1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:06,719 Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to a podcast for 2 00:00:06,839 --> 00:00:12,039 all things green and growing. I'm Ben, your allotment guide and here to 3 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:17,079 help you cultivate your garden and your passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:22,440 gardener or just starting out, this podcast is for you. Each episode will 5 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,960 dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to make your garden and allotment thrive 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,920 from planting, sewing and growing. We will share all the tips and add 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:37,679 advice. We will also have regular episodes talking about what we have been up 8 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:42,159 to on the a lotment. So sit back, grab a brew and enjoy 9 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:50,280 today's episode. Hey everyone, and welcome to Gardening with Ben, and we're 10 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:56,600 back for another brand new episode. Well today it's Sunday. It's euros A 11 00:00:56,719 --> 00:01:00,280 final day. Who will be the winner? England or Spain? I don't 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,799 really know. I've not really watched much of it. I only watched the 13 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,400 penalties the other night. But yeah, good luck to everybody that's supporting the 14 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:15,480 football tonight. So have you managed to get much done on your allotments and 15 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:19,280 in the gardens this weekend? Well, we've got quite a bit done and 16 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,799 I'm quite impressed with how much we have got done. And if you've not 17 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:29,400 checked out our latest YouTube video, it's a tour of our allotment so that 18 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,519 you can actually see what my allotment is looking like. If you're watching this, 19 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:36,439 I mean listening, not watching it. If you're listening to this, 20 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,560 you can have a tour of my allotment. See what's growing, see what's 21 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,719 not growing, and see my beautiful lily as well, what's come out in 22 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,400 huge shape. It's looking absolutely gorgeous. All of the heads are looking like 23 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:53,280 they're going to be out pretty soon. But I fastened it up today so 24 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:57,680 that it doesn't bend over or get snapped or caught on as I'm walking past 25 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:02,159 it. So I'm looking for to getting that capture of when the lily is 26 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,920 fully open. And we had another one of us purple poppies open as well 27 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:12,360 today, which I'm absolutely happy with as I'll be able to save another seedhead 28 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,159 once that flower drops off. And yeah, hopefully we're going to be having 29 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:22,080 quite a few purple poppies next year in our allotment. Fingers crossed if it 30 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:25,159 all goes to plan. So yeah, I've been posting quite a few YouTube 31 00:02:25,199 --> 00:02:29,639 videos at the moment, so that you can stay up today and sharing some 32 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:32,840 tips and advice on what I'm learning and what I'm doing down at the plot 33 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:38,000 today. And one of the things that I've done down at the allotment today 34 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:43,159 is I've taken some cuttings off my salvia. As my parents came down to 35 00:02:43,159 --> 00:02:46,599 have a look around my allotment, my mum said, I need to snip 36 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,240 the tops off so that it bushes out more and it doesn't get too much 37 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:53,080 high on it. So that's what we've done. We've snipped all the tops 38 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:59,759 off and I've taken cuttings off the top of it. So I'm hoping fingers 39 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:04,120 cross they do take and we get a load more salvia growing for next year, 40 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:07,000 because the ones that I've got growing look absolutely beautiful. And if we 41 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:12,280 get more salvia growing, that'll be perfect. It'll be another plant what I've 42 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,400 got what will come back year after you. As I'm trying to get more 43 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:19,800 and more perennials on my allotment as obviously i'm doing my futures, I'm doing 44 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,639 my lavender. I've taken some rose cuttings. I'm hopefully going to be taking 45 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,520 some hydrangdeer cuttings as well. This week, so stay tuned for that video 46 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,680 as well. But yeah, I've taken some salvia cuttings. Now put together 47 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:35,879 a short little video of what I've done so that you can watch it on 48 00:03:35,879 --> 00:03:42,159 my YouTube channel once it's up. And yeah, hopefully I think we took 49 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:47,759 about ten cuttings, so hopefully we'll get ten plants from it. And I'm 50 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,479 going to be taking some cuttings from my other Salvier's what are growing, but 51 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:58,159 you need to take them on the non flower shoots, so we're waiting for 52 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,599 them to die back a bit and we'll take some cuttings later on in the 53 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:06,919 