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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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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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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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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
