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Spring Weekend Garden & Allotment Roundup 🌱 Progress, Jobs & What’s Growing!
Mar 22, 2026
Join me for a spring weekend garden and allotment roundup, sharing the latest progress and what’s been happening over the past few days.
This is where I take you through how things are coming along, the changes in the garden, and how everything is starting to take off as the season gets going. Spring is one of the most exciting times, with growth picking up fast and plenty happening across the plot.
Whether you’re growing your own food or just love seeing seasonal progress, this gives you a real look at how things develop week by week.
Perfect for inspiration, ideas, and keeping motivated with your own garden or allotment.
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Welcome to our weekend roundup and
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welcome to Gardening with Ben. Yes,
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we're going to talk about what we've
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actually done down at the plot and yeah,
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how well it's all coming on. So, on
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Saturday, I spent the morning pinching
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out my sweet peas. I'll be sharing a
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video on that. If you have a look,
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you'll be able to see it come up and
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yeah, we'll show you how to pinch them
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out to get them bushier and to get more
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flowers on them. So, that is one thing
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that I do down on my pls. I love sweet
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peas. I absolutely love them. The more
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flowers the better. And obviously the
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more you pick them, the more they'll
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keep flowering. We've also been busy in
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our outdoor strawberry bed area as I've
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got a strawberry bed with about 300
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strawberries in and quite a lot of them
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had died off from age or from coldness.
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So, I'd had a lot of runners growing in
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the poly tunnel over winter and we've
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putotted them and planted them out and
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we've cleared out all the weeds and
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giving it a massive tidy up. So, that's
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one job that I'm happy that we've
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managed to get done down here. We've
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also obviously been taking the flowers
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off the strawberries because we don't
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want them flowering yet. We want them to
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get a bit bigger and then hopefully
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they'll flower later on and get more
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fruit on them.
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We've also been visiting the poly tunnel
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this weekend. We've got the water back
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on down at the a lotment site. So, I've
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given them all a nice good watering all
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the raised beds so that everything can
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start growing really well in here. It's
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getting warmer and in the poly tunnel it
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gets to like 30° at the moment and we're
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still only in March. So, things are
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growing on well. I've given my hanging
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baskets a good watering as well cuz they
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were starting to dry out, so I'll have
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to start watering them more regularly
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now to hopefully get some amazing
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strawberries on inside the polygonal. I
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can't wait for this year's crop of
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strawberries. I absolutely love them.
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Also, the tulips have started coming out
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on the plot, which I'm happy about. They
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were getting ready yesterday, but
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they've opened up today. So, that's a
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great surprise for me down here. I've
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got so many daffodil bulbs this year. is
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absolutely beautiful of color and that's
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one thing that I want is more color in
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the springtime and I'm looking at the
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areas that haven't got flowers in and
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possibly next year we'll have more
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flowers in them areas. So I'm getting so
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many borders full of flowers. It's
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absolutely gorgeous and the bees love it
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and it's just amazing to see and
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obviously smell the high sims is amazing
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down here. So we've been doing that.
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We've also sewn a lot more seeds because
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I'd sewn a lot for the raised beds what
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I'm going to be growing in, but I'd not
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sewn any for outdoors. So, we've sewn
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some more seeds this weekend. And the
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seeds are starting to germinate. I'm
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having to take the cling film off the
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trays now because they starting to
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sprout. So, yeah, we've got to keep them
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watered as well. That's that's why I'm
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pleased they've turned the water back on
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so can keep up with watering everything.
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Now, we've also dug over some beds ready
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for planting my onions out next week. As
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you know, I've got some onions growing
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in these mini green houses and in cell
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trays. We give them a little head start
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to get growing and then we'll plant them
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out. So, we'll hopefully plant them next
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weekend. That's going to be ne next
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weekend's job down here. And obviously,
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Good Friday, we'll be planting out our
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potatoes as well. So, that'll be a good
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thing. Uh, so we've got lots of work
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getting on down here. And obviously, the
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weeds are starting to grow now, so we're
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having to weed around stuff. I've weeded
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around my shelots and my onions today
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and hopefully next week be weeding
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around my garlic. Get that job done.
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There's so many jobs to get done
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nowadays uh down at the plot. It's all
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starting to come alive and start growing
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which is absolutely fantastic. The
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blossoms coming out on the plum tree. So
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that's hopefully going to get some fruit
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on it. Hopefully the bees do their work
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and pollinate it and get some fruit
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growing on it. So yeah, it's all been a
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pretty much exciting weekend down here
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at the plot. Absolutely feels like I've
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done a lot more than I've actually said,
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but I'm happy with how things are coming
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on and things are growing along. So,
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next time, everyone, remember, keep
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smiling, keep shining, and keep
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gardening with Ben, everyone.
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