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Hey everyone and welcome to Gardening with Ben
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We're down here on the allotment this morning. It's trying to rain but it's not as yet
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Well, this episode is going to be on a topic called Just Sit
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So I'm going to do a bit of talking and what I enjoy most about the allotment
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is based on suggestions from an Instagram group called My Month on the Plot
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So I'm going to talk about my enjoyment down on the plot
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So sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy. so first off i just want to thank all the new subscribers to my youtube channel i'm amazed
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how many people have subscribed since the last episode um it was all about my struggles with
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mental health and the troubles of being on the allotment and it really does mean the world to
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how many people have sent me messages personally commented on posts and I've
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not got back to the comments yet which I'm hoping to do soon so I just want to
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say a massive thank you for all the support that you do give me it does
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encourage me to come down on the plot and get cracking as you can see I'm
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surrounded by absolute beauty my sunflowers absolutely huge you can't You can see the top of this one on my right hand side It nearly about 11 foot it must be and it still not flowered yet it got the flower head on the top but the flower has not come out yet so it still
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growing absolutely massive so we're down here on the plot today and today i've been doing a bit of
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weeding as there's always plenty of weeding to be done but yeah this year i've not done as much as
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i'd hoped to do i only get a couple of days off a week so i've not spent an awful lot of time down
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here i don't tend to like to come down at the night time when there's nobody else down here as
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it can be a bit daunting being on your own uh down here on the allotments so i tend to come down in
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the daytime when I feel a lot more safer so yeah I'm going to be sharing a tour a little video of
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what I've got growing coming up so make sure you stay tuned for that and see how things are looking
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and I probably won't show you the worst bits but I'll show you all the good bits so stay tuned for
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click that subscribe button to stay up to date when that gets published. So being down on the
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allotment there's so many things that do help you with mental health and helping you get outside
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It's so peaceful down here on the allotment. I can hear the birds singing, I can hear
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cockerels in the background there's no cockerels or chickens on the plot but they are close by in
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somebody's house which is always nice to hear you can get your hands mucky i never wear gardening
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gloves i don know if you like me but i never wear gardening gloves i just like to get my hands in the dirt and get digging down on the plot So who else likes that as well Who else doesn wear gardening gloves Let me know in the comments below
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So that is something that I always do. And you get to see the beauty around you
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I've got so many flowers growing on the plot. That is one thing that I have concentrated down on allotments
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look these are just absolutely beautiful and they attract the bees and the insects down on the side
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and it encourages them to help pollinate all your fruit and your vegetables because without the bees
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and the insects you wouldn't be able to help pollinate your produce you'd have to go around
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doing it all manually yourself and that would take forever and the crops that I have got from
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having flowers this year has been phenomenal. I've had so many strawberries off my plot
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all my plums are ripening now, you'll be able to see them in the next video. But they are all
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I've got branches snapping, they're that heavy with how many plums I've got growing, which is
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amazing. So being down on the plot it's just somewhere that I can be and just enjoy the fresh
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air. There's no cars nearby and it's just surrounded by beauty and the produce that you pick from being
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on the allotment that's amazing as well. Gardening is all about trial and error if
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you didn't try things you wouldn't learn things. People think they know everything
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about gardening and they don A lot of stuff has been learned through trial and error What works for them might not work for you what works for you might not work for them And so on really So it always good to try new ways and try your own ways
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of doing stuff. People can share all these tips and like I say it can work for them. It might not
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work for you. So just try stuff and if it works, it works. And well done. My first year on the
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allotment I did absolutely fantastic and then the year after on certain stuff it didn't grow so well
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so it's bizarre gardening it's just about luck really about luck and trying your best and enjoying
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it that's what gardening is all about enjoying being down on the plot and being out and picking
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the fresh produce there's nothing tastier than growing your own homegrown vegetables
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they're not as tasty as what they are in the shops definitely not so have a go if you've not done
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growing your own vegetables before have a go it's all good fun and you will reap the rewards it can
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be a lot of hard work and effort but you will enjoy it and the taste of produce is fantastic
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so this has been our little video today do click that subscribe button uh to stay up to date with
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all my videos and you'll get notified when new ones come up and feel free to check out the link
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below in the description of the shop that i have selling t-shirts and hoodies as a lot of people
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like to wear gardening t-shirts and we've got some great funny ones on there so check them out
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and as always remember keep smiling and keep gardening
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