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Brand New Gardening Week | Allotment Jobs & Weekly Garden Update
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Nov 13, 2024
🌞 Brand New Week of Gardening at the Allotment! Fresh week, fresh energy! There’s nothing like starting Monday on the plot to reset and refocus. 🌱🧤 In this episode, I share what I’ve kicked off this week at the allotment — from planning tasks and checking on seedlings to tidying up and making space for spring planting. Every new week brings new possibilities! What’s first on your garden to-do list this week? #AllotmentLife #MondayMotivation #GrowYourOwn #WeeklyGardenUpdate #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #AllotmentVlog
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episode hello gardening with Ben fans I
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hope you're all well while it's Monday I
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hope it's Monday because hopefully this
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will go out as like I said my
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subscriptions due to end yesterday but
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we pre-recorded these and put these on
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so hopefully they will still go out on
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time for you to listen to if not
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there'll be a book upload on Friday for
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you to listen
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to but yeah we hopefully get these
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episodes up and running for you but yeah
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it's a new week down at the allotment
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and usually
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I'm saying start making your lists on
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Friday for the weekend but this week is
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going to be a scorcher of a week it's
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going to raise up to about 20° while it
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is here in Sheffield it's forecast for
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20 de CSI which is fantastic weather
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which means you need to start making
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those lists for this week you need to
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make the most of every opportunity out
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in the garden this week while the good
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work ever is here whether it
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be early in the morning before you go to
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work or whether it be late at night
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after you finished work but make the
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most of this weather and by the M
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meaning of making the most of this
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weather is that you need to start
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looking at sewing seeds now you need to
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be getting your seed packets prepared
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you need to be getting them in order you
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need to start looking at what needs to
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be growing now and yeah start thinking
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about sewing all them seeds in in the
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greenhouse and it's going to be a
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mammoth task for me let alone anybody
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else because I'm going totally mad with
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my seeds this year um when I went to buy
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all my flower seeds I just looked at
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them all and I purchased them
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all if you're going to purchase some
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seeds why not purchase them all uh if
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you're addicted to seeds like me you
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will know the feeling if you see some
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seeds you will certainly buy some more
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seeds and yeah definitely but we have
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got a busy week I'm back on nights on
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Tuesday night so I'll be going to the
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plot today on Monday and making the most
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of this weather it's going to get up to
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20 on Tuesday I think it is so I'll be
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down at the alotment early on Tuesday
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and then going to bed Tuesday night
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before I start my night shifts because I
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need to make the most of this weather
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like I said while we've got it and this
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week's tasks down at the allotment will
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be I need to start off finishing my pond
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off which I started the other day and if
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you've listened to my other gardening
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podcast Channel called gardening and
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allotment tips you'll have heard me talk
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about encouraging frogs to the Garden in
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the allotment now that is my main aim
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this year on my allotment to get as many
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frogs as possible down there because
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obviously the frogs will go around
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eating all the Slugs up and that is what
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you want to do if you've not got a pond
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on your plot or in your garden try and
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get one on obviously if you've got kids
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you won't want one but try and get a
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pond on your plot if you have got kids
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just have a look at other options you
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can have a shallow Little Pond just
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somewhere for the frogs to jump into and
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enjoy the water if you can encourage the
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frogs to your alotment you are doing a
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fantastic job because you don't want to
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be using slug palletts frogs are a
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natural defense in killing the Slugs and
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slugs are an nightmare unless you're
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going to go around and gather all the
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Slugs at night I've seen certain people
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they put a flashlight on the head and
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they actually go around collecting all
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the Slugs at night and picking them all
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up and getting them all and chucking
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them away from the plot uh but yeah I've
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seen people do that uh so if you want a
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natural way to stop the Slugs encourage
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the frogs on to your plot and we're
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going to be encouraging so much Wildlife
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to our plot this year uh my my next
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major step is to encourage the birds
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onto the plot and that's going to be
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April no yeah April's task uh we're
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going to be putting lots of bird feeders
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up around my plot and hopefully get some
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beautiful birds coming to the plot it'll
