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Staying Motivated in the Garden | Tips for Allotment Inspiration Year-Round
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Nov 13, 2024
💬 Growing Through It: Staying Motivated in the Garden & Allotment 🍂 We all hit rough patches — but the garden is where we grow through what we go through. 🌿✨ In this heartfelt episode, I share my personal tips for staying inspired and productive in the garden, even when motivation dips. From seasonal routines to mindset shifts, these small habits keep me connected to the plot and the joy of growing. What helps you stay motivated in the garden year-round? #GardenMotivation #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentLife #SeasonalGardening #GardenWellbeing #GardeningTips #UKGardener
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today today we're going to talk
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about gardening motivation now I talked
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about this in one of my YouTube videos
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what's going to be coming out as well
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soon but I thought I'd talk about it on
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my podcast
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as
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obviously a lot of you know that I have
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struggled with my mental health in the
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past
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and I went to the doctor and they tried
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to prescribe me tablets and stuff like
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that but at that time I was talking to
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my martial arts coach and he was saying
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no don't do the tablets do exercise
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instead uh which I found very helpful
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and it helped a lot
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and obviously I going to Arts back then
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but I used my garden as a place of
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escape a place of where I can relax
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where I can switch off where I can turn
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off and yeah that's why I spend the
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whole weekend down there really and
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that's why I enjoy putting all
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these videos out for you to watch all
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these podcasts out to listen to because
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I know a lot of people get a lot of
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stuff from it and the comments that
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people send me a really nice genuine
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comments I don't get no hatred
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whatsoever and everybody is always
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supportive of what I do and it's a
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fantastic community that I've got I
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absolutely love it and yeah if you are
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listening to this podcast or watching
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one of my videos just leave a comment
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and it really does help with everything
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what I do and it motivates me as well
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and that is how obviously you need to
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keep your motivation when you're doing
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your gardening it's hard to have
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motivation sometimes to go to the
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alotment to go in your garden especially
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if it's an awful day out there or
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something's gone wrong at the alotment
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like everything's gotten eaten or you've
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had a breaking at the allotment or
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something that's put you off from going
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it's hard to find that motivation to go
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back and I never used to find that
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motivation during the winter
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months uh once my harvests had finished
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end of September beginning of October I
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used to say right that's it I'm not
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going back to the allotment now till
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January February time I've spent all
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year there and it's been a hard work but
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that's it I'm not going to be starting
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again until January February time and
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sometimes it's hard to get started again
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once you've not been doing
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it and that is one of the reasons why I
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decided that a few years ago I would
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continue through the winter going to my
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alotment I don't grow necessarily
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through the winter obviously you know
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that I do grow garlic I grow winter
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onions broad
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beans but yeah I don't grow much through
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the winter period I could grow loads of
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stuff in my polyon in the ground if I
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wanted to but I don't want to grow stuff
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through the winter it's not what I want
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to do and what I want to do down at the
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alotment is all my main maintenance work
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and tidying and prepping ready for next
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year as that's what excites me over the
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winter period obviously I've spent all
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year doing all the growing and
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everything like that I want to switch
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off from that and I like to prep and do
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handy work do some building even though
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I'm absolutely rubbish at building you
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all know I'm rubbish at building I put a
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shelf up and it'll fall down in a few
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weeks
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time but yeah I absolutely love it uh I
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love DIY but I'm rubbish it never hire
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me to build a shed cuz it'll fall down
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trust me I can't even put a fence up
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without that falling
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down but yeah I love winter time down at
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the alotment now is
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absolutely fantastic and I'm eager to go
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down all the time and I'm always eager
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to go down when it rains as well when
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it's absolutely chuing it down I'll
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still be at the allotment trust me and
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if I'm not you need to be messaging me
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saying Ben why aren you at the alotment
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taking pictures and doing post and stuff
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like that but yeah I'll always go down
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at the winter now and one thing
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obviously that I do when I go to the
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alotment is I make a list of jobs that I
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need to do obviously you'll find jobs
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while you're there to do but I write
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down a few jobs which I need to do for
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that weekend and obviously during the
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winter months it's about getting it all
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perfect ready for next year which is a
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big task in itself but the quicker I get
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it done and the quicker then I can relax
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over winter if only but yeah uh I write
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all the jobs down I don't give myself
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too many jobs each weekend just a few
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jobs so that I know that I can complete
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them and I take them off as I've got
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them done and like I talked about next
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weekend is I'm going to be sorting out
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my fruit trees cutting all the brambles
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back on that and sorting that area out
