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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 i'd 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. Well, it's Wednesday already. Happy

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hump Day everybody. It doesn't feel like Wednesday at all

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because I'm recording this on Monday. No happy Wednesday, everybody.

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Hopefully we got some snow. That's what I'm hoping for.

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As I'm recording this on Monday. The forecast is due

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for snow in a couple of hours time, just at

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seven o'clock. So I'm recording this at Monday at five,

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So ready for your Wednesday episode. But hopefully we manage

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to get some snow. Fingers crossed. I do love some snow.

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But I'm glad I managed to get all my geraniums

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in on time and all my bulbs in, earn my

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garlics in. So this cold weather will help obviously, all

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the garlic, all the spring bulbs and stuff like that.

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It'll say, now come on, time to wake up, time

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to do your magic and get working. So hopefully we

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have had some snow. So yes, let's get back to pretending.

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That is Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everybody. I do make myself laugh.

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I up, I make you laugh as well. But yeah,

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welcome back to today's episode. I hope that you're all

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having a fantastic week. I'm certainly looking forward to the

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weekend as it's my mum's birthday and having a party,

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so hopefully I'll be out and be able to have

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a fun time on Saturday night, have a few drinks

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and enjoy my family time. So today's topic, what we

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are talking about is how can you choose the best

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seats for twenty twenty five? That is today's question. Well,

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it's always hard to try different varieties and know which

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ones are the best varieties to try, as is loads

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of different varieties of vegetables. When you go to the

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garden center or go to a diy store, they'll just

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have the standard varieties which everybody knows and loves. They

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won't have ones that you can experiment with and try

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new ones with. And sometimes it is good to experiment

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and try with different varieties to see how well they

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actually grow. And sometimes it's the weird and wonderful varieties

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that do better than the normal varieties. And one of

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the ways that we can learn to try different varieties

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is by either having a look on a seed website

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where you can buy seeds from obviously Amazon, you can

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buy different varieties from there. And another way which I

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used to do is I used to get the gardening magazines.

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I used to get Grow your Own magazine and the

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Kitchen Garden magazine, and I don't know if they still do,

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but I'm not purchased them for a bit. But you

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used to get ten three packets of seeds with each magazine.

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And the best thing about that is that you get

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stuff what you probably wouldn't usually try. And if you

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like me and you've got seeds in a bag, you'll think, oh,

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I might as well give that a try and see

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what happens with it. See fit grows. There's no loss

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with trying it out. And that's what I did with

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my purple purple cauliflowers. Let me spit my words out

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purple cauliflower. Like if I'd have gone into a soup

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into a garden center, I wouldn't have tried the purple

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variety of cauliflower. And I find that one a lot

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easier to grow than the white cauliflower. So you do

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learn different things of different varieties, and it's good to experiment.

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Every year when I'm growing my produce on my allotment,

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I think of what am I going to try this year,

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something different, as I always like to try something new.

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And one of the years, I decided I'm going to

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grow all different varieties of squash, as there's lots of

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different varieties out there. There's obviously pumpkins, different varieties of

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button squash. There is all different varieties out there. So

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I went online and just searched for the different varieties

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out there to give them a try. And yes, it

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obviously costs money to buy seeds and stuff like that,

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but you don't know how good the varieties are until

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you give them a try and see what they actually

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grow like, even if you don't eat them, or if

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it's just for fun, it's always good to just try

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little new things out there. And I did this with

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growing squash. I've done it with growing beans. I've done

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it with growing tomatoes. I've never done different cucumbers for

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I might have to try that one yet, I've never

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grown telegraph cucumbers. I've always stuck to the market more

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varieties out there because market more are good good cropper.

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So I might actually try telegraph cucumbers one year and

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see how well they actually grow and whether they grow

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in different if it's easier to grow. Like I say,

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you don't know different varieties until you try them, so

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looking out for the best varieties for twenty twenty five

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is I'd say just experiment and have a look around

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and just see what different things you want to give

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a try. The best way sometimes to look for different

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varieties to try and grow is often by ordering a

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seed magazine, as obviously you can see what they look

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like on there, and sometimes seed magazines are a lot

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easier to navigate than websites, as sometimes you look on

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websites and they're all over the place. They hard to navigate,

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hard to find what you're looking for, So seed magazines

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are often pretty useful. And yeah, I've got to say,

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if you're trying a new variety next year, let me

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know what you want to try and let me know

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how you get on. I'm definitely going to experiment and

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try some different things out there next year year and

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just see how see how it all grows, to be honest,

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and see if we get a good outcome. I don't

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really know what type of thing to try next year,

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whether it be different varieties of carrots. Different varieties are

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beat root as is more beat route out there than

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you can imagine. There's even multi colored beat root as

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well as multicolored carrots. But yeah, we're going to give

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it a good try next year and hopefully get some

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amazing results. So all I can give you the tips

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and advice for finding the best varieties for twenty twenty

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five is have a look around, experiment, try new things out,

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and ask other allotments as well. Like it, try and

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grow one variety and swap it with one of your

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neighbors on your allotment, like share them with a few

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varieties and they might swap you some bad as well.

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That's a good way of trying new things out. So

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I hope you found this useful. Go out there and experiment,

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try different varieties of things that you would never see

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in the supermarket or in the shop, and let me

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know how you get on. So until next time, everyone, remember,

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keep smiling, keep shining, and keep gardening with Ben. Everyone,

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