Wow, it's the middle of February already. January seemed to really drag by but this month is flying. A quick update on some early seed sowing I did in January and February. First the flowers I sowed on Feb 2nd., the nasturtiums and sweet peas. (Pic - nasturtiums).
The nasturtiums have done really well with many of them already having their typical palmate leaves while the sweet peas are just developing leaves at the end of their long stalks. Both are currently sat on a windowsill in the house. (Pic - mixed sweet peas).
The sweet peppers take ages to get going, they don't seem to have advanced since they germinated. They still have their first seed leaves though a little larger than they were. I've thinned them slightly in the pot. Once their second set of leaves have appeared I'll pot them on into individual pots. (Pic - sweet peppers).
The tomatoes have now been transplanted into their own pots. I only want half a dozen so I've left a load in their cells as spares. If not needed I can give them away. The toms are developing their true leaves now but will remain on a warm windowsill in the house until they can be safely put in an unheated greenhouse in March. (Pic - transplanted Alicante tomato seedlings).
The last thing for this update are the chitting potatoes. The early Rocket spuds are well underway with loads of well developed chits all over the 'rose' end. Of course, these chits will be the stalks of the plant, the green bits, not the pale roots. (Pic - Rocket early potatoes with chits).
My main crop potatoes, the blight resistant Sarpo Mira, are just starting to chit now. Main crop spuds are always much slower to develop stalks than the earlies but that doesn't really matter as they have a much longer growing season. The point of the chitting is to get them off to a flying start, much more important for the early potatoes if you want a crop to develop as quickly as possible. (Pic - main crop Sarpo Mira spuds just starting to produce chits).
Well, that's it for this mid-February update. Bye for now.
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