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This video explains how to grow fruit successfully in the garden, including choosing suitable varieties and preparing soil correctly. Learn the basic care requirements fruit plants need to produce healthy crops.
The guide covers watering, feeding and positioning plants for adequate sunlight. It also explains simple maintenance practices that support strong growth and reliable harvests.
If you want to start growing fruit at home, this video provides practical advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing.
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Good evening Gardening with Ben followers. I've just had to re-record this because I realised I said the Yorkshire gardener so that bit's been cut out
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So yeah, good evening Gardening with Ben followers. It's obviously getting to me filming this at night rather than in the morning as usual
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So that's a little fun bit for me so I'm glad I noticed that before it got pointed out
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it out so yeah i've not been on the allotment today um it's been nasty weather here in sheffield
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chucking it down horrible rainy cold windy so i thought i'll stay at home and keep warm so i've
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been thinking about what i'm going to be doing over the next few months obviously i'm doing all
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my plot at the moment but i'm not producing much content for you guys and girls at the moment so i
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thought i'd try and do a bit of experimenting because i'm often watching youtube videos and
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everything on how to grow stuff because obviously i need tips as well so i have to go somewhere for
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all my tips and advice so yeah um i thought that i've seen many videos of people growing fruit and
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stuff uh what you wouldn't often see growing on an allotment so i thought i'm gonna go across to
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tesco and purchase some myself so i've been across and i've purchased some unusual fruit
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what you wouldn't necessarily grow here in England and that it probably won't grow any fruit on it to be honest but
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we're going to give them a try and see if we can get them germinated and see how they can grow
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so yeah let's have a look at what we're growing over the winter time
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so the first thing i'm going to try and grow is an orange i've seen people grow these from seed
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not necessarily obviously we won't get through in sunny sheffield but i'm going to try and grow
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an orange tree and see what happens now next up is an avocado i've seen people try and attempt to grow avocados and they've failed
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and some have done well but i've been reading up on how to grow them so i'm going to try and grow
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myself again I don't think they get fruit on them but I'm gonna give it a try
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it'll look good for ornamental and it'll be something nice to have down on the
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allotment to have a look at let's look after now next up is the kiwi now I
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think you can actually get kiwis growing in England so fingers crossed we can try
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and see if we can get some growing. Next is the lemon and again I think I've seen
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people get lemons on their trees in England so I'm gonna try that you never
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know we could be having lemon in as gin for next Christmas not next Christmas
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without it to be honest yeah next up strawberries now I have got a lot of
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strawberry plants obviously on my plot but I thought I would try and grow some strawberry plants from seed and if it works then obviously all you lot can go away and try it yourselves
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and grow loads of strawberries and it'll save having to purchase strawberry plants
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online when you can grow them yourself from strawberries at the supermarket now i've read
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they don't fruit as much in the first year but that's the same with any new strawberry plant
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so they usually crop better in the second year so if it works bonus so next up we are going to try
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obviously the peanuts i mentioned that before about growing peanuts peanuts do not grow on a bush
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they grow in the ground they grow like the beans and the peas but they grow underground
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and you dig them up they're not actually peanuts peanuts are not actually nuts if you get me
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they're not classed as nuts and next up is a mango i thought i'd try that for a laugh
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just to see if i can get a mango tree growing here in sunny sheffield
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now next up i tried melons last year and they failed but i'm going to try them again i don't
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give up too easy because i can grow them i've grown before in my polytunnel so i'm going to
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try again next year so rather than buy the melon seeds because they are quite expensive to purchase
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melon seeds i thought why not just buy the melon eat the fruit and save the seeds so we're going
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to try the honeydew and next up is a cantaloupe um i going to try that and then one melon that i never seen in my life before is a sweet snowball that a new one for me has anybody seen a sweet snowball before
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and have they tried it so i'll look forward to tasting that obviously i'm going to have to eat
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all this fruit what i'm going to be taking the seeds from so yeah it does have its benefits
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healthy benefits and also i thought i'd just try and grow some pear trees from a pear and see if it
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works you never know so one reason why i'm growing them is because i like to experiment in growing
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different things like i said another thing is obviously there's not much growing at this time
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of year in december and stuff so i can start a lot of these off in my flat at home and get them
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growing and see if they all grow and also it's providing you more content through the winter time
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when i'm not providing hardly any content at the moment it's just me digging on my plot
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uh so yeah hopefully i'm going to be filming all this and it gives me a chance to try out my new
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camera what i'm filming on now and uh video it and share the content with you so yeah exciting
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things so stay tuned and we'll see if we have mangoes in sheffield so enjoy and look forward
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to the videos everybody i hope you're all well and have a great day everyone remember keep gardening
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