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Speaker 3: Podcast platforms, if you're listening on YouTube, sometimes it's easier
to listen on a podcast platform rather than on YouTube,
so then you can just close you up and listen
in the background. So, yeah, welcome along to Gardening with
Ben if you are new. So what are we going
to talk about today? Well, I'm going to talk about
one of the reels that I posted yesterday in my
Daily Gardening Question, and one of them was what was
the most favorite autumnal task what you enjoy doing? And
I mentioned that I enjoy doing all the maintenance workout
at my a lotment, doing all that sort of stuff,
But some of the replies that I got back were
pretty similar. Some people said that they like doing all
the cleaning up, all the tiding up ready for the springtime,
and a lot of people commented saying that they love
doing all the spring ball planting, which I've got to
admit I missed that off my real I absolutely love
planting almost spring bulbs because if you plant more, you
put them all out you lay them all out, and
then you think, mister squill, don't take them, don't eat them,
leave them for the springtime. And then you can't wait
to see the displays in springtime and see what grows,
how beautiful it looks, ready for the springtime, ready for
the bees to come, ready for the start of the year,
for a fresh, new gardening year. So yeah, I do
actually love planting in spring bulbs, and I might do
for one of my reels next week what's Everybody's favorite
spring flower? So wait for that reel to come out.
And another reel that I posted is what is everybody's
goal for twenty twenty five? So that is going to
be the topic what we talk about on the podcast today,
what's everybody's gardening goal for next year? So if you've
not commented on the reel on my Instagram, go and
comment on it what you what your goal is for
next year. Also it's on Facebook or YouTube, so feel
free to comment on them and let me know what
your gardening goal is for twenty twenty five. So my
gardening goal for twenty twenty five is We're going to
talk about this today quite a bit of some of
the goals. What I want to do for next year.
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Speaker 3: So one of the things what I've been looking at
doing is getting an apricotree. Now I am reading up
about these, and you can get some really good fruited apricots.
Now that must be one of the only fruits. I've
not gotten my allotment. I've got my apples, I've got
my pears, I've got my plums, I've got my strawberries,
I've got my moobarb I've got my raspberries, I've got
my black currds, I've got my gourgie berries, I've got
my blueberries. I've got loads of fruit. But I've not
got an apricottree, so I'm looking at possibly getting an
apricotree on my allotment. Now, if you've got an apricottree
on your allotment, send me a message and let me
know the variety that's if it's a good fruiter. Let
me know the variety of the apricot tree that you
have if you've got one growing on your plot or
in the garden, as it looks really interesting and obviously
they're really tasty as well, So I'm looking for suggestions
for an apricot tree. Another gardening goal for next year
would be to start growing again in my polytol. I've
not grown in my polytannel for the last few years.
I've just left it and I've not done much. I've
planted all my tomatoes outside plan or my cucumbers outside.
But yeah, I'm going to look at growing in my
polytunnel again next year, and I'm possibly going to look
at growing cantaloup melons, I'm going to grow peppers, and
I'm going to grow chillis in there. So I'm looking
at starting to grow again in my polytunnel. So make
sure you stay tuned for that because I'm going to
share my journey off growing melons and peppers. My peppers,
I'm going to start off in January. I'm going to
start them really early. I'm going to get them going
ready for this year because obviously peppers do take a
long time perform and the earlier that you start them off,
the better chance of getting more fruit on them. So
I'm going to start them really early. So stay tuned
for me growing my peppers and my melons. I'm also
looking at doing some improvements to my supports. What hold
all my grape vines up, all my logan barriers up.
I want to build like a pagoda from my shed.
Now you know what my building's like. It's absolutely rubbish,
But yeah, I want to build like a pagoda. I've
got a few big posts and I want to join
them onto my shed and build like a framework so
that I can grow my logan berries along the top
of it, and possibly my grapes from the top of
it as well. So make sure you stay tuned for
that funny video because it'll probably collapse, probably all break
and probably dismantle and top of it the back. But
it's all the fun. It's the fun. What I enjoy doing.
So yeah, I want to make a few improvements to
that area and to my seating area where I sit.
