Seed germination

We picked it up 1/2 price at Mitre 10 Mega in June. I love it as it is big enough to have tomatoes in pots growing in there. I am going to use it over the winter to grow veges in it (well going to give it a go).

For those that are looking at getting a greenhouse, I saw today that Bunnings have some on sale this week ($99) for a 2 shelf walk in one I think.

My corn has finally come through as well. I ended up putting it straight into the ground where I wanted to grow it. I need to thin them as in places I have more than 2 plants.

As we put our compost into the garden I have random plants growing in the garden - have no idea what they are I am just going to let them grow.

My roma tomato plants have been a bit the same - I thought I was going to lose a couple but they seemed to have pulled themselves together!  The wind here isn't helping at the moment though - we've had a couple of really gusty days.

I've had 3 beans germinate (out of 6) and about 4 of the peppers look like they will as well.  I might try some corn since a couple of you have had success.  I've always just assumed they would fall in to the too hard basket but given the price of seeds and seedlings I'm starting to think it's worth giving most things a go.

Gardengirl my peppers have taken quite a while too.  I've had them in the hot water cupboard in the last week and I'm thinking that is working.

Just a quick tip for seedlings. After reading the tip about the mister I thought about getting another 5L sprayer that you use for weedkiller and worm tea and stuff. Got mine from Mitre10 for like $14 and I know you get them at the warehouse too. I think they are for $10 this week.

I have a huge amount of seedlings going (after buying 50 of the 6 punnet trays of another website and a few other things that I thought would last me a while and I managed to fill them all in one week with stuff growing ready to go out to the garden.)

It works really great to spray them and not to hurt seedlings and I use it on my tamato plants to get the water closer to the ground and not on leaves and things.

So just a tip for the ones that have more than a few seedlings going at one time.

Happymumma, how are your capsicums doing? Mine have now been on the go for a good 2 months and are only just now starting to grow their first set of true leaves.

I still haven't planted out my cucumbers as I wanted to wait till the cold front we've just had had gone through. I put 5 of my tomatoes in the ground but covered them at night with bottle cloches.

Ideally you should let your seedlings spend time outside before planting to harden them off. I started off by putting mine out just during the day on warmer days, building them up to being out 24hrs and then planting them. It's less of a shock to them then when they do go in the ground.

So mine aren't the only slow ones then :-)

I've planted the cucumbers now, well, 4 of them, against a fence that I have some sheep netting nailed to for them to climb up. They are growing in pretty much just mature, rotted sheep poo, so hopefully they will like that. Have planted 3 of my zuchinnis today too.

Have runner beans in for about 2 weeks now and only 1 has germinated well, a second one has come up but looks sickly and the remaining 8 are still hiding. Not sure whether to start off some others in pots to transfer.

Have 5 pumpkin plants still to plant and a whole lot of cherry tomatoes and basils. DH is in the process of properly fencing off our whole vege area so once that's done I will put them in.