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This video shares practical gardening jobs you can do on rainy days during the cooler seasons. I cover simple maintenance, preparation, and indoor or sheltered tasks that keep your garden productive even in wet weather.
A useful guide for gardeners wanting to stay on top of seasonal tasks and make the most of every day, regardless of the weather.
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jobs to do down at your a lotment when
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it's rainy and it's stormy. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben. And yes, it is wet
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and stormy today. We've got storm Amy
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here at the moment causing havoc. But
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we're still down here at the plot
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because I do love to get down and out to
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the plot. I only get my weekends off.
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So, I like to spend as much time down
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here as possible. Yes, I'm lucky I've
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got a poly tunnel. I've got a shed. I
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can keep on coming down and keep dry and
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out of the rain. And even if I don't get
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a lot of stuff done, it's good to get
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out and get down to the plot. And being
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in the fresh air is great for your
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mental health and your positivity and
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your well-being. So, it's great to get
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outside if possible.
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So, what jobs do we do when it's raining
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down here at the a lotment? Well,
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obviously it's autumn winter period at
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the moment and the best thing to do at
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this time of year is tie day. Yes, tie
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date. The job I absolutely hate doing,
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but it needs doing. And if you're like
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me, I end up getting loads of compost
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bags, uh loads of cardboard from stuff
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I've had delivered. I've got all my old
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tomato plants behind me, as you can see.
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We've got as old melon plants as pots
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everywhere. So, it's good time to get
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them out of the ground, get them tided,
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and clear them all away. Because if you
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leave them in your poly tunnel or your
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greenhouse, you'll end up causing issues
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where if they've had diseases, they'll
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harbor in the poly tunnel and the the
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shed and they will come back next year.
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So, get them all out. Get them out of
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your green houses and poly tunnels. Put
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all your rubbish on your compost heat
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that needs to.
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And also get washing. Yes, get your
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marolds out and get washing. As they say
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that you should wash your pots with
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soapy water and clean them ready for
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next year. So, get your fairy liquid out
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and get them clean ready for next year
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so that you don't have any diseases
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harboring on your pots because they'll
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spawn back up again next year and they
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will come back. And it's good to get
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everything clean and tidy for next year.
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And talking of cleaning, that is a good
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time to get your poly tunnels
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disinfected and your green houses. And
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it's case of using disinfectant and
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clean them down really well as again the
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diseases can harbor on the poly tunnel
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skins, in the cracks of the green
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houses, even on the steel frames. So get
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them all washed down and cleaned ready
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for next year. And then once that job's
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done, it's done. You've done it all. and
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you'll have a clean sparkling greenhouse
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all polyel ready for next year ready for
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springtime when you start sewing all
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those seeds.
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Also at this time of year in October
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where we are now you can sew a lot of
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bianial seeds that means like you uh
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they won't flower this year but they'll
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flower next year. So flowers like your
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fox gloves, your
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wall flowers, your loopins, all great
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flowers for an a lotment and they're
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easy to grow as well. So go and get some
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seeds, get some compost, get them
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growing in your polyon or in your
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greenhouse. They will grow at this time
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of year. So get some sewn and you can
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add a lot of color for next year down at
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your plot. Attract those bees. Attract
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that wildlife. Attract the insects, all
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the pollinators that you can get down to
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your a lotment to help spread the pollen
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from the plants to produce more produce
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for you at your a lotment and your
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greenhouse.
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So, there's plenty of jobs that you can
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do down at your a lotment. Yes, it might
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be awful outside. It might be horrible
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weather, the rain coming down, the wind
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blowing, but you can do stuff indoors.
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And like I said, it's great to get out
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and about and be in the fresh air, get
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the radio on, get some music blasting,
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and you can enjoy your time being down
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here at the a lotment. And I love doing
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these videos because it encourages me to
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come down and keep sharing tips and
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advice with you all. And I hope that you
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do enjoy them. So, make sure you drop us
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a follow to stay up to date with all our
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videos. Until next time everyone,
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone.
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