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Cold November Sunday at the Allotment: Winter Prep and Seasonal Gardening Tips
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Dec 1, 2024
🌱 Cold November Sunday at the Allotment: Winter Prep and Seasonal Gardening Tips! The chill is setting in, but there’s still plenty happening on the plot! 🧤🍂 Join me for a brisk Sunday of tidying, prepping, and planning — plus a few essential winter tips to keep your garden ticking through the colder months. How are you getting your plot ready for winter? #NovemberGardening #WinterPrep #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #ColdWeatherGardening #UKGardener #SeasonalTips
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's a brand new
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week Fresh Start ready for it all to go
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again and wow the temperatures are going
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to drop this week if you not seeing the
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weather forecast have a look and yeah
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it's certainly going to be cold at night
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now so if you've got any delicate plants
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what are outside fetch them into the
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greenhouse fetch them inside protect
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them and look after them through the
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winter period because if not the cold
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weather is going to kill them off and
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obviously if the perennial plants and
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they survive and they come back every
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year that's fine but if they're not and
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if you want to keep keep them safe
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definitely bring them inside or put them
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in a heated
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Greenhouse as it's going to turn nippe
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and this snow predicted this week so
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we'll see if we get any fingers crossed
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we don't because it's my mom's 70th
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birthday at the weekend and hopefully
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I'm going to be out celebrating that so
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yeah it's now Monday what did we get up
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to on Sunday that is the question while
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I'm recording this on Sunday ready for
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Monday I've just come back from the
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allotment and I'm absolutely
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freezing I went down to the allotment
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today forgot my body warmer I'll have to
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start wearing my body warmer now at
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weekends as it's getting cold uh you
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certainly feel it compared to yesterday
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it were gorgeous yesterday down at the
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allotment but today it's absolutely
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dropped so I think the autumn and winter
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weather is finally here we've been
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waiting for it it's held off but it's
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finally appeared but we do need the cold
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weather to help with the garlic
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development over the winter period so we
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do welcome it unfortunately we have to
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welcome it and yeah what have we been up
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to at the alotment today well obviously
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yesterday I absolutely cleared all of my
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fruit tree area around my rubab so I got
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most of that done so there wasn't that
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much to be done today to be honest we
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took it pretty
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we had a bit of a lazy day at the
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alotment I went down and I were there
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for quite a few hours but we had a
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pretty much lazy day um we obviously did
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our first thing of feed making sure the
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bird feeders are filled up fed the
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Pussycat and yeah then we did some more
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clearing of the paths and clearing some
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more bind weed which had grow around one
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of my garden archers but I'm going to
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end up taking that garden arch down I
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think cuz it's it's not very good uh
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it's one of those metal ones and it's
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bent and broken and it's not done very
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well uh I thought I could grow my
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climbing roses over them but they're not
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very good and they don't seem to last so
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I think that's coming down we might have
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to look at other options on what to grow
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my climbing roses over maybe we'll build
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something you know what my DIY skills
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are like but maybe we will we'll have to
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have a wait and see maybe we'll have to
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design something you've not seen my
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drawing skills absolutely
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useless but yeah I do love DIY but I'm
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just rubbish at it uh but yeah we've
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been clearing some of that area and yeah
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I'm happy that I've cleared all my
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rubarb area in around there now and
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we've just dropped uh our YouTube video
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up of our weekly tour so you can see all
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the work that I've done uh this weekend
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around my rubab and how good it's
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looking uh we've got a big job next
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weekend but I'll save that for the next
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podcast what we uh for the weekend's
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podcast to tell you what I'm getting up
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to down at the allotment so make sure
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you stay tuned for that fingers crossed
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if it isn't
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snowing we've obviously been filming our
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videos for the week as I have to do them
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all on a weekend ready for the week I
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filmed all my daily questions which I'll
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be posting on Instagram Facebook and
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YouTube so make sure you get involved in
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the daily questions what I post as I do
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love to see all your answers I may not
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reply to them all but I do actually want
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uh read them all and yeah we've done a
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few YouTube videos this week so we've
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done the garden tour we've done a tour
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of my shed and what I plan to do with it
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this winter uh what we're actually
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growing over the winter
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periods uh how to look after the
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life an allotment or or encourage it so
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yeah quite a few videos coming up on the
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YouTube channel so I hope that you are
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following the YouTube channel I do post
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them all on Facebook as well and
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Instagram these days uh but they're
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easier to find on YouTube sometimes so
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if you're not following my YouTube
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channel make sure you follow it click
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the bell and you'll get notified when I
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upload
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them which will usually be at
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nighttime but yeah we've had a good
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weekend down there overall I've made a
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start on Tiding my shed out obviously
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getting that all clean and TI day
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but I'm happy with how it's progressed
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and I mentioned this in my tour video
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that I'm glad I started around end of
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September starting to clear all my plot
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clearing all my beds tidying it all up
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getting rid of all the band weed and
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it's pretty much all tided now all my
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beds are done and it's pretty much done
