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Allotment Anticipation: Weekend Wonders & This Week’s Seed Haul
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Jan 1, 2025
🌟 Allotment Anticipation: Weekend Wonders & This Week’s Seed Haul! Excitement is building on the plot! From ticking off weekend tasks to unboxing a fresh batch of seeds, this week’s been packed with allotment goodness. 🧤📦 Come see what I’ve been up to — and what I’ll be growing next! What seeds have you added to your stash this week? #SeedHaul #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #WeekendOnThePlot #GardenPlanning #UKGardener #AllotmentUpdate
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's finally the
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weekend the weekend is finally here I'm
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sure these weeks seem to be getting
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longer I hope you've all been enjoying
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the podcast this week we've been doing
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them a little bit different we've been
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talking about little different topics
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every single day I hope you've all
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enjoyed them we recorded them all in two
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days and we scheduled them all for the
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week so I hope you've all been enjoying
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them as I do like to get them on nice
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and early for you to listen to while
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you're either waking up going to work
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getting ready walking the dog or while
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you're in the garden or having your
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morning Brew either way I hope that
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you're enjoying all your podcast that
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you're listening to so today's podcast
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is going to be talking about what we're
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hoping to get up to at the allotment
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this weekend and the reason why I'm
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laughing is because I recorded an
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episode last week saying what I wanted
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to get up to at the allotment and
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literally I did rubbish I didn't do a
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single thing down there I went there but
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I didn't do much
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whatsoever but yeah fingers crossed we
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have got the motivation to do something
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this weekend well it was absolutely
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awful last week and the weather was
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horrendous it was raining on the
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Saturday and then we had the storm on
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the Sunday so yeah it an absolute wash
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out last weekend so we didn't get
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anything done down there but we do have
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those days where we don't want to do
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anything where we just like to maybe
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just pop down to the Garden just have a
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look and evaluate and decide what we're
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going to be doing in the future well
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last weekend as you know like I said it
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was storm last weekend and we did get
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some damaged to our shed it took a bit
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of a brunt of the wind and speaking to
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my dad he's repaired it and fixed it all
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so it's all going to last another week
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fingers crossed it lasts longer than
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that but yeah it's all repaired and it's
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all hopefully a bit more waterprof we've
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got no no extra windows in there that's
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not
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needed so hopefully we can crack on with
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some allotment work this weekend I've
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not actually checked the weather
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forecast this weekend but if it's like
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today it's not been too bad it's been a
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bit drizzly but hopefully we can get
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some work done
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outside however I have been ordering a
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load of seeds this week and they're all
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just starting to arrive which is
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fantastic as I had an Amazon gift
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voucher for 50 which I wanted to spend
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and like I said each year I like to try
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and grow something new and different
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varieties of things and next year I'm
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thinking of growing well I am going to
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I'm going to be growing different
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varieties of poppies as they're
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absolutely beautiful obviously they
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provide seed heads and you can get some
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amazing flowers year after year from
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them because they just throw the seeds
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out everywhere and hopefully provide
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blooms year after year so I've purchased
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lots of different varieties of poppy
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seeds so I'm looking forward to seeing
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what Delights I'm going to get from them
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obviously you can sprinkle poppies
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straight into the ground to grow in the
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ground or you can start them off in seed
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trays I'm going to be starting all mine
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off in seed trays and getting them
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started that way and that way I know
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where I'm going to be planting them in
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between certain areas and do it like
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that and then I know that when they're
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growing they're not actual weeds that
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are growing CU I tend to just dig up
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anything that's growing to be honest so
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hopefully we get some amazing poppies
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next year so hopefully over the weekend
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we're going to be I'll share some photos
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of all the seeds what I've ordered and
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which ones we'll be trying and I may
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even look at uh doing some with
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different flowers as well different
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varieties of other flowers so if you got
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any good suggestions on good flowers to
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grow and the ones that I've not tried
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before let me know send me a message I'd
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love to hear from you and see what sort
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of things to try and grow cuz I'm always
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up for experimenting down at the
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allotment so what are we hoping to do
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down at the allotment this weekend well
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my main task is going to be starting to
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carry on with sorting my shed out ready
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for next year I know obviously I've had
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all the repairs to do which dad's done
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for me so that's one job less done uh
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but I need to start sorting out some of
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the shelving the old plants what are
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growing in there sort out the plants
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which are growing ready for next year in
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there I've got plenty of different
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flowers currently growing in there at
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the moment so I'm looking forward to
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hopefully keeping them alive throughout
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the winter period and hopefully getting
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them planted outside next year as my
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Greenhouse isn't heated it's just a shed
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and it's not insulated which it probably
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should be but yeah hopefully we can keep
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them alive and keep them growing cuz
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we've got some loopings in there we've
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got some sweet peas in there and yeah
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hopefully we a head start ready for next
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year and I've got all my Salvia cuttings
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as well in there so I'm looking forward
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to all them growing next year so we're
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continuing with tidying up my shed but
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if the weather's decent I'm going to be
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outside around my strawberry bed area
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and I've got some carrots still in a tub
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with which have not harvested yet I'm
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not expecting big things from them
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because I forgot about them and I didn't
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water them all summer so I don't know
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how well they're going to look or if
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I've got any carrots whatsoever but
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we'll have to see and hopefully get them
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harvested and have a look and obviously
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I'll share my results with you I'm never
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shy on sharing failures or success so
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make sure you stay tuned for that on
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Instagram and I'll share a picture of
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that as well and obviously we're going
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to hopefully do some more videos I've
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not done any videos for a while uh of
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for my YouTube channel and my Facebook
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and Instagram as I like to
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do nice longish YouTube videos because
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sometimes it's all right speaking and
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people listening to me but I do like to
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show visual as well so then people can
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see what I'm actually on about so
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hopefully I'll do a few more videos as
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well for you next uh this weekend ready
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to share with you all for next week so
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yeah we've got a lot to be getting on
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with down at the allotment and hopefully
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obviously we'll be fe uh filling the
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bird feeders as well that's one job that
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we need to do and we'll be feeding Mrs
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cat that lives down there and Pops down
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to see us regular we'll be feeding her
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as well so we've got absolutely loads to
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do I've also got my onion seeds come
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through as well so I don't know if I
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should be sewing them yet this month or
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wait until it says on the packet which
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is February uh I do know a lot of
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gardeners that do like onions for show
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and for competitions to start them off
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in December so let me know send me a
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message if I should be starting them now
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if I want some decent big onions and
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I'll start them this month and we can
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share how well they're getting on and
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I've also got some sweet peppers as well
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come through the post and some Au jeans
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so we've got to get them started soon
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because the quicker we get them started
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hopefully they'll get some fantastic
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produce on next year because they only
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just started putting produce on towards
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the end of the summer so they're a bit
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late the plants I started the plants off
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too late I think so we need to start the
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plants off pretty early ready for next
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year to have hopefully a great harvest
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from them
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all so yeah we're going to be having a
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lot of new episodes coming up over the
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coming week of the podcast and
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tomorrow's episode we'll be talking
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about everything that we've got up to at
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the allotment today so make sure you
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stay tuned for tomorrow's episode and
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you'll be able to find out if we've
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actually done any work this weekend so
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until next time everyone remember keep
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