I'm signing off for the year with a round-up of what I am growing for spring 2025 and I also check out how the winter sowing method performed on some different poppies, calendula and spring onions one month on with some very impressive results.
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00:00So it's the final episode of the season and we're now in November so I thought I would
00:20just today do a wee tour of the things that I've been planting for spring and give you
00:25an update as well on just the milk curtains where I'd sowed the seeds. There's been quite
00:32a lot of germination on them so we'll maybe be opening one of them today as well. So let's
00:38get to it. I just want to say thanks as well for sticking with me for those of you that
00:43have watched the videos throughout and read the column as well on the paper. We'll be
00:49back in the spring, hopefully they do it all over again next year. Hopefully if everybody
00:56is still here. So as you can see here there's some winter pansies that I grew from seed
01:02during the summer that are starting to come up now. I noticed a few greenfly on them yesterday
01:10so I'll have to squirt them with water to get them off it. Some more. These ones all
01:19came out quite dark except for this white one. Just a mixed bag of seeds. And over here
01:27I've got some condo bells and some baby spreath on that pot. Chinese lanterns on there which are
01:39perennial but they probably won't create the wee orange type lanterns. It turns yellow around the
01:48time of Halloween until next year. They'll just go on over everything else. Cosmos. These are
01:56alpine strawberries on here. So they were sown back in the early summer and it's more Columbo
02:07bells. Honesty. This Cosmos has a lot of heads on it still so I'm just gonna leave it here.
02:14Right. There are a lot more young plants. Some Columbine or Arcolegia down here. Here's some more winter pansies. This up here is
02:33Icelandic poppies which just self-seeded and now there's a couple ready to open again even though
02:45they're normally a spring plant, a spring flowering plant. This just goes to show how mild it has been.
02:54So everything's coming on quite well because of the mildness and these are some wallflowers just
03:02down here at the bottom. Potted up while I was in the ground. Some more petunias. Petunias November. I would have thought that.
03:16And here also for winter now are leftover
03:22Canterbury Bells. These are baby lavenders that I'm just gonna leave on here.
03:28And down at the bottom some rosemary. Over here more Canterbury Bells at the back. More rosemary up here and down here.
03:42These are more Chinese lanterns and then over here we have extra hollyhock that these were the last
03:52batch that I planted and some more there as well and these little guys are garlic chives which are
04:00coming along quite well. So I need to get them maybe potted up as well and just in terms of
04:12what's in the ground here the pheasancy which are these almost carrot plant like
04:21foliage. These are all things that I'm hoping will come up in the spring and amongst them are many
04:27cornflowers and then at the along the edge here we have forget-me-nots. All these we've grown from
04:34seed throughout this year. Behind them then we have some tiny baby sweetwilliam that are in the ground and then
04:46around them are some much more mature sweetwilliam which were planted
04:51way back early summer and being a biennial they'll not flower till next year. I'm hoping to get the
04:58small ones up as well and then amongst them are self-seeded calendula popping up already
05:05and then to the back of them we have some columbine, acrylidia and then a bit of lavender
05:17here and there. These are all quite small plants but I'm hoping they'll take off now over
05:23before the winter to get well established and then take off again in the spring. They'll probably die
05:27back over the winter but I want them to kind of cover the ground before the seeds do. And here there's a lot more
05:40caterpie bells and at the back I've planted some new hollyhock and some new delphiniums.
05:49But as you can see here we still have a lot of plasmids growing
05:59and also some gladiola and there's even a few sweet pea and it's now November so
06:10pretty interesting and there's still some hollyhock flowers coming up as well.
06:19There's even a lupine
06:29I've seen yellow lupine and probably the last marigold or the last calendula. Some more of the cosmos
06:43ah here's another calendula actually
06:45so it's been so mild that things are still growing which is kind of baffling really
06:56and here I've planted, I've just thrown a bunch of seeds in
07:00and I hope that they come up including spring onion, parsnips and these are all little radishes and
07:08some allicin flowers which are on their second round of flowering.
