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July Sowing & Seed Growth Check | Mid-Summer Allotment Garden Update
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Sep 29, 2024
🌱 July Sowing & Growing at the Allotment Garden! Checking on Seed Growth It’s mid-summer and things are moving fast — time to check in on what’s sprouting! ☀️🌾 In this episode, I walk you through what I’ve sown recently and check on how everything is progressing in the allotment garden. From fast-growers to late-season sowings, I share what’s working, what needs help, and a few tips to keep things thriving in the July heat. How are your seeds doing this month? #JulySowing #SeedGrowth #AllotmentGarden #GardeningWithBen #GrowYourOwn #SummerSowing #AllotmentUpdate #UKGardener #SeedlingCheck
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How are our July seeds getting on? That is the question that everybody's been asking
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As you know, at the beginning of the month, we shared a video of all the seeds that you can plant in July
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Let's have a look and see how well they're all growing. At the beginning of July, we planted loads of seeds for the allotment
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as there's still plenty of time to grow certain things down here at the plot ready for this year and for next year
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So we've started loads off and obviously now we're at the end of July
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So we're going to share with you how well everything is growing down here and not growing because we are very open and honest
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So let's have a look and see what's happening. So we have just watered all these, hence why a lot of them are laying down
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But they'll thump up once the day grows on. So a spring onion is doing really well
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We planted these in pots because we're going to plant them in. bunches because they grow tons better in bunches rather than planting them in rows and yeah
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they'll be ready to go out in the ground now they're about ready beat root absolutely loads of beetroot
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as you can see it's all flattened but that's just from giving it a good water but yeah a lot of that
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will be ready to go out soon so we need to prepare an area and get all that planted but obviously
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it keeping it watered in these hot days at the moment Now of a slight issue I used a pen what rubbed out on my plastic when I should have used
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the Sharpie, so I have no idea what certain things are. But I know that I've planted some cauliflower, some turnips, some swede, and yeah, so we've got
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these ones. I'm guessing they look like cauliflower, to be honest, and they look like cauliflower
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So I'm guessing them two are cauliflower from the looks of it
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Let me know in the comments what you think, if you think they're cauliflowers. And I'm thinking these are turnip and swede as they're
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I'm sure that's what the leaves look like on them. So yeah, that is what I'm guessing at
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So let me know in the comments. Help me out. But either way, we'll plant them and we'll see how well they grow
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And again, I've got another one here. Similar leaf, that's the thing with brassicas
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They've all got similar leaves. So it's hard to differentiate between them all and know which ones are which
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Same goes for these. But I think these are radish by the looks of it
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They do look like radishes. So we need to get them out in the ground
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because they ready But yeah we got a lot of potting up to do of all these cauliflower and cabbages And we also got some lettuce growing
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The lettuce is a bit slower. I thought the lettuce would be pretty fast to be honest
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They're the iceberg ones. Also some wheat growing in there as well
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Which isn't very good but we can tell which ones are lettuce. So hopefully we get some
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more iceberg lettuces growing because they did absolutely fantastic this year. I had a fantastic
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crop. My peas, they will be ready to plant out soon. We'll give them probably about another week
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to get a bit bigger and then we'll be planting them out in the ground. These are the late crop peas
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Kelden Munda. These a variety are. I grew early onwards at the beginning of the year and these
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are lake crop ones. Runner beans. I planted a late crop of runner beans. Now I always start
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them off in trays because they do better in trays and then I plant them out so then they're stronger
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and protected from the pigeons and the slugs and everything like that and as you can see these are
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definitely ready for planting out so these are going to go out in the ground hopefully today that's one job
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we've also got some flowers growing now again I've had to guess what some of these are because
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the label rubbed off but I believe we got some poppies growing some pans is so these will be ready for winter these will look nice in winter time We got some I can say the word agasushi
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I'm no good at saying these gardening words, definitely not. And then we've either got some holiocks and some, not holiocks
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I can't remember now. fox gloves and also some honesty so either one of them is them ones so we're going to have to stay tuned for them ones
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we're going to have to take pictures of the leaves and hopefully get an idea from apps so don't do as I do
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don't use pens that wash off the labels use a sharpie pen and then you won't have this trouble
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like I always do. I always do this every single year. I always mess up with my labels
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But yeah, as you can see, all the July seeds are growing and ready to grow out some of these
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So hopefully we're going to be starting off the August seeds pretty soon and get them started
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So as I said, I'm going to be starting off my august seeds. So make sure you stay tuned for that video coming up. Give this a like and a subscribe and then you'll get
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to see all my seeds what I'm planting it in August and hopefully grow along with May
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So until the next episode, remember, keep smiling, keep shining and keep gardening with Ben everyone
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