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This video explains how to plan a productive vegetable garden for the year. Learn how to organise planting times, choose suitable crops and prepare growing areas before the season begins.
The guide covers crop rotation, scheduling sowing dates and spacing plants to avoid overcrowding. Planning ahead helps improve harvests, reduce problems and make garden maintenance easier.
If you want better results from your garden, this video provides practical planning advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing spaces.
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welcome to gardening with Ben your go-to
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podcast for all things green and growing
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in
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2025 whether you are a seasoned Gardener
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a budding Enthusiast or just curious
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about cultivating your own slice of
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nature you're in the right place join me
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Ben as we explore practical tips
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inspiring stories and the latest trends
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in gardening to make your outdoor space
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Bloom with life from allotment
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Adventures to Wildlife friendly
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gardening I'm here to help you grow your
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passion and reap the rewards so grab
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your gloves roll up your sleeves and
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let's get started on this year's
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gardening
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Journey hey everybody and welcome to
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gardening with Ben for your
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2025 season of gardening podcasts here
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from me we've got a new intro we've got
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a new ending so yes we're ready for
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season five of gardening with Ben who
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would have thought I'd have been doing
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this for 5 years already wow but I'm
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absolutely loving doing these podcasts
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for you and hopefully we'll have lots
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more episodes for you to listen to this
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year talking about our alotment journey
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of
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2025 and sharing tips and advice along
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the
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way now obviously today is the 1st of
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January it is a new New Year so we're
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going to talk about our gardening goals
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this year and what we plan on growing
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for 2025 what are our plans for down at
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the
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allotment and hopefully we'll have a
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successful bump a year fingers crossed
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and toes
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crossed but yeah hopefully we'll have
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lots and lots of produce down at the
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allotment this year now obviously I've
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been down to the allotment today this
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episode is L coming out as I wanted to
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talk about it fresh on 2025 so I've
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recorded it here and then on the day so
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yeah we've been down at the allotment
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today and we've started tidying up my
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poly tunnel now ready for this year I've
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tidied all my shed out that's all being
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tided now is the time to sort out my
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poly tunnel and once we've done that
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then we'll be back outside doing work in
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details so what are our gardening goals
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this year what are we planning on
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growing going again this year and what
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new things are we going to be trying
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down at the allotment well we're going
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to be trying a lot of new stuff this
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year and we're going to be growing a lot
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of the old stuff what we usually do as
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well the stuff what's always successful
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which I do well with every year we'll
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definitely be growing our sweet corn
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again this year and hopefully growing a
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lot more of it because I didn't have
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enough last year I need even more sweet
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corn because it's absolutely
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delicious well obviously growing our
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beetroot again this year absolutely
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fantastic last
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year uh our first time I've ever cooked
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it in an air fryer as well I cooked it
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like chips and they tasted absolutely
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delicious so we'll be growing them again
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spring onions lettuce we grow iceberg
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lettuce absolutely fantastic year after
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year never had any issues with growing
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iceberg lettuce
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outside uh we'll be growing our pumpkins
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again hopefully get some bigger ones
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this year they weren't massive this year
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last year I mean but uh hopefully we'll
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get some bigger ones this year we'll be
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growing our corett again doing them
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we'll be growing our peas like we did
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last year they did absolutely fantastic
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we started them all off in seed trays
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first and then when they were big enough
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we planted them all outdoors and they
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grew absolutely fantastic the best
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Harvest that I've ever had in the time
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that I've ever had my allotment but the
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P's this year were well last year I keep
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saying this year the peas last year were
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absolutely fantastic so we'll be growing
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them again runner beans again fantastic
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we'll be growing them
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potatoes doing the same method as last
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year we grew them all in boxes and we'll
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be growing them in boxes again I don't
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plant them in the ground anymore because
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when I'm digging them up I always end up
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stabbing them or they'll be full of
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slugs or wire worm will have got them
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and growing them in boxes I've never had
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any issues with any of the PO potatoes
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what have grown in them all grown
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successful so we'll be doing that again
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this
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year we'll be growing as
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onions garlic hopefully we'll be growing
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our onions from seed and from set this
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year because I want to show you in
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videos how well seed grow and how well
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set grow and give you a comparison
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between them both so stay up to date
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with all that on our YouTube channel and
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Instagram and you'll be able to see
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which do better seed or set
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onions and
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yeah there'll obviously be different
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sorts of vegetables we'll be growing as
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well we might grow some different
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varieties of certain stuff we're going
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to try and grow a bit more cauliflower
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again this year uh I've not been
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successful over the last couple of years
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but we try and grow some cauliflower
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some cabbages and some Sprouts as I've
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never really focused on them but we're
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going to give them a good try this year
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and I don't like Sprouts but you never
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know I might like homegrown on it might
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taste
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nicer so we'll try Sprouts
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again we'll obviously be growing our
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Peppers as as Peppers didn't do very
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well last year they were only fru in
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towards the end of the year which were
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around September but we've already sewn
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our Peppers they're in and they're on my
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window C so hopefully getting them to
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germinate obviously you need about 24
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degrees for them to germinate so we've
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got them on our window and make sure you
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get plenty of light you don't want them
