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Is it too late to plant garlic and
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onions in September for winter? Well,
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the answer is no. Welcome to Gardening
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with Ben. We're going to talk about
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planting your garlic and your onions
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this month, ready for winter and for
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harvesting next year. So yeah, this
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month we need to start concentrating on
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looking around ready for planting our
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garlic and getting our onions. The best
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places to get your garlic and your
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onions. They're usually from a garden
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center or from a DIY store. They often
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sell them in little bags with the sets
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of onions. And also you usually get
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about three garlics in a bag or two and
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then you plant them. Don't do what I
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thought in my first year and when I got
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the garlic I thought what you only get
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two garlics to plant. Nope. You split
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them up into the cloves and then you
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plant the cloves individually. Now the
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best time to plant your garlic is
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usually around October time to get it in
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the ground. The reason why we plant it
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then is because it needs the cold
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weather to help it split and to help to
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form the garlic bulb itself. So what you
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need to be doing this month in September
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is preparing your beds ready for
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planting them. When I say preparing
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them, it means obviously you've grown
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stuff in the beds throughout the summer
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period and it will have taken a lot of
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the nutrition away from the ground. So,
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you need to enhance the nutrition in the
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ground either by adding compost, adding
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fertilizer, adding food into the ground
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to help give some nutrition back to
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growing the plants again. So, get them
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all dug over, get it all weeded, get it
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all looking fresh, ready for planting
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out at the end of September, beginning
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of October. Now, we're going to be
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planting ours pretty soon, but we need
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to get our beds ready and get them all
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sorted and tidied. We're going to be
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revamping our a lotment this month and
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getting it all looking a lot better cuz
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it's looking a bit derelictked at the
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moment after the summer that we've had.
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But yeah, we're going to be freshening
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it up, getting it all prepared, and
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getting it ready for growing the garlic.
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Now, obviously, when you're buying the
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onions, you need to look for the autumn
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sets, which they will probably won't
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sell the normal sets at this time of
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year in the uh garden centers, they'll
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probably only sell the autumn sets. So,
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you can either grow the sets or if
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you're looking at growing them from
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seed, you usually start the seed off
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around December time if you're wanting
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to grow them from seed. So have a look
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around, see what you want to decide. I
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once did a little experiment to see
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which ones grew better from seed or from
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set. The seed actually did better
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themselves, but I find it a bit too much
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hassle keeping them watered and
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obviously it's a lot colder around that
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time of year. So sometimes it's hard
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getting water because they turn out
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water off on site. So I tend to grow the
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sets myself and get them in the ground.
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But when you're getting them in the
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ground, obviously your onions and your
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garlics, make sure you net them because
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the birds do love to pull the shoots up
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from the bulb themselves. So protect
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them with some netting until they're
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strong enough. And then you can always
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take the netting off before the snow
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comes, etc. because the snow will just
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weigh the netting down. So yeah, that is
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how we usually prepare for growing our
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garlic and our onions. I hope you found
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