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to talk about in these episodes this
one's going to be talking about all the
seeds what have come free in the
magazines this month and tomorrow's
we'll be talking about how you got
everything done in February have you got
all your jobs done have you got all your
seats sewn for February and then in a
few days we'll be talking about all the
seeds to sew in March and all the job
which need doing in the garden and
alotment in March so plenty of good
episodes coming up so make sure you do
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you if if you have clicked that
subscribe button it's great to see my
subscribers going up and yeah I'm really
enjoying doing these now uh it's
certainly something that I do enjoy I
didn't think I'd be able to do these
podcasts but now that I've got into the
flow of them just talking into a
microphone to myself I've certainly got
used to it now so these are quite
popular so I enjoy doing them so it's my
favorite time of the month when my
gardening magazines come out and the two
gardening magazines which I get are
kitchen Garden Magazine and grow your
own magazine and these two magazines are
absolutely filled to the brim full of
gardening tips and advice and yeah I do
a lot of eaing myself obviously I don't
know everything so I'm still learning
all the time and it's great to read tips
and advice and see other people's
allotments as well see what they're
getting up to on their plots
so like I said in this episode we're
going to talk about what's come free in
the magazine as that is one of the
reasons why I do get the two magazines
is for the seeds inside them I know
they're not free because you're paying
for the magazine but it feels lightly
free and yeah the first magazine which
we're going to talk about is the grow
your own magazine and that cost $7.99
this month but it came with 10 packets
of seeds and some gardening gloves so
obviously the gardening gloves are quite
expensive as well so that's probably why
it's cost a bit more money this month
the magazine but yeah it can be quite
expensive when they do put extra stuff
in but we have got the seeds which is my
favorite bet so what seeds have come in
kitchen Garden Magazine this
month so this month a lot of these seeds
what we get in the magazine are stuff
which can be sewn now and in March so
the seeds that we have got this month in
grow your own magazine are leak por
Bella and they can be sewn from March to
May and looking at the packet they're
looking quite good so we may try growing
some leaks this year see how well we do
I've never really had much success with
leaks because I've not really put in the
effort of growing them uh it's not
really a vegetable that I enjoy uh I've
never really got the taste of it so we
may give them a try and see if we do
actually like leaks and see if we can
get some good crops from them so we'll
have to give that a
try then we've got some spring onion it
can never have enough spring onions uh
spring onions are good to se in batches
so so that you get in a harvest all the
time and get in regular pickings so
these are spring Evergreen
bunching spring onions and these can be
sewn from March to September so they're
Hardy as well so you can actually sew
them when it's cold uh and they will
survive the cold
weather and you can Harvest them all the
way from March to October so it's great
little space for to be you can fill your
spaces wherever you've got a gap put a
row of spring onion and yeah always room
to fit some of those in they don't take
up not much room whatsoever then we've
got some Lamb's lettuce I don't think
I've ever tried tasting Lamb's
lettuce um so yeah we might give that a
try and see what that actually tastes
like I do need to grow some more salad
stuff salad leaves and stuff like that
so hopefully we can get a little salad
leaf FAA growing on the allotment and
that's like got 175 seat in it so you're
getting your money's worth it's
definitely then we've got some
chevel which is a herb I've never really
I don't think I've tried it to be honest
it says it's a sweet flavor with a touch
of an seed and you can sew it between
January and December so I might give
that a try and see if we can grow some
and see what it actually tastes like and
there's 500 seat in here uh not that I
need 500 chevel plants but yeah they
certainly do put a lot of seeds in some
of these packets what you don't really
need that many far which baffles me
sometimes but oh well and then we've got
tomato mini Bell now I've never tried
growing these before that that's the
thing with this magazine is that you'll
get seeds what you probably wouldn't
purchase in the shops so it's great to
try new stuff and sometimes you'll get
great crops from it and then you'll grow
them yourself and keep on growing them
