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Welcome to our strawberry hanging basket
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weekly update. Welcome to Gardening with
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Ben, everybody. And today we're going to
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give you our weekly update on how well
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they're actually doing. And as you can
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see, they're looking absolutely amazing.
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So, let's turn the camera and let's have
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a good look at them and see how well
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So, these are planted in the Oakland
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hanging baskets and these have like 12
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to 15 holes in the side. So, we've got
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them in every single hole. We probably
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got too many in, but oh well, we'll have
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to keep them well watered because it'll
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get absolutely boiling in here in
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summer. It was 30° in the poly tunnel
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yesterday and we're still only in March.
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And yeah, they taking really well. Every
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plant literally has nearly taken.
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There's been a couple that have uh not
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doing well, but we keep taking the
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flowers off at the moment because we
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need them to take root and yeah, we need
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to take the flowers off for a couple of
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weeks while they get bigger. And these
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are everlasting strawberries. So,
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they'll keep fruiting all summer. So,
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yeah, we're going to take the flowers
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off for the first couple of months
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because it's not time for them to grow
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yet. Flowers in my area. I'm up
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Yorkshire. So, we're going to keep
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taking them off and encourage them to
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get bigger and hopefully with taking the
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flowers off, you get more fruit on them
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all together. So, that is what we're
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planning on doing. And I'm so happy with
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how they all grow. We've got food in the
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top. It's uh wland boost. So that'll
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feed them. When we get to the flowering
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stage, that's when we'll start feeding
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them tomato feed, which will get them
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better and hopefully bigger and juicier
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fruit. And tomato feed you can use on
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most fruit and vegetables. To be honest,
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it's a great feed all together spider.
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But yeah, they're coming on really well.
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We're hoping for massive harvest this
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year down at the plot. I'm just checking
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them all for flowers as I'm walking down
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showing you all. But yeah, look at that
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one. It's got a flower on it already.
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We'll keep taking them off.
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It's only what I've read up on about
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taking flowers off. It's not something
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that I actually know. I've never
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actually taken flowers off the
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strawberries. But because these are baby
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ones, baby plants, brand new ones,
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that's what we're doing. We're taking
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the flowers off. So, I've learned
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something myself with regards to that.
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That's not something that I knew before.
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Like I said, we've got a couple of dead
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ones, but we're going to replace those.
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We've got some spare ones to plant in.
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But overall, we've only had about four
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that haven't taken. Everyone seem to
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have taken really well. Like I purchased
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300 strawberries altogether. Absolutely
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loads. But yeah, they're coming on
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absolutely amazing. So, we'll have to
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see what sort of harvest we get down
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here this year. I'm hoping to set up an
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irrigation system when it starts to get
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warmer because I'm only having to water
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four days, but when it starts to get
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warmer, obviously they'll need a lot of
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water every day as the roots will take
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up a lot of the hanging basket,
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especially with 15 plants in them. So,
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we're going to set up an irrigation
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system which will be solar powered and
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it'll feed into the water but as well.
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So, yeah, that is what we're planning on
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So, I hope you've enjoyed our weekly
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update on our strawberry hanging
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baskets. We've popped the link in the
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bottom so that if anybody's wanting any,
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go and check them out. Until next time
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everyone, remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening with Ben,
