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Autumn Hustle: A Jam-Packed November Weekend at the Allotment🍂| Gardening Tips & Seasonal Advice 🌱
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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 Autumn Hustle: A Jam-Packed November Weekend at the Allotment! The leaves are falling, the air is crisp, and there’s no slowing down on the plot! 🧤🍂 Join me for a full-on November weekend tackling everything from clearing beds and planting garlic to prepping for winter and reflecting on the season’s wins. What’s keeping you busy on your allotment this autumn? #AutumnHustle #NovemberGardening #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #SeasonalGardenTasks #UKGardener #GardeningPodcast
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today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben it's a brand new week
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we start the weekend is finally over
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unfortunately no not what we want but
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wow what a weekend it has been it's been
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absolutely gorgeous where is Winter
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where is the cold weather of Autumn this
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is actually a really
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nice Autumn that we're having and as I
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mentioned in my tour video what I've uh
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shared on YouTube uh yesterday it's not
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actually rained for ages how's anyone
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realize that it's not rained for ages
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and when I were looking at my garlic and
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my onions like some of them haven't
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started popping through yet and that's
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probably because we've not had no R to
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water so I've had to water and it's not
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often you'd be watering outside in this
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sort of weather but yeah I'm having to
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water my garlic my onions to get them
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going which is hard which you you
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wouldn't often think about to be honest
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um one of the jobs that I did over the
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weekend was fill all my water buts back
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up
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because they turn our water off at our
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alotment site over winter period because
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they don't want the pipes to freeze and
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them to burst even though they never
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usually do um but yeah they've started
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turning it off
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again and we have to make sure we've got
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enough water cuz it don't turn it on
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till like April time and I usually start
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all my seeds off in March so I'll need
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to keep on watered from beginning of
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March if you get me um obviously I've
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got the water on my plot as well from my
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water BS outside but whever the water's
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turned on I'll be using it out of the
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tap until they turn it off and then I'll
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have to start using it out of the water
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Buzz which I don't really want to be
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using so we need it to start raining I I
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I I don't really want to say this but we
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do need some
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rain but yeah hopefully we'll get some
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rain soon we'll have to check the
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forecast on that but I did get
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absolutely loads of work done down at
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the allotment and like I said if you've
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not checked out my tour video for my
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allotment for this weekend go and check
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it out on my YouTube channel called
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gardening with Ben and you'll be to see
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how well my allotments coming on it's
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starting to look fantastic all the beds
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cleared the paths are nearly all cleared
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I've still got a couple more paths to
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sort out then they we all done then it's
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a I've cleared the top of my plot I've
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cleared quite a bit area of that so I'm
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pleased about that I'm having visions
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now of what I want to do up there for
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next year because I built this area at
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the top of my plot a couple of years ago
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but I've never really used it to its
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full advantage I just used it to make it
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look good to be honest because I'd never
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used it in the 17 years that I'd had the
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allotment so I thought I'm going to get
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it all clear we're going to get it
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designed and then we never planted
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anything in it apart from a few herbs
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but yeah um next year I'm going to get
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all this back area of my plot up to
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looking pretty good and I've got some
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Visions for it I'm thinking like Alpine
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plants up at the top of my plot along
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with more herbs and everything like that
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uh things that are easy to grow and I
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thought alpines will look nice cuz
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they'll just like cover the ground and
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some have flowers on them as well so
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we're going to look for some that I've
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got flowers on and get them all planted
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out so hopefully we're going to have a
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nice new area on my allotment next year
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as I like to invest a bit of money into
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my plot each year and an area that I've
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done up and it's worthwhile if you get
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me so each year I'll spend a bit of
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money on a different area so I'm
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thinking of getting this top area sorted
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once and for all get some alpines in get
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some Paving down sort out the borders
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make it look good and I I know you're
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not meant to spend lots of money on
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allotments but I haven't got a garden so
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I love to see money going into it and it
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looking nice and the less maintenance
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that I have to do on it the better uh
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overall because like this year is
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probably like the first year that I'm
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not having to do much maintenance on my
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plot because it's getting to that
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standard where it's all pretty much good
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looking good and I don't have to do
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anything on it the only Investments I'm
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going to be spending on it over the time
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is to get my Paving done
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because Paving slabs are expensive so
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every year I'm going to be buying a few
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more Paving slabs and eventually it'll
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all be paved and my paths won't get
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muddy or anything like that they'll all
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be nicely paved so that can walk around
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nice and easy most of my plot is
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actually paved all my paths uh I've been
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getting there over the 17 years of
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having the plot whenever anybody's given
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up the allotment and it's empty uh I've
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usually scouted it for Paving slabs
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all the secrets are coming out now shh
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don't tell anyone but yeah Paving slaps
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are expensive they like gold um so if I
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see any Paving slabs I'll have them if
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it's an empty plot if you get me but
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yeah hopefully next year it's going to
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look a bit more better as well uh a bit
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more investment into the top area of my
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plot and making that look good so what
