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gardening jobs you can do in 10 minutes.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben and today
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we're going to talk about the gardening
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jobs that you can do in 10 minutes and
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hopefully get as much done as possible.
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Keeping on top of these jobs saves you
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time in the long run. So, if you've only
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got a quick 10 minutes before you start
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work in the morning or when you get
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home, these are the ideal jobs for you.
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Quick weeding. Now, I had somebody on
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our a lotment site when we first
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started, and his plot was absolutely
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pristine. Yes, he was retired, but his
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little tip to me was, "How your beds
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every single week, and you will keep the
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weeds down." And that's all he did. He
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just hoed his beds every single week and
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he didn't have a single weed in his bed.
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So, that is a great tip. just go around
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your beds every week and ho and it'll
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stop the roots from establishing and
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hopefully stopping all the weeds from
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growing. So that's a great little tip
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what he taught me and I've always gone
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with that what he's said to me and it
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only takes 10 minutes just to go around
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your beds and quickly ho it's a perfect
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Check plants for pests or diseases. Now
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obviously when you start getting to the
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time when the butterflies are around and
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stuff like that check under your leaves.
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Check for eggs and make sure that you go
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around on a slug hunt at night if it has
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been raining and get all them slugs up
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and discard them or put them on your
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bird table for the birds to eat. And
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yeah, do a little slug hunt and get your
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kids involved in. Yeah, enjoy doing that
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harvesting. Harvest on a regular basis
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so that the crops keep producing.
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Especially if you're growing like runna
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beans or rhubarb, the more you harvest,
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the more they'll produce. And yeah, a
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great addition to every meal as well,
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the more that you harvest and hopefully
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get some great crops from it. Watering.
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Now, I wish watering only took 10
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minutes. On my part, it takes absolutely
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forever, but keep on top of watering and
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yeah, keep things nice and damp and
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moist and hopefully get your plants keep
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Dead heading. Do this on a regular
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basis. If you go around your garden
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every single night, just have a look at
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your plants. If you see a flower that's
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dying, just snip it off or pull it off.
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And yeah, the more you keep deadheading,
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especially like roses, they're perfect
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for dead heading on a regular basis. And
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they'll keep producing flowers all
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Tying your plants up. Now, obviously, if
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you're growing like cucumbers or runna
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beans or peas, keep tying them up. If
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you're if you cucumbers will grow pretty
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fast and once they get growing, they get
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out of control sometimes. So, keep tying
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them up and keep fastening them along.
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And if you keep training them, then you
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can keep them under control and
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hopefully get some great harvests from
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them. So, those are all the jobs that
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you can do in 10 minutes or maybe a bit
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longer if it's watering. But yeah, I
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