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What flower seeds to sew in January.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben,
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everybody. We're now in January. Happy
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New Year. It's time to get growing and
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get started for the year ahead and get
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this season started. And I'm so excited
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for sewing flowers this year. So, get
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your notepads, make a list of these, or
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save this video and come back to it and
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see what seeds you can sew in January.
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So, let's get started with our list.
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Sunflowers need heat to get them
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germinated. They need warm weather to
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get started and to get growing. The only
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thing that you've got to be careful of
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is flowers and growing leggy. So, be
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careful. Make sure that they get enough
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sunlight and you keep turning them
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around. So, the ones that need heat to
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get started to get growing are beonas.
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A great flower in the garden. Add some
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great color to the garden. geraniums,
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which come back year after year. If you
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dig them up and put them in the
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greenhouse over the winter, keep them
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warm, they'll flower the year after. So,
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a great addition to the garden and a lot
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cheaper to grow them yourselves rather
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than buy them. And yeah, they are easy
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Next up, opportunas. Great for hanging
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baskets, adding bountiful color to the
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hanging baskets. So are labilia. a great
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flower to add into hanging baskets and
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to spread across a garden.
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My favorite next are sweet peas. Now, I
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will be starting these this month,
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getting them started and get an early
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flowering on them so that they flower
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all the way through the summer period.
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The more you pick them, the more they
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will flower throughout the summer
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period. Next up, snapdragons. Another
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great one and a great one for the bees.
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absolutely love them and so easy to grow
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as well. Next up is verbina. Another
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great flower for the garden. And
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finally, Colossus. Uh great addition to
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a garden. And you can obviously grow
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them indoors as well. So those are the
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ones that need heat to get them
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germinated to get growing and to get
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started. So if you wanting a head start,
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you can get growing them ones. Now, ones
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that you can sew undercover in a
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are hardy annuals. Some varieties can be
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started now. So, make sure you check the
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packets and see which ones you can get
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Again, sweet peas, if you wanted them to
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grow a bit later, grow them in the
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greenhouse. But I'll be starting mine
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off in the window to get them a head
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start to get growing.
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Next up is lark spur. Another beautiful
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flower as well as this next one which is
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nicotina and one of my favorite ones to
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add to the garden which can be a bit
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like a weed but I don't mind because if
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it spreads it's absolutely gorgeous.
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This is colundula a great flower and it
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is edible apparently. I've never tried
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it myself. Let me know in the comments
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if you've tried it but I I'm one of
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these that it's flour. I don't eat it.
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Next up are bulbs and tubers. Now you
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can start these off in pots in the
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greenhouse to give them a head start.
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These are beonia tubers, dia tubers and
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lily bulbs. Now if you want to grow the
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lily bulbs outside in the garden, make
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sure it's not frozen or water logged.
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But I would wait a couple of months
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until it's probably a bit warmer to get
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them started in the garden. So, those
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are all the flowers that you can start
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sewing this month down in the garden to
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get some great rewards for the summer
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period. Again, just be careful with
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stuff growing leggy and stuff like that.
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You might want to wait a bit just until
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it warms up a bit, but I will be
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starting my sweet peas this month down
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in the a lotment. So, make sure you save
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it, share it to anybody that's growing
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flowers, or if you're new to flowers,
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have a go and see how you get on and let
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me know how well you do. So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling,
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keep shining and keep gardening.
