I discovered that trays in the hotbeds don't work, the two I put in with the Dyer's Greenweed and the peppermint were dry as a bone so I planted them straight into the compost in the hotbed. It looks like the hotbeds will need frequent watering. I'm taking a bit of a risk planting everything straight into them, although the temperature seems right at the moment (Everthing in the first bed is germinating even the tropical lemon grass) I'm not sure exactly how long the beds will stay warm for so I'm hoping for the best but from previous experience I'm pretty sure they'll hold up until the frosts are over. I decided to risk some melons and cucumbers as these are what I want to grow in there after I've pulled out most of the other plants. I collected these seeds myself last year from my own plants and I have a lot of them so I'm not worried so much about them but if I lose the peppers and tomatoes then it'll be a bit late to start again which is why I have some in the bender as well just in case.
here's the planting list:
Bed 1 (The first hot bed made)
Added
Shamanic tobacco Nicotiana Rustica
Tobacco Havana Nicotiana tabacum
Tobacco Virginia
Grain Amaranth (I'm unsure of the species I collected these seeds from plants I grew and lost my notes from when I planted them)
Quinoa Chenopodium quinoa
Water melon Black mountain (Short season) Citrullus lanatus
I planted a few of these along the top of the bed.
Bed 2 (The new bed)
Celery tall Utah Apium graveolens dulce
Pepper Italian pepperoncini Capsicum annuum
Tomato box car Willie Lycopersicon esculentum
Chilli Navaho
Chilli Serrano tampequino
Aubergine Early long purple 2 Solanum melongena
Indian pot chilli
Pepper Santa Fe Grande
Tomato Ailsa Craig
Chilli Numex Espanhola
Chilli Delhi hot
Pepper Anaheim
Tomatillo purple Physalis ixocarpa
False Saffron Kinko (Safflower) Carthamnus tinctorius
Tomato Black Russian
Pepper D-asti Giallo
Cucumber Marketmore Cucumis sativus
Basil Holy, green Ocimum tenuiflorum
Celery Red Soup
Lemon Coriander Coriandrum sativum
Celery Green soup
Okra Hill country heirloom red Abelmoschus esculentus
and in the top of the bed in 4 places Melon Collective farm woman Cucumis melo inodorus
I finally managed to get a photo of the woodpecker that's been visiting my feeding station, here he is.
