Kitchen Garden Forum

You're so right Compo.

I sent lots of seedlings out by post last year and only a few failed.

I can't thank Seedling, Chantal and Pigelet enough for rescuing my (early sowing) failings in 2006 so I'm more than happy to return the compliment in 2007.

Dear Chantal, i was just thinking, would it be better just not to do any veg growing this year, i'm sure you wouldn't miss it.

Sorry Chantel only joking, just woke up in one of those naughty moods of mine.

I'm happy to send you any plants you may need later on in the season. You and others helped me out when my little greenhouse collapsed so i'm more than happy to return the compliment.

Let me know and i'll pop it in the post for you.

If you left sowing till mid-March, I would think you would still get a pretty good crop. You could always prepare by getting everything ready for sowing, so that once you were back in action the sowing could be done very quickly.
Outside stuff like carrots and spuds you could do anyway, as they are pretty well bound to get watered by Nature.
Inside stuff like seeds of broccoli, sprouts, and other brassicas; seeds of leeks, celeriac, fennel, leaves etc: I would think you would find a March sowing would be utterly fine. Cucurbits and beans etc don't need sowing till April, anyway.
I would have thought that tomatoes might be the only ones where you would notice the delay, in that they wouldn't fruit so early, but I bet by July everything would have caught up.
Alison.