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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 Allotment. So sit back, grab

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

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back to Gardening with Ben on what seems to be

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forever since we've done a podcast episode, but yes, we

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are back now, and hopefully we're going to be get

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these podcasts out to you on a regular basis now

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that I'm working normal hours again. And yeah it's used

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for ever since I've worked normal hours, but yeah, I'm

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working nine to five now and I've got my weekends off,

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my night's free. So we're hoping to get these podcasts

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out to you on a daily basis for you to

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enjoy and hopefully they'll be uploaded like for seven o'clock

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in the morning, so you can listen to them on

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the way to work, or while you're having your morning brew,

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or why you're taking the dog for a walk, or

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while you're at the allotment. The choice is down to you.

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But where have we been for the last month? But obviously,

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like I said, we've been settling into our new job,

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getting used to our new schedules and everything that we're working.

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And also I've been getting my YouTube channel back up.

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That has been my main focus for last month, getting

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lots of new videos up on there for you all

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to enjoy. So if you're not following my YouTube channel,

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do give it a Followers is absolutely loads on there

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for you to watch. And I've started posting more YouTube

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videos again this month. And also I'm going to be

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sharing daily questions as well for you to get involved

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with on the comments, and I'll try and get back

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to all the comments that come on the YouTube videos

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and on I'll be posting them on Instagram as well,

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so wherever you follow me on the platforms, I will

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hopefully see all the responses. So we're going to be

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getting them out as well. On a daily basis. So

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we're doing lots more content for you. We're gonna have

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those podcasts, we're gonna have regular videos, and yeah, I'm

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gonna be sharing lots and lots of pictures as well

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for you all to enjoy. So how has our allotment

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year been this year? That is the question. Well, it's

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been a hell of a year with the weather. To

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put it, mainly, we've not had a very good summer

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whatsoever down at the allotment. As you will know, it's

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places have very nice summer. But whether I've been, we've

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not had no summer this year. It's been absolutely awful.

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I think it's nicer now than it was in the summertime.

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So yeah, the bizarre one. We've certainly not had no

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droughts this year. But yeah, hopefully we'll have a nice

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autumn and we'll be able to get us allotments and

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gardens prepared all the way ready for next year and

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get them all looking good, ready for a new year

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and a fresh start. That's what I always see with

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a Lotment's like, yeah, you may have a bad year,

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but then you clear it all down, you start from

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scratch and you've got a new year. Ahead of you.

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And that's how I always see. I don't get upset

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if stuff doesn't grow well, and you just learn from

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it and move on and we'll do it all again.

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And that's the joy of gardening. Just keep trying until

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you get a fantastic crop. Now, what has had crops

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been like this year? Down on the allotment, Well, let's

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go through my allotment and i'll tell you how well

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everything's done now on there. So this year, my plum

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tree was an absolute failure. It looked really really healthy

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to start off at the beginning of the year, but

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then it's sent to whether it caught a disease or

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got something wrong with it, but it all seen to

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die off and literally all the leaves dropped off it,

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and yeah, it wasn't very healthy whatsoever. So I don't

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something like that, or whether trees get flus, I don't know,

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but it absolutely struggled. So the plum tree was an

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absolute failure this year. You never know, Fingers crossed, we

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hopefully get some plums on it next year. Cooking apples.

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it this year, not many, and offer like my cooking

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apple trees about twenty years old. It were one of

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freshening up. But hopefully we'll get a lot more off

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them to have a bad year. So I think that's

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this year. I may just trim the ends on the branches,

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but I'm not gonna give it a massive prune at all.

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year because it's so expensive to buy and I can't

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beat them having them in my crumbles absolutely delicious. And

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talking of crumbles, my rubarb, my rubob did absolutely amazing

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this year. We had I had crumbles all the way

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through someone literally every single day my mum making them

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week after week after week, and that's the best. I

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grow it and she does the baking out of it,

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always grow as well. My eating apple tree and my

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pear treet again fantastic. They did amazing. Hopefully we'll get

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loads on it again next year. I don't think I'm

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going to even mapprune this year. They've not grown too big,

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and hopefully we'll get some more great produce out of

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them next year. My strawberries, My strawberries did absolutely horrendous.

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planting two hundred plants. Yes you heard it right, two

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hundred strawberry plants have planted this year ready for next year.

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I've used all my runners off them, planted them all up.

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growing nice and healthy and they're happy in the ground.

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So fingers Crossed will get absolutely loads of strawberries next year. Blackberries,

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if you've not got a Famless BlackBerry, get one. Honestly

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one of the best things that I'm growing in my alopment.

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I've got two BlackBerry bushes what I started, and the

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canes on them have grown absolutely massive, or should I

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call them whips. They grow absolutely massive and really long

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and massive, and they seem to fruit for longer as

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well than famless ones. So if you've not got a

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Famless black break, get one. They're a game changer. Raspberries

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we had autumn variety. Both did absolutely fantastic. We had

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some great crops off them, and yeah, you can't beat

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homegrown raspberries. So next up is waters and cucumbers now matamatos.

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I grew with them outside again this year because I've

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grown them the year before outside. They took longer to

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ripen this year. Like I said, we've not had much

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sunshine this year, so they took longer to ripen. Cucumbers.

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the first year that I've grown them outside. I had

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three plants in the polytunnel, only got a few cucumbers

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off them, grew all the spares outside because I thought,

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rather than throw a well, plant them, and wow, when

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off what harvested what we're all hiding everywhere. They did

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absolutely amazing And this is the market more variety of

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cucumber that I grew outside. It did absolutely phenomenal. So

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Saved by the compost because I can plant them straight

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in the ground and it's cheaper. And obviously the water

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as well. If it rains, it rains, it watered them

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so they get more more water than probably what they

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would do in a polytunnel. So I'm going to grow

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my market more varieties of cucumbers outside again next year.