season. It says around August to September online when it's best to take cuttings 54 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:12,560 of salvia, so we're going to hopefully be getting some cuttings from them pretty 55 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:16,920 soon. We've also been busy sorting out some of my tomatoes that were growing 56 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:20,680 outside, as I've not really looked after them yet and I've not really been 57 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,319 sorting them out. I've not been taking off the side shoots, which I 58 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,800 should have done, and I've snipped off all the bottom leaves so that some 59 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:34,240 of them were starting to die and stuff like that. So snipped off all 60 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,319 the bottom leaves so it can put the energy into growing the tomatoes. As 61 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:43,240 we're getting a lot of flowers on them, we're just not getting made to 62 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,519 marts growing on them at the moment. Obviously we've not had decent weather outside 63 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,600 for them to take set and to get growing pretty fast. Obviously we've had 64 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:54,800 all the rain to help make them grow, but we've just not had the 65 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,079 tomates forming yet. A few have got a few small tomates on them, 66 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,839 so we we've trimmed them all off, tidy them all up. We've also 67 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,600 put some string up so that we can fastening to them so that they're not 68 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:12,000 all bent over and so they're all looking nice and neat. Now we've weeded 69 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,839 around them so that they can get all the nutrition from the soil. I'm 70 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:17,639 hoping to get some more chicken pellets this week so that we can give them 71 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:23,079 a feed. And yeah, hopefully we're going to get some tomatoes. We're 72 00:05:23,079 --> 00:05:26,839 not going to get as many as what we've grow inside a polytonal greenhouse because 73 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,639 obviously we've not had the heat outside for them to grow too well. But 74 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,800 hopefully we will get some decent ones growing. So we've been busy doing that 75 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:42,879 We've also been busy going around pruning the flowers off my roses so that you 76 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:46,639 can concentrate in growing some more flowers on them. As the flowers on a 77 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,480 lot of them had started to die off and started to fade now, so 78 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:55,800 we're putting slipping them all back so that we can get some more flowers growing 79 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,319 on them, because that's what you need to do. Keep going around dead 80 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,560 heading there. More times are dead, the more times the flowers will hopefully 81 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,000 bloom on it. We've also done that for the sweet peas as well. 82 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:12,480 I talked about it last week how I took some flowers off the sweet peas 83 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,279 for my mum. I literally took all the flowers off them. They weren't 84 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,920 no flowers offt on them, and today when I went down there were loads 85 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:21,399 more flowers on. So again, the more you keep taking the flowers off 86 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:25,120 the sweet peas, the more they'll keep going. If you leave the flowers 87 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,079 on in the good seed, they'll stop producing the flowers because they think that 88 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:31,439 it's got to the end of the season. So keep picking them flowers off. 89 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,639 So that's what I've done today, picked them all off and given them 90 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,000 to my mom so that she's got them. So yeah, we've been pretty 91 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,680 busy down there. Hopefully tomorrow's plan will be fingers well, fingers crossed. 92 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:48,720 It goes to plan is I'm going to start sawing all my seeds for July, 93 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,360 as I want to start a load more this month, like my peas. 94 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,000 I want to start some pansas. I can't even remember what I purchased, 95 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,439 to be honest. I went to the and I bought a massive bag 96 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,360 full of seeds, so I'm going to be putting together a video of that 97 00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:08,560 as well, and I also do a podcast talking about what seeds I'm going 98 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,759 to be planting this month, so make sure you stay tuned for that episode 99 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,000 as well. But it's all coming together pretty well. It could have been 100 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,279 better if we'd had the hot weather this year, I think, and we'd 101 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:25,839 have got more produced growing and more corjets and stuff like that, because we 102 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:30,519 don't seem to be getting many corjacks growing, which is a shame, as 103 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:36,079 I wanted to try out my chipper to air fry my corjats. Hopefully we'll 104 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:40,319 get a few groin, but we'll keep an eye out for them. But 105 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:45,120 yeah, I've been looking at my blackberries as well. Today absolutely loads growing 106 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,279 on the bush. And that's what I mean, like some things have done 107 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,879 really well for the rain water we've had, but then some things aren't doing 108 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,480 so well, so it benefits some plants, but not all the plants. 