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doing and in today's episode as I
mentioned yesterday in yesterday's
podcast if you've not listened to that
go and give it a listen to we're talking
about everything that you can plant in
November yes you can plant stuff in
November and we've certainly planted a
few stuff down at our alotment in the
end of October so you can still plant
them now in November we don't grow much
through the winter periods but I like to
have a few things in so that I can see
stuff growing so what sort of stuff can
we plant in November and as I always say
is that have a notebook or anything like
that so that you can make notes of all
the things that you can do and feel free
to try and plant some of them we've
planted quite a few of these vegetables
so hopefully you can grow along with me
and let me know how you get on down at
your alotment or the garden so usually
we talk about what vegetables you can
plant what flowers you can plant and
what fruit you can plant so first off
we're going to talk about what
vegetables you can plant during November
and the first off is Autumn onions now
we have got our Autumn onions in we've
got some yellow ones we've got some red
ones and we've netted them all over to
stop the pigeons and the birds pinching
them and yeah they like to eat the green
tops of them once the shoot start
popping through but once they get big
enough we take the neted off and usually
they come with stand
themselves so get your Autumn onions in
the ones that are in the garden centers
now are the autum onions not the summer
ones so go and get get some autum onions
and give them a try and just fill one of
your beds in and they'll be ready around
June or July time and yeah obviously you
can be planting more stuff out once
you've harvested them so fill a bed in
and you might as well sew some and get
some planted and see how well you get
on
garlic now is the time to plant garlic
you don't want to plant it in March time
you want to plant it now the reason why
we plant garlic now is because it needs
the cold weather to crack the cloves to
form the garlic without the cold weather
the garlic won't form into the bulb that
it makes so if you're wanting to grow
some garlic grow some now we have got
absolutely loads in at my allotment I
must have planted about 50 plants I've
got absolutely loads here we've got
loads of different varieties we've
labeled them all up so that we can
feedback on which ones do well and yeah
we got some sent to us and we got some
off Amazon now if you're wanting to grow
some garlic you can some from the
supermarket but make sure it's either
from the UK or from Europe because it's
used to the climates that we have don't
grow the garlic what's from China
because it'll be used to hotter climates
so try and stick to European ones the
best way to get some is from the garden
center because it'll be the right garlic
to grow peas I've never grown peas
before in the winter but you can grow a
variety of peas called meteor which can
tolerate the cold these peas perfect for
winter growing and will be ready to
harvest in the early Springtime planting
them now ensures they'll survive Winters
chill and give you an early crop in
springtime so again obviously if you're
sting peas you can either start them off
in the ground or you can start them off
in the greenhouse in pots and stuff like
that just be careful because my mats
will enjoy them because there's not much
around for them to eat at the moment so
just be careful and make sure they keep
them protected the same goes for broad
beans not much around for them to eat at
the moment but if you want them to grow
some broad beans it's a good time to
grow them now because rather than
through the summer varieties because
when they're ready to harvest it'll be
before the blackfly emerge and obviously
when you've grow them in March and they
ready around June July time they covered
in Black Fly which is not usually very
nice is it they never harm the crop but
obviously they never look nice we all
the black fly on them so sew some now
and they'll be ready for before the
black fly appear asparagus asparagus is
so expensive in the supermarket to
purchase but why not try planting some
crowns now and in a few years time
you'll be harvesting lots of asparagus
and saving absolutely loads of money
spring onions obviously where they get
the names from so if you plant them now
they'll be ready for spring time now I
usually plant them in clumps so that
they rather than Rose because they form
better when they're in a clump rather
than planting them all individually CU
they're very tiny so you can just uh
start a few off in a plant pot and then
once they've started growing just
transfer the full plant pot into the
ground rather than separate them all
just plant them all straight in and let
them grow in a little Clump and this
should do absolutely amazing so that is
all the vegetables what you can plant
this month for
November so next up we're going to talk
about all the fruit that you can plant
during November now November is the best
PL time to plant fruit not in the summer
time you want to be planting fruit in
the winter time the reason for this is
that the plants are dormant and they
focus on growing The Roots they get all
the water they need to help them root
and they'll grow fantastic rather than
planting them in summer when they're
concentrated on growing the fruit rather
than growing The Roots it's harder to
keep them going so plant any fruit that
you want to grow on your alotment or
garden during the winter months black
bries are the first things on our list
and if you've never grown if you've got
normal black Brees that are foret get
rid of them and replace them with
formless black Brees trust me it's a
game changer the size of my whips swap
have come out from my black BR are
absolutely massive and the size of the
black Bri are been amazing and they're a
life changer obviously I grew mine I I
bought two plants and the amount of
black Brees I've had off them that go
all the way down the side of my plot
they're absolutely huge and me and my
neighbor absolutely love them and I just
keep tying them up and fastening them up
and yeah absolutely amazing so if you've
never grown forless blackb I definitely
do recommend purchasing
some so next up is raspberries obviously
there's two varieties of raspberries you
can get your summer varieties you can
get your Autumn varieties why not try
grow growing both to extend your season
