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This video explains frequent gardening mistakes and simple ways to prevent them. I cover watering errors, planting depth, spacing, and basic care habits that affect plant health. It is helpful for gardeners wanting healthier plants and more reliable growing results.
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avoid these gardening mistakes that
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could cost you your summer harvests
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welcome to Gardening with Ben we're
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going to give you five mistakes what
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gardeners do what could ruin their
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summer harvest so sit back relax and
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enjoy today's episode one is
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overwatering in hot spells sometimes
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people can think "Oh it's hot and I need
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to water more." Well if your soil's good
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it will hold the water sometimes it
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looks dry on top but it is pretty wet
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underneath and obviously irregular
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watering can affect plants they can
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cause them to bolt and not to grow very
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well so do not overwater stick to the
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patterns of watering and you will get
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great harvests next up is not feeding
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heavy feeders now your heavy feeders are
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like beans corettes tomatoes if you're
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wanting great crops from them you have
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to feed them they need the nutrients to
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grow great crops now to feed them is
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either comfrey or tomato feed now you
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only need to do them once a week don't
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do them anymore and that will give them
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the food that they need to encourage
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them to grow better crops and to get
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great results from them next up is
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ignoring pests and diseases now if you
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see pests around like aphids or cabbage
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white underneath the leaves or
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even diseases on plants don't ignore
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them get on top of it straight away like
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scrape off the eggs off underneath
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brassica plants or look out for the
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slugs get rid of the slugs while you see
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them don't wait and do them later cuz
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you might forget about it and yeah if
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you see any diseases minimize it get rid
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of that plant straight away because it
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could spread to other plants as well so
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do not let diseases take over your crop
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and end up losing the lot so keep an eye
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on your plants keep a watch on them and
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see if if you notice any difference with
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them up is letting the weeds take over
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now I always say the best thing to do is
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ho your beds once a week and it only
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takes 5 minutes to ho a bed it doesn't
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take long and it can keep it weedfree
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yes it won't get all the roots out but
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it'll stop them from growing and taking
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hold the weeds take the nutrients from
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the soil so the vegetable plants are
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competing against the weeds and the
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weeds often win so if you wanting great
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vegetables keep your beds weed-free and
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you will get great crops from that and
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finally is forgetting about successional
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growing now I've talked about this a lot
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successional growing is keeping things
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growing all the way through summer into
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the winter and that means like as you
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harvest things sew more seeds and fill
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in the gaps and you can keep getting
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great crops
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and space of time between sewing them so
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that your crops are coming all the time
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and great ones for this are like lettuce
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beetroot spring onions radish are great
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successional crop growers so I hope
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you've enjoyed that episode do not fall
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for them mistakes let me know if you
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fell for any mistakes and what your
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mistakes have been save the video for
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later give it a share give it a comment
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until next time everyone remember keep
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smiling keep shining and keep gardening
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