hello and welcome to the garden shop how to garden video we want to show you in this video how to sew sweet seeds so we're just gonna show you the soil we have here we prepared it about two or three weeks ago we took it over well digging it down to a depth of a foot and a half so now we'll just show you the process involved in preparing your drill so we already have a row of seeds sown here which is marked with our string length and now we're going to sew Swedes which grow quite large and you should space your rows about 30 centimeters apart so I'm just going to move my streamline in fact in this case I'm just gonna move with 25 centimeters over because we just have practice growing in the previous row but all Swede roles should be spaced 30 centimeters apart after that okay so roughly speaking that's about 25 centimeters there so much you prepare your drill okay so you just want to go down about two inches which our drill I'll tell you two centimeters now it's time to saw your Swedes ideally you want to sew them around a spring time in the middle of spring middle of March is ideal you want to avoid a for us so make sure that the worst of the frost is past past before you saw your seats okay so your drill there should be about two centimeters deep keep it nice and straight and now we just saw our seeds so just take my seeds out here what we want to do is sow the seeds tinleigh along the row so by that what I mean by Kinley just take a handful of them here or a small handful what I mean by Tinley is that you will just sprinkle the seedlings roughly one to two centimeters apart along the row just gets more into the center of a hand you can see them there okay all right so what we'll do then is I just come down here and just sprinkle them along keep your roll nice and straight therefore you can easily weed in between the seedlings when they emerge and they're going in roughly about a centimeter apart you can space them out more if you want we'll come back later once the seedlings have emerged we'll tin them to about 25 to 30 centimeters apart Swedes grow quite large compared to turnips they take longer in the ground to take longer to mature and they need a further spacing apart so I have some leftover I'll just return it today regarding the soil as we'd like a good fertile soil and the soil that we have here has some farmyard manure well rotten farmyard when you are added to it and it has been a dog to a depth of about a foot and a half so that's the rolls on there now the next thing we want to do is to a close the drill and we can do that using a rake that we have here okay so Swedes are something that you can harvest into the winter months again I like parsnips and turnips they benefit from a little touch of Frost's before harvesting and they get a better flavour from the effects of frost the less say more tender really so the frost helps the flavor of your crop so just gonna pass down the row good contact there between the seed and the soil in terms of pest control you just want to watch out for a pests such as slugs and pigeons as they can eat the foliage of the of the crop watering in so even if the sign is a bit damp like it is today there's no harm in just giving your roll a good watering in so we're just running the whole off and down it there and then it's watered it can start to germinate you should see the seedlings germinating within two weeks time now if you were to sow a little rope you will move your your string Line and then a foot over and then keep your rows nice and straight again we would so our next row of Swedes about they're performing going do that you just want to take a label and just mark up the role that you've sewn so that you know what's there that's it now that was just a video on how to sew your Swede seeds from the garden shop that I