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Spring Planting in the Garden & Allotment | What to Sow & Grow Now
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Nov 13, 2024
🌸 Spring Planting in the Allotment and Garden! The season of sowing has officially begun! Time to get those seeds in and start filling the beds with new life. 🌿🪴 In this video, I share what I’ve been planting this spring — from early vegetables to vibrant flowers — plus tips on spacing, soil prep, and keeping everything protected from late frosts. What are you planting first this spring? #SpringPlanting #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #SeedSowing #SpringGardenTasks #AllotmentVlog
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uh hopefully we will get the podcast up
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probably won't be able to record what
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I've been up to on the plot so you'll
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have to wait for a big catch up on that
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one
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so we're pre-recording some episodes
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before to hopefully fill the gaps and
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keep the podcast going until I can
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actually record them again and upload
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them so what are we going to be talking
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about today so today we're going to talk
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about what you can grow around now
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outside because it's going to be a
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heatwave this week it's going to be
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20° and sometimes when you're a new
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Garden
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it can be quite exciting because people
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get think oh I can start growing
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everything outside now the weather's
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turning nice but no hold back do not do
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it because the frost will come still and
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kill them you could still get snow we
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could still get Frost and things can
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easily get killed in the bad weather and
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we wouldn't want that
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whatsoever so we are going to be
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talking about some of the stuff that you
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can actually grow outside at this time
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of year and I will be starting to plant
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some stuff myself hopefully in the
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coming weeks outside as like I said the
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weather's getting warmer now and
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hopefully it stays this way fingers
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crossed but knowing UK weather it
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certainly won't stay this
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way but some of the things that you can
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start to plant
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outside are you can start growing your
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potatoes
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outside now these are usually our first
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earlies they can usually be planted
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around now my dad was talking about
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planting his he grows in in tubs uh
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rather than in ground because he seems
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to get better crops from him so he's
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going to be growing his in tubs this
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year and he's going to be planting them
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this week I'm going to be looking at
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possibly planting my earlies this week
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and and usually I plant them on Good
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Friday and obviously Good Friday changes
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every single year but sometimes Good
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Friday can be in March and Good Friday
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is obviously all to do with the moon
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so that is a reason why I usually stick
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to Good Friday but you can start to get
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them in the ground now obviously they
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need to be deep in the ground at least a
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spade depth deep
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and when you are grow them if they do
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start popping up out of the ground the
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green shoes you need to cover them back
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up with soil because if the cold Frost
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gets to them or the snow it will kill
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them it will Scorch them it can turn
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them black uh the plants and I've seen
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so many photos one year we had a really
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late frost in May and everybody was
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showing how much
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um their potatoes got damaged by it
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thankfully I'd covered mine up with soil
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and people had fleeced theirs over
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because they knew this Frost was coming
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and I always keep it I well I did last
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year I always kept my eyes on the
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temperature because I worked at a garden
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center so we had to check the
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temperature every night to see what it
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was going down to so whether we had to
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protect the plants or not so it's worth
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off checking the temperature every night
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before you go to bed or in the afternoon
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to see what it's going to be like that
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night and you can always prepare
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yourself because you can put stuff
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outside in this warm weather you can
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start your seeds off outside but
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obviously fetch them in those if it's
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going to drop to so many degrees because
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you don't want to kill those plants off
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you've put all the effort into growing
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them you don't want them to die dear so
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yeah that is the main thing to do so
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obviously you can start your potatoes
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now like I said and another good thing
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to start now are your onion sets now
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many garden centers and DIY shops will
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be selling bags of onions now I won't be
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growing onion sets this year I've grown
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all my onions from seed now you can
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still start off onions from seed now but
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a good time to start onions off from
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seed usually is January February time to
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get them growing so that they can grow
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big enough in time for
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harvesting so we're going to look at
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possibly maybe getting those in the
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ground this week which is exciting and
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obviously growing onions you need to
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make sure that you do net them up
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because pigeons absolutely love them uh
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especially the ones that are bulbs
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because they'll just come down and
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they'll pull the bulbs out of the soil
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uh so many people lose their onion bulbs
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through this through pigeons pulling
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them out and they're a booger for just
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eating the tops off the onions and that
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can damage them it can stop the plant
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from growing properly
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and that is really frustrating so make
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sure you protect them from the pigeons
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and stop them from getting at them so
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hopefully we're going to be getting some
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onions in this week another good one to
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start at this time of year is spring
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onions you can start your spring onions
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again outside and I asked for gardening
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tips the other day and somebody posted a
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fantastic gardening tip for spring
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onions they say not to grow spring
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onions in rows but to plant so many in a
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Pott and then once they started
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germinating plant the colum into the
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ground and let it grow as a clump rather
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than as a RAR because when you're
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picking spring onions you pick them as a
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clump of spring onions really it's same
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when you go in a shop they a clump of
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spring onions so it's perfect really so
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I'm going to try that this year and I do
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love finding tips off other people um
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again gardening you're always always
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learning every single day of the year so
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learning all these tips is fantastic
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from other people and if you've got any
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gardening tips and advice please do send
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it mate I I do take everything on board
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and I do appreciate it so please do send
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I'm on Instagram and Facebook so send me
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a message and I often reply to people so
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please do that also um another good
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thing to start at this time of year is
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your broad beans if you've not started
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your broad beans off through winter you
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can be starting them off now in the
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ground or a good way to start broad
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beans sometimes is in pots because again
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the pigeons can be a pain they'll eat
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the tops off them and kill the plants
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and also mice and rats love them as well
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so growing them in pots you can grow
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them to get them established and grow
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well and then you can plant them out
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where you want them to in evenly spaced
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rows so yeah it's ways and roundabouts
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really it's what you want to do
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obviously if you're grow them in pots as
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well you obviously have to use compost
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but if you're grow them in the ground
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you can sometimes get just grow them
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straight in the soil so it's up to you
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which way you want to do it another
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thing good thing to grow at this time of
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year is early peas now starting a batch
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off now you can start some off in a few
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weeks time as well you can plant them in
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succession so that you get in a constant
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Harvest of peas cuz all the peas seem to
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be ready at the same time when you grow
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them and obviously when you pick them
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all at the same time that's it over and
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done with so you want a few batches
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growing along the allotment so maybe
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start some off every couple of weeks and
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further down your allotment plot so keep
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them growing all all through the year
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and yeah grow them in succession so then
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you keep getting a harvest of piece and
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if you're anything like me the peas
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won't make it home the worst thing about
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peas is trying them once they're ready
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once you've tried them straight from the
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Pod there is no going back they're so
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juicy so tasty so delicious that they
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you'll absolutely love them so yeah peas
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are a good thing to grow at this time of
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year outside so yeah that has been our
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podcast for today it's been a nice short
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little episode talking about what you
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can so in this time of year and
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obviously this is the second podcast of
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the day if it has let me publish it uh
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we did do a podcast earlier in the day
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talking all about spring so if you've
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not listened to that one go back and
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listen to that one also please do check
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out my other podcast Channel called
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gardening and allotment tips podcast and
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there's about 45 episodes on there just
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talking about different topics each
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episode where we talk about a lot of
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different things in these episodes on my
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gardening and allotment tips podcast we
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just talk about one specific topic only
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and go over it in depth so have a listen
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to that the link is in the description
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of this one but you can find it called
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gardening and allotment tips podcast
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it's a green picture with my lovely face
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