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Plotting for Success: How to Create Your Perfect Allotment Garden Plan🍂| Gardening Tips & Seasona...
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Nov 15, 2024
📐 Plotting for Success: How to Create Your Perfect Allotment Garden Plan! Success starts with a solid plan! Whether you're a first-time grower or looking to improve your current layout, this episode dives into how to design an allotment that works for you — crop rotation, pathways, raised beds and all. 🌱🗺️ What’s one thing you’re including in your next garden plan? #GardenPlanning #AllotmentDesign #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentPodcast #UKGardener #GardenSuccess #SeasonalAdvice
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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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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode we'll dig into tips
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garden and alotment thve from planting
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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 brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well happy hump day
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we are now in the middle of the week
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it's nearly the
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weekend we nearly at the weekend it's
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near only time to get back to those
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allotments and Gardens if you're working
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in the week like I am so yeah we do look
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forward to them weekends and I do look
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forward to spending all my time down
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there at the weekend and it's
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currently still decent weather we still
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haven't had a frost that I know of yet
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where I am and it's like 12th of
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November 13th of November already and
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we've not had no Frost and another thing
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I've noticed is we've hardly had well
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we've not had any rain for ages I don't
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know if it's like it where you are but
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we've not had no rain they'll be calling
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on a drought before you know it but yeah
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it's it's bizarre weather certainly is
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strange at the moment how we've not had
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no rain No frost it's just dry and I'm
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needing it to rain to water my onions
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and my garlic but it's just not coming
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we're having to water myself in November
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and yeah it's very bizarre but yeah what
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are we talking about today well today's
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episode is all about planning for next
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season we are at that time of year when
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we're starting to think about what we
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want to do down at the allotment Gardens
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next year and I love this time of year
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and obviously as I'm doing my plot at
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the moment I'm stripping it all back I'm
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digging it all over I'm clearing all my
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beds I'm providing a blank canvas ready
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for next year like obviously some stuff
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will stay where they are like all my
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fruit trees all my fruit bushes my
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rhubarb that will all stay where it is
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but all my beds are completely empty and
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we'll be starting from scratch again
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next year and what I usually do at this
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time of year I usually get a piece of
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paper draw all my beds out and write
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down where I want to to grow stuff next
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year and where I want plan on growing it
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planting it sewing it and yeah I decide
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on what I want to do
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and my allotment gets quite a bit of
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shade on it so I have to think about
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what's will grow in the shade and what
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won't grow in the shade and when you're
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planning on what you want to grow on
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your allotment next year you need to
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look at what's been grown where you need
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to grow stuff in different places each
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year because each vegetable uses
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different nutrients from the ground so
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it's not good to grow the same thing in
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the same place year after year it's good
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to keep rotating stuff around and
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obviously improve your soil as well over
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the winter period ready for planting
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next year and that can either be with
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compost mulch or it can be with u
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fertilizer anything to improve it and
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make it more nutritious ready for
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growing next year and hopefully getting
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some good crops in so we'll obviously
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draw us plan we'll write down where we
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want stuff to grow and we'll think about
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what we want to grow next year and one
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of the ways that I think about what I
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want to grow next year is I just have
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like think of something like
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say squash and I'll just Google or look
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on Amazon or in a seat catalog at
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different varieties of squash to grow
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and I like growing different
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new varieties every single year of
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different things and obviously if you go
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to a garden center you won't get that as
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many varieties in the garden center or a
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DIY Shop you'll only get your standard
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varieties that you will see so have a
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look online have a look in different
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seed magazines Etc and try and grow
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something different next year and it's
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really interesting to do what whe you'll
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eat them or not it's just the fun of
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growing them and I've done this for a
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few years now and one year I did
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different varieties of squash one year I
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did different varieties of beans as is a
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load of different varieties of beans
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there like purple beans there like
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speckled beans yellow beans black beans
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red beans there all different varieties
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of beans and it's just good to try
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different varieties and then
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sometimes experimenting growing
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different varieties you may find one
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what's really easy to grow and tastes
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delicious now I did this as well for
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growing cauliflower I saw a purple
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variety of cauliflower yes purple not
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white but purple I've never had any look
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growing white cauliflowers very well I
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thought oh I'll give these purple ones a
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try it's worth a shot fill up a space
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I'd got some seeds
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and they did absolutely fantastic the
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curd on them were absolutely brilliant
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and they tasted absolutely delicious so
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yeah it's good to try different
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varieties because things might actually
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grow better so always experiment down at
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the allotment and I might actually try
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that with carrots next year because
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obviously I've not had much Lu with
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growing carrots so I might actually do
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my experiment with carrots next year try
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different varieties of carrots and see
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which ones I can actually get growing so
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let me know if you fancy doing different
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experiments in trying different stuff
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next year it's always good to hear what
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everybody else is up
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to and there's not many other sort of
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things that you can try with different
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varieties really I've not there's not an
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awful lot of different variety stuff out
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there obviously you get you like
