Seedling progress and Garden Tour: Gardening With Brendan Week 7

Derry Journal

This week I'm taking you on a mini tour of my garden and showing you the progress on the seedlings planted over the past two months as we head into May.

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:08 So this part of my garden is all clay soil. The fence needs fixed up as well.

00:16 But this is a hydrangea planted about 10 years ago. It grows fine. I don't need to do anything to it.

00:23 Get a massive blooms there. This is a cherry blossom tree I think. Not really sure what this is.

00:32 But it's been growing away. It's never got very big. This is a cutting of a weeping willow which isn't weeping.

00:40 So I think it's just maybe a hybrid. The weeping willow and this one seems to be a favourite of different insects.

00:51 This time of year with the wee buds coming out. But it's great for soaking up the clay soil.

01:01 This is really bad ground actually. It's a lot of clay. But some of the plants and some of the fruit plants actually seem to love it.

01:10 This is a red currant bush and you can see there the little berries starting to come.

01:17 These are in the ground a very long time and I never had to do anything with them.

01:27 They just come and I leave these berries for the birds. They ripen quite early in the spring and the birds seem to absolutely love them.

01:36 I see some kind of fungus there growing on the leaf there. But it shouldn't harm them. They're very hardy.

01:44 And over here I have a pear tree that the ground is too shallow for really. It's fallen over there as you can see.

01:56 But not much crop off it like ever. Probably to do with the soil type again.

02:01 And here we have gooseberries which are amazing crappers. You get loads of fruit out of this.

02:07 This was a tiny cutting of a gooseberry that has just taken off and you get masses of fruit from that.

02:16 It's kind of an underrated fruit the gooseberry.

02:21 Here I've potted up some sweet pea. There's some old netting here. So I'm hoping that'll grow up along the sides.

02:31 You can see it there. It's quite young but sweet pea tend to be a bit hardy.

02:38 And here we have some wild blackcurrant bushes coming in through the fence. I'm just going to leave some of them.

02:46 I'll cut back others. But you're already getting that beautiful scent when the sun hits it.

02:52 And this is just part of the garden that I previously dug up several years ago.

03:01 And put down compost and topsoil so it's quite rich. But I've just been throwing heaps of old pots of compost on it over the years.

03:10 I haven't done anything with it for a few years. So I'm planning to dig that up with a rotavator this year.

03:15 Level it a wee bit and plant a load of stuff on the ground. It's still very damp the ground after months of rain in Ireland.

03:23 And here there's some broccoli seedlings which have been outside basically from about a week after they were emerged.

03:34 There's one calendula and a green bean.

03:40 And here we have some sweet William.

03:45 Some new marigold seeds that have come up. A red variety of French marigold.

03:52 These were mustary seeds which I think are beetroot. I had a bag of seeds with nothing from years ago.

03:59 So it's good to see at least something coming up. And these will go on the ground as well.

04:04 Over here we have petunias which didn't do that well. I have an all hour tray of petunias which did a lot better.

04:12 But they're about two months old now and if you look they're tiny.

04:15 So if you're thinking of growing petunias you might be best buying them in the wee trays in the garden centre.

04:22 And at least then you can see the colours that they're going to be as well.

04:26 And this is some of the lobelia that's been transplanted.

04:30 I had hundreds of lobelia come up out of half a packet of seeds.

04:34 And they're lovely. They can be used in all sorts of different pots.

04:38 Like just they trail down the sides.

04:42 These are watercress which are fantastic.

04:46 Very good vitamin source and throw them in salads or sandwiches or anything.

04:51 All edible.

04:53 Over here we have some baby's breath which haven't been doing great.

05:00 But hopefully we have a bit of sun will come on.

05:03 Some scythianthus.

05:06 Known as angel wings as well.

05:09 One hollyhock and then into the greenhouse now.

05:14 And before we get there this is a blackcurrant bush.

05:18 The others are blackberries.

05:21 This is coming on very well. This was tiny when I bought it.

05:25 And everything in here is from seed.

05:28 This is more scythianthus.

05:31 It's give like butterfly type flowers. Really really nice.

