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August Allotment Tour | Garden Update & Late Summer Growing Tips
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Sep 29, 2024
🌞 Social Media Description: 🌱 AUGUST SOWING & GROWING at the Allotment Garden! It’s not too late to keep your plot productive — here’s what you can still sow and grow in August! 🌿🥬 In this episode, I share all the best crops to plant now for autumn and winter harvests, including leafy greens, quick-turnaround veg, and overwintering favourites. Plus, I offer tips on soil care, watering in the heat, and succession planting to keep your garden thriving. What are you sowing in August? #AugustSowing #AllotmentGarden #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #LateSummerPlanting #AutumnHarvest
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What seeds can we plant in August
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Welcome to gardening with Ben. We're going to show you what seeds you can plant down at the allotment and garden
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throughout the month of August, as there's still plenty of time to start growing things
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ready for the winter period and ready for next year as well, as we're growing more and more flower seeds this year
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And I'm trying to learn more about growing flower seeds. So we're going to be starting some off now, ready for next year
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So sit back, relax and enjoy today's episode. So last month we shared with you all the seeds what you could plant in July
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and it was quite a popular video. So I've decided to bring it back again this month, ready for August
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so that you can see all the different things that we can start growing. And it encourages me to get growing as well and get things keeping going throughout the year
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because I tend to give up during the winter months. I tend to stop growing stuff
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But this year I'm going to try and keep growing stuff all the way through winter. So let's see what seeds we can plant
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month. Let's start with the vegetables first. So first off we've got some climbing
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French beans. These are a later variety and you can sew these right up to end of
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July so just beginning of August so you've got plenty of time to get these in now and
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make sure they're ready for harvesting around July to October so there's still
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plenty of time so now that the weather is picking up and getting Sunday we can
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start to grow these down at the ointment so we're going to get those sewn and hopefully
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they'll be in the ground within a couple of weeks because they'll grow pretty fast in this hot
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weather next up is shard we got this multi color bright light so yeah we going to sew some chard and we going to get that in the ground as well
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And again, you can be harvesting this around July up to November, so a very late crop. So hopefully we'll get some winter crops from this as well
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Next up is pack choy. I've never grown this before. This is the first thing for me to grow
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So make sure you stay tuned to see how well we get on with it. How we cook it, that is another question
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I'm not the best cook, but I am learning new stuff this year. So let's see if we can grow some peckchoy
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And again, you can harvest this all the way up to October. So plenty of time to grow this as well
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Next up, we have got a Chinese cabbage called Longbok. Again, this is a late variety of crop, so hopefully, again, I've never tried growing this before, so this is new to me
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So we're going to get this sewn and hopefully it will go out in the ground in a few weeks once it's big enough
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Next up, we've got a winter variety of lettuce. Now, I've never grown a winter variety of lessees
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I'm usually used to grow my icebergs, which grow really well down here
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So we're going to be sewing this. Now, as it's a later variety, it is ready for August to October, you can sew it
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And yeah, you can be harvested it in March, April and May
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So this is going to be a late variety of crop. And let's see how well we get on with it
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First for me growing stuff through the winter So make sure you stay along for that So that has been all the vegetables that we going to be sewing this month down here at the allotment
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And next up are what flowers we're going to be sewing down at the allotment
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Now, these won't be flowering this year. These will be flowering next year
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So we're getting ahead of ourselves and starting things off. It saves purchasing them from the garden centre because it's cheaper
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but you've obviously got to keep an eye on them over the winter and look. after them and hopefully get them growing well. Now I saw on somebody's Instagram post that they'd
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grown some hollyhock and it looked absolutely beautiful the flowers on them. I couldn't believe
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how beautiful they were. So we're going to try and grow some hollyhock and I've got two varieties
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two different packets. I ordered all my seeds from Amazon what I got. So they all came into
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separate envelopes as well. All these seeds. Absolutely madness. They all got delivered in separate envelopes, but we got them all in the end
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So, yeah, we've got two varieties of Hollyhock, and we'll see how well they get on
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Hopefully, we'll get some beautiful flowers from them next year. We've got some loopings
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Now, the slugs absolutely love loopings. Now, I've got a few loopings on my allotment, but I want to grow some more, and obviously, they are quite expensive to purchase
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So if we start them off this year, sewing them, and then hopefully they will flower
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next year down at the allotment. So we've got loads of seeds in here
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so hopefully we'll get a lot of loopings growing. There's 200 seeds, to be honest
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So plenty of looping seeds. Next up is another beautiful flower delphinium Never grown these before Never bought them as plug plants or anything like that So another new one for me to grow this year Delphiniums and look
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at the colours on them. So we'll be sewing them now and they will flower next year down at the
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allotment hopefully so stay tuned for them. Aquilegous now these can spread like wildflower
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because the like the seed pods burst everywhere and you can get them growing every
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away, which I don't mind. I want lots of flowers in my flower beds. So we've got two varieties of aquilegia
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They look absolutely gorgeous. Look at them ones. So hopefully they'll bring lots of colour and flower down
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at the allotment. So we'll be sewing those in my shed and then we'll be planting them out. So
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obviously some of these, you can actually sew them straight into the ground, but I want to grow them in
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my shed first, pot them on, getting bigger, look after them and then plant them out next year
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down at the allotment where i want them to be because obviously i've got all my spring bulbs in my
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beds so i don't want to plant them in there and lose track with the spring bulbs and everything like that
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so i want to plant them after the spring bulbs are finished next year down at the allotment so we've got
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a long time to look after them in my shed so we've got to keep them watered and looked after so hopefully
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they'll grow well but yeah that is all the flowers and all the vegetables that you can sew in august
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So make sure you give us a follow, give us a subscribe, give us a like. Leave a comment below if you are going to be joining in with any of these items
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And stay tuned for my regular tour of the allotment and I will keep you updated on how well they get in on
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So until next time, everyone, remember, keep smiling, keep shining and keep gardening with Ben everyone
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