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This video shows how to build a garden arch to support climbing plants and how to plant asparagus for a long-lasting, productive edible garden.
It covers positioning supports, constructing the arch, preparing soil and planting asparagus crowns. Proper structure and planting techniques improve plant growth, harvest, and garden aesthetics.
Suitable for gardens, raised beds, small spaces, and edible landscaping.
Suitable for UK and international gardeners in temperate climates.
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Good morning everybody, well we're back down at the allotment this morning and it's going
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to be a very busy day today. I thought I were off tonight but let's see what we are doing today down on the plot
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so today i've got my rose arches what have been delivered so i'm looking forward to getting those
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put up on my plot fingers crossed they're easy to do but we'll see what they'll like when i
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unpackage them and also i've brought all my seeds down and potatoes down as i want to start chitting
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them now and getting them ready for planting out around good friday i always stick to the old
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wives tale of planting potatoes on or around good friday it's something to do with the moon
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if anybody knows the reason behind it let me know in the comments but yeah i want to do some
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filming for my sunflower competition give you advice and tips on growing them and also film
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what seeds I've been purchasing from Wilkinson's as I've spent about £63 on them
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But yeah it definitely worth it for the amount of fruit and vegetables that you get from it and flowers So let see what we doing today So these are my two packs of rose archers
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We just need to unpack them and see what they are like inside. Fingers crossed they're okay
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Well, I've unpackaged them and it looks like it's going to be a bit of a jigsaw
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Look at that. That's going to take forever. But we'll see if we can get it done and show you the outcome of how it turns out
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So let's get cracking with building it. Well, I've got two sides of the frame done
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And that one, they just need joining together. I had to use a drill on certain points as the holes weren't aligned properly
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So make sure you've got a drill if you're going to be doing it yourself. so yeah just need to get them joined up and put on the plot but first we'll do the other one
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and then do them both together outside as it's raining a bit at the moment so i've got up both of my frames that's the first one it's a lot wider than i thought it would be i
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didn't realize it would be that wide i should have checked the measurements we are and that's my
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second one so what i need to do is move my rose bushes from where i thought they would be to the
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actual place they should be so it's not too bad I can dig them up they've only
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been in a week in the ground so we can get them out and move them but as you can see certainly coming to life so yeah let get them dug up and moved so we moved the roses to where they should be which is next to the frame so we can
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train them to go up the frame and grow where they should do and look at all the bulbs the bulbs are
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coming up really well so fingers crossed it's gonna look good soon just need to get all the
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fencing painted but yeah fantastic. So next up I'm going to be planting my
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asparagus this is what I've purchased from Wilkinson's as you can see it was
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£2.00 to green asparagus so as you can see it is actually growing so I need to
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get it in the ground it does say plant out in March but I'm going to plant it
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now and get it ready and in the ground ready for growing. I did ask my followers about asparagus
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because I've never actually grown it myself it's the first time that I'm growing it and I needed tips and advice on it and they told me that I shouldn't be pulling it for the first
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year I should let it settle in the ground as it sounds it's a bit like rhubarb you're not meant
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to pick from the crown in the first year you're meant to let it settle in before pulling it up
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so yeah let get this planted and in the ground and watered well so I made a hole deep enough and I put some old compost in the bottom what I had just to try and improve it a bit so it a case of just getting it all
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in the ground and planted so yeah let's get it in so I planted it in the ground
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I've taken off them shoots as they probably waste a space so we've got them in
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so it's a case of just watering them and getting them alive and getting them rooted
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So that is all I'm doing down on the plot today. It doesn't seem much but it's taken ages
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I didn't expect that rose arch to take so long. It took like two hours to put together it like a
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jigsaw and like I said I had to use a drill to create the holes to make them bigger and yeah it
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was a nightmare but I'll post the link to the archers if you're watching on youtube in the
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description below if you want some for your plot they're nice and cheap and they seem quite stable
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enough so yeah if you're watching on youtube make sure you click that subscribe button to stay up
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and on my facebook so if you're watching leave a like leave a comment and until next time keep gardening
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Thank you
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