07:16Along the back here I've just planted loads of different things, foxgloves,
07:21caterpie bells, eucalyptus, just all sorts of things.
07:31I'm hoping for a decent display here there's a lot of seaweed in this patch
07:37and new compost laid down but we'll see, we'll see what comes out of it.
07:44There's also some more pheasants, just the leftovers there too
07:50and that is all for that part and I'll just take you down here now
07:57I'm more or less right up here in the garden but the last thing I'm going to do, so this is the
08:07that is the seaweed compost soup that we made, or the seaweed soup fertilizer and it's thick
08:17like a jelly but we'll maybe do a wee demo of that in a wee while. Here more cottons,
08:24I can't get over how well these are flowering like the last two months, there's the potatoes
08:29and more rosemary, more radishes, more strawberries
08:37and our cosmos, feels like I've been waiting for things to die back for a long time but they're not
08:44really dying back. You see there's even some pansies here that are still flowering from the spring
08:52and the hydrangea is still going as well with the lemon balm in there
09:11you can feel one that's approaching but it's taking its time and the last thing I did want
09:17to show you today was, if you remember about it, it's about a month ago now that I did this
09:22but I sold some things in milk containers, milk jugs and this is for an overwintering technique
09:33and here are the results and we'll probably open one or two of them today
09:39so on here you can see that's the Caligula, so that's the four of them there
09:44and four weeks later we already have germination, these act like mini greenhouses
09:52and and here the poppies have been amazing results so I'll just show you
10:00if you can get a proper focus in there you can see all the different, that's the Icelandic poppies
10:09all sorts of them in there, there must be a few dozen germinated
10:17even better again is the other poppies which are
10:23there's a massive amount of them in there so I am going to open these and put these in the ground
10:27actually and even this one which is the spring onions which I had great hopes for
10:34is doing really well so I haven't done anything to them for a month
10:40they just got whatever water came from the sky, just rainwater and this keeps them warm
10:48in their little pots and it's just brilliant to see that it actually works so no frost just method
10:57of planting over water, I've just been opening them here to see the results now normally you
11:03wouldn't open these until the early spring but because it's been so mild and because I'm planting
11:09them you would normally plant these maybe late November, December, January even early February
11:16and then leave them just to the elements, these act like mini greenhouses
11:21if you saw that video where we we sowed them
11:25that was now a month ago because I was off for holidays there for two weeks and I'm just
11:33I'll just show you all the results up close now, this is the last
11:37one I've already opened these other three so I'm just taking off the
11:41the waterproof tape here from around the milk jugs
11:53and I'll reuse these now for other ones
12:00but I just want to, I can't believe the results on these are actually amazing in a space of four weeks
12:11but as I say it's been extremely mild here in Ireland, it's now early November and this one
12:19is the, oh these are the oriental poppies you just look in there so
12:32what's it catching that? So there's possibly about a hundred in there that have all germinated and
12:40these are seeds that I collected from the plants that I had that are now, were just here behind me
12:48and that's an amazing result and here we have the spring onions that I planted
12:55just that I sowed and there's still more coming up there so I'm going to get them under the
13:01raised bed but all four have germinated
13:05and here we have five calendula that have germinated as well
13:15and last we have the Icelandic poppies too so just shows you having some fresh seeds
13:25has been amazing and what I have here is some of the seaweed compost or seaweed
13:33keep calling it compost, seaweed fertilizer that we made a few weeks ago just from seaweed collected
13:41dead seaweed collected at the beach and put in a big bucket with water just and left for about a
13:47month and you can see there this orangey color but full of nutrients full of good stuff for the plants
13:53so just dilute that in water and water into the plants so
14:02very chuffed with those results and be great now to get these into the ground
14:09because these are all, well I'm not sure about the spring onions but I know the two types of
14:14poppies and the calendula are hardy so they should survive even a late frost or something like that so
14:20that's a whole pile of additional plants now for the spring and
14:31free as well because I had the seeds already so that's everything okay
14:50you