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The Flumps S01E12 What A Carrot!
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00:00The
00:30The vegetables in the Flump's allotment didn't seem to be growing very well.
00:40Father and Grandfather had tried just about everything, but so far nothing had worked.
00:46I can't think what's wrong with the daft things, said Father.
00:50Why won't they grow?
00:53If they don't book up and grow soon, we won't be able to have any vegetable soup.
01:00said Grandfather.
01:02Are you growing vegetable soup? asked Pootle.
01:06I didn't know you could grow vegetable soup.
01:09Oh Pootle, said Grandfather, we're growing the vegetables to make vegetable soup.
01:17I'm getting into quite a tiswaz, wondering what to do to make these vegetables grow big enough to make into soup.
01:25Pootle looked around for the tiswaz that Father was going to get into.
01:30What's a tiswaz? Is that something you grow or something you make?
01:35Oh Pootle, getting into a tiswaz means you're getting bothered about something.
01:42Oh.
01:43Well, let's stop being bothered for a while and go and have our elevenses.
01:49Good idea, said Father.
01:52A slice of seed cake, everyone. Don't you want it, Pootle?
01:57If I planted it, would it grow into a seed cake tree?
02:02Oh Pootle, said Mother Flump. Of course it wouldn't.
02:06Pootle thought we were growing vegetable soup and tiswaz is.
02:10Sounds like Uncle Weatherby, said Mother Flump.
02:13Who was Uncle Weatherby? asked Pootle.
02:16Uncle Weatherby was a very good gardener.
02:19But he always wanted to grow plants that could never be.
02:22What sort of things?
02:25Why, he wrote a poem in the book about the sort of garden he wanted.
02:31Read it out to us, Mother Flump.
02:34Well, Uncle Weatherby wanted a very unusual garden.
02:45Listen to this.
02:47Have you ever heard a sunflower sing?
02:50Ever seen string beans that really go string?
02:54Don't tell me there's no such thing.
02:56I've seen it in Weatherby's garden.
02:59Have you ever heard a raspberry blow?
03:02Ever seen a snowdrop that really drops snow?
03:06Don't tell me that these can't grow.
03:09I've seen them in Weatherby's garden.
03:12Have you ever heard a bluebell ring?
03:15Ever seen spring onions that really do spring?
03:19Don't tell me there's no such thing.
03:21I've seen them in Weatherby's garden.
03:24It's a wonderful garden where the sky's always blue
03:29and the roses have noses so they can smell you.
03:33I don't know how he grows it, but I know it's true.
03:38I've seen it all in Weatherby's garden.
03:42If I had a Weatherby garden, said Pootle, I'd have jelly sandwich bushes and seed cake trees and flumpet flowers and...
03:53And vegetables that grow properly, said Father.
03:57Wait a more, said Grandfather.
04:00Didn't Old Weatherby write a gardening book?
04:04That's right.
04:06Yes, here it is.
04:12There's all sorts of gardening tips in here.
04:21Hmm.
04:22Vegetables that won't grow.
04:25Page 21.
04:27Perkin and Posey were out in the allotment, wondering why the vegetables weren't growing.
04:34Hello, said Pootle.
04:37I wonder what's up with the vegetables then.
04:40Perhaps they've forgotten how to grow, said Posey.
04:43Hmm.
04:44Maybe if we reminded them they'd remember.
04:47That's silly.
04:49You don't have to tell plants how to grow.
04:53They just do it.
04:55But they aren't just doing it, are they?
04:58Come on, Perkin.
05:00Let's try telling them how to grow.
05:02It might work.
05:04It won't.
05:06Don't be daft.
05:07It might.
05:08No, it won't.
05:10It might?
05:12Oh, alright then.
05:15Come on.
05:17Well, first of all, you're a little seed in the ground, and then the rain rains, and...
05:24What are you doing, Pootle?
05:26I'm being a little seed.
05:27Now, er...
05:28Listen, er...
05:29You vegetables.
05:30What's the matter?
05:31Oh, I feel daft talking to plants.
05:32No, it's not.
05:33Go on, try.
05:34Oh, alright then.
05:35Well, er...
05:36First of all, you're a little seed in the ground, and then the rain rains, and...
05:42What are you doing, Pootle?
05:45I'm being the rain.
05:48Oh, well, erm...
05:51The rain rains, and the sun shines, and...
05:56Now, what are you doing?
05:59I'm being the sun, of course.
06:02Well, erm, the rain rains, and the sun shines, and the plant grows.
06:08There.
06:09I've told them how to grow.
06:12Has it done any good?
06:14Well, no.
06:17There you are.
06:19I told you it wouldn't work.
06:20I knew it wouldn't work.
06:21I said it wouldn't work.
