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welcome back to Gardening with Ben In
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today's episode we're going to be
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planting our sunflowers out As they're
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getting too big for the pots it's still
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quite cool here in Sheffield but
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hopefully we can get them out We're
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going to have a little cold spell this
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week but then it's going to get
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warmer So hopefully they will not die on
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me Hopefully they'll survive the colder
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nights but we're going to get them out
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and get them planted and see if we can
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get the tallest sunflower this year in
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our little competition that we're doing
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in our gardening Discord See who can
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grow the biggest sunflower It's me
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against quite a few others and
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some novice gardeners as well So we need
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to try and win Really we can't let the
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even though I still class myself as a
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novice So let's have a look at our
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sunflowers and see how big they are at
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moment So as you can see they're quite
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tall So they need to get out in the soil
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to get them bigger and get them
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established and get them growing So we
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need to prepare a bed to plant these
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sunflowers in to get you nice huge ones
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We're going to win this competition
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Trust me I think we're going to use this
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bed to grow them in It's got some old
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beetroot in it So we're going to dig it
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all out get it all cleared get it dug
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over make sure it's weed free and get
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them planted This is a sunny bed this
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one It gets sun quite a lot So we need
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nice sunshine to get them nice and big
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in So I got out most of the weeds And as
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you can see we've got some shellots
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growing as well That's
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shellot But yeah we're going to just um
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give it a good rotate over to get it dug
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over cuz it's a bit composty So we're
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going to dig it over and loosen the soil
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up So let's see our tool that we're
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going to be using We're going to be
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using this Wolf Garden tool which is
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absolutely fantastic It's got a hole on
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it and it's got blades on it as well to
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chop it all up So let's see in action
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As you can see it's chopping it up
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rather good Taking out some of the roots
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go So we've got all the sunflowers
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outside what we're going to plant today
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We've got some fish blood and burn as
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well to give them an extra kick and to
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get them started So we're going to dig a
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hole put some of this in the bottom and
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then plant a sunflower on top Hopefully
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get some big sunflowers growing So it's
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a case of making a hole and then
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sprinkling some in to the
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bottom and then when it waters it'll
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well So there we go We have his first
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one in So we're just going to back fill
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it with the soil like so We'll get all
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them weeds out They'll die back anyway
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now that they've been all dug out So
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yeah let's get them all
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in So we've got them all planted out now
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We've got two rows there So what we're
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going to do is we're just going to give
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them that extra bit of food So we're
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going to spread some more fish and blood
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around the top so that it soaks into the
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soil as well and gives them that extra
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So there we have it all planted So last
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job is to give them a nice drink of
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water Remember sunflowers are heavy
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drinkers once they get established So
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yeah keep them well watered And
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obviously we need to get some big canes
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as well at some point to support them as
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bigger So let's get them all watered So
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I hope you've enjoyed that video of us
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planting our sunflowers Make sure you
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stay up to date with how well they're
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getting on whether they get eaten or
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whether they survive And get growing and
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see if we can grow the tallest sunflower
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and beat everyone else So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
