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Allotment Gardening in November | What to Plant & Winter Prep Guide
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Nov 7, 2024
🌱 The Ultimate Guide to Allotment Gardening in November: What to Plant and How to Prepare for Winter November may be chilly, but it’s full of opportunity for smart gardeners! 🍂🧤 In this episode, I share everything you need to know to make the most of your allotment in November — from what seeds and crops to plant, to how to prep your beds, protect your soil, and plan ahead for the colder months. This is your full guide to staying productive and setting up for spring success. What’s your top task on the plot this November? #NovemberGardening #AllotmentGuide #WinterPrep #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #AllotmentLife #SeasonalGardening
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Hey everyone and welcome back to gardening with Ben
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In today's episode, we're going to share with you all the things that you can plant in the garden
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in the flower garden, in the fruit garden, down at the allotment and in the garden
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So sit back, relax and enjoy today's episode. So there's still quite a few things that you can plant in the garden over the winter period
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I don't grow a lot of things myself as I use at a time for preparation, tidying up, doing any repairs
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doing any improvements down at the allotment site but I have a few things growing so what things
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can we plant in November the first thing we can plant is onions now these have got to be an autumn
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variety of onions you can usually get them from the garden centres at this time of year in a little bag
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they're usually little sets where you can just plan either yellow ones or red ones and yet you'll be
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harvesting them around June-July time so why not use one of your beds fill it up
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and stick some in because when you're harvesting them, there'll be still plenty of time to grow stuff in that bed
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after they've finished growing. So give it a try and see how well you grow your onions
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Next up is garlic. Now this is one of the main things that you grow during the winter period
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as it needs a cold to break down the clove to form the garlic bulb itself
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So you can either get them from like garden centres or you can get them off Amazon
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or you can use the garlic in the supermarket. However, if you're using the ones in the supermarket
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make sure they're from the UK or from a European country. Don't get the ones that are from like China or Russia
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because it'll be used to their climates rather than the European climates
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So make sure you look at the garlic that you're getting. Now you can obviously get the elephant garlic
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which is the massive ones, or you can get normal-sized garlic. I've got quite a few different varieties planted on my allotment
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So I'm looking forward to them growing. They always do well in my allotment of garlic
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But like I say, it needs the cold weather for it to form the garlic bulb
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So you need to get those in pretty urgently. So you need to get these planted before the bad weather does set in
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Next up is broad beans. Now, the reason why you can grow broad beans
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now they need to be a winter variety if you're choosing them. So make sure you check the right varieties when you ordering your broad beans But you can grow some now and the benefit of growing broad beans now is that when you harvesting them it before the black fly come out and if you saw them in March and when you harvesting them in June July time
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that is when all the black flies around and are usually covered in them. It doesn't usually harm the broad beans itself, but it's absolutely horrible seeing them all covered in blackfly
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But if you grow them now, they'll be ready to harvest before the blackfly appear
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So if you want in some early broad beans, now is the time to sew them
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You can either sew them in the ground or sew them in pots and then plant them out
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As obviously sawing them in the ground, the rats and the squirrels and the mice will be around
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and that will be food for them. There's not much food for them around at the moment. So just make sure you protect them when you do plant them
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The same goes for peas. You can grow a variety now, ready for harvesting early springtime
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Now that's a meteor variety of peas that you can grow. again watch out for the rats and the mice because they will like to eat them next up is asparagus
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if you want to grow some asparagus again that's expensive to buy in the supermarket so you can buy
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crowns now and you can plant them in the ground get them mulched get them planted and then you'll be
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harvesting them in a few years time they usually take a while to get going but once they get going
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then you'll be uninundated with lots of asparagus next up is spring onion hence
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where it gets its name from. If you sow some now, you'll be harvesting it early springtime
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ready for them salads. So if you want to fill a space in, plants some spring onion and get it growing
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Now I usually grow these in clumps. I don't grow them in rows. They grow better in a clump
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then you can just harvest them in the clump, a bit like what you see in a supermarket when you see
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them in the clumps together. So yeah, grow them in a little clump and see how well you get on
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So what can we grow in the fruit garden at this time of year? Now is the perfect time to be
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planting fruit. You don't plant fruit in the summer. You plant it in the wintertime as it is
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dormant. It concentrates on growing its roots rather than it growing the fruit. So now it's the perfect
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time to be planting them fruit items that you want to grow in your garden. So we can be planting
