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🌱 What I’ve Planted This May – And What’s Next for June
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May 31, 2025
🌱 What I’ve Planted This May – And What’s Next for June It’s been a busy month on the allotment! From sowing tender crops to planting out seedlings, May has been full of growing action. 🌞🥬🫑 In this video, I’ll show you exactly what I’ve planted throughout May, what’s already thriving, and what I’ve got lined up to sow and grow in June. It’s the perfect time to reflect, learn, and get ahead for the summer season. What’s been your favourite thing to plant this month? And what’s next on your list for June? #MayPlanting #JunePlanning #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #UKGardeners #SummerGrowing
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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben what have we planted in May and
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what are we going to be doing in June
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that is what we're talking about today
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so in May we planted absolutely loads
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and loads of things in May because I
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usually wait until the frost period
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chance is over which is usually about
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middle of May for where I am and then I
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go full steam ahead and get planting
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loads and loads of stuff now I've
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planted some lettuce i planted
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cauliflower broccoli spring onions leak
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corettes butternut squash
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pumpkins lettuce
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um spring onions radish beetroot
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absolutely loads and loads of produce I
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planted this month now June time is
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going to be an even busier month for
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planting because I'll replace any plants
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that haven't taken very well like I've
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lost some lettucees i may have lost some
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broccoli plants but yeah we'll be
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filling in all those gaps and getting
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more stuff growing and obviously with
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growing vegetables you work on
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succession growing so that you keep
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planting stuff on a regular basis so
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that you'll get a produce all the way
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through the summer period i'm just
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looking at where this piece of tape's
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coming from from my poly drum there's
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always jobs to be done down at the a
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lotment so we will be planting more
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beetroot we'll be planting more lettuce
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we'll be planting more spring onions
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more radishes because you can keep
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sewing them on a regular basis because
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then you'll keep getting produce all the
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way through the summer period all the
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way up to October and that is what you
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want in gardening and a lotments is to
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keep getting produce growing all the
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time so that is non-stop produce picking
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which is the best part of having an a
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lotment is picking all your produce so
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we'll be planting all them we're also
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going to be harvesting our garlic in
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June mine's not ready for harvesting yet
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i planted it October time but it should
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be ready to harvest in June time it's
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starting to stop growing now and it's
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starting to wither back a bit so we'll
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be keeping an eye on that for when we're
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going to be harvesting it we've also got
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loads more sweet corn to plant out i'm
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going crazy mad with sweet corn this
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year that is my favorite thing to grow
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down at the a lotment is sweet corn so
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we've got a load more sweet corn to
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plant we planted some last month uh
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which we started from seed and then I
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bought some from the Asda which you'll
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have probably seen uh we planted them
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and then I also started some marov from
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seed a few weeks back and that's getting
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ready for planting out so we need to
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find more space to plant them in we'll
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also be planting out our pumpkins we've
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got some Atlantic giants growing uh I
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possibly sewed them a bit too late
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should have sewn them around March time
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but I sewed them a couple of weeks ago
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but we're going to probably put them
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where the garlic were so digging them
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garlic up will make space for the
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pumpkins to grow we'll need to add some
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food into the ground because the garlic
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might have taken a lot of the food away
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from it so we'll add some nutrition into
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the ground as well and obviously compost
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and keep them watered keep them wellfed
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to get a great produce from them so
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we'll be doing that we'll also be
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planting out a load more sunflowers i've
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got thousands and thousands of
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sunflowers growing so we need to get all
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them out we've got loads of sweet peas
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to get out yes I'm late getting my sweet
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peas out we'll be planting some more
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peas because um we've got peas growing
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we've also got loads to plant out and
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I'm one of these people that if I see a
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gap I will fill it whether it would be
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with spring onions whether it would be
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root anything that'll fill the gaps in
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yes you should leave space for weeding
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but I tend not to i tend to just fill
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everything in with other plants and keep
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it growing so we've got them to do will
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also be concentrating on our tomato
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plants as I set myself a weekly mission
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where every week I will spend 10 minutes
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on them taking off any of the suckers
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tying them up giving them a feed giving
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them a good drink of water and looking
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after them because they do need looking
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after tomato plants if you don't look
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after them they won't give you the
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produce that you need from them so I'll
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be concentrating on that this month so
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hopefully we in June we'll be getting
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lots more done down here at the plot and
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obviously one of the main jobs down at
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the a lotment during June is weeding
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weeding never stops and now that we've
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had a lot of rain down here where I am
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we're going to be doing even more
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weeding because it's going to be growing
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mentally down here and trying to keep on
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top of weeding as well as planting is
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hard work once you've got everything
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planted then you can keep on top of the
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weeding pretty easy but trying to do
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everything at once weeding watering and
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planting it's a hard job hence the
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reason why during the winter months I do
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all my maintenance work any building any
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bed building any tidying up I do
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throughout the winter period so that I
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can concentrate on everything like the
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growing season during that time so yeah
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I'm looking forward to June uh make sure
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you stay tuned for everything that you
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can plant during the June month we'll be
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going through that coming up so make
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sure you drop us a follow until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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