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A little tour of the new garden bed I've dug out for the seedlings I've been growing over the past few months and a progress update.

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00:09 Hello again. Back in this week I'm just going to show you what I've been planting in the ground.

00:15 And it's great to be able to say that after a few months.

00:18 So I'll just start here with, I have a raised bed as well, so I'll start with that.

00:24 So, here you can see I've got some vegetables growing.

00:33 These are Brussels sprouts. I had to buy these because I have seed but I didn't start them in time.

00:37 And they needed to be started really early in the season.

00:40 So I got these in a gardening centre and they were very healthy looking.

00:44 So this was one pack of Brussels sprouts for around £3.

00:49 They're probably a bit crowded but I just want to see if they all come on.

00:54 And they were only planted yesterday. No slug damage overnight which is nice.

00:59 And here is a couple of broad beans. I have loads of seeds for different types of beans and peas.

01:07 But again I didn't get them in the ground early enough.

01:10 I had no room to put them anywhere.

01:13 And over here are broccoli that I planted from seed a while back.

01:20 They've been out in the elements and all well out in a pot.

01:23 And I think they'll survive whatever comes at them now and take off.

01:29 So broccoli is great too. You can leave them, if you don't like the vegetable, they're great, great plants for bees and pollinators.

01:41 So the head of a broccoli is just a mass of tiny yellow flowers.

01:48 If you let it, if you don't pick it, that's it.

01:53 On here are some of the things I've been growing from seed.

02:03 Well there's more Brussels sprouts up here which I bought.

02:08 And there's a couple of other things.

02:11 There's the thing about going to a garden centre.

02:13 You should go and blindfold it down and dump it for compost and come back with a good load of tiny things.

02:20 So up the back are some of the larkspur, the delfiniums, which haven't come on as well as I'd hoped.

02:31 They like to be in the ground and they like cold temperatures.

02:35 So a lot of them died away like in pots.

02:39 A couple are looking OK. There's about 10 in the ground up there.

02:44 Quite small, quite hard to see there.

02:47 And over in the corner there's a couple of dirty pieces of silver money plant, honestly.

02:52 Also known as venaria. That plant has so many names.

02:56 Down here I have clarkia, also grown from seed in a wonderbox with a little bit of soil on it.

03:11 And these are some gladiola that were already in the ground.

03:17 I just kind of dug around them and left them and actually chopped a few down by accident.

03:22 But I've replanted the bulbs so hopefully they'll come back.

03:27 Here are some cornflower. There's a mix here of neon calendula, bright orange one.

03:34 These are older calendula. Some of them are relative flower actually.

03:40 I'm just hoping they make it.

03:44 And then these bushy floppy things are California poppies, bright yellow poppies.

03:53 And here is one I picked up. I tried to grow this from seed and it never happened.

03:59 This is marjoram. Beautiful smell already off it.

04:03 I got that for, I think it was 2 euro in a garden centre.

04:09 Let's see what else here.

04:14 A couple of wee alpines and some sweet lilies in the ground.

04:21 And these were a mustary plant that I grew from seed.

04:25 If any of you have been watching from before you'll know about this.

04:29 But it turns out that these are beets of some sort.

04:34 If you can see there. The UK for all known.

04:39 So a wee red bulb on this one. Am I showing it right? There it is.

04:47 A big red bulb so I think that's some kind of beet.

04:53 And then on up here more cornflower.

04:57 And some cosmos here.

05:01 Now up the back I haven't done anything on yet because what I'm going to be planting on there is,

05:06 I've been germinating some giant sunflowers which have just taken off.

05:11 They've just come up actually but they're already massive in their pots so they'll need either transplanted or planted out.

05:17 But I know that they're a favourite of slugs.

05:20 So I'll leave them. They try and get at least a second pair of leaves before I put them in.

05:27 There's also hollyhock which I'll just show you here. I've quite a few hollyhock come up.

05:34 And they all need to go in the ground. So here's some of the hollyhocks here.

05:42 Some more down here as well.

05:50 So everything's been coming on not too bad.

05:53 So I'm pretty happy overall and chamomile will be planted in its own pot in case it takes over.

06:02 But they were transplanted a couple of weeks ago and they're doing very well.

06:06 And they're from a seed tray and then the oxeye daisies are here somewhere too.

06:19 Right there. Ah, there they are.

06:23 So these will be going into their own pot too.

06:27 And that is everything. So just thought I'd give you a wee tour of that.

06:33 And we'll go round the corner too sure and see what's round here.

06:37 That's just more calendula and lobeida.

06:41 A bit of blue and orange in that pot.

06:43 This is some of the oxeye daisy seedlings in a big pot. So that'll be big white daisy like flowers.

06:50 These are sweet pea that I'm trying to nurse back to health.

06:53 They don't look too well.

06:55 More hollyhock. More sweet pea.

06:58 More chamomile. I don't know I could open a chamomile tea factory to the amount it germinated.

07:04 More sweet pea. More cornflower.

07:07 Nasturtiums. I want to get some of them into the ground too.

07:11 And two blueberry bushes that are just starting to put on new growth here at the moment.

07:20 They were bought as dry cottons just a couple of years ago.

07:32 They're in ericaceous soil.

07:34 So that is everything for this week.

07:38 And we'll see now. Hopefully we'll have the first flowers opening for next time.

07:43 Until then. Bye bye.

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Creating a new flower and vegetable bed for seedlings - Gardening With Brendan Week 10

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