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Free Seeds from Kitchen Garden & Grow Your Own Magazines | Allotment Seed Haul
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Nov 13, 2024
📦 What Free Seeds Did We Get for the Allotment Garden in Kitchen Garden and Grow Your Own Magazines? One of the best perks of gardening magazines? Free seeds! Let’s take a look at this month’s haul! 🌿🪴 In this video, I unbox and review the free seeds included in the latest issues of Kitchen Garden and Grow Your Own magazines — plus share how and when I plan to use them on the plot. It’s a great way to grow more without spending extra! Do you subscribe for the seeds too? Let me know your favourites! #FreeSeeds #GrowYourOwn #KitchenGardenMagazine #AllotmentLife #SeedHaul #GardeningWithBen #GardenOnABudget #UKGardener
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one's going to be talking about all the
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seeds what have come free in the
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magazines this month and tomorrow's
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we'll be talking about how you got
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everything done in February have you got
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all your jobs done have you got all your
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seats sewn for February and then in a
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few days we'll be talking about all the
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seeds to sew in March and all the job
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which need doing in the garden and
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alotment in March so plenty of good
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episodes coming up so make sure you do
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click that subscribe button and thank
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you if if you have clicked that
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subscribe button it's great to see my
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subscribers going up and yeah I'm really
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enjoying doing these now uh it's
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certainly something that I do enjoy I
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didn't think I'd be able to do these
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podcasts but now that I've got into the
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flow of them just talking into a
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microphone to myself I've certainly got
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used to it now so these are quite
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popular so I enjoy doing them so it's my
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favorite time of the month when my
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gardening magazines come out and the two
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gardening magazines which I get are
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kitchen Garden Magazine and grow your
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own magazine and these two magazines are
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absolutely filled to the brim full of
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gardening tips and advice and yeah I do
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a lot of eaing myself obviously I don't
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know everything so I'm still learning
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all the time and it's great to read tips
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and advice and see other people's
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allotments as well see what they're
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getting up to on their plots
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so like I said in this episode we're
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going to talk about what's come free in
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the magazine as that is one of the
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reasons why I do get the two magazines
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is for the seeds inside them I know
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they're not free because you're paying
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for the magazine but it feels lightly
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free and yeah the first magazine which
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we're going to talk about is the grow
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your own magazine and that cost $7.99
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this month but it came with 10 packets
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of seeds and some gardening gloves so
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obviously the gardening gloves are quite
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expensive as well so that's probably why
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it's cost a bit more money this month
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the magazine but yeah it can be quite
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expensive when they do put extra stuff
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in but we have got the seeds which is my
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favorite bet so what seeds have come in
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kitchen Garden Magazine this
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month so this month a lot of these seeds
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what we get in the magazine are stuff
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which can be sewn now and in March so
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the seeds that we have got this month in
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grow your own magazine are leak por
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Bella and they can be sewn from March to
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May and looking at the packet they're
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looking quite good so we may try growing
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some leaks this year see how well we do
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I've never really had much success with
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leaks because I've not really put in the
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effort of growing them uh it's not
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really a vegetable that I enjoy uh I've
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never really got the taste of it so we
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may give them a try and see if we do
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actually like leaks and see if we can
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get some good crops from them so we'll
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have to give that a
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try then we've got some spring onion it
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can never have enough spring onions uh
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spring onions are good to se in batches
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so so that you get in a harvest all the
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time and get in regular pickings so
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these are spring Evergreen
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bunching spring onions and these can be
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sewn from March to September so they're
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Hardy as well so you can actually sew
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them when it's cold uh and they will
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survive the cold
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weather and you can Harvest them all the
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way from March to October so it's great
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little space for to be you can fill your
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spaces wherever you've got a gap put a
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row of spring onion and yeah always room
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to fit some of those in they don't take
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up not much room whatsoever then we've
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got some Lamb's lettuce I don't think
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I've ever tried tasting Lamb's
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lettuce um so yeah we might give that a
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try and see what that actually tastes
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like I do need to grow some more salad
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stuff salad leaves and stuff like that
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so hopefully we can get a little salad
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leaf FAA growing on the allotment and
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that's like got 175 seat in it so you're
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getting your money's worth it's
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definitely then we've got some
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chevel which is a herb I've never really
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I don't think I've tried it to be honest
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it says it's a sweet flavor with a touch
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of an seed and you can sew it between
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January and December so I might give
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that a try and see if we can grow some
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and see what it actually tastes like and
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there's 500 seat in here uh not that I
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need 500 chevel plants but yeah they
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certainly do put a lot of seeds in some
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of these packets what you don't really
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need that many far which baffles me
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sometimes but oh well and then we've got
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tomato mini Bell now I've never tried
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growing these before that that's the
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thing with this magazine is that you'll
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get seeds what you probably wouldn't
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purchase in the shops so it's great to
