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Hello, and welcome to Gardening with
Ben. You'll go to a podcast for

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all things green and growing. I'm
Ben, your allotment guide and here to

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help you cultivate your garden and your
passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned

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gardener or just starting out, this
podcast is for you. Each episode will

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dig into tips, tricks, and
techniques to make your garden and allotment thrive

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from planting, sewing, and growing. We will share all the tips and

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add advice. We will also have
regular episodes talking about what we have been

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up to on the allotment. So
sit back, grab a brew and enjoy

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today's episode. Hello everyone, and
welcome back to Gardening with Ben for brand

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new podcast. I hope you've all
been enjoying the previous podcast. Yesterday we

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talked about the best ways to grow
large pumpkins and how to get nice big

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ones growing on your allotment. And
the day before that we spoke about everything

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that we've been up to the allotment. And yeah, today we will be

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off to BBC Gardener's World Live,
so stay tuned for the podcast coming up

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on that where we'll be talking about
everything that we're getting up to down there

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and how well it's been, what
we've got up to down there, what

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we've tried, what we've purchased.
So yeah, make sure you're stay tuned

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for that episode because we'll be going
so much into detail of what we've got

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up to down at the BBC Gardeners
World Live. So today, in today's

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episode, we're going to be talking
about quality of seeds and what are the

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best seeds purchased when growing produce on
your allotment. As when you first take

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on an allotment or when you're doing
an allotment, you want to try and

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save as much money as possible and
try and work color budget because you don't

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want to be spending too much because
the whole reason of having an allotment is

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become self sufficient, save money and
grow stuff organicly and fresh like so that

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it tastes a lot better at a
good reasonable price. And if you like

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first packet of lettuce, for instance, you can get a packet of lettuce

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for like fifty pence to a pound
and you can get like three thousand seats

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in there, so you can get
three thousand lettuce plants growing. That's if

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you want to grow three thousand lettuces. But yeah, you can get seeds

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at good prices for quality of seeds. Now there's so many brands out there.

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There's Kings, there's Mister fother girls, this Seed Direct, the premier

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seeds, there's so many around.
We're going to share with you all the

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seeds that we purchase and where we
purchase them from. Now. I obviously

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used to buy all my seeds from
Wilker's because they were the cheapest place to

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buy all my seeds. I found
them the cheapest and the best quality seeds

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out there. Now obviously a bit
of gol We had some devastating news that

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all the Wilco shops were shutting,
and that brought a big tear to my

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eye because I thought, where the
hell am I going to get all my

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seeds from. Some places are so
expensive to buy them. I won't be

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paying that sort of price for my
seeds. As I do a lot of

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my garden. It with for fun
to share tips and advice, and I

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don't want to be paying a fortune
for the seeds. And sometimes you pay

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a fortune and you're hardly get any
seeds in the packet as well, whereas

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Wilcos were cheap and you got loads
of seeds in a packet, so you

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always got good quality and quantity to
get a good crop from the produce.

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So when othersly we had the news, we had a news bit later saying

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the Range had bought their brand name
and they were going to start stocking all

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their produce products. And I thought, yes, the best start selling all

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the seed again. And guess what, Yes, they did. So I

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went down to the Range. I
had to look around, and they're in

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the garden center. They had all
the wild Cursed seeds. Now they weren't

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there three for two what they used
to do, but they were just normal

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price, but they were still cheap
and the same quality and quantity in a

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packet, and I thought, fantastic. I know, I'm going to be

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fine. Now we're going to be
able to grow all the seeds and I

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can have some great products. And
I've always used the will Coast seeds because,

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for instance, we're talking to my
plot neighbor and he's been trying to

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grow a sweet corn and he's had
no look whatsoever in growing sweet con from

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the seeds that he keeps buying and
touch would I've never had an issue with

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the Wild Course seeds for the sweet
con Now, I've got some growing in

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my shed at the moment and they're
growing absolutely fantastic. They're hopefully going to

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be growing out in the garden in
the next week or two and get them

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growing and get them producing some fantastic
sweet cones. So make sure you stay

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tuned for that and I'll share with
you all how we're getting on with that.

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But yeah, like lettice, you
get loads in a packet. They're

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only like fifty p stuff like beet
roo, turnips, salad leaves, everything

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has grown fantastic. From the peas
as well. You get loads of peas

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in a packet for only a pound. The same for runner beans, you

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get loads of running beans. It's
absolutely a bargain. Now, obviously they

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are good others. There are other
seed brands around and stuff like that,

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but I've never seen any as cheap
as there. Obviously you can get them

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in different shops and you can get
them cheap. But yeah, I don't

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think they'll obviously sell them off at
the end of the year because they are

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in the garden center, so they'll
probably not reduce them. Pulley sell them

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all the year round, but I
don't care at that price, and I

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know the quality is good and everything's
good about them. I will continue to

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buy them from the Range and furthermore
keep doing it until they stop selling them.

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But I'm sure they'll keep doing it
now that everybody's going there. And

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obviously I think you can buy them
online as well from the will Course shop

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if you haven't got Range near you, and you can get them delivered to

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yourself as well, so if you
are missing them, you can go out

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and buy them. Obviously, there
are other good seed brands out there.

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I'm not doing an advert for wilkerse
Seeds or Range. I'm just sharing with

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you where I purchased my seeds from
the place, and obviously I've never had

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issues with them. That's why I'm
saying how wonderful they are now. Obviously,

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if you go some use some other
brands, please do let me send

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me a message on Instagram. I'd
love to hear where you get your seats

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from and how will your seeds do. And yeah, it's good to share

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with each other the best place to
purchase their seeds. And I know a

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lot of people that do follow me
on Facebook also get all their seeds from

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the Workers, so that's been our
short little episode today talking about where the

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best place to get good quality seeds
from at a good quality price and getting

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your money's worth from them. So
I hope even this episode today, if

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you haven't checked out my YouTube channel, go check it out because I've done

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a video on this as well,
so you'll be able to watch it as

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well and see some of the seeds
I've got growing in my shed at the

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moment, I've put what seeds I've
got growing down there so you can see

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visually how well things are doing.
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