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This video explains useful early summer gardening jobs and simple plant care tips to keep the garden healthy. Learn how to maintain vegetables and flowers as growth increases during warmer weather.
The guide covers watering, feeding and supporting plants, along with routine maintenance that helps prevent common problems. These steps encourage steady growth and continued harvesting through the season.
If you want to keep your garden productive in early summer, this video provides practical advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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just starting out this podcast is for
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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben we're your host
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gardening with Ben and yeah it's
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Saturday the weekend is here and to be
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honest it wasn't as hot today
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this morning as it was yesterday it was
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absolutely roasting yesterday but today
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I were pretty cool I didn't have my
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t-shirt off which is some something of a
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good
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sight but yeah it's being quite a cool
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day today but I did have to do a lot of
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watering today as
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obviously it was a hot day yesterday so
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we needed to get all the plants watered
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and get them soaked and
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the main things that added water was my
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cucumbers that I planted yesterday and I
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going around checking them all making
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sure no slugs were going for them or
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eating them or starting to destroy them
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and touch wood they are pretty safe at
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the moment and I'm going to be keeping
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my eyes peeled on them because I don't
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want the Slugs to get them we're going
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to try growing them outside for the
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first time ever and hopefully we'll get
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some good crops so it's a bit of a trial
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an error this year on my cucumbers
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outside I've got some growing in inside
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so we'll definitely get some cucumbers
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but we're going to try some outside this
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year so that we can see how well they do
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whether it's worth off growing them
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outside or growing them indoors let me
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know if you have ever grown cucumbers
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Outdoors before Market more variety is
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the variety that I'm growing so give me
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a message and let me know if you grow
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any
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Outdoors so what else have we been up to
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today well I did actually have pretty
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much a chilled day down at the alotment
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today I didn't do an awful lot as to be
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honest I started the gym the other day
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and it's destroyed me I did some like
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tricep
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exercises and my I couldn't move my arms
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this morning they absolutely killed
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bearing in mind i' not been for two days
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they absolutely killed I ended up having
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some paracetamol just to get rid of some
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of the pain but as I'm recording this it
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seems okay at the moment so hopefully
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I'll be back to normal and I'll be back
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at the gym again hopefully it won't put
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me off but we've now got an Apple Watch
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as well so that we can keep track of all
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my exercise and try and encourage me to
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get fit again and obviously like I said
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gardening does keep you fit keeps you
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going keeps you motivated keeps you
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moving around and hopefully I will see
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the difference and progress and
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hopefully now summer's coming we'll be
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having all the healthy food as well
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picked from his alotment now I was
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looking today and my loganberries are
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getting ready they're starting to turn
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ripe now if you've never tried Logan
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berries before loganberries are a longer
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version of a raspberry and they're a bit
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more hairier than a raspberry but they
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are absolutely delicious I always
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remember as a kid my mom used to make
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Loganberry Jam because we had a big
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Loganberry bush in the garden
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and the best thing about loganberries is
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there's no PHS on the canes they're
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forless and you can they just go mad go
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wild you'll get absolutely loads and
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loads of fruit on it so fingers crossed
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over the next few years we have a lot of
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lot of loganberries growing and some
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delicious fruit because you can never
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have enough fruit the fruit that I grow
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from my allotment pays for the allotment
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in itself like my allotment a year is
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about £120 a year which to some of you
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it'll sound a lot but that does include
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the water and it is quite a big plot and
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I'll I'll easily pay £20 for having a
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piece of land that I can go and relax on
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and enjoy the open space on and grow my
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own vegetables on it's not about me
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saving money and growing my own veggie
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it's about my mental health and getting
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outside and being out in the fresh air
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and enjoying it and being back at nature
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but yeah yeah the Logan bers are getting
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ready we've also been busy planting as
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well today if you remember yesterday we
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talked about how we planted all our peas
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out yesterday we planted all our
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cucumbers out yesterday we planted our
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sweet corn the other day so we planted
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some more beetroot today some of my
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beetroot that I had growing has been
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getting eaten and destroyed so we've got
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a lot more beetroot pled today and I've
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planted these all in the gaps between
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all the plants just to fill the spaces
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up because my allotment is quite limited
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for light there's some trees at the top
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of my plot so it doesn't get much light
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at the top so I'm limited for space so I
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need to use every bit of space that I
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can and obviously putting those beetroot
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in the middle of the plants and stuff
