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how to turn failures into success
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stories welcome to Gardening with Ben
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and today we're going to be talking
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about how we turn our failures down at
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the a lotment into success stories and
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we certainly have lots of failures i'm
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always failing down at the aotment and
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failing at things you learn from it and
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you improve from your failures and some
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of the failures that I have down here at
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the aotment has to be watering now I
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love planting i love growing but I just
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hate watering and obviously without
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watering you won't get great produce
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down at the a lotment you won't get
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great crops and if it's like it is at
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the moment we've not had rain for 21
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days down here where I am so everything
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is pretty dry so if I didn't water
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everything would certainly die off down
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here at the a lotment
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so you learn from not watering because
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busy looking after things keeping it
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alive and keeping it growing so the I've
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learned from not watering because things
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just die off and you need to keep things
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watered on a regular basis even if it's
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every couple of days the soil where I am
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keeps pretty damp and keeps pretty moist
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underneath it's usually dry on top but
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when you dig down it's pretty damp so I
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only water every couple of days down
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here now at the moment and we get great
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produce from it another failure has to
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be is not putting seed labels in my
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plants i've done this many of times for
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I'll know what it is when it's growing
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and then when it's growing you totally
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forget what it is certain plants you can
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tell what they are like sweet corn or
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peas or beetroot or even carrots you can
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always tell what they are but certain
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things you can't tell what they are
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until they've actually grown a bit like
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squash corettes pumpkins they all look
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the same goes for brassacas like
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cauliflower cabbage broccoli they all
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look alike so you don't know what they
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are until they actually grow so I've
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definitely learned from not labeling up
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because you need to know what you're
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planting and need to know how much space
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you need to leave between them all so
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make sure you get some labels and make
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sure you write everything
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down but there's so many failures like
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some years vegetables will do really
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well they'll grow really well and you'll
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have a fantastic crop you'll do the same
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process the year after and there's a
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total failure and sometimes you can't
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explain it sometimes it's down to the
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weather last year it was an awful summer
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it were cold it were raining all the
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time and things didn't grow well
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whatsoever and some years like this year
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so each year is a different year so
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never get disheartened with failures
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down at the aotment or it will put you
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off gardening is about having fun and if
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you get produce yes bonus fantastic
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you've got a great crop and you can eat
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the produce what you have grown but if
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you get failures you just try again the
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year after start from scratch every year
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and enjoy it and reap the rewards from
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it so there's plenty of failures out
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there and I have failures with spacing
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or I plant loads of seeds and then I
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don't end up watering them and they all
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die off or another failure that I have
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is I plant too many seeds i get a seed
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packet i sprinkle all the seeds out i
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don't save any of them uh I sprinkle
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them all out cuz they're that cheap some
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seeds uh I think it's pointless just
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wrapping them back up until the year
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after so I end up planting all the seeds
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and I have too many plants but the
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success from that is I give loads of
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plants away as well so I give them to
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other people down here at the a lotment
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and they can enjoy the rewards of what
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I've started for them and they can see
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the success in them so from failures you
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can have success stories as well from
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them and every day is a success being
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down at the a lotment because going to
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the a lotment is good for the mental
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health it's good for being down here
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it's good for relaxing it's good for
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everything really it's good for exercise
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so every day is a success if you manage
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to get to your a lotment and garden and
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like I said if you get vegetables or
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fruit from it that is a bonus and some
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things grow really really well and they
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don't need no help whatsoever like
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rhubarb rhubarb does really well lettuce
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seems to do really well runner beans
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peas there's so many great vegetables
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out there that you can have great
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success from with little effort put into
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looking after and keeping them alive so
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we'll talk about that in another episode
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what the best things are to grow to get
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great success from so until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone until next time we'll see you
