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How to Attract Wildlife to Your Garden Effortlessly
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Dec 1, 2024
🦔 How to Attract Wildlife to Your Garden Effortlessly! From bees and butterflies to birds and hedgehogs — your garden can become a thriving haven for all kinds of creatures. 🐦🌼 Here are simple, low-maintenance ways to bring more life into your outdoor space and help nature thrive alongside your plants. Which visitors do you love seeing most in your garden? #WildlifeGarden #GardenForNature #GrowYourOwn #GardenTips #WildlifeFriendly #UKGardener #PollinatorParadise
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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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 for another brand new
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episode today I hope you're all well I
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hope that all your week's going well and
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I hope you're managing to stay warm
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while it is a bitterly cold old week it
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certainly is here where I am thankfully
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I'm working in the week so I don't have
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to go down to the allotment in the week
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I just go out the weekends now so roll
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on Saturday for when I'm next at the
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alotment so what are we talking about
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today well today's episode is
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encouraging the wildlife to your Gardens
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and your allotments we're going to talk
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about
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today so the reason why I'm talking
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about this is because I find find it
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particularly beneficial for an allotment
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holder to have as much Wildlife going
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down as possible to your allotment now
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I've been working on this over the last
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few years to improve the wildlife onto
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my allotment and as you know recently
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obviously I've had a cat coming down on
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my allotment even had some kittens in my
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shed which have fledged off now and
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moved on and obviously found new homes
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but yeah it's good to see the cats down
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there because obviously they'll catch
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the mice and catch the rats and keep
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them down which is a bonus one one at
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times even left one in my shed a dead
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one unfortunately as a present but I got
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rid of that soon straight
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away but yeah what else are we helping
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to get down at the alotment and in the
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garden well at the moment it's obviously
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winter when we're recording this it's
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well it's it's getting to Winter it's
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currently in Autumn but it's feeling
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like winter certainly is now and at this
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time of year we like to concentrate on
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feeding the birds I don't feed the birds
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throughout the summer period I only feed
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them through the autumn and winter
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periods and Springtime as is's not much
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around for them to eat down at the
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alotment and I still want to help
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encourage them to come to my allotment
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plot because then they'll eat all the
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bugs and stuff like that off of plants
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so we're encouraging them by hanging up
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bird feeders at the moment obviously the
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only problem with hanging bird feeders
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up is it attracts other Wildlife as well
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some not beneficial which are obviously
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the rats and the mice they come and eat
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the seed but hopefully the cat catches
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them so it all works around in one
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favor and obviously it also attracts the
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squirrels to the allotment and I have no
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problems with having the squirrels
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coming down at my allotment they can
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come down all they want as long as they
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don't make too much Dam damage to my
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plot which is obviously my spring bulbs
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which they like to attack or my broad
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beans like they attract nibbled all the
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tops off them in my shed but
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yeah we do like to attract the birds and
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at the moment we've got up some SE balls
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we've got some SE uh pellets we've got
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seed up we've got peanuts up we've got a
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SE block up so yeah we're trying to
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attract all different varieties of birds
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to my plot obviously the not a lot of
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birds around at the moment because some
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obviously hibernate and fly off to
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warmer
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countries over the winter period but
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there's still little birds around like
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your robins and I still see a little
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blue around and um which other ones col
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tits I've seen some of those around but
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yeah we see lots of little birds around
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and I love to encourage them and
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obviously while I'm encouraging them to
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eat seed for my plot I've also got some
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bird houses down at the alotment as well
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where I encourage them to come and live
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on my
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alotment basically and to have babies so
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I put up a couple of bird houses a
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couple of years ago and within half an
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hour blue tits were flying in and out of
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them they must have been in the ideal
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location for them and they were flying
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in and out building the nest and then
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they had some babies in there and they
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fledged off and left so yeah having bird
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houses down on your plot is brilliant to
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watch the blue tis flying in and out so
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I'm I've been encouraging them and
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obviously once they've had the babies in
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the fledged and there's no birds living
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in there you need to take them down and
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clear out any old nest or spiders and
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webs hanging around in there just clean
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them out we're disinfectant get rid of
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the old nest because new Blu tis won't
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move in if they know that there's
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previous occupancy in
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so we do this every year and we get blue
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tis living in them every year which is
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absolutely fantastic on my
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plot so after that we also for my
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birthday I had a ren bird house uh from
