Sunflowers

• 9 tubes
• Emerged after 6 days
• 11.04.11 – doing very well
• now graduated from the kitchen windowsill into the shed (by the window).
• I hope it’s not too cold for them in there.

Tomatoes

• 9 tubes
• these are still on the kitchen windowsill
• most germinated after 12 days – not exactly booming yet though
• Must keep an eye out for a greenhouse

Bathroom windowsill – Sown into toilet roll tubes

Courgette (Middle Left)

• heavy cropping Green variety
• emerged after 8 days
• 11.04.11 – doing very well – Big Leaves
• 15.04.11 – Planted outdoors into raised bed – need mulching and maybe netting to protect them from slugs/rabbits/crows.

Basil (Bottom Left)

• Really successful last year – for lunchtime salads
• Emerged after 1 week
• 11.04.11 – very tiny still.
• 19.04.11 – still quite small

Blue Daisies (Top Left)

• seeds from successful pot plant we bought last year
• 11.04.11 – no sign yet
• 19.04.11 – still no sign

Yellow Diaises (Top Right)

• seeds collected from another garden
• 11.04.11 – no sign yet
• 19.04.11 – still no sign

Nasturtium (Bottom right)

• Standard variety – Orange and Yellow flowers
• Red ones were not very successful last year
• emerged after 1 week
• 19.04.11 – doing quite well – may plant out over the weekend

Peppers (Top Middle) – Yolo

• 11.04.11 – no sign yet
• 19.04.11 – emerged earlier this week.

Purple Sprouting Broccoli (Middle Middle)

• never had space to do these before
• sprouted after 3 days
• 11.04.11 – still quite small
• 19.04.11 – growing well

Honesty (Bottom Middle)

• 11.04.11 – no sign yet
• 19.04.11 – still no sign

Ipoemea (Lower Right)

• seeds collected from very successful climber grown from seed last year
• sprouted after 2 days
• doing v well (hopefully these will still be the red flowering variety – and not revert back to the White flowers)
• 19.04.11 – doing quite well – may plant out over the weekend – not sure where yet though.

Also sown:

Hollyhocks – top 2 rows (covered in dropped Geranium petals)

• Germinated after 10 days
• Slow growing
• 19.04.11 – doing OK

Sunflowers – bottom 2 rows

• Germinated after 6 days
• doing very well indoors
• 16.04.11 – planted out with small support sticks