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This video shows how to plant spring bulbs in autumn so you can enjoy a colourful and vibrant garden when the growing season returns.
I explain soil preparation, planting depth, spacing, and the best positions for strong flowering. Planting bulbs correctly now helps them establish well and produce reliable blooms later.
Suitable for borders, raised beds, and containers. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners wanting simple steps for eye-catching spring displays.
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Let's plant our spring bulbs for
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beautiful blooms in the garden in
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springtime. Welcome to Gardening with
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Ben. And in today's video, we're going
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to be planting our spring bulbs ready
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for next year to attract the bees down
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to the plot so that we get some
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beautiful flowers, some color because
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there's not much color around in the
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springtime. So, we want as much color
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down here as possible to attract the
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bees, to help with pollination
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because that's when all the fruit trees
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start blossoming. And the more bees you
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get to the plot, the better the harvests
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will be. So, yeah, we want to attract as
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many bees as possible. And I love the
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bees. They do the jobs. What we don't
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want to do, pollinate all the plants.
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And yeah, the more the bees help, the
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better produce we get down at the pot.
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So, what are we going to be planting
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today down at the plot? Well, we've
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created some new areas down at the plot
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with some new beds. We're going to be
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filling these with spring bulbs, and in
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the summertime, we'll have summer
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flowers in them. But come springtime, I
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want them to look great and full of
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flowers. So, we've got a big hole of
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spring bulbs to plant today. We're not
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going to be planting tulips. We're going
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to plant them at the end of the month,
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end of October, beginning of November
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because they can get tulip fire. So, we
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don't want to risk that because we want
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some beautiful tulips down here as well.
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So today we're going to be planting our
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daffodil, crocuses, some higher sims,
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and some daffodil. So yeah, we're going
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to be planting some of those and
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hopefully get them all in the ground
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today. So these are what we're going to
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be planting. We're going to be planting
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some nice orange crocuses, orange mono.
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They look gorgeous, them. We've got some
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mix colored ones, 45 in a bag of these.
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We've got some muscar, which is
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absolutely gorgeous. And we've got some
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small tarte daffodils because these are
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the beds. So I don't want huge daffodils
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engulfing them. I just want nice small
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little daffodils which will look nice in
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these little beds that we've got here
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with all the pansies what we've got to
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add some nice color at the moment. So
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yeah, I need to fix that bed. That one's
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falling down. But yeah, we're going to
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get these in the ground. Well,
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positioned first. See where we're going
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to put them all and then we'll plant
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them all. So yeah, let's get these
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crocuses, muscar, and tatarte
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lined up.
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We have placed all the bulbs in these
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beds. We just need to dig them all in
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now. We've got higher, we've got
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crocuses, we've got muscar, we got
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daffodil, we got the tall daffodil in
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the beds at the back because they'll be
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all right in them ones. But we've got
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the tatarte ones in these beds at the
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front so they don't overpower
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everything. But yeah, this is going to
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look absolutely phenomenal in springtime
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once all the colors out. Hopefully the
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squirrels don't pinch all the bulbs. But
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yeah, now let's get them all into the
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ground.
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So they're all now planted in these
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beds. All the spring bulbs are covered
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over and hopefully
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come springtime,
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this area is going to look absolutely
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phenomenal with these new arches. The
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bear feeders are up. We got the climbing
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plants climbing up them. We got the
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roses, the climbing roses. So, next year
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this area is going to look so good. I'm
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so pleased that I've done this area up.
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got the bird bath out as well. But yeah,
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it's a well worth investment to my plot.
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So, make sure you come back next year to
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see how well the spring bulbs are doing
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down on the plot. Make sure you drop us
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a follow to stay up to date with how
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well everything else is doing down here.
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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
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