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Gardening Bliss: A June Weekend in the Allotment!| Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🌿 Gardening Bliss: A June Weekend in the Allotment! The sun is shining, the plants are thriving, and there’s no better place to be than on the plot! 🌱☀️ In this feel-good podcast episode, I’m sharing what I’ve been up to this June weekend — from harvesting and watering to simply soaking in the joys of summer gardening. What’s bringing you garden bliss right now? #JuneGardening #AllotmentWeekend #GardeningPodcast #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #GardenJoy
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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben we're your host
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gardening with Ben and yeah it's
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Saturday the weekend is here and to be
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honest it wasn't as hot today
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this morning as it was yesterday it was
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absolutely roasting yesterday but today
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I were pretty cool I didn't have my
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t-shirt off which is some something of a
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good
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sight but yeah it's being quite a cool
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day today but I did have to do a lot of
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watering today as
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obviously it was a hot day yesterday so
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we needed to get all the plants watered
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and get them soaked and
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the main things that added water was my
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cucumbers that I planted yesterday and I
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going around checking them all making
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sure no slugs were going for them or
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eating them or starting to destroy them
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and touch wood they are pretty safe at
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the moment and I'm going to be keeping
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my eyes peeled on them because I don't
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want the Slugs to get them we're going
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to try growing them outside for the
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first time ever and hopefully we'll get
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some good crops so it's a bit of a trial
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an error this year on my cucumbers
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outside I've got some growing in inside
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so we'll definitely get some cucumbers
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but we're going to try some outside this
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year so that we can see how well they do
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whether it's worth off growing them
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outside or growing them indoors let me
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know if you have ever grown cucumbers
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Outdoors before Market more variety is
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the variety that I'm growing so give me
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a message and let me know if you grow
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any
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Outdoors so what else have we been up to
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today well I did actually have pretty
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much a chilled day down at the alotment
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today I didn't do an awful lot as to be
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honest I started the gym the other day
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and it's destroyed me I did some like
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tricep
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exercises and my I couldn't move my arms
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this morning they absolutely killed
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bearing in mind i' not been for two days
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they absolutely killed I ended up having
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some paracetamol just to get rid of some
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of the pain but as I'm recording this it
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seems okay at the moment so hopefully
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I'll be back to normal and I'll be back
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at the gym again hopefully it won't put
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me off but we've now got an Apple Watch
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as well so that we can keep track of all
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my exercise and try and encourage me to
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get fit again and obviously like I said
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gardening does keep you fit keeps you
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going keeps you motivated keeps you
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moving around and hopefully I will see
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the difference and progress and
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hopefully now summer's coming we'll be
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having all the healthy food as well
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picked from his alotment now I was
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looking today and my loganberries are
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getting ready they're starting to turn
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ripe now if you've never tried Logan
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berries before loganberries are a longer
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version of a raspberry and they're a bit
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more hairier than a raspberry but they
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are absolutely delicious I always
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remember as a kid my mom used to make
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Loganberry Jam because we had a big
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Loganberry bush in the garden
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and the best thing about loganberries is
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there's no PHS on the canes they're
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forless and you can they just go mad go
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wild you'll get absolutely loads and
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loads of fruit on it so fingers crossed
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over the next few years we have a lot of
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lot of loganberries growing and some
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delicious fruit because you can never
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have enough fruit the fruit that I grow
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from my allotment pays for the allotment
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in itself like my allotment a year is
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about £120 a year which to some of you
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it'll sound a lot but that does include
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the water and it is quite a big plot and
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I'll I'll easily pay £20 for having a
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piece of land that I can go and relax on
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and enjoy the open space on and grow my
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own vegetables on it's not about me
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saving money and growing my own veggie
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it's about my mental health and getting
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outside and being out in the fresh air
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and enjoying it and being back at nature
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but yeah yeah the Logan bers are getting
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ready we've also been busy planting as
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well today if you remember yesterday we
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talked about how we planted all our peas
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out yesterday we planted all our
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cucumbers out yesterday we planted our
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sweet corn the other day so we planted
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some more beetroot today some of my
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beetroot that I had growing has been
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getting eaten and destroyed so we've got
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a lot more beetroot pled today and I've
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planted these all in the gaps between
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all the plants just to fill the spaces
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up because my allotment is quite limited
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for light there's some trees at the top
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of my plot so it doesn't get much light
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at the top so I'm limited for space so I
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need to use every bit of space that I
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can and obviously putting those beetroot
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in the middle of the plants and stuff
