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December Sunday Shed Session: Tidying Up and Sowing Seeds
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Jan 1, 2025
Spend your Sunday with us as we tidy up the shed and get hands-on with seed sowing! Learn tips for organizing your gardening space and discover the best seeds to start this season. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this episode will inspire you to make the most of your weekend in the garden. 🌱 #SundayGardening #ShedTidying #SeedSowing #GardenOrganization #GrowYourOwn Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gardening-with-ben-garden-and-allotment-tips-and-advice-podcast--5150692/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gardening-with-ben-garden-and-allotment-tips-and-advice-podcast--5150692/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss) .
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back grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome to
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gardening with Ben for another podcast
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episode the day before New Year's Eve
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the day before we get ready for starting
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all a fresh in 2025
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it's soon getting close to that fresh
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start and ready to get ready for that
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new growing season well we're back here
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with another podcast this podcast is
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talking about everything that we got up
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to at the allotment yesterday as we had
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a very busy day it was extremely busy
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down at the allotment yesterday and you
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probably think well it's winter you
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can't be doing that much but I am I
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never stop working I'm always grafting
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when I'm down at the allotment and I
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absolutely love it because obviously I
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work 9 to5 Monday to Friday so it's good
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to get out of the flat get good to get
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out in the fresh air and enjoy being
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down at the
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alotment over the last 75 years over
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10,000 chemicals have been introduced to
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our food supply yet the EU only allows
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300 food additives but at Thrive Market
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Brands and restrict more than 1,000
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favorite Pantry snacking and Home
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gift so what have we been doing this
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weekend
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well we finished tidying all my sh up as
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it was an absolute Pig start I didn't
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realize how much compost I must have had
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in buckets old compost so I've been
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shifting all that out putting it into
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all my beds outside getting all that out
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of my shed and I think I scooped up
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about a bucket off a
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carpet I did tell you I'm not a very
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tiny Gardener uh but yeah it's all clean
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and tidy now and ready for next year's
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growing season
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uh so next weekend's job we'll be
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starting in tidying up the poly tunnel
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which is probably worse than
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maed that is a Dumping Ground I just
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shove stuff in there out of the way so
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that is going to take a lot of work and
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a lot of clearing but we'll crack on and
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hopefully get it done over two weekends
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I think that'll take two weekends to get
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that all clean entirely and then that'll
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be another job ticked off my bucket list
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of what I want to get done
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so as we do these jobs we take them off
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and then we know that we've got them all
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done so after I've done my poly tunnel
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then I'll possibly start back outside
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again start getting all my beds ready
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dig them over again because I've dig
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them all over I've clear them all but we
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might do another dig over of them all
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and get rid of any weeds and roots that
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are growing in them just to keep on top
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of it it's good to keep doing them every
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month or so so that nothing gets growing
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in them and one job that I want to do is
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I want to paint up all my beds and
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everything and get all them ready but we
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won't be able to do that possibly until
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spring time when we get in the drier
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days and hopefully the paint will dry
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with
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ease so we've done that we've pain um
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we've tided all the shed up it's all
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looking good there's still quite a few
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repairs that I need to do to the shed uh
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we need to get some purse pcks and get
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the roof fixed and a side panel fixed as
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well so that's a job on the list as well
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so the next thing what we did we
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recorded some videos we recorded
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our yearly Roundup video which I'm going
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to do a podcast version of as well so
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make sure you stay tuned for that video
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which will be dropping on New Year's Eve
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and you'll also be able to see my new
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Fantastic potting bedge which I've
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completed and the final outcome of it
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all and how well it actually looks and
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you will be amazed by it trust me
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but yeah I'm definitely building it up
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aren't I for you
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all so yeah we filmed that video we have
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also started sewing some seeds yes I've
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started and I'm eager to go but not too
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eager uh I've only sewn the ones which
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will need to be sewn now to get them a
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head start so I've sewn all my onions
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we've sewn them and we will be planting
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them out in the ground hopefully in
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April if they grow fingers crossed they
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do grow because the reason why I'm
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growing them early is to give them that
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Head Start and hopefully get some giant
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sized onions so we're starting them off
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now and then hopefully be planting them
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out come April
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time we have planted some chilies yes
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I've not done chilies for a few years so
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we're going to give chilies a try again
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this year and this 10 seeds in it so
