00:00This week we're going to look at winter planting for some colour over the winter and just to keep
00:22things on the ground as well. So here we've got some seedlings of pansies at the back. Pansies
00:28quite like they're cold. So they're planted in there and here we have some alisum. This is not
00:36the white alisum but a mixture of colours so there will be some white, some blue, some yellow, some purpley,
00:44mylick. And if we go in the back, as you can see here we have a lot of plants that need to go underground.
00:51These are papies, these are oriental papies which are very cold tolerant. These are perennial sweet pea
00:57that needs to go on too. The slugs were eating them when they got near them in the pots. So
01:02I'm kind of leaving them for a little bit, until they grow up a bit. Here we have some larkspur,
01:08type of delphinium or relative of delphinium. And then we've got a pile of different crops. This is
01:18radish and this is brussel sprouts. We've got some green beans here as well they go on. So it's fixed
01:29nitrogen in the soil because the brassicas take it out of the soil. We've got a tray of radishes all
01:37grown from seed where they go on. And then we've got some swiss chard as well. So these are great ones.
01:45You can see the different colours there on the stems. You get all different colours. This is a rainbow
01:51swiss chard. So you get like an orangey one there. You get yellow, you get green and you get red and
01:59pink. So really nice butter colour on them. So what I've been doing is
02:07you can see up here planting all those on the ground and just to give them a chance to come
02:18on before the winter hits and then they'll just go dormant. But that means there's always something,
02:23some ground cover, a step of weeds coming up and also just to prevent bare soil during the winter.
02:29And there's probably about 50 different types of little plugs that have been growing from seed in
02:39there at the moment. And there's a lot more to go on too. So there'll be a lot of vegetables in there
02:48on the spring. And then next week I'll get the onions and garlic.
02:53So I'll just have a look at what else is coming on. This is Echinacea grown from seed. Quite a slow grower
03:02because it's perennial. And then this is Canterbury Bellas grown from seed.
03:11These again are slow grower but they're biennial. They're in no rush because they won't flower.
03:15They might not even flower next year because they're so small. But if they come on now over the next few
03:21weeks I'll get them in the ground or in pots. Here we have some Rebecca's. Different types of Rebecca.
03:33Again quite slow growing.
03:34I'm going to try and get them into the ground or in the pots for the winter sets in. And these are
03:46two things that I dug out. This is a geranium and these geraniums are not hardy. So this was in the
04:00ground and so was the red one over here. These were grown from seed at the very start of last year.
04:07See how big they got. So I took cuttons off them as well where they were on the ground.
04:13There's one for that one and there's one for this one with a flower ball already on it. But they took
04:17really well. So I could have taken more of this but I want to bring them indoors for the winter.
04:22And here we have some rosemary. It's been repotted. Beautiful smell. That could go on the ground but
04:33we'll see. Here's another one too. It's a different color to that one. Those were all seed grown last
04:40year. Over here we have a lot as well. So we have more pappies. We have a pile of oriental pappies here.
04:48We have, let's just see what that is. Wallflowers. They will need to get under around two.
04:58Another very hardy plants. This is all hardy plants like Sweet William can go on there. And this is
05:07blue fescue grass. These are the blue scabias. These are seeds from the blue scabias. See the
05:15but it's low damage there. So we'll be removing from there. And here we've got all some young
05:22calendula in pots. As well as some more of the
05:28planties and they always have more pappies. This is some yarrow that can go on. Another hardy one.
05:35This is a hardy perennial. So that can go on the ground. There's so much here that
05:40and these are snapdragons. Another really tough plant that
05:48I'll probably put those in pots and a few in the ground. Don't have as many.
05:53I've grown some dwarf ones and some big ones as well. More pappies here.
05:59The pappies are brilliant. They're so resilient and they just, the oriental pappies I think.
06:10They just, they can handle frost absolutely no problem. Some peas here. Some runner beans as well.
06:20Some perennial sweet pea which I've never seen before. I got them in two yarns in England.
06:26Sierra ravenseeds. So I'm just going to put them up along the back of the fence and hope they see
06:34them come up. We have more pansies here. More pansies there. In the back here what have we got?
06:40We have wallflowers. Sorry not wallflowers. Cornflowers. Some more cornflowers. I planted about
06:4850 cornflowers yesterday. There's even more and there's even more in here too. And these are brilliant.
06:55These will push out and they'll keep their leaves over the winter and then spring up from the late
07:02spring. The winter sown ones I did last year were absolutely amazing compared to the spring summer
07:08ones or spring sown ones because they were just so resilient. They had had that whole year to grow
07:15grow and they popped up and they there's, they've only now stopped flowering. So that's incredible.
07:22Like so they've flowered from late May right through the end of September and they just have the most
07:29stunning blue display especially if you mass plant them and over plant them like very close to each
07:36other because they'll just keep each other upright as well. So that's mostly everything but today I'm
07:45going to be getting more of the vegetables on the ground because they really need that period now
07:52they establish their roots and then we'll look at maybe doing pots over the next few weeks and getting
07:58the some of my flowers in those and some of my flowers in the ground too. So let's go now and plant some pots or plant some vegetables.
08:09So as you can see here these are the radishes and these are the swiss chard and I've already planted
08:23yesterday a pile of Brussels sprouts and cornflowers and what else to put in there. There's some swiss chard
08:33on there too and the pile of poppers but so much more they put on the ground. Some of these are made
08:40trying pots as well. So and I'm just planting on amongst the flowers that are you can see there the roots
08:52on these little swiss chard. I don't know if that's picking up but you can see the red stem on it so that
09:00one will be a red one and I'm just tightly packing these on because not not everything will survive
09:06the winter there's a root and see these old dead plants these root things I just leave them on the
09:12ground they decay and they'll feed the soil so and any weeds too that you're chopping up you can just
09:18just munch them back on and stick a few radishes around the place these will grow very tall and
09:31they have nice flowers as well on them so and this is more for ground cover not because I like radishes so
09:38much but if you're looking for things that you can eat almost any time of the year radish is a good shout
09:53very hardy as well
09:54and these will get up to about five six feet
10:12and just when you're planting these
10:13you can see the tiny little radish there forming
10:22in the hopefully the camera's picking it up so you want to just plant them at that depth
10:28because you'll know from beetroot and radishes is that the actual
10:34edible part
10:37will stick out of the ground
10:39at the top
10:43there's no real nightmare no reason to what i'm doing i'm just let it out
11:06but under planting everything
11:07there's a better method than that in terms of like the vegetables that you do want to get pollinated and
11:17that
11:20putting the poppers and cornflowers on through them when they started grooming the spring
11:26they will attract them in the pollinators
11:28they will not to step on
11:45the radishes are one of the easiest things to grow
11:53they are actively and they will not turn into a lot of work
11:58but keep up theria...
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