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This video explains how to choose vegetable seeds for the growing season. Learn what to consider when selecting varieties, including climate, space and growing conditions.
The guide covers planning crops, selecting reliable varieties and preparing for seed starting. Choosing suitable seeds helps improve germination and overall plant success.
If you are deciding what to grow this year, this video provides practical advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing.
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Simply Seed delivery day, everybody.
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Simply Seed have kindly sent us a parcel
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of goodies. So, we're going to have a
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look and see what exciting things we've
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got from Simply Seed today. So, yeah,
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I'm excited. Always happy when we get
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Simply Seed deliveries. So, let's see
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what's in the box of goodies today. So,
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first off, we have got some quality bird
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feed from Peaky Buyers. Now, if you
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don't know, Pey Bites is a part of a
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company of Simply Seed, and they do bird
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feed as well. So, if you need any bird
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feed, they have some great feed on
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there. So, they must know that I feed
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the birds because I'm going to be
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keeping the birds bed fed with this. And
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we'll be able to fill those bird feeders
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up and hopefully get some nice birds
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coming down cuz I love seeing the birds
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and the wildlife down at my plot. So,
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that is going to come in useful. I'm
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going to fill the bird feeders up with
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them this weekend.
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Next up, we have got some potatoes.
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So, we have to get these ready for
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chittin. Get these ready cuz we'll be
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planting them on Good Friday. That's
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when I plant all my seed potatoes on
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Good Friday. It's to do with the moon.
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And these ones are high day red. Quite a
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amount in there. So yeah, we'll be able
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to plant all them and hopefully get some
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delicious potatoes. So we'll have to get
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those chittered.
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And then we've got another bag of
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potatoes.
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So these ones are sro,
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another great variety. So yeah, another
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great amount of potatoes in there. So we
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need to get all these into us trays,
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chitting them away in a light, cool
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area. So we'll get them done. If you've
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not seen my video on chitting potatoes,
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have a look at that and we'll we'll
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probably do another video on how to chit
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them with those ones. We've also got
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some seaweed feed for plants as well,
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concentrate. So, seaweed feed is great
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for growing your plants with. It's
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definitely worth doing. And I see loads
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of people using seaweed feed. And also
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they often go to the beach to get the
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seaweed as well to dig in with the soil
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because it's that good for plant
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seaweed. Uh it's a great feed for it. So
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yeah, that'll be perfect for my plants.
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So we'll have to try that out. And then
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we have got a massive hole of seeds. Now
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you know how addicted I am to seeds.
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Absolutely addicted to them. So, let's
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have a look at what seeds we've got from
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them and see what things we can try and
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grow.
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We have got some pea sabrinas.
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They're frost hard
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protected.
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So, these were so March to June. So,
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yes, I love my peas. Absolutely love
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them. Great thing. Easy to grow. Just
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make sure they're protected from the
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birds and the rats and the mice when
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you're starting them growing, but once
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they get going, they'll be perfect.
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We've got some dwarf French beans.
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We got some pea snack heroes.
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Now, I'm not good at saying names, so I
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can't read this. I really can't. Uh,
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peach so I I'll show you on camera, but
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that's what we've got. I need to have a
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look what that is. Whether that's a
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flower or something, I don't know. It's
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not something I've heard of before. So,
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we'll have to Google that one. We've got
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Corette Latino Roman.
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I love my corettes. We've got Cosmos.
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Seen a few videos on them of people
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posting at the moment sewing them,
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getting them sewn, but being up north,
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we'll be starting them off next month.
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Butternut squash. Another great thing to
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grow.
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Cauliflower. F1 hipster.
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Chili pepper. Now I can get those
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started now. But remember they need heat
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and they need light as well. So we might
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take those home and get those sewn. Now
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we've got some broccoli. Purple
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sprouting. Absolutely love broccoli.
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and my favorite beetroot as well. We're
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not finished yet. We got another pack.
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Absolutely loads of seeds from them. And
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I'm going to be so excited to try all
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these. Now we've got some tomatoes.
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Purple bumblebee.
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Another great one. I love growing weird
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and wonderful vegetables. Absolutely
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love it. My favorite sunflowers. We
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always have sunflowers down at the a
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lotment. add some great color. So, we'll
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be growing them. Salad leaves. They'll
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be perfect for my raised beds in here.
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We're going to try more and more stuff
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in here. So, they'll be perfect for my
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raised bed in my poly tunnel.
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Radius blue moon. Something else I've
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not heard of. So, I need to Google that
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one as well. See what that one is.
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We've got some pumpkin fireball. I've
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not heard of that variety before. So,
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again, I'll need to research that one.
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Like I say, I'm always learning with new
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stuff. Absolutely learning all the time.
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Patunia.
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We love patunias. They're great in
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hanging baskets and great for tubs.
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Sweet corn. I'll definitely be having
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sweet corn on my a lotment this year.
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Absolutely did fantastic last year with
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the sweet corn. Absolutely amazing.
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Zineas, another great flower. I'm going
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to be growing more flowers down at the
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plot this year. So stay tuned for us
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growing lots of flowers. Tomatoes red
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berry.
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We're going to be growing lots of
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tomatoes in here. I'll probably end up
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using all these raised beds for
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tomatoes. Tomato indigo blue. Again,
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another weird and wonderful variety. I
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love different weird and wonderful ones.
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Winter squash,
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tomato cherry sweetheart,
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tomato sunset,
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and tomato honeymoon. So, we have got a
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great variety of seeds there. And I'm
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definitely going to make sure that when
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I'm growing all these tomatoes, I'll
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label them all up so that when they're
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growing, we can take photos of them and
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show which ones look like what and how
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they've turned out and share with you
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all. So, yeah, a great haul from Simply
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Seed. If you've not checked out their
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website, go and check out their seeds.
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They've got some great varieties and
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they're not expensive either. Uh, always
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great priced as well. So, have a look on
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their website and let me know if you use
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Simply Seed as well. So, we going to be
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getting busy next month with sewing all
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these seeds and getting everything
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planted. It's going to be a busy month.
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March. March is the time when I saw all
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mine and get everything started as I'm
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obviously up north, so it's a lot
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cooler. Uh, so I'll be starting around
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mid-March towards the end of March with
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sewing all my seeds down here at the a
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lotment in my unheated greenhouse. So,
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fingers crossed it gets warmer and it
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gets a lot more light. So until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling,
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keep shining and keep
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