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This video explains beginner gardening tips to help you start a garden successfully. Learn the basic steps including choosing a growing location, preparing soil, watering correctly and selecting easy plants for beginners.
The guide covers common mistakes new gardeners make and how to avoid them, along with simple techniques that improve plant survival and healthy growth. These methods work for gardens, raised beds, containers and small outdoor spaces.
If you are new to gardening and want a clear starting point, this video provides practical advice to help you grow plants with confidence.
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get it done welcome to gardening with
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Ben your go-to podcast for all things
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green and growing in
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20205 whether you are a seasoned
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Gardener a budding Enthusiast or just
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curious about cultivating your own slice
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of nature you're in the right place join
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me Ben as we explore practical tips
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inspiring stories and the latest trends
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in gardening to make your outdoor space
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Bloom with life from alotment Adventures
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to Wildlife friendly gardening I'm here
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to help you grow your passion and reap
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the rewards so grab your gloves roll up
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your sleeves and let's get started on
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this year's gardening
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well it's Friday Friday is
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finally here we've been counting down
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the days and it's finally approached I
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do apologize for not having a podcast up
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yesterday
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it got the better of me and I didn't get
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round to doing it but we have got a
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podcast for you today and make sure you
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come back for tomorrow's podcast because
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we'll be talking all about the jobs
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which we're going to be doing in the
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garden this weekend so yeah make sure
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you stay tuned for that and just thank
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you for everybody that's been commenting
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on all my posts and liking them and
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getting involved I'm trying to start
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respond to every comment on my social
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medias now and Hope hopefully interact
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with you m I know I've let you down in
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the past I've just let people comment
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and I've never replied but I am starting
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to try and reply to them and take note
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of them all I always read them but I've
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never usually replied to them all so
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hopefully I'll start to reply to them
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all and keep in touch with you all so
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yeah today's podcast we're going to be
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talking about using your garden and
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allotment space wisely as some people
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don't have big Gardens they only have
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small gardens same with your allotments
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some people have massive plots and some
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people just have half plots or some
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people just share a little space and
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it's about making the most out of it and
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working out how you can use a space
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wisely to get as much growing as
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possible and I might actually try this
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this year um my plan is just to use one
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bed and try and grow varieties of
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different things in that bed and use it
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wisely and see what we what happens and
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whether we get a good crop from doing it
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so obviously like I said some people
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don't have big Gardens or big allotments
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and some people don't have Gardens at
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all so sometimes you have to grow stuff
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in pots new year new pleasure start 2025
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with starship's customer appreciation
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days every day in January visit Starship
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locations on Old National Road in
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Atlanta Terra Boulevard in Jonesboro and
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Highway 34 in Nan and indulge in an
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extra 20% off when you whisper the
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secret keyword pleasure at checkout
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awaken your passions and spice up the
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new year with 20% off in store every day
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in January just say the secret word
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pleasure make 2025 the year of endless
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sometimes you have to grow stuff in
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walls on walls and yeah sometimes you
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have to grow stuff on balconies but it's
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about using that space wisely and you
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can grow a lot of fruit and veg and
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flowers in po
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certain stuff work well in pots
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obviously the only issue with growing
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things in pots is that it dries out fast
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so you have to keep things watered
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especially during the summer periods
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because it does dry out and also growing
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stuff in pots it runs out of nutrition
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as it uses all the nutrition up and you
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have to help it get more Nutrition By
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feeding it and yeah looking after it and
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then giving it a bit more TLC a bit like
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when you going MTS in parts have to keep
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feeding them so that they get enough
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nutrition to grow well and get good
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produce on them so the same goes for
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anything growing in pots because there's
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not much after it takes it from the
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compost so it needs a bit of regular
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feeding and Improvement to the soil to
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keep it well
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nourished so when you're growing stuff
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in pots obviously you can grow like
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lettuce in pots you can grow spring
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onions carrots
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beetroot uh radishes Runa beans
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peas corett pumpkins even but like I
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said pumpkins and obviously cett they do
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need a lot of water so you have to make
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sure they get wellfed and yeah obviously
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you when you're growing stuff as well
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just grow the amount that you'll
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actually need uh I shouldn't be really
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saying this because I never do that I
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grow more than well enough that that I
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need I'm one of the that SES every
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single seed in the packet and I'll plant
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every seed in the
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packet but yeah if I'm going to try and
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grow one bed full of veg I'm going to
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try and just grow a few of each
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vegetables and plant them in it and see
