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🎉 Allotment & Gardening Round-Up: A New Year's Eve Special!
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Jan 1, 2025
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to look back at the highs, lessons, harvests, and surprises from the plot. 🌱✨ Join me for this reflective round-up as we celebrate everything the allotment gave us in 2024 and look ahead to what’s coming in 2025. What was your biggest garden win this year? #NewYearsEve #AllotmentRoundUp #GrowYourOwn #GardenReflection #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #EndOfYear
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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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
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode it's the last episode of the
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Year
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woohoo and then tomorrow we start a new
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year and you will get new podcast from
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next year so yeah we'll be back in 2025
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with another podcast and we'll probably
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update our intro and Spruce it up a
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little bit and yeah get ready for the
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new year and for new podcasts and thank
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you everybody for all those that do
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listen to these podcasts I really do
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appreciate it and keep on sharing them
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and let's get more people listening to
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them so this podcast is talking all
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about the success and the fail failures
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of 2024 of the allotment so yeah we have
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had a lot of success and a lot of
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failures as I always talk about my
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failures because I'd rather people know
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that I'm an honest Gardener and know
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that I
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do have trouble with growing certain
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things and yeah having produce a fail on
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me so what have we succeeded in this
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year and what have we failed in we'll
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start at the front of my alotment and
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work my way around so then I know
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exactly what I've done uh it's easier to
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remember that way so at the front of my
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alotment I've got my plum tree and that
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did fantastic to start off with it got
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plenty of leaves on it it got plenty of
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buds on it but then it died off like
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halfway through the year all the leaves
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just dropped off and everything so I
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don't know what happened to that whether
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it got Silver Leaf I don't know so
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fingers crossed it comes back to life
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next year and hopefully it picks up if
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not we might have to end up getting rid
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of it if it doesn't do very well but
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yeah fingers cross Will Keep Us plum
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tree cuz that's my Victoria plum tree
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and they're absolutely delicious plums
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on them so hopefully we get some good
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produce next year from it as rhubarb as
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rhubarb did absolutely fantastic this
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year wow amazing because we didn't get
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much sunshine this year but we got a lot
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of rain and yeah it is absolutely
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fantastic I got loads and loads of rubab
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crumbles this year for my mom as I grow
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the rubab and she cooks all the crumbles
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for me I think we've got a perfect
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combination there don't you I grow it
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all they make the rub Bob
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crumbles but yeah absolutely
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amazing so what else did well uh let's
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go on to our apple trees I was cooking
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apple tree that didn't do too well
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either as i' pruned it a lot the year
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before which can stress the tree out and
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yet not produce as many cooking apples
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we only got a handful of them as eating
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apples did absolutely amazing we got
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loads of eating apples this year they
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did
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fantastic I've not pruned my cooking
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apple tree or my eating apple trees this
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year as they're a decent size decent
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shape and yeah hopefully we'll get some
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good produce on them next
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year so yeah hopefully we get some
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decent produce from them peirs did
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amazing as well they did absolutely
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fantastic so next up are our strawberry
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plants our strawberry plants did rubbish
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we hardly got any strawberries this year
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rubbish outcome so I planted 200
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strawberry plants this year ready for
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new plants next year these were all cut
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taken from Runners from the original
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plants and from my neighbors plot so I
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planted 200 strawberry plants so I
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should get some strawberries next year
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fingers crossed they've all s to of
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Taken they're all growing pretty well
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and yeah hopefully we'll get a decent
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crop of them next
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year our tomatoes and his
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cucumbers absolutely amazing my tomatoes
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I grew grew them all Outdoors because
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that's where I grow them now because I
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can't always get down in the week so
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I've pled them outside because then if
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it rains then at least they get in
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watered our cucumbers I started some off
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in the polyon because that's where I've
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always grown them and that yes they got
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quite a few of them but then I had a
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load of spare plants and I thought
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rather than waste money buying compost
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and everything I'll plant them straight
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outside so I plan to be in the ground
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not thinking that they'll do anything
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because I've never grown cucumbers
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outside before this is the market more
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variety and wow they did absolutely
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fantastic they did 10 times the amount
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of ones that in the poly tunnel so I'm
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going to continue growing cucumbers
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outside from now on with how well the
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produce did this year absolutely
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amazing next up is our beetroot our
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beetroot did amazing it first time I've
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ever cooked it in an air fryer usually I
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just give it to my mom to pickle me but
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I thought I'll try it in an air fryer
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and wow they were delicious I cooked
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them like chips and they tasted
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absolutely
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beautiful then we had a sweet corn a
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sweet corn again amazing that did
