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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my friend Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about a wonderful group of seeds, the hardy annuals that you can throw about your garden at this time of year,

that will be very happy to germinate directly into the soil.

And they're a wonderful, easy group.

You can go out in the garden any time at this time of year, throw them about the place. As long as you're throwing them on to disturb soil,

ideally in full sun, protect them from the birds. They'll come up within a few weeks and by the summer,

your garden will be full of the easiest, abundant, lovely natural meadow of flowers. Most notably are

the poppies, opium poppies that have a beautiful seed head once the petals fade. And the lovely

thing about them is every morning when I'm at Perch Hill in the cutting garden, I walk through it.

And the bumblebees, it's just like an explosion of buzzing because most poppies only lasted a couple of days,

so they're full of nectar and every morning the bees are diving and battling each other as two gets in each poppy.

And when I was last at Perch Hill, it was wonderful walking through the garden because there were so many lovely little rosettes of grey opium poppies about the place,

because Sarah's very good at leaving the lovely

baby seedlings of them around to grow and self-soured.

I think that's one of the reasons I love them actually, which is that they do self-seed.

I mean, hardy annuals

are plants that come from our temperate climate. So they're in our sort of climate zone. And what

that means is that they're almost like our natural cornfield weeds. So something like a cosmos

or an antirinem are sort of borderline hardy, depending

where you live, but not really. Whereas this group of plants, the hardy annuals, really,

they will just make their babies from one year to the next. So whether you're talking something

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