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Prepping the Shed: Ready for the 2025 Planting Season
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Jan 1, 2025
🌱 Prepping the Shed: Ready for the 2025 Planting Season! It’s nearly time to kick off a brand-new year of growing — but first, the shed needs sorting! 🧤🪴 From organising tools to clearing out old seed packets, here’s how I’m getting my space ready for a smooth and successful season. Have you started your shed prep yet? #ShedPrep #Gardening2025 #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardenOrganisation #UKGardener #SeedStarting
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over the last 75 years over 10,000
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chemicals have been introduced to our
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food supply yet the EU only allows 300
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food additives but at Thrive Market we
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Brands and restrict more than 1,000
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ingredients found at conventional
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grocery stores making the switches easy
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with our healthy swaps scanner which
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finds better versions of all your
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favorite Pantry snacking and Home
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Essentials without the added junk dieses
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and fillers plus it's all delivered
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straight to your door so if you're
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looking to shop at a grocery store that
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actually cares about your health go to
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thrive market.com slmp podcast and
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you'll get 30% off your first order and
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gift hello and welcome to gardening with
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Ben your goto podcast for all things
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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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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's episode
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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well we're certainly
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being quiet with these podcasts haven't
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we I do apologize but we're all over the
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place at the moment with Christmas and
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New Year but they are keeping going and
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keeping flowing and yeah I'm not going
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to take a big break again like I did
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last time but yeah hopefully they'll
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keep on coming for you to listen to so
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what have we been up to well we've had
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Christmas and yeah it was a nice
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Christmas we had Christmas dinner at my
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parents and then I just relaxed at home
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and watched a bit of Gavin and Stacy
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like everybody else did it's the first
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time I've ever watched it don't tell
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anyone but it is the first time I've
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watched it and yeah I thought I best
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watch it for all the hype now that it's
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finishing and I actually enjoyed it so I
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may go back and actually watch the full
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lot of them but yeah what have we been
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doing on our allotment well you know
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that I've been getting all my new
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potting bench ready it's all been
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painted some of it's come off because
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it's being dripped on from the the rain
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from uh the ceiling but some of it's
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come off but we'll give it a liqu of
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paint once the weather's decent and
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dries out and hopefully get it fully
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painted
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properly so yeah what we've got all that
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done and I finished it all off literally
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today obviously like I said I've still
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got some painting left to do on it but I
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finished off the look of it and I'm not
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going to share a photo of it with you
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until New Year's Eve so make sure you
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stay tuned to my socials on New Year's
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Eve for what it looks like and wow it
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looks professional and I have put a lot
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of effort into it and I've really
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spruced it up and made it look good and
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proper ready for my filming on my videos
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for the new year and I'm desperate to
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share a photo of it I've got a photo of
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it on my phone I thinking do I share it
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do I share it
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but no I'm going to be good I'm going to
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save it till New Year's Eve and it will
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be part of my Roundup video of the year
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so make sure you stay tuned for my
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Roundup video it'll be on Instagram
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Facebook YouTube Tik Tok it'll be
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everywhere but yeah make sure you stay
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tuned for that and you can let me know
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what you think of it and if I've done a
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good job or
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not so we've been busy doing that we've
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finished all that off and we have also
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started Tiding all my shed up ready for
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Springtime as that is a big job as I
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like I always say I'm a messy Gardener
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I'm not tidy at all there's rubbish all
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over Place plant pots everywhere
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nothing's tided up nothing's sorted none
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of plant pots are sorted they're all dat
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and got seed trays everywhere full of
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compost yes I create more mess than I
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need to really if I did it as I went
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along I would to have to do this every
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single year but yeah we've been busy
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tidying up today we've also put up some
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extra shelves as well in my shed so that
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I can try and tidy things up a bit
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better so hopefully things will be a bit
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more organized next year I'll be saying
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all this again next year me Tiding my
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up so make sure you stay tuned for
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that episode this time next year but
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yeah we'll be doing lots more tidying up
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ready next year but we've been doing
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that we've repaired a panel on my front
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of my shed because I blown off they're
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blowing off like nobody's business I'm
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going to have to literally probably
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rebuild my shed at some point because
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the plastic is just coming off now it's
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disintegrating it's been up about 10
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years now so it's had its time so that's
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why it's all starting to come off but
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yeah we need some new pieces of plastic
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on the front of the shed next so if
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anybody's got a load of purse packs let
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me
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know if you want to send me some purse
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packs for Christmas I will gladly have
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it but yeah we've got a big job ahead of
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us of getting that sorted we keeping an
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eye out on like Facebook Marketplace and
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stuff because people do have it on there
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for salees so hopefully we can get it
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all sorted and ready for the new year so
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hopefully it will look a lot better come
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this time next year hopefully we'll
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start each year I do a bit more
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investment on my shed and on my
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allotment so I don't mind spending a bit
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of money on it here and there
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everywhere so yeah I'm hoping I'm going
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to actually look for my onion seeds
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today and my pepper seeds and my orene
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seeds and look into starting sewing my
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seeds this week as if you want him to
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grow Prize winner onions massive ones
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they usually say to start them onboxing
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day that's a Gardener's tail that uh a
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lot of people start them onboxing day if
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you want huge onions and this is growing
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them from seed not from set so if you're
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wanting big onions start them off now
