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let's grow some carrots welcome to
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Gardening with Ben and in today's
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episode we're going to try and grow some
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carrots now I've never had any luck in
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the 16 years that I've had my a lotment
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so this is going to be a chance to try
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and finally grow some and see how we get
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on so we still got time to plant carrots
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and the variety that I'm planting today
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are Early Nance too and it says you can
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sew these all the way up to July so
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we're going to get these sewn and get
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these planted we're not going to grow
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them in the ground because growing
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carrots in the ground is stony and it
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can cause them to split and end up in
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looking like funny shapes that I often
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see online but yeah we're going to grow
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these in pots in the poly tunnel where
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it's nice and warm so hopefully we get a
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good crop fingers crossed so let's try
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and get some carrots growing
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so we're going to grow the carrots in
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these big planters if we put some holes
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in the bottom for drainage but yes
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they're nice and deep and hopefully the
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carrot fly won't get them as they're not
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low down so we're going to fill these
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with compost and then sew some seeds on
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top so I've now filled these planters up
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with lots of compost so it's a case of
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sprinkling some seeds on top we
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obviously don't want to plant too many
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on top as we don't want to be thinning
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loads out so we need to try and sprinkle
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them evenly across the top
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so I've tried to sprinkle them evenly
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but we've failed in that so we'll
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probably have to thin them out once they
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get growing so we just need to cover
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them with compost now and give them a
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good drink of water to get them to
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so there we have it all watered covered
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with compost and hopefully we'll get
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some carrots growing in them this year
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so make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with our carrot growing
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and see if we're a success this year or
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if we're a failure as per every other
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single year i hope you've enjoyed this
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video until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
