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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben we're going to talk about the
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five biggest lessons that I've learned
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this month and yeah we have got a lot of
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lessons that we always learning you're
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always learning new things down at the a
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lotment and there's always things to
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learn every single day and it's non-stop
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learning gardening you learn from your
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mistakes and you try and improve from
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them so what mistakes have we learned
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from so we have learned
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from not spending enough time down at
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the a lotment sometimes I come down and
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I don't do much which is good in a sense
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because you can just sit back and relax
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but your time is precious down at the a
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lotment there's always lots to be done
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and if you don't do much things can get
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too much and you can't keep on top of it
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and the weeds do grow back really really
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and if if I could change it I'd spend
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more time down at the plot as usually I
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get down here about half 9 and say to
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about 1 but yeah adding an extra hour in
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possibly you can get better rewards from
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it the second biggest mistake is not
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netting things you'd have thought I'd
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have learned by now but sometimes I
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forget to net things and I'll come down
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the next day and the pigeons have ate
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the especially brassacas they will
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devour them brussels sprouts broccoli
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cabbage cauliflower if you don't net
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them the pigeons will eat them and
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they'll absolutely love them to bits so
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make sure you net everything it doesn't
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cost much to buy the netting and it's
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probably cheaper off buying the netting
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than replacing the plants so if I were
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to do anything different I would net
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them straight away as soon as I've done
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them the next thing is to be more
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as you know May is coming you know it's
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time for planting out but sometimes
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you're not prepared to get everything
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planted out in time and sometimes you
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end up struggling to keep on top of it
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to get things planted out and get it all
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sorted and ready and the later you plant
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things out sometimes you won't get a
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great produce from it and if you don't
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plant it out fast enough the plants may
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and die and you'll end up losing the
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plants so be prepared for the month work
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out when you're going to come down
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obviously you've got to have the nice
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weather and be prepared for putting in
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the graft putting in the hard work and
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getting it all planted out in
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time the next up is the heat not being
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prepared for the heat as it's been a hot
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month this month it we've had we
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probably had summer and it's probably
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got been and gone now we'll probably not
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get no more hot weather but being
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prepared and spending that time in
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coming down and watering it all and I
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absolutely hate watering i really do but
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without the plants being watered they
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won't grow and you won't get a great
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produce from them so putting in that
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hour every couple of days to come down
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and water to get the rewards from it and
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get some great produce from
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it next up is weeding now having a pot
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for 20 years I should really know this
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but it only takes 5 minutes to go around
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with a hoe and weed in between your
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vegetables and keep on top of the weeds
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and look after in between the plants the
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weeds take all the nutrition from the
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fruit and from the vegetables if you
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don't keep on top of the weeds your
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plants won't produce as much so keeping
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on top of those produce and getting the
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results that you want is all down to you
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if you if you are not putting in the
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effort you won't get the rewards so the
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main key thing is spend 5 minutes every
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time you're down here just going around
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with your hoe weeding it all it keeps
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the ground broken up so that the rain
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water gets in to water them well and it
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will keep the weeds down it won't get
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rid of the roots it probably chops the
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roots up and creates more weeds but you
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will keep on top of it and you can
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obviously go around another day and get
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the roots out when you've got more time
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down here so spend 5 10 minutes going
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around with a hoe and hoing in between
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your plants so yeah those are the
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probably the key things that I've
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learned from May will I learn from it
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probably not i'll probably do another
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later but yeah those are the key things
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that I've taken away from this month so
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here at the a lotment until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
