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Seed Smart Growing Right from the Start | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
Nov 15, 2024
πΏ Seed Smart: Growing Right from the Start! Success in the garden starts with the seed β and doing it right from the beginning makes all the difference. πͺ΄β¨ In this episode, Iβm diving into seed-starting tips, choosing the right varieties, and how to give your plants the best chance from day one. What seeds are you starting right now? #SeedSmart #GrowingFromSeed #GardeningPodcast #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #SeedStartingTips
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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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'll dig into tips
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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and allotment 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 brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben for a brand new
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podcast I hope you've all been enjoying
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the previous podcasts yesterday we
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talked about the best ways to grow large
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pumpkins and how to get nice big ones
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growing on your a lotman and the day
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before that we spoke about everything
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that we been up to the allotment and
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yeah today we will be off to BBC
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Gardener world live so stay tuned for
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the podcast coming up on that where
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we'll be talking about everything that
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we're getting up to down there and how
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well it's been what we've got up to down
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there what we've tried what we've
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purchased so yeah make sure you stay
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tuned for that episode because we'll be
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going so much into detail of what we've
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got up to down at the BBC gardeners
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world live so today in today's episode
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we're going to be talking about quality
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of seeds and what are the best seeds to
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purchase when growing produce on your
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allotment as when you first take on an
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allotment or when you're doing an
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allotment you want to try and save as
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much money as possible and try and work
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on a budget because you don't want to be
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spending too much because the whole
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reason of having an allotment is to
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become self-sufficient save money and
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grow stuff organically and freshly so
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that it tastes a lot better at a good
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reasonable price and if you like first
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packet of lettuce for instance you can
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get a packet of lettuce for like 50 P to
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a pound and you can get like 3,000 seat
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in there so you can get 3,000 lettuce
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plants growing that's if you want to
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grow 3,000 lettuce but yeah you can get
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seeds at good prices at for quality of
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seeds now there's so many Brands out
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there there's Kings there's Mr fills
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there's seed direct there's Premier seed
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there's so many around and we're going
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to share with you all the seeds that we
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purchase and where we purchase them from
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now I obviously used to buy all my seeds
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from Wilkers because they were the
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cheapest place to buy all my seeds I
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found them the cheapest and the best
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quality seats out there now obviously a
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bit ago we had some devastating news at
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all the willco shops were shutting and
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that brought a big tear to my eye
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because I thought where the hell am I
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going to get all my seeds from some
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places are so expensive to buy them I
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won't be paying that sort of price for
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my seeds as I do a lot of my gardening
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with a phone to share tips and advice
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and I don't want to be paying a fortune
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for the seeds and sometimes pay a
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fortune and you hardly get any seeds in
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the packet as well whereas Wilkers were
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cheap and you got loads of seeds in a
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packet so you always got good quality
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and quantity to get a good crop from the
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produce so when
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obviously we had the news we had a news
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a bit later saying the range had bought
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their brand name and they were going to
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start stocking all their produce
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products and I thought yes they best
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start selling all the seeds again and
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guess what yes they did so I went down
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to the range I had a look around and
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there in the garden center they had all
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the Wilkers seeds now they weren't the
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three for two what they used to do but
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they were just normal price but they
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were still cheap and the same quality
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and quantity in a packet and I thought
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fantastic I know I'm going to be fine
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now we're going to be able to grow all
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the seeds and I can have some great
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produce and I've always used Wilco seeds
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because for instance I was talking to my
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plot neighbor and he's been trying to
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grow sweet corn and he's had no look
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whatsoever in growing sweet con from the
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seeds that he keeps buying and touch
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wood I've never had an issue with the
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wilker seeds for sweet Conn now I've got
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some growing in my shed at the moment
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and they're growing absolutely fantastic
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they're hopefully going to be growing
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out in the garden in the next week or
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two and get them growing and get them
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producing some fantastic sweet corn so
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make sure you stay tuned for that and
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I'll share with you all how we're
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getting on with that but yeah like
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lettuce you get loads in a packet they
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only like 50p stuff like beetroot
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turnips salad leaves everything has
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grown fantastic from the peas as well
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you get loads of peas in a packet for
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only a pound the same for runner beans
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you get loads of run of beans it's
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absolutely a bargain now obviously they
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are good other there are there are other
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seed Brands around and stuff like that
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but I've never seen any as cheap as that
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obviously you can get them in different
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shops and you can get them cheap but
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yeah I don't think they'll obviously
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sell them off at the end of the year cuz
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they are in the garden center so they'll
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probably not reduce them they'll
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probably sell them all the year round
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but I don't care at that price and I
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know the quality is good and
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everything's good about them I will
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continue to buy them from the range and
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forever more keep doing it until they
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stop selling them but I'm sure they'll
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keep doing it now that everybody's going
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there and obviously I think you can
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obviously buy them online as well from
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the Wilco shop if you haven't got a
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range near you and you can get them
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delivered to yourself as well so if you
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are missing them you can go out and buy
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them obviously there are other good seed
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Brands out there I'm not doing an advert
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for wilker seeds or range uh I'm just
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sharing with you where I purchased my
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seeds from in the place and obviously
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I've never had issues with them that's
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why I'm saying how wonderful they are
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now obviously if you grow some use some
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other brands please do let me know send
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me a message on Instagram I'd love to
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hear where you get your seeds from and
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how well your seeds do and yeah it's
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good to share with each other the best
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places to purchase their seeds and I
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know a lot of people that do follow me
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on Facebook also get all their seeds
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from the
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Wilkers so that's been our short little
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episode today talking about where the
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best place to get good quality seeds
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from at a good quality price and getting
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your money's worth from them so I hope
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hope you've enjoyed this episode today
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if you haven't checked out my YouTube
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channel go and check it out because I've
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done a video on this as well so you'll
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be able to watch it as well and see some
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of the seeds I've got growing in my shed
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at the moment I've put what seeds I've
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got growing down there so you can see
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visually how well things are doing so
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