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This video explains how to prepare and organise a garden shed before the growing season. Learn how to clean, organise tools and set up storage to make gardening easier.
The guide covers checking equipment, preparing seed starting areas and arranging supplies so they are ready for planting. Good organisation helps prevent delays and improves efficiency during the season.
If you want a tidy and practical workspace for gardening, this video provides simple preparation tips suitable for sheds and outdoor storage areas.
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over the last 75 years over 10,000
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chemicals have been introduced to our
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food supply yet the EU only allows 300
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food additives but at Thrive Market we
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bring our members the highest quality
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Brands and restrict more than 1,000
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ingredients found at conventional
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grocery stores making the switches easy
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with our healthy swaps scanner which
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finds better versions of all your
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favorite Pantry snacking and Home
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Essentials without the added junk dieses
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and fillers plus it's all delivered
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straight to your door so if you're
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looking to shop at a grocery store that
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actually cares about your health go to
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thrive market.com slmp podcast and
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you'll get 30% off your first order and
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a free
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gift hello and welcome to gardening with
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Ben your goto podcast for all things
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green and growing I'm Ben your allotment
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guide and here to help you cultivate
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your garden and your passion for PL
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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 will 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 brew and enjoy today's episode
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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well we're certainly
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being quiet with these podcasts haven't
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we I do apologize but we're all over the
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place at the moment with Christmas and
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New Year but they are keeping going and
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keeping flowing and yeah I'm not going
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to take a big break again like I did
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last time but yeah hopefully they'll
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keep on coming for you to listen to so
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what have we been up to well we've had
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Christmas and yeah it was a nice
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Christmas we had Christmas dinner at my
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parents and then I just relaxed at home
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and watched a bit of Gavin and Stacy
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like everybody else did it's the first
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time I've ever watched it don't tell
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anyone but it is the first time I've
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watched it and yeah I thought I best
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watch it for all the hype now that it's
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finishing and I actually enjoyed it so I
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may go back and actually watch the full
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lot of them but yeah what have we been
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doing on our allotment well you know
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that I've been getting all my new
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potting bench ready it's all been
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painted some of it's come off because
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it's being dripped on from the the rain
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from uh the ceiling but some of it's
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come off but we'll give it a liqu of
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paint once the weather's decent and
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dries out and hopefully get it fully
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painted
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properly so yeah what we've got all that
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done and I finished it all off literally
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today obviously like I said I've still
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got some painting left to do on it but I
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finished off the look of it and I'm not
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going to share a photo of it with you
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until New Year's Eve so make sure you
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stay tuned to my socials on New Year's
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Eve for what it looks like and wow it
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looks professional and I have put a lot
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of effort into it and I've really
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spruced it up and made it look good and
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proper ready for my filming on my videos
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for the new year and I'm desperate to
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share a photo of it I've got a photo of
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it on my phone I thinking do I share it
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do I share it
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but no I'm going to be good I'm going to
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save it till New Year's Eve and it will
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be part of my Roundup video of the year
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so make sure you stay tuned for my
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Roundup video it'll be on Instagram
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Facebook YouTube Tik Tok it'll be
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everywhere but yeah make sure you stay
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tuned for that and you can let me know
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what you think of it and if I've done a
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good job or
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not so we've been busy doing that we've
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finished all that off and we have also
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started Tiding all my shed up ready for
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Springtime as that is a big job as I
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like I always say I'm a messy Gardener
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I'm not tidy at all there's rubbish all
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over Place plant pots everywhere
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nothing's tided up nothing's sorted none
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of plant pots are sorted they're all dat
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and got seed trays everywhere full of
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compost yes I create more mess than I
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need to really if I did it as I went
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along I would to have to do this every
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single year but yeah we've been busy
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tidying up today we've also put up some
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extra shelves as well in my shed so that
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I can try and tidy things up a bit
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better so hopefully things will be a bit
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more organized next year I'll be saying
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all this again next year me Tiding my
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up so make sure you stay tuned for
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that episode this time next year but
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yeah we'll be doing lots more tidying up
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ready next year but we've been doing
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that we've repaired a panel on my front
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of my shed because I blown off they're
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blowing off like nobody's business I'm
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going to have to literally probably
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rebuild my shed at some point because
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the plastic is just coming off now it's
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disintegrating it's been up about 10
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years now so it's had its time so that's
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why it's all starting to come off but
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yeah we need some new pieces of plastic
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on the front of the shed next so if
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anybody's got a load of purse packs let
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me
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know if you want to send me some purse
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packs for Christmas I will gladly have
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it but yeah we've got a big job ahead of
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us of getting that sorted we keeping an
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eye out on like Facebook Marketplace and
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stuff because people do have it on there
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for salees so hopefully we can get it
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all sorted and ready for the new year so
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hopefully it will look a lot better come
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this time next year hopefully we'll
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start each year I do a bit more
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investment on my shed and on my
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allotment so I don't mind spending a bit
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of money on it here and there
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everywhere so yeah I'm hoping I'm going
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to actually look for my onion seeds
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today and my pepper seeds and my orene
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seeds and look into starting sewing my
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seeds this week as if you want him to
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grow Prize winner onions massive ones
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they usually say to start them onboxing
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day that's a Gardener's tail that uh a
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lot of people start them onboxing day if
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you want huge onions and this is growing
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them from seed not from set so if you're
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wanting big onions start them off now
