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Frosty Beginnings: A Cold December Morning at the Allotment Garden
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Jan 1, 2025
🌱 Frosty Beginnings: A Cold December Morning at the Allotment Garden! The ground’s crisp, the air is fresh, and the allotment is sparkling under a wintery coat of frost. ❄️🌿 Come along for a peaceful December morning on the plot — checking crops, soaking in the stillness, and prepping for what’s ahead. Who else loves an early frosty walk around the garden? #FrostyMorning #WinterOnThePlot #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #DecemberGarden #UKGardener #SeasonalGardening
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well it's currently the weekend
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it's Sunday
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morning and we have been down to the
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allotment yesterday today did I do any
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work yes I did I did absolutely loads
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down there I could just hear the ice
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cream van in the
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background it's bit cold for ice cream
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but we have been so busy down there at
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the alotment today it was an absolute
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gorgeous day today cold very cold but it
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was sunny day and we got absolutely
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loads of stuff done down there so what
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did we get done today well we fed Mrs
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pussycat she at the allotment waiting
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for me as soon as I got there so I went
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and fed her she's looking well looking
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healthy and yeah she Pops to see me
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every time we go down to the
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allotment and then we fed the birds we
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filled the bird feeders up that is we've
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done the main things feeding all the
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wildlife down there it costs a fortune
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looking after all the
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wildlife but with them all and they will
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be happy that there's some food around
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because it was Frosty this morning it
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was icy so the birds will be struggling
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to get the bird the worms out of the
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ground so hopefully we can keep them
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coming down to the alotment eating all
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the insects and eating all the bird seed
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as well so we did that and then one of
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my main jobs what I wanted to get done
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today was sort out around my strawberry
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beds my strawberry beds are the pride
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and joy of my allotment if I could have
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strawberries all over my plot I
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certainly would do that is one thing
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that I would get done so we've been
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tidying up around all the paths sorting
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out some of the old Planters what we're
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around clearing all that sweeping all
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the paths down we can actually get round
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the strawberry beds now which is a lot
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better we don't have to clamber over any
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pots
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and um plant pots and anything like that
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we've got it all tidy so that is one job
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done and I've also been Tiding back well
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tying back my blackbery canes because
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they've grown absolutely wild this year
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all over the place and yeah I grow them
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down the side of my plot which is
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perfect they can Trail along my fence
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and everything like that but I have to
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tie them back to the fence because their
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little Runners shoot out everywhere so
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we've been tying all them back and
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sorting them all out and making sure
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that they on M at a plot because I
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always said to my neighbor if they're on
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your side help yourself to them but yeah
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I'm tiing them to my to my side of the
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plot and making sure that they grow
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Massad CU they're absolutely gorgeous
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they're for forless blackberries but
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they get absolutely loads of
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blackberries on them and they're massive
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they're a lot bigger than the standard
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Blackberry so I'm really happy with this
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formless variety that I've purchased and
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the varieties is that I purchased I
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think they were from Morrison's Garden
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Center that I originally bought these
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from and they're doing absolutely
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fantastic so we've got all them growing
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down the side of the plot and they do
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brilliant and obviously we're being
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trimming back any old Blackberry canes
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off them uh where the signs of old
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blackberri is what we on them from like
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the little uh shoots what coming off
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them we've snipped all them back tided
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them all up and they're all look looking
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pretty
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good we've also been doing a bit of
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tidying up we've always got tidying up
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down to down at the alotment to do um
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I'm a messy Gardener I've always
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admitted that but yeah we've been
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tidying up and clearing away and one
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thing I've not had to do today I've not
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had to do any weeding because I've
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weeded all my beds now they all are
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pretty empty and they're all just sat
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there waiting to be planted ready for
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next year and hopefully we're going to
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get a lot of stuff
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growing and if you listened to
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yesterday's podcast I were talking about
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all the poppy seeds that I've got grow
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uh what I purchased what I'm going to
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try for next year I'm also going to try
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different varieties of
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geraniums and I'm also going to try
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different varieties of sweet peas
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possibly and possibly sunflowers as well
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so hopefully we're going to attract lots
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and lots of bees to the alotment and
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hopefully a lot of fragrance as well
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because the sweet peas will smell
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absolutely amazing we've obviously got
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some sweet peas growing we've heard all
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them last year uh well this year around
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October time and they're still alive in
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the shed I had a check on them today
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they're looking healthy they're still
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alive the Cold's not killed them because
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like I say my Greenhouse is isn't heated
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so I'm fingers Crossing that they stay
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alive ready for next year we've started
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them off early because they say that it
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makes them stronger and we've trimmed
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them back so that they Bush out the
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flowers might not possibly as be as big
