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July Sowing & Growing Guide | Summer Planting Tips for the Allotment Garden
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Sep 29, 2024
🌱 July Sowing and Growing at the Allotment Garden | Summer Planting Tips! Mid-summer is full of potential — there’s still plenty to sow and grow! 🌼🥒 In this episode, I share what I’m planting in July, including quick-growing vegetables, heat-loving crops, and late-season flowers. I also offer tips on keeping seedlings healthy in hot weather, managing watering routines, and making the most of summer daylight. What’s going into your soil this July? #JulySowing #SummerPlanting #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentGarden #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentTips #UKGardener #SummerVeg #GardenUpdate
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Hey everyone and welcome to Gardening with Ben. Wow, it's an absolute gorgeous day today
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We're currently in July at the moment and what we're going to be doing is we're going to be
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sewing this month's seeds. So we're going to show you what seeds we're going to be sowing in July
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So sit back, relax and enjoy today's episode. So in this episode we're going to sew some July seeds as there's still plenty of time to sow seeds for this year and for next year's plans
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So let's have a lot of vegetables we're sewing first. So we're going to be sewing some beetroot
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and that's a baltardi variety. All my seeds I get from Wilker from the range
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as I've always used them. And when they said that they were shutting the shop
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I was devastated, but then the range took all their branding. And they brought all their seeds out
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So yeah, first we're going to be planting beetroot bolt tar. We're also going to be planting some radishes, the French breakfast variety, one of the fastest growing vegetables, so hopefully they'll be ready pretty soon
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We've also got some more beetroot and that's the Detroit version. Again, 50p for beetroot. Wow, you can't beat prices like that
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We're going to be planting some swede. We're going to give them a try
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We're going to be planting some carrots. All these seeds say on the packet that you can plant them up to July So I checked all them before purchasing We going to plant some more iceberg lettuces
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We've done fantastic with these this year. Absolutely amazing. They look fantastic
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One of the best lettuces that I've had this year. We're also going to try some of this one
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These are the frilly type looking ones. So we're going to give them a try as well. We're going to plant some spinach to make us big and strong, like Popeye
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We've got some more radishes, a different variety. We're going to plant some turnips
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Try them out. We're going to plant some cauliflower. Now these are all year-round varieties
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so we're going to give them a try and see if we can get some collies growing. and then we're going to try these ones as well look at this variety i don't know if anyone's tried
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them before but we're going to give them a try we're also going to plant some spring onions
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now i saw spring onions in clumps as i'm told that they do better in clumps rather than planting
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in the line so i'm going to plant them in small plant pops and then when they're ready just
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take that clump and plant it straight outside and that's how i'm going to run my spring onion
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We've also got a winter hardy variety so that they can grow right up till November
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So we going to give them a try as well We also able to plant some more runner beans You can plant these up to July So we gonna plant a late crop We already got some that are producing runner beans on already
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So we're gonna try these ones and hopefully get a late crop
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And you know how well I've done with my peas this year. My peas have been absolutely phenomenal
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If you're following me on my Instagram, have a look at that gardening with Ben and you'll see how well all my peas are doing
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The variety that I grew before were early onward, but these are late cropping ones and these are called Kelvin Wonder
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So now let's see what flowers we're going to be planting. As you know, I do love growing flowers now down here on the allotment and it's attracting all the bees and it looks absolutely beautiful
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The smell is phenomenal down here. So we're going to plant some more flowers
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So we're going to try some agastia. I can't say the word
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But we're going to try some of these. I've never grown these before. They look quite new, hardy preradil
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So they'll come back year after year, which is what we want. We want more more prudinals down here on my own
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We're going to grow some honesty as well. Again, never tried these before
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Look beautiful. So we're going to sew them now, and I don't think they'll flower this year
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But we can sew them and they'll flower hopefully next year. And it says that this
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smell phenomenal as well so if you've tried growing these let me know in the comments
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we've also got some puppies we've done really well with some poppies this year they look
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absolutely gorgeous we got purple ones down here at the moment so we going to save the heads for next year To sew all them ones But these ones yeah we gonna sew these ones Again they probably won flower this year
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Flower next year and see what they look like Next year down here
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I'm gonna try some fox gloves as well I've never grown fox gloves
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So we're gonna give that a try We're gonna start them off this year And hopefully get some beautiful flowers on them next year
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Now I have grown pansies before but we're going to grow some more this year
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and hopefully fill up one of my new flower beds which we've done well in this year
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and so we're going to sew some pansies and hopefully they will flower this year
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and we'll get some beautiful pans on our allotment. I've also bought some sweet peas. It says on the packet that you can sew them up to October
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and obviously they won't flower this year and they'll flower an egg year but we're going to start these off a bit later so we're not going to start these off this month
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we'll probably start these off in september time ready for next year so we've purchased some nice
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looking colorful sweet peas for next year so that is all the stuff what you can plant in july so do as i do
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go to the shop like the range or something have a look at the packets see which ones you can
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plant up to july and get them ones as obviously the ones that the ones that are the ones that
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that you can grow up to now. So let's get sowing all them seeds
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and leave a comment below. So until next time, remember, keep smiling, keep shining
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and keep gardening with better everyone. We'll see you next time
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