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This video explains the value of community growing spaces and the practical gardening benefits they provide. I discuss food production, wellbeing, plant care basics, and simple techniques that help gardeners succeed. It is helpful for viewers wanting useful advice and understanding how shared gardening supports healthy, productive growing.
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Happy National Aotment Week everybody.
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It's day two of National Aotment Week
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when we celebrate all the good things
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about the a lotment and encourage more
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people to get gardening and growing
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their own produce. Now the best produce
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that I find growing on my a lotment if
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you're a beginner has to be vegetables
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like spring onions, beetroot,
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lettuce, cucumbers,
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tomatoes,
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not possibly a vegetable, a fruit, but
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yeah, tomatoes,
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um, sweet corn, runner beans, peas,
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radish, all easy vegetables to grow. So,
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if you're a beginner, those are the best
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ones to grow for um vegetable wise. The
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best fruit that you can grow, well, I
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got my a lotment a while back. And yeah,
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I grow cooking apples. I grow um golden
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delicious. I've got a different apple
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variety. What I don't know the variety
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name of. I've got strawberries. We've
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got formless blackberries. If you're
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wanting to grow blackberries, definitely
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go formless plant. Yes, it'll cost you a
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bit for the plant, but mine is doing
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absolutely amazing, which you'll have
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probably seen in the videos. We've got
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strawberries, we've got Loganberries,
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we've got blueberries, we've got
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gooseberries. Gooseberries are very
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prickly, so be careful where you plant
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them because you don't want to for
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yourself like I always do. But yeah,
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they are some of the best fruit that you
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can grow down at a lotment. So, if
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you're looking at growing vegetables and
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fruit, those are the ones that I would
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go for. Obviously, you can grow tougher
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ones, which you can experiment with
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growing. Like cauliflowers are sometimes
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a struggle. Carrots, I've never had any
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luck with them, so I can't give any
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advice on carrots. Um,
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I'm growing grapes for the first time.
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I've had the plants in for three years.
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Uh, so we may be able to get some grapes
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off them. We've got some figs growing.
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So you can always experiment at trying
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different produce as well. That's the
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whole thing about growing your own
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vegetables and fruit. Is that about
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having fun? Yes, you might not get
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produce, but it's about having fun and
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enjoying it. Don't be disheartened if
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something doesn't grow. You can always
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try again the year after. And it's a fun
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game to have. And I'll often grow like
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sunflowers for a little competition with
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myself to see how tall they can grow.
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I'll grow pumpkins so that I can see how
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big they can grow. It's just about
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having fun. I don't always eat the
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produce myself. Sometimes I give it
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away, but yeah, it's about having fun
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yourself and enjoying being out in the a
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lotment. So, let me know in the comments
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what your favorite fruit and vegetables
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are to grow down at your aotment and get
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involved.
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Make sure you share this to a lotment
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groups. Give it a like, give it a share,
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and leave a comment like I said below.
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And if you're not following us, give us
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a follow to stay up to date with all our
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videos coming up this week on National
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Aotment Week. Have a great day everyone
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and remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening. I'm about
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everyone.
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