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like that it'll stop the weeds from
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growing because hopefully the leaves
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will fill out and they'll stop anything
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else from growing so hopefully we'll get
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a lot of beetroot growing and yeah we've
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got a lettuce R we've had some lettuce
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off absolutely delicious crispy head on
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it uh it's an iceberg variety that I
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grow I've always had good luck with
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growing Iceberg lettuces I've never had
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any issue
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whatsoever I just make sure they're
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netted over to start off with to stop
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the pigeons eating them and attacking
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them but I've never had any issues
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growing Iceberg lers I always have a
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good success with them so we've got some
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more of them started off growing so
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hopefully we'll be planting some of
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those out later so that we get a second
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crop throughout the year and get more
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growing as we come on so we're back at
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work tomorrow for the next four days so
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we're not going to be down at the
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allotment but hopefully we're going to
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record plenty of episodes for you to
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keep you going and keep it all ticking
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over for you because I'm enjoying doing
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all these podcast episodes at the moment
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we're getting quite a lot out and the
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views
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of the podcast is brilliant there's
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loads of people listening every single
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day to them so I appreciate every one of
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you that does listen so what's next
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week's plan when we're back down at the
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alotment hopefully we're going to be
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picking those loganberries we'll be
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picking some strawberries I did notice
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as well my blueberries are starting to
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ripen so we're going to be having some
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blueberries off soon so they'll be
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delicious to have and enjoy down at the
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allotment and obviously like I said I've
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got a meal plan at the moment what I'm
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having and part of it is to have some
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Greek yogurt at night with some fruit of
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my choic in so obviously I'll be using
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the Logan berries I'll be using the
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blueberries strawberries everything that
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is ready around this time of year I'll
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be popping into that Greek yogurt at
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night so we got lots going off and
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hopefully the peas will start to swell
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up soon we need some more rain to come
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that's what we need yes it is Sunshine
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but we do need some rain and we need it
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to water them and make them swell uh I'm
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always one of these that I don't mind if
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it's boiling hot sunny during the
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daytime but just Chuck it down at night
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please just water my allotment it needs
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it because there's only so much watering
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that you can do down at the
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alotment I don't know if you like me but
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I absolutely hate watering it's not
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something that I enjoy doing
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whatsoever so hopefully we do get some
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main soon but I don't think it's likely
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it's forecast to stay warm pretty much
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all week I think this is going to be
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like a little heat wave in a sense even
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though it's like 21 22 degrees I call it
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a heat wave because it's going to be
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nice and warm we're not used to this
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where are we in England so any Sunshine
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is nice and hopefully it'll get things
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growing on pretty well and I should be
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getting around to picking
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my potatoes soon they should be starting
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to get ready I planted them like on Good
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Friday so they should be ready but I
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usually pick them when they start to die
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back when the plants start to die off
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and go yellow that's when I usually know
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that they're ready to harvest and
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they're still green and healthy they've
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not had no flowers on them yet so I'm
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leaving them as they are and just keep
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watering them and keep them growing
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because hopefully then I'll have lots
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and lots of potatoes in there but it's
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one of those old little magic tricks is
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it like you don't know what's in there
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till you find out it's like a surprise
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whereas all other vegetables what you're
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grow you can actually see what it looks
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like with potatoes you've got no chance
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of knowing what they look like until you
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empty them so you don't want to empty
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them too early and not be ready so it's
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case of waiting it out and seeing what
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we get from our potato crop this year
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and I'm hoping we've got a decent crop
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as I do like homegrown potatoes they're
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absolutely delicious they're gorgeous
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they just melt in your mouth and
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absolutely
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phenomenal so I think that's everything
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that we've been up to down at the
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allotment today I've chopped back my
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aliums as well they've died off now so
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we've Chopped all them back cleared them
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out of the way
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and we've got some nice flowers growing
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down there at the moment I've got some
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fabulous fuches what are coming out at
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the moment they're absolutely gorgeous
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and obviously these your first year
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plants so they're not that big plants at
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the moment
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so hopefully next year they'll look even
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better and even bigger and the displays
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will start to look absolutely
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beautiful so that has been our podcast
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episode for today nice short little
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