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start them off obviously you'll need
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somewhere warm for them to germinate and
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once they've got germinated then they
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can start growing and then separate them
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out into individual seed trays uh seed
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cells and keep them growing a bit more
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and then plant them outside come end of
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March April time and obviously keep
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feeding them and keep enriching the soil
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and making sure that you can um get them
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to a decent size so that is what I'm
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going to try and do this year I'm going
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to start off my onions hopefully this
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week and get them started and get them
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growing and the same goes for peppers
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and or jein Peppers will need about 23
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24° warmth to germinate so you're going
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to have to start them off in the house
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or heated Greenhouse what is really
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really well heated and
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insulated um but obviously if you're
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growing them in the house you need to
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make sure that they're getting enough
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light and they don't uh stretch out and
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go Ley as they say as obviously growing
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them indoors can get seeds Ley so make
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sure you keep turning them around keep
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them in plenty of light and hopefully
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get them started then and again
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obviously when it's a bit warmer like in
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March April then you can move them into
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a um nonheated greenhouse and hopefully
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get them to carry on growing and the
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reason why you start them around now is
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because they take a long time to get
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growing and get fru in as I started some
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off in March time last year March April
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time and they were only just fruit in at
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September time so they're a bit behind
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so that's the reason why I want to get
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them started pretty early and get them
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growing on windel in my flat and
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hopefully get some peppers next year
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because peppers are expensive
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I've also been looking into getting a
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soup maker as obviously I do live on my
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own and I like to have handy things to
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be able
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to cook with I've obviously got my air
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fryer and obviously if I get a soup
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maker it will be ideal for when I grow
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my cett or grow my onions or my potatoes
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or my leaks or my tomatoes because then
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I can make soup from them all and
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there's some decent soup makers online
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so if anybody's got a soup maker let me
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know if they're worth it or not because
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I would like to know because obviously
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you can pay quite a lot bit of money for
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them and they will make them I don't
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like Chunky Soup I like Smooth soup uh
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and it Blends it as well for you as well
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so I'm looking forward to trying that
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because soup's getting expensive as well
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when you go into the Super Market now
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it's not the cheapest and obviously if
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you're making your own soup you know
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it's organic you know it'sh fresh and
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you have perfected it yourself and it's
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lovely soup you can't beat it can you
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and we've got a Morrison's near us as
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well so having fresh bread as well from
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the bakery would go absolutely fantastic
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with the soup so I'm looking investing
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in a soup maker next year so let me know
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get in touch if you've got a soup maker
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and if you make some soup recipes feel
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free to let me know the recipes because
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obviously I'll be wanting them
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but yeah obviously where I can save
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money as much as possible that is the
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plan for next year and obviously eating
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hell F which is another New Year's
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resolution I need to shift a bit of
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Timber for next year so we need to do
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lots more
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digging but yeah I'm planning on getting
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all that done for next year so hopefully
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we will be back
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in tomorrow for another episode we'll be
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talking about everything that we've got
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up to down at the allotment today as
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we're back down there today and
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hopefully get a lot more work done
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hopefully we get the shed completely
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tided and finished off ready for the
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springtime and then I can start looking
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at possibly doing some work in the poly
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tunnel and getting that prepared because
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I didn't really grow much in it last
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year I grew some cucumbers in it and
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obviously I grew a load of cucumbers
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outside the Cucumbers I grew outside did
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better than the ones in the poly tunnel
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so I'm going to grow cucumbers outside
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again I think next year we may possibly
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do a few indoors but I'm tempted to grow
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the majority of them outside like I do
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with my tomatoes so we might look at
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using our pool for growing some peppers
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and some melons and some chilies in next
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year because obviously melons need
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warmth a lot of sunshine and warmth so
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we might look at getting our poly tunel
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back in use again next year and
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hopefully get some stuff growing so make
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sure you stay tuned for all that again
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like I said we'll be back tomorrow with
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tomorrow's episode then on the 31st
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we'll be doing the yearly Roundup
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talking about all our successes all our
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failures then on the 1st of January
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we'll be the new year and we'll be
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talking about all our plans for the year
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ahead and then come the second we'll be
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talking about all the things that you
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can start to sew in January and on the
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3D we will be talking all about the jobs
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to do in your garden so make sure you
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stay tuned for those episodes coming up
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the better so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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everyone hello and welcome to gardening
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with Ben your go-to podcast for all
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things green and growing I'm Ben your
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allotment guide and here to help you
12:22
cultivate your garden and your passion
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for plants whether you're a seasoned
12:27
Gardener or just starting out this
12:29
podcast is for you each episode we'll
12:32
dig into tips tricks and techniques to
12:35
make your garden and alotment Thrive
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from planting sewing and growing we will
12:40
share all the tips and AD advice we will
12:44
also have regular episodes talking about
12:46
what we have been up to on the alarm so
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sit back grab a brew and enjoy today's
12:55
episode over the last 75 years over 10
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thousand chemicals have been introduced
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to our food supply yet the EU only
13:03
allows 300 food additives but at Thrive
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Market we bring our members the highest
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finds better versions of all your
13:20
favorite Pantry snacking and Home
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Essentials without the added junk dieses
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and fillers plus it's all delivered
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