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I'm signing off for the year with a round-up of what I am growing for spring 2025 and I also check out how the winter sowing method performed on some different poppies, calendula and spring onions one month on with some very impressive results.

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00:00So it's the final episode of the season and we're now in November so I thought I would

00:20just today do a wee tour of the things that I've been planting for spring and give you

00:25an update as well on just the milk curtains where I'd sowed the seeds. There's been quite

00:32a lot of germination on them so we'll maybe be opening one of them today as well. So let's

00:38get to it. I just want to say thanks as well for sticking with me for those of you that

00:43have watched the videos throughout and read the column as well on the paper. We'll be

00:49back in the spring, hopefully they do it all over again next year. Hopefully if everybody

00:56is still here. So as you can see here there's some winter pansies that I grew from seed

01:02during the summer that are starting to come up now. I noticed a few greenfly on them yesterday

01:10so I'll have to squirt them with water to get them off it. Some more. These ones all

01:19came out quite dark except for this white one. Just a mixed bag of seeds. And over here

01:27I've got some condo bells and some baby spreath on that pot. Chinese lanterns on there which are

01:39perennial but they probably won't create the wee orange type lanterns. It turns yellow around the

01:48time of Halloween until next year. They'll just go on over everything else. Cosmos. These are

01:56alpine strawberries on here. So they were sown back in the early summer and it's more Columbo

02:07bells. Honesty. This Cosmos has a lot of heads on it still so I'm just gonna leave it here.

02:14Right. There are a lot more young plants. Some Columbine or Arcolegia down here. Here's some more winter pansies. This up here is

02:33Icelandic poppies which just self-seeded and now there's a couple ready to open again even though

02:45they're normally a spring plant, a spring flowering plant. This just goes to show how mild it has been.

02:54So everything's coming on quite well because of the mildness and these are some wallflowers just

03:02down here at the bottom. Potted up while I was in the ground. Some more petunias. Petunias November. I would have thought that.

03:16And here also for winter now are leftover

03:22Canterbury Bells. These are baby lavenders that I'm just gonna leave on here.

03:28And down at the bottom some rosemary. Over here more Canterbury Bells at the back. More rosemary up here and down here.

03:42These are more Chinese lanterns and then over here we have extra hollyhock that these were the last

03:52batch that I planted and some more there as well and these little guys are garlic chives which are

04:00coming along quite well. So I need to get them maybe potted up as well and just in terms of

04:12what's in the ground here the pheasancy which are these almost carrot plant like

04:21foliage. These are all things that I'm hoping will come up in the spring and amongst them are many

04:27cornflowers and then at the along the edge here we have forget-me-nots. All these we've grown from

04:34seed throughout this year. Behind them then we have some tiny baby sweetwilliam that are in the ground and then

04:46around them are some much more mature sweetwilliam which were planted

04:51way back early summer and being a biennial they'll not flower till next year. I'm hoping to get the

04:58small ones up as well and then amongst them are self-seeded calendula popping up already

05:05and then to the back of them we have some columbine, acrylidia and then a bit of lavender

05:17here and there. These are all quite small plants but I'm hoping they'll take off now over

05:23before the winter to get well established and then take off again in the spring. They'll probably die

05:27back over the winter but I want them to kind of cover the ground before the seeds do. And here there's a lot more

05:40caterpie bells and at the back I've planted some new hollyhock and some new delphiniums.

05:49But as you can see here we still have a lot of plasmids growing

05:59and also some gladiola and there's even a few sweet pea and it's now November so

06:10pretty interesting and there's still some hollyhock flowers coming up as well.

06:19There's even a lupine

06:29I've seen yellow lupine and probably the last marigold or the last calendula. Some more of the cosmos

06:43ah here's another calendula actually

06:45so it's been so mild that things are still growing which is kind of baffling really

06:56and here I've planted, I've just thrown a bunch of seeds in

07:00and I hope that they come up including spring onion, parsnips and these are all little radishes and

07:08some allicin flowers which are on their second round of flowering.

