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Gardening jobs that give you better
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harvests at the a lotment and garden.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben and today
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we're going to talk about the jobs what
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you need to do in the garden and a
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lotment which give you better harvests
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and hopefully produce you more crops
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down at your a lotment and garden. So
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the main one being feeding your plants.
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Now this is a crucial one to getting
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more crops and more harvest. Now,
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certain vegetables and fruit
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require different feed to help them
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produce food. Now, I always give my
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potatoes some potato fertilizer to help
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feed them. I do that cuz I grow them in
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pots, so it uses a lot of the nutrients
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from the compost. So, we need to add
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some more nutrients in there, which is a
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slow release, and it feeds them while
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they're growing. And another one is like
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your tomato feed, which you feed your
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tomatoes when they're starting to
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flower. And you can use tomato feed on a
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lot of vegetables as well. So have a
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look at the label and see what
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vegetables you can use it on. Also,
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seaweed fertilizer is a fantastic feed
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as well. So have a look into that one.
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Keeping your weeds away, the job that
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everybody hates doing, but weeding is a
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crucial job which you need to do.
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Keeping the weeds down stops them from
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competing with the weeds for the
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nutrients and the water in the ground.
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So, keeping them down will help produce
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bigger crops, even if it's just going
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around once a week with a hoe and hoing
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the top of your beds to keep the weeds
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Next up is watering deeply. Rather than
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water lightly over the
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beds, water deeply so that there's
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plenty of water in there for them to
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feed off, especially when it gets to hot
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Supporting your plants. Now, you need to
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support them. If they're one that grow
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like canes or along netting, fasten them
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up so that you can control them and help
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guide them. And yeah, that will help
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produce better harvest if you look after
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the plants themselves. We all need a bit
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of support in our lives. Give the
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support to the plants as well.
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Harvesting veg regularly. Now, if you're
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growing like runna beans, keep
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harvesting them regularly or if they too
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many runner beans on the plant, it won't
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produce as many harvests. So, keep
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picking them on a regular basis and it
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will keep producing the harvest that you
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want for your Sunday dinners and for
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Grow vertically. So growing stuff more
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vertically and using space wisely and
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you can fit more and more in like you
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can use your walls to hang vegetable
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planters on and you can grow stuff in
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pots up canes. Have a look around and
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see what stuff you can grow vertically
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and using that space wisely in your
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garden to get the most out of it and to
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get the most harvests from it. So those
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are my little tips for garden jobs that
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give you better harvests. So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling,
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keep shining, keep gardening with
