Filling flower stacker pots and window boxes- Gardening With Brendan Week 10

Derry Journal

Here I am using some of the seedlings I have been growing to fill a six storey stacker pot set and some window boxes.

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00:00 [Music]

00:09 [Birds chirping]

00:14 Hello and welcome back.

00:17 It's been a glorious sunshine this weekend.

00:20 We've even had the northern lights here for the pier skies.

00:23 So today what I'm going to do is I'm going to be stacking pots.

00:30 I've got six of them.

00:32 I'm going to be filling them and doing some window boxes as well.

00:36 And I'll just show you the different pots that I've been growing from seed that I'm going to be putting in here.

00:41 So, the stacker boxes I'm going to...

00:46 These are some neon colours, bright orange colour.

00:50 And here we have Hanses.

00:57 Let's see now.

00:59 They've come on great this past few weeks.

01:04 These are Brie Treland Lobelia.

01:10 And here...

01:15 I have some Amari Golds I planted about eight weeks ago.

01:20 And there, you can see there, there's little flower heads now coming on them.

01:24 So they need to be out of these cell trays and in the pots.

01:29 [Birds chirping]

01:36 And finally, after about nine weeks of doing very little,

01:45 these are Treland petunias which have now taken off.

01:50 And just that bud here, that was from a little mother's for them.

01:55 And some of these have been gone too, and they've all had those nights as well.

02:00 So I think that's everything. I have a few nights in, but the clock says I'll have a Monday planting.

02:08 So what I'll be doing is, on the top layer of this, I'll be planting upright plants,

02:15 and then a few Treland plants along the sides.

02:19 I had some plant strawberries too, I was going to use these for it, but they're not up, they're still very tiny,

02:25 so I'm not going to use them anymore, just three Alpine strawberries.

02:30 So we'll get started then.

02:33 [Birds chirping]

02:41 So for the soil, I'm using a mix of tarp soil and just multipurpose compost.

02:48 Multipurpose compost is what helps with the difference in nutrients,

02:55 keeps the plants away from the wind, and the wind won't explode here, and actually the camera away from it.

03:01 I'm going to go a couple over to the bottom, there's a lot of sand in this as well.

03:11 I'll start with the window box.

03:18 [Birds chirping]

03:30 Most of this wall is compost, but I only have one small bag of tarp soil.

03:36 You may be able to see behind me, I'll use a rotator to dig out part of the garden here,

03:42 or I'll give you a follow-up video on that next week.

03:46 I've got quite a lot of plants in there, it'll be interesting to see how they see if the slopes attack.

03:55 I was saying last week that I haven't had any more of the slopes,

04:00 there's a lot of copper tape around the pots and stuff, but I haven't seen any about the garden this year.

04:07 I know a lot of you have, and your garden is still in good shape.

04:12 I'll see if they survive, I'll try those after being sure it's perfect.

04:19 I'm hooking up that spot now, it's a bit of a shock for them, whenever they're going under the ground for the first time.

04:26 [Birds chirping]

04:45 Almost bumped it.

04:47 [Birds chirping]

04:59 I'll be using around three, or else I have a big one, so three of these will go.

05:06 And maybe two along the sides, I'm not sure how those will feel.

05:10 [Birds chirping]

05:23 I'll fill it up, if you want to leave some for watering, they'll plant some seeds.

05:29 First up, I'm going to put some pansies in, and see if they will allow me to come up.

05:42 They all need transplanted, I had around, I think there was nearly 100 of these, for one pack of the seeds.

05:50 These are giant Swiss pansies, so they have quite big flowers on them, I don't know what colours they want to be.

06:00 So we'll presently see how it all looks when it's starting to flower.

06:08 I'm going to plant, because I have so much of these, I'm going to plant three in here.

06:14 [Birds chirping]

06:21 And I'm putting them along the back, because at the front I want the others to trade over.

06:31 And these will stand upright, give the background bright colours.

06:36 And they will spread out and branch out and I don't know where. They're in a few weeks.

06:44 [Birds chirping]

06:52 I was actually thinking of dumping these next, so we'll get maybe two of these out.

07:02 [Birds chirping]

07:09 Tiny, tiny seeds. This one will be around for a few weeks on end.

07:13 But that's a good root ball on it.

