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Weekend Gardening at the Allotment | Seasonal Tasks & Allotment Podcast
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Nov 14, 2024
🌱 Weekend Gardening at the Allotment! There’s nothing quite like a weekend on the plot — fresh air, muddy boots, and ticking off those satisfying garden jobs! 🧤☀️ In this episode, I’m sharing what I’ve been up to this weekend, including key seasonal tasks, growing updates, and a few lessons from the soil. How did you spend your gardening weekend? #WeekendGardening #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #SeasonalGardenTasks #OnThePlot
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben well it's
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Saturday it's been a hell of a storm and
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I've seen a lot of damage to people's
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allotments which hasn't been good
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whatsoever
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um the that's the thing you can't
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prepare for anything like this you just
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have to sit and wait it out and see what
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happens in the aftermath of the storm
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thankfully up north in Sheffield it's
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not been as bad as what I thought it
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would have been um I don't think it
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seems as bad as what storm Dudley was
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here in
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Sheffield uh storm dudly seem to do a
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lot of damage to my shed uh but I'm
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thinking that it might have survived
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this thing is I won't be able to go and
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check it until Wednesday at the
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earliest which will be a while just
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sitting thinking has it survived or not
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I may have to message one of my other
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allotment friends and see if they can
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pop down and just have a check make sure
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it's not blown away uh I didn't see it
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flying around in the sky so hopefully
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it's still standing but yeah um I I am
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worried about what it'll look like uh
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but like I said I'll just have to sit
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and wait it out and see what it looks
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like when I get down there on Wednesday
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um make sure I've charged my uh drill up
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uh to do any repairs that need doing but
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yeah Wednesday could be a day full of
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repairs down at the allotment getting it
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all back built again but we shall see we
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shall see if I have to build a
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crowdfunding page to get it built back
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up
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again but yeah we we will see hopefully
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it will be all right uh like I said I've
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got quite a few plastic panels what I
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need to replace this year and get fixed
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to add the extra warmth in it have
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placed it with poly tunnel covering for
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the time being but um the corrugated
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plastic does make it a lot more warmer
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uh so we do need to get some new ones of
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those so that's the plan this year uh so
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if anybody's got any free corrugated
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plastic uh sheeted drop me a DM in
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Instagram uh if you're close by in
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Sheffield feel free I'm always up for
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free B uh but yeah uh they're about n
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pounder sheet so keep listening to these
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podcasts and it'll help fund them as
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everything that I earn from these
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podcast goes back into my
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allotment and producing the content that
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you get and yeah I've been buying quite
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a few things for it recently like my new
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climbing roses my phoness black bra
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my uh blue BRD what I've planted uh so
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yeah quite a bit I'm still after some
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yellow
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raspberries for that is my next on the
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list I would like some of them so we'll
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have to have a look around maybe we'll
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have to order some of them online uh to
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get them ones but we'll see I would like
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some that is the plan for this year uh
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they've been on my bucket list for a
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while and some pineapple flavored
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strawberries I've seen quite a few of
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those in the past uh we used to have
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them at the Garden Center where I worked
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I've been told they're very delicious
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so I may get some of those this year but
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on with the show and let's try and
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forget about the storm um well it's
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forecast for snow actually for Saturday
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and Sunday and thankfully I am working
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uh this podcast has been pre-recorded on
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Friday night so that you can listen to
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it on Saturday uh I do proom try and
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promise to keep these podcasts going
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when I'm working uh but it's just
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finding the time after you've done 12 12
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hours work you don't feel like going
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back onto a computer and doing my it
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work uh you just like to rest and relax
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so hopefully we'll do some
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pre-recordings for you so that they'll
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keep going out and I may do Sunday
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straight after this one because uh I do
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like watching an deck on a Saturday
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night and Saturday night take away his
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back on uh but yeah it's sometimes F
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hard finding subjects to talk about all
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the time but I was talking to one of my
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Instagram followers and I mentioned that
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sometimes I find it hard to find things
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to talk about all the time and he says
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just talk about your day people enjoy it
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talk about what You' been up to and
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share with people everything what's
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going off so if you do enjoy it please
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let me know if you've got any subjects
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that you want me to talk about send me a
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message it's always good to hear what
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other people like to listen to and to be
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honest I don't really listen to podcast
