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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and lots of my friends and colleagues.

Today I'm on my own because I thought I'd go back to our quite sort of traditional format of the podcast of going through the things, the 12 best things to sew for beautiful flowers in the garden next year.

And then in two or three weeks' time, I'm going to do the 12 best things to sew and grow now

to eat all through the winter.

So it's giving you an update of the plants that I really recommend for autumn sewing.

And I'll explain, first of all, why to do autumn sewing, but also the things that I've learnt

this year. So I may have done a similar podcast this time last year or this time

the year before, but I've learnt some stuff and that's what I love about the podcast is I can

hand to you the things that we've learnt from trialling and testing all these plants in the garden

at Perch Hill.

So autumn sewing and why you bother, the thing is that if you sew now in September, the

soil is still warm and luckily we've had a really rather lovely September.

This year has been bizarre weather, but we've had this lovely

sort of Indian summer weather in September. So the soil is still really nice and warm.

And yet with the evening and night dews, the soil is also moist. And the conditions that you need

for rapid germination of any seed, but particularly

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