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back to Gardening with Ben. Well, it's Wednesday already. Happy
hump Day everybody. It doesn't feel like Wednesday at all
because I'm recording this on Monday. No happy Wednesday, everybody.
Hopefully we got some snow. That's what I'm hoping for.
As I'm recording this on Monday. The forecast is due
for snow in a couple of hours time, just at
seven o'clock. So I'm recording this at Monday at five,
So ready for your Wednesday episode. But hopefully we manage
to get some snow. Fingers crossed. I do love some snow.
But I'm glad I managed to get all my geraniums
in on time and all my bulbs in, earn my
garlics in. So this cold weather will help obviously, all
the garlic, all the spring bulbs and stuff like that.
It'll say, now come on, time to wake up, time
to do your magic and get working. So hopefully we
have had some snow. So yes, let's get back to pretending.
That is Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everybody. I do make myself laugh.
I up, I make you laugh as well. But yeah,
welcome back to today's episode. I hope that you're all
having a fantastic week. I'm certainly looking forward to the
weekend as it's my mum's birthday and having a party,
so hopefully I'll be out and be able to have
a fun time on Saturday night, have a few drinks
and enjoy my family time. So today's topic, what we
are talking about is how can you choose the best
seats for twenty twenty five? That is today's question. Well,
it's always hard to try different varieties and know which
ones are the best varieties to try, as is loads
of different varieties of vegetables. When you go to the
garden center or go to a diy store, they'll just
have the standard varieties which everybody knows and loves. They
won't have ones that you can experiment with and try
new ones with. And sometimes it is good to experiment
and try with different varieties to see how well they
actually grow. And sometimes it's the weird and wonderful varieties
that do better than the normal varieties. And one of
the ways that we can learn to try different varieties
is by either having a look on a seed website
where you can buy seeds from obviously Amazon, you can
buy different varieties from there. And another way which I
used to do is I used to get the gardening magazines.
I used to get Grow your Own magazine and the
Kitchen Garden magazine, and I don't know if they still do,
but I'm not purchased them for a bit. But you
used to get ten three packets of seeds with each magazine.
And the best thing about that is that you get
stuff what you probably wouldn't usually try. And if you
like me and you've got seeds in a bag, you'll think, oh,
I might as well give that a try and see
what happens with it. See fit grows. There's no loss
with trying it out. And that's what I did with
my purple purple cauliflowers. Let me spit my words out
purple cauliflower. Like if I'd have gone into a soup
into a garden center, I wouldn't have tried the purple
variety of cauliflower. And I find that one a lot
easier to grow than the white cauliflower. So you do
learn different things of different varieties, and it's good to experiment.
Every year when I'm growing my produce on my allotment,
I think of what am I going to try this year,
something different, as I always like to try something new.
And one of the years, I decided I'm going to
grow all different varieties of squash, as there's lots of
different varieties out there. There's obviously pumpkins, different varieties of
button squash. There is all different varieties out there. So
I went online and just searched for the different varieties
out there to give them a try. And yes, it
obviously costs money to buy seeds and stuff like that,
but you don't know how good the varieties are until
you give them a try and see what they actually
grow like, even if you don't eat them, or if
it's just for fun, it's always good to just try
little new things out there. And I did this with
growing squash. I've done it with growing beans. I've done
it with growing tomatoes. I've never done different cucumbers for
I might have to try that one yet, I've never
grown telegraph cucumbers. I've always stuck to the market more
varieties out there because market more are good good cropper.
So I might actually try telegraph cucumbers one year and
see how well they actually grow and whether they grow
in different if it's easier to grow. Like I say,
you don't know different varieties until you try them, so
looking out for the best varieties for twenty twenty five
is I'd say just experiment and have a look around
and just see what different things you want to give
a try. The best way sometimes to look for different
varieties to try and grow is often by ordering a
seed magazine, as obviously you can see what they look
like on there, and sometimes seed magazines are a lot
easier to navigate than websites, as sometimes you look on
websites and they're all over the place. They hard to navigate,
hard to find what you're looking for, So seed magazines
are often pretty useful. And yeah, I've got to say,
if you're trying a new variety next year, let me
know what you want to try and let me know
how you get on. I'm definitely going to experiment and
try some different things out there next year year and
just see how see how it all grows, to be honest,
and see if we get a good outcome. I don't
really know what type of thing to try next year,
whether it be different varieties of carrots. Different varieties are
beat root as is more beat route out there than
you can imagine. There's even multi colored beat root as
well as multicolored carrots. But yeah, we're going to give
it a good try next year and hopefully get some
amazing results. So all I can give you the tips
and advice for finding the best varieties for twenty twenty
five is have a look around, experiment, try new things out,
and ask other allotments as well. Like it, try and
grow one variety and swap it with one of your
neighbors on your allotment, like share them with a few
varieties and they might swap you some bad as well.
That's a good way of trying new things out. So
I hope you found this useful. Go out there and experiment,
try different varieties of things that you would never see
in the supermarket or in the shop, and let me
know how you get on. So until next time, everyone, remember,
keep smiling, keep shining, and keep gardening with Ben. Everyone,
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