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This video explains how to grow biennial flowers and the steps needed for successful flowering. I cover sowing methods, spacing, early care, and overwintering practices that help plants establish and bloom well. It is helpful for gardeners wanting colourful displays and a better understanding of biennial plant growth cycles.
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Let's sew our byian annual flowers ready
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for next year. Welcome to Gardening with
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Ben. In today's video, we're going to be
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sewing our by annual flowers, which
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means that we sew them this year and
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next year should fingers crossed they
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should flower. So, let's see what seeds
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we are planting today. Today, we are
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planting our wall flowers. Never grown
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these before, so these will be nice
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hopefully if they grow. 500 seeds in
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there. Blime me. I don't think we'll be
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growing all them, but we'll give it a
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try. I always plant the whole packet. I
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don't know if you like me, but I always
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plant the whole packet.
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Next up, we have got sweet William.
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Absolutely gorgeous. Again, never tried
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these before, so the first time trying
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them. 200 seeds in that one. So, if all
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these grow, our a lotment is going to
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look beautiful next year.
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Next up, we have got fox gloves.
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Absolutely gorgeous. And the bees love
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them. Guess how many seeds are in this
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one? 26,000.
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Can you imagine it? 26,000 fox gloves.
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But yeah, let's try them ones.
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Next up is Forget Me Knots. Again,
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another one that I've never tried. I'm
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I'm trying lots of new seeds. I always
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love to experiment in trying new things.
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If you don't try it, you don't know if
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they'll grow well or not. So, a thousand
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seeds in that one.
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Then we've got some primulas. Now, these
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are obviously for growing outdoors in
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and they'll look absolutely gorgeous.
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The only thing is with primas when the
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flowers die off, they look awful. So,
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we'll have to keep the head in them. But
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yeah, 65 seeds in that one. So, not as
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many.
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Then we've got these holly hawk. Never
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grown them before either. So hopefully
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they'll have some nice flowers on them.
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Only 50 seeds in this one, but they do
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grow nice and tall. And as you can see,
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they look absolutely gorgeous once
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they're grown. So we'll see how we get
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on with them.
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Ones that I have grown before and done
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successfully are loopins.
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Absolutely gorgeous. The plants won't be
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massive in the first year, but hopefully
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after a couple of years, they'll get
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bigger and bigger, so we'll get them
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soon. They're nice and easy to grow
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them. I've sewn them before. And a
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winter vegetable, which I've never tried
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before. I talked about it in my August
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video of what seeds to grow, so I
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thought I'd give it a try myself because
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what's the point in talking about it if
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you don't try it? So, yes, we're going
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to be trying Chinese cabbage. So yeah,
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we're going to be sewing these and then
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you harvest them around April to
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October.
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So yeah, we'll give them a try. See how
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well they get on. 220 seat in there.
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That'll keep me going through winter.
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But yeah, let's get all these sewn.
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Let's get them labeled up. Always label
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up. One thing I always forget to do. And
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I have plenty of labels. I've bought
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them all. As they reduce them in
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Morrison's, they're reducing all the
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plant section. So, I bought a load and
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yeah, let's get all these sewn.
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So, that was a mammoth job sewing all
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them seeds. Got them all sewn. Some of
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them needed two trays cuz how many seeds
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were in packet? But yeah, we just need
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to give them a good soak now and give
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them that kickstart to start growing.
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So, yeah, they're all nicely watered
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now. So, we just got to let them
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germinate hopefully over the next couple
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of weeks. It's nice and warm in this
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poly tunnel. So yeah, hopefully fingers
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crossed we'll get some nice flowers for
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next year. So make sure you drop us a
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follow to see how well we keep up to
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date when we do our a lotment tours.
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Until next time everyone, remember keep
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smiling, keep shining and keep gardening
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with everyone.
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