Sweet Pea & Broad Beans Sowing 29.02

Sweet Pea & Broad Beans 

A bit late for broad beans probably but was given some beans (Green & Red), so decided to sow them in modules on Saturday, February 29th..

Also sowed some self-saved Sweet Pea seeds on the same day..


Both peas and beans went into modules with a lid put on and were left on the Sand Propagator to see what happens!! Left thermostat at approx 20 degrees

Sand Propagator 2017

I turned the thermostat heater on in my home made  Sand Propagator on Saturday, February 18th.
I set it to approx 22.5.

On Monday, February 20th, I filled 2 sets of modules with sieved compost and put them sitting in the green trays (like one in attached picture) into which I had added a nice fill of water.
I will sow tomatoes in these in the next day or two hopefully.

As an experiment, I also completed the below task, which was basically to put capillary matting  in the bottom of the pictured green tray and give it a good wetting. I then sowed some Sweet Pepper seeds in the pictured modules and stood them on the tray. I then put them into the Sand Propagator under a clear plastic storage box (see second pic below)

Tray with capillary matting

Trays with water added under clear storage box.

The Sweet Pepper seeds sown were as follows:

Calfornian Wonder - 2 seeds
Pimento saved 2013 seed - 2 seeds
Yolo Wonder - 2 seeds
Doux D'Espagne saved 2014 seeds - 2 seeds
Lipstick (old 2014 sow by) - 2 seeds
Lombardo (old 2015 sow by) - 2 seeds
Giant Aconcagua - 2 seeds
Keystone Giant 2 seeds


As of March 15th, only the Keystone Giant had germinated...