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This video explains which vegetable and flower seeds can be sown in winter and how to give them the best start. Learn which crops tolerate cooler temperatures and how to support germination during colder months.
The guide covers sowing depth, soil preparation, watering and protecting seedlings from frost. It also explains which seeds can be started indoors and which are suitable for outdoor sowing in winter conditions.
If you want to continue growing during colder weather, this video provides practical winter seed starting advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and containers.
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode today I hope you're all well and
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I hope you're all recovering from the
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storm over the weekend and hopefully
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getting things tidy and back into ship
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shape and hopefully not too much damage
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down at your allotments and Gardens well
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what are we going to talk about today
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today we're going to talk about um the
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best winter seeds to start growing at
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this time of year and giving you some
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ideas and tips and advices on what sort
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of things you can grow whether it be
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vegetables flowers herbs whatever type
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of thing you want start grow if you're
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itching to get growing some things we
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are going to give you some tips and
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advice on certain things that you can
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actually start growing at this time of
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year so for vegetables what vegetables
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are the best ones to grow at this time
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of year well this has to be winter gem
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latish this hardly this Hardy variety
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with stands low temperatures and thrives
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when sewn in an unheated Greenhouse or
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cold frame directly sew seeds into grow
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bags and consider adding a sprinkling of
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fertilizer to promote optimal growth so
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if you've got an unheated Greenhouse or
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Cold Frame and you're wanting to grow
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some fresh lettuce try the winter gem
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variety as that come with stand the cold
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weather and it will keep on growing so
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yeah if you fancy some fresh salad
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leaves winter gem lettuce is the way to
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go next up is spinach and cake
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known as winter greens these leafy
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vegetables are resilient in colder
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climates sewing them in December can
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lead to an early spring Harvest as
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temperatures rise so if you're wanted
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something to be ready for the beginning
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of the year for first harvest think
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about growing some spinach and some
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kale broad beans so broad beans directly
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into the ground now for an early summer
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Harvest they're hard and can withstand
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winter conditions especially when
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provided with some protection like
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clutches but again you can either sew
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them straight into the ground or you can
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grow them in pots first and then plant
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them out and Yeah protect protect
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protect I started some off in Pops in my
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shed the squirrels got in and ate the
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lot of them so yeah make sure you
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protect them from pests like squirrels
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rats
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mice pigeons slugs because there's not
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much project juice around at the moment
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for them to eat they will come and eat
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anything so make sure you protect them
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from that onions and shots plant onion
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and shalot sets in well- drained soil to
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establish Roots before the Deep winter
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they'll resume growth as the weather
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warms leading to Bountiful late spring
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harvests so yeah if you wanted some
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onions and shalots make sure you get in
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the autumn and winter varieties if
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you're growing them from sets now and
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get them in the ground and get them
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stuck
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started if you wanted to go onions from
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seed you can start those off at end of
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like December beginning of January and
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they'll be the ones that are ready for
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Harvest come
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summertime and the same goes again for
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peppers and chilies and orber jeans if
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you're wanting good crops from them
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you're going to be wanting to start them
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off around January time so have a look
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around for those seeds and get thinking
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about growing them so so next up is
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flowers what seeds can we grow from
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flowers at this time of year so you can
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sew your sweet peas in pots and place
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them in a cold F or unheated Greenhouse
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this early start allows for stronger
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plants and earlier blooms in the
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springtime now I've got loads growing in
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my Greenhouse absolutely loads I started
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mine off about September time and I
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trimmed them all back the other day to
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help them Bush out as well and to
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produce stronger plants so we've trimmed
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all them back so we will be planting all
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those out come springtime and hopefully
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this year we're going to have a
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fantastic Bloom of sweet peas down at
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the allotment it's going to be
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absolutely astonishing fingers cross the
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all grew next up is daffodils December
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is an ideal time to plant daffodil bulbs
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plant them in well draining soil to
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encourage a colorful display when spring
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arrives and I know you can still get
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tulips in as well now if you haven't
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planted any TS yet and most garden
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centers will be selling all their bulbs
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off it now all the spring bulbs so have
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a look around see what's on offer and
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get them in the ground you've got plenty
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of time and hopefully get some fantastic
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displays down at the alotment or garden
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next up is herbs parsley and chives now
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if you want to start some herbs off you
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can start these off on a windel and and
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it's got to be nice warm sunny windol
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where the they'll provide fresh flavors
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for your winter dishes and can be
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transplanted outside in springtime so if
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you've got a windol sew a few seeds in a
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pot and get some parsley and some chives
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growing and like it says come springtime
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you can plant them outside and then
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they'll spread and they'll Bush out and
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they'll produce more and more herbs for
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you to keep harvesting so those are the
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seeds that we can grow at this time of
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year
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and if you're itching to get growing
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some things that gives you an idea of
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the certain things that you can get
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growing and hopefully get some great
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produce from so let me know if you're
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going to be starting any seeds off I'm
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going to be starting my onions off and
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my Peppers my chilies my or jeans off
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soon getting all them started and
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hopefully get some things growing ready
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for next year next year I'm going to try
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and do the best I can do on my allotment
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because obviously like I said I work
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five days a week now so I only get two
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days off but I'm going to try and show
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you how you can actually get your keep
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on top of things and get things growing
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and hopefully get amazing produce from
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your allotments in just two days down at
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the plot a week and
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hopefully it's going to be amazing so
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make sure you stay tuned for that
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because we will be blogging it all as we
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going along we're producing more and
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more content these days for you to watch
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and Listen to As you know the podcasts
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come on every single day for you to
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listen to I'm finding new topics to talk
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about every single day now I found a
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website where I can get great topics to
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talk about so that I'm not just waffling
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on all the time and I hope that you're
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enjoying all these new topics that we're
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talking about and yeah get involved as
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well feel free to send me an Instagram
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message and ask me if I uh you want me
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to talk about a certain subject like I
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can't talk about composting because I
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don't know anything about composting I
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don't me the compost I need to start
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composting CU it's getting expensive now
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uh but yeah there's certain topics that
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I don't know about and certain things
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that I'm not aware of but I'm learning
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like you I'm always learning and I'm
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learning so much more about flowers and
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I'm keeping learning about flowers
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because that's the thing that I want to
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learn more and more about growing down
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at the allotment so until tomorrow's
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