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🎥 May Recap: What’s Grown Best on the Allotment This Month?
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May 31, 2025
🎥 May Recap: What’s Grown Best on the Allotment This Month? May has been full of surprises—and plenty of growth! From lush greens to early flowers and fruit, the allotment has really come to life. 🌞🥦🌸 In this video, I’ll take you on a quick tour of what’s grown best this month on my plot. I’ll share which crops have thrived, which ones struggled, and what I’ve learned as we head into June. It’s a great way to track progress and plan your next steps. What’s been growing well for you this May? #MayRecap #AllotmentUpdate #GardeningWithBen #GrowYourOwn #UKGardeners #AllotmentLife #MonthlyGardenReview
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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben well it's now the end of May
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and have we had a successful month or
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have we had a failure well I've got to
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say it's been a tough month this month
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has May because we've had no rain
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literally no rain most of May it's been
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so dry and barren uh having to keep
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things watered having to try and plant
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in this weather and keep things alive so
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that it takes in the ground and gets
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growing thankfully we got some rain this
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week we've had a lot of rain the last
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few days down where I am so everything
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is starting to grow well and take in the
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soil now so hopefully things will get
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growing
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and hopefully get a good produce from
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down here at the aotment but overall
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I've got to say this month has been
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pretty successful i don't get as many
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days down here now on the a lotment i
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only get a couple of days a month a week
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down here so it's a case of trying to
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get everything planted as fast as
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possible and get all the beds weeded to
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get them in the ground but we've got in
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peas we've got in sweet corn we've got
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broccoli in we've got cauliflower in
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we've got potatoes in we've got uh
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pumpkins in we've
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got radish spring onions sweet corn
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lettuce we have got lots of things in
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the ground we've still got loads more
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things to get in uh I I'll tell you that
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for sure and I've got loads more seeds
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to get started but we'll be talking
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about that in our June episode of what
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we're going to be talk planting this
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next month but yeah we've got loads of
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things in the ground and as tomatoes are
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doing well we've got tomatoes in our
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poly tunnel this year usually I plant
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them outdoors but we've planted some
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indoors this year because I've got beef
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steak ones and they need a lot more
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hotter weather to get them to ripen
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better so we've planted all those beef
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steak ones in the poly tunnel we've also
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potted up some melon plants hopefully
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try and get some melons growing this
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year in the poly tunnel we've also got
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some pepper plants now my pepper plants
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I started them off in January because
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last year they were only just fruiting
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when it were getting towards the end of
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the year so they didn't do very well but
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we planted them in January this year and
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they're growing really well they've got
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flowers on them so hopefully we'll get
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some fruit growing on our pepper plants
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this year and get a great collection now
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it's also coming to the time of
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strawberry picking a lot of you may be
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picking them already as I've seen loads
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of people picking them but they're down
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south so they tend to ripen a bit before
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when they do up north my dad's just
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started picking his and a few of mine
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are starting to turn red we have picked
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our first red ones today some of them
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need to ripen a little bit more but I'm
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picking them because we have pesky
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squirrels down here and they tend to
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pinch them so do the birds and the wood
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lice love them as well and they bite
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into them once they're ripened so I'm
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trying to get them before anything
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starts to attack them and we can
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actually enjoy them this year cuz I
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didn't get many at all last year down
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here on the a lotment so I'm hoping to
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get a better produce one now one thing
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that is doing really well is my Logan
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berry i shared that in another video
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previously and that has got so much
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fruit coming on it this year we're going
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to be inundated with Logan berries this
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year they're a bit like raspberry but
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they're bigger and the plant is
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thornless as well so you don't get
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prickled to death off it and you can
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train it along the side of your plot as
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it grows really really long and get so
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much produce on it and every year that
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it's in it'll grow bigger and bigger and
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you'll get more and more produce on it
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and Logan berries are good for jam
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they're good with ice cream good with
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custard absolutely delicious so if
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you're wanting to try a fruit which is
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very productive Loganberry go and look
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it up and get some planted and it's easy
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to take cutings from it as well all you
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do is stick the end in some soil let it
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root and then snip it off and then
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you've got yourself another plant it's
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as easy as that we've also got
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absolutely hundreds of plums growing
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we've got loads of cooking apples this
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year we've got loads of eating apples i
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didn't prune my fruit trees this year i
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left them we gave them a big prune the
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other year and I didn't get much fruit
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on them last year so I've left them this
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year to do what they want because
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sometimes when you prune a fruit tree it
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stresses it and you won't get as much
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fruit on it so I've left it so hopefully
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we'll get a good crop this year and I'll
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prune them this year for next year so
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we'll probably not get as much produce
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next year but I'm looking forward to a
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good productive year this year a good
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produce down here at the aotment uh I
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don't know if I'll get as many
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vegetables but we'll see but fruitwise
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we're going to get an absolute cracking
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amount so has May been successful I
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would say so we've had some gorgeous
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weather to get the plants growing then
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we've had the rain to help them settle
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in and get established and overall May
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has definitely been a very good month to
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have so roll on June and hopefully get
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some great produce so I'll speak to you
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all later remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone
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