07:16Along the back here I've just planted loads of different things, foxgloves,

07:21caterpie bells, eucalyptus, just all sorts of things.

07:31I'm hoping for a decent display here there's a lot of seaweed in this patch

07:37and new compost laid down but we'll see, we'll see what comes out of it.

07:44There's also some more pheasants, just the leftovers there too

07:50and that is all for that part and I'll just take you down here now

07:57I'm more or less right up here in the garden but the last thing I'm going to do, so this is the

08:07that is the seaweed compost soup that we made, or the seaweed soup fertilizer and it's thick

08:17like a jelly but we'll maybe do a wee demo of that in a wee while. Here more cottons,

08:24I can't get over how well these are flowering like the last two months, there's the potatoes

08:29and more rosemary, more radishes, more strawberries

08:37and our cosmos, feels like I've been waiting for things to die back for a long time but they're not

08:44really dying back. You see there's even some pansies here that are still flowering from the spring

08:52and the hydrangea is still going as well with the lemon balm in there

09:11you can feel one that's approaching but it's taking its time and the last thing I did want

09:17to show you today was, if you remember about it, it's about a month ago now that I did this

09:22but I sold some things in milk containers, milk jugs and this is for an overwintering technique

09:33and here are the results and we'll probably open one or two of them today

09:39so on here you can see that's the Caligula, so that's the four of them there

09:44and four weeks later we already have germination, these act like mini greenhouses

09:52and and here the poppies have been amazing results so I'll just show you

10:00if you can get a proper focus in there you can see all the different, that's the Icelandic poppies

10:09all sorts of them in there, there must be a few dozen germinated

10:17even better again is the other poppies which are

10:23there's a massive amount of them in there so I am going to open these and put these in the ground

10:27actually and even this one which is the spring onions which I had great hopes for

10:34is doing really well so I haven't done anything to them for a month

10:40they just got whatever water came from the sky, just rainwater and this keeps them warm

10:48in their little pots and it's just brilliant to see that it actually works so no frost just method

10:57of planting over water, I've just been opening them here to see the results now normally you

11:03wouldn't open these until the early spring but because it's been so mild and because I'm planting

11:09them you would normally plant these maybe late November, December, January even early February

11:16and then leave them just to the elements, these act like mini greenhouses

11:21if you saw that video where we we sowed them

11:25that was now a month ago because I was off for holidays there for two weeks and I'm just

11:33I'll just show you all the results up close now, this is the last

11:37one I've already opened these other three so I'm just taking off the

11:41the waterproof tape here from around the milk jugs

11:53and I'll reuse these now for other ones

12:00but I just want to, I can't believe the results on these are actually amazing in a space of four weeks

12:11but as I say it's been extremely mild here in Ireland, it's now early November and this one

12:19is the, oh these are the oriental poppies you just look in there so

12:32what's it catching that? So there's possibly about a hundred in there that have all germinated and

12:40these are seeds that I collected from the plants that I had that are now, were just here behind me

12:48and that's an amazing result and here we have the spring onions that I planted

12:55just that I sowed and there's still more coming up there so I'm going to get them under the

13:01raised bed but all four have germinated

13:05and here we have five calendula that have germinated as well

13:15and last we have the Icelandic poppies too so just shows you having some fresh seeds

13:25has been amazing and what I have here is some of the seaweed compost or seaweed

13:33keep calling it compost, seaweed fertilizer that we made a few weeks ago just from seaweed collected

13:41dead seaweed collected at the beach and put in a big bucket with water just and left for about a

13:47month and you can see there this orangey color but full of nutrients full of good stuff for the plants

13:53so just dilute that in water and water into the plants so

14:02very chuffed with those results and be great now to get these into the ground

14:09because these are all, well I'm not sure about the spring onions but I know the two types of

14:14poppies and the calendula are hardy so they should survive even a late frost or something like that so

14:20that's a whole pile of additional plants now for the spring and

14:31free as well because I had the seeds already so that's everything okay

14:50you

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