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but they'll get more flowers on them so
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hopefully this works as I've not grown
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them from this time of the year before
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usually I plant them around March April
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time and sometimes this struggle when
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you plant them out uh they're not hard
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hardened off enough and they seem
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struggling a lot die and stuff like that
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so I'm starting them off now ready for
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next year to hopefully have a successful
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Sweet Pea
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Harvest and if all these sweet peas grw
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it's going to look absolutely phenomenal
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on my alotment I've got absolutely LS in
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my shed growing my geraniums are still
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alive in the shed as well they're doing
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well we dug all them up out of the
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ground and we put them in the greenhouse
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to keep them alive in the greenhouse
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over the winter because that's what you
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can do if you've got geranium dig them
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up move them into a greenhouse move them
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out of the cold and you may be able to
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keep them alive throughout winter and
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then plant them out again next spring
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time once the frost is gone cuz if you
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leave them out
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the frost will kill them and yeah you'll
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have to buy new ones next year so we're
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just trying to save a bit of money and
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keep them keep them
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alive but like I said I'm hopefully
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going to grow some geraniums myself next
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year I've grown them from seed before
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and they did absolutely fantastic we had
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amazing results from them first time I
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ever grew them and we managed to grow
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some from seed and they took a bit
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longer to get to flowering stage but
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they did flow eventually and they looked
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absolutely amazing so if you want to
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save some money try growing some
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drainings from seed yourself next year
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obviously if you start them off early if
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you've got a warm Greenhouse you will
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get flowers on them pretty earlier than
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like I did towards middle end of summer
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so hopefully we'll have lots of flowers
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next year but yeah I'm just getting
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excited now for stuff to grow and I may
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look at growing some different FS to
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cucumbers as well we have such a good
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success of growing a cucumbers Outdoors
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last year my market more variety I
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planted a Mt outside I got loads of
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spare plants and I thought I'm not
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wasting money
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on spending it on uh loads of compost
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put them in pots in my poly tunnel where
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they'll just dry out and die I'll just
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plant them outside and see how they go
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and to say it wasn't a very nice summer
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they did absolutely amazing it must have
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been a perfect season for them because
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we got absolutely loads of them so I
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might look at different varieties to
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grow next year there's like a lemon
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variety and an apple variety as well so
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I might look at trying to grow them
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seeing how we get on with them but yeah
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I'm hoping for a great big Harvest next
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year like I said I'm working 9 to5
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Monday to Friday now so I don't get
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chance to go down in the week like I
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used to I used to work four on four off
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so I used to spend four days down at the
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allotment at a time so hope hopefully we
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can still get a good harvest on two days
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a week like I don't live too far away
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from a plot so in the summer mons I will
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pop down at night down to the alotment
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just to check on it give it a water and
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see how it is so hopefully I'm I'm
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thinking that we're going to do well
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next year we've got a good start on it
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all my plots cleared it's all tiay we're
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going to now start working on inside our
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shed pretty soon getting all that ready
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ready for next year and yeah I've got a
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lot of faith in how well we're going to
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do next year and I hope you do too and
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like I always say start off early get
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your garden ready get your allotment
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ready for the season ahead like I could
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just sit back now and relax
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until March time because I don't need to
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particularly do much down there but I'm
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finding little jobs to do and getting it
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all ready cuz I cracked on after after
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the season and I cleared it all I got it
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all tided I dug up all the old plants
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cleared them all
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away and got it all already so I don't
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have to do anything throughout the
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winter period if I don't want to but I'm
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going to keep on going down because I
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need to keep creating content for all
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you guys and I need something to talk
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about while I'm down at the
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alotment so yeah I hope that you all
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enjoying these podcasts they have been
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coming on every single day and if you
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got any friends that like gardening or a
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lotman in make sure you share them the
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link to my podcast because we're getting
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more and more people listen every single
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day um I want it to be really successful
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next year I want it to really take off
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like we're getting over a hundred people
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listen every single day at the moment
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which is phenomenal for person that's
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not a professional Gardener I just talk
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about my what I'm getting up between my
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garden and sharing my tips and advice
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with you
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all and I think that's absolutely
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brilliant but we see if we can get 200
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people listening a day that' be
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phenomenal and yeah everything I made
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from these podcasts goes back towards my
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allotment and you know how much seeds
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it all goes towards seeds and compost
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