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hey everyone and welcome back to
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Gardening with Ben in today's video
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we're going to be planting our pepper
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plants we started these off from seed
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back in January and we wanted to start
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them early because last year they were
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only just fruiting towards the end of
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the year so we didn't get any good
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peppers last year so we started them
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nice and early to get them well
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established and hopefully get some
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peppers on them this year and fingers
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crossed it's going to be a nice warm
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year we started off with a hot year this
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year of 2025 it's been absolutely
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gorgeous we've been having heat waves
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we're going to have another heat wave
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this week so we're going to get these
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potted up into bigger pots so that they
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can get the roots established and get
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growing bigger we're going to plant
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these in flower buckets a bit like the
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ones that I use on my tomatoes we get
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these from Morrison's we've got these
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years ago used to be able to buy them
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but I think they actually send a lot of
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them back now but I did manage to get
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some the other day as well so we've got
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plenty of those just remember to drill a
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hole in the bottom of them though
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because you need to have drainage in
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them so we're going to get these potted
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up get them filled with compost these
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pots and get them planted and we're
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going to add a bit of food in there as
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well to get them started get them
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kickarted and get them growing because
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compost doesn't have much nutrition in
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them these days and we need all the
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nutrition we can get to get good
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established plants growing also remember
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when they start to flower to start
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giving them tomato feed once a week so
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that it feeds them throughout their
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fruitting stage and it'll give them that
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nutrition that they need to get great
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peppers on them so let's see if we can
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grow some peppers this year so these my
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peppers that I've got going some of them
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have been nibbled away the little pesky
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slugs but yeah we've got some decent
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ones growing so we need to get these
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potted up and put into some bigger pots
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compost so we filled those pots up with
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compost so what we're going to do is
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make a hole like we did with tomatoes
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put some feed in and then put the pepper
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plant on top so that it gets down to the
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roots and feeds the roots when they get
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so we've added us holes so what we're
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going to do is we're going to add some
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fish and bloodbone into the holes and
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then plant the plant on top of them so
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we've added the food into the holes so
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it's a case of putting the peppers on
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now so we've planted all those peppers
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into the pots so next up we're just
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going to put some more feed around the
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top of them so that it soaks in as we
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water them and yeah then we've just got
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to get them in position and give them a
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watering they don't need much of a
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watering because they were absolutely
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damp already i'd already watered them
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this morning so we'll just give them a
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over so there we are i've given them all
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a good feed so fingers crossed after a
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good watering then they'll perk up
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hopefully get established get the roots
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set and get growing some peppers this
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year that's what we want we want some
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so I hope you've enjoyed that video i
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hope you've learned something from this
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video today and make sure you give us a
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follow so you can stay up to date with
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how well the peppers grow and see if
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they produce anything here's to a hot
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hoping but yeah if it's hot we'll have
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to end up watering more which is always
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a downside so let's get them in position
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get them sorted and stay tuned for the
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next video until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with bed everyone
