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Sowing Success: Gardening and Allotment Goals for 2025
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Jan 19, 2025
🌟 Sowing Success: Gardening and Allotment Goals for 2025! New year, fresh goals, and big dreams for the garden and allotment! 🏡🌱 Here’s what I’m aiming for in 2025 — from growing more food to creating a space that’s buzzing with wildlife and bursting with blooms. What are your gardening goals for the year ahead? #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentGoals #GardenPlans #GardeningLife #PlotGoals #GardenInspiration #UKGardener
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welcome to gardening with Ben your go-to
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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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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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a new ending so yes we're ready for
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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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