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Harvest Your Own: Why Growing Your Own Produce Matters | Gardening Podcast
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Nov 14, 2024
🥕 Harvest Your Own: Why Growing Your Own Produce Matters! It’s more than just veg — it’s self-sufficiency, sustainability, and satisfaction from seed to plate. 🌱🍽️ In this episode, I’m exploring why growing your own food is so powerful — from saving money and eating fresh to improving mental wellbeing and connecting with nature. Why do you grow your own? #GrowYourOwn #HarvestYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife #SelfSufficiency #UKGardener #SeasonalGardening
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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just starting out this podcast is for
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tips and AD advice we will also have
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's Thursday
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morning and well if you're listening
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straight away it's Thursday morning that
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it is but if you're listening later
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obviously it's maybe not be Thursday but
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it is Thursday and yeah we're getting
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ever closer to that weekend and I can't
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wait I'm starting to write my list
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starting to think about what I'm going
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to be doing down on the allotment and
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planning my weekend out down
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there and one of uh I said i' talk about
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my daily real of the day what I usually
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post and yesterday's what went up last
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night wow that is a good one and the
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question on the real is do you share
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your homegrown produce with your friends
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and family now certain stuff yeah I'll
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share that endlessly like my lettuce my
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rhubarb
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my
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apples everything apart from
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strawberries and sweet corn I won't
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share them with anyone even if it's my
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mom even if it's my sister I won't share
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my my strawberries and sweet corn with
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anyone because they are my two favorite
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things that I grow on the alotment and
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you can never grow enough sweet corn and
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you can never grow enough
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strawberries like I said I've got 200
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plants on my alotment so I I get plenty
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of strawberries but I don't share them
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because they're absolutely delicious and
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the thing is we like strawberries and
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sweet corn once you've grown them
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they've gone if you get my like you'll
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eat them pretty much straight away and
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get them all all
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eaten but yeah there's certain stuff
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like you will share loads of it with
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family and friends and sometimes they'll
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have enough of it they'll get I think I
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hope you don't fetch me any more
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cett because you can certainly have too
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many corett and people get fed up with
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them after a while but certain stuff I
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will keep for myself I don't share some
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of it out obviously because it is quite
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expensive in shops and supermarkets
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certain stuff so I'm pretty much one for
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keep it for myself and enjoying it
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because I've put all the hard work into
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doing it and yeah why not enjoy the
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rewards from the
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allotment so what are we going to be
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talking about in today's podcast what's
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today's podcast theme of the
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day so today's podcast theme is why
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should we start an allotment why should
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we start growing our own produce yes
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we've not talked about this like this is
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one topic we've not actually talked
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about we've talked about like who I am
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and why I got started and everything but
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why should we start growing our own
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produce and yeah when you go to the
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supermarket you'll find certain stuff
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pretty cheap to
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buy like your Tomatoes you'll get a load
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of tomatoes for a pound or something
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like that but yeah loads of stuff are
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pretty cheap certain stuff fair enough
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the not cheap like your black Brees your
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rhubarb your corett your marrow your
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pumpkins there there's certain stuff out
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there that are quite expensive and more
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and more stuff is getting more and more
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expensive especially like the fruit and
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vegetables uh they're getting quite
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expensive to purchase now
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so why should we start growing an
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allotment like I got my allotment and
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the first things that I planted on my
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allotment was my rhubarb plants which
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I've got 16 crowns in of rhubarb I've
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got my Plum Tree I've got my apple tree
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which is a cooking apple tree and I've
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got some eating apple trees and yeah
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those were the first things that I put
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in and my raspberries as well
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and they pay for my allotment in
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themselves because cooking apples are so
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expensive to buy and like I said rubab
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is so expensive to buy like you'll go to
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the supermarket and it they'll be like
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three sticks for2 you think rub Bar's
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one of the easiest things to grow out a
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lot of
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them but yeah it's so expensive to
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buy
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so the reasons why you should start an
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allotment or growing your own in your
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garden I believe is that yes it can be
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more expensive in some cases
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some cases can be more expensive but
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some cases it can be hell of a lot
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cheaper like for a packet of lettuce
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seeds it'll cost you like 50 pens and
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you'll get a th seats in there most of
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them literally all of them will
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germinate lce seats uh easy to germinate
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and they take no trouble in growing
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whatsoever so you can have so many Letts
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from just 50 pens and it won't hardly
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cost you a penny maybe it'll cost you a
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bit for the compost of for the water
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depends if you uh how much you pay for
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your water and stuff like that but
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certain stuff it's worth it like my
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allotment for a year costs me1 pound a
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year my allotment cost and that includes
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water as well so if it didn't include
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water it would probably be about 60
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pound uh but Council allotments are a
