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Nov 14, 2024
📝 Explore New Gardening Ideas: Crafting Your Seed Lists for Garden and Allotment! It all starts with a seed… or several! Let’s build your perfect planting plan for the season ahead. 🌿📦 In this episode, I share tips on choosing the right seeds for your space, how to organise your seed lists, and ideas for trying something new on your plot this year. What’s a new variety you’re adding to your list? #SeedListPlanning #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #GardenPlanning #SowAndGrow
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welcome to gardening with Ben the
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FS I'm your host Ben here to guide you
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Growing With gardening with Ben hello
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endless possibilities of the Plant World
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favorites to the unusual plants and
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vegetables each episode will help you
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create your perfect seed list and
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encourage you to Branch out into
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Uncharted World whether you're a balcony
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Gardener or have acres to play with
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there's always something new to try so
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grab your notebooks grab your coffee and
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let's cultivate a spirit of Botanical
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Adventure this year so welcome back to
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Sunday's podcast and I hope you've
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listened to Saturdays there's new
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podcasts coming every day for the next
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few days so make sure you click that
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new podcasts come up so these podcasts
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are going to be recorded on a regular
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basis now and as you all have noticed
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we've had quite a few this year and
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certainly more than we had last year so
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they're back in full swing everybody's
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enjoying them the comments are been
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getting from people the message
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everybody is happy that the gardening
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podcasts are back and there's certainly
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a lot of you listening to them uh it's
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so amazing to seeing how many people
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listen to them uh the stats are
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phenomenal but thank you all for tuning
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back into these gardening podcasts and
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I'm glad we've got them all back up and
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running again there's plenty of podcast
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episodes on my playlist so make sure you
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have a listen to a all uh over 200 going
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into 300 soon but yeah there's plenty of
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podcast on there for you to listen to so
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if you're feeling bored have a listen
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and it all helps towards my allotment
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Journey so in today's podcast we're
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going to talk
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about
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seeds trying new things and making those
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seed lists for this year because it is
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getting to the time when we need to
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think about what we're going to be
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growing this year down in our allotments
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and
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Gardens so what I tend to do when I'm
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making my seed lists and planning for
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the year ahead we are talking a lot
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about planning over these podcasts
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because it is time to do all the
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planning ready for this year so it is a
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big subject to talk about and rather
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than putting a massive episode and
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putting them all into separate episodes
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for you to listen to each
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day so what I usually do when I make my
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seed list is I'll write down all the
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seeds which I'm definitely going to grow
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uh which are my general ones which are
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usually sweet corn
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corett pumpkins beeto
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lettuce
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um cabbages cauliflowers so yeah and
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Runa beans and peas all the general
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normal ones which you will tend to grow
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every year down at the plot and whether
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it's to do
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with using the same varieties that you
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used to to that have grown well in the
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past or whether it's trying new
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varieties what have come out and a lot
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of the time when you're buying your
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seeds if you're looking in places like
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Wilkers well it's not well Wilkers is
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just starting to come back but it's
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wilker seat to now in the range if
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you've not noticed that so if you've got
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a range near you they've got wco seeds
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in or places like BQ or garden
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centers they'll tend to just have have
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the general seeds which everybody knows
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about they don't tend to have the weird
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and the wonderful ones which nobody's
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ever
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tried and are sometimes the nicer ones
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to grow to be
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honest so sometimes when you're wanting
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to try out these weird and wonderful
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varieties the best way of looking for
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them is sometimes in on gardening
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websites you'll find different varieties
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and different fit plants to try to grow
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down at your alotment or in the garden
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or another way is ordering a Seed
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Catalog and from like well-known brands
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of seeds and often they'll have sections
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where there's new varieties to try
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or varieties which you've never even
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heard of or vegetables you've never even
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heard of um that is the best way to try
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and find new stuff to grow down at the
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alotment and trying these weird and
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wonderful varieties is a sometimes a lot
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better to be honest because I I've used
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this tip uh comment many of times is
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that I want tried growing purple
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cauliflower down at my allotment because
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I tried white cauliflower and I never
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got good results so I thought I'm going
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to try purple cauliflower uh i' got a
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packet of seeds given to me so I gave
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him them a try and they were the best
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cauliflowers that I've ever grown in my
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life down at my alment so since then
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I've stuck to growing purple
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cauliflowers and the results of them
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were absolutely fantastic and I'll never
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go back to Growing white ones now I'll
