The Greenhouse Gardener's Diary - February
February is the time to start sowing your maincrop tomatoes, to take cuttings from begonias and to prune ivy-leaf pelargoniums. Now is the time to start waking your sleepy plants!
February is the time to:
Things to do:
- Start Beogonia and Gloxinia tubers by planting them close to one anotherin shallow pots or boxes
- Prick out vegetable seedlings sown in January/early February so that they are 2 inches apart. Place boxes on the shelving, close to the light
- Sow cucumber seeds in 3 inch pots, exclude any light until seeds have germinated. A gentle bottom heat may be required
- Sow bedding plant seeds such as Lobelia's in the second half of the month, at a temperature of 16 °C
- Sow Viola's and Pansy seeds
- Start Fuchsias into growth at a temperature of 10 °C
- Take cuttings of winter flowering Begonia's and root them in a proporgating chamber with a gentle bottom heat
- Pot young tomatoes from the January sowing singly into 3 inch pots. Add a little tomato fertiliser to the soil. Maintain a temperature of 10 °C
- Sow celery and brassica seeds towards the end of the month. Sow in boxes and later prick out. Keep seedlings in a temperature of 16 to 18 °C. Harden off gradually before planting outdoors in trenches
- Zonal and ivy -leaved pelargoniums that have been over-wintered indoors or in a cold greenhouse should be pruned, re-potted and watered to start them into growth again. Once cuttings have rooted, water more frequently
- Sow maincrop tomato seeds
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February Greenhouse Gardening... 
