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Garden Talks with Ben | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🎙️ Garden Talks with Ben – Honest Chats from the Plot! From soil to sunshine, setbacks to successes — I’m chatting all things gardening, straight from the allotment. 🌱☀️ In this episode, I’m sharing seasonal thoughts, listener questions, and the little things that make gardening so rewarding (and sometimes challenging!). What’s been on your mind in the garden lately? #GardenTalks #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #PlotChats
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode will'll dig into tips
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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and allotment thve from planting
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sewing and growing we will share all the
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tips and AD advice we will also have
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben for a brand new
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episode this week it's been a few days
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since our last episode as we have been
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extremely busy and when I say extremely
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busy we have got big plans happening and
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yeah I am sort of in the middle of
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sorting everything out regarding
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gardening with Ben and that means
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sorting out all my website I've got a
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brand new website coming I'm sorting out
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all my YouTube channel and I'm sorting
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out all my podcast channel so I'm really
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busy at the moment with getting
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everything sorted and back in order
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starting with getting everything looking
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good and hopefully fetching out more
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more content for you and if you not
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subscribed to my YouTube Channel please
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do subscribe to it gardening with Ben
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I've put on a load of new videos on that
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and there's going to be so much content
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coming on a regular basis for you to
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watch as well so if you enjoy listen
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into these podcasts why not check my
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YouTube channel out and you can check
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out all my videos as well you can see me
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face but yeah I hope that you can have a
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look and see all my videos on there and
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yeah I'm trying to get it monetized so
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obviously the more views the better
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really in that sense and I just want to
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say hello to India and the reason why I
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want to say hello to India is because I
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get stats on my podcast and it's number
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one in the home and garden channel in
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India gardening with Ben is getting out
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there so yeah thank you for everybody
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that listens in India and the rest of
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the world it's amazing I do love see in
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the stats and seeing where everybody
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listens to these podcasts so thank you
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for that so what else have we been up to
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recently but like I said I've been
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recording lots and lots of videos at the
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moment we're going to be getting so many
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videos out there at the moment for you
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all to watch and I'm going to start
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doing a little series on tips and advice
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on starting up an allotment starting it
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up from scratch and the best tips and
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advice for doing an alotment obviously I
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do make mistakes myself I get told about
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mistakes what I'm doing but it's all
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part of the learning process and I love
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sharing everything that I'm doing with
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you all in whether it be in the podcasts
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or whether it be on my YouTube channel
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so stay tuned for all that so this week
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we have been down at my allotment today
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it's been threatening with rain but we
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managed to get some stuff done down
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there uh with been doing some weeding
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we've been sorting out all of my
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pumpkins which I'm going to talk about
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in another episode on how to look after
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your pumpkins and how to get big
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pumpkins so stay tuned for that episode
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coming up uh we've been sorting out
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deheading as roses because obviously
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it's their diet you need to keep them
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dehe headed and yeah we've been checking
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on as seeds because we've got a lot of
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seeds growing at the moment uh you'll
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have seen in my previous videos that we
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have started some late June seeds off
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we've started some peas off we started
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some dwarf beans off we started some
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beetroot off some lettuce off some sweet
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corn off some turnips off and some
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radish off so yeah we've got lots of
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seeds growing and the reason why I've
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done so many seeds is because some of it
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has failed my cucumbers I've only got
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five plants growing so I wanted some
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more cucumbers growing and now I've got
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50 plants
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growing so yeah we may be inundated with
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cucumbers but stay tuned for that that
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will be epic if we have 50 plants
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growing uh my polyol won't know what to
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do with how many plants we've got
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growing of
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cucumbers I hope everybody likes
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cucumber and onion
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vinegar I know I I do but we'll be
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having them on his eyes for making us
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healthy we'll be having them in water to
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drink we'll be having cucumber for
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everything uh but yeah stay tuned for
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that so we've got all them growing also
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my sweet corn plants we have got some
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healthy sweet corn plants outside which
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are growing quite tall they're doing
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really well really well but I've not got
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enough of them so I planted a load more
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sweet corn plants to hopefully get some
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good plants growing and lots of sweet
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corn you can't be having delicious sweet
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corn down on the alotment and that is
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one of the most most favorite things
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that I'm growing at the moment but I'm
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having a few issues down there at the
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plot at the moment uh obviously I have
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trouble with the bind weed down there
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the bind weed just grows everywhere that
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keeps me so busy all the time just
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clearing it back cutting it down getting
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the roots out keeping on top of it and
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trying to get it all
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cleared and we've also got an issue with
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my Plum Tree my plum tree looks like
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it's dying off at the moment which is
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not a good sign uh I really don't know
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what's up with it I hope that it's just
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a blip and hopefully it comes back to
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life whether it's not getting enough
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water I don't know uh but I imagine it
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is getting enough water because it's
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been so wet here in the UK at the moment
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but we'll see we'll see how we get on
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and see if we can get the tree back to
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life again uh but everything else is
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coming along good we've got as letis
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nearly ready for picking
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we've got blueberries that are starting
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to turn blue we're starting to pick
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strawberries off I shared a picture of
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that of my first strawberry that I
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picked off and also I've got some more
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stuff coming for my allotment we've just
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put two new bird baths on my allotment
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as well I'm going to be sharing a video
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on them as well soon I bought two bird
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baths for my allotment to encourage the
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birds to have a swim have a drink and
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just come and chill out on my allotment
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and if it gets to hot they might want to
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have a little
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dip but yeah I bought two bird baths and
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like I always say everything from the
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podcast goes back to my allotment and
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stuff like that I invest it all back so
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that you can all see where it's all
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going so yes I know there's a few little
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adverts here and there but it all goes
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towards paying for my allotment and pays
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for this podcast so I hope that you
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carry on listening to these
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podcasts hopefully we're going to be
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getting quite a few episodes out over
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the next few days but yeah I've got an
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exciting time coming up on Friday and
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I'm off to BBC gardeners world live if
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you remember last year I went for the
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first time last year at Birmingham
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indoor arena and it was absolutely huge
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I did not realize it was going to be
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that big it it's more than a day visit
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there you could go there for a couple of
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days it's absolutely massive and as well
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as the BBC Garden world there's BBC good
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food as well so there's all food stores
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as well which is absolutely fantastic
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and I just love tasting everything as
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you going around and just trying all the
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different foods there and obviously also
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meeting all the gardening influencers
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the gardening businesses down there at
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BBC garders world and if I can get some
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free samples off people I will do I'll
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give them a little plug here and there
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on my videos and on on here but yeah it
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is good to see and it's absolutely
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phenomenal and some of the times I
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probably wouldn't even recognize if
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there was a famous person there half of
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the time uh it's hard to recognize
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people in the face sometimes uh I did
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get a few people coming up to me saying
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oh yeah I'll Garden him with Ben last
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year so if you are there on Friday if
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you're in the UK at BBC garders World
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Live come and say hello to me I am 6'5
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so I'll Stand Out from the crowd and
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you'll be able to see me and it will be
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good to meet you and hopefully I have a
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look at some of the Fantastic gardens
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around there and get some ideas for my
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own plot as well as maybe purchasing
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some plants for down at the allotment
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and hopefully sharing some advice with
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other people as well there so like I
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said we have been busy over these last
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few days with everything that's going
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off I am going to be doing a few podcast
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episodes uh I'm going to record a few in
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advance so hopefully I'll have a few for
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the next few days to listen to and I
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