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myself so I don't know what a lot of
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people's podcasts actually sound like uh
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so I do really need to start listening
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to other peoples to get ideas of what
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they actually talk about and I see so
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many people spending hours edited
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editing them getting them all ready but
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mine's just recorded raw Straight From
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the Heart and straight up for you to
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listen to Just Me waffling on for 10
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minutes every single
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episode but but you all seem to love
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them so thank you for that so yeah um
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obviously it's the weekend and most of
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you will be off work I'm working
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obviously uh but it's a time for doing
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your jobs in your garden so what jobs do
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need doing in the garden at the moment
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obviously we do need to be planting the
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fruit up if you're wanting to plant
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fruit now is the time to be getting that
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in the ground because while the ground
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is wet while the ground is soft it's not
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frozen at the moment we' not been
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getting much Frost now is the time to be
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getting it in it can be settling into
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the ground it can be drinking the water
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it can be getting those roots down
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straight into the ground and getting
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anchored obviously the fruit will take a
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while to start a formation but you've
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made that first step in getting it
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planted if you plant fruit in summer
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it's hard to get it established because
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it's dry there's not much moisture in
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the ground and it's hard to get them to
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go get started that's why they always
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say to get them started in winter when
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they're pretty much dormant and get them
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going in the ground so we need to be
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getting all that
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done and also I do encourage you if
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you've never grown sweet peas before go
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out this weekend go and buy a couple of
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packets the cheap enough in wilers or
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bmq or any other Garden Center just get
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a couple of packets you usually get
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about about 25 to 30 in a packet and
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that will be enough for a nice little
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border just get a plastic lunch box like
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I do put a layer of kitchen roll in the
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bottom of it spray it with some water so
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it's damp and then put the Sweet Peas on
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top and close the lid and that will
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start them germinating after a few days
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I usually get 100% germination rate on
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Sweet Peas once once they've started
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germinating and you can see the roots
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and the Sprout popping out pop them into
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some soil into individual cells or into
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a
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pot and then when it gets to around
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April May time then you can plant them
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straight out in the ground and they will
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look absolutely fantastic if you've
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never grown flowers before these need to
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be the first flowers that you'll grow in
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your garden or alotment they easy to
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grow you just keep picking them when the
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flowers keep growing and people will
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love them the more you pick them the
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more they will flower and you will have
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some epic
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results and the other thing that you can
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be doing this weekend is going through
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all your seed packets like me I've got a
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I'm just looking at my bag full that
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I've got now like I said I get two
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magazines a month uh grow own magazine
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and kitchen Garden Magazine and each
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magazine comes with 10 free packets of
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seeds well they're not free because
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you're paying for the magazine uh but 10
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packets of seeds so I get 20 packets of
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seeds a month so you can think of how
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many packets of seeds I've actually got
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I could open up my own garden center I
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may have to open up an online shop
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selling my packets of seeds off to
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everybody uh but yeah that might be
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something down the line uh line if I do
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need to fund a new
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shed but yeah just go through all your
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packets of seeds have a look at what
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you've got what you need to get and
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think of that new thing that you want to
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try growing this year have a look around
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have you got a poly tunnel why don't you
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start try and have a look at growing
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some melons there's plenty of varieties
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that can grow in the UK I've been doing
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quite a lot of research today cuz I like
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to update my website every so often and
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send articles out and stuff and I'm
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going to be sending an article out about
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how to grow melons soon uh I'll do a
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podcast talking about one soon
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and there's so many varieties that can
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be grown in the UK these days as long as
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you've got a hot place to grow them like
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polyon aot Greenhouse you will have some
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great success from them and hopefully
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some fantastic results so have a look at
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trying to grow something new let me know
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what you're going to try uh if I know
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any tips and advice on them I'll do a
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podcast on it so have a look around send
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