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Let's finish off our easy fill hanging
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baskets. Welcome to Gardening with Ben.
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And today we're going to be finishing
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off our easy fill baskets. Now, I had a
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lot of comments on my post what I posted
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about potting them all up saying, "Why
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haven't you put any in the top?" Well,
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basically, I ran out of time. It took
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that long to fill 15 hanging baskets
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that I ran out of time to get them in.
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So, we've got about 60 strawberry plants
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left and that'll be more than enough to
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put them in the top. and possibly any
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leftover I'll put out in my actual
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strawberry bed outside. And you're
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probably thinking, why have you got
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strawberries inside when you've got them
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outside? Well, the ones outside get
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eaten by wood lice. I often find wood
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lice hiding inside holes in them. Slugs
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get them, birds get them, the squivel
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pinches them. So, yeah, having them in
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the hanging baskets will keep them off
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the ground and stop any pests from
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getting them. And obviously the only
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issue is that they'll dry out faster
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being in the poly tunnel. So I'm going
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to be setting up an irrigation system in
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the coming weeks to keep a drip feed of
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them. But at the moment you only need to
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water them about once a week because
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they won't dry out fast and you don't
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want root rot which can you often get
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with strawberry plants. So we don't want
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to overwater them. And as it starts to
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get warmer then we'll water them twice a
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week. And obviously when it starts to
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get hot, we'll water them once a day
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with the drip feeder. And the best thing
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about the drip feeder is that you can
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time it to when to water as well. So you
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can time it to water every day or every
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few days. So that's the plan. And it'll
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save me coming down to the plot every
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day to water them in the poly tunnel. So
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yeah, let's have a look at what they
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look like and what we're doing today.
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So these are the hanging baskets all
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hanging well from the crossbar on the
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poly tunnel. Looking absolutely amazing.
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So yeah, we're possibly going to put
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four in each one at the top. And we're
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going to put some food on top as well.
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We're going to feed them all first and
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then we're going to put four in each one
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and then we'll give them a good water
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for this week. So we watered them last
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week so they're ready for a drink this
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week. So yeah, let's get the
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strawberries and let's get them planted.
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These are the strawberry plants. I put
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them in some soil to keep them damp and
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to keep them alive until this week. So
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yeah, let's get them out and let's get
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So this is what I'm feeding them with.
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Boost Westland. We put some in the tops
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of each one. This will feed them for the
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bit and hopefully build the roots up to
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make them stronger. And then once they
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start flowering, we'll feed them with
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tomato feed as well. So yeah, let's get
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the plants in the top of them.
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So there we are. We've put all the
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strawberries in the top. We've put only
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three in the top cuz four might be too
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many as obviously they'll bush out once
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they get growing. And yeah, we've given
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them a good water, a good drink, and
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we'll water them all again next week. So
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yeah, I'm looking forward to these easy
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fill hanging baskets. They're going to
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be absolutely amazing. Fingers crossed
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they all take all the strawberry plants
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and if so we'll be absolutely inundated
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with strawberries this year down at the
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stay up to date with all our videos and
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how well the strawberries grow this year
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down at the poly tunnel in the easy
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hanging baskets. So until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling, keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
