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This video explains how to choose seeds and plan what to grow in a garden or allotment. It shows how selecting suitable crops helps create a productive and manageable growing season.
The guide covers considering space, growing conditions, harvest timing and crop variety, along with tips for organising seeds and planning sowing schedules. It also explains how careful planning helps avoid overcrowding and improves harvest results.
If you are preparing for the growing season, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice on seed selection and garden planning.
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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 allotment 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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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and alotment 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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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's finally the
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weekend the weekend is finally here I'm
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sure these weeks seem to be getting
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longer I hope you've all been enjoying
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the podcast this week we've been doing
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them a little bit different we've been
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talking about little different topics
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every single day I hope you've all
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enjoyed them we recorded them all in two
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days and we scheduled them all for the
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week so I hope you've all been enjoying
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them as I do like to get them on nice
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and early for you to listen to while
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you're either waking up going to work
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getting ready walking the dog or while
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you're in the garden or having your
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morning Brew either way I hope that
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you're enjoying all your podcast that
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you're listening to so today's podcast
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is going to be talking about what we're
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hoping to get up to at the allotment
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this weekend and the reason why I'm
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laughing is because I recorded an
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episode last week saying what I wanted
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to get up to at the allotment and
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literally I did rubbish I didn't do a
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single thing down there I went there but
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I didn't do much
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whatsoever but yeah fingers crossed we
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have got the motivation to do something
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this weekend well it was absolutely
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awful last week and the weather was
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horrendous it was raining on the
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Saturday and then we had the storm on
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the Sunday so yeah it an absolute wash
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out last weekend so we didn't get
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anything done down there but we do have
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those days where we don't want to do
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anything where we just like to maybe
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just pop down to the Garden just have a
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look and evaluate and decide what we're
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going to be doing in the future well
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last weekend as you know like I said it
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was storm last weekend and we did get
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some damaged to our shed it took a bit
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of a brunt of the wind and speaking to
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my dad he's repaired it and fixed it all
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so it's all going to last another week
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fingers crossed it lasts longer than
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that but yeah it's all repaired and it's
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all hopefully a bit more waterprof we've
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got no no extra windows in there that's
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not
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needed so hopefully we can crack on with
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some allotment work this weekend I've
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not actually checked the weather
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forecast this weekend but if it's like
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today it's not been too bad it's been a
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bit drizzly but hopefully we can get
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some work done
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outside however I have been ordering a
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load of seeds this week and they're all
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just starting to arrive which is
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fantastic as I had an Amazon gift
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voucher for 50 which I wanted to spend
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and like I said each year I like to try
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and grow something new and different
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varieties of things and next year I'm
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thinking of growing well I am going to
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I'm going to be growing different
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varieties of poppies as they're
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absolutely beautiful obviously they
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provide seed heads and you can get some
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amazing flowers year after year from
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them because they just throw the seeds
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out everywhere and hopefully provide
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blooms year after year so I've purchased
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lots of different varieties of poppy
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seeds so I'm looking forward to seeing
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what Delights I'm going to get from them
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obviously you can sprinkle poppies
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straight into the ground to grow in the
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ground or you can start them off in seed
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trays I'm going to be starting all mine
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off in seed trays and getting them
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started that way and that way I know
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where I'm going to be planting them in
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between certain areas and do it like
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that and then I know that when they're
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growing they're not actual weeds that
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are growing CU I tend to just dig up
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anything that's growing to be honest so
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hopefully we get some amazing poppies
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next year so hopefully over the weekend
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we're going to be I'll share some photos
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of all the seeds what I've ordered and
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which ones we'll be trying and I may
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even look at uh doing some with
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different flowers as well different
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varieties of other flowers so if you got
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any good suggestions on good flowers to
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grow and the ones that I've not tried
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before let me know send me a message I'd
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love to hear from you and see what sort
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of things to try and grow cuz I'm always
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up for experimenting down at the
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allotment so what are we hoping to do
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down at the allotment this weekend well
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my main task is going to be starting to
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carry on with sorting my shed out ready
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for next year I know obviously I've had
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all the repairs to do which dad's done
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for me so that's one job less done uh
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but I need to start sorting out some of
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the shelving the old plants what are
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growing in there sort out the plants
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which are growing ready for next year in
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there I've got plenty of different
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flowers currently growing in there at
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the moment so I'm looking forward to
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hopefully keeping them alive throughout
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the winter period and hopefully getting
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them planted outside next year as my
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Greenhouse isn't heated it's just a shed
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and it's not insulated which it probably
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should be but yeah hopefully we can keep
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them alive and keep them growing cuz
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we've got some loopings in there we've
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got some sweet peas in there and yeah
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hopefully we a head start ready for next
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year and I've got all my Salvia cuttings
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as well in there so I'm looking forward
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to all them growing next year so we're
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continuing with tidying up my shed but
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if the weather's decent I'm going to be
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outside around my strawberry bed area
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and I've got some carrots still in a tub
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with which have not harvested yet I'm
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not expecting big things from them
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because I forgot about them and I didn't
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water them all summer so I don't know
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how well they're going to look or if
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I've got any carrots whatsoever but
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we'll have to see and hopefully get them
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harvested and have a look and obviously
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I'll share my results with you I'm never
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shy on sharing failures or success so
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make sure you stay tuned for that on
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Instagram and I'll share a picture of
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that as well and obviously we're going
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to hopefully do some more videos I've
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not done any videos for a while uh of
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for my YouTube channel and my Facebook
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and Instagram as I like to
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do nice longish YouTube videos because
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sometimes it's all right speaking and
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people listening to me but I do like to
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show visual as well so then people can
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see what I'm actually on about so
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hopefully I'll do a few more videos as
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well for you next uh this weekend ready
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to share with you all for next week so
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yeah we've got a lot to be getting on
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with down at the allotment and hopefully
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obviously we'll be fe uh filling the
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bird feeders as well that's one job that
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we need to do and we'll be feeding Mrs
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cat that lives down there and Pops down
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to see us regular we'll be feeding her
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as well so we've got absolutely loads to
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do I've also got my onion seeds come
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through as well so I don't know if I
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should be sewing them yet this month or
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wait until it says on the packet which
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is February uh I do know a lot of
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gardeners that do like onions for show
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and for competitions to start them off
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in December so let me know send me a
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message if I should be starting them now
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if I want some decent big onions and
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I'll start them this month and we can
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share how well they're getting on and
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I've also got some sweet peppers as well
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come through the post and some Au jeans
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so we've got to get them started soon
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because the quicker we get them started
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hopefully they'll get some fantastic
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produce on next year because they only
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just started putting produce on towards
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the end of the summer so they're a bit
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late the plants I started the plants off
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too late I think so we need to start the
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plants off pretty early ready for next
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year to have hopefully a great harvest
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from them
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all so yeah we're going to be having a
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lot of new episodes coming up over the
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coming week of the podcast and
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tomorrow's episode we'll be talking
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about everything that we've got up to at
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the allotment today so make sure you
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stay tuned for tomorrow's episode and
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you'll be able to find out if we've
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actually done any work this weekend so
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until next time everyone remember keep
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smiling keep shining and keep gardening
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