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Order your seeds, everybody. Get your
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seeds ordered. Yes, welcome to Gardening
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with Ben. It's now time to start
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ordering all your seeds if you haven't
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already or start looking around at what
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seeds that you want to grow this year.
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Now, every single year, I love to grow
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something new down at the a lotment and
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a different variety of something that
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I've never grown before. And it's
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exciting seeing how well it gets
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produced. And sometimes it's great to
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grow varieties that you won't see in the
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supermarket or in the shops. and try
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them. And sometimes they grow a hell of
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a lot better than the varieties that you
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would see in the supermarket. One year I
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grew purple cauliflower and they grew a
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lot better than the white variety down
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here at the a lotment. So I've stuck to
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growing the purple variety. However,
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I've seen a yellow variety of a
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cauliflower which I've never grown
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before. So that is on my list grow this
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year. I keep seeing all these seed
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adverts of different varieties of stuff
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popping up and I keep adding it to my
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list. my list is getting absolutely
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longer and longer. So, the best place to
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do is either go to a garden center or to
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a shop, have a look at the seed racks
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and write down which ones that you want
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to try growing this year or purchase
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them if you've uh got the money there
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and then and get all your seeds sorted.
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Another good way is to have a look in
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seed cataloges as well. Many shops and
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online places do seed cataloges so that
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you can actually see them in the
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cataloges under the different varieties
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um like under Brussels sprouts or under
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cauliflowers and you can choose which
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varieties you want and then you can
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purchase them online or you can purchase
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them obviously through the catalog.
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But that is a great way as well. And
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there's another variety that I might try
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and grow this year. It's a purple
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Brussels sprout. Now I don't like
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Brussels sprouts. So, the purple one I
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might actually like. That's if they do
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taste any different. Let me know in the
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comments if you've grown purple Brussels
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sprouts because I'd love to know. Uh,
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but yeah, there's loads of varieties
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like you can get different colored
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carrots, different colored beetroots,
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even purple spring onions as well.
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There's so many different varieties out
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there. So, have a look through all the
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seeds and try something new. One year I
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did like loads of different varieties of
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squash. try them all to see which ones
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grew well in that. And another year I
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grew different varieties of beans, the
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purple beans, the blue beans, the yellow
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beans, all different varieties. So, it's
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great to experiment and try something
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new. If it don't grow, oh well, you've
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lost a few pound in a packet of seeds,
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but it's great to experiment and see if
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it actually does well or not. And like I
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said, they could taste a lot nicer than
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the other main varieties that you often
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see around in the supermarkets. and the
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shops and it's great for pictures as
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well. Obviously, I like sharing lots of
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pictures and everything like that. So,
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yeah, have a look around, start ordering
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your seeds and start choosing what
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varieties you want to go. And once
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you've got them all, plan your a
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lotment. Draw a plan of it and draw
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where you want to grow stuff and
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obviously look at which areas are
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shaded, which areas are not, so that you
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know what you're working with when it
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starts growing. So, I hope you found
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that useful. Let me know if you've got
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all your seeds ordered.