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different varieties of tomatoes which is
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good there's plenty of different
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varieties of tomatoes coming out there's
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white ones my dad grew some white
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Tomatoes last year and they were
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delicious and they did fantastic and he
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grew them outside they did really well
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so there's lots of different varieties
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out there and what I tend to do as well
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sometimes is I'll go to the supermarket
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and or to the garden center and I'll
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just write down all the different types
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of seeds I think oh I'll try that one
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this year I'll try that one next year
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and I also write a little log as well I
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create like a little log I go online and
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I buy a Seed Catalog uh seed diary every
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year like a planting diary and you can
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write down when you've planted stuff how
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well it's done when it
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germinated uh where you planted it and
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that is very good thing to try as well
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so yeah there's plenty of different
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things out there for you to try when
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you're growing stuff
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and it's exciting it's exciting to try
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different stuff you can't it's you don't
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understand how easy it is to grow
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different types of stuff on the
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allotment and you don't realize how many
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different varieties of things there
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actually are out there because if you go
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to a supermarket for instance you'll
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just see your standard vegetables you
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won't see any different varieties of
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vegetables because they won't sell them
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in the supermarket because people won't
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buy them it's like if you were to go to
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a supermarket and you had a white
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beetroot for instance people wouldn't
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buy a white beetroot because they think
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wow that's strange I'm not buying that
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it might taste funny they'll only buy
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what they know is going to taste nice if
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you get me so that's the reason why it's
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best to grow these things that are
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different varieties because you'll never
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actually try them unless you grow them
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yourself because they'll not sell them
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in supermarkets anywhere so so it's
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always good to try different varieties
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of
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stuff so if you are listening to this
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podcast do get involved send me a
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message let me know what different types
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of varieties of vegetables that you have
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tried growing and what you plan on
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trying growing as well and I might give
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melons another girl next year as I've
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not grown them for a few years now and I
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grew some cantaloup melons in my poly
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tunnel wouldn't be able to goow them
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Outdoors because it's not hot enough but
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I grew in my poly tunnel and they did
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absolutely fantastic and I had some
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really nice delicious melons on them and
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I didn't think I'd be able to grow them
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in this country to be honest but as it's
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starting to get warmer Sometimes some
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Summers uh I thought I'd give them a try
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and yeah they did really well so I might
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give cantelou melons another go next
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year and yeah they were absolutely
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delicious and each plant got a few
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melons on them so they did absolutely
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fantastic I've never tried growing
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watermelon I don't think watermelon
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would grow very well here to be honest
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but um it's not something that I might
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give a try but I'm going to look out and
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try and see what different types of
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variety of stuff are out there and see
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about trying some new stuff as well so I
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might get myself a Seed Catalog from one
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of these companies plenty of companies
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out there that give seed catalogs out
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and you can have a look through them and
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then see all the different varieties
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there are that are in there obviously
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you can look on the website but
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sometimes it's easier to navigate
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through a magazine rather than through
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somebody's website I often find and then
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you can Circle them and think oh I'll
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have that one I'll have that one and
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then you can go online and buy them on
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you like circled them and found which
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ones that you want to
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grow so it is all good fun trying
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different varieties of produce out there
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so if you are listening to this podcast
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and you are just a standard grower you
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just grow standard stuff and you've
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never tried experimenting growing
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different types of stuff have a go next
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year uh let me know how you get on I'd
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love to hear how you growing and what
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you are
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growing and I love to hear from you all
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as well so yeah and I hope you enjoying
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all these podcasts they have been coming
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out on a daily basis now which is
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fantastic so I'm having to find
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different topics to talk about every
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single day which can be hard sometimes
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but I'm I'm getting there I I probably
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cover a few things quite a few times but
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I am having a little chat with you all
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and talking on different topics every
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day if you have got any topics that
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you'd like me to talk about please do
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drop me a message and give me some
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suggestions I don't know anything about
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no dig gardening so don't ask about no
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dig gardening because it's not something
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that I actually do um but yeah if there
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is anything out there that you'd like me
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to chat about on a podcast please do let
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me know also on my YouTube channel and
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daily questions as well um thank you for
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everybody that's got involved in the
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questions um yesterday's question was um
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do you use gardening gloves or do you
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not do you like to get your hands Mucky
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and get them dirty or do you like to
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wear the gardening gloves and keep them
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clean I'm certainly one for keeping
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getting my hands M I never wear
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gardening gloves I'll only wear
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gardening gloves if I'm messing around
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with brambles or Nettles uh but yeah
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I'll never wear gardening gloves down at
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the alotment so that was yesterday's
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Daily question so if you aren't
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give me a follow and get involved in the
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the daily questions on my podcast as
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well as it's obviously a little space
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filler as well and extends it so we'll
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