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How to attract more wildlife to your
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garden. Welcome to Gardening with Ben.
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In today's video, we're going to talk
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about how to attract more wildlife into
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your garden. Now, I absolutely love the
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wildlife. I really do. If I could stay
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down here and sit and watch the wildlife
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all day. I certainly would do, but I've
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got jobs to do. There's always jobs to
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do down at the a lotment. But yeah, I
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love the wildlife. I love the birds. I
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love the frogs. I love the hedgehogs. I
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even love the squibbles. Even though
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they cause damage, I love to see the
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squirrels down here. And I'll still keep
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feeding the birds and attracting the
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squirrels, but oh well, I don't mind as
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long as they don't cause too much damage
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to my along and pull up my jewel bulbs.
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But yeah, how can we attract more
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wildlife to our garden? I'm going to
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look at these ideas as well and see if I
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can do anything more to attract the
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wildlife to my plot. So add bird feeders
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and keep them topped up. Now I've got
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about 20 bird feeders on my one. We've
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got so many. And since I put up my
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arches, I put up loads more bird
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feeders. And we've got blue tits, we've
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got robins, we've got blackbirds, we've
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got magpies, we've got loads of birds.
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Now, I've not seen any unusual birds
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yet. I'm just looking now because we've
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got some blue tits on my feeders. But
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yeah, I absolutely love the blue tits.
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And I've put bird boxes as well so that
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they can come and nest in the
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springtime. Obviously, make sure you
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clean them out over the winter so that
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then in springtime they'll be looking
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for a house to move into and they may
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possibly choose yards. They won't move
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in if there's signs of life in there
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already. So, make sure you clean them
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out over the winter period.
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Leave some areas wild for shelter.
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Animals love a bit of shelter. So, if
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leave an area that's wild and animal
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friendly and you may get hedgehogs in
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there, you may get blackbirds hiding in
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there. They like to hide in bushes and
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stuff like that. So leave an area a bit
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of a wild area so that they can enjoy
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Plant pollinator friendly flowers. Now
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obviously having an a lotment you need
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the bees to come. So make sure you have
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plenty of flowers that will attract
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bees, butterflies and yeah bring some.
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The more bees you get obviously the more
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fruit you'll have because they'll help
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pollinate the food plants as well. and
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your corettes, your cucumbers, your
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tomatoes. You need all those beads to
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help with the pollination of the a
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lotment. So yeah, adding pollinator
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flowers not only gives you fantastic
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color and makes it look beautiful, it
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also attracts the bees as well. Build
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bug hotels or log piles. I've not got a
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bug hotel as yet, so I need to get a bug
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hotel down at my lotment. But yeah,
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that'll attract like your ladybirds and
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obviously wood lice like to hide in them
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and all different critters like to hide
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in bug hotels. So I might have one of
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those down at my a lotment and let them
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move into it. Avoid chemicals and go
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organic. Now I don't use chemicals down
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at my a lotment. I'm all organic. I'll
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dig up all the weeds myself. I won't
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spray them and stuff like that. I always
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do it all myself. So going organic will
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obviously stop killing the pests off as
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well. So obviously some pests that you
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don't like but you work around it. You
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attract have different plants to put off
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different insects coming and stuff like
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that. So doing all your bit helps in all
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Provide food, water and safe spaces all
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year round. Now, I've got some bird
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bowls on my a lotment, and the birds
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absolutely love splashing around in them
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and enjoying them. But yeah, having bird
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food obviously attracts mice and rats,
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but you're down on an aotment, you're
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going to get mice and rats as well. But
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I love to see the birds, and they love
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to come down on my a lotment and enjoy
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it as well. So, it's a win-lose
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situation, but it's up to you if you do
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it or not. And yeah, I don't know if
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we've got any badgers or foxes down
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here, but I need to put my wildlife
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camera back up as well and see if we've
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got some more different wildlife coming
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down to it. I might have to find
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somewhere to fix it all because I've got
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my wildlife camera from when I had some
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cats coming down. The cats were loving
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it down on my a lotment and having cats
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on the a lotment. They were eating all
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the mice and the rats. So, it's
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brilliant to see as well. So, yeah, I
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get a lot of wildlife down on my a
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lotment. So, I hope you found these tips
