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A look at some of the flowers grown from seed and transplanted into pots to create a cottage garden effect and me transplanting some young plants.

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01:05Hello again

01:06Sun's out today. So that would get some transplanting done. We only have a few things left here now to transplant in the garden

01:15These big things beside me are giant sunflowers, they're in very small pots

01:19So I'm gonna plant some of them in the ground and some of them in bigger pots

01:24This is the third attempt at planting them in the ground. The wind snapped some of them. So I'm going to stake them

01:30and

01:31As long as I have the rest of them

01:33Had a wee casualty here moving one today

01:35So I'll stick that in the ground pull off the lower leaves and see if it comes on

01:41And I'm also transplanting

01:44These were grown from seed

01:46Planted late March and these are giant Mexican sunflowers. They're edible the flowers on them

01:52Supposed to have big giant heads

01:54These are petunias

01:57New Wave variety I think

02:00Can't remember the exact name, but they're different to the ones that grew earlier in the summer, which are already flowering

02:06earlier in the spring and

02:09These are now coming along great

02:11Some of them have been transplanted up into these

02:14six cell

02:16Some of them are still in the re-seed trays

02:19So I'll get them in bigger pots today and hopefully they'll take off now with a little bit of heat

02:25Let's see them flowering soon

02:28First up I am going to

02:31Transplant

02:33These containers aren't really big enough for them. So I'll leave them for the petunias. I'll go with these

02:39giant ones that I

02:41Bought, picked up in dairy in the garden, sent there yesterday

02:47Because I've run out of pots, I've reused everything I had so

02:52Just again a mixture of

02:55Multi-purpose compost and a little bit of topsoil on here

03:03I'm only going to put one in this pot. There's two pots here

03:13These are

03:16Ten litre pots

03:20Do the two at the one time

03:25And the compost I'm using here is evergreen which is

03:30Seems to have a lot of feed through it. That's very fine great for starting seeds as well

03:37Just really good quality and I think if you're

03:41If you don't know much about compost if you go to the garden centers, the actual garden centers

03:46they tend to sell the best stuff and

03:49It's always reasonably priced as well

03:52You can always ask them there because they're experts

04:00Just mixing in some topsoil now. This is Westland topsoil and there's a lot of

04:08Sand through it. So it's great for drainage

04:10This mixture too will help retain some moisture in the soil as well

04:41Just mixing that through

04:56Now I'll be planting some in the ground along there and trying for the last time but this time I'll

05:02Give them a garlic wash to try and keep the slugs off them and stake them as I was saying

05:07So first things first, I'll get this boy in here. Which one in the pot? I have some behind me here, too. I

05:15Think this boy might be better in the ground. Try this guy

05:23You can see there the root ball is really well advanced here. Desperately

05:31Looking for deeper ground

05:34I'm just teasing them out a wee bit and

05:38Just make a hole here at the bottom

05:41Whoops. Uh-oh, another one bites the dust. That stem's broken as well

05:49They're very brittle

05:56Get that nice some compost in there

06:03To start with, just use these smaller

06:11Supports and just a cable tie type thing. This is a reusable cable tie

06:21And that's already

06:24Feeling a lot more sturdier

06:27So all that needs now is a good watering and that'll go around the front then which is the sunnier part of the garden

06:32So that one's done. Now

06:37The other one I was just showing you, broken

06:40They are so brittle and

06:43I'm just going to pull that off and maybe

06:51I'll throw it in the pot and see if it comes on

06:57Now this one still has a couple of leaves

07:00And that one's broken too

07:02So I'll put these two in the ground. I doubt these will come on now, but I can try them

07:09and

07:10Right. So with this other pot, I'm just gonna

07:14Put a pile of petunias in there

07:22Do a wee bit more

07:29It's now late June in Ireland. I would have had really terrible weather up until the last few days

07:48I was

07:51Away this week at a wedding and then I had the Dairy Journal People of the Year awards

07:58And I was speaking to a few other journalists there, and they were

08:04Saying that they're trying their hand at growing too. It seems to be something more and more people are doing

08:10and

08:12the local council has

08:14an initiative as well where

08:18people can

08:21It's supporting people to grow their own and they also offer free compost

08:27to people made with

08:30brood scraps

08:32taken from recycling bins and garden waste

08:35It's a great initiative

08:38There's a lot of good

08:41Positive, great initiatives happening across the Northwest in Ireland

08:47a lot of pioneering work going on actually

08:50so

08:51Right, that's that one done. So we have four. No, we have one two three. Yeah four and here

08:58Four petunias. Don't know what colors. That's part of the

09:02Part of the crack of doing these things that you don't know what you're getting

09:11I'm just going to do up these last two in this pot

09:15Petunias are actually related to the tobacco plant

09:18They're from South America

09:21But they're very much a garden favorite in this part of the world

09:27Although they're

09:29A pain in the butt they grow from seeds. I'm not sure I would try that again. It's just it takes so long

09:35to do anything

09:38But then they do tend to tick off once you once they're

09:41They lie dormant for a few months. Don't really put on much growth

09:47and then they kind of tick off but

09:50The germination rate wasn't great on them

09:57So from a few hundred seeds, I got maybe a dozen so I don't know if I would do that again

10:11Although definitely saves money

10:17There's no real root on that one so that may die that one

10:27So that's the last of the seed tray ones. There's a few in there that haven't made it

10:35These have been outdoors for quite a few weeks, so they're well used to the elements

10:41So I'll just keep them on like that now

10:45There we go, that's the petunias done in that one

10:50Now these six here, I might actually

10:52Leave them for another day. I'm looking for long pots to put them in, window boxes for this side of the garden

11:02They're okay for now in these

11:04Bigger shells and they're coming on fine. So I'll just leave them for now and then

11:12Apart from that, as you can see behind me, we're starting to get some flowers

11:16And the flower bed here

11:20It's all orange and gold at the moment

11:24So it's been a couple of days now and you can just see here some of the ones that were planted in the ground

11:32Slugs have left them alone so far

11:35I'm really hoping these come on, they're about two foot, two and a half foot now

11:48And we'll just see now if these won't survive. As I say, this is the third time doing it. We're planting these in the ground and

11:58I just don't think I'll claim it

12:00Sunflowers mix that well, so we'll just check it out in the next week or so and see if they establish themselves

Container cottage garden and transplanting seedlings - Gardening with Brendan

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