so these are tomato mini battle so yeah
these are more for pots by the lots of
it so I could grow these in my poly
tunnel and it's small Sweet Tomatoes
perfect patio containers and
baskets so
yeah it looks pretty good and there's no
need to stake a either which is good you
don't have to fa around sticking them up
and keeping them tied up
and 50 seats in that so we'll probably
give them a try this year so you'll have
to stay tuned to see how well we
actually get on with tomor mini bell and
yeah I'll be sharing photos on my
Instagram of them ones of how well they
get
on then we've got cauliflower romano
natalino and these can be sewn from
April to July now these look very
strange on the picture I've never grown
them myself I've only tried growing the
white ones and obviously I grow the
purple ones as well which I get great
results from I've not managed to get
some seeds purple cauliflower seeds yet
I'm going to have to order some of those
online I think uh because I do get great
crops for them ones and I want to carry
on growing them so I'll have to order
some of those online uh possibly from
Amazon or somewhere like
that so yeah stay tuned for that we'll
try growing some of those qualifiers
this year and see if we get some great
results
then chard rubab chard Vulcan I've never
tried chard to E I don't think uh I
don't I wouldn't know what it tastes
like I've not tried a lot of these to be
honest but yeah I've never tried them
and you can s that from April to July
and harvest between July and
November
uh but yeah we'll have to see if it does
well and you can carry on cropping them
through win in a clock if you put a
clutch protection over them from October
onwards to encourage cropping into the
winter and like again 60 seats in that
so yeah and leaves can be cooked like
spinach and the stems are tasty
too so we'll see how they get
on then we've got some red onions seeds
now I've started all white ones off but
I've not started any Red Onion seeds off
so we'll possibly try some of those uh
you can sell them between January and
April I've tried growing red onion sets
and I've never never had any look with
growing red onions hats for some bizarre
reason they always seem to go to seed uh
whether it's because of the variety I
have no idea uh but I've never had any
Lu with red onion seed so we'll possibly
give them a try I'm going to do be doing
a lot of sew in here aren't
I then we've got some garlic chives
which are broadly leaves with a hint of
garlic these can be sewn between January
and December and harvest between January
and December also and yeah I've got some
chives growing but I don't think the
garlic variety so that will be nice to
add some flavoring to meals as well so
we'll have to get some of those soon 150
seeds I could start a shop off with all
these seeds and uh start selling the
plants I wish I could uh give up work
and sell all these plants but yeah one
day one day and then we've got some
taragan
Russian vigorous bushe and productive
plants I think I've SE some tan I'll
have to check what on my list of seeds
what I've SE uh see if we've SE any T
but yeah these can be SE now and 350
seats in this one so we'll be having
plenty of tun growing on the allotment
so that is all the seats what come free
in this month's magazine
of grow your own and kitchen Garden
Magazine no that was uh all the seeds
what are in the grow your own magazine
now we're going to have a look and see
what seeds we've got in the kitchen
Garden like I say you get 10 free
packets in both magazines so that's 20
packets of seeds to grow uh obviously
you probably won't grow all of these but
feel free give them to a friend give
them to an allotment neighbor and share
them between you
because there's plenty of swap groups as
well on Facebook where you can swap
seeds with other people they may have
seeds that you want and you may have
seeds what they want and it's great to
share with people and start doing a seed
swap uh because you might get some great
seeds from other people what you could
try so the seeds what have come in the
kitchen Garden Magazine are tomato Kur
the blue and these can be somewh between
January and April I never start my
tomato seeds off until March time they
always seem to catch up um it's never
warm enough in my Greenhouse to start
them off in
January uh but yeah we'll be starting
some of those off this month and we'll
see how well they get on a large meaty
heart shaped fruit and the way up to 200
grams each so these are pretty massive
these um so yeah I might give a couple
of those try there 50 seats in them but
obviously I won't need 50 plants I've
done that in the past I've sewn all my
tomato seeds everyone's germinated and
I've potted them all up and I've had
like 50 tomato plants growing in my