06:23Let's go in, and see if Father and Grandfather have found out how to make the vegetables grow.
06:32It's all here, in Weatherby's book, said Grandfather.
06:38Our vegetables have got the blight.
06:41That's why they won't grow.
06:43Does the book tell you how to make the blight go away?
06:46Indeed it does, Pootle.
06:50Just you listen to this.
06:52If the cabbages are grotty, and the radishes aren't right, and all the beans are on the blink,
07:05they've got the dreaded blight.
07:10But the cure for blight is simple.
07:15It's easy when you know.
07:17If you water plants with right the blight, the dreaded blight will go.
07:24If the lattices are a letdown, and the beetroots have turned white, and the cucumbers are curly,
07:36then they've got the dreaded blight.
07:40But the cure for blight is simple.
07:43It's easy when you know.
07:45If you water plants with right the blight, the dreaded blight will go.
07:50If the mushrooms just won't mushroom, and tomatoes won't grow ripe, and the onions have got bunions,
08:04they've got the dreaded blight.
08:08But the cure for blight is simple.
08:12It's easy when you know.
08:13If you water plants with right the blight, the dreaded blight will go.
08:17The cure for blight is simple.
08:18It's easy when you know.
08:19If you water plants with right the blight, the dreaded blight will go.
08:24Why, the blight's gone.
08:28Just look at these vegetables.
08:31Perfect parsnips, crispy cabbages, and the biggest beans we've ever had.
08:38How about that then?
08:40Well, we won't be short of vegetable soup, will we, Father?
08:45But what about the carrots?
08:47They don't look very good.
08:49In fact, they haven't improved at all.
08:52Ah, well, the carrots are a bit of a come down.
08:56They haven't come up, you see.
08:59The mixture didn't seem to work for them.
09:02I did think I'd try some of my own growing mixture.
09:06You know, Mother, the stuff I invented last year.
09:09But that didn't work on anything when you tried it before, said Mother.
09:14It did, said Perkin.
09:16It made the weeds grow.
09:18Oh, well, that was because I didn't get the mixture quite right.
09:23I've improved it now that I've read Weatherby's book.
09:26I've made some up, so why don't I try it on one carrot and we'll see what happens.
09:32Poodle, Perkin and Posey had almost forgotten about the carrot as the days passed by.
09:39But one day, as they sat on the wall by the allotment watching Father at work below,
09:45Poodle suddenly looked up and said,
09:49How's that carrot, Father Flump?
09:52Has it come up?
09:54Bet it hasn't.
09:56It's probably just the same.
09:58Well, why don't we pull it up and see, said Father.
10:02As I was the first one to remember the carrot, can I pull it up?
10:07Come on then, said Father.
10:09Come down and pull.
10:11Poodle pulled and tugged and tugged and pulled.
10:16But the carrot wouldn't move.
10:19Caw!
10:20This is a very strong carrot.
10:23Oh, go on, said Perkin.
10:26Carrots aren't strong.
10:28Not stronger than me anyway.
10:29Stand aside.
10:31I'll soon have that carrot pulled up.
10:34So Perkin pulled and tugged and tugged and pulled.
10:39And he couldn't budge the carrot either.
10:43Phew!
10:44That is a strong carrot.
10:47Let's all pull together, said Posey.
10:50I'll lend a hand too.
10:52Come on, everyone.
10:54Pull!
10:56And they did pull.
10:59They pulled as hard as they could.
11:02But even with Father Flump helping, they couldn't budge the carrot.
11:06Well, this is a turnip, said Father.
11:12It's not a turnip, it's a carrot.
11:15Oh, Poodle, I said turn up, not turnip.
11:20Do you need some help, said Grandfather?
11:24It's this carrot.
11:26It just won't budge.
11:28A carrot?
11:30You can't budge a carrot.
11:32Whatever next?
11:34Come on then.
11:35All away.
11:37They all pulled and pulled.
11:41And then they pulled some more.
11:43But still the carrot wouldn't budge.
11:46Eh?
11:48What kind of a carrot is it?
11:51Look, here's Mother.
11:53Can you help us pull this carrot up, please, Mother Flump?
11:56Of course I'll help.
11:57So Poodle pulled the carrot.
12:00Perkin pulled Poodle.
12:02Posey pulled Perkin.
12:04Father pulled Posey.
12:06Grandfather pulled Father.
12:08And Mother pulled Grandfather.
12:10They all pulled and tugged and tugged and pulled.
12:15And suddenly...
12:17Wow, said Perkin.
12:21I don't believe it.
12:24Well, that is a turnip, said Father.
12:28My mixture has worked.
12:31No wonder it was hard to budge.
12:35What a carrot!
12:38Time is ready!
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