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and let's enjoy today's episode hello
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and welcome to gardening with Ben for a
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new episode well today it's Wednesday
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and yeah the weather has certainly been
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warming up it well it has here in
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Sheffield and unfortunately I was
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working yesterday so I didn't manage to
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get out in the nice warm weather but I'm
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off at the weekend and the weather looks
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like it's still going to be staying warm
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so that means time to get lots and lots
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of jobs done down at the allotment which
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I'm certainly looking forward to already
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and this nicer weather certain makes you
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feel hell of a lot better than the dark
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miserable days and yeah it really does
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help your mental health being out in the
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alotment and being in the garden in the
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fresh air now I am certainly feeling
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inspired now if you didn't see my post
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on Facebook and Instagram last night if
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you have not watched love your garden
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grow your own what was on ITV last night
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make sure you're watch watch it on
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catchup because it was a fantastic
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episode it was hosted by Alan TI Marsh
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and it had Kate G away in it as
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well and yeah it certainly inspired me
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more for my gardening and to try new
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things because Alan titch msh yeah he's
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been gardening for years and years and
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years he's one of the legendary
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gardening shows uh somebody that's been
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around for much longer than anyone else
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on the TV as you all know and he was
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turning his a plot of land on his garden
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into a kitun garden and obviously you
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think oh it's an IT Marshal know
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everything about gardening well he
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didn't he didn't know everything about
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growing veg which amazed me because he
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were planting seeds and plants that
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never heard of before or different
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varieties that he'd never seen before
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and it just go to show that full-time
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gardeners and celebrity gardeners don't
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know everything and he was showing new
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vegetables what he was trying he was
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trying some radish what are meant to be
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like watermelons when you cut inside
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them the color of them and yeah those
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absolutely
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failed he showed the results of him and
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they did absolutely rubbish uh but it
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was good because he was showing that not
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everything works when you do gardening
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not everything is successful and you can
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have failures when gardening and quite a
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lot of us do and sometimes these
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gardeners will only show you all the
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good things they won't show you the
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failures but Alan tich Marsh last night
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you were fantastic he was he just T said
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it how it was he wasn't using technical
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terms or anything like that he was
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straight down to the mark and that's
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what I get a lot of people saying to me
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that I'm not over the top with technical
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stuff with gardening it's all basic
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stuff what I talk
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about and that's what I find passionate
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about it I've not done any degrees on
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gardening or uh got any qualifications
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on it it's all stuff I've taught myself
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yes I do want to learn more about
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gardening and different stuff on
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gardening but I'll do that over time and
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I'll keep learning bits more all the
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time and that's what I'm doing as I'm
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doing these podcast I do look up stuff
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and I do research stuff and if there's a
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new vegetable that I'm trying to grow
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I'll read about it and I'll look it up
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and obviously then I'll feed it back to
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you as well and and he he were trying he
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tried some new strawberries uh which are
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called Pineberries and they were a white
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strawberry and you meant to plant them
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with red ones to help them pollinate
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them and yeah it never actually showed
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the results of them ones so whether they
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actually grew or not I don't know or
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whether I missed that bit in the episode
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but I know there pineapples as well what
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taste of pineapple as well I think
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they're the pine pine Berry ones but
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yeah these new varieties coming out all
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the time and he showed um these what are
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meant to be meter long beans what they
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grow in
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America and literally the plant was a
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little stub it did absolutely shocking
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it was a rubbish outcome whatsoever but
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it were great to see him try stuff and
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it fail uh because yeah stuff does not
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work all the time when
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gardening
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and he was showing that he was growing
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60 different varieties of fruit and
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vegetables in this small area and it was
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fantastic to see him making full use of
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all his garden and he'd not spent loads
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doing it all he just created some raised
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beds and filled them with compost and
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yeah it just gardened uh it didn't spend
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thousands of pounds doing it all up and
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getting it ready um it was quite basic
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but then he was explaining more about
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growing your own Tomatoes versus shop
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bought tomatoes and he did an example he
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cut a shop bought tomato in half and a
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tomato that he grew himself and he just
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showed the difference of what it looks
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like when you grow it and how juicy they
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are when you grow them because like you
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said in the show is that when you
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actually grow vegetables yourself you
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pick them when they're ripe and when
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they're most juiciest and ready whereas
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if you buy shop bought vegetables and
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fruit they pick them before they ripen
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and that is true when because they've
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got to pick them before they ripen so
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that they can send them and ship them
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over and they'll be ready in time for
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you to eat them because if they picked
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them when they were ripe they'd be
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rotten by the time you bought them so
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they wouldn't be ready and that is why
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homegrown fruit and vegetables taste so
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much nicer than the shop boo ones and it
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just goes for any sorts of vegetables
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and he was growing CET and he says yeah
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they don't look perfect shapes but
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you're not b buying them from a
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supermarket you've grown them yourself
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why do you have to have perfectly shaped
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fruit and
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vegetables to selling a shop and
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possibly the reason is because people
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only buy they're that used to
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seeing proper looking vegetables that
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they don't buy
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the uh disformed ones and I know one of
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the supermarkets um they started selling
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at wonky vegetables and there selling
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them cheaper rather than the farmers
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losing the money and wasting all the
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crops because they've grown wonky
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Farmers can't help it if something grows
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wonky or if it don't grow straight or if
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it grows a bit uneven and they waste
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loads and loads of vegetables chucking
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it away because it's not a perfect shape
