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This video explains the benefits of growing your own vegetables at home and why homegrown produce is useful for beginners. Learn how growing food improves freshness, reduces waste and helps you understand seasonal eating.
The guide discusses the advantages of home gardening, including control over how food is grown, healthier produce and the satisfaction of harvesting crops yourself. It also explains how starting small can make growing food simple and manageable.
If you are thinking about starting a vegetable garden, this video provides an introduction to why growing your own food can be rewarding and practical.
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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 we'll dig into tips
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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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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 hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's Thursday
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morning and well if you're listening
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straight away it's Thursday morning that
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it is but if you're listening later
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obviously it's maybe not be Thursday but
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it is Thursday and yeah we're getting
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ever closer to that weekend and I can't
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wait I'm starting to write my list
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starting to think about what I'm going
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to be doing down on the allotment and
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planning my weekend out down
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there and one of uh I said i' talk about
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my daily real of the day what I usually
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post and yesterday's what went up last
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night wow that is a good one and the
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question on the real is do you share
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your homegrown produce with your friends
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and family now certain stuff yeah I'll
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share that endlessly like my lettuce my
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rhubarb
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my
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apples everything apart from
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strawberries and sweet corn I won't
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share them with anyone even if it's my
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mom even if it's my sister I won't share
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my my strawberries and sweet corn with
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anyone because they are my two favorite
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things that I grow on the alotment and
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you can never grow enough sweet corn and
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you can never grow enough
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strawberries like I said I've got 200
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plants on my alotment so I I get plenty
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of strawberries but I don't share them
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because they're absolutely delicious and
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the thing is we like strawberries and
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sweet corn once you've grown them
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they've gone if you get my like you'll
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eat them pretty much straight away and
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get them all all
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eaten but yeah there's certain stuff
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like you will share loads of it with
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family and friends and sometimes they'll
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have enough of it they'll get I think I
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hope you don't fetch me any more
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cett because you can certainly have too
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many corett and people get fed up with
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them after a while but certain stuff I
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will keep for myself I don't share some
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of it out obviously because it is quite
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expensive in shops and supermarkets
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certain stuff so I'm pretty much one for
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keep it for myself and enjoying it
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because I've put all the hard work into
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doing it and yeah why not enjoy the
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rewards from the
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allotment so what are we going to be
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talking about in today's podcast what's
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today's podcast theme of the
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day so today's podcast theme is why
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should we start an allotment why should
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we start growing our own produce yes
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we've not talked about this like this is
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one topic we've not actually talked
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about we've talked about like who I am
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and why I got started and everything but
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why should we start growing our own
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produce and yeah when you go to the
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supermarket you'll find certain stuff
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pretty cheap to
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buy like your Tomatoes you'll get a load
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of tomatoes for a pound or something
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like that but yeah loads of stuff are
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pretty cheap certain stuff fair enough
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the not cheap like your black Brees your
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rhubarb your corett your marrow your
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pumpkins there there's certain stuff out
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there that are quite expensive and more
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and more stuff is getting more and more
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expensive especially like the fruit and
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vegetables uh they're getting quite
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expensive to purchase now
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so why should we start growing an
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allotment like I got my allotment and
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the first things that I planted on my
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allotment was my rhubarb plants which
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I've got 16 crowns in of rhubarb I've
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got my Plum Tree I've got my apple tree
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which is a cooking apple tree and I've
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got some eating apple trees and yeah
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those were the first things that I put
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in and my raspberries as well
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and they pay for my allotment in
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themselves because cooking apples are so
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expensive to buy and like I said rubab
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is so expensive to buy like you'll go to
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the supermarket and it they'll be like
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three sticks for2 you think rub Bar's
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one of the easiest things to grow out a
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lot of
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them but yeah it's so expensive to
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buy
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so the reasons why you should start an
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allotment or growing your own in your
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garden I believe is that yes it can be
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more expensive in some cases
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some cases can be more expensive but
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some cases it can be hell of a lot
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cheaper like for a packet of lettuce
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seeds it'll cost you like 50 pens and
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you'll get a th seats in there most of
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them literally all of them will
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germinate lce seats uh easy to germinate
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and they take no trouble in growing
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whatsoever so you can have so many Letts
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from just 50 pens and it won't hardly
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cost you a penny maybe it'll cost you a
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bit for the compost of for the water
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depends if you uh how much you pay for
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your water and stuff like that but
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certain stuff it's worth it like my
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allotment for a year costs me1 pound a
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year my allotment cost and that includes
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water as well so if it didn't include
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water it would probably be about 60
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pound uh but Council allotments are a
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bit more money than private allotments