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try new stuff and sometimes you'll get
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great crops from it and then you'll grow
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them yourself and keep on growing them
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so these are tomato mini battle so yeah
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these are more for pots by the lots of
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it so I could grow these in my poly
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tunnel and it's small Sweet Tomatoes
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perfect patio containers and
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baskets so
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yeah it looks pretty good and there's no
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need to stake a either which is good you
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don't have to fa around sticking them up
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and keeping them tied up
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and 50 seats in that so we'll probably
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give them a try this year so you'll have
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to stay tuned to see how well we
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actually get on with tomor mini bell and
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yeah I'll be sharing photos on my
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Instagram of them ones of how well they
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get
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on then we've got cauliflower romano
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natalino and these can be sewn from
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April to July now these look very
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strange on the picture I've never grown
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them myself I've only tried growing the
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white ones and obviously I grow the
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purple ones as well which I get great
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results from I've not managed to get
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some seeds purple cauliflower seeds yet
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I'm going to have to order some of those
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online I think uh because I do get great
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crops for them ones and I want to carry
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on growing them so I'll have to order
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some of those online uh possibly from
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Amazon or somewhere like
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that so yeah stay tuned for that we'll
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try growing some of those qualifiers
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this year and see if we get some great
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results
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then chard rubab chard Vulcan I've never
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tried chard to E I don't think uh I
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don't I wouldn't know what it tastes
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like I've not tried a lot of these to be
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honest but yeah I've never tried them
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and you can s that from April to July
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and harvest between July and
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November
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uh but yeah we'll have to see if it does
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well and you can carry on cropping them
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through win in a clock if you put a
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clutch protection over them from October
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onwards to encourage cropping into the
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winter and like again 60 seats in that
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so yeah and leaves can be cooked like
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spinach and the stems are tasty
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too so we'll see how they get
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on then we've got some red onions seeds
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now I've started all white ones off but
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I've not started any Red Onion seeds off
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so we'll possibly try some of those uh
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you can sell them between January and
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April I've tried growing red onion sets
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and I've never never had any look with
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growing red onions hats for some bizarre
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reason they always seem to go to seed uh
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whether it's because of the variety I
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have no idea uh but I've never had any
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Lu with red onion seed so we'll possibly
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give them a try I'm going to do be doing
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a lot of sew in here aren't
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I then we've got some garlic chives
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which are broadly leaves with a hint of
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garlic these can be sewn between January
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and December and harvest between January
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and December also and yeah I've got some
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chives growing but I don't think the
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garlic variety so that will be nice to
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add some flavoring to meals as well so
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we'll have to get some of those soon 150
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seeds I could start a shop off with all
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these seeds and uh start selling the
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plants I wish I could uh give up work
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and sell all these plants but yeah one
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day one day and then we've got some
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taragan
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Russian vigorous bushe and productive
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plants I think I've SE some tan I'll
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have to check what on my list of seeds
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what I've SE uh see if we've SE any T
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but yeah these can be SE now and 350
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seats in this one so we'll be having
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plenty of tun growing on the allotment
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so that is all the seats what come free
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in this month's magazine
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of grow your own and kitchen Garden
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Magazine no that was uh all the seeds
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what are in the grow your own magazine
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now we're going to have a look and see
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what seeds we've got in the kitchen
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Garden like I say you get 10 free
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packets in both magazines so that's 20
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packets of seeds to grow uh obviously
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you probably won't grow all of these but
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feel free give them to a friend give
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them to an allotment neighbor and share
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them between you
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because there's plenty of swap groups as
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well on Facebook where you can swap
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seeds with other people they may have
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seeds that you want and you may have
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seeds what they want and it's great to
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share with people and start doing a seed
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swap uh because you might get some great
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seeds from other people what you could
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try so the seeds what have come in the
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kitchen Garden Magazine are tomato Kur
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the blue and these can be somewh between
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January and April I never start my
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tomato seeds off until March time they
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always seem to catch up um it's never
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warm enough in my Greenhouse to start
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them off in
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January uh but yeah we'll be starting
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some of those off this month and we'll
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see how well they get on a large meaty
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heart shaped fruit and the way up to 200
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grams each so these are pretty massive
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these um so yeah I might give a couple
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of those try there 50 seats in them but
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obviously I won't need 50 plants I've
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done that in the past I've sewn all my
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tomato seeds everyone's germinated and
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I've potted them all up and I've had
