Seeds to Sow in February || Plot 37
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Having a look at what seeds to sow in February. These are the seeds I’m sowing, rather than an exhaustive list of what’s possible because what will work in each of our areas will differ.
What I’m sowing for Feb -
Cavolo Nero
Brussels sprouts
Cauliflower
Spring Cabbage
Parsley
Mint
Kohl Rabi
Parsnips
Carrots
Radishes
Sunflowers
Marigolds
Chillies
Aubergines
Spring Onions
Leeks
Celeriac
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Tip for the parsnips, is to water the ground, sow the seed, then lay a plank (or something similar) along the row so it stays damp. Keep lifting it periodically to check and when germinated remove it. Works for me.
I've tried this with carrots. Still growing
People say do something similar for carrots as well. They really need the moisture.
Always start my parsnips on damp kitchen roll. You are sure then that they have germinated before you plant out.
Thats a good move!
Credit should go to Dan at Allotment Diary
Congratulations on the 5K subscribers !!
1- The video editing is so nice and simple
2- The voice is clear and comforting
3- The video is in high quality
I grow mint from seed and lemon mint and Lemon balm. They are.great for teas.
I sort by month and type. Each January i sort what I am going to sow for the year into months, remainder is kept in types for next year. I was late last year with parsnips and sowed them late may, am still harvesting now and have had some great results. I grow mint from seed, needs a couple of years to mature for picking otherwise the growth can be stunted, much like rosemary.
hi jessie just came across you blogs you are a breath of fresh air on gardening . i try my best because i am late to gardening ,i am 69 and only got to do gardening within the last 5 years so will watch what you do .
Hi Jessie. Great info again. I grew mint from seed last year successfully (spearmint) even took cuttings and now have 3 good plants (all in pots) hope they over winter as they look pretty awful currently. Fingers crossed. 🤞 Give it a go. You've got the seed already so win win 😆
Ah, nice. Thanks Nickie. And you're right, i may as well give it a go!
I know that Parsnip pain! I sow Early Nantes carrots in February inregular B&Q builder's buckets full of 1/4chicken coop soil and 3/4 cheap compost. I keep the buckets in my polytunnel. l get great early carrots just take them outside in April and they will be out of the way. Correct use of decimate too. Nice!
Thank you so much for putting up a video about what to sow a few weeks before actual sowing... as to give us time to prepare and get seeds... love the channel 😀
Hi Jessie, club root is prevalent on our site as well. What helps is to dig a decent sized hole out, line with lime and fill with bought compost. Then plant out the brassica into this. They have a good amount of "clubroot free" space to grow before they hit the riddled bit. And with that they seem able to grown and withstand it. It works for me and the plot neighbours at least! Good luck and happy planting.
Is it wrong to admit that I have a large metal container full of seeds just thrown in 😂👍🏻 oh and Rudbeckia is such an under-rated plant 🌱
Hahahah, its good to get these confessions out in the open! :D
Also yeah, totally agree about Rudbeckia. It's a bit of a gem.
Hi Jess , I think you should sow the mint , can’t wait for that update 👍🏾🙋🏽♀️
I love starting mints from seed. They’re so teeny and cute for the first month 🥺😍
Hahahah, right. You've sold it to me!
Happy Saturday Jessie .......I’m so envious of anyone able to sow ANYTHING at the moment ! ☃️🙄 feels like the snow and ice is never ending here. Can’t wait to get going 🌱🌱 x
When you plant your brassicas out, try chopping some rhubarb leaves and stalks in the planting hole ,, this seems to help with club root,, best wishes, Lisa
Hi Lisa! Thanks, i'm not short of Rhubarb! :D
You could do half your brassicas with the chopped rhubarb and half without so you can compare,, worth a try and then you’ll know whether it’s worth doing in the future,, whatever the outcome it will improve the organic content in your soil,, best wishes, Lisa
Hi thanks for the Feb seeds planting.
Thanks Jerry!
Morning I sort mine by type BUT I have a huge list with sow date maturity date and inside or outside starts. Wow look at you over 5000 now good work. I am chomping at the bit for mid/end of Feb to really dig in (no pun intended) to sowing seeds. Nigel Muddy Bootz just did a recap of his brassicas planting and he used lime lime and more lime for club root. As always thanks for sharing your videos, stay safe and stay gardening 🇨🇦✌️🧑🌾🥬👍💐🌶🥕
hello I love your videos and I've been following you recently. I see that you have a lot of knowledge and are an example to follow. I am looking forward to seeing your next video.
