So it's a really exciting day today garden ninja HQ because we've had some
germination of the recent seeds are sown so the first one was out the gate will
be Achillea. Now Achillea need at a really specific temperature but around about 20
21 degrees to germinate so I did move those inside because we had some really
bad weather here. The temperature in the greenhouse dropped considerably so
those have been inside and they've germinated and you'll be able to have a look at
those now and now out in the greenhouse I did end up bringing in the greenhouse
heater as I said to have there was a real temperature drop and I couldn't risk
losing the seedlings that about to germinate. So if you have a look down here
I'm going to walk you through the seeds that have taken and started
so the Luzula that are just down here haven't started to germinate but
they are a long slow burner of the seed so I'm not really expecting them to have
then got Silene at the back over there they've not germinated yet either
neither has the Milium which again is a slow burner. Now down here if I squat we've got
the Mexican flebane again I think that can take about forty days to germinate
so it's something a long way but Borage there has germinated we are still a
shaky-cam moment waiting on Heleniums we know that they need stratification so
they've been in a cold frame chilling outside for a couple of weeks same with
the Astrantia they can take I think 80 days worst case to germinate
them hope for that that's because like everything else is still bobbing along
nicely and if you check my blog you'll be able to see which ones came out of the gare first!
So it's another two weeks on now we've had another set of seedlings that have
germinated so things are really moving along quickly now as you might be able
to see it's raining again but here the greenhouse these seedlings are protected
from the elements so we can keep a relatively consistent temperature and
environment which is key so if you have all down here you'll see this Scabious
growing called 'Beaujolais Bonnets' and that's a red Scabious
these are started to germinate and they've got their true leaves so when a
seedling grows you get its seed leaves which kind of look a little bit like
tiny discs really basically use that bring the seeds of life and allow it to
start to to photosynthesize and then you get the true leaves which are the true
shape of the the end result so they will look slightly differently and you want
to pick them out once you get the true leaves.
But that's probably a video for another time! Now if we look down here I'll
do a closer see that the Heleniusm have started to germinarte! These are
probably the trickiest seeds in this glass house to germinate because they need stratification
now there's more about on my website if you want to know more but
basically it's a cold and then a warm snap that they need to germinate. The seedlings
are absolutely minute but I'm really excited because germinated so they're
gonna need a bit of TLC soon enough they'll start to grow that true leaves
I'll get bigger and bigger bigger here are the Heleniums just there being careful
not to damage it that's the seedling they've been looking for!
So the next set of videos will be on thinning the seedlings and picking them
out. Where you are taking them from the seed trays and beds and putting them into
there own modular containers so that's the next video that's gonna
happen as soon as these ladies and ready to be moved on! So that's my update on
the gardening without plastic experiment so far the seedlings are coming along nicely
it's really exciting me and Barry are going to go back inside
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