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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