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This video explains why growing flowers alongside crops improves garden health and productivity.
It covers attracting pollinators, encouraging beneficial insects, natural pest control and improving pollination for fruit and vegetables. You’ll also learn how flowers enhance biodiversity and make growing spaces more attractive and enjoyable.
Planting flowers can lead to healthier plants and better harvest results.
These tips apply to vegetable gardens, flower beds, raised beds, containers and small gardens.
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hello everyone and welcome to gardening with ben in today's episode we are going to be talking
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about why we should grow flowers in the allotment so sit back relax and enjoy today's episode
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so as i said in today's episode we're going to be talking about why we should be growing
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flowers in the allotment in one of my previous episodes we talked about why we should grow fruit
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in the allotment but today we are going to talk about why we should be growing flowers now
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basically i've only been growing flowers for about two years down on the plot
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and now i'm getting really into doing this the reason behind growing flowers is that it attracts
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the wildlife it attracts the bees and it attracts insects it attracts all the pollinators that you
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could imagine so that is the main reason why I grow flowers and one thing that you should be doing
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if possible is growing spring bulbs on your allotment now the reason why you should grow
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spring bulbs in the allotment is because they are the first flowers that the bees see when they wake
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after winter hibernation and they need that food they need that pollen and yeah everybody should be growing spring bulbs in the plot so now they be on sale in the supermarkets and garden centers
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so go out and buy some daffodils, high sips, tulips and plant them in the garden you shouldn't
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be planting your tulips till november time but you can plant your daffodils now and amongst
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obviously helping the bees and the pollinators they will also make your plot look beautiful as
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well because there's not much growing at that time of year there's not much color in the plot
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so you need to be planting those spring bulbs and you can get a big bag of daffodils
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for £5 from some supermarkets. So go and check them out and get some planted
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I'll definitely be purchasing some over the coming weeks, so stay tuned for me planting them on the plot
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as I want to have as many flowers growing on the plot as possible
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I planted a load of bulbs last year, so I'll be going further up my plot and planting more daffodils for next year
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so yeah it's going to look pretty good in spring fingers crossed that is the plan anyway
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so what flowers have i grown successfully on the plot let's go and have a look at what we've grown
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so one of the main flowers that i've grown this year is clundula and they are so easy to grow
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you can start sowing the seeds now ready for next year but i usually sow mine around march time and
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they still come out fantastic if you look at them they are absolutely
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glorious and my borders look fantastic they add so much color to the plot and
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yeah absolutely amazing and as you can see the pollinators are out yeah absolutely glorious and you can actually use them in salads as well apparently
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Not that I've ever tried. But yeah, I tend to leave the heads on to die off
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because these will provide the seeds for next year. So you don't need to purchase any seeds next year
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You can just replant them. Or you can leave them and they'll drop the seeds and grow all over
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people say they're a bit like weeds to be honest that you can't get rid of them once you've got
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them but i don't care i'll have as many as possible down on the plot so yeah those are
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colundalas absolutely beautiful next up we have sweet peas now these can be tricky to grow they
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can be hard to germinate but once you get them going they are really good to grow and you can
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use these for cut flowers to put in vases at home or you can leave them on the allotment and make it
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look beautiful and they smell glorious as well they're really good to grow and like many other
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peas and beans they produce these seed pods and you can save them for next year they need to get
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a bit bigger and browner and then i'll pick them and store them for next year and sweet peas are
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quite expensive to buy in packets you'll only get about 25 seeds in a pack so the more you save
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the more you can grow next year and they look stunning absolutely stunning these pink ones
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and then look at these absolutely glorious everything i grow from seed i don't purchase any flowers at all anymore i just purchase the seeds
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and try my luck with growing them. And we have great success on my allotment They look absolutely glorious Such a nice color to have I so pleased with how well they done this year And then we have the sunflowers
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This year I've grown different varieties of sunflowers. Usually I just stick to the orange and yellow ones
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But we've gone for different varieties this year. Look at that colour. Absolutely glorious
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And again, you can save the seeds for next year. As you can see, this one's looking great as well
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absolutely beautiful so yeah flowers are definitely a thing to grow and as you can see
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i've got plenty down the side of my plot coming out and you can see my neighbors growing them as
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well but yeah absolutely loads of sunflowers this year and you can always eat the seeds as well
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roast them and eat them not something i've tried yet but i might give it a try this year but yeah
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absolutely beautiful. So that is basically the reasons why we should be growing flowers
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to help the pollinators and to add colour to the plot because there's not much colour on the plot
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if you're just growing vegetables it's just green so you need to be adding some colour to the plot
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and obviously the flowers that attract the pollinators they will help produce more fruit
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on your fruit trees because you'll be attracting the beast to the plot and they'll find your fruit
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and help pollinate them so yeah get planting flowers if you don't plant flowers on the plot
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let me know if you don't grow flowers and you're going to start growing them next year in the comments below it's always good to see people's feedback and i hope you do enjoy these videos
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so thanks for watching until next time keep gardening
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