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that's next week's task which I know
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last just for the weekend I could
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probably do it in a day if I want to do
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but I'll make it last the weekend I
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don't put too much pressure on myself
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and I'll take them off once I've done
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them and then obviously during the
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winter
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month is when I do all my improvements
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in my shed uh I wash all my pots down I
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tidy it all up I sweep up all the mess
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what I've made I pick up all the rubbish
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what I've left because like I said I'm
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not a messy I'm not a clean and tidy
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Gardener if I if I were a clean and tidy
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Gardener I would have no jobs to do it
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winter
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but yeah uh I definitely won't be going
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into the allotment if I were clean and
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tidy Gardener um but yeah we love to
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keep ourselves motivated throughout the
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winter period and that's why another
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thing what I enjoy doing is doing these
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blogs and videos for you because doing
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the videos and the photos and everything
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like that and talking about it I can see
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the improvement from the plot week on
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week obviously you can as well so you're
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following my journey
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but you can see that I've progressed
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every week and I'm doing a little bit
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more and it's looking a little bit
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better and one of the things what I
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might do next year if you all want to
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join in I don't know if you want to join
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in or not I'm going to stand in the same
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spot every single week and take a photo
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and just show it what it looks like
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every week for 52 weeks and just see the
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progression throughout the year and
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through to the winter which I I think
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could be make what would make quite a
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good video really you know when like
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merge into one another and you can just
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see the change that would be a good
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little video to do not that I know how
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to make it it's hard enough making the
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videos as it
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is but yeah that is one other way that I
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keep myself motivated obviously doing
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all these
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photos and I've got to say as well all
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you guys and girls that are listening to
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this you all motivate me into keeping
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gardening and keeping going throughout
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the year um it's good to share with one
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another how well we're all doing and
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getting involved on the garden and what
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we've been up to down at the Garden and
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that's why I love it when people do
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comment on my posts on Facebook and
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Instagram saying what they've been up to
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what they've done at the alotment I know
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I may not reply to them all but I do
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read them if I reply to all the comments
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that would be a day in a job in
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itself but yeah I do read all the
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comments and it's fantastic to see what
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other people are doing down in the
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gardens and the allotment and it's about
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encouraging one another and the next
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time you go out to see a friend or go
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out for a coffee or something like that
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just chat to someone about your garden
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about what you've been doing in your
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garden or allotment or tell them what
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produce or flowers have grown really
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well and what you'd like to do next year
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down at the allotment and it it
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encourages you as well talking about it
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to other people it gives you that warm
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sense of feeling and encouragement into
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doing
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more so if you are lacking motivation
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for your garden and allotment do get in
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touch with mate I'm always here to chat
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I'll always reply to people's messages
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uh you can message me through Instagram
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I'm available to message through
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Instagram just search for gardening with
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Ben uh give me a follow and you should
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be able to message me hopefully uh you
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should be able to message me it's always
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good to hear from people and I'd love to
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hear about what you've been getting up
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to in your allotment tips and advice as
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we're always learning and that's another
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thing is that if somebody says oh I did
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this and it really successful like
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that'll go give you that little bit of
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boost and you'll think oh I'm going to
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give that a try next year a bit like
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what my neighbor did with his carrots on
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his a lopment he a first year Gardener
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and he grew some fantastic cars and I've
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been trying for 16 years don't let it
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dishearten you let it encourage you into
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doing more and more good things down at
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the plot I never get disheartened if
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something fails and it does absolutely
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rubbish I'm just like H fair enough I'll
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try it again next year but yeah don't
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let anything put you off in gardening uh
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use it as a encouragement into trying
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again and doing it keep doing it until
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you get something out of it and I hope
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you found this useful today uh tomorrow
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we're going to talk about uh another
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topic so make sure you come back for
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tomorrow's episode I'm loving doing
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these podcasts on a daily basis again
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now and I hope that you're all enjoying
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them I'm getting certainly a lot of
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downloads every day about 120 downloads
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a day which is fantastic um we're
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growing every single day and like I say
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they're going to be uh out on YouTube as
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well soon these podcasts so you'll be
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able to listen to them on there as as
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