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like 50 tomato plants growing in my
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polyan and it's way too much I certainly
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don't need that many so we'll have to
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see how well we do with them I've also
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picked up some tomato seeds today uh
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from Wilkinson's because I've not got
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any of these seeds what have come in the
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magazine and I stick to some of the
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regular ones which I do like to grow
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myself next up we've got some radish
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sparkler 3 now that is one of the
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fastest growing vegetables radish um you
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can keep doing successive sewings of
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radish so that you keep getting crops on
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a regular basis and you can get some
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great results for radish and yeah you
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can add them to your salad if you're
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growing lots of lettuce Le and stuff
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like that add them in with some lettuce
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and give it a bit of a
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kick then we've got some pass Snips and
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these can be sewn between February and
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may now par Snips are take absolutely
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ages to grow you're not meant to harvest
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par Snips until after the first Frost
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because that adds the flavor into the
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par snip um so
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yeah par Snips are very nice and tasty
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obviously you can rust them and stuff
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like that and get some great results
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from them then we've got some more
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spring onions white Lisbon again you've
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always got room to plant spring onions
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you can just fit them in gaps and fill
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up spaces and yeah keep s them on a
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regular basis so that you're picking
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them all the time all the way through
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the
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year then we've got some spinach beat
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that can be some between March and
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July everybody loves a bit of spinach uh
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it always makes spinach when you buy it
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from shops and stuff like that and then
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you like fry it and it shrinks up very
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small and youly get anything from the
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plant uh once you do it so
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yeah then we've got broccoli Autumn
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green calies and you saw that between
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March and May and harvest it between
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September and November so you're going
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to be having some nice Sunday dinners
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for some fantastic broccoli and it's
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absolutely gorgeous broccoli definitely
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homegrown broccoli tastes beautiful um
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you can't get anything nicer than
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homegrown
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broccoli then we've got turnips I was
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hting throughout all my seeds the other
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day and I didn't realize how many
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packets of turnips I actually have uh so
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I may have to start giving some of my
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seeds away and swapping with other
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people to see if they've got anything
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decent then we've got some Mar leaks
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elephant so these are big big uh Leakes
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these and yeah these can be SE now and
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then you harvest them through October
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through to March so again a nice winter
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vegetable to grow all the way through
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winter and be able to pick something
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through the winter so that you can still
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eat crops what you're growing through
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the
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winter then something I absolutely
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disgust celery I'll definitely be giving
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these seeds away called Green leaves you
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saw it between March and May and harvest
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it between August and November but I
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absolutely hate saler I will not grow
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salery I've never tried growing CER and
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I won't ever try growing celery so don't
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expect me to grow celery and share
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celery
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tips and then we've got some
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lettuce like I was saying I need to
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start growing more cut andc lettuce uh
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start doing more like salads and stuff
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like that this year so I'm going to be
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looking at making a proper salad bed
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this year and see if we can get some
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decent results from them so yeah that is
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all the seeds what have come in the
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magazine this month again like I said
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like there's 20 packets of seeds there
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and you don't have to sell all the
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packet of seeds just sprinkle a few in
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and save the rest for another year or
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give them to an allotment neighbor or
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share them with a friend or family
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member let some kids try sewing them if
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you've got any grandchildren or nephews
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or nieces let them s some seeds and grow
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some vegetables at home because it's
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great to encourage other people to grow
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stuff at home as well and hopefully get
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some fantastic results from growing
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them so that's been your episode today
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on what fre seeds you get in the
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magazines this month I hope you've
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Yeah tomorrow's episode will be all
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about have you done all the jobs that
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you needed to do in February and have
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you planted all your seeds for this
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month and see what you can get done
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before March starts because who knows
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what the weather is going to be like uh
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the last couple of days has been
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absolutely glorious definitely good
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gardening weather and get some seeds
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started as well so hopefully we'll have
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a nice March but we'll have to see we'll
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have to see if we get a decent one
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fingers crossed we do and we get a nice
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wave like we did in the first Corona
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virus pandemic lockdown where it was
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absolutely glorious and I got a
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fantastic Sunan uh during the time while
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we were not allowed to go anywhere you
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were still allowed to go to the alotment
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but I managed to get a fantastic
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allotment tan so yeah make sure you tune
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in to tomorrow's episode until next time
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