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This video shows the transformation of a growing space, highlighting the improvements, organisation, and preparation for a productive season ahead. I walk through the changes made and the simple steps that make gardening easier and more efficient.
A motivating and practical guide for gardeners looking to refresh their space and create a productive, enjoyable growing environment
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Let's dig this poly tunnel over. Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben. And today's
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mission is to start clearing this poly
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tunnel and getting it dug over. Well,
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we've cleared out most of the rubbish
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and took loads and loads to the tip.
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It's near enough completely empty now.
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But today's job is to start taking up
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the flooring and get it dug over. This
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flooring's been down 16 years and
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there's going to be years worth of
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bindweed under there and there's holes
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under the ground. So, there might be rat
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nests or mice nests. So, I'm not looking
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forward to it. But, I'm going to keep
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you up to date with what it looks like
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and how well we're getting on with it
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and show you the ups, the downs of
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digging this poly tunnel over to get it
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all back level again. So, yeah, let's
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get this flooring up.
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So this is the poly tunnel and as you
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can see we've still got a bit of rubbish
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to take to the tip but not much left
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now. But yeah, we've got to get up all
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this flooring as it's all uneven now
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after 16 years and yeah try and tidy it
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up and get some of the bindweed root out
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down the side so all the bindw weed
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grows pretty well. So we need to get all
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that rooting out and hopefully get it
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all back in shape. But yeah, I'm
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definitely not looking forward to taking
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this flooring up and seeing what's
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underneath it all. But I'll show you
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what's underneath it as we go along. So
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yeah, let's get it up. Oh, I've got the
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first half of the flooring up and it's
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not too bad as I thought it would be. I
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thought the bindweed would be a lot
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worse than what it actually is. Uh it
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looks like the bindweed is just around
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the top of the poly tunnel on the top.
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But yeah, found one little mouse hole or
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rat hole down here.
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little trail
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for this little bl. But yeah, we need to
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get all this bind weed out
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and get it all leveled back out again.
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But we've got this nice little pickaxe
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what we're going to use, which will come
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in very handy for breaking up the soil.
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But we don't want to use that until we
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got the bindweed out because we don't
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want to chop the bindweed into thousands
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of pieces and get more bindweed growing.
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So, we need to get it all dug out
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manually.
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But yeah, let's crack on. Well, that's
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half of the poly tunnel of this first
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half that we've got done. But yeah, it's
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so hard work. Wow, it will like concrete
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some of it. But good job we've got this
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little pickaxe tool to help break it up.
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But obviously we're going to use this
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wolf garden tool afterwards and chop it
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all up and then use this rake to level
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it out a bit to make it a bit better.
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Obviously we won't get much level
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because it's on a slant, but it'll be a
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lot better than what it was. That's how
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much bind weed we've got out of the
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first bit, but obviously there's loads
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of bindweed on this side. So we're going
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to fill a load more up and get that
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sorted. And there we are. We've got to
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the last bit now. We got to the worst
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bit. Why is it that you leave the worst
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bit till the end? Who else does the
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same? They always do the easy bit to
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start off with and then get to the worst
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bit and think, "No, why am I doing
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this?" But it'll all work out well in
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the end. That's what I'm saying to
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myself anyway. So, yeah, let's get this
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last bit out. And there we are. That's
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all cleared now. And another bucket full
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of bindweed. We just need to take the
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bricks out and then we're going to level
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it out, break it over and use our wolf
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garden tool to break it all up, which
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will make it a lot better and then get
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out any more roots that we can.
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So, yeah, I'm absolutely shattered
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already. I'm glad I broke it up into hot
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days uh like this first half today and
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then the other half tomorrow.
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But yeah, let's get all that out. Let's
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get ready to level it all. So, this is
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the tool that I'm going to be using to
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break all the soil up before I rake it
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and level it out. This is a great tool.
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Cost about £50 for the head. Uh,
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obviously you buy the handle separate,
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but that costs about £50. Yes, it's a
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lot of money, but it is a fantastic tool
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and well worth it. I use this on all my
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beds when I'm breaking them all up after
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I've dug them over for weeding and
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keeping on top of the weeds as well.
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Obviously, it's got a hole on that side.
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So, you can do it on this side like that
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and it'll ho it at the same time as
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breaking it up. So, yeah, let's put this
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piece into action and let's get it all
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broke up.
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Wow, this is a hard hard job what we
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have planned today. I certainly built up
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for it this week, but I didn't realize
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how hard it's going to be. But I'm happy
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with how well it's all coming on. So,
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let's have a look at it now that we've
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used the wolf garden tool over it. So,
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yeah, we've broken it all up a lot
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better and crumbled it up. But now we
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just need to rake it over and try and
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get rid of some of that plastic what's
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all broken up.
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But yeah, let's get it all rad over now.
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and ready for the black membrane to go
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down next week. And there we have it.
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All took over, all raked over and ready
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for the black membrane to go on next
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week.
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Absolutely shattered, but it's been
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worth it. We've got it all done. We got
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all the bind weed out and it's looking
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absolutely tons more better than it was
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before.
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So yeah, tomorrow's job doing the second
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half. Do I want to actually do it? Nope.
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But we need to get it done and
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completed. And then once that's done,
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that's a job ticked off. So thank you
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for watching today's video. As you can
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tell, I'm absolutely drenched from the
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hard work down here. Absolutely for It
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shows I put the effort in. That
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certainly is for sure. But yeah, wow.
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It's been a hard job today, but we've
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succeeded and tomorrow we come and we
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finish off this mission that we have
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started.
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But yeah, thank you for watching
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everyone, remember keep smiling, keep
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everyone.
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