Stormy Saturday in July: Allotment Adventures in Heavy Rain
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Jul 20, 2025
Join me as I brave a July downpour on the allotment, where every raindrop brings both challenge and opportunity. In this episode, I’Whether you’re dodging puddles or dancing in the rain, this episode will help you turn a soggy Saturday into a seedling’s best friend. #AllotmentLife #RainyDayGardening #JulyDownpour #GardeningHacks #WaterManagement #SoilHealth #SeedlingProtection #RainwaterHarvesting #WetWeatherTips #GardenResilience Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gardening-with-ben-garden-and-allotment-tips-and-advice-podcast--5150692/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gardening-with-ben-garden-and-allotment-tips-and-advice-podcast--5150692/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss) .
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben, your
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go-to podcast for all things green and
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growing in 2025.
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Whether you're a seasoned gardener, a
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budding enthusiast, or just curious
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Hey everyone and welcome back to
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we're back again for the time being.
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basis for you. So today's podcast is
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we're going to talk about what we got up
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to down at the a lotment yesterday as we
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were busy busy bees down there
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yesterday. Obviously, we had the
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forecast for torrential rain and
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thunderstorms. We didn't get any
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thunderstorms where I am so far up to
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recording this episode, but we did get
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some torrential rain, which is good
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because I didn't bother watering my plot
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on Friday or Saturday. So, I'm glad that
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it came. Hopefully, it's soaked in well
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and hopefully it will
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not have me watering for a few days now
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and we can just let things grow with the
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natural rain water, which is a lot
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better than tap water when you're
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growing plants.
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So, what did we get up to? Well, we did
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a bit of picking before the rain
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I picked some massive squash which you
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might have seen on my Instagram or
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how to cook them now. That's the only
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problem. I'm all right with growing
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stuff but it's cooking stuff that's
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another issue. But yeah, hopefully we'll
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be able to cook something nice with
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them. We also picked a load of tomatoes
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as they're all starting to ripen pretty
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fast now. We're just waiting on them
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beef steak tomatoes to start ripening.
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But once they obviously start ripening,
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then they'll all start ripening. But
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they're massive. Absolutely massive. One
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of them's literally the size of my hand.
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And it's still growing. It's still
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growing every single day. We're keeping
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them watered every single day, sometimes
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twice a day. And it's just growing
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massive at the moment. I don't know when
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it's actually going to stop growing. I
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might be able to enter in a competition
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at this rate with how big it is. But
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yeah, they're absolutely amazing. So
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today, obviously with it raining, we
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decided to do some poly tunnel jobs. The
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jobs that I don't often do, as I like to
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be outside when it's a nice day, making
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the most of the sunshine while we've got
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it. So, we stayed inside in the poly
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tunnel and we tidied up all my tomato
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plants. I took off all the lower leaves.
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I took off any I took off the tops of
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the tomato plants as they reached the
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top of my poly tunnel. So, I want them
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to concentrate on growing the tomatoes
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now, not growing the actual plant.
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That's the plan anyway. Whether that'll
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happen, hopefully we'll get a load more
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tomatoes on them and keep them fruiting
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all the way up to end of September,
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October time, and get a great reward
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from them. So, we've got them growing.
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We also sorted out as beef steak
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tomatoes. Again, took off a load of
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leaves and snip the top off as they
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reached the top. and it won't get as
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many tomatoes on that one, but hopefully
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we'll get some decent sized Whopper
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sized ones. We also gave them a good
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feed. We gave them some blood, fish, and
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bone. We gave them a good watering and
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they were all looking healthy and we
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tied them all back up because they were
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Next up, we sorted out as pepper plants.
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Again, I don't know how you look after
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pepper plants. I should have really read
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up about peppers as it's not something I
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often grow, but again, I took off the
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lower leaves. And the only issue with my
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peppers is that they're getting eaten by
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something. Whether it's ants, slugs, I
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don't know, something is eating them,
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and I'm not happy about it. So, if
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anyone's got any tips for stopping
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things from eating my peppers, please do
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let me know. Maybe I need to put them in
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a bowl of water so nothing can crawl
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into them. But yeah, we'll see how we
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get on. Hopefully we do get some peppers
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from them because there's loads on
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there, but they just keep getting eaten.
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I'm like, "No, not another one." So, I
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end up just cutting it off and throwing
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it away. And hopefully we do get some
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peppers.
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Next up, I then sorted out all my melon
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plants. Now, I've not grown melons for a
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few years down at the a lotment. It must
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have been about eight years or so. I
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grew some cantaloupe melons and they
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were absolutely phenomenal. Great taste,
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great flavor and smell absolutely
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beautiful. And we've grown some more
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melons again this year. Don't ask me
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what variety because I forgot to label
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them or I forgot to label them up. I
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don't know. But we've got some melon
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plants and there I've not even tied any
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of them up. They were just growing
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everywhere. So, we've put some netting
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up on the side and we've also fastened
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them all up to the netting and sorted
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them all out. And hidden away, there
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were some melons growing on it. So,
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looks like we possibly will get some
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melons growing and get a great reward
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from them and see how well they get on.
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So, I'm happy with that. I've posted a
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video of that on my Facebook and
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Instagram if you want to go and have a
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look at that and see how well they're
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getting on. I've also sorted out my
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oragene plant as that got a load of
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leaves on it. It looks like it's uh
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pretty hungry cuz the leaves are going a
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bit yellow on it. So, I've given it a
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good feed as well and stripped off a
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load of leaves what weren't doing any
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good and tidied it all up, fastened a
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cane in, tidied tied the plant up and
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yeah, I bought my oberene plant this
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year. I didn't grow it from seed. I've
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never had any luck with growing oberene
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from seed. You have to start them off
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pretty early. So, I thought I'll buy a
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plant, see how it gets on. And wow, one
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plant is enough. There's absolutely
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loads of or jeans on it. It's doing
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absolutely amazing. I can't believe how
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well the or jeans are growing on there.
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So, we're getting going to get some
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great rewards from that as well. So,
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overall, we have had a very busy day
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down at the lotment. I spent about 4
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hours down there this morning as I'm an
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Now tomorrow, hopefully, fingers
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irrigation for my tomatoes and stuff in
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my poly tunnel. I've got a big massive
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wheelie bin what I fill with water, but
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I want to set up an irrigation on it so
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it does get a constant feed of water
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twice a day and keep them happy because
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obviously the big plants now, they'll
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need watering possibly twice a day cuz
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they do dry out really fast as the
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composting is absolutely rubbish. It's
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no good. But hopefully it will keep them
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watered and keep them alive and keep
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things growing on it. So that's my plan
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for tomorrow. I was meant to do it
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today, but I forgot to take them down to
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the plot, which I absolutely annoyed
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myself for. But overall, we did get a
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lot of stuff done down there. So, I'm
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happy about that. So, make sure you come
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back to tomorrow's episode where we'll
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be talking about what how we we've got
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on we're setting up this irrigation.
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It's a solar powered irrigation system
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rather than battery. So, hopefully we
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get enough sun to make it work, but
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talking to other people, they've managed
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to get it to work even with little sun.
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