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How to Turn Garden Failures into Success Stories
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Jan 1, 2025
🌿 How to Turn Garden Failures into Success Stories! We’ve all had seeds that didn’t sprout, slugs that munched everything, or weather that wiped out our plans. 🌧️🐌 But every failure is a lesson in disguise — and with the right mindset and tweaks, you can grow back better than ever. What’s a gardening mistake you learned from? Let’s 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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