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Welcome to our weekend roundup. Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben, everybody. And
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today we're going to be talking about
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what we've got done down at the aotment
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this weekend. Now, actually, yesterday
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an absolute glorious day. It were 30°
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here in the poll. Absolutely boiling,
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but we got a lot of stuff done. We
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planted 800 peas. Yes, 800 peas. Uh
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there'll be a video coming along shortly
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with regards to that. We're going to
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grow them in the raised beds in here and
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then once they've been harvested, that's
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where we'll plant us tomatoes and our
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cucumbers. We'll leave the roots in so
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that it can feed the nitrogen back into
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the compost and feed the plants as well.
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So, we've done all that. We've planted
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some iceberg lettuce seeds in here and
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also some normal lettuce as well. So,
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that's going to be pretty good as well.
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We've also done a lot of seed sewing and
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I mean a lot of seed sewing. Absolutely
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loads. Uh can't believe how many seeds
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we've sewn this weekend. We must have
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sewn about 20 packets of seeds. So yes,
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my greenhouse is getting pretty full and
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pretty congested. But we're not having
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to water them at the moment because
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we're using the cling film method. We
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put cling film over them so that it
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keeps them moist, keeps them damp. And
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once they start to germinate, that's
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when we'll take the cling film on off
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and we'll have to start watering them.
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And if you saw one of my videos, I
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posted that my seeds are germinating
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from some that I sewed last week, which
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were my ders. I can't believe how fast
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they grow. I've never grown dies before.
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So, this is the first year and I've
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chosen to do them from seed rather than
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root what you buy in the shops because
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it's a lot cheaper obviously to grow
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from seed and obviously you get more
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plants as well. So, we're giving that a
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try and seeing how well we get on with
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it. It'll all be a learning curve and
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hopefully we'll get all the ders. I've
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must have planted about 300 ders. So
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hopefully we'll get some nice color down
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here at the plot. I'm I'm aiming to get
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a lot of color down at the plot this
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year. I want to have flowers all around
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my beds and then the vegetables in the
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middle so that this is bright. It's
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colorful. It's attractive to the bees
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and for the wildlife and the bugs and
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the insects. So yeah, that is my plan
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We've obviously also been doing a bit of
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tidying up outside. We fed the birds.
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All those being fed and the rhubarb's
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coming on absolutely amazing. I'm just
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hoping ready for that harvest soon. A
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lot of people have been commenting on my
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post saying that they be harvesting
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rhubarb already. Whether they're down
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south, I don't know, but mine's not
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ready for harvesting yet. I'm waiting
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for my first rhubarb harvest, which will
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We've also been trying out some new
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things what we've been given. We've got
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a new plant pot towers what we're going
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to grow sweet peas in. That'll be good.
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We've also got a new weeding tool to try
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out. And we've also been sent some
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gladioli bulbs as well. So, well, not
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bulbs, the corns. But we're going to
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plant those in plant pots, I think,
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because obviously we have the squive
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issue down here. And it likes to pull up
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anything that's in the ground. So, I'm
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going to plant them in plant pots, cover
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them with netting, and then once they're
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big enough, I'll take the netting off to
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look after them. So yeah, it's exciting
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times. I'm thinking I'm getting up to
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planting everything now. Sewing all my
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seeds. I've still got some to do.
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Obviously, there's quite a few what you
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plant in April rather than in March.
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Like your sweet corn, your runner beans,
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French beans, they're all in April. So,
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we've got all those to do next month.
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And sunflowers will be next month as
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well. So, we've got all that to do. So,
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yeah, we're cracking on. We're getting
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everything sewn. And the worst part will
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be transplanting them all and pop
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potting them all up once they're all
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growing. It's always good to see them
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growing, but then you think, "Oh, I've
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got to transplant them all and put them
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all, which it'll take absolutely
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forever." But yeah, we'll crack on and
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we'll get on with it. But I hope you've
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enjoyed this and we've got lots of
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content coming out for you this week.
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So, make sure you stay tuned for that.
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Until next time, everyone. Remember,
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keep smiling, keep shining, and keep
