Speaker 1: 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 alltment. So sit back, grab
a brew and enjoy today's episode. Hey everyone, and welcome
back to Gardening with Ben for another brand new episode. Well,
I hope you've enjoyed the podcast. This week. We've had
an episode every single day, so if you're catching up,
make sure you go back and listen to all the
episodes from this week. There's certainly plenty on there. Nice
and short, as per usual, they're usually about ten minutes long.
We don't let them drag on too much. We try
and not waffle on for ages. But yeah, we are
back and it is the weekend, and obviously over this
weekend you will get podcasts talking about everything that we've
been getting up to on the allotment. Fingers crossed, we
will be down there today and hopefully getting lots of
work done because now it's time to move inside. I've
sorted most of my plot out on the outside, everything
that I needed to get done, so it's time to
move into the shed. And I've been looking forward to this,
but because this is a bit that I enjoy. I
enjoy doing all the building, all the maintenance work. And yeah,
we're gonna give our shared a massive revamp on the
inside of it, which I've got a good vision in
my head. Whether it'll come out like my that is
the question, but you'll have to stay and see how
well we get on with it. We're going to build
like a proper counter to do all my potting on
and plant to pull my plants upon, and yeah, I'm
going to use this counter to do all my filming
out as well, because then you can see all my videos.
I can do videos of Missowy my seeds, doing all
my potting up and doing like examples and sharing ideas
from it. So yeah, this counter, I've got an idea
for it. Whether it will look like I actually want
it to look like. I want it all to be
nicely wooden paneled, and I want it all to be
painted a nice color. And then I'm thinking of having
a backdrop behind me and having my logo on this
counter as well to make it look quite professional. But
the question is if it actually comes out like this,
we will see. But yeah, we will see how well
it actually comes on and works, so hopefully we'll have
a good outcome. We've got plenty of woods saved up
my sheds, follow would, so I need to start using
some of it up so that it doesn't all go rotten.
And yeah, hopefully it's gonna look good. But we'll share
progress photos as we're going along, and I plan on
me painting on all the inside of my shed. I'm
going to clear loads of rubbish way from inside of it,
put some shelving up, sort on my plant pots out,
all my seed trays out, and basically give it a
nice freshen up and just so that it's more aesthetic
when I'm doing all my filming, because I want to
start looking a bit more professional. I'll never be professional,
I'm a Yorkshireman, but yeah, hopefully fingers crossed it will
start to come together. So at this moment in time,
I've just put my drills on charge, so hopefully they
will be charged for tomorrow so that we can start
building it. Obviously, this week we've got Saturday and Sunday
down there. Then it's Christmas Day on Wednesday, and yeah,
hopefully I'll be back down at the allotment on Boxing
Day as I have nothing planned to do. I've got
a bar in life, and yeah, hopefully I'll be back
down on Boxing Day as well, because I might actually
sow all my onion seeds because that's an old gardener's
tradition to plant the onions on Boxing Day. So I'm
going to plant my onion seeds on Boxing Day. I
think I'm going to stick by tradition. Now. The only
other thing that I do by tradition is my potato
planting as well, because they say to plant them on
Good Friday. It's all to do with the moon. So
I've always stuck to growing planting them on Good Friday,
even though Good Friday moves every single year, I've always
stuck to that date of planting them and they always
come out good. So we may try the tradition of
planting my onion seeds on Boxing day. Get in touch
and let me know if you plant your onion seeds
on Boxing day. Obviously you don't need to actually sew
them till like January time, but if you're wanting big
ones or exhibition sized ones, start them off around now,
as that is what people do. Obviously, I'll be sewing
them indoors inside my shed. I'll not be planting them
outside till March time, so hopefully by then they'll have
shot up and be growing pretty strongly. And I'm going
to do a comparison video again this year. I'm going
to show what the difference is between planting form a
seed and actually sewing onions from sets as well, so
you'll be able to stay up today see the progress
of how they're both getting on. We'll plant them both
near each other, so the soil will be pretty similar,
there'll be the same amount of sunlight, and we'll see
how well they both actually grow and see which one
actually does best, whether it's worth growing from seed or
whether it's worth growing from the set, which is like
a little bulb. So let me know which one you
think I'll grow better, as I have done this before,
and I know which ones actually did the best, So
let me know which one you think I'll grow the best.
Let me know if you go seed or if you
grow set as well. I'd like to know what people
actually do, so hopefully we need to do that. So
I best get some compost actually this week weekend before
they shut over Christmas, so I'll put that on my
list and need to get some compost in the morning
on the way to the allotment. So yeah, I'm looking
forward to that. You never know, I might be actually
filming it on my new table. That's if it's not
collapsed already, because knowing my luck, it'll collapse the day
that I build it. But no, I'm going to try
and make it as stronger as possible about it, even
actually lay on it to make show it's strong and
stable enough see if it will survive my weight, which
is a lot of weight. But yeah, that's our plan
for this week and start building inside my shed. I've
not got too much else to be getting on with
down at the allotment. I've still got to winter wash
all my fruit trees. And that's the case of if
you look at Amazon and look for winter wash, they're
basically what you spray on your fruit trees to stop
the winter off from hibernating on them over the winter
and laying its eggs, and then they would hatch, and
then they'll obviously go inside your fruit and eat your
fruit and stuff like that. So it's a case of
protecting them a bit from pests and stuff like that.
And I also need to buy some green sticky tape
to stick around them as well, because that stops everything
actually crawling up them and getting to the fruit as well.
So the more things that I can do to prevent
them from getting damaged the best, because the bug what
damages my apples the most. It's not wasps, it's not birds,
it's not squirrels. It's woodline. Yes, wood lice. When I
was picking all my apples last year and the years
before that, I look inside the core and there's a
wood lice inside the little hole where the store goes,
hiding away keeping warm out of the way, and yeah,
they've obviously eaten a bit at the top of it
as well, So I need to start protecting them more
from the wood lice as well. Let me know if
you get issues with wood lice eating yours and if
you're managing to prevent the wood lice from eating them,
let me know how you do it, because obviously I
don't like spraining my food and stuff like that. I'll
use this winter wash which is like organic type, but
I don't like spraining the fruit once they're on with
pesticides or anything like that. So yeah, I like to
be as organic as much as possible on my fruit
and veg side. It's what makes it taste better as well,
So let me know your thoughts on that. So get
in touch as well to let me know what you're
getting up to at the allotment this weekend, if you're
going down, if you're harvesting your Christmas dinners as well,
that's the main part. Who's grown Brussels sprouts? Not me?
I absolutely hate them. Who's growing them? And yeah, who's
grown parsnips? Who's growing in potatoes? Have you got a
full Christmas dinner from your allotment? Now? That will be
the perfect Christmas dinner, all your vegetables, all from your
a lotment and yeah, a nice scrumptious Christmas dinner. But
I will keep these podcasts going all week. You will
even get one on Christmas Day. As well, so make
sure you stay tuned for the podcasts on Christmas Day.
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what we've been up to at the allotment today, that's
if we've managed to do anything. Hopefully we will have done,
so make sure you'll come back tomorrow. Until next time, everyone,
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