What to Plant in January | Not the Usual ‘What to Sow’ Video!

What to grow in January! My 5 picks of top plants to grow right now. Overwhelmed by all the ‘what to sow in January’ and ‘what to grow now’ videos? This list does the thinking for you so that you can grow some brilliant plants for colour, scent, interest and taste in winter.

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1:35 Plant 1
3:38 Plant 2
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What to grow in January are you bombarded and let’s face it a little bit baffled with all of the online what to se in January lists and videos well this is my antidote my list of just five great plants to have in your garden that will give you color scent and interest

But also some really tasty and easy to grow food some that you can start from seed some things that you can go out and buy and all you have to do is grow and enjoy Hey everyone how’s it going and welcome back it’s a new year and I bet that if you’re like me you’re dreaming of all of the great gardening to come and also really wanting to get some things planted and some things sewn but yes let’s face facts it might be bright

Today but it’s still the middle of the winter but truly that doesn’t actually have to stop you from starting even just a few seeds or treating yourself to some real star performer plants so today here are my five recommendations of brilliant things that even though it’s winter even

Though light levels are a little bit low and it’s cold you can get started night or you can plant night or that are going to give you Joy now so let’s get stuck in okay let’s kick off this month with what I think is a quirky and interesting

Thing to get growing when it comes to starting plants from seed worse than the cold and wet of winter is actually just the lack of daylight hours but since they need a long growing season one group of seeds that you need to get started as early as possible are peppers

And chilies but I’m going to suggest a different pepper from the norm padron padron peppers are a variety of small green peppers that originate in Spain or at least they’re eaten in Spain rather than growing them to use like a regular chili pepper where you would add

Little bits in food to add spice padron are served as a tapas dish usually fried or griddled in olive oil until the skin starts to blister and then you sprinkle them with coarse salt and you eat loads of them they are super tasty imagine the actual flavor of Chili Peppers but mild

So that you could just bite into them and enjoy them well not only did they taste good they’ve got the fun Factor they’re almost all mild in terms of heat but traditionally it’s said that about one in 10 Peppers is going to be spicy so occasionally you’ll bite into one and

You’ll come across a really hot one but you never know which one it’s going to be and when you might get it if you sew the seeds now make sure to give them some heat to get them germinating and once they they have lots of light so

That’s going to have to be a nice warm bright window sill or under a grow light because then you’re going to have to give them TLC for the next couple of months so that they form nice strong baby plants keep them potted on and then move them out into a nice warm bright

Place so again that’s going to have to be a really sunny window sill or ideally a greenhouse poly tunnel or a covered growing space these crop really well once you start them growing so grow a few plants have lots of padr Rons enjoy them later in the summer and I hope you

Enjoy trying to avoid getting a really spicy one I love this really low winter light on a clear day for me the joy of gardening is about growing something of everything that makes you happy not necessarily just one thing and because of that my next recommendation is going

To be a shrub yes a shrub now do not reel back and turn off this episode because shrubs aren’t boring they can actually be really pretty special and this certainly is this is a Sara caka it may also be known commonly as sweet box or Christmas Box and on first glance

This little Evergreen it’s actually quite plain it’s got little small green glossy leaves but this has a secret scent right now in midwinter all of these tiny little buds that you can see along the undersides of the stems they into tiny actually quite inconspicuous little flowers they’re usually white but

Some you can get have a reddish pink flush to them the flowers are well titchy but my word do they smell incredible they have this really sweet Jasmine likee fragrance that just carries on the air if you go out into the Garden on a calm mile day like today

You’ll catch the scent of this Sara caka and it really does add proper magic to your garden and it asks for very little in return these are actually quite slow growing uh they stay relatively Compact and they’re going to tolerate pretty much all soils and conditions even shade

And they’re Hardy oh and they’re affordable as well so treat yourself to one and bring in some of that really magic scent into your own garden quick one I hope you finding this video helpful and if you are please don’t forget to like subscribe and hit the notification Bell you’d be surprised

