It's time we were bringing out some of the big guns. We're heading into February and it's time to get some of our main seeds on the go this month. And I need your help YouTube. I'm short of a very special packet of seeds coming up for next month but I need your help in this month's video. So watch out for that coming in a little bit and you do pick me a very, very special packet of seeds for next month. But I'll come to that. Anyway, the weather's been a bit rubbish. We had the big freeze. We've managed to make our way through. Then we've had storm isher and we've had storm jostling. It has been all over the place. It's okay now though. Things have settled down. It's not too bad. We'll see. It's all right for someone's seeds at the moment. But just keep an eye on those frosts and when they're about word of one. And anyway, let's get into the seeds. First up, one I forgot to do in January. I found this packet of seeds yet. This is my basket of fire chilies. And that is one thing to say, it is not too late to start sewing chilies. Yes, most of us in them in January, you can do them in February and they will catch up. Basket of fire are wonderful. They are usually going to them in a pot. So I'll I will put them in the polytunnel or in the greenhouse, but they'll grow in a pot. And they grow this most wonderful dark green foliage. And it has hundreds. I could, you know, hundreds of amazing looking little chilies all over it. And they're all right at different stages. So on the plant, you've got green, you've got red, you've got yellow, you've got orange. And it looks absolutely fabulous. I would highly recommend basket of fire. And next up is the first of our sweet peppers or bell peppers with a sear. This one here is called Tangerine Dream. First time trying out this one this year. And it's a little bit like basket of fire that I just mentioned, but for sweet peppers. I mean, they do grow quite a bit bigger than that basket of fire. But I'm going to do them in a pot in the polytunnel, in the greenhouse. Look after them, molly coddle them. And they should be absolutely wonderful. Great for salads and things like that. They're not massive, not big huge ones. These maybe chop up and chuck in your cooking in your spag barley or chili or whatever it is you're cooking. Nice little ones. Perfect for salads. Next up, my absolute favorite pepper. And this is King of the North. I cannot say enough good things about this pepper. The plant is productive. It is easy to grow for a pepper. It is relatively hardy. If you're a Scotland, you might push it just a little bit, but down south and you can the warmer climbs, you can absolutely grow these peppers outside if you want. They don't need to be undercovered. They are big, thick, warm, fleshy fruits. They are marvellous. I cannot recommend King of the North pepper as enough, just in case you can't tell. And next up, Obergine and the first selection from our favorite seed supplier, Grown Local. Link down below in the description. Please go and have a look. And this is a variety called Genie F1. Now, arguably, I should have had this zone in January. Probably about to start the month. I'm a little bit behind. Am I worried? Not really. That's life. These things happen. Sometimes I forget to sow certain seeds. I'm trying to be more organised. Those of you who saw my planning video, I'm trying to stick to the plan. I'm trying to stick to the spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is created this month. So it's a bit of a work and progress. But yeah, I should have had these done a couple of weeks ago. They'll catch up. They'll get them done on the heated propagator. We'll get them on the gruelite. And I'm sure they will catch up in no time whatsoever. But the Genie F1 good, solid, decent Obergine. I'm only going to do one or two plans. I don't eat loads and loads and loads of Obergine. But I love Amusaka. I like Greek food. I love Greek food. Obergine, the Amusaka. Absolutely marvellous. And next for this month is Col Rabby. And as always, I'd like to say about a lot of these things. It's more than or not all about finding the right variety. And as you can see from this rather tad-edged sheet packet, I have used these things before many, many times and they are brilliant. This is a variety from DT Brown and it is called Cosac F1. It is a green Col Rabby. It's not a birth one. It's a green one. It is brilliant. One of the main problems with Col Rabby is if you leave it too long, it goes this horrible, grainy, tough, woody texture. Cosac F1 does not do that. It just keeps on growing. I mean, I would still pick it young. You know, picking them young is the best time to have them. Two ways I like my Col Rabby. One is in a mash. It's a bit like turn up. You know, it's lovely, you mash it, boil it, mash it, have a like that. The other thing I like to do, raw, sliced, really thinly in a salad. Absolutely blown marvellous. And next up for this month is our first shallot of the air. And this is from the Obergine that I'm probably just a little bit late with to one that I'm going to push my look with. And this is a variety of shallot called Zabroun. Or it's otherwise called banana shallot. It's a big tall bulbous sort of shallot. It's wonderful. It goes to a great size, more of a sort of, like overall volume, more of sort of an onion sort of size than