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The Best Winter Seeds to Start Now
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Jan 1, 2025
❄️ The Best Winter Seeds to Start Now! Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean you can’t grow! 🌿💪 Here are the top seeds you can sow during winter — perfect for windowsills, greenhouses, and early harvests. Get a head start on the growing season and keep your green thumb busy through the chill! #WinterSowing #GrowYourOwn #SeedStarting #WinterGardening #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #ColdWeatherCrops
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode today I hope you're all well and
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I hope you're all recovering from the
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storm over the weekend and hopefully
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getting things tidy and back into ship
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shape and hopefully not too much damage
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down at your allotments and Gardens well
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what are we going to talk about today
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today we're going to talk about um the
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best winter seeds to start growing at
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this time of year and giving you some
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ideas and tips and advices on what sort
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of things you can grow whether it be
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vegetables flowers herbs whatever type
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of thing you want start grow if you're
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itching to get growing some things we
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are going to give you some tips and
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advice on certain things that you can
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actually start growing at this time of
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year so for vegetables what vegetables
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are the best ones to grow at this time
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of year well this has to be winter gem
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latish this hardly this Hardy variety
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with stands low temperatures and thrives
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when sewn in an unheated Greenhouse or
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cold frame directly sew seeds into grow
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bags and consider adding a sprinkling of
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fertilizer to promote optimal growth so
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if you've got an unheated Greenhouse or
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Cold Frame and you're wanting to grow
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some fresh lettuce try the winter gem
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variety as that come with stand the cold
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weather and it will keep on growing so
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yeah if you fancy some fresh salad
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leaves winter gem lettuce is the way to
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go next up is spinach and cake
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known as winter greens these leafy
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vegetables are resilient in colder
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climates sewing them in December can
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lead to an early spring Harvest as
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temperatures rise so if you're wanted
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something to be ready for the beginning
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of the year for first harvest think
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about growing some spinach and some
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kale broad beans so broad beans directly
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into the ground now for an early summer
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Harvest they're hard and can withstand
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winter conditions especially when
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provided with some protection like
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clutches but again you can either sew
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them straight into the ground or you can
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grow them in pots first and then plant
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them out and Yeah protect protect
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protect I started some off in Pops in my
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shed the squirrels got in and ate the
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lot of them so yeah make sure you
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protect them from pests like squirrels
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rats
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mice pigeons slugs because there's not
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much project juice around at the moment
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for them to eat they will come and eat
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anything so make sure you protect them
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from that onions and shots plant onion
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and shalot sets in well- drained soil to
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establish Roots before the Deep winter
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they'll resume growth as the weather
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warms leading to Bountiful late spring
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harvests so yeah if you wanted some
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onions and shalots make sure you get in
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the autumn and winter varieties if
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you're growing them from sets now and
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get them in the ground and get them
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stuck
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started if you wanted to go onions from
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seed you can start those off at end of
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like December beginning of January and
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they'll be the ones that are ready for
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Harvest come
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summertime and the same goes again for
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peppers and chilies and orber jeans if
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you're wanting good crops from them
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you're going to be wanting to start them
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off around January time so have a look
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around for those seeds and get thinking
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about growing them so so next up is
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flowers what seeds can we grow from
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flowers at this time of year so you can
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sew your sweet peas in pots and place
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them in a cold F or unheated Greenhouse
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this early start allows for stronger
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plants and earlier blooms in the
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springtime now I've got loads growing in
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my Greenhouse absolutely loads I started
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mine off about September time and I
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trimmed them all back the other day to
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help them Bush out as well and to
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produce stronger plants so we've trimmed
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all them back so we will be planting all
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those out come springtime and hopefully
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this year we're going to have a
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fantastic Bloom of sweet peas down at
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the allotment it's going to be
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absolutely astonishing fingers cross the
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all grew next up is daffodils December
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is an ideal time to plant daffodil bulbs
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plant them in well draining soil to
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encourage a colorful display when spring
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arrives and I know you can still get
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tulips in as well now if you haven't
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planted any TS yet and most garden
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centers will be selling all their bulbs
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off it now all the spring bulbs so have
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a look around see what's on offer and
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get them in the ground you've got plenty
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of time and hopefully get some fantastic
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displays down at the alotment or garden
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next up is herbs parsley and chives now
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if you want to start some herbs off you
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can start these off on a windel and and
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it's got to be nice warm sunny windol
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where the they'll provide fresh flavors
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for your winter dishes and can be
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transplanted outside in springtime so if
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you've got a windol sew a few seeds in a
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pot and get some parsley and some chives
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growing and like it says come springtime
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you can plant them outside and then
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they'll spread and they'll Bush out and
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they'll produce more and more herbs for
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you to keep harvesting so those are the
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seeds that we can grow at this time of
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year
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and if you're itching to get growing
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some things that gives you an idea of
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the certain things that you can get
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growing and hopefully get some great
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produce from so let me know if you're
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going to be starting any seeds off I'm
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going to be starting my onions off and
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my Peppers my chilies my or jeans off
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soon getting all them started and
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hopefully get some things growing ready
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for next year next year I'm going to try
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and do the best I can do on my allotment
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because obviously like I said I work
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five days a week now so I only get two
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days off but I'm going to try and show
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you how you can actually get your keep
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on top of things and get things growing
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and hopefully get amazing produce from
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your allotments in just two days down at
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the plot a week and
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hopefully it's going to be amazing so
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make sure you stay tuned for that
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because we will be blogging it all as we
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going along we're producing more and
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don't me the compost I need to start
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composting CU it's getting expensive now
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uh but yeah there's certain topics that
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learning so much more about flowers and
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I'm keeping learning about flowers
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because that's the thing that I want to
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learn more and more about growing down
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