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This video explains what jobs to do on an allotment and in the garden during February to prepare for the growing season. It shows practical late winter gardening tasks and how small early jobs make spring planting easier.
The guide covers preparing beds, sowing early seeds, organising growing areas, planting early crops and working in raised beds, containers and a polytunnel. It also explains how to plan ahead for spring and get growing spaces ready before temperatures rise.
If you want to know what to do in the garden in late winter, this video provides clear seasonal gardening advice suitable for allotments and home vegetable gardens.
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Welcome to our weekly roundup and
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welcome to Gardening with Ben. So, this
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is our weekly roundup of what we've been
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up to down at the a lotment and in the
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garden this weekend. We have been busy,
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busy, busy. Today, it's been absolutely
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chucking it down. Yesterday, we have got
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lots and lots done. Rain doesn't stop
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me. The only thing that stops me coming
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to the a lotment is snow. I'll even come
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when it's frosty or when it's chucking
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it down windy. I'll always come down at
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the weekend because this is my happy
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space and the I love to spend my
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weekends. So, what have we been up to
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this weekend? Well, we hit 29K followers
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on Facebook. Absolutely amazing. I can't
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believe it. That's where I started all
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my social media on Facebook. And the
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community we've got on there is
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absolutely brilliant. I love it. And
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yeah, it just keeps on growing. We're
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getting about a thousand followers on
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there every month. So, it's getting
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massive. Soon we'll be at 30K. Fingers
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crossed within a month. We'll see how
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well we get on with that. So yeah, keep
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sharing, keep liking the post, and keep
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commenting and helping me grow my page.
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So this weekend, we have finished off
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potting up the easy fill hanging
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baskets. We've put strawberries in the
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top and they're all fed. We've put some
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food in them. We're giving them this
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week's watering. We're only watering
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them once a week to start off with as
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you don't want to cause root rot, which
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can happen with strawberries. So we'll
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water them once a week. When it gets a
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bit warmer, we'll water them possibly
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twice a week and then when it gets
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really warm every single day. But we're
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going to set up a drip irrigation system
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for that so it'll keep them watered on a
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regular basis. I'm going to get a solar
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pump and yeah, I've used one in the past
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and they're absolutely brilliant. We've
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also finished off building all our
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raised beds in here in the poly tunnel.
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So, we've got 14 raised beds in here
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now. So, 14 new places to grow produce.
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This gets the full sunlight in here and
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it gets warm. So things will grow a lot
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faster and better in here because you
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won't get as many pests or things
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disturbing it or birds and stuff in
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here. So yeah, fingers crossed we get
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some great produce in here. So I'm still
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thinking about what to grow in each bed
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at the moment. I'm going to have to draw
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a plan. Like I always say, draw a plan
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and have a look at what seeds are around
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to grow. I want to grow some unusual
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stuff as well. So we'll have a look
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around and see what we're getting
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growing in them. We've also planted out
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our fox gloves which are grew from seed.
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We started them off in August, September
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time and yeah, they're looking healthy
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and really big. So I planted them
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outside because I'm running out of space
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in the shed. I'm going to need that for
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growing all my seeds next month. That is
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our busy month, March, when we sew all
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our seeds. The only ones we've got sewn
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at the moment are chilies, peppers, or
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jeans,
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and sweet peas. We've sewn our sweet
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peas as well this weekend. We've got
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them done in our root um root trainers
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which we got from Oakland Gardens and
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yeah, we've got them sewn and hopefully
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we'll get some great sweet peas down at
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the plot this year. So overall, we have
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been very busy down here at the plot and
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I filmed some videos for you for this
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week and hopefully you'll get to see
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them all. So make sure you hit the bell
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so that you see all the videos what come
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up. But next weekend we're going to have
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another busy weekend. And I think it's
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going to turn a bit colder this week, so
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they've said. So, we'll see what jobs
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we've got to do next week. We haven't
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got much to do at the moment. We're just
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tidying up. Like I said, March time is
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when I sew all my seeds when it's warmer
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in my unheated greenhouse. I've done
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that for years now, and everything's
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grown really well. So, we're waiting for
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March before we sew all our seeds. So,
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it's a busy time down at the plot. I'm
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looking forward to this year and seeing
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what we grow and hopefully get some good
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success down here at the plot. But yeah,
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I hope you've enjoyed this weekly catch
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up and thanks for all the shares, the
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comments, the likes, the support that
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you do give me. It really does mean a
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lot and I love this little gardening
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community we've got. So, as always
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everyone, remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening with Ben,
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everyone.
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