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What to Do in the Garden This Month: May Allotment Jobs and Planting Tips
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May 1, 2025
🌱 What to Do in the Garden This Month: May Allotment Jobs and Planting Tips! May is one of the busiest and most exciting months on the plot — it’s full steam ahead for sowing, planting, and prepping for summer! ☀️🌿 In this episode, I’m sharing your essential May to-do list, top planting tips, and seasonal advice to keep your allotment thriving. What’s top of your gardening list this month? #MayGardening #AllotmentJobs #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #SpringSowing #AllotmentLife
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hey everybody and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben well it's the 1st of May and
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it's the hottest day of the year so far
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28° it's got up to in certain areas of
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the UK wow what a scorcher it has been
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and I hope that you found my watering
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tips useful in the last video where I
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was saying it's best to water early in
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the morning before the sun comes up and
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in the morning is the best time because
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the slugs aren't awake in the morning so
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it's best to water in the morning rather
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than the evening because that's when the
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slugs come out so what are we doing this
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month well this month will be a month of
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concentrating planting all our plants
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out in the garden but I'm going to be
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waiting till the middle of May
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as we still have frost up till the
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middle of May yes it has been a heat
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wave this week it's been boiling but the
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temperatures could drop next week so I'm
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being careful because I'm up north we
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can still get frost up till the middle
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of May so I'm going to be waiting and
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holding fire my corettes are ready my
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pumpkins are ready my squashes are ready
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things are ready for going out but we're
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waiting i don't want to end up planting
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them out and killing them off by frost
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so yeah we'll be getting that done and
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we'll also be planting some more seeds
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because I want to start a succession of
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growing that means that you can start
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things off at different intervals so
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that you get a continuous crop
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throughout the summer period i've got
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some peas in the ground already but I'll
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be starting some more off because once
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they're harvested I'll want to replace
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them to get some more peas later on in
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the season the same goes for things like
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lettuce beetroot spring
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onions plenty of plants that you can do
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that with so if you want a succession of
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growing that is what you need to do keep
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planting them at different intervals so
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that you get a successful harvest all
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throughout the summer period and
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hopefully up to about October time i
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don't tend to grow stuff through the
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winter i use the winter period as a time
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for doing any maintenance work doing any
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repairs doing any fixing up and tidying
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it all up because I've had a busy year
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and I like to get it all ready for the
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year after and then I've have a head
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start ready for planting and starting
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growing again in the March time so that
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is what I do when I'm planting out so
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yeah it's going to be a busy month i'm
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excited um ready for this warmer weather
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but yeah it's been a gorgeous week down
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here and all the aliiums have started
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popping out now i'll be starting to
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share lots of photos of those on my
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Instagram so if you're not following the
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Instagram do give it a follow because
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I'll be sharing lots of photos on there
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as you know I've probably been sharing
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lots of photos of tulips at the moment
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as I do love my tulips they're
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absolutely gorgeous and I like to go for
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all the weird and wonderful looking ones
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i don't like just the plain ones so
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we've got all that to do and all the
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fruit is starting to come along the
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strawberries are getting ready they're
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starting to flower up they're getting
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bigger so now that they're starting to
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flower up I'll start feeding them with
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either tomato feed uh or seaweed feed
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feed like that to get them growing
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better and getting some nice juicy
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fruits on them and I'll probably look at
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netting them over this year cuz the
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birds got quite a lot last year and I
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didn't get many strawberries which I'm
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disappointed at and I've got over about
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200 plants in this year so I want a good
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crop of strawberries so I'm going to
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look at netting them up and the same
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goes for my blueberries as well my dad
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always nets his up and he gets a
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fantastic crop on them they've all got
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flowers on them at the moment they're
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looking absolutely gorgeous i'm looking
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at them now while I'm doing this video
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but yeah they're all getting flowers on
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them everything's bursting with life
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we've got the apple blossom coming out
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on the cooking apple tree and on the
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other eating apple trees as well so
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hopefully we get a good crop this year
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we're due a good year last year weren't
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a good year for growing we didn't get
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much sunshine but certain things did
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grow well but hopefully we'll get a good
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crop this year and I'm looking forward
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to this year i think we're going to have
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a hot summer with the way this year
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started i think we're going to get a
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very good year of growing down here at
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the a lotment this year and I'm prepared
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for it i won't be obviously down as much
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this year because I only work get two
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days off a week now before I used to
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work four on four off so I could spend a
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lot of time down here but I only get two
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days off a week now but I have started
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coming down at night when I finish early
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from work i'm down here now at evening
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and it's absolutely gorgeous peaceful
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it's lovely um we've got obviously the
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beautiful sunshine so yeah I'm going to
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start making it down at nighttime
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whereas possible and hopefully start
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recording a lot more videos for you all
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to watch and enjoy and yeah thank you
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for those that do follow me and do
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support me if you aren't following me do
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give me a follow as I do appreciate it
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and I just enjoy sharing what I'm
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getting up to down here and I always say
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I'm not a professional gardener i'm an
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amateur gardener i'm learning every
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single day and that's the thing with
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gardening we're learning every single
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day and you do get failures and if you
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get a failure don't let it disappoint
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you just try again i try certain things
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every single year and sometimes they
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never grow but I just give them a try
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and try again seeds aren't that
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expensive from certain places so yeah we
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have lots of fun in growing down here at
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the a lotment so I hope you've enjoyed
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this video and feel free like I said to
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leave a comment and get involved as well
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and if you're new to gardening welcome
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to the gardening world and hopefully you
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will have a fantastic year of growing
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with Ben or should I say gardening with
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Ben so until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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gardening with Ben everyone we'll see
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you all later
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