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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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not possibly a vegetable, a fruit, but
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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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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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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