I might make a little roof on that so that
if it does right and I can still sit outside
and be undercover. So we might do a few things
like that. So I've got quite a bit of perspects left,
so that'll be quite fun to try something like that
and it'll be fun to watch. So that is going
to be something good for you to enjoy. But one
of the main goals for next year is to revamp
or my shed. I'm going to splash out and make
it all look fantastic inside my shed. Like at the moment,
it's just basic with shells, flooring. I've got old pots,
old seed trays. But yeah, I want to make it
more better looking in the inside, more esthetic as obviously
it's just a shed at the moment, but I want
to paint it all up, to spruce it all about it,
to make it look photographable, if that's the word something
what looks good to look at, And I want to
have it as a base where I can do all
my filming inside film are my videos for what I
do for you all on YouTube and stuff like that,
So I want it to look nice on the inside
because obviously we do a lot of rainy days, so
I can't always film them from the chair that I'm
sat outside. So I want to have like a potting
station where I'm filming potting stuff up, where I'm filming,
taking my cuttings and filming sharing my tips and stuff
like that. So that is one of my goals for
over winter. So that's probably going to cost me quite
a bit of money to get that all done up
and looking nice for you all, but hopefully we can
get it looking good over the winter period, ready for
the springtime, ready for when we're sewing all the seeds,
because that is what I always say, like, this is
the time when we do all the improvements, when we
spruce everything up, do any jobs what needs doing, any repairs.
And that's why I concentrate on getting my allotment cleared
as fast as possible, which it's literally all nearly cleared,
and then you can start looking at doing all these
jobs on the improvements. Because now my allotment's cleared, I
won't need to touch my beds until when I'm planting
out in them in March April May time. Obviously they'll
need digging over again, possibly weeding. But if a home
every week or so, then they won't have no weed
to them. They'll all be ready for planting out next year.
So I've got quite a few goals from what I've
been saying of what I want to do for next year.
Like I say, I always like to improve a certain
improve an area on my plot every single year. Like
where I planted my rubarb and my fruit trees. I
did that up about ten years ago, possibly fifteen ten
to twelve years ago. I literally dug it all out,
dug up all my rhubarb. I put black membrane down
in the whole area of it, and even underneath my
parents labs. I just black membrane right up to the
fruit trees so that no weeds could grow through this area.
I put slits in. I planted my roubarb through the
slits so that the black membrane goes up to the
rhubarb and up to the crowns. So and then I
put paving slabs down, and I put some wood chip
down to help with the moisture, keep it moisture and
keep it warm. And yeah, that area hasn't needed any
work doing in it for the last fifteen years because
I've done it up. The only job what I need,
what needs doing in it is what I'm going to
be doing this weekend. Is that brambles seem to get
through every so often, so I just need to chop
back all the brambles and tidy that all up ready
for next year. But yeah, that area is all fantastic.
It's like my seating area which I built last year.
It's got all wood chip on the ground, it's got
a nice bench, it's all nicely neatly tidy, and yeah,
that won't need doing for a few years. And that's
one of the reasons why I want to get all
my a lotment paved because once it's paved then I
don't have to worry about the path. So for you,
I'll just sweep them and it'll keep them down. Obviously,
a weedel possibly pop up in between the paving slabs,
but if I put black membrane down underneath, they'll be
easy to pull out. They'll just be loose really, But yeah,
I like to do a little area up every year
to help so that I don't have to do as
much work. If you get my I want to make
it as maintenance free as possible, where I'm gonna just
concentrating on the beds where stuff are growing. So each
year I do love to do things up. So that
is my gardening goals for next year. I want to
start growing again in my polytunnel. I want to build
a pagoda which is going to be funny, and I'm
going to spruce up all inside my shed to make
it look fancy and to help with filming and with
my content what I put out for you, because next year,
my content's going to be even more. Obviously, at the moment,
we're gonna get in one video a day or well,
we're getting my YouTube video today, we're getting my daily
real video. But I want to start putting out another
video to day, so I want to have at least
three videos going out a day for you. So hopefully
we'll be getting lots and lots of content out for here.
I really do hope that you are enjoying this content.
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all because there's lots more content ready to come out
next year, so I hope that we can keep growing.
I hope that we can keep sharing tips together. But yeah,
until next time, which will be Saturday's podcast where we
talk about everything that we're doing on the allotment this weekend,
make sure you tune in for that episode. Until next time, everyone,
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