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start them off obviously you'll need
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somewhere warm for them to germinate and
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once they've got germinated then they
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can start growing and then separate them
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out into individual seed trays uh seed
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cells and keep them growing a bit more
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and then plant them outside come end of
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March April time and obviously keep
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feeding them and keep enriching the soil
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and making sure that you can um get them
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to a decent size so that is what I'm
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going to try and do this year I'm going
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to start off my onions hopefully this
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week and get them started and get them
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growing and the same goes for peppers
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and or jein Peppers will need about 23
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24° warmth to germinate so you're going
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to have to start them off in the house
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or heated Greenhouse what is really
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really well heated and
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insulated um but obviously if you're
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growing them in the house you need to
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make sure that they're getting enough
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light and they don't uh stretch out and
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go Ley as they say as obviously growing
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them indoors can get seeds Ley so make
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sure you keep turning them around keep
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them in plenty of light and hopefully
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get them started then and again
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obviously when it's a bit warmer like in
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March April then you can move them into
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a um nonheated greenhouse and hopefully
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get them to carry on growing and the
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reason why you start them around now is
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because they take a long time to get
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growing and get fru in as I started some
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off in March time last year March April
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time and they were only just fruit in at
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September time so they're a bit behind
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so that's the reason why I want to get
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them started pretty early and get them
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growing on windel in my flat and
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hopefully get some peppers next year
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because peppers are expensive
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I've also been looking into getting a
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soup maker as obviously I do live on my
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own and I like to have handy things to
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be able
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to cook with I've obviously got my air
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fryer and obviously if I get a soup
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maker it will be ideal for when I grow
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my cett or grow my onions or my potatoes
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or my leaks or my tomatoes because then
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I can make soup from them all and
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there's some decent soup makers online
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so if anybody's got a soup maker let me
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know if they're worth it or not because
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I would like to know because obviously
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you can pay quite a lot bit of money for
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them and they will make them I don't
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like Chunky Soup I like Smooth soup uh
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and it Blends it as well for you as well
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so I'm looking forward to trying that
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because soup's getting expensive as well
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when you go into the Super Market now
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it's not the cheapest and obviously if
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you're making your own soup you know
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it's organic you know it'sh fresh and
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you have perfected it yourself and it's
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lovely soup you can't beat it can you
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and we've got a Morrison's near us as
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well so having fresh bread as well from
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the bakery would go absolutely fantastic
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with the soup so I'm looking investing
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in a soup maker next year so let me know
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get in touch if you've got a soup maker
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and if you make some soup recipes feel
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free to let me know the recipes because
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obviously I'll be wanting them
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but yeah obviously where I can save
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money as much as possible that is the
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plan for next year and obviously eating
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hell F which is another New Year's
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resolution I need to shift a bit of
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Timber for next year so we need to do
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lots more
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digging but yeah I'm planning on getting
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all that done for next year so hopefully
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we will be back
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in tomorrow for another episode we'll be
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talking about everything that we've got
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up to down at the allotment today as
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we're back down there today and
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hopefully get a lot more work done
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hopefully we get the shed completely
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tided and finished off ready for the
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springtime and then I can start looking
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at possibly doing some work in the poly
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tunnel and getting that prepared because
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I didn't really grow much in it last
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year I grew some cucumbers in it and
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obviously I grew a load of cucumbers
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outside the Cucumbers I grew outside did
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better than the ones in the poly tunnel
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so I'm going to grow cucumbers outside
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again I think next year we may possibly
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do a few indoors but I'm tempted to grow
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the majority of them outside like I do
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with my tomatoes so we might look at
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using our pool for growing some peppers
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and some melons and some chilies in next
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year because obviously melons need
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warmth a lot of sunshine and warmth so
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we might look at getting our poly tunel
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back in use again next year and
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hopefully get some stuff growing so make
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sure you stay tuned for all that again
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like I said we'll be back tomorrow with
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tomorrow's episode then on the 31st
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we'll be doing the yearly Roundup
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talking about all our successes all our
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failures then on the 1st of January
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we'll be the new year and we'll be
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talking about all our plans for the year
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ahead and then come the second we'll be
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talking about all the things that you
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can start to sew in January and on the
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3D we will be talking all about the jobs
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to do in your garden so make sure you
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stay tuned for those episodes coming up
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if you're not following us do give us a
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the better so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with Ben
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everyone hello and welcome to gardening
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with Ben your go-to podcast for all
12:17
things green and growing I'm Ben your
12:20
allotment guide and here to help you
12:22
cultivate your garden and your passion
12:24
for plants whether you're a seasoned
12:27
Gardener or just starting out this
12:29
podcast is for you each episode we'll
12:32
dig into tips tricks and techniques to
12:35
make your garden and alotment Thrive
12:37
from planting sewing and growing we will
12:40
share all the tips and AD advice we will
12:44
also have regular episodes talking about
12:46
what we have been up to on the alarm so
12:49
sit back grab a brew and enjoy today's
12:55
episode over the last 75 years over 10
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thousand chemicals have been introduced
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to our food supply yet the EU only
13:03
allows 300 food additives but at Thrive
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Market we bring our members the highest
13:09
quality Brands and restrict more than
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1,000 ingredients found at conventional
13:13
grocery stores making the switches easy
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with our healthy swaps scanner which
13:18
finds better versions of all your
13:20
favorite Pantry snacking and Home
13:21
Essentials without the added junk dieses
13:24
and fillers plus it's all delivered
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straight to your door so if you're
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looking to shop at a a grocery store
13:30
that actually cares about your health go
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to thrivemarket.com slmp podcast and
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