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blackberries. As you know, I've got faunless black break game changer. Absolutely game changer
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The whips on them have grown massive They faunless They don hurt you when you pulling off all the blackberries and the blackberries are massive on them They taste absolutely delicious So if you want to grow blackberries I recommend growing funless blackberries
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Next up is raspberries. Obviously you can grow autumn varieties. You can grow summer varieties
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So why not bulk up, get both of them and get them both growing
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But obviously grow them in separate places so you know which variety they are because each one requires different pruning
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So you don't want to get a muddled up. So why not try extending your season, getting some
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harvesting in summer and then some harvesting in autumn as well. Next up is strawberries. I've talked about my strawberries
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I planted 200 plants the other month. So fingers crossed, I get absolutely loads of strawberries
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Strawberry plants will be sending out all the baby runners. So if they've got babies on them
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pot them up and get them growing and then plant them out. Or you can just stick them in some soil connected to the runner
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Once you've taken roots, snip them off. Snip like that umbilical cord light with you would for a baby
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snip it off and it will get rooted and get growing. So yeah, now is the perfect time to be growing those strawberries
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and you can never have enough strawberries. Trust me, however many plants I've got, I will still eat them all
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Next up is rhubarb. Now is the time to be planting your rhubarb crowns
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a bit like an asparagus ground, it's a rhubarb crown. If you're planting rhubarb, don't pick it for the first year though
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However tempting it will be with rhubarb growing on it, don't pick it, harvest it, the year
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year after because it needs to get roots it needs to get settled and it needs to get growing
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and put all its energy into growing the crown so don't have it stick the first year plant it and get
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it planted i've got 16 crowns in my allotment absolutely loads of rubal i have tons and tons of
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rubal crumble all through summer absolutely gorgeous next up is blueberries so blueberries require
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efficacious compost to be grown in so if you're growing blueberries grow them in pots you can even
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dig them into the soil, it's up to you, or you can just place them around your garden or your
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allotment, but they need avocaceous soil to grow. So if they're growing in pots, you can give them
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everycation's feed to keep them fed throughout the summertime, but blueberry is now the time to plant
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them. Same goes for currants. Currants can be planted straight into the ground, but remember
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they will grow massive, the bushes, so leave plenty of room around them to grow, and you will
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get absolutely loads of currants on them but they are paying to pull out all the little ends on them once you harvested them So the choice is yours If you want to try and grow some fancy pulling all the little ends out the stalks out
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give them a try and see what you can grow. Obviously you can grow white ones, red ones and black ones
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There's plenty of varieties of currents to grow. So flowers, what flowers can we grow in November
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Well, now is the time to be planting all your spring bulbs. It's the perfect time, the perfect weather
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and you can plant your tulips. You can plant dúels, you can plant your bluebells, your alliums, your snowdrops, your crocuses, absolutely loads of flower bulbs to plant
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But remember, the squirrels will pull them up. So make sure you keep them protected
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Asmantas, put netted over the top until they start growing. Take the netted off and then they should be fine
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But yeah, plant all your spring bulbs. I encourage everyone that's got an allotment to grow spring bulbs because when the bees wake up from hibernation, it's the first thing around
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that they can get their energy in their nectar from. And obviously, encouraging the bees to your allotment
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will help with pollination. And around that same time, all your fruit trees will be blossoming
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So getting the more bees to the allotment, the more fruit you will get
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so it works in your favour. So I encourage everyone to grow spring bulbs on their allotment
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Next up is roses. If you wanted to grow some roses, again, now it's the perfect time to be growing them
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They're dormant, so they're concentrating on growing the roots. and getting planted and getting growing and hopefully next year or the year after you will get some
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beautiful roses growing on i might plant some more roses this year who knows i'll have to have a look
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and see what's around and finally is pansies now i grew a load of pansies from seed which you'll
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have seen in my weekly tour video now obviously it's too late to grow them from seed but you can get them
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from garden centres the plants and you can plant loads of pansies around and they will give you colour all the way
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through winter into springtime and keep your garden looking absolutely gorgeous. So that is everything that you can grow in your allotment in November or in the garden
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There's plenty of things to do. Let me know in the comments if you're going to try and grow any of these things
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I've obviously got quite a few things growing which you'll see in my weekly tour video
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If you've not had a look, go and have a look at my weekly tour video and you'll see how many things I've got growing
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So yeah, until next time everyone, remember keep smiling, keep shining and keep gardening with benefit
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