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This video explains how to plant flowers in the garden successfully, including preparing the soil, spacing plants correctly and watering after planting. It is a simple beginner-friendly guide to help flowers establish quickly and grow strong.
Learn how to choose a suitable planting spot, how deep to plant flowers, and how to avoid common mistakes that cause plants to wilt or fail after planting. These methods work for flower beds, borders, raised beds and allotment plots.
Whether you are starting a new garden or improving an existing border, these basic planting techniques will help your flowers root faster and produce healthier growth throughout the growing season.
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to gardening with then well it's
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Wednesday we're halfway through the week
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which means it's nearly time to get back
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to the allotment and I can't say fast
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enough roll on the weekend because I
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can't wait to be back down in my
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allotment and wow what a week it has
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so what are we up to at the moment well
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obviously I'm on night shifts at the
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moment so I'm not getting down to the
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allotment but I am getting planning on
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what I'm doing at the weekend and stuff
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like
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that so when it comes to this time of
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year it's great to start thinking about
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what flowers you want to grow on your
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alotment because flowers are the one key
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thing that bring the
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pollinators to your plot and to help you
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get more produce and I've been going on
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about that for quite a while now that
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obviously growing flowers encourages the
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Beast to the allotment and you will get
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more produce from it and that is one key
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thing that I've learned over the years
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and I'm always looking at new things to
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try growing on the allotment and
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different flowers and stuff like that
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and growing flowers is obviously a
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fantastic part of it as well because
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when you when you've got an allotment
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and you're just growing fruit and veg it
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can just be completely green because
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there's not much color in it and all you
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get is just a few flowers what form them
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thing but it's mainly just a green color
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so adding flowers to your allotment can
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improve the color and the look of it and
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make it really really nice and that is
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what I'm doing mainly this year and
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hopefully over the years to come as we
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learn more about different flowers that
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we can grow on the
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allotment so what flowers are good
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flowers to try and grow if you're a new
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way that is a good question because
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you've all got to start somewhere and I
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tend to want to B grow all the flowers
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from seed if possible uh if I do spot
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Bargains in shops of plants I will buy
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them and plant them because I'm trying
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to get as many perennials as possible so
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that I don't have to grow as many
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flowers further down the line obviously
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I'll still still be growing them but I
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won't have to grow as many as I get more
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perennials to fill the gaps in and keep
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growing really because the perennials
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come back year after year whereas a lot
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of the ones that you grow from seed will
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just be annuals and they'll just grow
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for the year and need replacing the year
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after so some fantastic flowers to try
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and grow are obviously sweet peas which
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I've talked about quite a lot in these
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podcasts and they are one of the best
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flowers that you can grow and they don't
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take up much room whatsoever you just
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need something to for them to grow up
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against and you can be getting blooms
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all the way through Summer and the more
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you pick them the more flowers you will
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get on them and your friends and family
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will love you love here because you'll
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be picking them literally every single
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day cuz they produce that many flowers
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on them and you can get a fantastic
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return from the seeds that you purchase
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some seeds can be quite expensive for
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sweet peas but you can pick up some
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bargain ones as well so have a look
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around and see what seeds you want to
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buy next up is sunflowers now sunflowers
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are something that I've grown from a kid
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really I've always been into growing
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sunflowers for the joy of just seeing
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how tall you can grow your sunflower and
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with the right care and attention you
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can get a massive sunflower going up 12
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to 14 foot depending on how much you
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actually look after it and it's all it's
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enjoyment it's one that you can grow
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with the kids if you've got children or
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the grandchildren uh I've not got no
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kids so I'm just growing it for the fun
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of myself really uh which is always fun
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and it it's great to see the color that
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you get from the sunflower
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and I've purchased 1,800 sunflower seeds
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it's a mixed sunflower pack uh for this
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year I purchased one last year and we
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got some fantastic looking sunflowers in
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them uh so I've purchased one again this
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year so hopefully we can get a massive
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array of sunflowers down at the
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allotment this year to show off and for
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you to enjoy uh in all the photos that
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I'll be sharing of it uh but yeah
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another good thing with sunflowers is
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that they produce fantastic canes as
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well uh once you let them dry out and
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die off they'll become lock hard the
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stalks and you can use them for canes
