The best kids parties are full of colour, music, games and laughter. A Secret Seed Society children’s party will bring you all this with vegetables as the stars, the heroes, the entertainers. Your guests will leave with a bounce in their step and an excitement for growing and eating vegetables.
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Calling all Seed Agents! Grow a giant bean and win a great prize.
Do you think you can grow the longest bean this Summer?
Search out some runner bean seeds, did you save some from last year? Or has your family or neighbour got a few?
Setting up your propagator for germination
If your propagator does not have pots you can easily make them from newspaper.
Fill your pots with a light seed compost(if your compost has dried out spray gently with water, this may take a little time to get moist again.) Please check that it does not contain peat. Firm gently.
What seeds are you planting?
Seeds where you want to produce small plants for pricking out and planting on eg cabbage, chard, broccoli, kale and leeks can have 3-4 seeds in a 2cm pot. The first 2 leaves you will see on ‘greens’ are ‘seed leaves’ ot cotyledons. When they have 4-6 proper leaves (or with leeks when they are about 10cm tall) these can be planted on into larger pots or outside to grow into full sised vegetables.
Seeds for root crops, carrots, radishes, parsnips 2 seeds per pot and when they grow remove and throw away the weakest leaving one plant. These crops are more difficult to plant out and sometimes are better planted directly outside.
Grandpa Swede always starts his peas and beans in a propagator as they love the warmth and moisture when they first start to grow. Press one ‘seed’ per 2cm pot into the compost. Broad beans can go out before the frost has passed but French and Runner beans are not frost resistant…look on the seed packet for advice.
Ask us if you are not sure fun@secretseedsociety.com
When you have finished sowing water well and cover with the lid. Place on a sunny windowsill and keep a watch for the plants to come poking through.
The Secret Seed Society potted along to the Edible Garden Show last March and brought along a few vegetable characters to join in the fun. There were lots of people who came to see us all in our veg-hats.
Miss Carrot, Mrs Cauliflower and Miss Cabbage wowed the visitors with their veggie style!