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hopefully they all germinate we'll see
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fingers crossed and again again I've
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done that the reason why with my Peppers
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cuz I've also started my Peppers off
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which is 150 seeds but we've not sewn
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all them um is that I planted them
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around March April time the seeds last
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year and they were only just fruiting
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come September time so I'm starting them
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off now to get the plants established
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and hopefully speed them up and get them
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growing in advance ready for fru in
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earlier because then we'll get more
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produce of them which is what we want so
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yeah we've sewn as onions uh peppers and
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our chilies I still need to sew my Au
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jeans which I'm looking at the packet
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right now cuz I forgot to take it to the
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alotment but yeah we still got us or
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jeans to plant we're not going to plant
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us Tomatoes I know most tomato packets
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you'll see say January February time we
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don't start our Tomatoes off till March
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time they soon catch up tomato plants
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that is one thing that does catch up yes
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again you can start them off earlier but
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make sure they don't get laggy they'll
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need to be in a heated place to get them
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started and plenty of light and yeah
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obviously you'll get more food on them
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and more season from them but we don't
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start as till about March time as we
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still we still get plenty off them which
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is what we want so yeah we've done that
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what else have we done we fed the birds
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we made sure the birds were fed we fed
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Mrs cat uh she always looks at me
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thing is I'll feed I'll feed her when I
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get that and she's always waiting on the
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path to be fed and as soon as I walk
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down She'll follow and she'll wait
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outside the shed until I fill the ball
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up I fill the ball up I go and sit in
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the corner of the shed and have a coffee
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uh just to get started and warmed up
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she'll come in and eat it all she eats
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it pretty fast uh so she's usually quite
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hungry uh we feed her every day like and
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obviously there'll be rats and birds
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around for to catch um so she eats it up
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quite fast and then she'll pop back into
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the shed a few more times thinking has
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he filled it up again yet has he filled
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it up again yet and I'm like no I'm not
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doing it more than once you'll get
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enough food from this so yeah we fed the
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cat and wow obviously I fill my bird
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feeders up and I know we've got
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squirrels down at the alotment but
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yesterday I saw four squirrels in my
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fruit tree all having the bird feed and
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I like what mind you I don't mind the
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squirrels
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uh they're they're good little pets um
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they do cause a bit of damage with like
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the bulbs and stuff like that but I
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don't mind seeing the squirrels down
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there it's good to see wildlife down at
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the alotment and I do encourage it which
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some people wouldn't and some people
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would oppose against it but I don't mind
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seeing all the wildlife down there it's
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great to see and it's one thing that I
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always want to see more of so hopefully
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we get different Wildlife down there
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this year so yeah we've had a very very
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busy day and because obviously I've
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started my onions my peppers and my
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chilies off I've brought them home
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because they'll need heat to germinate
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especially the chilies in the peppers
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they'll need about
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25° to get them germinated so it's nice
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and toasty in my flat and obviously I've
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got a wind so now so I'm going to pop
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them on the Wind so we're going to put
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cing film over them and we are hope FL
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going to get them to germinate and I'll
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take them back down to the alotment
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around March time once they' got growing
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and once they've got established but
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yeah we've been busy with that and I've
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started sharing little stories on
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Instagram stories now and on Facebook
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Stories so if you follow me on Instagram
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or Facebook make sure you check my
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stories out I'm sharing like little
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Diaries of what I'm getting up to in the
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day for you all to watch and all to
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enjoy and see a bit more of in the life
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of gardening with
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bed but let me know if you're liking the
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little stories and hopefully I'll keep
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it up as you know what I'm like I'll
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start something and then I'll stop it
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but no hopefully if more people watch
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the videos and enjoy them I hope that
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they do so tomorrow's episode we're
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going to talk about all the success and
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all the failures of our alotment of 2024
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so make sure you stay tuned for that
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that's the last episode of the year
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coming tomorrow and then the mon and
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then the 1 of January we will be talking
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about what we're planning on doing for
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the
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2025 and then the episode after that
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will be what to start sewing in January
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and what jobs need doing in the garden
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in January so make sure you stay tuned
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