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how well we do with it and see if we get
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a better outcome than we do having a bed
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for different
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vegetables and see how all it grows so
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make sure you stay tuned for that cuz
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I'll be sharing my updates obviously on
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Instagram and Facebook with regards to
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that and I'll be talking to about it on
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the
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podcast
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and I might try growing some M uh more
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it I did try growing some stuff in uh
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hangers on the side of my shed but I
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forgot to water them so they all died
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but this year I might give my
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extra time to it and give it a bigger
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push in trying to do it this year
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because I do want to try and grow as
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much variety as possible down at the
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alotment and I am going to crack growing
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carrots this year that is on my mission
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list I will grow some good carrots you
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can hold me to it and if I fail you can
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say well you did say that you would
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try but yeah I'm going to give it a try
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this year so yeah and it's about
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obviously planting stuff and as soon as
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it's been
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harvested planting something else in
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that space which can then grow and
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continue and when you like growing like
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lettuce and spring onions and beetroot
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you have to keep sewing at regular
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intervals so that you can keep growing a
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crop throughout the year like obviously
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you can start some lettuce off one week
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and then in a month's time start another
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batch of lettuce off so then as you
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harvesting one set of lettuce you can be
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planting some more lettuce to replace it
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so it's about keeping that crop growing
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and like I said I I never grow anything
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through the winter period I've only got
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my onions and my garlic in throughout
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the winter period And A lot of people do
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actually grow stuff through the winter
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period And I take my heart off to people
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that live off everything that they eat
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throughout the year they grow the full
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year and eat off it I wish I could do
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that and I wish I could spend the time
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down there to do that but yeah as long
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as you use your space wisely use try and
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grow as much as possible and just grow
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what you actually need and if you do
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grow an abundance of crops take it to
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your Lo local food bank call take it to
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your neighbors to your friends to your
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families and they will absolutely love
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you uh everybody loves free fruit and
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vegetables uh like I said certain stuff
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I don't share with people some stuff I
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do share uh but I won't be sharing like
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my strawberries or my sweet uh sweet
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corn me anyone or my peas they're the
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one things that I do not share I can
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grow an abundance to them and I will eat
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them
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all but so yeah yeah um and that's why I
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always stress the importance of planning
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your allotment now ready for the
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summertime where you want to grow stuff
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and how you want to grow it and when you
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plan on planting it there
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and just drawing like a treasure map but
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of your alotment and a plan of it
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and if you do it like that then you can
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work out where things are going to grow
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and if something doesn't work out there
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you can obviously plant something else
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there but it gives you a good idea of
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where you want to grow stuff look at
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where the sun shines look at where it
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gets full sun where it don't get full
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sun where it's shady and work out what
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things can grow in certain areas and
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obviously Google your answer it'll tell
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you what what stuff can grow in the
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shade which stuff needs full sun so you
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can work around that and make the most
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of your garden to its full potential and
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your allotment so yeah I hope you on
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this podcast interesting today and let
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me know if you're going to use your
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space wisely and try and grow more stuff
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this year and try and find unusual
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things to grow things in as well as like
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you see people growing stuff in watering
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cans and uh pot different types of pots
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and stuff like that recyclable
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containers have a look around try and
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grow stuff in different varieties of
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stuff and make it look attractive as
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well so yeah I hope you've enjoyed that
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like I said tomorrow's episode we're
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going to be talking about all the things
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we're going to be doing in the garden so
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make sure you stay tuned for that
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obviously in a couple of weeks it's the
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big bird watch which I'm going to be
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doing down at my allotment I'm going to
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be spending a load of money on bird food
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and seed and different varieties of seed
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fill all my feeders up and just sit
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there and watch the birds come and
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hopefully get some good photos of
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different varieties of birds down at my
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lotman so I'm looking forward to that so
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if you don't know where the big bird
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watch is Google it and get involved and
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join me in doing the big bird watch so
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yeah I hope you've enjoyed the podcast
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today and as always if you've not
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followed this podcast do give it a
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follow feel free to leave a review as
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well and yeah until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with B
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everyone Thanks for tuning in to today's
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episode of of gardening with Ben I hope
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