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🎙️ What’s Growing in January: Updates from Gardening with Ben 🌱
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Jan 19, 2025
🎙️ What’s Growing in January – Updates from Gardening with Ben! It may be winter, but the allotment still has life! ❄️🌿 In this episode, I’m sharing what’s growing on the plot this month, how things are surviving the cold, and what early sowings are underway. What’s thriving in your garden right now? #GardeningWithBen #JanuaryGrowing #AllotmentUpdate #WinterGarden #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #GardeningPodcast
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welcome to gardening with Ben your go-to
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2025 whether you are a seasoned Gardener
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Bloom with life from allotment
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let's get started on this year's
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gardening
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode for you to listen to on this
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Sunday morning when it's meant to be
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actually starting to warm up today
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fingers crossed hopefully all that snow
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and ice will melt away because I've been
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stuck in my flat all week and I need to
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get out so I'm hopefully going to go out
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today and hopefully go down to the
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allotment I'm not going to do any work
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down there but uh I'm just going to make
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sure that my bird feeders are filled up
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because they'll have eaten all the bird
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feed that I put out last weekend so
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hopefully we can fill those bird feeders
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up and get them eating again like I said
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in my previous episode I'm going to
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invest in some squirrel prooof bird
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feeders so they're like10 each but hope
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hopefully we'll be able to get some of
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those and hopefully stop them eating all
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the seed not that I don't mind them
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eating it but when they eat it all it
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costs a lot of money to keep filling
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them up every single day so we need to
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get some of those on order hopefully in
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the next few weeks so yeah hopefully I'm
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down on the allotment today hopefully
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filling those bird feeders up and
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obviously feeding the cat as well my
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dad's been feeding that every day for
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those that wondering as we've got an
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allotment cat down there and it pops
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into my shed and yeah we give it some
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food every single day he's even going
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down even when it's been snowing and bad
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weather so good on him to keep feeding
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that cat obviously there's plenty
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of food around for it with the mice and
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the birds and stuff like that we've seen
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a few pigeon feathers around so
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obviously it's keeping uh plenty of food
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and keeping
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healthy so yeah what have we been up to
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well in yesterday's episode I going to
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tell you I said I going to tell you all
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about what I've got growing at home at
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the moment so the things that I've got
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growing at home are my onions my Peppers
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my
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chilies and some orber jeene that's what
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we've got growing at the moment at home
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and my onions are all starting to pop
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through my peppers and my chilies have
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not started sprouting yet like I said is
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that peppers and chilies need a
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temperature of about 25 degrees to
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germinate which is very hot it's h a
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very hot germination rate and obviously
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you can usually start them off in your
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allotment in like April time but last
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year when I saw them they were only just
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fru in around September time so they
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were very behind so we're starting them
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off really early to try and get ahead of
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the game and hopefully get some decent
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Peppers off the this year because I want
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to try and give them a good grow go in
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growing I'm also going to grow some
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melons this year so I'm looking forward
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to Growing them and sharing with you how
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well we get on with the melon growing
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I'm going to be growing loads of
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different stuff to say that I'm only
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going to be down there two days a week
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this
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year I'm going to try and put a lot of
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effort in it show you how well and how
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accomplished you can actually be we've
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going to the allotment for two days a
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week obviously all my allotments cleared
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and tided and don't need to do any work
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on it so it's case of just growing and
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keeping on top of things so my allotment
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is pretty sorted I've had it for about
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20 years now so we're pretty on top of
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it obviously we've got maintenance work
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and bits and Bobs to do but we are on
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top of getting it all tidied and ready
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so yeah I'm excited about that and we're
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not going to be starting any other seeds
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off at the moment we won't be starting
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out over seeds off till end of March
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Time beginning of April time some
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sometimes you get like a week's Heat
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Wave which you have to watch out for
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because when it comes that's when I
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start thrwing all my
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seat to get them all growing and
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germinated cuz I haven't got a heated
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Greenhouse or anything like that so I
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have to wait for the heat uh heat wave
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to come and get them started but I'm
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also going to try and grow a few Citrus
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plants at home as that's one thing I
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want to give another try I've done it
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before but I forgot to water it before
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and I ended up killing it off so I've
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got some grapefruit seeds the other week
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uh from out of a grapefruit so I've
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saved them so I'm going to try and grow
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some grapefruit I don't think we'll be
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getting any grapefruit on them and I
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also got some satsumas as well so I'm
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going to try and grow some of those and
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see how well we get on you never know if
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we have a massive Heat Wave we might get
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some on them but I I really do doubt it
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and I'm going to try and grow some lemon
