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Busy February Weekend at the Allotment: Prepping for Spring! 🌱🏡
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Feb 27, 2025
🌱 Busy February Weekend at the Allotment! Spring is just around the corner, and it’s all systems go on the plot! 🏡✨ From clearing beds to sowing early seeds, here’s a look at everything we’ve been working on to get ready for the growing season. How are your spring preparations coming along? #AllotmentLife #FebruaryGardening #SpringPrep #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentWeekend #GardenTasks #UKGardener
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roll up your sleeves and let's get
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started on this year's gardening
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode I hope we've all had a excellent
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weekend because I know I certainly have
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we finally in February yes it's a new
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month and is getting closer to Spring
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it's getting all that bit closer towards
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our Mass sewing time when we sew every
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seed that we've
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got and I've still been purchasing more
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and more seeds it's getting Beyond a
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joke now I'm getting a bit addicted to
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this but oh well it's my little Hobby
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and I enjoy it so what have we been
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purchasing we purchased every variety of
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sweet pee on
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Amazon so hopefully my garden is going
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to be absolutely gorgeous with sweet
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peas this year I'm I'm literally going
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to have a Sweet Pea
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Farm they think that I'm not growing any
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vegetables on it or fruit but we will
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have lots and lots of flowers that is
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the plan for this year so yeah I'm
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looking forward to trying lots of
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different varieties of sweet peas and I
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hope that you enjoy seeing the varieties
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growing down on my plot as well and see
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how well they actually do down there so
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we've got that to do and and we've also
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ordered every variety of sunflower as
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well on Amazon so we're going to have a
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beautiful smell of sweet peas and a
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field of sunflowers for lots and lots of
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selfies to be taken but yeah it's going
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to be a busy busy time this summer with
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how much that we're going to be growing
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because we are going absolutely wild we
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is growing this year and hopefully it
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does rain during the summer Su so that
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we don't have to keep watering every
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day but yeah uh so we've got every
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variety of sweet pee we've got every
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variety of sunflower I've got loads of
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varieties of melons to grow so those are
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some exciting things that we've got
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growing next up we're going to be
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getting some different varieties of
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cucumbers and we're going to get
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different varieties of squash as well
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and different varieties of beans so
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we're going to be trying lots and lots
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of different stuff this year down at the
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plot which I'm excited about I'm excited
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to try new challenges down there and I'm
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tempted to try and grow purple brussel
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sprouts just to see what they actually
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taste like and if they taste nice or not
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so hold me to that one and see how well
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we get on with that so what have we been
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up to down at the allotment this weekend
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well our big tasks what we've been
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getting done this weekend is I've
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started doing digging over my beds again
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as was the last time I dug them over
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around
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October time so they were all compact
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again and weeds are starting to appear
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now because it's a bit tiny bit warmer
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but uh we like to dig them over quite a
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few times before we sew uh plant out in
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them we won't be planting out in them
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until May time which is ages away yet
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but we're going to be keeping them dug
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over for a couple of times and digging
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them over you don't often need to pull
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the weeds out because if you're turning
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them over and it's cold at night it will
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kill the weeds and The Roots off so we
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just keep digging them over and turning
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them over and not letting them Roots get
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established in the beds so that is our
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plan over the next few months to keep
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them Weed Free fingers crossed and then
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we won't have a massive job of keeping
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weeding them all before we plant but
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we've got all that to do and then I've
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got to paint them all that's one big job
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that I need to do and not that I'm
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looking forward to it because I
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absolutely hate painting but yeah my
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beds are starting to fall apart now the
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wood's getting a bit knack
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and they just need spruing up and making
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look smart again so we've done all that
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and we've also been busy building an
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arch on my plot as obviously you know
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that I've got climbing Moses near my
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entrance so we need them to climb up
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something they're getting quite tall now
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so we're going to train them over the
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arch and hopefully have an archway of
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flowers on the allotment so I'm looking
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forward to that it's Tiding them up and
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keep keeping them neat and hopefully not
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get spiked to death because they'll be
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climbing over the arch instead of
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blocking the
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entrance so we' got that done we've also
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been busy chitting my potatoes and if
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you don't know how to chit potatoes I've
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just posted a video recently on my
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Facebook page and Instagram and YouTube
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of how to chip potatoes so if you don't
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know how to chip potatoes watch that
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video it's only a two minute long video
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and I'll show you how to chip the
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potatoes it's about preparing them and
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getting them ready I don't plant them
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out until Good Friday even though it
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moves every year but I always stick to
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that because it's to do with the moon
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it's an old Garden wives tale and I've
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just lived by that rule because it works
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for me and I usually get good produce so
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I'm sticking to what works best for me
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so we've done that we've also been
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fixing up my poly tunnel as some of the
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seams were starting to disintegrate and
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come apart as poly tunels do they seem
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to split where the creases are on it
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where it originally folded so I've
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strengthened them up putting tape along
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them and just strengthening It Up Make
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It Last another year uh every year I
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keep thinking it's going to go it's
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going to go one year and it doesn't it
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lasts a bit longer and we keep repairing
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it and I was talking to my dad about it
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today because if it does come off I
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won't be able to replace it with another
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one because it's too much hard work
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digging out all around it and putting
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another skin over the top of it it's a
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lot of hard work and if you've never put
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a polyol skin on trust me you have to
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dig trenches out put it over the top
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then chop bricks in on to hold the
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plastic down and weigh it down then
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chuck all the soil back in and make it
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tight and it's a big job uh it takes
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about four or five people to be able to
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do that so if that does finally go the
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skin and I'm going to replace it with
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netting as I tend to grow a lot of my
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cucumbers and tomatoes outside last year
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and they did really well so I don't
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necessarily need stuff inside my polyan
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obviously it's good for going to be
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growing watermelons and stuff like that
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in it but I'll just uh grow them in my
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shed Greenhouse instead and I'd put
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net in over the poly tunnel so then I'll
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use it as a bit of a Brassica Cage have
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really fine thin netting so that can
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grow my cauliflowers my cabbages my
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Sprouts my broccoli in there without
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butterflies and stuff getting eaten and
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use it as a Brassica cage instead
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basically uh instead of a polyol so that
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would been my plan if it does finally
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give way so yeah it has been a busy
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weekend I've enjoyed it we started
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filming new types of videos now as I'm
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trying different things all the time
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different way days of filming and
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different types of content seeing what
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works and what doesn't work and I've
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started creating short little videos
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video and then I record the sound over
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the top of it with me speaking like
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narrating it basically and I think
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they're coming out quite well they're a
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lot clearer and they sound a lot better
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when I'm recording it so so I hope you
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done my chitty my potatoes that version
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