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Let's plant 800 peas. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben. And today we're
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going to be planting 800 peas. Yes, 800.
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Must be mad, but fingers crossed we get
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an amazing crop. Now, I've had a
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fantastic idea. Now, as you know, I have
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my poly tunnel and I've put lots of
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raised beds in it. Now, my plan is to
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sew the peas now and hopefully they'll
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be ready to harvest by the time I'm
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planting my tomato seed tomato plants in
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here. If not, we can just plant the
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tomatoes a bit in front and harvest
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them. And the thing what I'm thinking is
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that once the peas are done, the best
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thing what you can do with the peas is
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snip them off at the base, leave the
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roots in, and the nitrogen will feed the
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soil. So, hopefully it'll feed the
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tomato plants as well. So, we're going
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to be planting 800 peas today, sewing
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them down here and getting them growing.
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But first, we need to soak the peas for
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24 hours. So, we're not actually going
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to be planting them today. We're going
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to soak them for 24 hours and then we're
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going to plant them tomorrow in the
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raised beds. So, let's get them soaking.
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Have two variety of peas. We've got the
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Kelvin wonder pee and the early onward
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pee. Now, they didn't have eight packets
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of the early onward, so that's why I've
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gone for two varieties. So, we're going
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to sew one lot down one side and one lot
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down the other side and we'll see which
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one does better actually. So, it's good
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experiment to see which one crops best
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and then we'll know for next year down
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at the plot. So, yeah, let's get them
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soaking and let's get them ready for
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So, we've got them soaking now. We'll
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leave them for 24 hours. We've got the
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Kelvin wonder pee and the early onward
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pee. So yeah, we'll see how well they
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get on and then we'll plant them all
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tomorrow, which will be a big job, but
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it'll be worth it if we get some great
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So those have been soaking now for 24
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hours. So we're going to get them sewn
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and get them in the raised beds and
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hopefully get them growing cuz we're
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going to get a bumper crop of peas. Now,
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who loves fresh peas? You can't beat
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them. You end up eating them all before
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you get them home as well.
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But yeah, let's get these. sewn and
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let's get these growing. Let's show you
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what we're going to plan to do. So,
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these are the raised beds down this
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side. So, we're going to grow them all
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along the raised beds and get them
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growing up the sides and hopefully get a
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great crop. We've got all five down this
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side. So, we're going to plant one
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variety down this side and then down
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this other side. We've got another five.
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So, we're going to plant a different
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variety on that side. We've already got
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seeds in these ones, but we're going to
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plant them towards the back so that they
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grow towards the back side of it before
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the tomatoes get planted. So, yeah,
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let's get them in the raised beds. So, I
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probably didn't actually need 800, but
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we've put loads in. Yes, we'll probably
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put too many in, but we can always thin
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them out if need be and take out the
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ones that aren't doing so well. So,
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yeah, we've got all that row done. So
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we've got to cover them over and give
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them a good watering so that they settle
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So we've now done both sides of the poly
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tunnel. We've given them a good water.
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We've given them some food. And then
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when they start growing, we'll put
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netting up the backwards. So they can
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cling on and grow the back of the poly
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tunnel and hopefully get some great peas
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growing down at the plot. I really can't
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wait for this year. It's going to be
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absolutely amazing. But make sure you
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tunnel tour update so that you can see
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what's growing and what's not growing as
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well. So until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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