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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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be planting mint now I bought these
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plants pretty cheap and we need to get
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them planted so that they get
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established and get growing however with
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mint it is advised not to plant it in
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the ground because it does take over and
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it can grow absolutely mental so the
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best thing to do is grow them in plant
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pots now I've been out and bought some
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plant pots for these to go in just nice
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decent size small ones should get enough
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mint on them and hopefully they will
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bush out but the thing is that you've
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got to remember is you need to put some
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holes in the bottom of them for drainage
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as they don't often come with holes they
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usually give you the place where to put
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the holes where it's the thinnest so
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yeah just drill some holes in the bottom
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of them to grow so let's show you what
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mint we have purchased we bought five
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varieties there's loads of varieties of
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mint out there if you're not aware not
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just the normal mint there's different
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smelling mints out there to try so we
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have got a apple mint this one smells of
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apple it's going to smell gorgeous down
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here on my a lotment but yeah nice
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healthy plants bought them pretty cheap
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and they should take and hopefully get
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growing fast then we've got a chocolate
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mint so if you like chocolate get one of
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this one because it'll smell gorgeous
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ooh it smells like uh after eight mints
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that's what it smells like so another
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one then we've got a Moroccan mint this
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one probably is one of my favorite ones
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wow then we have got a pineapple mint
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pineapple lots of different flavors out
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gorgeous and then we've got an orange
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flavored one so a nice variety of
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selection of mints to try there's also a
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spearmint flavor one out there but I've
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not that wasn't available in my shop so
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I might have to try and find that one
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and order it because the spearmint one
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again is another gorgeous one to try so
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we best drill the holes in the plant
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pots get them planted up get them
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watered and find somewhere to put them
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you don't want to generally put them
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near one another as the smells can
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transfer between the plants so you're
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probably best off like separating them
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and having them in different places when
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putting them outside so yeah let's get
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these plant pots drilled and let's get
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compost so as you can see I've put loads
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and loads of holes in there so that
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there's plenty of drainage firm and they
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won't get water logged so yeah we just
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need to fill them with compost now and
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get them ready to plant we're going to
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be using Miracle Grow Pete Free as
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obviously there's food in it and it's
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Pete free so that's the best thing to
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use pete free compost so let's get them
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filled up with compost ready to plant so
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we got these filled up yes we've got a
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small pink one but we they didn't have
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five in the supermarket of this size so
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I've had to use one of these ones for
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the time being until we can get one that
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matches these ones but oh well we got a
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nice one there but yeah let's get these
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potted up into the plant pots and then
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get them all watered so we got all them
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potted up we got them with his labels in
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as well that one didn't come with a
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label but I know that's apple mint so
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yeah let's find somewhere to put them
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and then get them watered
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so we've popped them outside for the
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time being just around where we sit so
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that they'll smell nice and hopefully
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grow pretty well but yeah we've got
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lavender in here as well so hopefully
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it'll smell really nice around here come
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summertime i can't wait to see how they
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all turn out and hopefully grow so I
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