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Where to learn about Gardening and Allotments
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Nov 14, 2024
📚 Where to Learn About Gardening and Allotments! Whether you're brand new or looking to deepen your knowledge, there are so many great ways to grow your gardening skills! 🌱✨ In this episode, I’m sharing my top resources for learning — from books and podcasts to online communities, YouTube channels, and hands-on experience. Where do you turn when you want to learn something new on the plot? #LearnToGarden #AllotmentAdvice #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #BeginnerGardening #AllotmentTips
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and let's enjoy today's episode hello
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and welcome to your Sunday episode of
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gardening with Ben I hope that your
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weekend's been all right it's been
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absolutely horrible weather very
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horrible couldn't be any worse than what
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it has been apart from snow but y it's
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certainly been bad weather for gardening
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and I hope that you've managed to get
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some jobs done and as I always say is
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that when it's raining it's a perfect
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opportunity to do work inside your shed
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look at all those seeds that you've got
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in a bag or in a Cupboard somewhere sort
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them all out into what months they
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should be planted in and what seeds you
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short of this year have a look on
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websites have a look at new varieties
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what have come out have a look and see
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what you want to grow this year and yeah
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it's about getting things prepared and
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ready for the months ahead because come
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March it's going to be busy getting
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everything sewing and I've still got
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absolutely love to see left to get yes
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I've got about 500 packets of seeds but
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there is so much left to get and like I
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keep saying this year is going to be my
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year on the plot it's going to be the
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best production that I have ever put out
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there of my allotment and I'm so looking
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forward to this year and tasting all the
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fresh fresh produce that I am growing
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and seeing what I can grow and seeing if
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I can cook stuff from it cuz I'm not a
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brilliant cook myself a lot of the stuff
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I just give it away to friends and
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family yes they absolutely love me for
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it uh but a lot of the stuff I don't
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keep but you never know I might try and
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cook some stuff with it this year and
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see how we get on um what we can make
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with uh different stuff from the
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allotment and share it all with you as
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well uh don't think I'll be bringing out
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a cookbook pretty soon but yeah um I'm
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definitely going to try some recipes
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this year have a look online and share
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the with you and yeah I'm looking
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forward to it they might look disgusting
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by the time I've cooked them uh but as
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long as it tastes nice that's all that
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matters right
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y but yeah today we're going to talk
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about where you can find your
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information for
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gardening um because gardening is a a a
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Fountain of Knowledge there's so much
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out there that you can learn about
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gardening
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sometimes there's too much information
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and in certain I'm part of like
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different allotment groups on Facebook
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and stuff like that and sometimes
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there's some people in these groups that
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are know it alls and they like to tell
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you how bad you're doing things or
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whether you're doing them wrong or the
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way you should be doing them uh and oh I
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wouldn't be doing it like that if I was
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you um but how do people learn if they
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don't make mistakes and that is what
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I've learned to be honest when I first
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started gardening there weren't Facebook
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there weren't the internet and yeah it
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were kiss of sewing the seeds and hoping
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for the best and seeing what you got
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from it and that's a a lot of the way
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that I've learned
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myself
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because it's about learning it's about
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just trying it and seeing hope hoping
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for the best and seeing the outcome that
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you can get from it um one thing that I
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do recommend is gardening books
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allotment books there's so many great
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gardening books out there and so many
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new ones coming out every single year by
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different offers of different methods of
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new ways to try stuff to grow and fun
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ways of stuff to grow and I really
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encourage you to go out there and have a
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look at different gardening books to buy
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a they're a good read and you'll learn
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some stuff because sometimes you're not
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don't always learn stuff when you read
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it online uh I tend to take in stuff
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from pictures uh rather than reading a
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lot of the times
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and it's good to find different books to
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read and find information out on a lot
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of the stuff I explain to you I do
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research on it uh because I don't want
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to be giving you all the wrong
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information
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I like to find out stuff for myself
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first and then I like to share it with
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you uh save you doing all that hard
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work but yeah I'm always forever reading
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gardening books and the best gardening
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book that I've got is the a lot month by
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month one uh which shares with you all
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different tips and advice on what to do
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each month uh it's a fantastic book and
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I do recommend it and yeah gardening
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books can be expensive to buy um but
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sometimes what I recommend which I saw
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somebody else do it on Instagram
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yesterday um they go around charity
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shops and have a look in there and I've
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done that and I got addicted to doing
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that at one point I had to stop going to
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the charity shops uh because I buying
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that many gardening books I bought one
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gardening book what was like an
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encyclopedia and it should have been
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like
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£40 and I got it for for £1 I thought
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wow now that is a fantastic bargain and
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it's a brilliant book it's absolutely
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jam-packed it must have took years to
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write um but it's a fantastic book so if
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you've got any charity shops around you
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go and have a look around see what
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Bargains you can buy even if it's
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£23 it's still cheaper than buying it
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from uh the big retailers and you more
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often than that you will find some
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fantastic gardening books in there
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because same goes for car boot sales as
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well people buy these books uh getting
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into the Hobby and they realize that
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they don't want them in the end so they
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take them to car boot sales or give them
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to charity shops because they'll never
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read them again and they get rid of them
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and you can pick up some fantastic
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Bargains and that's what I've done I
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must have about 20 gardening books and
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there's still some out there that I want
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to get so I may have to start going to
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those charity shops again and have a
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look around and seeing what Bargains I
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can
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get and obviously there's the magazines
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as well and those episodes will be
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coming up again soon um I'll be buying
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the kitchen Garden Magazine and the grow
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your own magazine I buy them on a
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monthly basis they're full of
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information on what you need to do that
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month well the next coming month uh and
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also it's jam packed full of seeds and
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each episode I like to share with you
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what seeds will come in that uh magazine
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and that'll set you back about6 for the
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magazine but you'll get 10 free packets
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of seeds obviously they're not free
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because you paid for them in the
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magazine but6 for 10 packets of
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seeds fantastic buy and you get all the
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information on how to grow them as well
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which really does help so have a look
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around don't always listen to people
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because they think they know it all but
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also do listen to people sometimes
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because they find easy great ways of
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growing stuff sometimes and sometimes
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from doing mistakes that is how new
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methods are found and it's fantastic
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that people do try stuff and don't get
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put off by people saying no I won't do
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it like that and trying the method and
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trying the new way and yeah getting
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great results from it so have a look
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around have a look and find some great
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gardening books out there let me know
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send me a message what is your favorite
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gardening book to read um because I'm
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books so send me a message on Instagram
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