How To Grow A Garden (1962)
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Creator: A/V Geeks 16mm Films
Description: Interprets the cycle of seed to flower to seed by the use of time-lapse photography. A boy plants some flower seeds, gives the seeds proper care and waits for the seeds to flower and to seed again. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
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one day is to make a garden the plant [Music] she placed the seeds in the soft earth and covered them up [Music] will thought that perhaps he'd plant a garden of his own it would be fun to surprise his mother [Music] he knew a place where the ground was soft someone had Dugard with a spin it must be soft his mother had said then he opened his package of scenes [Music] they were the seeds of a flower called nasturtiums [Music] they were light colored quite large and very wrinkled [Music] with his finger will made a little trench in the softer he put the seeds in one by one [Music] he covered them over [Music] and patted them down and then he remembered there was one thing more to be done [Music] without water seeds can't roll [Music] oh there you are will showed his mother where the seeds were he told her how it made a trench and planet Earth and he showed her how tall they were going to grow he gets his mother's said that will had prepared his garden just right and that is nasturtiums seeds would surely grow and that it was almost time for supper [Music] the next morning's will was up early Hey well what are you doing out there in pajamas they didn't grow it's too soon you have to wait come on come on put your clothes on in order to grow seeds need to be warm sunshine warns dawn the Sun warms the earth [Music] and the seeds within a two but sunshine also dries the earth and well knew that seeds need water so [Music] [Applause] every day for a whole week we'll sprinkled his garden with water making the earth damp so the seeds could grow [Music] still even after a week nothing could be seen above the ground but if will could have looked at his seeds down under the ground as we can do by special photography he would have seen that roots were growing down from the seeds down toward water it actually took the seed two days to grow this root after his grown arute a scene sends up a little shoot a baby plan for several days the shoot pushes up with toward the Sun [Music] goodness what's the excitement Oh your seeds of grown and the shoots grew into little plants [Music] worn by the Sun and watered by will the plants slowly grew larger and larger and then one day we'll found something on one of his plants it was a bud the beginnings of a flower a little bud grew and grew and opened into a flower [Music] close your eyes open oh oh oh wait blue thank you darling [Music] soon wills garden was full of flowers he gave some of them to his father [Music] what I need it now it was summertime and in the summer boys find lots to do for several weeks will forgot his garden until finally when he did go to pick some flowers [Music] what's the matter will but flaws are all gone all the trust is Beedrill things oh but that's very good these are seeds will look when they're dry they'll look just like the ones you planted you can save them and plant them next year [Music] you'll have a guard Rhian see [Music] he had been and now were seized [Music] he picked all he could find will gathered a great many nasturtiums sees many more than when his first package [Music] next spring he may plant a bigger garden for seeds grow into plants that have flowers and flowers have scenes again year after year after year [Music]
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Record added: 2026-05-28 18:07:13