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This video explains how to choose the best vegetable seeds to grow for productive harvests. It shows how selecting suitable crops and varieties helps improve results and make growing easier.
The guide covers reliable vegetables, harvest timing, space planning and succession sowing, along with tips for organising seeds and planning the growing season. It also explains how choosing the right varieties leads to healthier plants and better yields.
If you are planning what to grow, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice on selecting vegetable seeds for a successful garden.
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hey everyone and welcome to gardening
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with Ben for our new YouTube video in
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today's video we're going to be talking
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about what's on our list of seeds and
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plants for this year so sit back relax
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and enjoy today's episode everyone
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[Music]
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so welcome to today's episode in today's
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episode we're going to be talking about
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what's on our list of seeds and plants
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for down at the alotment Garden this
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year in
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2025 so we've got a big bucket list of
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seeds that we want to grow this year
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down at the allotment we'll be growing
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all the usual stuff like our sweet C
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our potatoes our iceberg lettuce our
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beetroot our Runa beans our peas but we
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want to be trying some new things down
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here at the alotment this year so the
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things that we want to try this year are
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we want to try growing some chilies
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we're going to be giving them a try this
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year we're going to be trying some
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peppers we're also going to be trying
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some melons now I grew melons quite a
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few years ago and we did well we grew
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some caler melons so I'm going to look
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at growing some of those again this year
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down in the poly tunnel see if if we get
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a warm summer and hopefully get some
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good produce off if it's a bad summer we
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possibly won't get any but we're going
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to give them a try with nothing to lose
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apart from getting all the
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compost but yeah we're going to try
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melons and we possibly might try
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watermelons as well this year I've seen
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some where there are like smaller
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variety for you okay so hopefully we're
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going to give them a try and see if we
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can get some watermelons growing down
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here at the alotment so yeah we're going
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to be trying them we're going to be
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trying plenty of different varieties of
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squash and Pumpkins this year hopefully
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get some decent Siz ones I'm going to
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focus on trying to get a massive pumpkin
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this year down at the Orman now usually
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I've focused on growing a couple on a
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plant but this year I might just have
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one growing on one plant and see how big
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we can actually get it to grow now that
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will require a lot of watering a lot of
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feeding and hopefully getting it nice
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and big and plump for
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Halloween this year we're also going to
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try lots of varieties of flowers down
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here at the allotment this year now last
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year I grew quite a few varieties of
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poppies and they did absolutely
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beautiful I grew them from seed there
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was like a black variety absolutely
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gorgeous so I've purchased a load of
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different varieties of poppies I
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literally just went on Amazon and
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purchased every variety of poppe so
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we're going to start them off from seed
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I do I don't usually sew them straight
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into the soil because knowing me I'll
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dig them up thinking that they're weeds
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but yeah we're going to start them off
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in seed trays and then plant them where
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we want them to grow and hopefully
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they'll keep spreading year on year and
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getting a nice field of poppies down
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here different varieties I love to go
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for different varieties of plants
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because they're special and they don't
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look like the usual bog standard flower
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we're also going to try a lot of
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different varieties of sweet peas as
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well so I'm going to do the same thing
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look on Amazon and see what varieties
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they are out there and just try
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different varieties of sweet peas I'm
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going to do it same as well for
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sunflowers now I did this one year and I
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grew fantastic different varieties of
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sunflowers well obviously you'll get
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your usual ones which are bright yellow
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or the really tall ones called Russian
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sunflowers but we're going to try the
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teddy variety which is a lot fluffy
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variety we're going to try the black
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variety and the red variety of
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sunflowers so yeah adding more different
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varieties and color to our alotment
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because I do love growing the different
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varieties it's the same when I grow
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tulips I grow all the different
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varieties of tulips because I think they
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look more special than the standard
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varieties we've also got some loopings
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growing we've got some hollyw growing
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we've got delphiniums growing so we're
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trying lots of different varieties of
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them and when I go to the BBC Garden as
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well this year I'm going to buy some
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more varieties of salvia because I
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planted some for the first time last
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year and wow it was fantastic now it was
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like a black current variety so it smell
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of black currents it were purple I took
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plenty of cuttings off that one so
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hopefully we'll have a load more plants
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growing from it next year well this year
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now so hopefully we'll have different
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varieties of them so yeah I'm going to
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try different varieties I've done this
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in the past with like growing different
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varieties of beans different colored
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variety of beans like purple ones yellow
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ones black ones red ones I just love to
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try different varieties out because you
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don't see them in the shops because they
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won't sell different varieties of or
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different colors of vegetables because
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people won't buy them they won't think
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that is right so they won't buy them so
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that's your chance to try and grow
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different varieties because obviously I
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grow the market more variety cucumber
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which you don't see in the shops because
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it's spiky but I have a better crop
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growing the market more variety so
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sometimes things do a lot better growing
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different varieties like you can get
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different varieties of beetroot
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different colors different color carrots
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it's all fun and games when you're
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gardening trying different stuff new
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stuff new varieties out down in the
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garden so if you're trying different
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varieties or there's different varieties
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out there let me know in in the comments
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what you're growing or if you found a
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perfect different variety of vegetable
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let me know in the comments I always
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love to find different things to try out
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and if you don't try them you won't know
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how well they grow and another thing
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that I've grown in the past is purple
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cauliflower yes purple cauliflower it is
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a real thing uh it's not one of these
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fake AI pictures it's a real thing and
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the purple cauliflower does a lot better
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on my allotment than the white variety
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so I've continued to grow the purple
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variety of cify now that was just trial
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and error because I got a free packet of
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seeds we magazine so I thought I'm going
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to give them a try and wow they did
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fantastic the crop was amazing so yeah
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try different varieties this year try
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new things down at your alotment or in
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the garden and let me know how you get
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on so that has been our episode for
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today I hope you've enjoyed it like I
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said let me know in the comments if
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you're going to be trying different
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stuff this year or new arties and let me
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know how you get on until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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