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This video explains what to plant in spring and how to start the growing season successfully. Learn which vegetables and flowers can be sown early and how to prepare soil before planting.
The guide covers sowing seeds, transplanting young plants, watering correctly and protecting new growth from cold weather. These steps help seedlings establish quickly and grow strongly.
If you want to begin planting as temperatures rise, this video provides practical spring gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing spaces.
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and welcome back to gardening with Ben
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well if you're listening to to this on
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Sunday that is because we've managed to
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schedule it and it's still published
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even though we've not paid a
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subscription yet because we're waiting
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for Payday on the 25th so if you want to
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pay for the subscription for me feel
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free to message me it's only 20 but yeah
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uh hopefully we will get the podcast up
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and running on Friday again so I
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probably won't be able to record what
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I've been up to on the plot so you'll
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have to wait for a big catch up on that
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one
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so we're pre-recording some episodes
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before to hopefully fill the gaps and
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keep the podcast going until I can
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actually record them again and upload
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them so what are we going to be talking
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about today so today we're going to talk
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about what you can grow around now
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outside because it's going to be a
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heatwave this week it's going to be
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20° and sometimes when you're a new
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Garden
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it can be quite exciting because people
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get think oh I can start growing
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everything outside now the weather's
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turning nice but no hold back do not do
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it because the frost will come still and
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kill them you could still get snow we
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could still get Frost and things can
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easily get killed in the bad weather and
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we wouldn't want that
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whatsoever so we are going to be
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talking about some of the stuff that you
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can actually grow outside at this time
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of year and I will be starting to plant
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some stuff myself hopefully in the
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coming weeks outside as like I said the
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weather's getting warmer now and
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hopefully it stays this way fingers
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crossed but knowing UK weather it
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certainly won't stay this
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way but some of the things that you can
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start to plant
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outside are you can start growing your
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potatoes
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outside now these are usually our first
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earlies they can usually be planted
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around now my dad was talking about
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planting his he grows in in tubs uh
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rather than in ground because he seems
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to get better crops from him so he's
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going to be growing his in tubs this
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year and he's going to be planting them
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this week I'm going to be looking at
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possibly planting my earlies this week
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and and usually I plant them on Good
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Friday and obviously Good Friday changes
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every single year but sometimes Good
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Friday can be in March and Good Friday
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is obviously all to do with the moon
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so that is a reason why I usually stick
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to Good Friday but you can start to get
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them in the ground now obviously they
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need to be deep in the ground at least a
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spade depth deep
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and when you are grow them if they do
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start popping up out of the ground the
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green shoes you need to cover them back
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up with soil because if the cold Frost
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gets to them or the snow it will kill
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them it will Scorch them it can turn
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them black uh the plants and I've seen
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so many photos one year we had a really
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late frost in May and everybody was
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showing how much
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um their potatoes got damaged by it
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thankfully I'd covered mine up with soil
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and people had fleeced theirs over
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because they knew this Frost was coming
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and I always keep it I well I did last
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year I always kept my eyes on the
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temperature because I worked at a garden
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center so we had to check the
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temperature every night to see what it
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was going down to so whether we had to
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protect the plants or not so it's worth
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off checking the temperature every night
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before you go to bed or in the afternoon
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to see what it's going to be like that
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night and you can always prepare
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yourself because you can put stuff
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outside in this warm weather you can
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start your seeds off outside but
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obviously fetch them in those if it's
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going to drop to so many degrees because
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you don't want to kill those plants off
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you've put all the effort into growing
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them you don't want them to die dear so
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yeah that is the main thing to do so
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obviously you can start your potatoes
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now like I said and another good thing
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to start now are your onion sets now
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many garden centers and DIY shops will
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be selling bags of onions now I won't be
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growing onion sets this year I've grown
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all my onions from seed now you can
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still start off onions from seed now but
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a good time to start onions off from
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seed usually is January February time to
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get them growing so that they can grow
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big enough in time for
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harvesting so we're going to look at
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possibly maybe getting those in the
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ground this week which is exciting and
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obviously growing onions you need to
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make sure that you do net them up