polyan and it's way too much I certainly
don't need that many so we'll have to
see how well we do with them I've also
picked up some tomato seeds today uh
from Wilkinson's because I've not got
any of these seeds what have come in the
magazine and I stick to some of the
regular ones which I do like to grow
myself next up we've got some radish
sparkler 3 now that is one of the
fastest growing vegetables radish um you
can keep doing successive sewings of
radish so that you keep getting crops on
a regular basis and you can get some
great results for radish and yeah you
can add them to your salad if you're
growing lots of lettuce Le and stuff
like that add them in with some lettuce
and give it a bit of a
kick then we've got some pass Snips and
these can be sewn between February and
may now par Snips are take absolutely
ages to grow you're not meant to harvest
par Snips until after the first Frost
because that adds the flavor into the
par snip um so
yeah par Snips are very nice and tasty
obviously you can rust them and stuff
like that and get some great results
from them then we've got some more
spring onions white Lisbon again you've
always got room to plant spring onions
you can just fit them in gaps and fill
up spaces and yeah keep s them on a
regular basis so that you're picking
them all the time all the way through
the
year then we've got some spinach beat
that can be some between March and
July everybody loves a bit of spinach uh
it always makes spinach when you buy it
from shops and stuff like that and then
you like fry it and it shrinks up very
small and youly get anything from the
plant uh once you do it so
yeah then we've got broccoli Autumn
green calies and you saw that between
March and May and harvest it between
September and November so you're going
to be having some nice Sunday dinners
for some fantastic broccoli and it's
absolutely gorgeous broccoli definitely
homegrown broccoli tastes beautiful um
you can't get anything nicer than
homegrown
broccoli then we've got turnips I was
hting throughout all my seeds the other
day and I didn't realize how many
packets of turnips I actually have uh so
I may have to start giving some of my
seeds away and swapping with other
people to see if they've got anything
decent then we've got some Mar leaks
elephant so these are big big uh Leakes
these and yeah these can be SE now and
then you harvest them through October
through to March so again a nice winter
vegetable to grow all the way through
winter and be able to pick something
through the winter so that you can still
eat crops what you're growing through
the
winter then something I absolutely
disgust celery I'll definitely be giving
these seeds away called Green leaves you
saw it between March and May and harvest
it between August and November but I
absolutely hate saler I will not grow
salery I've never tried growing CER and
I won't ever try growing celery so don't
expect me to grow celery and share
celery
tips and then we've got some
lettuce like I was saying I need to
start growing more cut andc lettuce uh
start doing more like salads and stuff
like that this year so I'm going to be
looking at making a proper salad bed
this year and see if we can get some
decent results from them so yeah that is
all the seeds what have come in the
magazine this month again like I said
like there's 20 packets of seeds there
and you don't have to sell all the
packet of seeds just sprinkle a few in
and save the rest for another year or
give them to an allotment neighbor or
share them with a friend or family
member let some kids try sewing them if
you've got any grandchildren or nephews
or nieces let them s some seeds and grow
some vegetables at home because it's
great to encourage other people to grow
stuff at home as well and hopefully get
some fantastic results from growing
them so that's been your episode today
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Yeah tomorrow's episode will be all
about have you done all the jobs that
you needed to do in February and have
you planted all your seeds for this
month and see what you can get done
before March starts because who knows
what the weather is going to be like uh
the last couple of days has been
absolutely glorious definitely good
gardening weather and get some seeds
started as well so hopefully we'll have
a nice March but we'll have to see we'll
have to see if we get a decent one
fingers crossed we do and we get a nice
wave like we did in the first Corona
virus pandemic lockdown where it was
absolutely glorious and I got a
fantastic Sunan uh during the time while
we were not allowed to go anywhere you
were still allowed to go to the alotment
but I managed to get a fantastic
allotment tan so yeah make sure you tune
in to tomorrow's episode until next time
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