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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to

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a podcast for all things green and growing. I'm Ben,

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your allotment guide and here to help you cultivate your

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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.

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Each episode will dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to

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make your garden and allotment thrive from planting, sewing, and growing.

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We will share all the tips and add advice. We

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will also have regular episodes talking about what we have

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been up to on the a lotment. So sit back,

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grab a brew and enjoy today's episode. Hey everyone, and

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welcome back to Gardening with Ben. Well, it's finally the weekend.

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The weekend is finally here. I'm sure these weeks seem

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to be getting longer. I hope you've all been enjoying

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the podcast this week. Been doing them a little bit different.

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We've been talking about little different topics every single day.

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I hope you've all enjoyed them. We recorded them all

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in two days and we scheduled them all for the week,

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so I hope you've all been enjoying them as I

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do like to get them on nice and earlier for

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you to listen to while you're either waking up, going

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to work, getting ready, walking the dog, or while you're

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in the garden or having your morning brew. Either way,

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I hope that you're enjoying all your podcasts that you're

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listening to. So today's podcast is going to be talking

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about what we're hoping to get up to at the

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Allotment this weekend. And the reason why I'm laughing is

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because I recorded an episode last week saying what I

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wanted to get up to at the allotment, and literally

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I did rubbish. I didn't do a single thing down there.

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I went there, but I didn't do much whatsoever. But yeah,

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fingers crossed, we have got the motivation to do something

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this weekend. Well, it was absolutely awful last week and

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the weather was horrendous. It was raining on the Saturday

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and then we had the storm on the Sunday, so yeah,

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it would absolute wash out last weekend. So we didn't

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get anything done down there. But we do have those

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days where we don't want to do anything, where we

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just like to maybe just pop down to the garden,

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just have a look and evaluate and decide what we're

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going to be doing in the future. Well, last weekend,

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as you know, like I said, it was storm last

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weekend and we did get some damage to our shed.

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It took a bit of a brunt of the wind

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and speaking to my dad, he's repaired it and fixed

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it all. So it's all going to last another week.

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Figures crossed it lasts longer than that, but yeah, it's

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all repaired and it's all hopefully it's a bit more waterproof.

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We've got no extra windows in there that's not needed,

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soefully we can crack on with some allotment work this weekend.

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I've not actually checked the weather forecast this weekend, but

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if it's like today, it's not being too bad. It's

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been a bit drizzly, but hopefully we can get some

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work done outside. However, I have been ordering a load

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of seeds this week and they're all just starting to arrive,

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which is fantastic as I had an Amazon gift voucher

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for fifty pounds which I wanted to spend. And like

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I said, each year I like to try and grow

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something new and different varieties of things. And next year

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I'm thinking of growing what I am going to do,

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I'm going to be growing different varieties of poppies as

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they're absolutely beautiful. Obviously, they provide seed heads and you

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can get some amazing flowers a year after year from

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them because they just throw the seeds out everywhere and

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hopefully provide blooms a year after year. So I've purchased

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lots of different varieties of poppy seeds, so I'm looking

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forward to seeing what the lights are going to get

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from them. Obviously, it can sprinkle poppies straight into the

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ground to grow in the ground, or it can start

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them off in seed trays. I'm going to be starting

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all mine off in seed trays and getting them started

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that way, and that way I know where I'm going

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to be planting them and in between certain areas and

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do it like that, and then I know that when

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they're growing, they're not actual weeds that are growing, because

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I tend to just dig up anything that's growing, to

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be honest. So hopefully we get some amazing poppies next year.

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So hopefully over the weekend we're going to be I'll

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share some photos of all the seeds what I've ordered

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and which ones will be trying, and I may even

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look at doing some with different flowers as well different

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varieties of other flowers. So if you've got any good

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suggestion on good flowers to grow and the ones that

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I've not tried before, let me know. Send me a message.

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I'd love to hear from you and see what sort

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of things to try and grow, because I'm always up

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for experimenting down at the allotment. So what are we

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hoping to do down at the allotment this weekend? Well,

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my main task is going to be starting to carry

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on with sorting my shed out ready for next year.

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I know, obviously I've had all the repairs to do,

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which my Dad's done for me, so that's one job

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blessed done. But I need to start sorting out some

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of the shelvy and the old plants that are growing

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in there, sort out the plants which are growing ready

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for next year. And now I've got plenty of different

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flowers currently growing in there at the moment, so I'm

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looking forward to hopefully keeping them alive throughout the winter

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period and hopefully getting unplanted outside next year. As my

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greenhouse isn't heated, it's just a shed and it's not insulated,

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which it probably should be. But yeah, hopefully we can

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keep them alive and keep them growing because we've got

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some loopings in there, we've got some sweet peas in there,

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and yeah, hopefully with a head start ready for next year.

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And I've got all my salvia cuttings as well in there,

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so I'm looking forward to all them growing next year.

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So we're continuing with tidying up my shed, but if

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the weather's decent, I'm going to be outside around my

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strawberry bed area. And I've got some carrots still in

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a tub which i've not harvested yet. I'm not expecting

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big things from them because I forgot about them and

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I didn't water them all summer, so i don't know

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how well they're going to look, or if I've got

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any carrots whatsoever. But we'll have to see and hopefully

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get them harvested and have a look, and obviously i'll

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share my results with you. I'm never shy on sharing

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failures or success, so make sure you stay tuned for

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that on Instagram and i'll share a picture of that

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as well. And obviously we're gonna hopefully do some more videos.

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I've not done any videos for a while for my

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YouTube channel and my Facebook and Instagram as I like

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to do nice, longish YouTube videos because sometimes it's all

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right speaking and people listening to me, but I do

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like to show visual as well so then people can

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see what I'm actually on about. So hopefully I'll do

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a few mark videos as well for you next this weekend,

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ready to share with you all for next week. So yeah,

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we've got a lot to be getting on with down

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at the allotment, and hopefully obviously we'll be filling the

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bird feeders as well. That's one job that we need

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to do. And we'll be feeding Missus cat that lives

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down there and pops down to see us regularly, we'll

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be feeding her as well, So we've got absolutely loads

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to do. I've also got my onion seeds come through

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as well, so I don't know if I should be

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sewing them yet this month or wait until it says

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on the packet, which is February. I do know a

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lot of gardeners that do like onions for show and

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for competitions to start them off in December, so let

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me know, send me a message if I should be

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starting them now. If I want some decent big onions,

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and I'll start them this month and we can share

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how well they're getting on. And I've also got some

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sweet peppers as well come through the post and some

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auber jeans. So we've got to get them started soon

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because the quicker we get them started, hopefully they'll get

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some fantastic produce on next year, because they only just

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started putting produce on towards the end of the summer,

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so they were a bit late at the plants. I

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started the plants off too late, I think, so we

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need to start the plants off pretty early ready for

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next year to have hopefully a great harvest from them all.

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So yeah, we're going to be having a lot of

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new episodes coming up over the coming week of the podcast,

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and tomorrow's episode we'll be talking about everything that we've

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got up to at the allotment today, So make sure

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you stay tuned for tomorrow's episode and you'll be able

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to find out if we've actually done any work this weekend.

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So until next time, everyone, remember keep smiling, keep shining,

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and keep gardening with Bed. Everyone. Thank you for joining

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me on this episode of Gardening with Ben. I hope

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you have found some useful tips and inspiration for your

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own Gardening and a lotment Journey. If you have enjoyed

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