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Let's sow all our sunflowers. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben. And now we're in
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April, we can start to sow those
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sunflowers ready for getting them nice
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and tall indoors and then planting them
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out when the frost has gone and they've
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got to a decent height. The slugs like
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to attack them, so I usually like to get
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them to a decent size before I do plant
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them out. And you may ask why have I got
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so many sunflowers? Well, I saw loads on
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a stall at King's when I went on to a
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press conference and I I chose lots of
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the varieties from them cuz I do love my
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sunflowers and I love the weird and
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wonderful looking ones and there's
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certainly some great looking sunflowers
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here. So, we've got lots of different
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varieties to try down here this year and
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I'm looking forward to the display. They
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attract the bees, they look gorgeous and
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they're great for photos. As you know, I
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love a good selfie. So, we're going to
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plant these in the Oaklands cell trays
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and get them started.
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And then once they're big enough, we'll
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plant them outdoors. So, let's get
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sowing all of these seeds and remember,
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you need some labels to label up the
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variety so that you know which variety
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they are before they bloom.
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As I always forget to label stuff up but
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I love to know what variety they are.
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So, yeah, let's get them sown.
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So, this is a cell trays that we are
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sowing them in. It would have been
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better if we'd have sown them in root
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trays but we're using the root trays for
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our runner beans. So, we're going to use
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these for the sunflowers and we'll plant
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one in each cell and then once they're
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big enough, we'll transplant them, pot
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them on and then we will plant them
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outdoors when it's safe to do so. So,
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let's get some compost in and let's get
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sowing all these seeds.
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So, that is them all sown. I've cheated
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and I've put two in each one. I know I
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shouldn't put two in each one, it'd be
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better with one in them but we're saving
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space as I'm running out of space now,
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so we'll pop two in each one but we've
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labeled them up really well so that we
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know which variety they are and Oaklands
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Gardens came to the rescue with labels
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this year. I've got a thousand, so I'm
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going to have any issues not knowing
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what anything is this year, fingers
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And yeah, let's get them all covered and
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let's get them all watered and hopefully
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we're going to have an awesome display
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of sunflowers this year.
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So, they're all covered now. We'll water
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them when we go around with a hose pipe
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but we're going to keep them in the
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polytunnel where it's absolutely boiling
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and hopefully get them to germinate
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about 7 days probably and we may be
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So, I'm excited for this year's growing
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stay up to date with all our videos and
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how well our sunflowers get on this
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year. Until next time everyone,
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remember, keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone.
