodruff
Zinnia ( 4 )