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the year after if need to be uh say if
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you're having to buy canes so the more
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sunflowers you grow the more canes you
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will have for the allotment and you can
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use them that way as well so there's
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always benefits in growing
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sunflowers another good flour that I've
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learned how to grow is geraniums now
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geraniums are quite expensive to buy
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from the shops uh for the amount that
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you get in a pack of like six or
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something and they actually really
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really easy to grow um you don't get
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many seeds in a packet uh but they are
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fantastic and easy to grow and I've had
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success year after year with geraniums I
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really can't believe it now you can get
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just set colors or you can get a mixed
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bag uh depending on what you purchase
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but all I'll be doing is sewing my seed
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now and they will be flowering from like
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August to October and I've dug all my
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geraniums up what I planted last year
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and I've put them in pots and put them
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in the shed and they flowered all the
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way through winter they're still
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flowering to this day um my plot
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neighbor keeps telling me that I need to
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cut off these flower heads or they won't
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shoot out at the bottom so I need to
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listen to him soon and cut the flowers
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off and let them start growing from the
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bottom to Bush out a bit better but yeah
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I really can't bear to cut them flowers
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off because they're brightening up my
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shed at the moment and it's absolutely
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fantastic to see so I do love geraniums
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and they don't take much care and
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attention whatsoever you just snip the
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top off once the flowers have died and
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it'll
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encourage to grow so if you've not tried
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gr geraniums before go out and get a
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packet and give them a try they are
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really really easy to
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grow now another good flower that I do
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grow on my allotment which does bring
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fantastic colors every time I grow or
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kalunda and I can never say that word
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right I don't know if I'm saying it
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right to you uh but they you get so many
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seeds in a packet for that one for the
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price and they're extremely cheap and
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the best thing about them is that they
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just flow after flower after flower all
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the way through Summer and Autumn and it
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can add so much nice color to the plot
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and the bees absolutely love them and
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the best thing about kalunda is that if
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you forget to chop the heads off once
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they've died they'll go to seed and they
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just set the seeds out everywhere they
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fire the seeds off everywhere and some
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allotment people say they're worse than
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weed because they just set the seeds all
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over the place but I don't care if this
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flowers growing all over my plot I
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really don't care because it's
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attracting the bees and it's free
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flowers
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as well so that is one fantastic flower
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to grow and I'll certainly be growing
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some more this year if not there'll be
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plenty popping up around the plot from
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last year uh you can never get the ball
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out but yeah one fantastic flower to
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grow that is so I'll be growing some of
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them and then there is I'm growing
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gladiol eyes as well this year gladiol
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eyes uh I purchased I think it was 100
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bul 100 corns should I say they're not
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called bulbs they're call corns glad
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eyes 100 corns for 9 and they mixed bags
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so all different colors and the thing is
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with gladiol is you can plant the corns
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now and they'll be flowering towards
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July August
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time and you can use them obviously for
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vasas and stuff like that but you learn
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to yet one flow on the corn so it's up
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to you if you cut them off on I
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certainly won't be cutting them off
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um but they do stand proud in the uh
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borders of your plot uh they look
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absolutely fantastic and the color that
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comes from them as well and I asked my
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followers about cuz I'd read that you
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meant to dig the corns up and store them
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in a shed and then replant them the year
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after but I asked my followers what they
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they do and a lot of people just tend to
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leave them in the ground and they come
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year after year uh they just need to be
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deep enough so that they don't get
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affected by the frost and kill them off
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uh but yeah gladi eyes are one of the
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best things that you can grow on the
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plot so yeah those are some of the
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flowers what you can try and grow and
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have success with let me know if it's
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your first year in growing flowers I
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always love to hear what everybody else
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is doing and if I've encouraged you to
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grow flowers let me know because I do
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get enjoyment out of encouraging other
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people to do stuff as well so I hope
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that you have a f fantastic
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Wednesday the weekend is nearly here uh
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hopefully this nice weather will
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continue and hopefully I'm still hoping
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we get one of those as well too so until
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