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How to Choose the Best Vegetable Varieties for 2025
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Dec 1, 2024
🧤 How to Choose the Best Vegetable Varieties for 2025! Planning your growing season? Choosing the right veg varieties can make all the difference! 🥦📦 Here’s how I select my seeds — from flavour and yield to disease resistance and growing conditions. What’s your must-grow variety for next year? #SeedPlanning #GrowYourOwn #GardenPlanning2025 #AllotmentLife #VegetableSeeds #UKGardener #PlotToPlate
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gardening with Ben well it's Wednesday
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already happy hump day everybody it
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doesn't feel like Wednesday at all
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because I'm recording this on
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Monday but no happy Wednesday everybody
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hopefully we got some snow that's what
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I'm hoping for as I'm recording this on
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Monday uh the forecast is due for snow
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in a couple of hours time just at 7:00
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so I'm recording this at Monday at 5: so
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ready for your Wednesday episode but
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hopefully we manage to get some snow
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fingers crossed and I do love some snow
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and my garlics in so this cold weather
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will help obviously all the garlic all
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the spring bulbs and stuff like that
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working so hopefully we have had
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some snow so yes let's get back to
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pretending that it's Wednesday happy
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Wednesday
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everybody I do make myself laugh I hope
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I make you laugh as well but yeah
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welcome back to today's episode I hope
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that you're all having a a fantastic
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week I'm certainly looking forward to
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the weekend as it's my mom's birthday
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and having a party so hopefully I'll be
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out and be able to have a fun time on
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Saturday night have a few drinks and
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enjoy my family
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time so today's topic what we are
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talking about is how can you choose the
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best seats for
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2025 that is today's
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question well
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it's always hard to try different
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varieties and know which ones are the
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best varieties to try as there's loads
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of different varieties of vegetables
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when you go to the Garden Center or go
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to a DIY store they'll just have the
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standard varieties which everybody knows
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and loves they won't have ones that you
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can experiment with and try new ones
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with and sometimes it is good to
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experiment and try with different
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different varieties to see how well they
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actually grow and sometimes it's the
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weird and wonderful varieties that do
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better than the normal varieties and one
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of the ways that we can learn to try
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different varieties is by either having
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a look on a seed website where you can
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buy seeds from obviously Amazon you can
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buy different varieties from there and
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another way which I used to do is I used
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to get
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the gardening magazines I used to get
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grow your own magazine and the kitchen
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Garden Magazine and I don't know if this
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still do but I've not uh purchased them
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for a bit but you used to get 10 free
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packets of seeds with each magazine and
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the best thing about that is that you
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get stuff what you probably wouldn't
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usually try and if you if you're like me
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and you've got seeds in a bag you'll
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think oh I might as well give that a try
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see what happens with it see if it grows
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there's no loss with trying it
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out and that's what I did with my purple
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purple C cauliflower let me split my
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words out purple cauliflower like if i'
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have gone into a sou uh into a garden
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center I wouldn't have tried the purple
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variety of cauliflower and I find that
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one a lot easier to grow than the white
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cauliflower so you do learn different
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things on
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of different
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varieties and it's good to experiment
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every year when I'm growing my produce
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on my alotment I think of what am I
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going to try this year something
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different as I always like to try
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something new
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and one of the years I decided I'm going
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to grow all different varieties of
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squash as there's lots of different
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varieties out there there's obviously
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pumpkins different varieties of butut
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squash there's all different varieties
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out there so I went online and just
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searched for the different varieties out
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there to give them a try and yes it
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obviously cost money to buy seeds and
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stuff like that but you don't know how
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good the varieties are until you give
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them a try and see what they actually
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grow like even if you don't eat them or
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if it's just for fun it's always good to
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just try little new things out there and
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I did this with growing squash I've done
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it with
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growing beans I've done it with growing
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tomatoes I've never done different
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cucumbers for I might have to try that
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one yet I've never grown Telegraph
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cucumbers I've always stuck to the
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market Mo varieties out there because
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Market Mo are
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good good Cropper so I might actually
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try Telegraph cucumbers one year and see
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how well the they actually grow and
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whether they grow any different if it's
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easier to grow like I say you don't know
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different varieties until you try them
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so looking out for the best varieties
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for
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2025 is I'd say just experiment and have
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a look around and just see what
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different things you want to give a try
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the best way sometimes to look for
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different varieties to try and grow is
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often by ordering a seed magazine as
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obviously you can see what the like on
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there and sometimes seed magazines are a
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lot easier to navigate than websites as
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sometimes you look on websites and
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they're all over the place hard to
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navigate hard to find what you're
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looking for so seed magazines are often
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pretty useful and yeah I've got to say
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if you're trying a new variety next year
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let me know what you want to try and let
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me know how you get on I'm definitely
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going to experiment and try some
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different things out next year and just
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see how see how it all grows to be
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honest and see if we get a good
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outcome I don't really know what type of
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thing to try next year whether it be
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different varieties of carrots different
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varieties of beetroot as there's more
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beetroot out there than you can imagine
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there's even multicolored beetroot as
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well as multicolored Cavs but yeah we're
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going to give it a good try next year
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and hopefully get some amazing results
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so all I can give you the tips and
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advice for finding the best varieties
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for
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2025 is have a look around experiment
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try new things out and ask other
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allotments as well like try and grow one
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variety and swap it with one of your
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neighbors on your allotment like share
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them with a few varieties and they might
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swap you some back as well that's a good
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way of trying new things out so I hope
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you found this useful go out there and
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experiment try different varieties of
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things that you would never see in the
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supermarket or in the shop and let me
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know how you get on so until next time
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