I grew 'Hollow Crown' parsnips last year and they turned out really well for me; no parsnip canker on them (which is like a sort of orangey brown rot on the shoulder of the parsnip). I always got this when I grew 'Tender and True' parsnips. Like you, I never sow parsnips until March - and mid to late March up here in the north west of England - it is too cold and wet or still snowy in February here in most years. I sowed a melon variety from seed in 2018 when we had that very hot spring after the beast from the east winter - I sowed 'Uzbek Sweetness' in about mid February in 3 inch pots of compost at home in a heated propagator and took them up to the allotment greenhouse (unheated) in early April and planted the melons in the greenhouse border on mounds of rich soil with very rotted manure in it - thinking of course they would fail, because it was just too early and the frost might kill them on cold night in spring - I just covered the small melon plants with fleece to settle in for a week and then took the fleece off and a couple of days later that heatwave spring started and by early August I was picking melons of different varieties - I only got one Uzbek Sweetness from that plant, but it was enormous and the biggest melon I have ever grown - a rugby ball oval shape and about half the size of an actual rugby ball! Lovely very sweet white flesh and a green skin. Sometimes a gamble can pay off!
I grow parsnips and you are right some years you get loads then next year you are lucky to get a dozen. What I do I leave say three parsnips let them go to seed and I get loads of seedlings. As you say parsnips can't be transplanted. I know a chap in Suffolk he has six allotments and he wins prizes at shows. He transplants parsnips. He makes a slit with a spade puts the small parsnip in with as much soil as possible. Firm it in. Then keep it watered until it looks happy.
Ahhh!
When you said "crack on" like Sherlock, I lost it. 💛
Hahahaha, that really made me laugh! :D
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lol That's great!
I like being good for a laugh. 🤣
This is just my second year gardening, but most appreciative of the information from across the pond. 🌍
Good idea about the sunflowers. I was also disappointed last year, gona do the big and strong before putting out also this year
Excellent February seeds sowing video Jessie and I have started with the Leeks in seed trays but I think I will wait until late February or early March for other things.
Nice jumper, thanks you for the video lots of good advice
Really interesting seeing what you're planting this Feb Jessie. I'm taking notes! Good luck dealing with the club root, dread getting it on my plot. Mint from seed is okay but it's notable that the seeds need light to germinate (unless that's just spearmint?) and they can take a while to get going.
Thanks for the run through👍. I've just sown some cauliflower and beetroot indoors which have just started to germinate-hope it's not too early- as well as chilli plants and peppers. In the conservatory I've still got some marigold plants which I sowed in August but I'm also sowing some new ones now.
Fab! I meant to sow some of my marigolds in autumn and completely forgot!
Glad to see I’m not the only one finds it tricky with successional sowing🙈
A HDR video on RUclips! Very nice. Think I will start my aubergines and sweet peppers soon then!
:D The HDR was causing me loads of Jip because YT kept showing all the colours messed up! But if you watched it and it wasn't like a psychedelia light show then woo!
No it was fine for me, definitely enhances the viewing!
i'm in yorkshire and I do my parsnips towards the end of Feb, 22nd is the date I have noted down
You got me! 1st time watcher, instant subscriber here, cheers 🍻
:D Thanks Jef.
Hi Jessie, I used to organise my seeds by monthly sowings but now I have done monthly plans, I have reorganised by type and I think it is going to be much easier as I will just look at the monthly plan and take the seeds I need. I hope it works!
Yes, thats how i do it Irene! I just have to be more on-it with the plans! :D
Celeriac is like a parsnip a celery and a swede got together and had a baby😋
And his second cousin is a turnip!
I am trying to hold off sowing stuff at the moment, I have the chilli peppers going onions, cauliflowers and salvia (flowers).
Some time mid to late feb I will start my tomatoes and sweet peppers.
I recently discovered your channel and I'm loving your content. I was wondering if you have any videos where you describe your chicken set up? I'm interested in keeping hens in urban settings.
I just resowed my aubergine. Got them under the heater and was a week on call and worked nights and they got superleggy. Rest of the month for me is some lettuce, fennel (my boyfriend is nagging me for fennel... one of the only vegetables he'll eat so he wants them and wants them now). Some cavalo nero, some broccoli, cauliflower, musterd greens and lupins... I really need to slow myself or i would sow everything already.
I grow parsnip Hollow crown every year (and I agree the name does sound like it should have a rotted hole going through) and I sow them outdoors in February with no protection and I had some really good crop in the past few years, although as you said, germination is poor.
Some of my French marigolds (variety Naughty Marietta) have self seeded, which was awesome and my sunflowers self seed every year. I have no idea what variety they are, they came with the plot :)
I've had so many recommendations of Hollow Crown since i was disparaging about its name! lol. But its sounds like a great variety!
My sunflowers don't get a chance to self seed, the squirrels or the chickens are too fast! :D
Cant imaging sowing anything outside in February after the rain we have had this month ! but who knows it might be dry and warm ? thanks for yet another great video Jess and I expect to see a bucket of wine in your hand on Tuesday.
