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today's episode. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Gardening with Ben for brand
new podcast. I hope you've all been enjoying the previous podcast. Yesterday we
talked about the best ways to grow large pumpkins and how to get nice big
ones growing on your allotment. And the day before that we spoke about everything
that we've been up to the allotment. And yeah, today we will be
off to BBC Gardener's World Live, so stay tuned for the podcast coming up
on that where we'll be talking about everything that we're getting up to down there
and how well it's been, what we've got up to down there, what
we've tried, what we've purchased. So yeah, make sure you're stay tuned
for that episode because we'll be going so much into detail of what we've got
up to down at the BBC Gardeners World Live. So today, in today's
episode, we're going to be talking about quality of seeds and what are the
best seeds purchased when growing produce on your allotment. As when you first take
on an allotment or when you're doing an allotment, you want to try and
save as much money as possible and try and work color budget because you don't
want to be spending too much because the whole reason of having an allotment is
become self sufficient, save money and grow stuff organicly and fresh like so that
it tastes a lot better at a good reasonable price. And if you like
first packet of lettuce, for instance, you can get a packet of lettuce
for like fifty pence to a pound and you can get like three thousand seats
in there, so you can get three thousand lettuce plants growing. That's if
you want to grow three thousand lettuces. But yeah, you can get seeds
at good prices for quality of seeds. Now there's so many brands out there.
There's Kings, there's Mister fother girls, this Seed Direct, the premier
seeds, there's so many around. We're going to share with you all the
seeds that we purchase and where we purchase them from. Now. I obviously
used to buy all my seeds from Wilker's because they were the cheapest place to
buy all my seeds. I found them the cheapest and the best quality seeds
out there. Now obviously a bit of gol We had some devastating news that
all the Wilco shops were shutting, and that brought a big tear to my
eye because I thought, where the hell am I going to get all my
seeds from. Some places are so expensive to buy them. I won't be
paying that sort of price for my seeds. As I do a lot of
my garden. It with for fun to share tips and advice, and I
don't want to be paying a fortune for the seeds. And sometimes you pay
a fortune and you're hardly get any seeds in the packet as well, whereas
Wilcos were cheap and you got loads of seeds in a packet, so you
always got good quality and quantity to get a good crop from the produce.
So when othersly we had the news, we had a news bit later saying
the Range had bought their brand name and they were going to start stocking all
their produce products. And I thought, yes, the best start selling all
the seed again. And guess what, Yes, they did. So I
went down to the Range. I had to look around, and they're in
the garden center. They had all the wild Cursed seeds. Now they weren't
there three for two what they used to do, but they were just normal
price, but they were still cheap and the same quality and quantity in a
packet, and I thought, fantastic. I know, I'm going to be
fine. Now we're going to be able to grow all the seeds and I
can have some great products. And I've always used the will Coast seeds because,
for instance, we're talking to my plot neighbor and he's been trying to
grow a sweet corn and he's had no look whatsoever in growing sweet con from
the seeds that he keeps buying and touch would I've never had an issue with
the Wild Course seeds for the sweet con Now, I've got some growing in
my shed at the moment and they're growing absolutely fantastic. They're hopefully going to
be growing out in the garden in the next week or two and get them
growing and get them producing some fantastic sweet cones. So make sure you stay
tuned for that and I'll share with you all how we're getting on with that.
But yeah, like lettice, you get loads in a packet. They're
only like fifty p stuff like beet roo, turnips, salad leaves, everything
has grown fantastic. From the peas as well. You get loads of peas
in a packet for only a pound. The same for runner beans, you
get loads of running beans. It's absolutely a bargain. Now, obviously they
are good others. There are other seed brands around and stuff like that,
but I've never seen any as cheap as there. Obviously you can get them
in different shops and you can get them cheap. But yeah, I don't
think they'll obviously sell them off at the end of the year because they are
in the garden center, so they'll probably not reduce them. Pulley sell them
all the year round, but I don't care at that price, and I
know the quality is good and everything's good about them. I will continue to
buy them from the Range and furthermore keep doing it until they stop selling them.
But I'm sure they'll keep doing it now that everybody's going there. And
obviously I think you can buy them online as well from the will Course shop
if you haven't got Range near you, and you can get them delivered to
yourself as well, so if you are missing them, you can go out
and buy them. Obviously, there are other good seed brands out there.
I'm not doing an advert for wilkerse Seeds or Range. I'm just sharing with
you where I purchased my seeds from the place, and obviously I've never had
issues with them. That's why I'm saying how wonderful they are now. Obviously,
if you go some use some other brands, please do let me send
me a message on Instagram. I'd love to hear where you get your seats
from and how will your seeds do. And yeah, it's good to share
with each other the best place to purchase their seeds. And I know a
lot of people that do follow me on Facebook also get all their seeds from
the Workers, so that's been our short little episode today talking about where the
best place to get good quality seeds from at a good quality price and getting
your money's worth from them. So I hope even this episode today, if
you haven't checked out my YouTube channel, go check it out because I've done
a video on this as well, so you'll be able to watch it as
well and see some of the seeds I've got growing in my shed at the
moment, I've put what seeds I've got growing down there so you can see
visually how well things are doing. So yeah, make sure you give us
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