The draw is done. Congratulations to Muir Hutton - you're heading to Gardener's World Live! Thank you to everyone who entered. The response was brilliant, and it was great to see so many of you keen to get there. If you didn't win this time, keep an eye out - there will be more giveaways coming. Enjoy the show, Muir. Well deserved.

GIVEAWAY: a pair of tickets to BBC Gardeners' World Live, NEC Birmingham, Sunday 21 June (worth £61). To enter: follow reply GROW with what you're growing this year. Closes 8 pm Sat 13 June. Winner drawn Sunday. UK, 18 . Tickets are non-refundable/transferable. Image: © BBC Gardeners' World events

I spent 13 years getting my first 10 million long-form YouTube views. Thirteen years. There were plenty of times when it felt like I was making videos for nobody. Uploading, waiting, checking the numbers, and wondering if it was worth it. Then something changed. Not overnight. Not with one magic video. Not because the work suddenly got easier. The videos started compounding. Those early videos kept working in the background. New viewers found old content. One helpful video led people to another. The channel built trust piece by piece. Six years after hitting that first 10 million, the channel has now reached 35.6 million views. That means the first 10 million took 13 years. The next 25.6 million came in 6 years. So if you are creating long-form videos right now and it feels like nobody is watching, keep going. Every useful video you publish becomes part of the foundation. Every clear answer helps someone. Every upload gives YouTube another chance to understand who your content serves. The hard part is staying consistent long enough for the compound effect to show itself. You are not wasting your time. You are building an asset. And sometimes the work you think nobody noticed becomes the reason everything starts moving later.

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Happy New Year from me at Simplify Gardening. 2026 starts now. You start it in the soil. This year you grow more food. You waste less time. You get clearer results. Something massive is coming. I have been building it quietly to help you plan, grow, track, and improve every season in one place. Here is to better soil, better crops, and a big 2026. You reap what you sow. Tony #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #FoodSecurity #HomeGrown

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