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for the supermarkets to sell them and it
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just baffles me how much stuff is weting
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ed through growing your own stuff and
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there's a charity in Sheffield uh it's
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part of the Food Works I think it is and
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they ask allotments to grow one bed for
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them so that they can have the produce
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to help people that are struggling to
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buy meals and that are homeless and
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stuff like that and yeah it's a
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fantastic idea and and when you grow in
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your own veg you will have an abundance
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of stuff and you won't be able to eat it
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all so it's good to support Charities as
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well so that was Allan's own garden and
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then we then they started talking about
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Kate gay as well and as you will know
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Kate gay her husband was probably one of
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the worst survivors husbands from Co
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that survived a bad experience and is
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still suffering now and she was showing
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how much she's started getting into
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gardening and she's transformed her
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garden to make it
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more better for the mind to eat for
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aroma therapy and stuff like that and
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she created this Tea Garden so that she
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could use the herbs and bits in her
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Garden to make teas and stuff like that
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and make the full use of them and she'd
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also created a patch for um medicines
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and to use to make oils and she showed
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an example of where she growing some
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lavender and she dried the lavender out
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and then she put the lavender in with
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some vodka and she made her own room
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spray out of it and and she said it
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smell absolutely fantastic and I never
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knew that lavender
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was used in the olden days for
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antibacteria uh it you they used to use
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it and rub things down with it and it
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had been an
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antibacteria so it's stuff that I
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learned I learned so much from that TV
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show uh it was
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amazing and it was good to see as well
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uh she was planting stuff as well that
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I'd not heard of before and there was a
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berry what she planted called the
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honeyberry which I'm going to look into
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getting for my
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allotment um and it's meant to be like a
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cross between a blue bra and a raspberry
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I think it was something like that but
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it's crossed between two fruits and it's
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meant to be the three times better for
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you than a blueberry and blue
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blueberries are classed as one of the
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best fruits out there so I'm going to
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get one of these honey berries for my
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plot it certainly got me into getting
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them and it was fantastic I I I really
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can't speak highly of the episode
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um so much that I learned from it and
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also it was good to see Alan tit Mar Us
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in uh they showed you the seed packet is
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what he was uh that he used uh and some
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of them were advertised as the branding
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um obviously they got paid to advertise
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them ones which was suon seeds uh but
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some of the packets had a yellow bottom
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on them and I know those packets are
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from Kitchen Garden Magazine so it just
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go to show Alan TI Marsh get some from
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these uh magazines as well and one thing
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that he did point out from this episode
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is that
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he you can try growing stuff what you
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wouldn't see in the supermarkets
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varieties you would not see and that is
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the thing that I always go on about when
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I'm gardening is that you're growing
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stuff you wouldn't see in the
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supermarkets different varieties and
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that's why I tried the purple
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cauliflower because I got it free in a
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magazine and I absolutely loved it it
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grew tons better than the white
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cauliflower it was
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fantastic and one of my followers uh
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messaged me and asked me to send them a
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link to this purple caulifower because
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they could not see it online so I just
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searched through Amazon and sent them
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the
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link but it's good to
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see a celebrity like Al TI Marsh Getting
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Back to Basics and encouraging people to
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grow stuff on their allotments and in
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the garden now I put it out to my my
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Facebook followers and Instagram
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followers last night and said have you
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been watching it it's
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fantastic and obviously a lot of those
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on my Facebook and Instagram are Keen
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gardeners as well and they were just
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going on saying that there's so much to
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learn from gardening you never stop
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learning there's so much out there to
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learn and new stuff to learn and
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everybody was encouraged by this TV show
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it was so amazing
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and I I've just got to say that it's
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really good
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how they got inspired from it everybody
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in the Facebook comments was saying how
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much it's inspired them to get started
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in the garden and encouraging them to
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get going and Get Growing again and the
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sort of stuff what I saw in it it's
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certainly inspired me I'm going to be
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watching that episode again and making
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notes on it and trying to use some of
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the tips that Kate gay and Allen Marsh
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said in this episode and try and learn
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from it and try and do some of the
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things that they've grown in it as well
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so I'm going to be adding more things to
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my shopping list to add to my allotment
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so watch this space over the coming
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months as I try and get some more stuff
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for my plot and
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yeah I I I do recommend that you do
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watch this episode from last night uh
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you'll be able to find it on the ITV Hub
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uh if youve not uh seen it and yeah let
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me know if you watched it send me a
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night so far this year and I'm so amazed
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with how well it's coming on this year I
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can really concentrate on putting all
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this effort that I'm seeing on these TV
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shows and stuff like that into my
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allotment and reaping the benefits and
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I'm definitely looking forward to
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reaping the benefits this summer from my
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allotment now is the time to be putting
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in the effort into the plot and enjoying
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every minute of it the weather's getting
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nicer make the most of it get get out in
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the garden get out in the freshh air
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it's good for the mental health and good
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children encourage them and get them
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nurtured into
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gardening they may not seem
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fantastically interested at this time of
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life uh some may really enjoy it and
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love to pick the Harvest and the crops
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and get everything from it but then
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later on in life they'll think about it
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and they'll come back to it and they'll
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carry on doing what you taught them and
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that that's something that will last
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with them forever so get children
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gardening and get them enjoying it so
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