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This video explains the essential gardening tasks to complete during early summer to keep plants healthy and productive.
I cover routine maintenance, plant care, watering considerations, and simple preparation steps that support strong growth and prevent common problems. These tips help gardens stay organised and productive throughout the growing season.
Helpful for beginners and experienced gardeners wanting clear seasonal guidance.
This video can support articles about summer gardening, seasonal garden maintenance, plant care in warm weather, garden checklists, and beginner gardening advice.
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if you're growing vegetables this June
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this is the month that makes or breaks
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you Welcome to Gardening with Ben We're
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going to give you tips and advice on
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what you need to do in your vegetable
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gardens at this time of year to get
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delicious vegetables growing and to keep
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them crops continually growing and
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getting great rewards from your harvest
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So the first tip is water deep and of
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not often Now some people think that you
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have to water every day but soil tends
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to hold the water pretty well if you're
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lucky So the best option to do is when
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you water don't sprinkle the plants Give
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them a good soaking so that it waters
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deep it holds it and you don't have to
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water often then That's the best tip
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that I can give you for
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that Next up is pinch and prune Now if
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you're growing tomatoes make sure you're
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pinching off those side shoots We've
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done quite a few videos on this but yeah
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pinch out the side shoots and you will
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get more and more tomatoes growing on
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them You can concentrate on growing
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great harvest on them and you can get
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some great results If you're growing
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herbs pinch out all the leggy bits and
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give them a trim up and they will
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continue to grow the herbs all the way
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through the summer and get some great
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rewards from them and use them in your
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dishes and
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enjoy Also dead head any flowers Now
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like me I grow flowers down at my a
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lotment so that it attracts the bees and
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the bees help with pollination So keep
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deadheading flowers to encourage more
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and more growth and keep them blooms
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blooming down at the aotment
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Next up is feed hungry crops Now if
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you're growing stuff like tomatoes
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corettes beans they'll need feeding on a
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weekly basis Now you can either make
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your own feed out of comfrey If you're
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lucky enough to have a comfrey plant on
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your plant make use of it Get making
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some tea There's plenty of recipes
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online how to make comfry tea and feed
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them once a week or if not get some
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tomato feed That will do the trick And
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make sure you give them a nice feed
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every week to help produce bigger and
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better fruits on the
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plants Next up is successional growing
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Now I have done a video on this If
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you've not seen it already go and have a
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look And that is when obviously we're
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starting to harvest stuff now So fill in
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the gaps So things like lettuce carrots
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spring onions radish beetroot and you
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will continue your crops all the way
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through to October time when it starts
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to get cold and you can get some great
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rewards from it Keep doing this on a
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regular basis to keep them crops coming
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and keep them
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harvests
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cropping Next up is look out for pests
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Now we've had a very dry few months but
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the rain has started to come so the
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slugs will be out and about Go around
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doing a slug trail slug hunt Catch those
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slugs Get rid of them throw them away
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and do that on a regular basis to keep
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the slugs away from eating your produce
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Obviously look for things like aphids
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and also look for ants and also protect
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things from pigeons as well Pigeons love
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to eat brassacas So if you're planting
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like cabbage cauliflowers broccoli
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Brussels sprouts make sure you net them
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to protect them from pigeons from eating
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them And also watch out for cabbage
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whites and eggs under brassica leaves as
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well Make sure you net them with a
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finely m netting and that will protect
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them from the butterflies as
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well Next up is support tall growing
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plants Now if you're growing things like
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runner beans peas sunflowers make sure
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you support them so that they don't flop
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over when it gets windy or when they get
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topheavy as that can cause them to snap
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and damage and you don't want to lose
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all the good work that you put into it
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So support them with canes netting
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however you want to support your plants
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but give them the support that they need
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to get great and growing
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Next up is harvest regularly Obviously
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if you're growing like lettuce uh cut
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them cut and come again Keep harvesting
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it on a regular basis Harvest your
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radish harvest your beans The more you
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harvest your beans the more produce will
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come They'll keep flowering and keep
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producing as well So keep harvesting
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regularly for great crops all the way
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through the summer So that is all our
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June tips for today Make sure you drop
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us a follow save this video for later
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and tick off the jobs as you've done
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them Leave a comment Until next time
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everyone Remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone
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