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Hey everyone, it's gardening with Ben
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In today's episode, we're going to be planted our simply seed broad beans
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Now, these are winter varieties. You need autumn or winter varieties. And these are super aqua-dulse ones, if that's how you're saying
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I'm no good at saying these words. But yeah, these are the variety that I'm going to try
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There's about 40 in here. The benefits of planting broad beans in the autumn and winter is that when they're ready to harvest
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you won't have none of the black flies on them. They'll all be ready to harvest before the black fly start to appear
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Because usually if you plant them in March time, you usually get inundated with blackfly all over them
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So the reason why we plant them now is so that we don't get the black fly on them
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And they'll be ready to harvest pretty early as well. So we're going to start these off in seed trays
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You can either start them off in the ground or in seed trays
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I tend to choose to plant them in seed trays first. is because obviously i'm down at an allotment and there's rats my squirrels so any bit of food
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around in the wintertime they'll come and pinch it and especially when the shoots start coming up
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the birds will eat the shoots off them as well so we going to start them off in seed trays till they a nice big height and then we plant them outdoors so this is the first video of planting them all in seed trays
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first so make sure you give us a follow and stay tuned for when we're planting them outdoors so let's
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get these planted in seed trays so these are the sort of seed trays that i'm going to be planted
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away so that the roots are pretty deep and they can get growing so we're going to put a couple in
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each sell and get them started so we've put all our seeds in our seed tray so we just need to cover them over
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with compost now give them a good water put them in our shed and greenhouse and let them start growing
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so i've just made a little sign for them as well put the day on them so that we know which variety
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we've planted and hopefully they'll grow well and then we'll grow them again another year so we know
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when we've planted them so let's move them into the greenhouse so we moved them into the greenhouse
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So we just need to keep them watered and keep an eye on them. Ready for planting out when they're big enough
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So as that's been our video for today, I hope you've enjoyed it. Make sure you'll leave a like, a comment and feel free to follow me as well
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Until next time, remember, keep smiling, keep shining and keep gardening with Ben everyone