We always enjoy your videos. You are funny and very keen on horticulture.
Good luck in the garden this season!
Mike and Martha, U.S.A.
:D Thanks Mike and Martha! :D
So pleased I found your channel
Every winter i sit and make a seed sowing plan every crop worked out when and where then spring arrives and me and seed box goes to the plot and the plan stays at home lol so what i enjoy myself
Lol
Hello from Ontario Canada lol when talking about kol rabi you called it a beautiful (animal)? I have grown sunflowers before had some really different varieties have you tried a Teddy Bear variety before? Sounds like a tree surgeon close perhaps some wood chip for your plot? Dry January almost over remember to save the corks to attach to the tops of the small stakes(protect those eyes) hello to Muma blessings Jess Thankyou 🐝
I have sown some celery in modules too. 😃
:D
If I saw a packet of seeds for 50 pence I would buy every one lol That is remarkably inexpensive.
American seeds are all $3.00 -- and the good ones are much more!!
Oh you'll have to show what you do with the kohlrabi. Mine got decimated by a rodent. I decided to see what would happen if I left the plants with at least 1 leaf. They bounced back!
A little lime will help with the clubroot. Also don`t plant out until your plant has a good root system and is well established.
Hi Alan, yeah, we Lime like its going out of fashion! But we have naturally acidic soil so its a bit of a battle!
Thanks for update i have some seeds from overseas (Baker Heirloom Seeds) Chocolate Cheery & Teddy Bear Sunflowers if you want to try some never grown them myself. Cheers 🍻
i am with you on seed storage, I do it by type. having to jump seed packets round from one month to another because you sown them multiple times a season gets annoying.
I do the by sowing date mostly , but have a bit at the back for seeds that I secession sow
Mmmm celeriac chips ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the spellings, Pura vita 😋👌
I JUST PLANTED ALL KINDS COLORS ABOUT 17 CAN PLANT OUT TILL MAY
I didn't catch if you were sowing these inside to transplant later or directly outside...
Love the shorter videos.
parsley to germinate and grow awesome need moist soil all the time.
Cavolo Nero! lol
Great video clear and informative 👌👌
Super helpful video!
I'm a sort by planting kinda girl. If something is succession I just move it back a month. When I put it back
Although this year is the most I've ever attempted to grow so we shall see if it holds up. Easy with 10 plants, mayve not so much with the 150odd I have now.
If your chilli's start fruiting early, do you take the buds off?
I SOW MY SKUNK MID FEB SEEMS TO WORK OK X
Pmsl
I've reported you to PETA
Time to get growing 🙂
Loved this video thankyou!!!!!! X
On the celeriac and leeks/spring onions are you direct sowing those or doing them under cover/indoors?
I got a decent indoor LED setup last year, so I've sowed shallots, red onions, sugar snap peas, some herbs, peppers and chillis, aubergine, chinese cabbage and cauliflower. I am going to try the cabbage, cauliflower and sugar snap in the greenhouse to see if they'll be ready by mid may to harvest, when the normal stuff goes in. The onions can be put out when they are large enough in spring because they take forever. I will sow some marigolds for the greenhouse too because I think they take forever too.
Volume is a bit low. Hard to hear with my little computer speakers.
I do mine my sort, the monthly madness gives me brain fog, I gotta look at every packet of seeds a few times and then plan lol
By sort lol
I sort by date and spread the seeds out into brown envelopes across all of the months that i sow, so i know that all of my feb seeds are in the feb section and i don't have to look around.
Good plan!
I’m just starting out trying to grow veg as moved house with a nice sized garden. I haven’t got a greenhouse yet but an unheated conservatory. Can I plant the seeds you mentioned and start them off in there? Loving your vlogs ❤️
Some of the cooler things like Brassicas could probably do okay in the conservatory - chilis and aubergines need high temperatures though. The other big issue is light - if your conservatory is south facing you might be okay, but most people sowing things before March are also going to be using grow lights - otherwise you'll end up with tall, sad, leggy, weak seedlings!
Jessie Perlka Calcium Cyanamide is very good at dealing with Club Root. It is available from Medwyns if Anglesey
Hi John, i've read about Perlka but never tried it. We do use a lot of lime as we have pretty acidic soil! I'll go have a look at it. Thanks. :)
Lots going on this month. Do you use bottom heat to get them going or just put them straight into the conservatory?
What size pots do you use for sunflowers?
Great show today! Check out Malcolm Kingswell and allotments for fun and food
Are those all being sown outdoors into the ground or started inside?
All inside. Except the parsnips!
Do you sow indoors this time of year or heated propagator
Yep, all indoors this early. Only use the heated propagator for the aubergines and chillies though. Everything else is fine just in a cool room with light.
@@JessieatPlot37 thanks😗
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