Too early?

Like many of us, I have had the annual 'itch' since around Christmas, and now I am getting to the point where I am going to have to scratch it!

In past years I have set up shelves by our French doors and have sown and germinated stuff indoors, but its a faff and messy at times, as well as being very restrictive in terms of space in the house. By now I would normally be well underway, but haven't sown a single seed yet.

This year, I want to use the greenhouse from the start - after all, that is what it is for - but is it too early (temperature wise)? I don't mind heating the greenhouse on the odd night if it gets really cold, but don't want to be heating it all the time

 

Not sure @"M" - going to have a right good ratch through my seed box tomorrow (I am at work just now)

I never did get anything in my grow cupboard this winter, so it is likely that it will have residents by tomorrow

 

It is really tempting to do the indoors thing again, but it really is a pain in the house (we don't have that much room in here at the best of times), so I will just have to content myself that it is only really going to be a couple of weeks and I will be in full swing.

 

Aye, I must admit the wind had a bit of a nip in this evening, so definitely too early. I have just done a quick paper exercise, and I reckon its another two weeks at least until my very first sowing (barring the grow cupboard of course) and three to four weeks for the bulk of my seeds to start.

 

Well, the itch is momentarily scratched, and I feel a bit better for it.

Bought 6 bags of Jack's Magic on Friday afternoon, ready for sowing stuff (been a lazy boy, they are still in the boot of the car!), and of course I just had to come away with the obligatory few packets of seeds

Today, the grow cupboard has been gutted out (it was hosting jams and chutneys for me), and is now ready for service; the plan is that I am going to plant a few trays of 'test' seeds tomorrow to see what is viable and what isn't (I have quite a few seeds harvested from the garden over the past couple of years, and I don't know what is good to go and what isn't).

Following that, I compiled a couple of lists of my seeds (edibles and flowers) including a few that I ordered today from Premier Seeds via Amazon (couldn't help myself, they were so cheap, and I found them whilst ordering new flower pouches...) - it is quite scary to see how many seeds I have! I have also put 'proposed' week numbers, and week commencing dates for them to be sowed, but as always would appreciate any suggestions to amend those dates.....





EDIT - @"M", I told you it was a big list!

 

Thanks @Freddy - I will probably get them kicked off this week in the grow cupboard then