00:00Good morning from a very overcast day here in Ireland, today I'm going to be planting
00:20some seeds.
00:21It's early mid-July now at the moment and you can plant seeds now for next year.
00:28So here's what we'll be planting today and it's now the second week of July.
00:35First up we have these Canterbury Bells, I have two different suppliers here and they're
00:44both, well one is a double mixed, one is a single mixed cup and saucer mix with this
00:52kind of fringe around the bottom.
00:56I've never grown these before, I have also some wallflowers and these will all flower
01:03next year but we'll get them started now before the winter starts and then they'll die back
01:08but come back all the earlier then next year, hopefully.
01:12These are lupins, more russel mix as well, I have three different packets of hollyhock
01:21here so I'm going to do a wee comparison on them, pheasancy and columbine, agwellia,
01:30so six different types of seeds, get them all in trays now, see how they come on before
01:36the end of summer and as I say then they'll kind of lie dormant or die back and come back
01:43all the earlier in the spring and we'll get some early colour for next year, all being
01:50well.
01:52Some winter pansies and these will bring some colour whenever everything else has gone to
02:01seed.
02:02So first up I've prepared some trays, I'm just finishing this one and better move the
02:07seeds actually so we don't get them wet and I'm just going to water this before I put
02:12the seeds in.
02:14These are single cell trays and these will go for the bigger seeds and I have some other
02:22seed trays prepared there and I'm just using some multi-purpose compost with some feed
02:28on it here and this is meccan and it's, I've had great success with this with germinating
02:35seeds earlier in the year, so it's not a broken way to fix it, so here we go.
02:55Just take that tray out, put the ends to the side and move that up a bit, we're watering
03:03it, I don't want the compost to get wet in the bag, but there we go and doing this just
03:13means that you don't disturb the seeds then, just fill in any wee gaps too.
03:22You can just plop the seeds down and give them a light covering and you're not having
03:27to water them then and scatter them, so right, so that's it, it's a mucky business this.
03:39So first up I think we'll go for the chateaubriand bells and I have two different types here
03:44and I've got little labels too with me, so there's the first one down here and so two
03:58different sort of a cup and saucer mix, single chateaubriand bells and a double mix from
04:06Yorkshire seeds and from Janssen's, so pop these back on, I know these can grow quite
04:16tall so I'm going to open them from the bottom here, so I can keep the instructions on the
04:25intact on the top part and let's just have a look at the seeds here, well they're quite
04:37small so what I'll do is, I'll just show you them, they're very very small, I hope the
04:52camera's picking that up, I'll just check, very very small wee seeds, so I'll put these
05:00in a seed tray for now and then if they do come up I'll pot them on in the bigger pots.
05:11There's quite a lot of them too, so maybe one tray for this whole lot, don't know what
05:26the weather's like where you are but it's been pretty awful here so far this summer,
05:31it's been cold, the grass hasn't really grown, it's been wet, no sign of a heat wave or anything
05:40like that, so there, a light covering now and yep about half a centimeter of soil and the seedlings
05:59should appear according to the packet here within 14 to 28 days, so it could take up to a month,
06:05now so that's one done and I'll just leave these down here, so next up we have the columbine,
06:20so again just tap the seeds open from the bottom and these two are quite fine seeds,
06:34my hands are a bit mucky here so I'll not be able to, oh you might pick them up there,
06:43so what I'm going to do with these, I think we'll pop these in the individual seed trays,
06:55see if anything comes from them, maybe a couple in each and just press them down and cover them
07:03over, they're quite hard to see though, so there's not many in this packet but I have another packet
07:11here, so I'll put some more in over that, that's that one done,
07:42and then look for the others, here they are, I just got these delivered this week,
07:50never tried Yorkshire seeds before, so I thought I'd give them a go, there's a lot more in this one,
08:00yep, somewhere looking, so again just run them down,
08:15I think I'll just randomly scatter them, then what I might do is just give them a
08:33light cover in here as well, just to make sure that there's none stuck on the surface,
08:39and if these do tick then I'll have them for quite a few years,
08:53because they're perennial plants, so that's that done, while we're here we might as well get on
09:05with the next one, which is the, I think we'll go for the wallflowers, so this is Monarch Fairlady,
09:20and this is a hardy biennial, so plant them this year, get flowers next year,
09:31and that fact that they're hardy as well means that they should survive the low temperatures
09:39over the winter, there's quite a lot of seeds you can plant this time of year,
09:50there's a lot of seeds on that, I'll just show you these seeds as well,
09:55like a, a wheat colour, like a golden wheat,
10:01so I'm just gonna throw these over, I haven't read too much on the instructions for any of
10:14these but hopefully it'll be alright, god there's a lot in this, there's a few hundred seeds there,
10:21so, but you're better over sowing than under sowing because not everything survives, so
10:43there we go, that stem's on, they have a little,
10:47and just so I don't get confused, stick that in there, I'd better write a label now for this one,
11:06and that was Columbine,
11:24I always keep the seed packets too just to refer back to in case you
11:29you're wondering how they should be developing, and put these in here,
11:36and we have one more tray here, we'll have a look and see what we've left,
11:53we'll go for the pheasant's eye,
11:58I know nothing about these ones but I did look them up and it says that they're
12:05a wildflower that's
12:09endangered in Ireland,
12:24similar seeds to the last time, slightly bigger, so we put these in,
12:28and put them in here,
12:35so
12:57these are almond seeds, now it says you can plant them
13:00in August, September, October, but I'm doing a little bit early so we'll see how they get on,
13:05and should flower next year as well,
13:10again just a fine layer over the top, make sure they're covered and that's it,
13:23now you're supposed to sow these outdoors straight into the ground but
13:27I find you don't get as much success with a lot of the flowers, and there's other ones too that
13:31they say you can't really grow in trays or anything or indoors, but I haven't found that,
13:36like if nearly everything work okay and will transplant alright if you do it carefully, so
13:43right so that's all of them, keep the packet and write a label,
13:49again
14:08and there we go, and finally I'm just going to give them
14:11again a quick water, and I can't remember did I fall anything in this one,
14:16I don't think I did, so maybe I'll throw something in there too,
14:27maybe I did but sure,
14:36so
14:41put some hollyhock in here, these are country value, there's 40 seeds in this, so
14:46these are a double variety of hollyhock, oops should open them from the bottom again,
14:56looks like it's going to rain so I'm going to get this done before it does,
15:06the hollyhock seeds are like little dusks, I don't know if that's picking up okay, but
15:17right,
15:21so a little bit 20 cells here, so maybe two in each,
15:35so
15:44oh I've thrown that one,
16:06so
16:11a few spares here, so someone's getting three,
16:16maybe the edge ones look the best,
16:20right and again
16:36so finally with the label
16:59and I'm just going to put today's date on it as well 13th of the 7th
17:05of the 7th,
17:08I can't remember what year it was there, so right, I know I planted all these together anyway, so
17:16well that's it now, so I'll just move the compost out of the way a bit,
17:22just get these all watered,
17:23so there we have it, that's some seed planting in July, so if you missed the
17:37sort of February, March, April window for planting flowers for this year,
17:41or there's always loads you can do in the middle of summer for early next year or even next summer,
17:49so that's just a few of the things there that you can do,
17:56and it's always nice to see whenever
18:00the grim days of winter have passed, that things are starting to
18:03appear and you'll have a bit of colour early in the spring, that's grand, that's everything,
18:12some of the seeds will pop up when you water them, so it's worth just going over
18:18and pushing them down.
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