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Let's plant up our borage plants.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben. And today
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we're going to be putting up our borage
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plants. Now, I've never grown borage
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before. I'm trying more and more stuff
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this year down at the a lotment. And
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I've seen a lot of people mention how
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good borage is for growing. So, I
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thought I'd give it a try as it does
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look attractive and it has benefits to
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it as well. It's great for pollinators
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and the great flowers on it attract the
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pollinators down to the plot and it's
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also a great companion plant. It's great
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for strawberries, tomatoes, and
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corettes, adding nutrients into the
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soil. So, if you're wanting a companion
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plant, borage is absolutely brilliant.
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And you can also eat the leaves as well
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off it, which I didn't know. So, we're
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going to be trying more stuff this year
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and more stuff that we can try and eat
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and see how well it tastes down here at
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the plot. I may have to do a taste
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testing of things to see how well they
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get on. So, let's have a look at the
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borage plants and let's see about
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potting them on. So these are my borage
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plants what I've grown from seed and as
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you can see they're doing really well.
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Absolutely fantastic. This is in
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unheated greenhouse. So they're doing
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really well to say it's unheated as
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we're still getting cold nights down
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here and they're looking absolutely
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great. And as you can see they're
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getting too big for the seed tray. So we
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need to separate them and hopefully get
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some great plants from them. So, we're
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not going to use them all probably, but
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we're going to pot up probably around 15
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to 20 and that should be enough for us
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down at the a lotment. So, let's get
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these potted up and let's get these
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growing on. So, we've putotted all them
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up and we've put labels in them so that
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we know what we're growing in them. And
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we've still got the older spares there,
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what we might share with other people as
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well. But yeah, hopefully we'll get some
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great borage growing this year and
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hopefully they take root in these new
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pots what we've planted them in and see
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So make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with how well this
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borage grows and see if we get some
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great harvests and pollinators from it
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as well. Until next time everyone,
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone.
