SEED SOWING AND POTTING AND INFO

well  today has been a day of buying seeds and doing a bit more potting. First thing this morning i went to wilkinsons  and bought beet root seed (detroit) and iceberg lettuce seed .  They have now been sown and it has kept the wife happy.  I did how ever put the beetroot seed in  seed trays to give them a good start and will transplant when large enough in to the garden. No doubt very one might say he always seem to use seed trays for most things  but as i have said before i have nearly always done this and have had good results. Mind you one of my reasons for doing this is because i have learnt over the years  that by starting seeds in seed trays i do not have the problem of trying to get a fine tilth in the garden and also i can control the watering  until they are planted in the garden.

What i have done with the lettuce seed is just  put 12 into compost and when they are big enough they will go into the ground as well as between the toms  I will do the same in about 3 weeks by doing that i will have a continuous  crop of lettuce  in the summer. (The chicken will have some of them).

 Now that the veg seeds are planted i carried on filling the pop bottles for more sweet candle carrot seed  so by the time i have finished i should have with a bit of luck about 40  which will all go into the green house until the weather gets a bit better and then they will go by the side of the onions in the garden.

I have been told that i will be having my kelsae plants the first week of april  so it wont be long now.
 When they arrive they will go straight into 4" pots for a while  which will have a growing mixture to help them develop a rooting system  before they go into there  final place in the garden  This should be about 4 weeks from potting.

                                                           Onion fly and larva

Quite often i get ask how i deal with onion fly and larva, well as most will know it is a horrible thing  to look at especially when the leaves get to about 2ft tall and you start to see damaged being done. It is a problem and what i do is to spray the leaves with  potato starch with a touch of  washing up liquid mixed in   when the leaves are about a foot long. I am afraid i can not give much more info  on this subject so all i can say is to try it and see how it goes. I will say that i do use it and it does work up to point.  That is all for now till later on.