a traditional shallot sort of size. Grow them sincere. Absolutely wonderful. They're probably, you know, it says march on the packet. February is a long month. It's even longer this year because we're in a leap year. So some of these I am going to be going, like I always say, towards the end of the month. Just because I'm saying seeds for February, it's not going to become the first of February. And I'm magically going to sell all of these seeds in one go. Some of them I am going to sell early. The Obergines, the Bell Peppers, the basket of fire, they're all getting on the go straight away. Probably the call wrapping as well. The rest of them are going to be spread out throughout the month. And this is a prime example of one that I'll probably do around about mid February sort of time. And again, there'll be a little bit molly coddled. There'll be looked after, they'll be kept under cover. They're not going to go straight away. And next up for this month, we've got one of my absolute staples. And that is bolt hardy beetroot. I've tried many different varieties over the past few years. I must admit, they're all, they're all pretty much good. But this one, bolt hardy beetroot, absolutely solid, rock solid, top performer, year after year. And like the name suggests, it is bolt hardy, it's resistant to balding, which is brilliant once the sun does actually come out here in Scotland and it warms up. It's resistant to balding and you'll get a brilliant crop from it. Plus you get absolutely bajillions of seeds for hardly any money whatsoever. Next on the list again for my favorite seed supplier, grown local is a variety of pea called Oregon sugar pod. Now, me and peas have a love hate relationship. I love grown peas, peas hate grown for me. I have trouble with peas every single year. I could you know, and I am determined. This is the year. This is the year we are going to have the most spectacular crop of peas you have ever seen on a YouTube video. So be sure to come back around about some of the time just to see whether that actually worked out or not. Anyway, I'm maybe pushing my look a little bit again with these ones. Or quite early for peas again, probably more towards the end of the month, but I'm determined, determined to get a good crop of peas this year. Now, let me take you forward in time. Right to the very end of February. I mentioned it was a leap year and we've got the 29th of February coming up and that is where I'm going to be selling these seeds. And this is where I need your help. Now, most of my tomatoes, because the repeal in Scotland are going to be the next month in March, but I'm brought two with them forward. I want to get some of them done. Just go that little bit of a head start at the end of February, but when I've been sorting through my seeds, I'm pretty sure I'm short of one type of tomato. So I've grown my different varieties planned out. I've got a couple here. I've got another couple ready for next month, but what I need your help without their YouTube is I would like you to pick me a variety of tomato to grow this summer. I can only grow one more variety. I've all got space for one more variety. So please let me know in the comments down below the variety I should grow because I have looked and I have looked and there's blooming millions of them. I don't know which one to pick. So please pick one for me and we'll see how we're getting with those. But two that I have picked again from grown local. This one here is black moon f1. Never tried them before. I am really looking forward to trying them out this year. Just I love the tomatoes. I love the colour of some of those dark tomatoes when they go in the polytunnel because the light ones go the red ones and we look at the contrast of the dark ones against them. It's going to be some great Instagram pictures coming on the back of that. Anyway another one we're going to do here and this is San Marzano. One of the things I do with the tomatoes is make a sort of based tomato sauce with them. Again whether it's for chili, whether it's for a spag ball or pasta or whatever. Having that sort of supply of fresh tomato sauce stored in the freezer over the winter. It's pulled out. You've got that honestly the the taste of that fresh tomato sauce compared to one that you buy at the supermarket. Absolutely marvellous. In this right here San Marzano grows these big fat juicy tomatoes and apparently they're the best ones for making tomato sauce with. And one last thing to mention is I haven't forgotten about my friends. The flowers. Yes I am going to be sung flower seeds this month. I am trying to get better a different flowers to grow. But there is a potty mouth garden club special coming up. It's just about a week or so all about flowers and it really is going to be a very very special one. But more about that next week watch out in the community section of the channel. You will see me post a link to that and it'll take you to the show and you can go along and watch it. And there'll be a few special guests on there talking all about the different types of flowers. They're going to be grown this year and I'm very very pleased to say some of them know a lot more about flowers than I do. But anyway that's me done for this video. Thank you very much for watching folks and I'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.