so that you get some in summer and Su in
Autumn but make sure you plant them away
from each other so that you know which
varieties are which and just watch out
with raspberries cuz they do grow worse
than weeds they send loads of roots out
and then all the canes start popping up
everywhere obviously if you've got an
allotment it don't really really matter
where they're popping up but just watch
out with rasb cuz the canes will be
intrusive
next up is strawberries as you heard on
my podcast yesterday I planted 200
strawberry plants this year ready for
next year from my Runners now even if
you just plant like 10 they'll send out
some Runners at end of year and they'll
probably send about three or four out
from each plant so then you'll double
them every single year and you'll get
absolutely loads and I grow M through
black membrane to keep them moist and to
keep the weeds down and to protect the
strawberries CU they'll sit on top of
the black matin as well so if you're
wanting to grow some strawberries now is
the time to plant them rhubarb now if
you're wanting to grow rhubarb so
expensive to buy in the supermarket so
expensive but if you grow rhubarb you
plant the crown now but you don't
Harvest it for a year you need to leave
the crown in the ground to take root get
going and form its spot where it's going
to grow I know it might be tempting to
harvest some if you're seeing plenty of
rubar on it in its first year but don't
Harvest it you need it to take rout and
get
going blueberries now blueberries you
need to grow them in aous compost if you
want them to grow blueberries nice and
easy just plant them in a pot with
Eric's composting then rather than in
the ground and then they're easier to
feed with acious feed or to fill up with
fresh compost each year and look after
them so if you're want in some
blueberries grow them in some pots this
year currents whether you prefer black
white red all different varieties of
currents it's also a good time to plant
them now obviously they send out you can
get some massive impressive yields on
currents but the thing is with them is
that they're usually hard to pull out
all the ends on them once you harvested
them I know that's annoying but it's up
to you wherever you want to grow
currents or not but they will produce a
lot of currents usually a fantastic
Cropper and you can get some brilliant
harvests from
them next up we're going to talk about
what flowers you can plant during
November yes there is plenty of flowers
that you can be planting in November as
now is the time to be planting all the
spring bulbs yes I talk about the spring
bulbs all the time the reason why I love
the spring bulbs s is because it helps
the bees when the bees wake up from
hibernation in the springtime there's
not many flowers around so the spring
bulbs help Feed the Bees it helps give
them the energy for the year ahead and
it gives them the kickart that they need
so planting spring bulbs in the
allotment and in the garden will
encourage the bees to come and it will
help with pollination because your fruit
trees will be starting to Blossom as
well so encouraging in the bees to come
down to the flowers will help with
pollination on the fruit trees as well
so it's a win-win situation so I
encourage everybody to plant some spring
bulbs in their allotments if you've got
an allotment let me know send me a
message saying I'm going to plant some
spring bulbs just for you Ben I would
love to hear from you all saying that
because the more people I can encourage
to plant spring bulbs the better yes
they look absolutely gorgeous but they
look after our be's so what's bring
bulbs can we plant this month obviously
we can plant as tulips now is the time
to plant them because now it's getting
colder it's better for the Tulips to
grow because they do say if you plant
them earlier you can get tulip fire so
you've got to be careful daffodils you
can still plant them high Sims blue
bells aliums snow drops
crocuses all the spring bulbs can be
planted now now I've planted absolutely
loads of spring bulbs at my alotment
again every year I PL more and more my
allotment is just going to be full of
spring bulbs eventually but I planted so
many and I want to plant a load more so
I'm probably going to wait until they go
on sale at the end of November hopefully
they will do again this year because I
did they did last year and I purchased
absolutely loads fingers crossed we get
another good load of spring bulbs again
this year so obviously High SS are one
of the best spring bulbs because they
smell fantastic but they're expensive to
buy so if you can get them on for why
not
hey roses now is the time to plant roses
as well I want to get some more roses
down at my allotment so hopefully we
might get some more different colored
ones cuz we've got some gold ones we've
got some red ones so I need to have a
look at some other colors so if anyone's
got any suggestions off some cheap roses
that I can add to my alotment obviously
they don't need to Big Posh varieties we
just want some nice color and to attract
the bees as well so if you're planning
on adding roses to your garden November
is a great time time to plant them
ensure you enrich the soil with plant
food before planting and your roses will
Bloom year after year roses add elegance
and a Timeless charm to any garden and
they'll flower year after year you can
get success from your roses pansies now
I've grown absolutely loads of pansies
I've grew them all from seed I planted
them around end of July beginning of
August and they've done fantastic it's
so easy to grow from seed I didn't
realize how easy it is to grow them but
obviously now is the time to plant the
plant
FL plants I like from the garden center
stuff like that rather than growing them
from seed you won't be able to grow them
from seed at this time here you'll need
to plant the plant atual plant so if
you're wanted to add some color all the
way through winter pansies are an ideal
thing to add to your
garden so I hope you've enjoyed this
podcast for today a little funny fact is
this is the second time I've recorded
this episode because I recorded it and
then I listen to the sound quality it
was absolutely atrocious so I ended up
re-recording it all again so the time
I've spent recording this one I could
have been recording another one but oh
well I know all about what's planed in
November now because I've done it
twice but yeah I hope you've enjoyed
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