07:16 [Birds chirping]

07:24 Just one down the other front, so they'll drop down.

07:28 [Applause]

07:35 A little bit more soil on this part.

07:38 [Birds chirping]

07:46 And that's that.

07:48 I usually over-full them, over-crowd them, but everything seems to come on ground

07:53 and it's back to the competition, so you can make them bloom more.

07:57 Next I want some sweet of the sun, these are tiny white flowers.

08:04 [Birds chirping]

08:06 I've said before, white needs to be on top.

08:10 These are the out of our late planted.

08:13 They haven't come on as well as everything else, but they're hardy.

08:19 These flowers, when they bring intake, love them.

08:23 [Birds chirping]

08:25 Not big enough pollen, it isn't.

08:28 One on each side, and then I'm going to put a few blue Liberia.

08:33 [Birds chirping]

08:39 And these were another fairly successful plant in terms of germination.

08:48 These will come out and trail down the side as well.

08:53 I've got a lot of these, so I'm just going to head them in.

09:00 [Birds chirping]

09:16 I've got a thunder today, so we'll see how things go.

09:22 That is that one done.

09:26 Interesting how they see the different colour combinations they come out of that.

09:31 Hopefully it's not all the same colour.

09:34 [Clears throat]

09:36 That one in the back is done.

09:40 And now, these are Snacker pots.

09:46 You can find them sometimes in a tiny shop in the local town.

09:49 I can't find each.

09:52 You can get these online, but they didn't have holes, so I had to drill some holes in them.

09:57 The same again, I'm going to do not just shoot it, but put two here.

10:04 [Birds chirping]

10:29 I'm not sure how this will end up looking, but it would be really nice if all the plants come on.

10:45 I can't do the leaves, it's just puffed with the compost.

10:49 They're probably staying on the compost.

10:53 It will come on a lot better if you have more soil just in the pots themselves.

11:02 It's important not to overfill these, I think.

11:05 You have to stack another one on top, especially in the middle there.

11:11 So that will probably do it.

11:15 I'm going to put that down here.

11:23 You can play around with these things as well, because you have 18 pots.

11:29 If one thing doesn't work, something else might.

11:33 There's some blue over there, and this one.

11:40 And then, the white over here.

11:51 This one right here.

11:56 And then, I'm not sure what to put in the next one.

12:04 I'm going to put this in.

12:14 That looks like nothing now, but if I take off, they should fall out.

12:20 All over the blue one.

12:22 These will be all bright.

12:24 Then you can open it and put it straight on.

12:29 This one is a tough one, because I'll definitely have more plants in it.

12:45 And this will be all grape plants, if you want them to keep over the top.

13:14 It's great to get a few sunny days, so you can plant a few things outdoors.

13:24 It's just got everything wrong so much.

13:29 I did a photo of what I've done here, next week.

13:33 There's probably some plants coming on.

13:37 I'll probably get things in the ground too.

13:40 In the past few months, my horse has been overtaken by plants.

13:45 And constantly running out of pots and changing things around.

13:49 Right, this is the top level.

13:52 I'll put it out here.

13:56 And then I will,

14:00 I'll put it all the way up.

14:29 This is close.

14:31 A lot of roots on these.

14:33 I hope these take off.

14:35 I'm a little loose on these ends.

15:03 You can play around with this, and if someone doesn't take, you can always switch it out.

15:10 If you have a lot of different things.

15:13 And one of the ones I did want from the sender was a neon marigold.

15:19 And a bright bright orange.

15:22 And these are the longer trainers, because I need a lot of those.

15:28 These aren't awful, but

15:31 one of these will naturally be the closest.

15:37 I'll just put it in a little bit.

15:41 Just tidy.

15:48 That should come up here.

15:56 That should be better.

15:59 That should be fine now for the top layer.

16:02 These are all, as I say, upright.

16:04 These will push up, and then the ones below, maybe they could fall down and cascade over the side.

16:10 I'll just show you how they work.

16:14 You just sit one on the other.

16:16 And that's basically it.

16:18 And I've got six of these, so I'll stack them up.

16:21 And then, put them out the front for water each, and then put them at the top.

16:26 That's the way that works.

16:30 [birds chirping]

16:39 [music]

16:49 [music]

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