05:35 Colours. Some lupins.

05:38 From seed which are coming on grand.

05:41 Another lupin and larkspur.

05:44 A couple of silver penny plants.

05:46 Some straw flowers.

05:48 And over here this is one packet of pansy seeds.

05:52 Swiss pansies so that's the big...

05:56 big faced pansies.

05:59 And there we go.

06:01 There's about a hundred of them.

06:04 Some new calendula. A neon orange variety.

06:07 Popping up there.

06:09 And here's some older calendula at the back.

06:11 And some more larkspur.

06:13 Delphiniums.

06:15 Over here more labelia.

06:17 These are alesum.

06:19 Those small white flowers that smell like honey.

06:21 These two are night scented flocks.

06:25 Which smell like candy.

06:28 When they open at night.

06:31 We have one Californian poppy.

06:34 I have hundreds of these in pots out the front.

06:36 They were also really easy to grow.

06:39 More baby's breath. More night scented flocks.

06:42 One nasturtium here. I have loads of nasturtiums.

06:45 Also very easy to grow.

06:47 Underneath here I have some more calendula.

06:53 And some hollyhock.

06:57 Over there I've just shoved some green beans in.

07:01 And then finally here we have chamomile on the left.

07:06 And oxeye daisies. The big white daisies you see growing wild in Ireland on the right.

07:14 Here there are California poppies.

07:18 Which you may remember I showed you the seeding process of them a few weeks ago indoors.

07:24 And they have come up brilliant.

07:27 You can see they are very healthy looking.

07:30 There are quite a few of them in here.

07:32 You could thun them out or plait them in the ground.

07:35 This is calendula in a pot.

07:38 And here we have two arrangements of sweet pea.

07:49 Which I'm planning to go up this trellis here.

07:55 They've been out for a few days now.

08:01 Through some frosty nights and they seem quite hardy.

08:04 And they are working grand.

08:06 Right here we have the 30 pieces of silver seedlings.

08:13 Quite healthy looking.

08:16 Still only the two leaves but you can see now the true leaves are starting to come up.

08:20 Some nasturtiums which got a bit battered in the wind.

08:24 More California poppies.

08:27 These are the yellow variety.

08:29 And yet more off the same packet of seeds.

08:34 This is seeds that were planted.

08:40 These are California poppies too.

08:43 They are a frilled rose variety.

08:47 And they are only starting really to come on now.

08:51 And here are Iceland poppies.

08:54 Which they have been in for about almost two and a half months now.

09:01 And did nothing for ages.

09:04 But now they have suddenly started to put on leaves.

09:10 And they are coming along nicely.

09:14 I didn't know if they were going to make it.

09:17 Here are some other pots that we did earlier.

09:21 And more palangula.

09:24 And more stray California poppies.

09:28 And here these three pots are all strawberries from last year that have come back up.

09:34 And they probably could do with a good feed now.

09:38 And then finally out the front we have these little Godisha seedlings.

09:44 A couple of little arch spurs as well.

09:47 But they are really starting to take off just with the temperature going up a few degrees.

09:54 Here are some other sunflower seeds.

09:58 Some new calendula.

10:01 More zinnias.

10:04 More calendula and cornflowers.

10:10 So that is everything there.

10:12 Up here just chilling in the windowsill are some hollyhock seeds.

10:16 These were the weakest and the youngest of the seedlings that I transplanted.

10:20 And I just want to keep them indoors for now.

10:23 See if they do survive.

10:26 And just for comparison these are two month old petunias.

10:32 And these ones are about three weeks.

10:35 Look how tiny they are.

10:37 They are really really small and they are really slow growers.

10:41 But I bought a son and these have taken off in the last two weeks.

10:45 There was virtually no growth for about a month on them.

10:49 So you have to be patient if you are growing petunias.

10:52 These are zinnias.

10:54 And at last after years of trying I have managed to grow a few sunflowers.

10:59 These are a miniature version.

11:01 So these have all germinated in the last week or so.

11:06 And they have been kept in a warm sunny spot.

11:10 (Music)

11:21 (Music)

Category

Transcript

Recommended