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it'll cost money obviously keeping the
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bird feeders uh filled up but the more
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people that listen to this podcast the
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more we can feed the birds
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so keep sharing this podcast with
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everybody and it'll encourage the bird
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to app plot so that's one main task what
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we've got to do but um obviously
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hopefully I'll finish my pond off I'll
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be buying some pond plants in April when
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I get paid so that'll be one thing that
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I do then hopefully this week I will be
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finishing off my main area of my plot I
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started it on Saturday I've been
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clearing all my main beds uh I've
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trimmed back all my summer raspberries
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they're all ready for this year now it's
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a case of digging over all my beds I
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have weeded them all uh they've just
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obviously got flattened a bit uh over
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the past few weeks so I need to dig them
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over again I'm going to keep digging
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them over every couple of weeks until
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it's time for planting the more roots
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and stuff I can get out of them beds now
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the better they will be in the summer
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for not having as many weeds in them uh
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so that is how main task to keep digging
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them over every couple of weeks so we're
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going to be digging all them over I've
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got all my paths to sort out which is a
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mammoth job in itself because I've got
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so many paths um so I've got all that to
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do and then I've got the top of my plot
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to sort out which is going to be an
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absolutely tough job I'm guessing that
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I'll go into airpo that bit but we've
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got so much rubbish at the plot if
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you're anything like me you just keep
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moving the rubbish further and further
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up your plot and and until there's too
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much so I'm starting to clear all that
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now and get all that out of the way
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because I've got such a big area at the
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top of my plot where I've been chucking
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all my rubbish it's going to be a nice
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new area which I want as a herb garden
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I'd love a herb garden not necessarily
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just for the herbs but
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for getting the smell and encouraging
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the bees to the plot as well herbs are
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good for attracting the bees and even if
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it's just a nice seated area I want a
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nice seat to sit down down on I've not
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got a seating area on my plot at the
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moment so that is what I'm going to be
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looking at doing over the next couple of
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weeks so I'm hoping we can get all that
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completed and all that finished over the
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next few weeks because it's it is a
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tough job and this time of year is so
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much hard work down at the allotment
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because I do push myself probably too
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much and I will get through it all I
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will get on with it but I just expect
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too much from my allotment sometimes
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whether it's because I want to please my
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followers or whether it's just because I
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want to please myself but I do like to
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keep busy down there and another new
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thing what I want to build I want to
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build some raised beds at the end of
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each of my rows uh just out of scrap
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pieces of wood um I just want to build
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some Square beds at the end of each bed
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end of each uh path just to add like an
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extra bit of space to grow in really and
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I want to see what can grow in there
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whether it be some patunas what hang
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down over the edges or whether it be
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some squash plants but we'll see we'll
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see what we're growing there um but yeah
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I'm excited for this year it's going to
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be a good year and again if you've not
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listened to my other podcast Channel
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gardening and allotment tips go over and
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have a listen to that we're going to be
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talking about different topics of the
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week uh we're going to be talking about
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Planting onions planting potatoes
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planting broad beans planting peas um on
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that podcast we talk about all different
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topics but we just usually stick to one
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Topic in the episode so that we're just
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concentrating on that and you'll be able
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to get lots and lots of information on
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it so yeah hopefully you are going to
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have a fantastic week hopefully this has
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gone out on Monday and not Friday but we
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will
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see so I hope that you enjoy this hot
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weather what we're going to get yet I
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hope you enjoy it and make the most of
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the garden like I've said and yeah
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hopefully you get some seeds planted
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this week let me know on my Instagram or
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on my Facebook send me a message and let
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me know what you've got planted this
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week I'm always loving when I hear about
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everything what people are growing so
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until next time remember keep smiling
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