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because pigeons absolutely love them uh
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especially the ones that are bulbs
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because they'll just come down and
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they'll pull the bulbs out of the soil
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uh so many people lose their onion bulbs
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through this through pigeons pulling
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them out and they're a booger for just
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eating the tops off the onions and that
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can damage them it can stop the plant
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from growing properly
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and that is really frustrating so make
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sure you protect them from the pigeons
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and stop them from getting at them so
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hopefully we're going to be getting some
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onions in this week another good one to
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start at this time of year is spring
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onions you can start your spring onions
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again outside and I asked for gardening
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tips the other day and somebody posted a
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fantastic gardening tip for spring
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onions they say not to grow spring
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onions in rows but to plant so many in a
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Pott and then once they started
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germinating plant the colum into the
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ground and let it grow as a clump rather
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than as a RAR because when you're
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picking spring onions you pick them as a
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clump of spring onions really it's same
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when you go in a shop they a clump of
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spring onions so it's perfect really so
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I'm going to try that this year and I do
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love finding tips off other people um
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again gardening you're always always
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learning every single day of the year so
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learning all these tips is fantastic
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from other people and if you've got any
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gardening tips and advice please do send
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it mate I I do take everything on board
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and I do appreciate it so please do send
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your gardening tips and advice to me uh
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I'm on Instagram and Facebook so send me
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a message and I often reply to people so
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please do that also um another good
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thing to start at this time of year is
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your broad beans if you've not started
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your broad beans off through winter you
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can be starting them off now in the
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ground or a good way to start broad
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beans sometimes is in pots because again
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the pigeons can be a pain they'll eat
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the tops off them and kill the plants
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and also mice and rats love them as well
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so growing them in pots you can grow
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them to get them established and grow
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well and then you can plant them out
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where you want them to in evenly spaced
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rows so yeah it's ways and roundabouts
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really it's what you want to do
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obviously if you're grow them in pots as
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well you obviously have to use compost
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but if you're grow them in the ground
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you can sometimes get just grow them
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straight in the soil so it's up to you
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which way you want to do it another
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thing good thing to grow at this time of
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year is early peas now starting a batch
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off now you can start some off in a few
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weeks time as well you can plant them in
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succession so that you get in a constant
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Harvest of peas cuz all the peas seem to
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be ready at the same time when you grow
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them and obviously when you pick them
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all at the same time that's it over and
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done with so you want a few batches
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growing along the allotment so maybe
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start some off every couple of weeks and
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further down your allotment plot so keep
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them growing all all through the year
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and yeah grow them in succession so then
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you keep getting a harvest of piece and
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if you're anything like me the peas
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won't make it home the worst thing about
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peas is trying them once they're ready
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once you've tried them straight from the
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Pod there is no going back they're so
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juicy so tasty so delicious that they
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you'll absolutely love them so yeah peas
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are a good thing to grow at this time of
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year outside so yeah that has been our
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podcast for today it's been a nice short
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little episode talking about what you
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can so in this time of year and
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obviously this is the second podcast of
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the day if it has let me publish it uh
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we did do a podcast earlier in the day
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talking all about spring so if you've
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not listened to that one go back and
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listen to that one also please do check
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out my other podcast Channel called
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gardening and allotment tips podcast and
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there's about 45 episodes on there just
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talking about different topics each
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episode where we talk about a lot of
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different things in these episodes on my
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gardening and allotment tips podcast we
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just talk about one specific topic only
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and go over it in depth so have a listen
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to that the link is in the description
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of this one but you can find it called
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gardening and allotment tips podcast
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it's a green picture with my lovely face
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on it so check it out and also check out
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my gardening t-shirts as well there's a
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link in this description uh there's some
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funny t-shirts on there ideal for gifts
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some presents off for yourself and it
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all goes back towards purchasing things
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for my allotment and paying for this
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podcast hopefully we can sell four
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t-shirts this weekend and then we can
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keep this podcast going but yeah thank
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give it and as always remember keep
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