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like that it'll stop the weeds from
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growing because hopefully the leaves
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will fill out and they'll stop anything
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else from growing so hopefully we'll get
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a lot of beetroot growing and yeah we've
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got a lettuce R we've had some lettuce
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off absolutely delicious crispy head on
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it uh it's an iceberg variety that I
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grow I've always had good luck with
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growing Iceberg lettuces I've never had
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any issue
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whatsoever I just make sure they're
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netted over to start off with to stop
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the pigeons eating them and attacking
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them but I've never had any issues
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growing Iceberg lers I always have a
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good success with them so we've got some
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more of them started off growing so
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hopefully we'll be planting some of
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those out later so that we get a second
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crop throughout the year and get more
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growing as we come on so we're back at
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work tomorrow for the next four days so
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we're not going to be down at the
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allotment but hopefully we're going to
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record plenty of episodes for you to
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keep you going and keep it all ticking
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over for you because I'm enjoying doing
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all these podcast episodes at the moment
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we're getting quite a lot out and the
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views
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of the podcast is brilliant there's
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loads of people listening every single
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day to them so I appreciate every one of
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you that does listen so what's next
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week's plan when we're back down at the
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alotment hopefully we're going to be
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picking those loganberries we'll be
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picking some strawberries I did notice
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as well my blueberries are starting to
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ripen so we're going to be having some
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blueberries off soon so they'll be
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delicious to have and enjoy down at the
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allotment and obviously like I said I've
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got a meal plan at the moment what I'm
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having and part of it is to have some
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Greek yogurt at night with some fruit of
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my choic in so obviously I'll be using
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the Logan berries I'll be using the
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blueberries strawberries everything that
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is ready around this time of year I'll
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be popping into that Greek yogurt at
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night so we got lots going off and
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hopefully the peas will start to swell
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up soon we need some more rain to come
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that's what we need yes it is Sunshine
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but we do need some rain and we need it
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to water them and make them swell uh I'm
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always one of these that I don't mind if
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it's boiling hot sunny during the
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daytime but just Chuck it down at night
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please just water my allotment it needs
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it because there's only so much watering
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that you can do down at the
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alotment I don't know if you like me but
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I absolutely hate watering it's not
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something that I enjoy doing
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whatsoever so hopefully we do get some
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main soon but I don't think it's likely
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it's forecast to stay warm pretty much
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all week I think this is going to be
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like a little heat wave in a sense even
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though it's like 21 22 degrees I call it
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a heat wave because it's going to be
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nice and warm we're not used to this
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where are we in England so any Sunshine
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is nice and hopefully it'll get things
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growing on pretty well and I should be
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getting around to picking
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my potatoes soon they should be starting
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to get ready I planted them like on Good
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Friday so they should be ready but I
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usually pick them when they start to die
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back when the plants start to die off
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and go yellow that's when I usually know
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that they're ready to harvest and
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they're still green and healthy they've
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not had no flowers on them yet so I'm
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leaving them as they are and just keep
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watering them and keep them growing
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because hopefully then I'll have lots
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and lots of potatoes in there but it's
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one of those old little magic tricks is
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it like you don't know what's in there
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till you find out it's like a surprise
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whereas all other vegetables what you're
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grow you can actually see what it looks
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like with potatoes you've got no chance
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of knowing what they look like until you
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empty them so you don't want to empty
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them too early and not be ready so it's
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case of waiting it out and seeing what
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we get from our potato crop this year
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and I'm hoping we've got a decent crop
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as I do like homegrown potatoes they're
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absolutely delicious they're gorgeous
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they just melt in your mouth and
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absolutely
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phenomenal so I think that's everything
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that we've been up to down at the
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allotment today I've chopped back my
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aliums as well they've died off now so
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we've Chopped all them back cleared them
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out of the way
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and we've got some nice flowers growing
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down there at the moment I've got some
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fabulous fuches what are coming out at
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the moment they're absolutely gorgeous
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and obviously these your first year
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plants so they're not that big plants at
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the moment
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so hopefully next year they'll look even
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better and even bigger and the displays
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will start to look absolutely
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beautiful so that has been our podcast
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