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fantastic so I might grow even more
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sweet corn next year because I
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absolutely adore sweet Recon so I might
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just go absolutely loads of it and again
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I cook that in the air fryer as well and
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it Cooks
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fantastic next up is H lettuce as
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lettuce did amazing we always grew
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iceberg lettuce absolutely beautiful and
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delicious we grew some pumpkins we got a
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couple of good siiz pumpkins they did
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well we did
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our peas our peas were absolutely
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amazing
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wow as peas usually I just SE them
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straight into the ground and they do
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well but the last couple of times I've
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had issues where rats have had more the
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M have them all the squirrels so I
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thought I'm going to start offing a seed
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tray first grow them to a decent size
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and then plant them out and wow this is
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the best crop that I've ever had this
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year I had two croppings I started some
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off early and then I did another batch
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and both Lots did absolutely amazing so
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I'm going to do the same method again
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growing peas next year absolutely
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fantastic as ketts didn't do anything
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they were absolutely rubbish this year
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so we'll try again with them next year
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um but yeah we didn't grow a lot of
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stuff this year oh it's potatoes it's
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potatoes we grew them in boxes and they
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did amazing uh I don't grow potatoes in
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the ground anymore grow all in boxers so
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that you can just tip them out once
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they've finished and rather than
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stabbing them when you're trying to dig
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them up or cutting them in half by
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accident and they don't get as much ring
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worm in them or diseased they did
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absolutely amazing so I'm going to grow
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all my potatoes in boxes again next year
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yes it cost a lot of money for all the
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compost to fill them up but it's the
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best produce that I've had so I'm doing
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that again next
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year but yeah as vegetable wise
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absolutely brilliant we got loads of
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black Brees off our phess black
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brief it did amazing and it shot out
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loads more uh Vines this year so
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hopefully we'll get a little more
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blackberries on it next year we've tied
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it all up and sorted it all out as
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raspberries again amazing the Autumn
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ones seem to do better than the summer
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variety so
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I love raspberries CU they expensive to
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buy it as well so hopefully we get loads
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more raspberries next year but yeah I
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think that that's about it for all the
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veg and the fruit this year we didn't do
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fantastic like I said it weren't a
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brilliant year uh we didn't get much
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sunshine this year and we had quite a
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bit of rain and cold days but hopefully
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fingers crossed we have a good year next
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year the flowers absolutely amazing this
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year we grew sunflowers they did
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fantastic we've got some massive ones of
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those uh sweet peas absolutely stunning
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so stunning that I've sewn a load
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already I saw them all in October
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September October time as they can make
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them stronger growing them early and
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growing them through the winter so
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they're all in my shed at the moment we
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snipped them all back to 6 Ines so that
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we can get them to Bush out they won't
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get big flowers on them but they'll get
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a lot more flowers on them if you get me
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uh so hopefully we get loads of sweet
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peas next year Salvia we grew Salvia for
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the first time that was from BBC Garden
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as well the plants that I got it were
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black current one one of them and it
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smelled absolutely gorgeous like black
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currant so we took a load of cuttings
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off that about 20 and they're all
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growing they've all taken so they're all
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growing in my Greenhouse now so we're
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going to be planting them Outdoors next
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year fuches we got fuches the spring
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bulbs were absolutely phenomenal this
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year so hopefully they're good this year
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we've not hopefully the squirrels
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haven't pitched them all and hopefully
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they all grw
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uh we've had a Le more spring flowers
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this year so hopefully we get another
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good display out of our allotment this
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year so yeah tomorrow's episode
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obviously we'll be talking about
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everything that we want to try this year
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all the new things that we're going to
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look forward to trying and all the old
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things and how we plan on having a
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successful year down at the alotment so
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I just want to wish you all a Happy New
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Year I hope that you've all enjoyed
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these podcasts over the year and we're
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hopefully getting more and more content
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out of you as obviously this new potting
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mge is going to be absolutely amazing
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for videos so make sure you stay tuned
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for them if you're not following my
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YouTube do give it a follow as I'd like
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to get to 2,000 followers it'll be good
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for getting to 2000 by end of new year
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but I don't think I will somehow but
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yeah thank you for all the support that
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you all give me and obviously I don't
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ask for payments off anybody and stuff
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like that it's sold them through
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advertising and it all goes back into my
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allotment and my content making so that
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you're getting the best out of
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everything that I do so until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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we'll see you all in 2025
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