Finally got the poor peas from the greenhouse out onto the allotment on Sunday. The 2nd lot were quite happy looking, having only been growing for a month or so (in a gutter). The first ones, which Nick put in in the middle of winter were a bit ... floopy looking! I think maybe they should have gone out about 2 months ago!
No sign of anything coming up from the broad beans so far, but did accidentally uproot a couple whilst weeding and they had definitely started sprouting (downwards only so far, so a little while longer until they pop through the surface).
Tomatoes are 2/3 repotted! From 200 tomato slots (slightly fewer actual seeds planted, cos they were done in sets of 10 but some packets only had 8 or 6! Rather expensive per seed, it has to be said!), we now have 60 potted up into the greenhouse (of varying heights) and 46 left to move on to a better place.
Definite advert for the root trainers, though. The tomato plants which have grown in the root trainers are, on average, 200% taller than those in shallow seed modules! Although one type (the teton de venus jaune, which were actually an expensive 'paid for' set of seeds) in the root trainers have utterly failed to germinate. I think there is now a solitary straggley looking seedlet (too small even to be called a seedling), but I'm not convinced it's not washed in from another row.
Allotment lay-out so far:
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