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This video explains what you can grow during winter and how to care for plants in cold weather. Learn which vegetables and plants tolerate low temperatures and how to protect them from frost and wet conditions.
The guide covers simple winter gardening tasks including soil care, watering, protection and planning for the next growing season. These techniques help plants survive colder months and prepare your garden for healthy spring growth.
If you want to stay productive in the garden during winter, this video provides practical advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and small growing spaces.
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Hey everybody and welcome to gardening with Ben
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We're going to be giving you a tour of our allotment what it's looking like in January today
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So sit back, relax and enjoy today's episode. So we're down here on the allotment after all the snow what we had last week but we thought we'd give you a little tour of what it's looking like at the moment as obviously quite a few people want to see how well things are looking
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So yeah, let's stop the talking, let's do the tour and let's see what's growing and what's not growing
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So let's enjoy it. So we're down here on the allotment so let's give you a tour of what is growing. Let's see what's happening down here
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happening down here at the plot. So as always, we start off at the front of the plot
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And as you can see, we've got bulbs coming through, somewhere coming out of the ground
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We need to push them back in. But yeah, the bulbs are starting to pop through
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which is a fantastic sign. Hopefully, we'll have lots of spring color down here
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at the front of the plot. The heather is looking absolutely beautiful. It's coming on really, really well
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I'm so pleased that I planted that heather. It will what I got at a discount
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at B&Q and they were selling it off and I thought, oh, I'll give it a try. And wow, it has done
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fantastic year on year. Hopefully it'll keep spreading and hopefully keep growing every year
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But yeah, we've got lots and lots of bulbs popping through in all the gaps. So hopefully we're
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going to have a beautiful spring array of colour all down here at the front. You can see the
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tulips popping through. Yes, you can see everything's starting to grow, which is
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fantastic as I spent so much money on bulbs this year, well last year to plant because last
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year it didn't do as well but hopefully we'll have lots and lots of colour growing. We've got loads
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more bulbs here, absolutely loads. The squirrel's not pinched them all. But yeah, hopefully we're
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going to have a fantastic amount of colour down here at the front of the plot this year. This was
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only a little miniature plant when I bought this originally. It one of those ones that smell of lemon Wow it massive now Look at this But yeah absolutely gorgeous
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We've still got a few berries out and about for the birdies to eat
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But yeah, we've got loads of bulbs dotted all around as borders
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They don't seem to be as many bulbs coming through in this front area. Hopefully we get some colour and hopefully it looks good
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But yeah, we need to try and sort out some of these front beds and have a nice entrance feature next this year
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That is our lavender what was growing. Hopefully it comes back next year and hopefully it looks better
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We've got a load of bulbs popping up in here as well, which is fantastic
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I know there were a load of tulips in there, wasn't you? So hopefully it's all them coming through
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but I do love high sims that is one thing that I do love
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But yeah, we've got all those fruit trees. We've not pruned them this year
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as I didn't get many cooking apples on it last year. So we've left it as it is
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We've trimmed off a few what we're getting in the way and crossing each other. But yeah, hopefully we get some good fruit this year on here
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And we've got us rhubarb popping through. But yeah, that won't make the proper start
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until around April time when it'll start growing. But yeah, we've got lots to turn in, lots to clear up, lots to tidy
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Down here. We've got loads of bulbs in here as well. Hopefully they all come through and look good
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We've got absolutely loads in here. We've got tulets, we've got alliums, we've got crocuses, we've got daffodils, we've got hyacymns
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But yeah, hopefully, a fantastic array of colour. We've got us, I can't remember what they call it now
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Salvia. We've got a salvia growing as well. Hopefully that comes back and it doesn't die off
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this year. But yeah, lots of bulbs coming out and about. We've got us bird feeder up
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Got to keep the birds fed. And we've got his wildlife camera, just in case we spot anything
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Fantastic down here. So we're now in the shed. And as you know, I dug up all my geraniums at the end of the year
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and I brought them inside. So hopefully keep them alive and keep them
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growing they not looking too bad summer a bit poor but yeah hopefully we get some we can plant these back out in spring time might have to trim them back a bit That one got a flower coming on it But yeah these are all the sweet peas
