Moved Shallot 'Jermor', Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' plants into Coldframe

Today I moved the Shallot 'Jermor', Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' plants from the Home Greenhouse to the Coldframe on the Allotment.

Shallot 'Jermor' plants in the Greenhouse at home

Garlic plants in the Greenhouse at home

Shallot plants and Garlic plants in the Coldframe

Coldframe on Allotment 1

Today I also checked on the Onion sets that are in the Allotment Greenhouse and these appear to be coming up quite well.

Onion sets in the Allotment Greenhouse

I also made up the storage box for the Allotment and this has been put into the Polytunnel for the time being due to the weather today.

Storage box before being made up

Storage box in the Polytunnel made up

Pricked out Onion 'Exhibition' and Onion 'The Kelsae' seedlings

Today I filled up 37 x 2 inch pots in order to start to start potting up some of my Onion seedlings. I pricked out the following:

- 20 x Onion 'Exhibition' seedlings into 2 inch pots filled with John Innes No.1 seed compost
- 17 x Onion 'The Kelsae' seedlings into 2 inch pots filled with John Innes No.1 seed compost

Due to work this afternoon and this evening I ran out of time to do the rest of the onion seedlings so will do these tomorrow.

I put the half seed trays of both Onion 'Exhibition' and Onion 'The Kelsae' back into the other heated propagator as further seedlings appear to be showing. The Shallot 'Jermor' sets now appear to be starting to sprout. The Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' and Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' cloves are also sprouting quite nicely over the other side of the Greenhouse.

I know need to make some hoops up to keep the onion's in an upright position.

Foremost John Innes No.1 compost

Onion Seedlings

Onion 'Exhibition' seedlings in the foreground
and Onion 'The Kelsae' seedlings in the background

Shallot 'Jermor' sets

Garlic cloves having started to sprout

2 trays on the right having been put back into
the heated propagator

Onion 'Bedfordshire Champion', Onion 'Exhibition' and Onion 'The Kelsae' seed germinated, Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' cloves beginning to sprout

Today I popped into the Greenhouse to see the progress of my seeds germinating as I have been away for a few days:

Onion 'Bedfordshire Champion', Onion 'Exhibition', Onion 'The Kelsae'
and Onion 'Ailsa Craig' in half seed trays and Sweet Pepper
'California Wonder' in the 3 inch round pot

 As can be seen in the heated propagator above, the Onion 'Bedfordshire Champion', Onion 'Exhibition' and Onion 'The Kelsae' seeds appear to have started germinating. Onion 'Ailsa Craig' appears to be further behind but these will probably show in the next few days. The Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder' seeds have not currently germinated.

The Leek 'Musselburgh' seeds appear to have not germinated either as of yet. The Shallot 'Jermor' sets appear to have not started to sprout up but this will probably start in the next week or so.

As can be seen in the photo above the Garlic 'Early Purple White' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' cloves that I planted on the Shortest Day (22nd December 2015) appear to have started to sprout.

Planted Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' and Garlic 'Lautrec Wight'

Today I planted the following:

- 16 x Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' cloves into 9cm square pots filled with Westland Jack's Magic Multipurpose compost mixed with vermiculite and these have been placed in the unheated greenhouse.

- 9 x Garlic 'Lautrec Wight' cloves into 9cm square pots filled with Westland Jack's Magic Multipurpose compost mixed with vermiculite and these have been placed in the unheated greenhouse.

Garlic 'Early Purple Wight'

Garlic 'Lautrec Wight'

Garlic 'Early Purple Wight' at the back and Garlic
'Lautrec Wight' at the front