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Hello I'm the Yorkshire Gardener and this is a video tour of my allotment so you can see how it's looking at the moment and what I've got growing. So let's have a tour of the Yorkshire Gardener's allotment
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my plot i planted all these spring bulbs in autumn and they are looking absolutely fantastic i've got
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hyacinths, juleps, daffodils, i've got some pansies in there so yeah look at the colour on that i
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planted those for the bees as one of the first things that the bees see as they wake up and they
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need that pollen and nectar and the food so yeah get some spring bulbs in in the autumn everybody
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to help the bumblebees. Here I planted some dwarf beans, I planted them yesterday so no
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sign of them yet. In front of my shed I planted some sweet peas. I'll put netting up the shed
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so that they can grow up and have lots of colour at the front. In this area here I've got some
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lily bulbs in, they're just starting to pop through, poking the heads through so they'll
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lots of colour as well and a nice smell as you come onto my ploy. That's my blueberry bush
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that getting a few flowers on it Down this side I got my autumn raspberries growing So you can never have enough raspberries they brilliant I absolutely love them Those are all my crocuses what I finished flowering
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And in here I've planted spring onion seeds as I've planted them straight into the area that they're going to need to be
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That's my Victoria plum tree, as you can see it's got lots of flowers on it
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and hopefully they'll all grow into delicious plums. they're one of my favourites, if you get a plum tree you get a victoria plum tree
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this is my bamboo bush planted that last year, I've never grown bamboo before, I know it can be a nightmare
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but I thought I'd try some, that's the bamboo I'm growing and down this side is my rhubarb patch, as you can see
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it's doing absolutely fantastic I've grown absolutely loads of rhubarb, everybody loves rhubarb, all my friends and family
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and down the side of the polytunnel i've taken out all my strawberry plants for my spare strawberry plants i've got and planted them somewhere else
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i've planted broad beans in there so i'm going to be growing them up the side of the polytunnel
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i'll put some netting behind them for them to grow up and these are all my fruit trees
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and my apple trees and i've got a pear tree there and this is my cooking apple tree
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that does really well i gave it a good hack this year so hopefully fingers crossed it will grow
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will grow. In this first bed here I planted some mouse sweet peas and some
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carrot seeds so we see if they grow And then this area I been working on this week That the new rhubarb pouch what I started last year I grew them from seed
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So you can actually grow rhubarb from your seed if you want to try And behind them I've planted pea seeds
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All the way down In these two beds I've got potatoes As you can tell I've just watered
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And down that strip down there I've planted dwarf beans to grow up that side bit there
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so we'll see how they get on and this is where i made my strawberries to
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to this new bed i plant them through black membrane to keep the weeds down and also it keeps the ground moist as well
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and i've got another strawberry bed and another strawberry bed so i've got three strawberry beds
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you could never have enough strawberries i'm sure you'll agree with me and down this front i planted some more peas
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grow there So next week I'll be cracking on with that part of the plot which you'll be able to see next week
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So if we go back down here and we'll pop into my shed to see what's growing in my shed
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As you can tell, absolutely loads of stuff growing in my shed
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I've been waiting for these to pop through my melon. I grow cantaloupe melons, if you've got a polytron on them, try growing cantaloupe melons, they do absolutely fantastic
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and taste delicious as good as the shops but I got lots of flowers growing as well as vegetables as I wanting to help the bees a lot this year That my ultimate vision No San Amal Peppers yet just weeds
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My tomatoes are popping through. Which I'm pleased about that, and my sweet cone
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Lots more flower seeds, more tomatoes. I try loads of different varieties of tomatoes
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I've grown Moneymaker, Gardeners, Delight. and yeah so more flowers, I planted all of them yesterday. Those are my sunflower seeds
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that you can eat the sunflower seeds once you've grown them, also you can feed them to the birdies
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And some more strawberry plants to plant out with my spare patches if they don't take
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So yeah everything is growing well. And this area here are seeds that I started earlier
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They're all ready for transplanting and potting up a lot of those now
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As you can tell my radish is going mad that needs to go out soon
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And my spinach they need to get potted up And my broccoli and cabbage definitely need potting up
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So that's the job for next week So you'll have to tune back and see how we get on with all that
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That will be the task in itself So that's the tour of the Yorkshire Gardeners allotment
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Make sure you come back each week to see how we're getting on every week We'll post a new tour video
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so click the subscribe button and the notification button the bell so that you get notified when i
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post new videos and you can see how i'm getting on throughout the year so thanks for watching
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and remember keep gardening
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