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outside I've just got another weekend to
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go on doing an area uh which I'll
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mention later on in the
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podcasts and then it's going to be
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indoor work getting all my shed ready
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for next year so we're well ahead of
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schedule we're absolutely flying we're
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getting my allotment prepped for next
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year um one of next year's plans is
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obviously
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to improve the soil in my beds because
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I've not improved them over the last
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like 12 years or so so I'm going to be
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adding some nutrients into the soil and
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adding compost into it adding food into
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it anything I can do to help improve the
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growth of all my vegetables and
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hopefully get some huge pumpkins next
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year and uh some fantastic corett but
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we'll
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see but we've got lots and lots to get
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done over there but yeah we've had a
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fantastic weekend like I said it's been
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a bit too cold today maybe I'm going to
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have to start having them bonfires down
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there I didn't manage to get one done
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this weekend um but hopefully I'll start
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getting some bonfires going and then
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that'll keep me warm as well but as I'm
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actually recording this podcast you know
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I said it's not hardly rained here it's
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absolutely chucking it down now which is
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fantastic which is what I wanted we've
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not had no rain proper rain here for
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ages we had a like 15 minute downpour
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yesterday when I at lotman but it wasn't
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much but hopefully this is a lot heavier
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than it was yesterday so hopefully we're
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going to start getting a bit more rain
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now because I need it to start watering
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my garlic and watering my winter onions
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as they're not getting any water I'm
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having to water it myself and it's seems
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strange having to water outside in
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November but yeah I'm having to water
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everything but it's going to be a busy
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week down at the allotment well at home
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to be honest not at the alotment it's
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going to be a busy week this week uh I'm
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going to start planning and prepping for
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what seeds I'm going to grow for next
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year so I'll be sharing that with you
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all shortly as I need to have a look
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what I want to order obviously pop them
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in a basket and then get them all
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ordered I want to try some new flowers
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next year that's another plan
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but yeah I'm going to start putting it
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all together and I'll share it with you
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on my podcasts and
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hopefully get some new ideas for some my
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new podcast ideas because I start to run
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out of things to talk about after a
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while I Tred to make them quite long
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episodes but I only managed to ever get
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to about 10
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minutes but yeah I like to talk about a
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different topic every single day so this
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podcast is obviously been talking about
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what we've been getting up to at the
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weekend but we've got us um bird houses
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back up we've cleaned them out we clean
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them out ready for Springtime if
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anybody's got any bird houses in the
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garden make sure you take them down
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clean out any old nests what in them
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disinfect them out just in case there's
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any diseases and stuff in there give
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them a clean as blue tips won't move
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into them if they look like they've
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being lived in or anything's Disturbed
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them so have them nice and clean ready
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for Springtime and then that'll
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encourage blue into your garden I do
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this every year and then the blue tips
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move back in again in the early
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Springtime ready
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for laying the eggs for baby blue tips
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so I'm looking forward to getting more
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birds down at my allotment next year and
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hopefully I'll get my prize as well
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delivered this week for my bird feeder
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so hopefully we'll have some SE blocks
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again because after yesterday's episode
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of the pesky squirrels eating all my Su
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blocks which I'm not very happy about so
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expensive they're not cheap Su blocks
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but yeah they're expensive and they ate
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them all and I thought oh that'll last
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me for about 10 weeks that put a new Su
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Block in every week but no it lasted me
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three
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weeks but hopefully we're going to start
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encouraging more animals down onto my
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plot
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obviously I had a look actually in the
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supermarket yesterday and they got some
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hedgehog food now it's specially
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designed for hedgehogs but obviously
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that will encourage M and wraps and
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squirels to eat it so I don't know if I
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should put hedgehog food out or not let
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me know in the comments if you put
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hedgehog food out uh well not in the
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comments by sending me a message I'd
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like to know if anyone else puts
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hedgehog food out obviously there's
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certain stuff that you can feed them and
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certain stuff you can't but this is
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specially designed for hedgehogs so let
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let me know if you feed your hedgehogs
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with hedgehog food and whether it's
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worth off doing it or not at my
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allotment as I have got a hedgehog house
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I've not put it out yet I need to put it
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out find somewhere nice for it to go
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because obviously this time of year
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hedgehogs are hyber and they need to
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stay safe ready for next year so let me
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know and send me a message if you feed
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the Hedgehogs or not make sure you come
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back for tomorrow's episode we're going
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to be talking about all different Topics
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in this week tomorrow we're going to be
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start talking
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about what's the best way to start an
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allotment off
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off excuse me uh what's the best way to
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start an allotment off from scratch so
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make sure you tune in for that episode
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