109 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,600 And again, we've not had to water today because as soon as it got 110 00:08:01,639 --> 00:08:05,120 to about dinner time, it started to rain again. So we've not had 111 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:11,040 to water my allotment for at least two weeks now, which is fantastic for 112 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:15,720 this time we're not having to water it, but obviously we do need the 113 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:20,240 sunshine. So I'm hoping to get down there at the allotment nice and early 114 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:24,560 tomorrow because I want to get all these seeds planted. Planting seeds takes forever. 115 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:28,639 I don't know if it's like you, it takes you a long time, 116 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,679 but it takes me forever to plant the seeds, especially peas, because 117 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,399 I start all my peas off in trays and I have to place all the 118 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,000 peas in lines so that they're all nice and neat so that when they grow 119 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:46,919 through, they're all looking fantastic when they grow. So yeah, we're going 120 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,799 to be starting as peas off tomorrow. These are later croping peas they call 121 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:56,399 Kelvin Wonder and I purchased them from the range from the Wilco's branded ones, 122 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:03,159 so fingers crossed they go well as obviously that Early Onwards grew fantastic. We've 123 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,399 still got another set of those in what we planted last month, but it's 124 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,799 too late to be planting the Early Onwards ones now, so it's a Kelvin 125 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:15,840 Wonder ones that we're trying this month. And I bought I think about six 126 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:20,879 packets altogether because I wanted to replace the ones that I'd pulled out, well 127 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:24,279 not pulled out, I'd snipped mo all off this week, so I wanted 128 00:09:24,279 --> 00:09:28,559 to replace all them so that I've got to lead more peace because we've done 129 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,679 fantastic. I can't complain all about my piece. This year, best year 130 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,720 ever for my peace, and even my neighbor was looking at him and he 131 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:43,320 was overwhelmed with how many had picked off this year. So hopefully it's going 132 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:48,080 to be a very productive day tomorrow and we can get all the seeds planted. 133 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,080 We just need to go out and get some compost, which is the 134 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,039 most expensive part buying all the compost. But we're going to get the compost 135 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:58,399 and we'll get all the seeds, hopefully so on tomorrow. So in tomorrow's 136 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:01,879 podcast you'll be able to find out everything what I've got up to. We've 137 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:07,080 saw in my seeds, and I'll be sharing with you all the seeds which 138 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,799 I have planted and telling you which ones can still be planted at this time 139 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,320 of year. And i'd just go off it off for seed packets a lot 140 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,159 of the time, as obviously I do my podcast talking about what seeds you 141 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,080 can still plan. But when I went in the range, I just looked 142 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,240 on the seed packets checked which ones you can still sow in July. So 143 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,480 I've checked them all and those are the ones that I'm going to try. 144 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,720 Whether they grow or not, that is the question. It all depends on 145 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:37,320 this English weather that we've got at the moment. You never know, we 146 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:41,080 might have an Indian summer. It might be absolutely roasting in September. One 147 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,480 can only dream a bit like the score tonight, we can only dream that 148 00:10:46,519 --> 00:10:50,840 we win the Euros tonight. So I hope we've all had a fantastic weekend. 149 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,639 Again, the podcast tomorrow will be at a later time because I'll be 150 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:56,440 talking about what I've got up to down at the plot. So I hope 151 00:10:56,519 --> 00:11:01,440 you have a great rest of your Sunday. Everybody enjoy it tonight, make 152 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,960 sure you have a couple of beers and share the England team on. Until 153 00:11:05,039 --> 00:11:09,600 next time, remember, keep smiling, keep shining, and keep gardening with 154 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:18,799 Bet. Everyone. Thank you for joining me on this episode of Gardening with 155 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:22,360 Ben. I hope you have found some useful tips and instgiration for your own 156 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:28,559 gardening and a lotment journey. 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