January - The Parcel Arrived

Recap - January's to do list: Plant Sweet Pea and Snapdragon seeds. Previously bought Sweet Pea seeds from a garden centre and ordered a windowsill propagator and Snapdragon seeds over the Internet.

Last Wednesday my parcel arrived. It was actually time to start. I was a little disappointed that there were no instructions with the propagator but it did come with different sizes of seed modules. There are small, medium and large. I selected a medium sized module for my Sweet Peas and a small sized module for the Snapdragon seeds. I got some newspaper and laid it down. I put the modules on top of it and then filled them with the compost supplied.

On the pack of the Sweet Peas it suggested sowing them 2 to a module so that's what I did. I made a small hole and dropped two seeds into it. I did this for all the seeds in my two packs of Sweet Peas. I sowed one variety in the top most modules and the other variety in the bottom modules. The packets suggested there'd be approximately 20 seeds in each of them. There was actually 18 seeds of the Pluto variety and 24 of the Midnight variety so I can't really complain.

The Snapdragon seeds were much smaller and there was no specific instructions for using seed modules so I just sprinkled the seeds evenly on the top of the compost of a small module.

I obviously labelled the plants with the markers and pen provided and watered the seeds gently from the top. The propagator kit also came with some bumpy paper which are apparently capillary mats. I think the idea is that you put them underneath the modules, water them and they'll release water into the modules. Therefore the compost will stay moist but not sitting in water. I'll see how it goes...