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The clocks have gone back and as well as ushering in the dark nights, it also signal that the time has come for one of the final gardening jobs before winter arrives - planting out garlic cloves and onion sets for harvest next summer.

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00:00So this week as promised we're going to be planting some onions in Giardic and I'll just

00:23show you some of the, so I've had planned to do this outdoors but the weather's been

00:28horrible out there so just take it in because I'm going to do some in big pots this is a good

00:33depth this pot here and I'll put some in the ground as well but just not today.

00:43So I'll just show you this is some of the garlic and the onion sets that we're going to be planting

00:50out and these little things will all they'll not mature until next summer

01:00or early maybe late spring early summer and this is just some of the

01:07pumpkin type squashes that I grew and I thought they were quite cool for Halloween so I might just

01:15try and cure them on this one or cook them or something for our Halloween but pretty cool

01:21first time growing squash this year and and this pot this is composted I grew tomatoes in and I've just

01:29refreshed it with a bit of new stuff as well because a lot of nutrients will be

01:34used up in it and then I'll put a handful of fertilizer in there too

01:38not too much and then we'll get started now I've just mixed on some fertilizer here now and what

01:46we're going to do now is just talk a wee bit about the humble garlic bulb now this is a soft neck

01:52there's two types of garlic you would get for planting out a soft neck and a hard neck

01:57a hard neck the stems will stay on up right these will be up up right down there that can fall over and

02:03stuff and some people say that's when they're ready for use now anything I learned about doing this

02:09I learned from a course that I did there a few weeks back with Spragus Sport and it was a free course

02:16just down at the garden center there and it was all about planting onion and garlics and that's where

02:20I actually bought these as well in the garden center and one of the things is if you were to take a

02:26one of the things they told us if you to take a garlic bulb you bought in the supermarket they're

02:32actually not going to be as productive or productive at all because they are radiated

02:39to stop them respouting and so you really if you're going to grow garlic you're far better off

02:46going to your garden center and getting actual garlic that's there that's not been treated with anything

02:52and that's designed to be planting out

02:54so each of these cloves will become a garlic bulb in its own right but the process takes about eight

03:13nine months maybe so not until these won't be ready until next summer basically so but it's important to

03:20get them in the ground now to give them sufficient time to get established and then get the roots in the ground

03:31you know there's obviously there's probably around 20 cloves on here so every clove and i've got

03:36three bulbs will become a bulb of garlic so you're going to have quite a lot of garlic and for a small

03:44investment same with the onions too you know they're not they're relatively inexpensive this is a

03:53this is the full bag of onions i got in the month there's a 60 in it and they are

04:00all different varieties for looks it for growing out or else they're just different shapes and sizes but

04:13so you're going to have it is cost effective because i know garlic and

04:18onions aren't the most expensive vegetables but you're growing your own and they're going to be fresh

04:24and see this peppery stuff too you just leave that on so and it just helps to protect it so we'll just

04:31go over now and plant one before we do just spacing wise for garlic um there's actually more of the

04:39millions even though they're smaller so maybe every 15 centimeters so like a small roller you would have had

04:47no that's probably not 15 centimeters but and then maybe do

05:00two rows of garlic and one of onions in here that's as much as you would get in here

05:09so then we'll just mark out for the onions now too

05:17they can be around 10 centimeters apart they're not don't need as much space as the garlic

05:31um so we're just going to plop these in here now so

05:36just take your clove make sure it's the right way up so obviously the one with the

05:47wee bit of root at the bottom here

05:53will go downways and you just want to make sure it's maybe

06:01just about there now and then you can protect these as well in case the birds think they're

06:11worms when they start coming up so one

06:19two

06:19and again just with the onions here you can see here most of them on here at the back

06:32the garlic's all set as well now they're not buried very deep

06:40and just so the roots at the bottom and just push them down

06:44basically there just firm them on and then all i'm going to do with all of these is just cover them lightly

07:02so either at surface level or just below and the garlic a slightly deeper

07:09but only you're talking millimeters so that's that is the whole thing done

07:22and obviously you can use whatever you like for

07:27growing the garlic it smells really strong already and i'm just gonna

07:30put the remaining

07:37kind of like plant material just over the top that'll just decompose quite quickly

07:43help to feed the sword as well and then all that's left to do is just water them on

07:49and as i say the other two garlic cloves here will

07:53go into the garden itself you can use a raised bed anything at all

08:03one of the things i have here as well that i only put some of the onions on

08:07it is

08:09this

08:11which you can pick up in the point shops and all they're just like a cloth

08:15growing bag and they're very useful um i have grown

08:20vegetables in this twice last year so and it's still grand you just keep it dry

08:27after you use it but it's permeable you can get the water can get through

08:31and so

08:33and there's all sorts that will go on there

08:37and now all the remains to be done with this one is just water it and leave it

08:44to fame for itself over the winter and that's everything till next week and next week what

08:57we're going to do is look at some the last seed sowing of the year for me which is sweet pea you

09:04can see a few here there's a few more outside that have sprouted already as well so and we're

09:10going to look at the difference between perennial peas or everlasting pea flower like which is

09:18another variety that's similar to sweet pea has the same nice flowers but it comes back every year

09:26but it is also can be a bit of a thug in the garden but look at that i've been sowing that as well

09:31and that's been growing fine so we'll have a look at both of them

09:35um but for now i'll just leave you with a pumpkin squash and say happy halloween

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