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have we being up to down at the
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allotment this weekend that is what this
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podcast is meant to be about
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I've I've got I've got off on another
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tangent again I always do
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this so this weekend my allotment it has
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been a case of clearing the top of my
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plot which I I have been talking about
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so that is all right so we've cleared
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the top area of a plot we got rid of all
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the leaves what had blown down put them
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into the compost bin leaves will still
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keep blowing down for quite a few weeks
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because there's still loads of leaves on
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at the moment uh but we've cleared all
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that cleared all the bind weed cleared
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all the
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brambles got that all sorted cleared a
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lot of the paths which is a pain cuz I
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am a messy Gardener like I say I'll
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empty my beds but I'll just Chu all the
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weeds on the
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path which is no good for anyone so
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really I should put them into a tub
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straight away and then put them into the
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compost deep but I don't I make life
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difficult and I just Chuck them on the
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path uh then what else did we do we
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potted up my Salvia I've got all all my
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Salvia potted up now they look
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absolutely fantastic uh there were loads
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of flowers on them all on all my cuting
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so I I'll be putting a video out this
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week so make sure you stay tuned for
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that but basically uh I've potted them
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up and I've cut the flowers off to make
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the root system better on it and to
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hopefully push more shoots out on on The
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Cutting what's growing and hopefully
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we'll get some nice bushy plants next
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year so fingers crossed we'll get that s
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Ed we also filled up my bird feeders
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obviously keeping the birds happy got to
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keep the birds happy down at the
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alotment expensive things but the birds
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and the squirrels should I
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say we
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have uh pinched out all my sweet peas a
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video will be coming for that as well we
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have posted up my geraniums a videoos
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coming out for that I'm filming loads of
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videos for you all I hope you're all
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enjoying all these videos and if if
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you're not following my YouTube channel
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do give it a follow because I'm putting
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a lot of time and effort into all my
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YouTube videos and I would like it to
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get monetized eventually uh but it's so
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hard to get YouTube
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monetized um obviously everything that I
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earn from these podcasts and from bits
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and Bobs like that it all goes back into
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my allotment for your videos and for
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your podcasts to show you what I'm doing
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and stuff so it's all worthwhile uh so
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yeah I know there's quite a few adverts
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in these podcasts but like said it all
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goes back into my allotment and it's all
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goes back into the labor of
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it uh what else have we
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done uh that has been pretty much it it
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doesn't sound a lot but it is a lot we
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have spent a lot of time down there this
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weekend and next weekend I'm going to
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get absolutely scratched to death so get
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ready for the pain from that podcast um
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down where all my fruit trees are
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there's a lot of brown BS growing from
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uh my neighbor's plot so I need to prune
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all them back um I won't be able to dig
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them out cuz they're in an awkward spot
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uh but I'll trim them right back to the
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base I do that every year and then by
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the time it comes to next winter they'll
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have growing back again they usually
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last about a year before they get bad
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again so we'll prune them all back and
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chop them all back and then in a few
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weeks when my fruit trees are completely
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bad I'm going to give them a winter wash
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now I don't know if you've heard of a
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win to wash uh you can get it on Amazon
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and basically it is a chemical
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unfortunately um but I spray all my
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fruit trees when they're completely bare
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and it'll stop any insects
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from living in the tree and hatching on
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the tree and stuff like that it just
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gives them uh protection over the winter
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and then I'll do it again in the
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springtime before they start budding up
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and also I'll be getting some um sticky
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tape
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things what you put around the trees uh
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to stop anything from crawling up and
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nesting in the tree like bugs and stuff
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like that so I I I like to put a bit of
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attention into my fruit trees to protect
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them for the year ahead and hopefully I
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stop
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any anything from eating the apples that
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can as there's like something called a
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winter moth or something like that and
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it crawls up the tree and it nests in it
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and it hatches and then it'll like eat
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your fruit and stuff like that so so the
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more I can do to stop stuff getting
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eaten the better really so that's what
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we're going to be doing next week we're
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going to be sorting out my fruit area
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which will be a full weekend's work
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again I usually split it over two days
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uh that'll be my task for the week and
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then I'll do little jobs in between that
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like any that I need to pot up or
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anything that I need to uh sort out a
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path or a bit like that I do a few other
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jobs in between I don't just do that all
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weekend if you get me but that's my main
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project for next weekend I like setting
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myself little project areas to do and
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once I've done them I can tick them off
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I know I don't put too much pressure on
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myself to do a massive area of my
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allotment I I'll say I'll do that chunk
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this weekend I'll do that chunk next
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weekend a bit like that and you get it
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all done eventually and that's the best
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way of doing it you don't want to put
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too much pressure on yourself or it
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becomes a chore and it's not a chore
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