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This video explains how to choose the right seeds for your garden and how to plan what to grow successfully.
The guide covers selecting reliable varieties, checking seed quality, organising seed collections, planning sowing schedules and avoiding common beginner mistakes. It also explains how careful seed selection improves germination and overall growing results.
If you want better success when growing from seed, these simple practical tips will help you plan and grow with confidence.
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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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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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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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