Скачать или смотреть Sowing Brassicas, Root trainers and greenhouse at home.

In the polytunnel for the first part of todays video, sowing brassicas. I have had my "Hotbox" on the soil warming it up for a few weeks now and approx 10 days ago I sowed some radish (also a brassica) to test soil temp, they germinated and started to grow so the soil is ready.

I prefer this approach early season as I can space things out a little more. There is nothing wrong with starting seeds in a propagator, you get good reliable germination and a high strike rate, but this means they are all of a similar age from maturity. My way, sowing over four weeks I can pick good strong healthy plants from each weeks sowing and spread my harvest, plus my plants are already used to the type of soil they will grow in, this is a bonus in my opinion although there is nothing wrong with the propagator method. I'll continue sowing these for the next 3 weeks and in 2 weeks time I will add another cabbage or cauli type and sow them for 4 weeks too, this gives me overlap and many possibilities. Seed are dirt cheap, 99p for thousands so I have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Back home and in the greenhouse I talk about the wonderful root trainers, if you have never used one, you should! I also sow some backup celeriac and two types of beetroot in modules, multi sown. Boltardy and Chioggia where the varieties, I'll add some golden ones in a couple of weeks, again for overlap. Each module should grow between 2-4 and I will cut others out, after planting a continual harvesting will see my twist out the larger ones to allow smaller ones to grow on.

Brassicas sown in the tunnel where:

Cauliflower self blanch
Broccoli Raab
Cabbage Greyhound

Finally a thank you to Charles Dowding for his multi sow in modules method as it was his videos where I first saw them, now everyone does it!