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🌱 Maximize Your Green Space: Smart Tips for Allotments & Gardens 🌿
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Jan 19, 2025
🌱 Maximize Your Green Space: Smart Tips for Allotments & Gardens! Big dreams, small spaces? No problem! 🌿✨ Discover clever ways to make the most of your plot, garden, or tiny growing space — from vertical planting to smart crop choices. What’s your best tip for squeezing more into your garden? #GrowYourOwn #GardenPlanning #AllotmentTips #SmallSpaceGardening #GardeningHacks #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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it got the better of me and I didn't get
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garden this weekend so yeah make sure
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you stay tuned for that and just thank
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on all my posts and liking them and
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getting involved I'm trying to start
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respond to every comment on my social
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medias now and Hope hopefully interact
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with you m I know I've let you down in
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the past I've just let people comment
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and I've never replied but I am starting
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to try and reply to them and take note
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of them all I always read them but I've
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never usually replied to them all so
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hopefully I'll start to reply to them
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all and keep in touch with you all so
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yeah today's podcast we're going to be
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talking about using your garden and
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allotment space wisely as some people
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don't have big Gardens they only have
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small gardens same with your allotments
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some people have massive plots and some
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people just have half plots or some
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people just share a little space and
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it's about making the most out of it and
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working out how you can use a space
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wisely to get as much growing as
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possible and I might actually try this
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this year um my plan is just to use one
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bed and try and grow varieties of
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different things in that bed and use it
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wisely and see what we what happens and
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whether we get a good crop from doing it
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so obviously like I said some people
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don't have big Gardens or big allotments
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and some people don't have Gardens at
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all so sometimes you have to grow stuff
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in pots new year new pleasure start 2025
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sometimes you have to grow stuff in
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have to grow stuff on balconies but it's
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about using that space wisely and you
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can grow a lot of fruit and veg and
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flowers in po
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certain stuff work well in pots
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obviously the only issue with growing
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things in pots is that it dries out fast
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so you have to keep things watered
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especially during the summer periods
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because it does dry out and also growing
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stuff in pots it runs out of nutrition
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as it uses all the nutrition up and you
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have to help it get more Nutrition By
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feeding it and yeah looking after it and
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then giving it a bit more TLC a bit like
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when you going MTS in parts have to keep
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feeding them so that they get enough
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nutrition to grow well and get good
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produce on them so the same goes for
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anything growing in pots because there's
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not much after it takes it from the
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compost so it needs a bit of regular
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feeding and Improvement to the soil to
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keep it well
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nourished so when you're growing stuff
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in pots obviously you can grow like
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lettuce in pots you can grow spring
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onions carrots
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beetroot uh radishes Runa beans
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peas corett pumpkins even but like I
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said pumpkins and obviously cett they do
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need a lot of water so you have to make
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sure they get wellfed and yeah obviously
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you when you're growing stuff as well
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just grow the amount that you'll
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actually need uh I shouldn't be really
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saying this because I never do that I
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grow more than well enough that that I
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need I'm one of the that SES every
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single seed in the packet and I'll plant
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every seed in the
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packet but yeah if I'm going to try and
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grow one bed full of veg I'm going to
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try and just grow a few of each
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vegetables and plant them in it and see
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how well we do with it and see if we get
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a better outcome than we do having a bed
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for different
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vegetables and see how all it grows so
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make sure you stay tuned for that cuz
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I'll be sharing my updates obviously on
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Instagram and Facebook with regards to
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the
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and I might try growing some M uh more
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it I did try growing some stuff in uh
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hangers on the side of my shed but I
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forgot to water them so they all died
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but this year I might give my
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extra time to it and give it a bigger
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push in trying to do it this year
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because I do want to try and grow as
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much variety as possible down at the
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alotment and I am going to crack growing
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carrots this year that is on my mission
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list I will grow some good carrots you
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can hold me to it and if I fail you can
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say well you did say that you would
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try but yeah I'm going to give it a try
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this year so yeah and it's about
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obviously planting stuff and as soon as
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it's been
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harvested planting something else in
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that space which can then grow and
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continue and when you like growing like
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lettuce and spring onions and beetroot
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you have to keep sewing at regular
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intervals so that you can keep growing a
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crop throughout the year like obviously
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you can start some lettuce off one week
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and then in a month's time start another
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batch of lettuce off so then as you
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harvesting one set of lettuce you can be
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planting some more lettuce to replace it
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so it's about keeping that crop growing
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and like I said I I never grow anything
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through the winter period I've only got
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my onions and my garlic in throughout
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the winter period And A lot of people do
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actually grow stuff through the winter
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period And I take my heart off to people
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that live off everything that they eat
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throughout the year they grow the full
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year and eat off it I wish I could do
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that and I wish I could spend the time
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down there to do that but yeah as long
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as you use your space wisely use try and
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grow as much as possible and just grow
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what you actually need and if you do
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grow an abundance of crops take it to
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your Lo local food bank call take it to
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your neighbors to your friends to your
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families and they will absolutely love
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you uh everybody loves free fruit and
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vegetables uh like I said certain stuff
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I don't share with people some stuff I
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do share uh but I won't be sharing like
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my strawberries or my sweet uh sweet
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corn me anyone or my peas they're the
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one things that I do not share I can
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grow an abundance to them and I will eat
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them
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all but so yeah yeah um and that's why I
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always stress the importance of planning
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your allotment now ready for the
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summertime where you want to grow stuff
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and how you want to grow it and when you
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plan on planting it there
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and just drawing like a treasure map but
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of your alotment and a plan of it
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and if you do it like that then you can
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work out where things are going to grow
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and if something doesn't work out there
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you can obviously plant something else
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there but it gives you a good idea of
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where you want to grow stuff look at
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where the sun shines look at where it
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gets full sun where it don't get full
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sun where it's shady and work out what
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things can grow in certain areas and
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obviously Google your answer it'll tell
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you what what stuff can grow in the
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shade which stuff needs full sun so you
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can work around that and make the most
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of your garden to its full potential and
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your allotment so yeah I hope you on
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this podcast interesting today and let
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me know if you're going to use your
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space wisely and try and grow more stuff
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this year and try and find unusual
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things to grow things in as well as like
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you see people growing stuff in watering
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cans and uh pot different types of pots
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and stuff like that recyclable
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containers have a look around try and
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grow stuff in different varieties of
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stuff and make it look attractive as
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well so yeah I hope you've enjoyed that
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like I said tomorrow's episode we're
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going to be talking about all the things
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we're going to be doing in the garden so
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make sure you stay tuned for that
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obviously in a couple of weeks it's the
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big bird watch which I'm going to be
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doing down at my allotment I'm going to
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be spending a load of money on bird food
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and seed and different varieties of seed
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fill all my feeders up and just sit
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there and watch the birds come and
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hopefully get some good photos of
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different varieties of birds down at my
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lotman so I'm looking forward to that so
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if you don't know where the big bird
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watch is Google it and get involved and
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join me in doing the big bird watch so
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yeah I hope you've enjoyed the podcast
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today and as always if you've not
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well and yeah until next time everyone
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