Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to a podcast for
all things green and growing. I'm Ben, your allotment guide and here to
help you cultivate your garden and your passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned
gardener or just starting out, this podcast is for you. Each episode will
dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to make your garden and allotment thrive
from planting, sewing, and growing. We will share all the tips and
add advice. We will also have regular episodes talking about what we have been
up to on the Allotment. So sit back, grab a brew, and
enjoy today's episode. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Gardening with Ben for
a brand new episode this week. It's been a few days since our last
episode as we have been extremely busy. And when I say extremely busy,
we have got plans happening. And yeah, I am sort of in the
middle of sorting everything out regarding Gardening with Ben, and that means sorting out
all my website. I've got a brand new website coming, I'm sorting out
all my YouTube channel, and I'm sorting out all my podcast channel. So
I'm really busy at the moment. With getting everything sorted and back in order,
starting with getting everything looking good and hopefully fetching out more and more content
for you. And if you're not subscribed to my YouTube channel, please do
subscribe to it Gardening with Ben. I've put on a load of new videos
on there, and there's going to be so much content coming on a regular
basis for you to watch as well. So if you enjoy listening to these
podcasts, why not check my YouTube channel out and you can check out all
my videos as well. You can see me face, but yeah, I
hope that you can have a look and see all my videos on there.
And yeah, I'm trying to get monetized, so obviously the more views the
better, really in that sense. And I just want to say hello to
India. And the reason why I want to say hello to India is because
I get stats on my podcast and it's number one in the home and Garden
channel in India. Gardening with Ben is getting out there. So yeah,
thank you for everybody that listens in India and the rest of the world.
It's amazing. I do love seeing the stats and seeing where everybody listens to
these podcasts, so thank you for that. So what else have we been
up too recently, But like I said, I've been recording lots and lots
of videos at the moment. We're going to be getting so many videos out
there at the moment for you all to watch. And I'm going to start
doing a little series on tips and advice on starting up in allotment, starting
it up from scratch, and the best tips and advice for doing an allotment.
Obviously, I do make mistakes myself. I get told about mistakes what
I'm doing, but it's all part of the learning process and I love sharing
everything that I'm doing with you all in whether it be in the podcast or
whether it be on my YouTube channel, So stay tuned for all that.
So this week, we have been down at my allotment. Today. It's
been threatening with rain, but we managed to get some stuff done down there.
We've been doing some weeding. We've been sorting out all of my pumpkins,
which I'm going to talk about in another episode on how to look after
your pumpkins and how to get big pumpkins, so stay tuned for that episode
coming up. We've been sorting out the heading as roses because obviously as they're
diet. You need to keep them beheaded. And yeah, we've been checking
on as seeds because we've got a lot of seeds growing at the moment.
You'll have seen in my previous videos that we I've started some late June seeds
off, which started some peas off. We started some dwarf beans off.
We started some beetroot off, some lettuce off, some sweet corn off,
some turnips off, and some radish off. So yeah, we've got lots
of seeds growing. And the reason why I've done so many seeds is because
some of it has failed. My cucumbers. I've only got five plants growing,
so I want some more cucumbers growing. And now I've got fifty plants
growing, So yeah, we may be inundated with cucumbers, but stay tuned
for that. That will be epic. If we have fifty plants growing,
my polytonol won't know what to do with how many plants we've got growing off
cucumbers. I hope everybody likes cucumber and onion vinear and I do. But
we'll be having them honors eyes for making us healthy. We'll be having them
in water to drink. We'll be having cucumbers for everything, but yeah,
stay tuned for that. So we've got all them growing. Also, my
sweet corn plants, we have got some healthy sweet complants outside which are growing
quite tall. They're doing really well, really well, but I've not got
enough of them, so I planted a load more sweet corn plants to hopefully
get some good plants growing. And also sweet corn. You can't be having
delicious sweet corn down on the allotment. That is one of the most favorite
things that I'm growing at the moment. But I'm having a few issues down
there at the plot at the moment. Obviously, I have trouble with the
bind weed down there. The bind we just grows everywhere. That keeps me
so busy all the time, just clearing it back, cutting it down,
getting the roots out, keeping on top of it, and trying to get
it all cleared. And we've also got an issue with my plum tree.
My plum tree looks like it's dying off at the moment, which is not
a good sign. I really don't know what's up with it. I hope
that it's just a blip and hopefully it comes back to life. Whether it's
not getting enough water, I don't know, but I imagine it is getting
enough water because it's been so wet here in the UK at the moment.
But we'll see, we'll see how we get on and see if if we
can get the tree back to life again. But everything else is coming along
good. We've got a lettuce nearly ready for picking. We've got blueberries that
are starting to turn blue. We're starting to pick as strawberries off. I
shared a picture of that of my first strawberry that I picked off. And
also I've got some more stuff coming from my allotment. We've just put two
new bird baths on my allotment as well. I'm going to be sharing a
video on them as well. So I've bought two bird baths for my allotment
to encourage the birds to have a swim, have a drink and just come
and chill out on my allotment. And if it gets too hot, I
might want to have a little dip. But yeah, I bought two bird
baths. And like I always said, everything from my podcast goes back to
my allotment and stuff like that. I invest it all back so that you
can all see where it's all going. So yes, I know there's a
few little adverts here and there, but it all goes towards paying for my
allotment and pays for this podcast, So I hope that you carry on listening
to these podcasts. Hopefully we're going to be getting quite a few episodes out
over the next few days. But yeah, I've got an exciting time coming
up on Friday and I'm off to BBC Gardener's World Live. If you remember
last year, I went for the first time last year at Birmingham Indoor Arena
and it was absolutely huge. I did not realize it was going to be
that big. It's more than a day's visit there. You could go there
for a couple of days. It's absolutely massive. And as well as the
BBC garden as well, there's BBC Good Food as well, so there's all
food stalls as well, which is absolutely fantastic and I just love tasting everything
as you're going around and just trying all the different foods there, and obviously
also meeting all the gardening influencers the gardening businesses down there at BBC Gardeners World
and if I can get some free samples off people, I will do.
I'll give them a little plug here and there on my videos and on here.
But yeah, it is good to see and it's absolutely phenomenal and some
of the times I probably wouldn't even recognize if there was a famous person there.
Half of the time it's hard to recognize people in the face. Sometimes
I did get a few people coming up to me saying, oh yeah,
goardening with Ben last year. So if you are there on Friday, if
you're in the UK at BBC Gardeners World Live, come and say hello to
me. I'm six foot five, so stand out from the crowd and you'll
be able to see me and it will be good to meet you and hopefully
have a look at some of the fantastic gardens around there and get some ideas
for my own plot as well as maybe purchasing some plants for down at the
allotment. And hopefully it's sharing some advice with other people as well there.
So, like I said, we had been busy over these last few days
with everything that's going off. I am going to be doing a few podcast
episodes. I'm going to record a few advance, so hopefully you'll have a
few for the next few days to listen to, and I hope that you
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