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Autumn Gardening Unboxing | Discover Our Simply Seed Bulb & Veg Hamper for Fall Planting!
Oct 11, 2025
This video shares an autumn gardening unboxing where I open a Simply Seed bulb and vegetable hamper and show exactly what is included. I go through the different seeds and bulbs, talk about what I’ll be planting, and explain how they fit into seasonal planting plans.
A great watch for gardeners looking for inspiration, new varieties to try, and ideas on what to grow during the autumn planting season.
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We have had a huge delivery from Simply
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Seed. Welcome to Gardening with Ben. And
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today I'm going to show you massive
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delivery what we've had from Simply Seed
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to suit all our autumn needs down here
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at the a lotment. So I'm going to be
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busy this weekend and the weekends to
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come to get all these in as fast as
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possible and get them growing down here
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at the a lotment. I don't tend to grow
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much stuff through the winter, but this
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is encouraging me to get growing and get
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planting. So, yeah, let's see what we've
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got in this huge box from Simply Seed.
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So, first up, we have got some autumn
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champion onions. Nice big bag full
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there. So, we'll get plenty of onions to
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harvest in June, July time. We have got
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some shellots yellow moon. Nice big bag
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full.
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So, yeah, they're going to go in and get
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planted.
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So much to plant this weekend. Now, we
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have got some red winter onions.
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We'll see how they go. So, lots of
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onions to keep us going. We have got
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some
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province garlic, a nice big garlic bulb
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there. We'll get lots of cloves off that
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and get those planted. We have got some
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garland, purple garlic. Two cloves of
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that. So, we'll get them in as well. We
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have got some elephant garlic as well.
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Look at the size of those. Absolutely
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huge. And did you know that elephant
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garlic isn't actually garlic? It's part
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of the leak family. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Roasted. So, if you want to grow some
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nice garlic, elephant garlic is the one
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to grow.
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Then my favorite thing which I
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absolutely love on the plot and that is
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spring bulbs. I absolutely love spring
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bulbs because it attracts the bees in
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the springtime when they wake up from
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hibernation. Gives them the energy that
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they need to get started for the year
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ahead. We have got some tulips avante
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grande 25 of those. So we're going to
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plant all these uh spring bulbs in our
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new area that I've been doing over the
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last few weeks which you'll have seen
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obviously. you plant towards the end of
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October because you don't want to get
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tulip fire. So that is the time to plant
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them. End of October, beginning of
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November. We got some tulip pretty
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princess. 15 bulbs of those. Absolutely
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loads of tulips. It's going to look
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absolutely gorgeous down here on the
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other. And then a huge bag of white
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daffodils. No, these are mixed ones.
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Mixed daffodils. Mixed daffodils we've
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got here. So lots of daffodils to plant.
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I love daffodil. Absolutely gorgeous,
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underestimated, and absolutely a great
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addition to the garden. Then we have got
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some feed to feed our onions with. Now,
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onions do need feed to help them get
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bigger and swell and get a decent size
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onion. So, we can feed our onions and
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our garlic with this. So, we're going to
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be feeding them throughout the winter
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period and hopefully get some decent
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sized crops.
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Then, it doesn't end there.
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When you think It's all over. It's
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certainly not. We have got some seeds as
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well to plant cuz there's quite a few
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seeds that we can plant as well this
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month. Uh we've got some rocket that
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there for growing next year. We've got
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some cauliflower clipper which you can
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sew in October. So we can sew those now
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and then it says plant out in March to
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April. So I'm guessing we sew them now
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and grow them in the poly and then plant
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them out in March to April time. We'll
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have to look more into that. Then one of
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my favorite flowers of all time, the
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sweet pea.
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Now, you can start them off next year,
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but you can actually start sweet peas
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off in autumn and then plant them out
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next year. They will produce earlier
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flowers and you'll get more flowers
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growing throughout the year. And yeah,
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they'll get to a decent size and growth
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before planting out. and they will grow
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a lot better and a lot stronger if you
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burn them through the winter and plant
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them out next year. We've got some
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mustard. We can plant them next year.
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We've got some spring onion and you can
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actually sew them now and they'll be
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ready for springtime. So, I might grow
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them in the poly tunnel and have them
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growing in there.
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We've got some salad leaves which we can
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grow all year round. Another good one to
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grow in the poly tunnel through the
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winter period. Then we've got some
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cabbage region site there to sew next
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year. So we'll sew them next year.
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Then we've got some broad beans. I
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planted some of them last week, but we
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can start another bed off and get those
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growing. Growing broad beans in the
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autumn period is better because they're
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ready to harvest before the blackfly
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appear. Obviously blackfly absolutely
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love broad beans. If you start them off
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in March time, they use ver June July
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time will be covered in blackfly.
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Whereas if you sew these now, they'll be
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ready before the blackfly appear. And
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then I did mention in my seed video for
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October that I've never grown peas
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throughout the winter period. And you
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can actually sew these ones in November.
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They're called pee. So yeah, we might
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grow some peas throughout the winter
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period as well. So an absolutely massive
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haul from Simply Seed. Thank you so much
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for sending this package out and it's
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going to keep me busy this winter and
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keep me growing and keep me going
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definitely for the next few weekends
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down here at the plot. So, we best stop
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this video. We best get gardening. Well,
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we've got to clear those beds first and
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get them all planted. So, make sure you
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stay tuned for the videos of us growing
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