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dealing with gardening and a lotment
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burnout welcome to Gardening with Ben in
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today's episode we're going to be
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talking about gardening and a lotment
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burnout now you can get burnt out from
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doing a lotments and gardens because if
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you've got a brand new a lotment
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obviously you're putting a lot of time
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and effort in and getting it tidied
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cleared done and it can certainly take
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it out of you it is a hard work having
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an a lotment if people say it's easy
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they're lying to you it's a hard thing
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to have an a lotment it's a full-time
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job in itself and you see lots of photos
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online of people's a lotments and
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gardens and they may look fantastic
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they're probably not showing you the
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worst bits cuz I always do i always show
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the worst bits i've got loads of worst
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areas and my a lotment plots covered in
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awful but yeah it can take it out of you
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and the best thing I always say with
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having an a lotment and garden is do
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things in moderation don't spend too
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much time down there if you've got a
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brand new a lotment cover it all over
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and work a bit at a time and then cover
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it back over until you actually need it
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and don't try and do it all in the first
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year i've had my plot 16 years maybe 20
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actually and I've still not done all of
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my plot yet there's still areas that
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I've not done or touched or grown in and
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I'm still working my way through my a
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lotment every year I try to improve a
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certain area i spend a bit of money on
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in a certain area and improve it and try
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and make it a bit more maintenancefree
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the more maintenancefree your a lotment
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is the better and by what I mean by
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maintenancefree is that I'll use like
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black membrane around my strawberries so
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that it stops the weeds from growing or
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I'll put paving slabs down as paths so
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that the weeds don't grow or I'll just
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make it easy as possible to grow in and
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not have to do much work and once it's
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done it's tidied and sorted i've built
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all my beds out of wood made them all
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nice and organized i've got the layout
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sorted so do a bit every single year and
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maybe once you've done it all then you
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can start to improve certain areas like
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I said and make it more maintenancefree
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and just so that you don't have to burn
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yourself out and if you go to the a
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hour maybe at night and for a few hours
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at a weekend you will be able to keep on
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top of it and hopefully keep it under
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control and I'm saying that like it's
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easy but it's not it's not easy
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whatsoever you spend a week off from
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your a lotment and you'll come back and
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the weeds will have come back we've not
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had no rain now for 21 days where I am
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so things are pretty dry and things
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aren't growing as fast as they should do
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the vegetables are growing fast because
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we're keeping them watered but the weeds
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aren't growing where they shouldn't be
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at the moment but until we have the
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first downpour of rain then all the
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weeds will start growing back and it
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will be all systems go again and it'll
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be hard to keep on top of again and then
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you'll be working hard to try and get
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all the weeds up and keep on top of it
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all but there's certain tools out there
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to help you with keeping on top of
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things and the best garden tool around
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what I can recommend is a garden hoe it
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doesn't get the roots out but it chops
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the tops off the weeds now if you go
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around your beds once a week with a hoe
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you will keep on top of the weeds and
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you won't have to spend as much time
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doing it like I said it won't get the
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roots out but it'll chop the tops off
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it'll stop the plant from taking all the
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nutrition from the ground where the
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vegetables are to produce the weed a
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weed is a plant that shouldn't grow
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where you want it to grow it's not
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necessarily a bad plant but it's a plant
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that grows where you shouldn't want it
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but yeah the main thing about it is
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don't burn yourself out when doing an a
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lotment have plenty of breaks have a
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seating area like I have i didn't have a
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seating area on my a lotment for 16
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years last year was an a year when I
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thought I'm going to build myself
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seating area a place that I can relax
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and sit and enjoy look at my a lotment
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and see the great things what I've done
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down here and hopefully see what I'm
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producing as well so don't let an
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aotment burn you out or a garden enjoy
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the process take your time and just do a
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bit at a time every so often and it will
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make it more of a hobby rather than a
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chore and you'll get the enjoyment out
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of it a lot more than you would do so
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