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Today I’m planting a lot more spring bulbs in my border to create a beautiful display for next year. Autumn is the perfect time to get bulbs planted, and in this video I’ll show you what I’m doing in the garden and how I’m adding even more colour for spring.
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Let's plant a load more bulbs. Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben and we're back
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down here on the a lotment. We've got
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the hat out. We're well prepared. It's
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getting colder now, so we need to hurry
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up and get all the bulbs planted. Now,
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as you remember, we kept
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So, this is the bed that I rearranged.
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Some of the plants aren't taking
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brilliantly. They're starting to die
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off. Hopefully, the rain will get them
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back alive and get them rooted and get
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them growing again. Fingers crossed, but
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we'll see. If not, I've lost them. But
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we'll see how they get on. But yeah,
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we've got loads of space for loads of
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bulbs. So, we're going to make full use
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and we're going to jam-pack it with lots
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and lots of bulbs in this area. So,
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let's get us bulbs and let's get them
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all arranged.
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So, first up, we're going to be
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arranging our daft doors. Now, we've got
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some normal yellow ones, but we've also
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got the double ones, which I absolutely
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love. Look at them ones. Absolutely
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amazing. And we've got a bag of mixed
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ones as well. So, let's get all these
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arranged and get them all in place.
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>> We have lined up all the daffodil. Look
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at how many daffodil bulbs we're going
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to have in this area. We've not put them
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right at the back as we're going to put
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some aliums towards the back and tulips
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next month. We'll plant as tulips. But
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yeah, loads of daffodils. It's going to
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look amazing. So, these are the aliums
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that we're going to plant. We're going
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to plant the big ones towards the back
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and we'll plant the smaller ones towards
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the front of the plot. So yeah, let's
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get all these hundreds sorted out. So as
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you can see, these all come in different
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packs. So yeah, the big ones we'll plant
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towards the back and the smaller ones a
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bit further forward in the plot. What
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I've done with these alims, I've just
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thrown them in between all the daffodil
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bulbs. So then they're evenly spaced
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out. Well, they will be eventually, but
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yeah, we put the bigger ones towards the
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back as well. So yeah, let's get our
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next bulbs. So this is our next set of
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bulbs. 250 of them. Wow. But yeah, we'll
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see which ones we're going to use. We
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won't use the ali aliums because we've
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got aliums in, but we'll use some of the
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other ones. And obviously, we won't
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plant the tulips until November. So, the
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ones that we're going to plant are the
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anemies, muscar, I do like muscar. We've
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got some,
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we've got some pushkina, and we've got
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some tartes as well. So, yeah, we'll put
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the tartes towards the front in front of
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the big daffodil. So, that is all the
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bulbs arranged. Wow. It's going to be
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absolutely jammed packed full of bulbs
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in this area. It's going to look amazing
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in springtime. So, the hard bit now is
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getting them all planted, which is going
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to take forever, but it will be worth
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it. That is every single bull planted.
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That took forever to plant all them, but
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it's going to be absolutely worth it
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come springtime. And in theory, there
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should already be absolutely loads of
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bulbs in here already from previous
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years. I've had tulips in here. I've
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also hopefully some of those will come
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back again this year. So, it'll be even
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more jam-packed as it's going to be full
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to busting come springtime. I can't wait
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for the display. Hurry up spring. Let's
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see what we've got to come. So, why is
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it that I plant spring bulbs down at the
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a lotment when it's a vegetable growing
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plot? The reason being is that obviously
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it's got absolutely fantastic color and
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fragrances and it brightens it up when
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there's not much growing at that time of
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year and it just gives you that little
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boost of energy when you see all the
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flowers out. But also the main reason
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being is that in springtime the bees
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wake up from hibernation and they
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obviously need the nectar to get them
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started for the year ahead. So, I'm a
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big advocate for looking after the bees
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down at the aotment and encouraging
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them. And yeah, bees don't harm you
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unless you harm them. So, it's great to
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see the bees down here. So, that is one
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of the main reasons why I plant spring
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bulbs to help the bees out and get on
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their way for the year ahead and
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hopefully they stick around and they
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think, "Oh, I'm going to keep going down
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to his plot and then I'll pollinate all
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his fruit and all his vegetables." And
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obviously attracting the bees helps
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pollinate other things as well. So, that
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is one of the reasons why I do it. So,
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let me know in the comments if you're
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going to be sewing any bulbs this month.
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