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Join me for a spring tour of my allotment as everything starts coming to life.
In this video, I’ll show you what’s growing, how things are progressing, and the changes happening as the new season gets underway. Spring is one of the most exciting times, with fresh growth, new planting, and plenty of potential ahead.
Whether you’re growing your own food or just enjoy seeing how an allotment develops, this tour gives you a real look at what’s happening right now.
Perfect for inspiration, ideas, and motivation for your own growing space.
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Let's have a spring tour of our a
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lotment. Welcome to Gardening with Ben.
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And today we're going to give you a
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little spring tour of and show you
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what's growing and all the beautiful
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blooms what we've got out in the plot
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because I just want to share them with
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you all cuz they're looking absolutely
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gorgeous. So, let's have a look around
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the plot. So, as you can see at the
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front, we've got all the tulips coming
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out looking absolutely gorgeous.
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Look at them.
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Absolutely gorgeous.
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All the daffodils are dying off.
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And then as we come on to the plot, look
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at these tulips. Absolutely gorgeous. I
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love all the weird and wonderful looking
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tulips. Absolutely gorgeous ones.
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Perfect for the bees to land on and get
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the pollen and the nectar that they
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need. But yeah, look at this as well for
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absolutely gorgeous. First year I've
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grown this. So yeah,
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Happy with how that's looking.
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But yeah, all the tulips are looking
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absolutely gorgeous.
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All the rhubarbs doing amazing. Look at
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all that.
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Absolutely amazing.
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And we've got all the pear tree blossom
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out.
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So hopefully we get some good pears this
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year on the tree cuz there's absolutely
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loads and loads of blossom on it.
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And then my fuchsia's starting to flower
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as well. Look at this. Got some flowers
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coming on it already.
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Absolutely amazing.
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I didn't prune it back. I should have
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really pruned it back a bit this year,
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but oh well, we'll leave it as it looks
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absolutely amazing. And hopefully I get
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some great flowers on it.
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These tulips are starting to go. These
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were the first ones to come out. But
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yeah, they've been absolutely stunning
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as you've probably seen in lots of my
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photos. We got his gladiolas planted in
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buckets
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and we'll place them around the plot.
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When they're starting to flower and
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starting to pop up, we'll place them
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around. So, we're just keeping them all
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together while we keep them watered.
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We've got more tulips down this side.
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Look at these ones. Absolutely amazing.
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Absolutely stunning. I've got so many
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different varieties of tulips growing.
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So many varieties. Absolutely amazing.
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Then we've got some
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of the monster liies, sky scraper liies
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down the middle of the strawberry beds,
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which I'm excited for, seeing how well
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they grow. That one's starting to pop
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through already, as you can see.
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So, I'm growing them down the middle of
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my strawberry so that I can put canes in
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and support them if needs be. The plum
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tree, absolutely loads of blossom on
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them, on them both. So, hopefully we get
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some plums on this trees this year.
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These have been in probably about 3 to
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four years. So, they're getting
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established. But yeah, hopefully this
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year we get plums on them.
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Absolutely loads of tulips.
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And look at this area. Absolutely
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stunning.
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Absolutely gorgeous. So many tulips.
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We've done so well with the tulips this
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year.
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We've got his garlic growing. Some more
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garlic there.
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We've got this broad beans growing what
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we started off over the winter. They're
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all flowering now. So hopefully we get
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some broad beans on them. We've got some
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onions in there what we planted in
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October. Down the sides we've got loads
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of daffodils. Absolutely loads.
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Absolutely stunning. These were all new
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this year. All these daffodils. So the
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amount of daffodils we've got this year
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is outstanding. We've got his potatoes
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in his potato buckets. When they start
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popping through, we'll put some more
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compost on top, keeping them outside
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where they're getting a lot of sunlight
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and keeping them well watered.
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And these are the onions that I planted
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in March. We started those off in
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containers first. They look better than
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the winter ones, but we started them off
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in containers first. All growing really
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well. We need to water all them to be
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honest. And then in this top area, we've
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just planted 300 summer flowering bulbs.
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I've covered them with netting to stop
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the squirrel from pinching them cuz I
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had tulips in these and the squirrel
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pinched them all. So yeah, we're keeping
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them covered until they start growing.
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And then look at this little woodland
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area. Excuse the skull. It's not real.
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And we've got some blue bells. We got
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this little bench what we sit on full of
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bird poo. I need to wash that off. But
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even the nettles make it more woodland
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looking. Looks absolutely gorgeous. So
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hopefully we can get some more flowers
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in there over the summer period. and see
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you about growing stuff in there. But
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yeah, it's all coming on well. All the
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beds will start to fill up in May time
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when we plant stuff out. But obviously
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for the time being, while there's
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chances of frost around, it's still
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getting cold at night. We don't plan
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anything out as yet.
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So, make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with all our videos and
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how well we get on this year down at the
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plot. Until next time everyone, remember
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keep smiling, keep shining and keep
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gardening with bed everyone.
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