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Journey hey everybody and welcome back
to gardening with Ben well it's Thursday
already and wow yes thankfully the week
is flying by and I'm so excited for the
weekend I'm ready for the big bird watch
which we'll talk about about in
tomorrow's episode but yeah I'm
definitely excited about it I can't stop
talking about
it hopefully we'll get lots of Feathered
Friends down there but yeah look forward
to tomorrow's episode where we'll be
talking all about the Big Bird Watch and
yeah so what have we been up to well we
have obviously been working this week so
we've not been down to the alotment but
we are trying stuff here at home and
I've started my Peppers off my onions
off and my Chili's off and so far the
peppers and the onions are growing the
peppers seem to have started really
growing this week as I'd not had no sign
of Life on them for a couple of weeks I
I must have planted them about 20 days
ago 25 days ago quite a while ago and
they were taking forever to germinate
and I was thinking well it's warm enough
in my flat this is the ideal temperature
obviously cuz it need to be about 25° to
germinate the peppers one of the reasons
why I've started them off at home early
to get them growing ready for this year
so I thought I'll try them at home this
year we'll start them nice and early and
get them growing and yeah no sign of
life I thought I would bought a dodgy
pack of pepper seeds but no they are
germinating and they're all popping
through now so hopefully in possibly
about a month's time we with my pot them
all up into individual pots keep them
growing at home until it's warm enough
to take them down to the allotment to
the shed to grow so hopefully we'll have
lots of peppers this year that's my plan
to try and grow lots of peppers and
obviously my onions I'm starting them
from seed this year and I'm growing some
from set so I'm going to show the
difference between seed onions and set
onions and show which ones do better and
I'm thinking it'll be the seed ones
again cuz done it from seed before and
the seed did do better than the sets so
we'll have to wait and see and see which
ones actually do well my chilies they've
not even started growing yet so I'm
hoping that they'll start germinating
soon or I'll have to start some more off
because chilies are easier to grow than
Peppers usually when I did them last
time the chilies grew absolutely loads
on the plant I think I've not grown them
for about 10 years now but they did
absolutely fantastic so hoping that they
do germinate and they get growing and
then we'll get lots of chilies as well
this
year now I might start some orene off as
well soon as now is the time to start
orene off as well obviously indoors
where it's warmer and get them growing
so I might try a few orene this weekend
and get them planted we have also spent
a little too much money
online guess what I've bought now well
I was talking about watermelons and
melons the other day and I thought I'm
going to go online and have a look see
what seeds they are so I like adding
them all to my basket all different
varieties and I thought s it I'm
purchasing them so I purchased about six
or seven different varieties of melons
and watermelons to try and grow so we're
going to try lots of different varieties
of melons this year so make sure you
stay tuned for that and obviously I'm
going to be growing them in my poly
tunnel where it's hopefully warmer and
in pots I'll be growing them in pots so
I'll have to keep them watered well and
keep them really watered so hopefully we
have some decent melons and yeah
obviously I'll be sharing the journey
with you all I'll be sharing all the
photos online and updating you on the
podcast how well they're actually
getting on so that is one more thing
ticked off on my list my next thing to
tick off on the list will be my
different varieties of sweet peas my
different varieties of geraniums my
different varieties of sunflowers and my
different varieties of squash as well so
hopefully I'll be able to purchase all
them and get them growing but yeah I'm
going absolutely mental with the seed
growing this
year I don't know where I'm going to
find all the time to look after these
but hopefully we'll find time and
hopefully we'll get them all growing and
hopefully we'll get some produce from
them that's the main thing uh it's all
right spending all this money growing
them it's whether they actually get
produce from
him but yeah hopefully we have a
fantastic crop and hopefully some great
results to show you all but I'm so
excited I'm so excited for March and I
was just uh live on my Tik Tok account
before I've recorded this and I was just
chatting to somebody online who follows
this podcast Ali a shout out to you and
we're chatting saying that um
everybody's excited to Growing Seeds and
people can get carried away and follow
the seed packets suggestion for growing
too much and start sewing all the seeds
pretty early and sometimes obviously
they don't germinate or if you going
them inside they'll get lagy and the
only seeds that I would start at this
time of year are chilies Peppers Orin
and onions and possibly leaks I wouldn't
start anything else off earlier not my
tomatoes not my cucumbers I'll start
them all off in like March time April
time they soon catch up and they'll grow
properly if they're in a greenhouse they
won't grow Ley they won't have issues
with germinating from the heat but yeah
we everybody gets excited when they're
grow for the first year and they'll
start really early uh they need to hold
off hold off from sewing them
seeds but yeah hopefully get planting
pretty later on and you'll see me when I
start sewing all my seeds uh it'll
possibly be like end of March Time
beginning of April time I'll be going
absolutely mental we sewing loads of
seeds and we are going to label them all
this year we're going to label up what
I'm planting in what seed
treay so then there's no guessing at the
end my mom bought me some seed labels uh
this year for Christmas some wooden ones
so we're going to make use of them and
we're going to uh down all our plants on
seed labels so that we know what we're
growing but I'm so excited for this year
I'm really determined and obviously now
that I'm doing more content with videos
and with podcasts and everything like
that I'm sharing what I'm getting up to
so hopefully you'll all enjoy it and
hopefully all enjoy the journey this
year down on the allotment and sharing
what I get up to and as I always say I'm
an honest Gardener I'll show you what
successful and I'll show you what fails
as well there's no point being a
gardener if you don't show what failures
you have nothing ever always works and
that's what obviously people show they
show all the good stuff but it's good to
show the bad stuff as well so that they
know it's not all easy to do which is
not it's a hard job to do and I hope
that you do enjoy these podcast and I
hope that you do enjoy my allotment
Journey so we will be back tomorrow with
tomorrow's podcast
talking about the big bird watch and
then on Saturday we will be down there
getting all the footage and hopefully
some birds there's a strong storm coming
on Friday night everybody so if you've
got any like uh standup green houses or
loose bits on your Greenhouse make sure
everything's secure make sure your pots
are secure and everything won't blow
away because there's going to be a bad
storm on Friday so make sure you're
prepared for that everyone so until next
time everyone remember keep smiling keep
shining and keep gardening with Ben
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