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This video explains how to grow melons successfully from planting to harvest. It shows the growing conditions melons need and how to support healthy plant development.
The guide covers sowing seeds, temperature, watering, feeding and training plants, along with tips to encourage flowering and fruit set. It also explains how to care for plants through the season and recognise when melons are ready to harvest.
If you want sweet, homegrown fruit, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice for growing melons in a garden or greenhouse.
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hey everybody and welcome to gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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be talking about what melon seeds we are
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growing this year so sit back relax and
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enjoy today's episode everyone
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[Music]
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so welcome to gardening with Ben and in
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today's episode we are going to be
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talking about what melon seeds we're
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going to be growing this year as I want
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to try again with growing them we've
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grown the cantaloup in the past and they
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did really well but I've not grown them
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for a few years now so we want to give
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them another try this year and see how
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well we get on cuz melons are absolutely
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gorgeous and if you got the right
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conditions a poly tunnel or a greenhouse
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you can grow them here in the UK so
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we're going to be trying quite a few
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different varieties now I just went
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online on Amazon and purchased all the
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melon seeds that were available I just
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tried all different varieties I thought
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why not we'll give them all a try so
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we've got these melon e
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mf1 variety now these ones on are ideal
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for cooler growing conditions so fingers
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crossed with us being in the UK we
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should get some produce on them ones and
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there's about 20 seeds in that
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one we've also got some with a nice
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orange flesh in them and these are
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called anas ananas I can never say these
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words but yeah they look absolutely
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delicious them ones so we'll be trying
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them ones
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then we've got a melon variety called
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Queen
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an these are from Premier seed which was
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on
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Amazon then we've got a few varieties of
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watermelons now I've never grown
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watermelons here in my allotment so we
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might get some we might not but we'll
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we'll give them a try it's worth a shot
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I'm nothing to loose apart from
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compost but yeah these ones are petite
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yellow and again these are Premier seed
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ones the premier seed ones don't seem to
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have any growing instructions on them so
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you have to like Google them to find out
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what to do with the growing conditions
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for these ones but they'll be pretty
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much the same as any other melon grow in
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somewhere where it's decent warm and
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plenty of sunshine 60 seeds in that one
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so I'll that should last me a few
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years and then we've got the watermelon
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Jubilee
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again 60 seeds in that one so plenty of
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seeds then we've got one called sugar
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baby so maybe their baby variety of
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watermelons and there's 110 seeds in
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that one I definitely won't be growing
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all of them but if I do have some spare
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I'll be giving them to plot neighbors or
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to my dad to see if he can grow some so
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yeah 110 seeds in that
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one and then we we have a cal sweet
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watermelon so plenty of varieties of
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watermelons to try and looking at them
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I've not got any cantaloup ones so we
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need to get some cantaloup melons and
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try them again because obviously I know
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there were success growing them down
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here so I'm looking forward to Growing
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them we'll be sewing them around March
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time as that's when the weather warms up
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and I can sew them in my shed or in my
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greenhouse and it's not a heated
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Greenhouse it's just relying on the
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sunshine so that's when we'll be
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starting these off down here at the
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allotment so make sure you stay tuned
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for this year's videos and stay up to
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date with how well we get on with
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growing our melons obviously we've got
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this weekly tour video and we will also
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be filming these melons along the
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journey throughout the year so if you're
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not following us do give us a follow and
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click the bell and then you'll get
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notified when new videos come up so yeah
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I'm excited to try something new it's
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always good to try something new when
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you're growing and experiments sometimes
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you can have great success sometimes
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then the year after you'll have a
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failure and think what have I done wrong
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and I've done it exactly the same but
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yeah we will be trying them and giving
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them a go so fingers crossed we get some
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melons this year cuz they're absolutely
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gorgeous and they're expensive to buy
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from the shop melons so hopefully we
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will reap the rewards from them so I
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hope you've enjoyed that let me know in
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the comments if you've grown melons
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before I would love to hear from you all
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and let me know what varieties you've
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grown so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone
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