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just stick to the purple variety and
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maybe I'll try growing the purple
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brussel sprouts because they may taste a
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lot nicer than the green
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ones but we never know but yeah that is
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a 10 to think one thing that I tend to
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try and do uh when doing allotments is
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trying new stuff every year down at the
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plot I like to try something different
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each year down at the
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plot whether it be new varieties of
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squash or different varieties of squash
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different types of beans different
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colored beetroots different colored
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radishes it's always good to try new
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stuff and that's what I've done over the
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past few years like last year I grew
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different varieties of squash which were
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fun interesting trying loads of
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different types of squash like your
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butternut squash your turkey squash your
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pumpkins your
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um yeah everything all different types
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and varieties and then one year I tried
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different types of beans I got yellow
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beans I've got purple beans I've got
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black beans uh I've got the normal green
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beans and and it will good to try all
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different varieties so what different
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thing are you going to try and grow at
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your plot this year if you've got an
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idea of growing something different that
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you've never tried before let me know
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send me a message it's always good to
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hear what people are wanting to try and
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grow down at
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developments so it's good ways of trying
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different things and another way that I
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try new things is that I have gardening
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magazines and I have the kitchen Garden
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Magazine and the grow your own magazine
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and in those grow magazines you usually
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get 10 packets of seeds in each magazine
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so imagine getting those magazines 12
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times a year that's 120 packets in one
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magazine over so it's like 240 packets
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of seeds in a year and there'll be
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plenty of stuff in them seed packets
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that you would never go into the shop
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and purchase that packet of seeds
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because you'd think I'm not spending
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that money on them seeds when I don't
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need them and obviously you do get them
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with the
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magazines so it's a good way of trying
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new stuff and in these magazines there
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are some unusual stuff that come with
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them some stuff that you would never
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actually try and taste or try and grow
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but usually what I do with these seeds
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is that I try them I just sew them I
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have nothing to lose obviously I've paid
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for the magazine and it's paid for the
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seats so I might as well just sprinkle
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them into some compost see if they come
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plant them out and fill up a gap on the
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allotment Garden you're not losing any
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money by planting them so you can try
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them and you never know you might
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absolutely love and try them so if
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you're wanted to try different types of
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seeds this year is my advice is get them
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magazines grow your own and kitchen
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Garden Magazine and you'll get plenty of
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varieties to trying them or again go
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through the seed catalogs and put across
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an extra everything that you want to try
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this year and give it a try it's nothing
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to lose if you do fail you can try and
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try again I've been trying and trying
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again with carrots every year but one
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year I will grow some good carrots and
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when I do grow some good carrots you
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will see that picture coming every day
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on my Instagram
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profile I'll be showing off that carrot
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to the rest of the world and hopefully
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we'll get a good result coming through
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so yeah
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yesterday we talked about making plans
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for your weekend and making those lists
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for down at the allotment today we've
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been talking about making the list of
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seeds what we're going to grow for the
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year and I think it's been a productive
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weekend this weekend and hopefully
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tomorrow's episode we'll be talking
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about catching up with gardening with
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Ben what have we been up to at the
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alotment what have we been up to what
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have we been doing because we're being
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off the last 3 days so we've got
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hopefully got plenty of work done I have
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pre-recorded this episode before I've
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been to the alment on Saturday and
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Sunday um but the catch up with
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gardening with Ben will be recorded on
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Sunday so then it will be up to date and
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you'll be able to find out exactly what
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I've been up to down at the plot and you
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will all be up to date with as far as
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I'm up to date so I hope you've enjoyed
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today's podcast remember to do click
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next time remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep guarding him with Ben
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everyone and that wraps up another
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episode of gardening with Ben thank you
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for joining me in this journey remember
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every seed planted is a step towards a
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Greener World and every day is a chance
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to grow something beautiful keep
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nurturing your Gardens and your souls
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until next time I'm gardening with Ben
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reminding you to let your garden be your
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Sanctuary happy gardening and see you in
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the next episode remember keep smiling
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keep shining and keep gardening with Ben
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