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This video shows how to plant squash, pumpkins, and courgettes correctly for strong growth.
I explain the planting method, spacing, and simple care steps that help plants establish well and stay healthy. Starting plants properly improves development and future harvests.
Ideal for gardeners wanting reliable vegetable growing results and straightforward planting advice.
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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben well in today's episode we're
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going to be planting out our squashes
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and our corettes and getting them
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started for the year outside as it's
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getting warm now so hopefully they will
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survive and hopefully we won't have a
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late frost so we're going to be planting
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these in the ground but we're going to
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show you a little method on what we do
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when we're planting them so that when
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we're watering them we're not watering
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the actual plants so stay tuned and
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let's get these corettes and squashes
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planted so these are all our squashes
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and corettes as you can see pretty
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healthy growing pretty well so we're
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going to get these out in the ground now
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and hopefully get them growing so we've
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got them all spaced out so there's a
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nice bit of space in between them all
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obviously they'll all bush out a bit
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when they get growing but yeah we've got
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them placed where we want them to place
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so let's get them into the ground we're
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going to dig a hole then we're going to
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put some fish and blood and bone in the
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bottom of the hole so that it feeds them
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and we're going to plant the plant on
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top of them so we've made this hole so
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we just want to put some of this fish
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blood and bone in the bottom of them get
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them nice and strong when they're
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growing so let's just pour a bit in
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there like that that should
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do and then look at that nice and
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healthy so we're just going to pop it
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straight in with the compost in and
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plant it straight into the ground we're
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not going to disturb the roots much pop
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it in and then push the soil
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back like
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so so we've got them all planted spaced
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out and ready to grow but however we're
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going to do our secret little tip here
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you may have seen it previously in one
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of our other videos because corettes
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don't like being watered on it can rot
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the stem and snap it off and you can end
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up losing your plant so we're going to
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show you a little tip of what to do with
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our plant pots so what we do we get one
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of our plant pots that we've used for
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growing our plants in and we create a
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hole at the side of it yes at the side
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of it so let's dig a hole at the side
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and all we do is push our plant pot into
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the side of it and as we're watering
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we'll water into the plant pot so the
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water goes directly to the roots of the
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cora rather than risking snapping the
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stem off you can obviously put food in
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there as well feed them and hopefully
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get some big corette plants so we've now
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got all the plant pots in the ground so
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we're going to put some food in them yes
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we did put some food under the corette
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plants but we're going to put some food
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in the plant pots as well and then we
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can give them a good
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watering so it's a case of just watering
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in the pots also the reason for putting
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the feed in the plant pots is because
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sometimes that can burn them as well
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i've seen it in the past where it's
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burnt the plants so we don't want to do
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that so yep hopefully it'll soak into
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the
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plants so let's get them watered so
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there we have it all done all watered
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and ready to start growing hopefully
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some for some fantastic produce this
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year from our a lotment for corettes and
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squashes so I hope you've enjoyed that
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video obviously you can use that method
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on marrow corettes pumpkins cucumbers
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none of them like being watered on the
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stem so that is one tip that we always
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stand by when watering our plants so if
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you've enjoyed this video give us a
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follow for lots more tips and advice and
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben everyone
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