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This video reviews garden progress and explains important seasonal preparation tasks. I cover seed sowing, soil preparation, and routine maintenance that supports healthy plant growth. It is helpful for gardeners wanting practical guidance and a clear overview of productive garden work.
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February roundup. Welcome to Gardening
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with Ben, everybody. And yes, we are at
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the end of February. It's nearly March,
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nearly spring, and it's nearly time to
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get sewing all those seeds. It's going
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to be an exciting month, March. A busy
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month, but hopefully we'll get all the
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seeds sewn in March. And hopefully some
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decent weather to help them germinate as
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well. That's what we want. We don't want
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the weather to start turning colder.
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Want it to start turning warmer. So
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fingers crossed we do get a good March
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and get some good weather. Usually we
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get a little heat wave in March. So
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fingers crossed for that heat wave cuz
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that'll get things started and
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germinating. So what have we done in
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February down here at the a lotment?
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Well, we have been so busy. It's not is
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not it's not been any stopping for me
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down at the plot. I'm not one to
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hibernate anymore through the winter. we
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keep on growing and keep on coming down
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here and doing more and more jobs and
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trying to improve it for the growing
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year ahead. We've obviously planted all
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our hanging baskets with strawberries.
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They're all taken. They're all growing.
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They're all showing signs of new life
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and looking absolutely fantastic. So
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fingers crossed we get a great
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strawberry cop this year. I do love
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strawberries and I don't tend to share
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them with anyone. But we might have so
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many we might have to end up sharing
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them. We've obviously built all those
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raised beds. All those raised beds are
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built in our poly tunnel. The next job
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will be to fill them with compost and
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get all that done as we'll start sewing
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in March and we're going to direct sew
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like as beetroot maybe as lettuce,
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spring onions,
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carrots. So yeah, we'll probably direct
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sew them and we're going to be looking
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around at other stuff to grow in the
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poly tunnel. I might try and grow
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broccoli and cauliflowers. We'll see.
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But they'll obviously take up more room
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in the raised bed. So I don't know.
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We'll we'll have a think about that. So
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yeah, we've got all that to do. We've
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been tidying out the shed, getting all
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that ready because obviously in March
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time I'm going to be sewing all my seeds
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and I need all my shelving that I can
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get. And when you see, if you're a new
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follower to me, you will see how many
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seeds I'll be sewing. It'll be hard to
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keep up with it all. But we're going to
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be busy busy busy sewing lots and lots
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of seeds. And again, this year I want to
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grow more and more flowers down at the
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plot. And without the flowers, you won't
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get your bees. So, more flowers attract
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the bees and hopefully better
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pollination for more fruit. Last year's
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fruit were absolutely amazing. We got so
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much fruit last year. It was
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unbelievable. So, yeah, it has been a
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busy busy February down here and
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obviously it's been non-stop rain and
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we've not really done anything outside
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as I got most of it done towards the end
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of last year. We got a lot of it cleared
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and all ready and prepared ready for
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this year. And we won't be planting
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anything outside until May time till the
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frost has gone. The only thing that
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we'll be planting outside are possibly
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the potatoes. We're going to be growing
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a load in buckets, but we're going to
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probably have some leftovers, so we'll
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plant them outside. We've also got as
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onions what we've started off in the
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greenhouse in the poly tunnel. We've put
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those into seed trays and then we'll be
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planting those outside end March time
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once they've started sprouting and
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started growing. So yeah, February has
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been extremely busy down here at the
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plot. And I'm sure March will be even
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busier down here. And the best thing is
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it's starting to get lighter late now.
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So we can go down to the a lotment after
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work and spend an hour down at the plot.
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So I'm looking forward to that. I may
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start coming down more at nighttime as
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well to get things done down here. So
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make sure you drop us a follow to stay
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up to date with everything that we're
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going to be getting up to in March down
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at the plot. Until next time everyone,
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep guarding with Ben everyone.
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