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This video explains how to prepare and plant a garden in spring so crops establish successfully. Learn how to improve soil, organise planting areas and choose suitable vegetables and flowers for the season.
The guide covers sowing seeds, transplanting young plants and caring for new growth as temperatures rise. These steps help prevent common problems and support healthy development throughout the growing season.
If you want to start the season successfully, this video provides practical spring gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing spaces.
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and let's enjoy today's episode hello
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben yes this episode has come out
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nice and early because it's the first
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day of spring and I'm that excited I wet
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my
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plants I had to get that joke in there
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sorry about that but yeah uh I'll
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certainly be posting that one on my
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Facebook and my Instagram later that I'm
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so excited I wet my plants I always
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laugh when I see that joke and if you do
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like that joke I've got them on my
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t-shirts as well so feel free to check
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out my t-shirts the link is in the
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description as well so go and check them
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out so yeah spring has finally sprung
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and wow what a week we're going to be
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having this week it's going to be
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absolutely gorgeous today is going to be
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a bit cooler than yesterday but this
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week it's going to get up to a whopping
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20° C and that's just forecast at the
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minute it could be even higher than that
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so this week is a time to get excited
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for the gardening
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because now is the time when it's
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kicking off it's time to start sewing
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those seeds it's time to start planting
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those early potatoes it's time to start
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planting those onion sets it's time to
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plant the broad beans it's time to plant
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the early peas yes it's getting to that
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time we're starting to plant stuff and
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this warm weather is perfect weather for
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sewing seeds and it will help them
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germinate especially like peppers and
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chilies melons the ones that need the
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heat to germinate if it's going to be
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20° outside what is the temperature
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going to be inside the greenhouse it's
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going to be phenomenal and it will
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certainly help germinate all your seeds
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that need
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germinating so if you've got some time
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this week get sewing those seeds but do
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remember that it will still be cold at
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night as the temperature can easily drop
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with clear days and you can get some
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Frost still around so just be careful
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with what you're growing and what you're
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sewing and don't plant anything outside
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yet that's chance of frost will kill it
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so make sure that you're only growing
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stuff outside that can survive the
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weather still so yeah it's certainly a
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time to be getting excited it's
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certainly a time to start getting those
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Gardens grow growing and getting them
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getting that motivation to get growing
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because the warm weather certainly perks
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you up and it certainly makes you want
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to go out in the garden I've been lucky
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this year I've the weather's been
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fantastic throughout winter it's not
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been a bad winter whatsoever and I've
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kept going to the plot all the way
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through winter so I'm ahead of schedule
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my plot is coming along so well I've
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made some drastic improvements this year
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and planted so many new fruits and new
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flowers and new sh rubbery and it's
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going to look absolutely phenomenal this
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year my plot and take a couple of years
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for everything to get growing and get
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fruit growing on it but in the years to
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come it's going to be absolutely
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fantastic and it's going to be worth it
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while putting that much effort in over
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winter can really help your garden
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succeed throughout the springtime and
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you can certainly get some good results
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from it so yeah spring is going to be
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fantastic month for me down at the plot
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I'm going to be busy finishing off all
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my plot getting it all tidy getting all
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the beds painted getting all the beds
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dug over getting it all weeded getting
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everything tip toop shape and then come
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end of March when I get paid I'm going
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to be planting all my seeds I've got so
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many seeds to plant I can't believe how
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many seeds I've got to plant I'm going
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to have to get some more seed tray
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probably but I've got about 30 packets
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of flower seeds alone to plant which
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will take up a lot of allotment space
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but I'm so excited I'm at I won't so all
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the seeds I don't think but we have got
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a fantastic selection and I've bought so
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many perennial flowers as well which
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means that they will come back year
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after year which I'm trying to do more
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of on the plot the more that I can get
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growing year on year the better it is
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because I don't have to S it every year
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so that's my plan to get more perennial
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plants and come the end of the month I'm
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hoping to get some lavender plants as
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well for the plot because the bees love
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them and it smells beautiful so walking
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onto my plot that's what I want the
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lavender plants on the entrance on my
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plot so that as soon as you walk on
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you're like wow it just hits you just
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like that that's the plan anyway so
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we'll see how well it
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goes but I'm so excited um like I said
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over the months I've been struggling so
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much but the warm and w and the
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beautiful blue skies certainly do cheer
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you up and being out in the garden does
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help and it's good to see all the bees
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buzzing around like I said in my podcast
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yesterday I saw my first ladyb bird
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yesterday and it's everything's just
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waking up now everything's just coming
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out to life looking at all my fruit
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trees are all budding up and getting all
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the leaves growing on them yesterday
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when I was sorting out my raspberries
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all my raspberry canes are getting
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leaves on them now they're all waking up
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it's they know it's springtime they know
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it's ready to start growing they know
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it's ready that that it's time to come
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out of hibernation and get growing and
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same goes for gardening if you've been
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in hibernation all winter wake up it's
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time to get out in those Gardens it's
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time to enjoy it and make it a good
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space for you to be make it your happy
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place and certainly do enjoy being out
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in it you can spend so much time in your
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Gard if you want like we had the
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previous lock down the first lockdown
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two years ago it was around March time
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and the weather was phenomenal and
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everybody found a love for the gardens
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again because that's the only place they
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could go so everybody found a love for
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the gardens again so it's good to make
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it a good space for you to spend so that
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you can be out there and enjoy it so
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make the most of this spring
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everybody write your lists if you've not
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wrote your list of all the gardening
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jobs that need doing and get cracking
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this week especially now that it's early
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Sun comes up early in the morning and
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it's a lot lighter at night so make the
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most of the weather this week while we
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have it everyone try and get those
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Gardens transformed get all them jobs
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done that need doing get all the repairs
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done from winter when we had the
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terrible winds and stuff like that get
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out in them Gardens and enjoy this
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beautiful weather so so that has been a
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shorter little episode today hopefully
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the podcast will carry on over the week
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but we'll have to see because my
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subscriptions due to end on my podcast
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uh today and I need to pay for the next
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month but I can't afford it until payday
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so I'm going to have to wait until
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payday to pay for the subscription which
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is20 a month uh but hopefully we will
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get the podcast up and running again
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soon I might pre-record some and it
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might still work if I pre-record sub so
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we'll have to see so if you don't hear
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from mate until next Friday when I get
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paid that is why because the podcast is
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not subscribed uh subscriptions run out
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that's good sign so until next time
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