Quite how much it helps me and my channel it helps me grow and it means that I can bring you more awesome gardening content so thank you so much for your support now back to what to grow onto a really easy to grow edible that I find super

Rewarding and it’s onions but rather than planting onion sets I’m talking about sewing onion seeds in fact the tradition is to sew your onion seeds the day after Christmas boxing day or St Stevens’s day growing onions from seed has several really big benefits the first might be obvious cost onion sets

When you buy them in bags they certainly aren’t that expensive but when it comes to seeds you get way more seeds in a packet and it makes it even more affordable again best of all though other than the cost is the sheer choice and variety that you can get your hands

On whether it’s heirloom onions unusual varieties different colors different sizes varieties that are going to be particularly suited to your local growing conditions there really is just so much Choice growing onions from seed can be well a little bit more time consuming and they do require a slightly

Longer growing season than if you use sets but they are great if you want to scratch that New Year seed sewing itch so go to the Garden Center have a look online and pick yourself out some really interesting onion varieties to try sewing from seed we this is so exciting cuz the next

Plant that I’m going to recommend is one that I’ve just bought for myself and I have wanted for years it’s why it’s still in a pot I always talk about buying what I would call investment pieces for the garden a plant that’s going to be a bit more pricey than you

Would normally spend but it’s easily going to make you happy for years to come so for January let me introduce you to Daphne Jacqueline postil this is a plant which at this stage pretty much has legendary status for its scent around now in late winter and I can just

See it starting to form you get these clusters of small pink flowers that when they open and really these are mainly still in Bud they give a lovely subtle flush of pink color to the Garden but they have this unreal scent strong enough to fill an entire small garden

And in the dark cold winter days anything that encourages us out into to the Garden is a good thing and that’s why I think that it’s worth having in your garden It’s relatively slow growing so it’s not going to take over it’ll ultimately get to about 5T tall by about

5T wide if left unpruned the leaves are evergreen so it’s valuable for just adding an element of structure into your garden now it is Hardy but it is a bit of a delicate princess at the same time so this is going to prefer a sheltered

Spot and it might need a bit of Extra Protection when you have really extremely cold snowy or very harsh windy days but that extra bit of care is going to reward you with a late winter early spring show of gorgeous little pink flowers and the most Heavenly scent this

This is definitely one plant to have it wouldn’t be January with it without talking about getting some sweet pea seeds soon and there is a very good reason why sweet peas are just so ubiquitous it’s because they’re brilliant I’m never organized enough to get mine sewn earlier back in the Autumn

But at the same time I really want to get the benefit of getting the plants started nice and early compared to starting them later in the spring so I have nice strong plants to get planted out as soon as I can they’re easy to grow they’re adaptable to almost any

Garden situation and they make a really great choice if you want color scent and flowers that you can pick week after week to bring into the house I had a bed behind me that was just fantastic from early summer and throughout the summer Sweet Pea are going to give you pretty

Soft lovely Cottage Garden worthy flowers in pretty much every shade from White through pinks Reds Blues mes all the way through to dark purples there are endless varieties to choose from so have a look and pick something that sus your taste for me my two specific recommendations if I wanted to be really

Specific are a blend called Misty Mountains which is a lovely cool shaded mix of whites blues and purples or the classic capani it’s got that bicolor flour of raspberry pink and dark purple to grow them I soak the seeds for a few hours just before I sew them just to get

Them going then I sew them into pots or nice deep root trainers I keep the pots indoors to get the seedling started and germinating then once they’ve germinated I bring them out to somewhere that’s really bright but unheated like a cold Conservatory or an unheated Greenhouse

This is going to slow down their growth and I keep them pinched out so that they form really Hardy tough bushy plants then I plant them out in mid spring and enjoy for the rest of the summer it might be winter but get thinking get planning and most of all get out and

Enjoy some gardening even if it’s only a little bit if you’re in the mood though for some more great Garden inspiration keep on going check out these videos cuz I think you’re going to love them and until next time see you later