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my sister so we're putting that up this
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year as well so you never know we might
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get some baby V next year on myot so I'm
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looking forward to seeing that and
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obviously there's other types of bird
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houses out there so I might look at
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different ones to try and attract some
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other birds living on my alotment so if
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anybody's got any suggestions of any
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other bird houses what they've got let
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me know as I know there's Robin ones out
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there so I might look at Robbins as well
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because obviously we do get a lot of
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Robbins living on our alotment site
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which is always fantastic to see when
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you're digging up the soil and they just
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sat there waiting for the worms and they
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scoop in get the worm and then fly off
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they s t as well they come right close
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to
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you and yeah what other Wildlife are we
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looking after on the alotment well we
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have got a pond down on the plot because
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I want to encourage the frogs to my
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allotment and NES
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and all the pond life creatures as well
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because obviously if you've got frogs
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living on your plot they'll go around
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eating all the Slugs at night which is
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another bonus because obviously the more
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frogs you have the less slugs you'll
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have which is what you want when you've
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got an alotment site you don't want
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everything getting eaten down there
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so we'll be cleaning that out over the
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winter period and uh freshening it up
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ready for next year ready for when it's
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time for frogs born season and hopefully
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get some frogs born in there and
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hopefully get some Froggies again next
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year on my allotment and encourage the
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folks to live down
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there what other oh we look after the
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ladyb birds as well you might think how
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do you look after the ladybirds well you
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can actually buy ladybird houses what I
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like tubes with little holes in for the
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ladyb birds to nest in over the wi
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periods and hiet and encourage the ladyb
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birds to come down so yeah we're
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encouraging the ladyb birds as well down
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at the plot we have also got a hedgehog
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house what I need to put out I've had
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that um about a year now and I've still
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not put it out it yet um but you need to
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find somewhere obviously quiet and
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around where there's some leaves and
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shade and stuff like that for just to in
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I've also seen that you can actually get
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a hedgehog food but I don't know if I
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should put that down or not because it
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might obviously encourage squirrels to
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eat it and uh the Rats of mice but if
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anybody else feeds the Hedgehogs let me
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know because I would like to know about
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them I obviously look after the bees as
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well the bees are the main big thing on
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my plot what I look after as obviously
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like I always say I plant the spring
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bulbs to attract the bees down in
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springtime when they wake up from
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hibernation to give them the energy for
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the year ahead I also plant a lot of
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fragrant flowers and flowers that they
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can land land on to collect the pollen
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and obviously the more bees that you get
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down to the plot The More Produce you'll
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get from your fruit because if the bees
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are around on your plot they'll
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pollinate all your fruit trees or your
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fruit bushes Etc and she strawberries
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and that'll give you more fruit produ so
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without the
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bees we wouldn't get no fruit so the
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more bees that you can get down on the
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plot the
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better we're also going to start looking
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into how to look after the butterflies
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as well we need to attract the
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butterflies to our Gardens and
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allotments more as
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obviously there's not much beneficial in
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them obviously the pollinator but um and
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you don't want caterpillars eating all
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your stuff up but I do love to see the
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butterflies so I'm going to look at how
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to attract the butterflies to my
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allotment and what flowers I should be
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planting to attract them because they're
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absolutely gorgeous when you see them
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flying around I know obviously you can
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plant bulia budle is a good one for
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butterflies but there must be other
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different flowers out there to help look
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after them so yeah I do my little bit
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down on my alment to help the wildlife
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and I've also got a wildlife camera up
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now which I purchased uh previously so
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we've put that outside so hopefully we
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catch some Wildlife activity on my plot
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hopefully I don't catch no burglers down
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there but yeah I'd love to see like
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Badges and foxes down there that would
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be brilliant see obviously it's not good
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for my crops but I would love to see
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some Wildlife down there like Badges and
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foxes around at night because it's an
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infrared camera as well so it picks it
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all up so hopefully we might be able to
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pick something up down there so stay
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tuned and hopefully we'll get some
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footage for you to show you so yeah let
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me know if you are doing your little bit
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for helping the wildlife on your
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