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what we're planted in October, and these will be going out in springtime
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We started them off early because it makes them stronger, and we've proven them all back to make them busier
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They'll get smaller flowers on them, but they'll get more flowers on them, if you get them
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So hopefully we get some fantastic sweet peat. we've got absolutely loads planted
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So hopefully they all grew well. And then we've got loads of other plants, flowers, what we've plotted on
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Don't ask me the names because I forgot to put labels in them. We've got some labels in, Holyoke
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So yeah. And these are all our salvia cuttings that we took as well
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Some are doing well, some aren't, but hopefully we get some extra plants for next year
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This is the black currant for the smelling one. So it smells a black currant
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grew absolutely phenomenal so that's why I took lots of cuttings to try and get some new plants
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for this year and then we've got some more flowers growing we've got another salvia variety there
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growing at the back so hopefully we can plant those out as well in springtime and then here we've
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got some loopings growing what we've grown from seed they're looking all right actually I'm
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quite impressed with them so hopefully we'll get some fantastic looping down here on the allotment as well this year
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A lot more sweet peas, a lot more flowers growing. So yeah, we've got lots of lots of flowers planted
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So hopefully we get some good colour and some great, beautiful flowers down here this year
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So we're back outside. So yeah, we've got loads of spring bulbs in here as well
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You can see some Martial looks popping through. But yeah, we've got a bulb lasagna here, which we're trying this year
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We've never done a bulb lasagna before. different bulbs on different layers. So we'll see what that comes out like
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We've been sorting out all those canes for as Logan berries. What are growing
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So hopefully lots of Logan berries this year. We've got those blueberries
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We need to tidy them up, sort them out, put some fresh, ericacious compost in
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We've got all this strawberry plants outside. So hopefully it will get lots of strawberry plants
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We planted about 200 plants at the end of last year. Hopefully we get lots and lots of strawberries this year
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We got us grape vine Hopefully we get some grapes on it this year I didn get no grapes last year We see how we get on We still got a bit of snow coming Down this side we got lots of different varieties at Alliums
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So hopefully some beautiful purple colours down this side. But yeah, this is the plot
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We've obviously got our climbing roses, what are doing well. We pruned all them back
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We've got us blackberry down the side of us. blackberry we've tried to tidy that up a bit they grow absolutely loads of blackberries on them absolutely
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beautiful, formless blackberries and then this is a plot obviously it's not a brilliant site at the
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moment it's a bit of a mess we've got some onions growing we need to have a look at them and see how
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well they're getting on they're not looking too good at some of them some is just starting to grow
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so hopefully we get some onions these are autumn variety what you're planning
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So hopefully these will be ready around June time. And then we've got us garlic
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As garlic's doing really well. Look at that. Absolutely fantastic. The cold weather last week will have helped it
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because the cold weather helps split the cloves and create the formation of the garlic
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So yeah, hopefully we're going to get a lot of garlic this year. So no vampires will get me
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But yeah, the plot is pretty much. all right at the moment, a lot of it's been weeded, it's all tidied, we've just got to fix all the beds up
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hopefully get them all repainted this year, sort the paths out a bit, and then we'll be ready to start for growing this year
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As beetroot's had it, I think. We might get some beetroot out of it, I don't know
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So that has been a tour of my allotment. I hope we've enjoyed it, and obviously it's good to see what it's actually looking like so that other people can think, oh, mine's looking
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as bad as yours. But yeah, I hope that you've enjoyed the video. Make sure you do give us a
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follow here on YouTube and give it a like, give it a comment. Let me know what y'all getting up to
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If you've not listened to my podcasts, go and listen to my podcasts. They're available on any
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podcast platform like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just search for gardening with Ben. There's new
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episodes regular on there where I'm talking about everything that I'm getting up to down here
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at the allotment. Lots of people listen to. to it every single day so yeah have a listen to those podcasts until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep gardening with bed everyone
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