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bit more money than private allotments
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but but yeah we've got uh
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would pay about1 pound of it and like I
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said out of them plants what I grow my
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rhubard my cooking apples my plums my
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raspers I make my money back on my
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allotment I don't sell them we're not
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allowed to sell produce on the allotment
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that is one of the rules you're not
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allowed to make profit from uh selling
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stuff on the allotment so we don't I
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don't sell anything personally but to
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have bought that food from the
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supermarket wow it had cost me
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absolutely loads and with the amount of
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black I've been having off and my
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raspberries I get so much it pays for it
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over and over again so it does work out
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a lot cheaper in certain aspects certain
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stuff and obviously some other stuff
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might not be as cheap like if a crop
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fails and it don't do very well you have
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wasted a lot of money and yeah I grow my
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potatoes in boxes which uses a lot of
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compost and the compost is a lot of
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money to purchase and and that'll
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probably be cheaper to buy potatoes from
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the shop than is to grow them in boxes
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but the taste feser the organic you know
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what you've put into that to grow it you
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know all the chemicals that I've gone in
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which have been nothing probably like me
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I don't put no chemicals in my growing
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and yeah they taste absolutely delicious
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so much better
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and obviously growing your own uce as
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well you are outside in the fresh air
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like if I lived in a house and I got my
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own garden or Greenhouse I'd be in there
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every night just potting up and growing
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stuff like that but unfortunately I've
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got an alotment I live in a flat so I've
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not got a greenhouse or a garden but I'd
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love to be in my garden all night just
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like pottering around and potting stuff
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up and taking cuttings and growing stuff
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and experimenting and streaming all the
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time while I'm in my garden but
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unfortunately I can't do
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that but there's so much benefit out of
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going in the garden and being in the
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fresh air and I've talked about it in
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like my mental health podcasts that the
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you there it is proven that when you
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putting your hands in the soil and
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you're reaching in and the there's
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something in it what gives you
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endorphins to make you feel better and
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more happy in being out in the garden
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and obviously there's no sounds around
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all you're hearing is the birds the
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planes maybe a bit of traffic or
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something like that but where my
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allotment is is absolutely peaceful and
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there's no traffic around it's
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absolutely fantastic and the only noises
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around are the birds and it's just so
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nice to switch off and be at peace
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nothing to disturb you if you want to
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turn your mobile phone off while you're
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there or put it on do not disturb or
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silence and you've got nothing around
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you you've got no worries nobody
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disturbing you you're just there
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enjoying doing what you want yourself so
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there is so much benefit into growing
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your own produce and if you aren't
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growing your own produce I do recommend
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it like people say oh I've not got much
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of a garden I can't grow much in my
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garden because it's not very big or I
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only live in a
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flat with a little balcony I can't grow
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anything on my balcony yes you can
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there's so many opportunities out there
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if you've got a small garden or if
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you've got a balcony to grow stuff on
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your balcony there's so many different
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methods of growing produce and getting
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the best of it the only person who says
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they can't grow anything in there flat
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is me because I've not got a
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balcony but
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yeah there's so much benefit to growing
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and starting an alotment or starting a
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kitchen Garden or starting your no dig
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bed but if you're thinking about doing
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it give it a go I'm always around to
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share tips and advice and ask questions
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too so if you've got any questions feel
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free to drop me a question on Instagram
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and I've started putting my links to my
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other social media in the description
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now so if you're not following me on any
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of the other social medias please do
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give me a follow
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and I post different stuff on different
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platforms like I've sharing daily
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questions on YouTube I'm sharing blogs
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on YouTube and on Facebook but yeah I'm
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sharing so much at the moment and the
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content just keeps on coming out at the
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moment I'm just pushing it and pushing
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it and pushing it one day I will be
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famous one day you will see me on Garden
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this world what one can only hope
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but that is a reason why we should start
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an allotment the mental health the taste
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of the produce being out in the fresh
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air switching off and enjoying being at
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peace and obviously the fresh produce
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and the delicious taste of it once you
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have harvested
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it so if you've enjoyed this podcast
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everyone please do give it a like please
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do leave a comment below and let me know
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as well uh send me a message and let me
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know if you share your produce with any
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any body or you like me you save all
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your strawberries and your sweet corn or
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do you have a favorite one that you save
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what you don't share with anyone let me
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know so until next time everyone
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