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but but yeah we've got uh
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would pay about1 pound of it and like I
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said out of them plants what I grow my
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rhubard my cooking apples my plums my
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raspers I make my money back on my
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allotment I don't sell them we're not
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allowed to sell produce on the allotment
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that is one of the rules you're not
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allowed to make profit from uh selling
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stuff on the allotment so we don't I
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don't sell anything personally but to
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have bought that food from the
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supermarket wow it had cost me
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absolutely loads and with the amount of
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black I've been having off and my
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raspberries I get so much it pays for it
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over and over again so it does work out
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a lot cheaper in certain aspects certain
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stuff and obviously some other stuff
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might not be as cheap like if a crop
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fails and it don't do very well you have
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wasted a lot of money and yeah I grow my
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potatoes in boxes which uses a lot of
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compost and the compost is a lot of
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money to purchase and and that'll
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probably be cheaper to buy potatoes from
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the shop than is to grow them in boxes
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but the taste feser the organic you know
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what you've put into that to grow it you
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know all the chemicals that I've gone in
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which have been nothing probably like me
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I don't put no chemicals in my growing
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and yeah they taste absolutely delicious
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so much better
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and obviously growing your own uce as
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well you are outside in the fresh air
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like if I lived in a house and I got my
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own garden or Greenhouse I'd be in there
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every night just potting up and growing
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stuff like that but unfortunately I've
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got an alotment I live in a flat so I've
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not got a greenhouse or a garden but I'd
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love to be in my garden all night just
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like pottering around and potting stuff
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up and taking cuttings and growing stuff
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and experimenting and streaming all the
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time while I'm in my garden but
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unfortunately I can't do
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that but there's so much benefit out of
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going in the garden and being in the
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fresh air and I've talked about it in
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like my mental health podcasts that the
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you there it is proven that when you
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putting your hands in the soil and
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you're reaching in and the there's
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something in it what gives you
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endorphins to make you feel better and
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more happy in being out in the garden
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and obviously there's no sounds around
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all you're hearing is the birds the
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planes maybe a bit of traffic or
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something like that but where my
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allotment is is absolutely peaceful and
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there's no traffic around it's
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absolutely fantastic and the only noises
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around are the birds and it's just so
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nice to switch off and be at peace
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nothing to disturb you if you want to
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turn your mobile phone off while you're
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there or put it on do not disturb or
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silence and you've got nothing around
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you you've got no worries nobody
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disturbing you you're just there
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enjoying doing what you want yourself so
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there is so much benefit into growing
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your own produce and if you aren't
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growing your own produce I do recommend
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it like people say oh I've not got much
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of a garden I can't grow much in my
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garden because it's not very big or I
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only live in a
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flat with a little balcony I can't grow
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anything on my balcony yes you can
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there's so many opportunities out there
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if you've got a small garden or if
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you've got a balcony to grow stuff on
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your balcony there's so many different
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methods of growing produce and getting
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the best of it the only person who says
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they can't grow anything in there flat
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is me because I've not got a
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balcony but
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yeah there's so much benefit to growing
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and starting an alotment or starting a
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kitchen Garden or starting your no dig
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bed but if you're thinking about doing
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it give it a go I'm always around to
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share tips and advice and ask questions
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too so if you've got any questions feel
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free to drop me a question on Instagram
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and I've started putting my links to my
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other social media in the description
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now so if you're not following me on any
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of the other social medias please do
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give me a follow
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and I post different stuff on different
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platforms like I've sharing daily
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questions on YouTube I'm sharing blogs
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on YouTube and on Facebook but yeah I'm
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sharing so much at the moment and the
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content just keeps on coming out at the
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moment I'm just pushing it and pushing
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it and pushing it one day I will be
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famous one day you will see me on Garden
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this world what one can only hope
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but that is a reason why we should start
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an allotment the mental health the taste
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of the produce being out in the fresh
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air switching off and enjoying being at
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peace and obviously the fresh produce
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and the delicious taste of it once you
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have harvested
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it so if you've enjoyed this podcast
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everyone please do give it a like please
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do leave a comment below and let me know
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as well uh send me a message and let me
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know if you share your produce with any
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any body or you like me you save all
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your strawberries and your sweet corn or
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do you have a favorite one that you save
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what you don't share with anyone let me
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know so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep guarding with bed
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everyone thank you for joining me on
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this episode of gardening with Ben I
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inspiration for your own gardening and
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