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How to Turn Garden Failures into Success Stories
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Jan 1, 2025
šæ How to Turn Garden Failures into Success Stories! Weāve all had seeds that didnāt sprout, slugs that munched everything, or weather that wiped out our plans. š§ļøš But every failure is a lesson in disguise ā and with the right mindset and tweaks, you can grow back better than ever. Whatās a gardening mistake you learned from? Letās share and grow together! #GardenSuccess #GrowThroughIt #AllotmentLife #GardeningTips #GrowYourOwn #GardenFails #UKGardener
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's Friday the
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weekend is upon us everybody thank you
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and yes we are looking forward to being
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back down at the allotment tomorrow
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fingers crossed we have some decent
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weather fingers crossed we can get lots
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what are we talking about today today we
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are talking about turning the
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success turning your failures into
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success stories that's what we're going
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to talk about today turning your
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failures into success stor is now I've
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had many failures on my allotment over
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the last 16 or 20 years that I've had it
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and I still continue to get failures
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even though I give all these tips and
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advice out I'll still continue to get
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failures year after year now obviously
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some of the failures I have are with
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like carrots I never managed to grow any
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carrots very well or I'll sew all my
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seeds and I'll forget to water them in
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the all end up dying or I plant loads of
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seeds and I never plant them outside so
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they end up dying in my shed then and
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the biggest failure of all time which i'
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never learned about
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is putting seed writing the names of the
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SE uh stuff I've sewn on labels and
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putting them in the trays so that I know
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what I've planted because I'll end up
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growing cets marrow squash and melons
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and they'll all look the same plant and
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then I won't realize what I'm planting
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out until it's actually grown produce on
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it so yeah I have that's one of my
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biggest failures and the same goes for
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brassas like your cabbage your
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cauliflower your broccoli your Sprouts
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they all look the same when they get
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growing but you don't know what they are
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until they actually produce on
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them I'm sure a lot of you are prone to
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that failure but yeah there's certainly
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lots and lots of failures and one of the
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biggest failures is my DIY failures I
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talk about this a lot and that um I
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absolutely love DIY but I'm rubbish at
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and things will collapse or one of the
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biggest failures was I was Rec uh I just
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put up some new shelving i' potted all
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my tomatoes up my cucumbers up my
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Peppers up they were all in individual
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pots I'd spent the fortune on compost
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and we sorted them all out into all the
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varieties and everything like that we
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even labeled them up can you believe it
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had labeled them all up as well and but
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I only put a label in the front one and
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the all the ones behind it of that
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variety if you get me um so i' done all
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that and I was recording some footage
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for my YouTube channel or Instagram and
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I thankfully the camera wasn't on it it
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was on me but I was just filming it and
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I just had this massive crash and I like
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no on this video like no no no all my
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shelving collapsed all my vegetables got
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mixed up all the varieties got mixed up
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uh I was absolutely devastated but from
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them failures you can create success
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from them and some of the stuff you
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learn from especially like we putting
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labels in seeds and stuff like that I am
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good at better at doing stuff like that
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and keeping on top of it but
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obviously it goes back to writing a log
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book as well like I've mentioned in the
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past is that at this time of year I like
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to buy a log book and at the beginning
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of January I'll start writing down all
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my seeds and when I planted them when
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I've sewn them how well they've grown
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which ones haven't grown which ones have
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failed which ones did rubbish which ones
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were absolutely
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delicious and it's good to look back on
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the success and the failures and
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obviously successful ones you go back
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and you do them again and if they're
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failure then you've learned from that
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and you try a different variety of
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produce
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so without failures you don't get
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success down at the allotments and I
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always get loads of failures with
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vegetables and stuff like that and I'm
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open and honest when I'm sharing my
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videos around and stuff like that I'll
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show what's done absolutely rubbish
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which I've done terrible lot and
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I learn from that and I try a different
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method or a different way of growing
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something and I'll learn from it and
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hopefully get better produce the year
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after and I think that's what sometimes
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stems down to uh the issue when you're
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watching these gardening shows Etc uh
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with celebrity people is that they'll
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just show all the best bits and people
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can be
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preconceived in thinking that it's easy
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to do uh things are easy to grow easy to
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maintain allotments are simple because
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they only ever see the best pictures of
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allotments or things that they've
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harvested or done well with
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and obviously it's not an easy job it's
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they can be a lot of failures and I see
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so many people come down onto the
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allotment and start an allotment and
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they dig it all over in the first year
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or hire a uh JCB to grape all the top
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off and to clear all the weeds and
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everything and then within another 3
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months it's back tall again because they
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think oh they didn't realize that all
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the weeds will grow back or once it's
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all tided and cleared it's easy to
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maintain but it's certainly not it's not
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an easy job gardening
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and that's why obviously like I like to
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be honest and say of all the failures
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I've done I'll even show photos or
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videos of failures that I've had and how
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bad it's been and like this year we've
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not had a good year of growing certain
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things have done fantastic growing
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probably the best produce that they've
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had for certain produce but yeah you get
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so many failures and that's why we need
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to share with each other the success and
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the failures of produce and then people
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will understand that it isn't an easy
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job when you're gardening when you're
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caring for
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producing going down and weeding every
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single day so there's many failures and
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success stories out there so like I
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always say is that if you don't have
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failures you won't have success and with
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every failure you have one success so
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make notes of things that don't work in
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the past and then you'll learn from it
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to grow your produce next year and write
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down all the successes as well
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because then you'll do the same the year
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after and try again sometimes you'll
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write down the successes and try the
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same variety the year after and then
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they'll be absolutely rubbish and then
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where do you
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stand but yeah there's certainly lots
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and lots of failures out there and
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hopefully we'll have lots of success
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next year and hopefully a warmer year
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next year because it wasn't a nice
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summer so we had a lot of failures uh
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but like my cucumber like I used to grow
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them in my poish tunnel and I couldn't
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manage to keep them watered all the time
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but I grew them outside this year for
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the first time ever and the best produce
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I've ever had the most harvested I've
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ever had off my cucumbers it was
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absolutely astonishing so I've learned
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something from this this year like I'll
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try that again next year and knowing my
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look it won't
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work but yeah there is lots of failures
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out there and if you don't get failures
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you'll never learn that's what I always
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say
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so I hope you've enjoyed this podcast
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today and as always make sure you come
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back for tomorrow's episode because
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tomorrow we'll be talking about
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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