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to grow Ley so we've got got them
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growing we've got uh onion seeds growing
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already they're already in we're growing
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chilies as well this year first time in
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a long time that we've grown chilies so
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hopefully we get some great crops from
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them we're also going to be growing some
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orber jeans I'm going to try some orber
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jeans as well this year from seed so
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stay tuned to see how well we get on
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with orber jeans or if you're listening
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in America
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eggplants but yeah we're going to be
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growing or
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and we're going to try Kett again again
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if America zuc but uh we call it coet in
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UK so I'm going to try some of
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those but I'm wanting to get a soup
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maker so hopefully we can grow plenty of
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egge to grow as for some soup different
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varieties of soup I might give leaks a
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try as well this year see how well we
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get on with leaks I'll never ever grow
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celerate so never ask me any tips on
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celerate because I have no idea because
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I AB absolutely hate it it's disgusting
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so I'll never ever be growing
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celery so we'll be doing that we'll be
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growing as Tomatoes we'll be growing as
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cucumbers as Tomatoes we'll be growing
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outside again small little money maker
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type ones different colors yellow orange
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red and maybe white my dad grew white
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ones last year and they were nice and
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possibly black ones as well uh so we're
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growing them Outdoors we seem to do well
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we're growing them Outdoors every year
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we'll also be growing our cucumbers
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outside this year as I've grown them in
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the polyon in the past but last year I
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planted a few quite a lot of plants
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outside and they were absolutely
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phenomenal the best crop that I've ever
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had in years so we're going to grow as
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cucumbers outside this year we'll also
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be trying two different varieties of
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cucumbers what we've never tried before
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we're going to try some apple variety
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ones and lemon variety ones now they
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don't taste like them but they look like
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them so we're going to be trying them so
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stay tuned for how well we get on with
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them this year but yeah we're going to
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be trying all different sorts of
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vegetables this year fruit wise we'll
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obviously be growing as strawberries
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we've planted 200 plants of those this
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year so hopefully we get a good crop
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next year we've got us Plum Tree we've
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got us cooking apple tree we've got us
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eating apple tree we've got us pears
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we've got us rhubarb hopefully our rubar
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grows even better as it always does
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every year the plants have been in 16
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years now and they're doing absolutely
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phenomenal and we get loads and loads of
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rubab crumbles I grow it I give it my
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mom she bakes it and I get the crumbles
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in
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return so yeah hopefully lots of Cru
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crumbles black BR we've got this forless
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black bra absolutely fantastic we've
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tied all that up all the new growth
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hopefully we'll get loads on it again
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next year this year uh but the black
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Brees are bigger on the phess than on
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wild black Braes and obviously you don't
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get prickled as well so absolutely
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fantastic we've got us raspberries we've
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got uh blueberries we've got us
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gooseberries we grow lots of different
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varieties of fruit I probably missed
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some off so we've got all them to grow
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and then flowers we're going to go
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overboard with flowers this year we're
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going to grow lots and different
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varieties of sweet peas we've already
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got a load of sweet peas growing what we
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started in around September time and
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we've trimmed all them back so that they
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Bush out when they grow the flowers
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might not be as big but it'll produce
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more flowers on them and I'm going to be
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ordering a load of more sweet peas all
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different varieties I want to try lots
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of different varieties of sweet peas
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this year we've also got loads of
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different varieties of poppies to try
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this year we grew a few varieties last
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year and they're absolutely phenomenal I
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didn't sew the seed in the ground I sew
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them in trays first so that I knew where
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they were growing and I could plant them
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out to where I wanted them to grow so
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we're going to try loads of different
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varieties of poppies I literally went
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through Amazon and chose every packet of
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poppies so yeah hopefully we'll have a
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field of poppies this year uh we're
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going to try a load of different
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varieties of geraniums different colors
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of them same goes for sunflowers we're
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going to try all different varieties of
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them last year I just stuck to the
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standard ones which were like the
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Russian tall ones and this year we're
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going to try different colors again I've
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done it in the past like black variety
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red variety teddy bear variety all
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different varieties of sunflowers so my
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allotment is going to look absolutely
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phenomenal fingers crossed this year it
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is going to look absolutely amazing so
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make sure you stay tuned for all these
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I'm going to be sharing loads and loads
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of videos of everything this year down
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on the allotment so make sure you are
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following my YouTube channel and my
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Instagram and we're going to be sharing
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absolutely loads with you so I'm excited
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for this year I'm excited for growing
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down at the allotment this year I've got
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big plans for down there for a beautiful
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display and obviously I'm only
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working I'm only off two days a week now
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last year I used to have four on four
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off so I could spend more time at the
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allotment but we're only having two days
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off and I want to show you how we
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managed to cope and do it in two days to
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keep on top of it all with and obviously
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do all this social media at the same
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time as well for you so I hope that you
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stay tuned and I hope that you follow
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the progress throughout
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2025 down at the allotment and I hope
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that you enjoy the journey and follow
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along with me and let me know if you're
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growing any of these things as well send
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me a message on Instagram I always
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respond to everyone so 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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everyone Thanks for tuning in to today's
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