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Welcome to the new episode of Poly
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Tunnel Diaries. The weekly diary of our
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poly tunnel of how it's progressing and
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how it's getting on. As a lot of you
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know, we have revamped in this poly
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tunnel. It was an absolute mess last
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year and I thought it's about time we
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used it to its full potential. It gets
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warm in here, it gets sunny, it's
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absolutely gorgeous, and I don't use it
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to its full potential. I just grow a few
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tomatoes in pots and yeah, we have good
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crop of tomatoes, but I want to start
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growing all year round in here and make
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full use of how well it's getting on.
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And I want to grow different vegetables
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in here like radish, lettucees, spring
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uh everything really, anything and
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everything. And altogether, we've got 15
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new beds in here. So, we've got a lot of
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extra space for growing. So let's have a
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look at how things are getting on and
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it's exciting. It's coming along.
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So we have started filling all the beds
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up with compost now. So next weekend we
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are going to start sewing in these. I'm
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excited for this. We're going to sew
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radish, beetroot, lettuce, spring onions
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in here next week. And we'll see what
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else we can sew in here as well. And
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things coming up. We've got some spare
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strawberries left over what I need to
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use. But yeah, we're not filling them
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right up to the top because there's no
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need. There's no need to fill them right
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up to the top. The only one that I'm
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going to fill up to the top will be the
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one that have carrots in so that it's
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got deep roots and hopefully some nice
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long carrots. But yeah, that's deep
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enough for our tomato plants and
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everything else like that. It should be
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pretty good. Obviously, it'll sink down
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quite a bit when it's watered and once
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it's all settled in, but we'll top them
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up again next year with more compost.
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And obviously it'll need fresh nutrients
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in it year on year. So yeah, the beds
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are going to be amazing. I'm excited for
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this year so much. Uh I think I'm going
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to need an a few extra days off a week
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just to keep on top of this poly tunnel.
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But yeah, let's have a look inside what
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we've been doing in our mini green
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houses. We've got us potatoes chitting.
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They're chitting away. They'll be
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planted on Good Friday. We've got us
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lavender, what we planted the other day
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to see if we could get some cutings
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from. And hopefully from that, we've got
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some spring uh sweet peas in there. I
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can't really see cuz uh Oh, wait up.
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Look at this everyone. The sweet peas
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are growing in the root trainers what we
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got from Oakland. Absolutely amazed. I
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love my sweet peas. Yes. Fantastic.
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So happy they're starting to germinate.
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This is going to be amazing.
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And the lavender's growing well.
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Absolutely amazing. Smells gorgeous in
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there. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get that cover
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back on and keep things warmed up. I'm
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so happy those sweet peas are
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Obviously being in this mini greenhouse.
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It's inside a poly tunnel and inside
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there and inside a clock. So, it keeps
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them extra warm and toasty.
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Then down here, we've got his onions
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what we planted. Some of them are
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starting to sprout as you can see. So
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that's to give them a head start before
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planting them out at end of March time
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and just get some roots and get some
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shoots on them and get them going.
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So as you can see, I get excited over
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everything over every little thing
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that's germinated. I can't believe
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they're starting to germinate those
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sweet peas. We're going to be starting
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some more sweet peas off next week.
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We've got a load more seeds. So yeah,
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it's going to be a busy weekend next
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weekend down at the plot. So, I hope
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you've enjoyed that. Make sure you drop
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poly tunnel episodes. As I say, it's
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going to be changing every single week
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in here at the moment. It's going to be
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a busy week. We're planting in the bed
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beds next week as well. So, next week
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hopefully we can show you that down at
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the plot as well. So until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling, keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
