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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben today's video we're
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going to talk about making a plan for
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your garden and your alotment at this
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time of year now is the perfect time to
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be making a plan for your garden and
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alotment the reason why we say this is
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that usually at this time of year you've
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cleared it all away which I'm in the
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process of doing and you're are creating
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a blank canvas ready for next year so
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now is the time to obviously get a piece
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of paper out and draw how your garden or
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allotment wants to be where you want to
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grow stuff and where you want to plant
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stuff or whether you want to build some
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new beds or some New Paths or have some
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containers plan it all out where you
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want to have stuff on your elopment I do
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this every single year I've not changed
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my layout for quite a few years because
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it's perfect now I've got my paths
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sorted I've got my beds in the right
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place the only thing I I improve is if I
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get some Paving slaps I use them for
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paths which is improving it over the
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years but obviously Paving slaps are
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getting expensive now so I only get a
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few Paving slabs year after year so
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obviously once you've drawn your plan
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plan where you want to plant stuff on
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your alotment or in the garden don't
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grow stuff in the same place that you've
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had it the year before because the
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plants that have been in it the year
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before will have taken the nutrition
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that they need for that plant so try and
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rotate where you want your crops to grow
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and also look at where the sun shines as
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well in your garden or your alotment
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obviously you don't want want to plant
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stuff that needs full sun in the shade
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so have a look around and see where
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you're going to be growing stuff but
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yeah now is the time to be making that
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plant also have a look on
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your on the internet have a look at
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different types of seeds get order seed
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cataloges or go to the shops garden
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centers and see what flowers and
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vegetables out there there's loads of
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different varieties and I always say is
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try something new every single year
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there's loads of different varieties
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like same goes for like squash es
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there's loads of different varieties
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different shapes different sizes
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different varieties it's good to try
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different stuff and I do this with
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myself one year I tried doing different
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squashes one year I tried doing
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different French type beans uh they were
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all different colored beans like purple
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yellow speckled beans all different
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varieties of beans so it's good to try
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new stuff and different varieties of
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stuff and next year my plan is to try
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and grow different types of pansies not
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pansies poppies different varieties of
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poppies so we're going to be having a
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look around and seeing all the different
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varieties of poppies you can grow and
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obviously growing poppies you can get
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save all the seeds and you can scatter
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them around for next year as well so
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have a look around see what you're going
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to grow let me know in the comments if
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you're going to try something new this
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next year not this year next year try
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something new at the Garden and yeah
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it's always good to try something new
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and as I've said said in some of my
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videos I'm going to try and grow sweet
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potatoes next year I've never grown
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sweet potatoes before in the whole time
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that I've had the allotment so that's
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going to be something new for me to try
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next year growing sweet potatoes so give
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it a try try something new and see what
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you come up with so feel free to leave
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don't already follow me so until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