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up is my sweet corn. My sweet corn did absolutely amazing.

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We had some fantastic harvests. Off it so impressed with

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how well it all grew and it absolutely tasted delicious. Potatoes.

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My potatoes again, they did absolutely amazing. I didn't grow

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them in the ground again this year. I grew them

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in boxes because I've grown them in boxes the year

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before and They've done absolutely amazing, so I thought, I'm

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growing them in boxes again rather than in the ground

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because growing them in boxes they seem to not get

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as many pests eating them or holes in them from

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wireworms and stuff like Thatbviously, it costs a lot of

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money for the compost, but overall the crop did absolutely fantastic.

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that when they're read eye, you just empty the boxes

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out and pull all the potatoes out. You don't have

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to dig from and you don't end up chopping them

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all in a half or stabbing them with the fork

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them up. So yeah, you get one hundred percent good

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crop out of them. And I had absolutely loads. And

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them sometimes, so they probably could have been even better

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if i'd have watered them all the time. But yeah,

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they did absolutely amazing. So again next year we're going

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to be growing them in boxes. Because if you don't

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try stuff and see if it works, you'll never know,

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will you. So hopefully in a few weeks time, I'm

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going to be harvesting my Christmas potatoes. All the plants

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are dying off on them now, so they're ready for harvesting,

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probably a bit earlier than what I hoped. We're hoping

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to harvest them towards Christmas. Bought the plants a dyeing

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off now, so we'll have to start harvest them and

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get them all in my flat ready for some chippies,

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so it's chopped them all into nice chips, decent sizes,

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some cheesy spice on. I don't know what it's called,

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but it's like a cheesy sauce one and you just

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sprinkle it on it and absolutely fantastic. The taste delicious.

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So make sure you stay turned on YouTube for the

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potato reveal and I'll show you if they've grown or

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if they've not grown, so we'll share it all together

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and the excitement. Next up is coajets and squashes rubbish.

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I had no cause jets, no squashes, no patty pans,

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no button up squash, stely pathetic rubbish pumpkins. However, I

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managed to get some pumpkins. They took further to ripen,

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but we got some pumpkins off, so are happy with them.

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Not as big as what I'd hoped, but next year

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we're going to concentrate on them and see if we

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can grow some really massive ones. So let's see how

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big we can actually grow a pumpkin, and we'll be

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sharing that journey through the videos, sharing our tips and

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advice on how to grow a massive pumpkin. I'll be

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feeding it regularly, I'll be watering it all the time

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and making sure that we'd get a nice size pumpkin

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on it for harvesting for Halloween next year, which is exciting.

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But I know Halloween seems forever away next year because

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it's only just been but we'll be starting them off

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in March, so it's not far away when we're going

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to be sorrying our seeds for pumpkins. So we've got

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all that to do. And what else have we had.

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We've had lettists that's done amazing, as beetroot's done amazing,

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as peas absolutely phenomenal. We had two harvests of peas

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did absolutely fantastic. I'm sorry, pleased with my peas this year.

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of the mice seem to eat them. But we grew

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them all in pots this year. First got them growing,

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got them to a decent size. Then we've planted them

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all outside and they did absolutely amazing this time. So

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pots first and then plant them out when they're at

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a decent size and you'll get some amazing crops in

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the garden. So yeah, and my runner beans have done

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amazing as well, and hopefully we've got some runner bean

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seeds for next year. What was saved from all their leftovers,

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what they're on the plant, and hopefully we'll get some

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of those. But yeah, my allotment's done absolutely fantastic this year.

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That's all my vegetables and all my fruit as that's

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done well. My flowers on my allotment, I'm absolutely amazed

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with our flowers. Must have been bulbstered amazing. We've got

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some beautiful spring displays as sunflowers were huge. They did amazing,

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probably one of the best sunflower displays I've had on

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my allotment. We had some amazing sweet peas which smelled

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absolutely fantastic. I've got all my sweet peas in now.

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I've planted them earlier this year rather than planting them

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in March. I've planted them now and hopefully the plants

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will be stronger for next year and we'll get more

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crops off them. So watch this space. I've been sharing

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videos on my sweet peas on YouTube, so if you've

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not seen them, check them out and you'll be able

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to see how well my sweetpeas are doing. But yeah,

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they did amazing. And then we had grown as pans

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is from seed. Hopefully we get some flowers on them.

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But yeah, I can't remember what the name. And my

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other plants are. What I've done well, We've got some

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amazing futures as hydrainers. We've got some cuttings off them

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which have done well. But yeah, I'm so pleased with

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how well my flowers have done this year. We're going

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to try even more flowers next year. I'm loving trying

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new flowers because i never used to grow flowers, but

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now I've got into it and I enjoy it. And

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trying different flowers because I've got flower boarders now, and

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trying different things down there is absolutely phenomenal. Like I

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grew different varieties of pans is but not pans as

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poppies this year and they were gorgeous. So we're going

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to try loads of different varieties of poppies for next

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year as well. We've saved all the seeds from this

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year's to hopefully grow neck yeah, and produce even more poppies,

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so stay tuned for that. So yeah, I'm glad to

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be back doing these podcast episodes. Like I said, we're

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going to get them out on a regular basis. The

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next episode what will come up, we'll be talking about

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all the things that you can plant in November, and

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then the episode after that will be all the jobs

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which need doing in the garden and the allotment in

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November as well. So stay tuned for them to episodes.

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Make sure you come with your notebook because and you

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can take notes and write down all the jobs which

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you need doing for next year, ready for the allotment.

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