The last of the spring seedlings getting transplanted into pots in early summer in Ireland.
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00:00Hello again, the sun's out today so that would get some transplanting done. We only have
00:25a few things left here now to transplant in the garden. These big things beside me are
00:32giant sunflowers, they're in very small pots so I'm going to plant some of them in the
00:36ground and some of them in bigger pots. This is the third attempt at planting them in the
00:41ground, the wind snapped some of them so I'm going to stake them and as long as I get the
00:46rest of them. I had a wee casualty here moving one today so I'll stick that in the ground,
00:52pull off the lower leaves and see if it comes on. And I'm also transplanting, these were grown
00:59from seed planted late March and these are giant Mexican sunflowers, they're edible the flowers on
01:06them, supposed to have big giant heads. These are petunias, new wave variety I think, can't
01:15remember the exact name but they're different to the ones I grew earlier in the summer which
01:19are already flowering, earlier in the spring and these are now coming along great. Some of them
01:27have been transplanted up into these six cell and some of them are still in the re-seed trays so get them in
01:35bigger pots today and hopefully they'll take off now with a little bit of heat. We'll see them flowering
01:41soon. First up I am going to transplant, now these containers aren't really big enough for them so
01:50I'll leave them for the petunias, go with these giant ones that I bought, picked up in dairy in
01:58the garden, sent there yesterday because I've run out of pots, I've reused everything I had so
02:04just again a mixture of multi-purpose compost and a little bit of topsoil in here.
02:18I'm only going to put one in this pot, there's two pots here
02:27and these are
02:2910 litre pots so I'll just do the two at the one time.
02:39The compost I'm using here is evergreen which seems to have a lot of feed through it, it's very fine, great for starting seeds as well.
02:48Just really good quality and I think if you're,
02:56if you don't know much about compost, if you go to the garden centres,
02:59the actual garden centres, they tend to sell the best stuff and it's always reasonably priced as well.
03:08You can always ask them there because they're experts.
03:10Just mixing in some topsoil now, this is Westland topsoil and there's a lot of
03:23sand through it so it's great for drainage.
03:25So this mixture too will help retain some moisture in the soil as well.
03:55Just mixing that through.
04:11Now I'll be planting some in the ground along there and trying for the last time
04:15but this time I'll give them a garlic wash to try and keep the slugs off them
04:19and stake them as I was saying. So first things first, I'll get this boy, which one in the pot?
04:26I have some behind me here too, I think this boy might be better in the ground, try this guy.
04:35So you can see there the root ball is really well advanced here, I'm desperately
04:45looking for deeper ground, just teasing him out a wee bit and just make a hole here at the bottom.
04:55Whoops, uh-oh, another one bites the dust, that stem's broken as well.
05:03They're very brittle, our fish.
05:05Look at that now, some compost in there.
05:11To start with, just use these smaller
05:19supports, just a cable tie type thing, this is a reusable cable tie.
05:28That's already feeling a lot more sturdier, so all that needs now is a good watering
05:35and that'll go around the front then, which is the sunnier part of the garden. So that one's done.
05:41Now, the other one I was just showing you, broken, they are so brittle and
05:49I'm just going to pull that off and maybe
05:56I'll throw it in the pot and see if it comes on.
06:02Now this one still has a couple of leaves, that one's broken too, so I've put these in the ground
06:10I doubt these will come on now, but I can try them and right, so with this other pot I'm just going to
06:18put a pile of petunias in there.
06:25Could do with a wee bit more.
06:28It's now late June in Ireland, I would have had a little bit more time to do this, but
06:37I'm just going to put a pile of petunias in there.
06:41It's now late June in Ireland, I would have had really terrible weather up until the last few days.
07:03I was away this week at a wedding and then I had the Dairy Journal People of the Year awards
07:14and I was speaking to a few other journalists there and they were saying that they're trying
07:20their hand at growing too. It seems to be something more and more people are doing.
07:24And the local council has an initiative as well where people can, it's supporting people to grow their own
07:39and they also offer free compost to people made with fruit scraps taken from recycling bins and
07:48garden waste. It's a great initiative, we have a lot of good positive, great initiatives happening
07:59across the North West in Ireland, a lot of pioneering work going on actually.
08:05So right, that's that one done, so we have four, no we have one, two, three, yeah four and here
08:12four petunias. I don't know what colours, that's part of the
08:17part of the crack of doing these things that you don't know what you're getting.
08:26So I'm just going to do up these last two in this pot.
08:29Petunias are actually really the tobacco plant, they're from South America
08:36but they're very much a garden favourite in this part of the world.
08:42Although they're a pain in the butt, they grow from seeds. I'm not sure I would try that again,
08:47it just, it takes so long to do anything. But then they do tend to tick off once they're,
08:56they lie dormant for a few months, don't really put on much growth
09:02and then they kind of tick off but the germination rate wasn't great on them.
09:11So from a few hundred seeds I got maybe a dozen, so I don't know if I would do that again.
09:26Although definitely saves money.
09:32There's no real root on that one, so that made out of that one, this one.
09:42So that's the last of the seed tray ones, there's a few in there that haven't made it.
09:50These have been outdoors for quite a few weeks so they're well used to the elements.
09:56So I'll just keep them on like that now.
10:00There we go, that's the petunias done in that one. Now these six here, I might actually
10:07leave them for another day. I'm looking for long pots to put them in,
10:11window boxes for this side of the garden.
10:17They're okay for now in these bigger cells and they're coming on fine, so I'll just leave them
10:23for now. And then apart from that, as you can see behind me, we're starting to get some flowers
10:30in the flower bed here. It's all, it's an orange and gold show at the moment.
10:39So it's been a couple of days now and you can just see here
10:42some of the ones that were planted in the ground.
10:47Slugs have left them alone so far.
10:49I'm really hoping these come on, they're about two foot, two and a half foot now.
11:08And we'll just see now if these won't survive. As I say this is the third time doing it,
11:13we're planting these in the ground and I just don't think I'll claim it.
11:22Some flowers mix that well, so we'll just check,
11:25check it out in the next week or so and see if they establish themselves.
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