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The Ultimate Cucumber Journey: Seed to Savory Harvest!| Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 The Ultimate Cucumber Journey: Seed to Savory Harvest! From sowing the first seed to slicing into a crisp, homegrown cucumber — here’s how to do it right! 🥒✨ In this episode, I’m sharing my full cucumber-growing process, including seed selection, care tips, common problems, and how to get the perfect harvest every time. Are cucumbers a staple in your garden too? #CucumberGrowing #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife #SeedToHarvest #UKGardener #CucumberTips
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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just starting out this podcast is for
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sewing and growing we will share all the
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tips and AD advice we will also have
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another new
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episode this week we've had quite a few
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new episodes popping out so I hope you
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managing to keep up with them all
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yesterday we were talking all about
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mental health and the garden and the
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allotment and hopefully I'm going to be
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doing a video on that as well soon on my
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YouTube channel if you not checked out
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all my latest videos there is lots more
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new videos popping up on my YouTube
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channel and thank you to all those who
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have subscribed to it and been watching
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my videos it has really helped we are
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pushing for it to uh get to the stage of
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monetization this year so all the views
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all the sub uh subscribers really does
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help push it out out there so thank you
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for that um but yeah hopefully we'll get
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lots more videos coming if you've got
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any ideas of videos that you want on
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there just drop me a message on
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Instagram I'm always up for new ideas
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and yeah I love sharing tips and advice
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from down there we'll also be doing
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another tour video coming up this week
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down at the allotment I'm going to be
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doing them on a weekly basis as
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obviously things are growing now on
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theot well trying to with this weather
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but hopefully we'll get lot more growing
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down there and we've got quite a lot
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more to be getting planted and that
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leads on to one of our subjects of today
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we're going to be talking about growing
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cucumbers yes
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cucumbers now cucumbers are expensive
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obviously to buy in the shops and I've
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always done well with growing cucumbers
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down at my allotment and the variety
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that I usually grow is the market more
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variety of cucumber and as it seems one
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of the easier ones to grow uh regarding
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pollination getting them started and
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training them and growing lots and lots
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of fruit on them so I've been growing
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Market more variety for about 16 years
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now and I've never had any issues
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growing them sometimes they obviously
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get nibbled when they get started on but
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after that usually they get growing
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pretty well and I tend to grow these in
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my polyon
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and yeah it's can get kind of hot in
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there and humid but I do have a good
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success rate with them all and all I do
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with my cucumbers is I just grow them in
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a bucket with some holes in the bottom
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and I just purchased some regular
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compost from the supermarket or from the
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garden center DIY shop and I fill it
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about 3 F full of compost and I plant
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one in each bucket now these buckets I
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usually get from somewhere like
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Morrison's the flower buckets and they
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usually do the job pretty well and we've
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had these flower buckets for years now
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all we do is wash them out each year and
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reuse them and make the use of them down
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in the allotment so we've got about five
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cucumber plants growing down at the
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allotment at the moment and these ones
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are all potted up in the buckets already
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for growing this year and we've also
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planted about two to three weeks ago 50
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more seeds from a packet and they've all
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germinated so we need to start getting
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those planted up into the buckets as
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well soon that might be a job for this
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week but we'll see we'll see how well
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they're looking when I'm next down at
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the allotment but yeah I want to get as
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many cucumber plants growing as possible
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this year as they always go down well
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with myself they always keep well and I
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love sharing them out with friends and
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family as well
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and I usually have a good reception from
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people when they've tasted them tasted
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how delicious and how sweet they are so
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cucumbers are pretty easy to look after
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um obviously like I say I grow mine in a
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poly tunnel so I'll Water Mine every
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couple of days as the big drinkers
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obviously cucumbers are made up of a lot
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of water mainly water so they do require
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quite a bit of drinking
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water and keeping them hydrated and
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obviously I like water them in the
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morning sometimes spray them just to
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keep them nice and moist uh with
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water and I usually do pretty well with
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them so once you start growing and get
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to a certain height what you need to do
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is you need to make sure that you get
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them growing up something you don't want
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cucumbers growing along the floor as
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things can eat them they can get rotten
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they
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can get eaten by rats mice slugs
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anything will have a nibble on it so you
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need to make sure you're growing them up
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off the ground now what I usually do is
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I usually grow them up some netting and
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cucumbers are very strong plants what
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they do is they send out
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little I forgot what the word is now
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like little shoots where they will grab
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onto something tendrils bit like I think
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they're called uh they latch onto things
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and wrap the cells around them so if you
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got netting up they'll throw out these
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tendrils and they'll wrap the themselves
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Around The netting and they'll hold the
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themselves tight they won't need
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fastening up you'll need to get them
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started by tying them onto the netting
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but once they're growing up the
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netting they'll grow pretty easy and
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they'll do pretty well and it's funny
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with growing cucumbers what I always
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have the issue of doing is that I'm
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growing them all and then like you
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suddenly think you a't got any cucumber
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and you look and there's one hiding to
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say how big they grew you can literally
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be looking somewhere and you just
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suddenly find a cucumber hiding
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somewhere and you're like wow where did
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that come from and it can be massive um
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but I always do well with my cucumbers
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and what I also do is I put some chicken
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pellets in the soil as well so that it
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breaks down over two to three months and
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gives it continuous food right through
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up until it fru in
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and also I give them a feed weekly until
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the flowers and the fruit start
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appearing and then once the flowers in
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the fruit start appearing then I'll feed
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them probably twice a week because the
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more they grow the plants the more food
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they'll need the more energy they'll
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need in growing those cucumber plants
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now depending on how many cucumbers you
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want growing on it sometimes if it's got
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quite a few growing on it already you
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can take the flowers off what haven't
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developed so that it concentrates on the
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Cucumbers that are growing or if you
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want a continuous crop I sometimes just
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leave them on and once one cucumber's
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ready then another one will start
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growing on the flowers and obviously if
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you're going them in a greenhouse or
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poly tunnel you'll need to make sure you
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leave your doors open so that the bees
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can get in there and pollinate the
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flowers so that they do pollinate and
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you do get some cucumbers on them if not
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you can just go around with a paintbrush
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and tickle each flow and that will help
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pollinate the flowers
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and hopefully produce some more
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delicious cucumbers so yeah they are
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pretty easy to grow cucumbers if You'
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never tried growing them before I do
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advise to go out and get some you will
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have a good success with them Market
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more variety are a brilliant variety to
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grow now you possibly have chance to
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plant some if you've not planted some uh
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because they'll grow up until October
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but you're best off probably having a
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look in a garden center or something
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like that seeing if you can find some
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cheap ones to stick in but I do advise
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giving cucumbers a try let me know if
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you're going to try some cucumbers send
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me a message on Instagram I always like
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to hear people's feedback from the
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episode and yeah I'm going to be sharing
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lots of tips and advice on my cucumbers
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and photos of them as well once they
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start growing so that's going to be our
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next job potting up 50 cucumber plants
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which is going to be fun and yeah I'll
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do a video as well of it all fastened up
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with them on The netting and everything
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like that in the polyon so make sure you
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stay tuned for that so until next time
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