The purple basil is somewhat slower to get going! Both pots have now been moved out of the propagator to a sunny windowsill, but are still kept covered by a sandwich bag.
The onion seedlings have also been moved onto a windowsill and given a light haircut:
I read somewhere that you can cut the seed off the end of the young plant (which refuses to drop off in most cases) and this helps to keep the seedling more upright. The onion sets Sturon that we purchased last weekend have been planted into individual cells (118 in total).
The cabbages, cauliflowers, dill and cosmos are all up (sown 9 days ago):
I have to say I am very impressed with the cheap mixed packs of seeds ... I reckon we have had 90-100% germination rate for everything sown.
In the propagator the chillis are doing well in their pots but the leeks are slow to germinate. So far we have approx 30 leek seedlings out of about 150 seeds sown. I may end up sowing the rest of the pack if there is not much more germination:
The alpine strawberries (right-most tray) are just beginning to germinate. I have also sown another pot of coriander in the propagator. In addition, I have also sown 11 Hispi F1 cabbage Johnsons seeds in a pot on the windowsill ... thanks for the seeds dad!
At the weekend we spent some time down the allotment (see previous post) and decided to plant out some strawberry plants that dad had given us:
Dad is not sure on the variety although they are prolific fruiters. Apparently they are the runners from a strawberry plant that Alys Fowler gave him at the plant swap at Gardeners World Live several years ago! We have 16 plantlets in total. The "sticks" on the right hand side of the above pic are blackcurrant canes ... also courtesy of dad. We have 4 in total.
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