First flowers from seed open 2024 - Gardening With Brendan Week 13 - video Dailymotion

Derry Journal

There’s something rather satisfying about seeing the time and effort you put in to making sure your seedlings germinate, survive and thrive pay off when the first flowers emerge in spring.

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00:00Hello, today I'm just going to give you a quick overview of how things have been coming

00:10along in the garden and show you a few flowers, the first flowers from the seeds that I planted

00:17a few months ago.

00:18So, it's quite an overcast day here, a lot of sun poking through, but here we'll start

00:25off with the backyard and then work our way around, so I'll just switch the camera now.

00:42So here's the bed that I planted, or I dug up and worked through a couple of weeks ago

00:49and here are some of the plants that are in the ground at the minute.

00:53I'll just run through quickly what's in here, so at the back there are hollyhock, which

01:03will not flower probably till next year, but they'll get very very tall if the slugs don't

01:09get at them first, so they're all there.

01:13Here along the border there are nasturtiums, I'll just bring in close to one, there there

01:18there, it's a constant battle to keep the weeds out at the moment.

01:25This is some larkspur and delphiniums around here, they're quite small, they should take

01:34off now that they're in the ground, and across there is brussel sprouts and some strawflowers

01:39which have just gone on this week.

01:42Fairy lichens here, these lanky things lying over are cornflowers which I've transplanted,

01:53they don't take well, they're transplanted so I'm not sure, they were in a pot.

01:57Further on that fairy lichen bush is california poppies, we have more of that down here.

02:04Here we have some clarkia or godisha, and beside that these are cosmos, and a couple

02:14of baby's breath as well in there, I'm trying to think is it everything on this side, there's

02:20a couple of lavender plants in there as well, and down here is mostly more cornflowers,

02:28some california poppies, and then a few rows of marigolds, and these are some radishes

02:36here, and at the very top of the bed is pansies, alyssum, and what was the other one, lobelia.

02:48So smaller plants at the front, and then working its way back, and there's a couple of herbs

02:52in there too, trying to keep the slugs away because they don't like the smell.

02:58So on the greenhouse now, it's fairly empty now, so we have some more calendula, pot marigolds

03:05here, just an assortment of leftover plants that I'll maybe give away, or these are lobelia,

03:13there's a petunia in the back there, this is strawberries that have been in that pot

03:19for about two months, these are alpine strawberries, so quite small strawberries, very slow growing,

03:26giant mexican sunflowers here, I have some of these on the ground so we'll see how they

03:31come on, more pansies, these are chamomile, and they need to be on the ground very soon,

03:42I have about three or four trays out of these, so one packet of seeds, and there's a lot

03:48of them on the ground already, oxide daisies, more sunflowers, a few more petunias, some

03:55of the mixed pots I've been potting up here, marigolds, petunias, pansies, things like

04:01that.

04:02There is another little black currant bush coming on very well, looking very healthy,

04:07lovely smell of it too, and I'll just take you round the side, actually I'll take you

04:12up here first, so I've created this border along the back here, where there are some

04:20zinnias, giant sunflowers, a few more hollyhock, chamomile, and oxide daisies along the front

04:28of that, so we haven't really got enough heat really for things to take off yet, there's

04:36a couple of nice days, but it's back to being cold enough at the minute, so just hoping

04:43when the plants get a chance they get established and take off, and here brussel sprouts are

04:51really doing well, but they're far too close together, I was watching a guy yesterday who

04:56said they should be two feet apart, I think they're twelve on there, about ten or eight

05:00or twelve, I can't remember, but we'll have to separate them out, and these broccoli from

05:07seed are now starting to take off, and there's a couple of beans in the middle there, these

05:14are runner beans, over here I have some fruit trees and fruit bushes, so in the background

05:24there, there's gooseberry, there's your red currant, this is a goat wallow, which I'm

05:30going to dig out actually, because I'm just afraid of it getting too big and the roots

05:34spreading, and here some more leftover plants, so got more hollyhock, calendula, a couple

05:45of big sunflowers, and down here some dahlias, lobelia, calendula, more zahmias in pots as

05:53well, with this dahlia and a baby's breath, and these are two blueberries, so I'll just

06:03take it on round the front now, just show you that, and here's some flowers coming on

06:14the bush, it's been on there about ten years, it's always flowers without fail a couple

06:18of times in the year, so here out the front where we get most of the sun, you're starting

06:23to see the flowers appearing now from the seeds I've planted, so this is a poor man's

06:29orchid, and beautiful, beautiful flowers, that's two or three bushes, three I think

06:39all together, three seedlings all together, that's kind of, it's grown very well in the

06:45pot now, and it's kind of taken over, some nice scented flocks on there, and marigolds,

06:51but you can barely see them, so I'll have to take those out, more calendula, more marigolds,

06:58and here, this is the first flower of the day, from the ones I planted from seed, and

07:06this is a pot marigold or calendula, and this nasturtium in the same pot is getting really

07:14big as well, also from seed, some nice scented flocks down there, getting wee flower heads,

07:21california poppies, should be producing, oh there we have our first flower head on those,

07:30just noticed that, some more nursery plants here, these are silver pennies, which I'll

07:37need separated out, more of these are pink california poppies, these are Iceland poppies

07:45which are just about to open, there's a lot of heads on these, and then borax and daisies,

07:53some marigolds up now, nasturtiums and strawberries, and you can see the wee flowers hanging out

08:01on that, there you go, that's more or less everything, got the wee stagger pot over here,

08:08and then some window boxes, petunias, pansies, lobelia, and that, and that is everything,

08:15and a few sunflowers, actually many sunflowers here, so that is everything for today,

08:23and I'll be back next week, and I'll have a focus on fruit plants and fruit trees.

First flowers from seed open 2024 - Gardening With Brendan Week 13

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