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Sowalong - Sunflower with Oliver Parsons

Released Tuesday, 26th March 2024
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Sowalong - Sunflower with Oliver Parsons

Sowalong - Sunflower with Oliver Parsons

Sowalong - Sunflower with Oliver Parsons

Sowalong - Sunflower with Oliver Parsons

Tuesday, 26th March 2024
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Welcome. To the Gulf as Well magazine

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so a long series the Pope cause states

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buys you to grow more from see. Hello!

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I'm all of a person's multicultural sub

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editor on Bbc Gotten as Well Magazine.

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Some. Flowers really big to ones were the

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first thing. I have a groom while I'm

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and. There. Is nothing in

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the world of plants quite as rewarding

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as he the emphasis on enough which

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when I think about it was probably

1:29

the first botanical pla name overland. It's

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or.the simplicity of it. Take one

1:34

large pleasantly title seed so it

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just below the surface of the

1:38

soil or some compost and then

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unless you really are very unlucky,

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you have a huge triffin have

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planned by midsummer. I

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final thoughts over the years, some of which

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are quite subtle and home and Forty have

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a she's border but nothing beats the joints.

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The real show us the ones that grow

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taller than the tallest person you know with

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a massive dinner plate of of our head.

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What a picture. My Mother: one of

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my absolute favorites, taken in late summer

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six years ago without holding an enormous

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sums I had. It's

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way better than I had, in fact it's

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more along the lines of agree glorious such

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as a shield as as eighteen to twenty

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inches across with will must be three thousand

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perfect black seats says cause it's face. I

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don't since forgotten overwrite it is

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but whatever varieties was giant planets

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keep on coming back succeeding each

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year for lost his seat. Every

2:34

year I say to myself I'm going to pull

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him up to some taking over the somehow I

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never have out. So

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you're fun going in all sorts of places

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i shouldn't me In the middle, my Scotia's

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on which covered pathways and even when you're

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blocking the way into my said. Sweetie.

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Brady I should take money out of

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hot water. Needs some soil because lot

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of sight on your pants which is

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pretty much the last thing you want

2:58

from a productive allotment Malaysia. Sometimes it's

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not about growing three to four your

3:02

kitchen, sometimes it's an ongoing would ever

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does that make you happy and they

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do that every time. It's

3:11

not just me, they may have the the number of

3:13

birds that some feet on the meteor is unbelievable. When

3:17

you remember very clearly as going to

3:19

work my allotment one early morning in

3:21

September October not I walked up the

3:23

path, assuming the distance a huge bright

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green blur as much. As

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I approached to blow came into focus and

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then suddenly dispersed in a flurry of feathers

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and I realized an entire flock of Ringneck

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Parakeets had been feeding on Mccluster Chance of

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House as one of the most beautiful sights

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I'd ever seen, all within five hundred yards

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of the noise and sizes and also to

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the road in awesome and. Truly.

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The magic of gardening. On.

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To practicalities. This.

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Is one plant the will protect your itself.

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but there are some fundamentals. The

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first thing is that they need a nap. The

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com water any chance for my

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money they are based on him

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around in good rich Most recent.

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He can throw them in pots but be prepared

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freedom more to regularly as once they start growing

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in earnest they are going to need it. Think

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of the plant in the musical Little Shop of Horrors

4:17

on your in the right hurt. Another.

4:20

Thing that pops is that they can be

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a tricky place. Varietal pants with enormous have

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use our heads. If all goes well in

4:27

terms of watering and feeding, you may find

4:29

that they're continually song over because as so,

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top heavy. The

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other thing about some files is that they

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need an awful lot of sunlight. Not as

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a little bit a lot. Try

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to find the sunny spot you can and you'll

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be rewarded with a months to plant. Anything

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less than this will tend to be

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a bit weedy trying to reach of

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sunlight that just isn't last some people.

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Steaks as keep stapling when fly never

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have I suspect know that was going

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them unless sunny conditions with poor soil

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this would be needed. You

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can say for much on woods and fuel the

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tallest not possible. I'd recommend no later than mid

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May. Mid April is

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from the be the sweet spot for saying

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direct but all comes down to where you

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live how what your soil is on. Last

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spring we have the saying it's a cold

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pony wet soil. we'll just see the seats

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rot. Indo

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sayings and Smallpox in March or nice and

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Easy and the plants generally seat up are

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defined they never quite as well as I

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sang direct. If in

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doubt one us but you'll see that was a

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few different settings and same as it's Not only

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does it multiple your chances of success it's

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also great way to learn about the plant and

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was it needs to grow really wealth. I

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have to admit, I'm recording this in the depths

5:41

of winter and spring seems like a very long

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way away. The. Posey Miles Now I'm

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thinking about next year's Sunflowers is make

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it all feels on. I

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can't wait to get. A nice. Not

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going from he he get free see that

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the March April and May if she's a

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Bbc thought as well. Magazine: get your

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copy own stores aren't max direct

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to pay that you can how

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may issue. Also. Includes or teeth one

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thousand and Three Cousin died in a

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discounted entry to Censor. Certain and

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eighteen.

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