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again I've grown lemon uh plants before
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like I said but forgot to water them so
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they
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died but I've got a secret way of
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getting the seeds to germinate and grow
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so I'll be sharing that with you all
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when we get them all started and
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hopefully get them germinated hopefully
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it works and I'm not proven wrong but
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the last time I germinated my lemon
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seeds I managed to get them to germinate
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within a fortnite so hopefully we can
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work do that trick on the grapefruit and
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on the satsumas as well and get them
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growing
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so yeah I'm looking forward to doing
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that and I just want to try a loads of
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different things this year and I put a
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post out on Facebook the other day
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saying about obviously it's cold weather
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it's uh frozen over and everything like
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that but now is a perfect time to be
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planning and writing down all the seeds
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that you want to grow this year and
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making a plan of your allotment and
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garden and showing what you want to grow
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where and how you're going to grow it or
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if you're going to draw any improvements
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on it what you want to do and bits like
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that and I've got so many sweet peas
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growing in my shed in my uh alotment
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hopefully they're still alive hopefully
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the cold weather's not killed them off
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hopefully they're still going to grow
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but we'll see we'll see fingers crossed
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they will uh knowing my look when I go
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down to the alotment tomorrow they'll
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all be
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dead but like I always say I'm an open
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and honest Gardener I tell you how it is
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and how well I'm growing I'm not one of
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these uh gardeners that just show you
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all the good things I show you all the
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bad things as well because then it uh
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makes it more relatable to everybody
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because people think well they always
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seem to manage to get them to grow well
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no I
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don't but yeah I love being open and
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honest with
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everybody so we'll be trying lots of
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different things this year we still got
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to make our seed list uh I've got a load
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of things in my Amazon uh shopping cart
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of what I want to buy uh in my shopping
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cart I've been looking at flower seeds
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at the moment uh cuz I want to try load
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different flowers a lot of my vegetable
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seeds I tend to get them from uh wil
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Wilkers which is obviously now in the
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range so if you've got a range near you
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have a look at their wilker seeds
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because they're usually pretty cheap and
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they usually germinate pretty well I
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usually have good success with them uh
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so I'll be doing all my vegetable seeds
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from there but my flower seeds I like to
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look all different unusual vegetables
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which we probably won't see in a garden
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center uh I tend to get them off Amazon
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or from a seed supplier and at the
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moment in my Amazon shopping cart I've
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got a load more even though I've got
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loads of sweet peas growing I've got a
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load more different varieties of sweet
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peas in my shopping cart I've literally
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gone through every different variety and
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put them in my shopping cart CU I want
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to try as many different varieties of
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sweet peas as possible this year I've
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also done the same for sunflowers I've
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got different varieties of sunflowers
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and different varieties of geraniums as
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well uh did have poppies in my shopping
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cart but I've ordered all them we've got
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all them we've got loads of different
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varieties of poppies so I'm trying lots
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and lots of different varieties of stuff
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this year so it'll be exciting to see so
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fingers crossed it they all grew and we
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hopefully get some good displays for you
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all some good pictures because if not
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it'll be a big waste of
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money but I don't care about losing out
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on money on my allotment and garden it's
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just about being outside enjoying it
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learning new things giving it try and if
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it fails it fails but yeah I absolutely
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love being outside in the garden and
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that's a thing I've
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missed uh this weekend is not being out
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in the garden and being able to do stuff
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but I've been concentrating on other
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stuff I've got these podcasts back I've
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been sharing posts on my Facebook page
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uh about what to plan and what jobs need
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doing and stuff like that so I'm been
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pushing out my social media instead and
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keeping everyone
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updated so if you don't follow me on my
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social media channels give me a follow
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on Instagram and Facebook just search
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for gardening with Ben and you'll see
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all my posts and updates on there so
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yeah that is hopefully what we're going
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to be getting up to today on Sunday
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obviously I've pre-recorded this episode
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before I've gone down to my allotment
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and hopefully we're going to have be
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able to get onto the plot if not I'll
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park away from the allotment and walk
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down to the plot because I do want to
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get down there and I do want to have a
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little look around and get some nice
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wintry pictures as well that would be
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nice so yeah hopefully I'll get down to
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the allotment and hopefully get some
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stuff
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done so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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