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November Allotment Blog | Top Tips for Prepping Your Plot for Winter
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Nov 3, 2024
🌱 November Allotment Blog: Top Tips for Prepping Your Plot for Winter! Cold weather is coming — is your allotment ready for it? 🧤🍂 In this blog-style update, I share my best tips for getting your plot winter-ready. From clearing spent crops and protecting soil, to covering beds and planning ahead, this is your go-to guide to ensure your allotment stays healthy and prepped for spring. What’s one winter task you never skip on your plot? #NovemberAllotment #WinterPrep #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #PlotPrep #AllotmentTips
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hey everyone and welcome to gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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give you a weekend in the life of
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gardening with Ben down here at the
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alment sharing what we get up to and
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what we get accomplished hopefully we
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get lots done but we'll soon see
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hopefully the weather stays decent it's
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been spitting a bit this morning but
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hopefully we get lots done and lots
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accomplished so first job of the day is
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filling my bird feeders up obviously I'm
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only coming down here at week now so we
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need to keep them filled up and fill
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them up each weekend they're not just
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all of them we've got a load more bird
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feeders dotted around the plot so we've
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got to get them all filled up one of
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them's already got plenty in it I know
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my dad's filled it up but yeah let's
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fill all the overs up so we got all the
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bird feeders filled up so we need to
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hang them all back up back to where they
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belong ready for the birds to eat them
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all so we got the bird feeders filled
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back up we've got some fat in it we've
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got some seeds we' got some peanuts and
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we need to put some water in the bowl
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for them but that's one job to do and
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then we've got some fat balls got some M
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bird
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seed and we've got some sunflower
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seeds and we got some SE and some more
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bird seed so yeah plenty to keep them
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going but mind you the squirrels seem to
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eat most of it hence why I would put the
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little uh Bowl around the bird feeder to
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stop the squirrels and the Rats
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hopefully taking all the bird seed off
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them so yeah that's a little bow we've
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bought to put around it to stop the
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squirrels and the
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racks one of the things that I like to
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do during the winter period and the
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Autumn period is Tiding my plot up and
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get it all looking Ship Shape ready for
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next year hopefully weed feet that is
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the plan and obviously all the paths
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tidied and cleaned up so we've got to
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sweep them all up and get all the old
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compost and soil and weeds that I just
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Chuck on them uh when I'm weeding I'm
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not tidy carder I should be really uh
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but yeah we've got us paths to clean up
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as well so that is so that is one job
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that we're going to do
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today so this is my main path what leads
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to my shed it's not too bad that's my
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old boob not a very good one we've got a
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wooden one now but yeah we're going to
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sweep them up sweep up that path as well
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which leads to my plot with working his
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way around the plot bit by bit so one
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thing I like to do is write lists of
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jobs what I'm going to do when I'm
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coming down I don't overwhelm myself I
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just do little jobs and a few jobs each
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weekend so that I get it all tided and
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Ship Shape ready for the next year and
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yeah if you do it bit by bit you'll get
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it all sorted ready for the year ahead
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and that's what I tend to do so we've
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got us broom so we best get to action in
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tidying up all these paths
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and getting them looking better so I
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want my garlic to do really well this
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year I want to get some good crops from
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them so I'm going to give them some
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fertilizer to keep them fed and
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hopefully get the nutrients they need
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because this we wet weather will help
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it dissolve into the soil and feed the
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garlic plants so let's see what we're
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feeding them
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with so this is the Garlic what's doing
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well so far I'm going to have to take
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this netting off soon because it'll be
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too hard to get off with the shoot SP I
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popping through but yeah I put net in of
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it to stop the squirrels from pulling
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out all the garlic cloves and to give it
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a head start we need to push some of
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them back in they're popping out from
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the roots that I've pushed them out but
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yeah it's growing pretty well so the
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fertilizer we've got is from Simply seed
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so we're going to use that and we're
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going to sprinkle some over the side to
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feed them
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with so it looks pretty good stuff so
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yeah let's just sprinkle it
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over we're not putting too much down so
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then we can keep feeding them all the
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way through
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winter so yeah hopefully that'll help
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feed
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them so my jobs over the winter are to
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clear my beds bit by bit clear all the
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paths clear all the sides of my plots
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and get it all tied out and I'm getting
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there I'm doing a few beds each week and
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working my way up the plot so today
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hopefully we're going to get these two
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beds cleared as you can see they're the
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worst beds out of the lot but yeah
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hopefully we're going to get these
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cleared and then hopefully as well this
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weekend we're going to get all that
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fencing cleared down all the brambl
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taken off all the bind weed pulled out
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and hopefully get that path back in use
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again down that side but yeah we're
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working as way up and then one job will
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be to clear that top area which you can
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see it's an absolute mess but we'll get
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there we'll get it all done we'll get it
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all done ready for M May time when we're
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planting out it'll all look neat and
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tidy again so yeah let's get all this
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cleared out which is going to be a tough
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job but we'll get there so i' cleared
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one of the Beds which had absolutely
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loads of brambles in it bind weed it's
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not completely cleared obviously as you
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can see but the frost and the cold
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weather will kill down the weeds what
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I've dug over
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and they'll have proper dig overs before
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planting them next year but at least
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we've got all the main weeds down and
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it's looking better so next up is that
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bed another hard bed to clear but we'll
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get that that's our jobs for today and
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then obviously I'll be working on this
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bit down the
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side well I'm absolutely shattered from
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digging them over but we've got them
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cleared like I said they're not
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brilliant but uh they'll have pled M
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digs over before we're planting them
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next year but it's about getting all the
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main weeds out all the Bramble roots and
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get it all cleared so I can see where
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things are and hopefully get lots of
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more cleared from them try and get all
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the band weed Roots out over time over
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the winter while they're not
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growing but yeah let's have a look what
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we've done so yeah two beds cleared
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that's ticked off my list for this
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weekend so tomorrow I'm going to start
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clearing some of this
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area down here so that's tomorrow's job
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obviously as you can see lots of leaves
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so they'll be ideal for composting but
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yeah get that area cleared and get that
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finished and let's start by clearing
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some of that which will be a lot easier
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than what we've just been doing case of
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just snipping it off and pulling it off
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obviously I can't get the roots out
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because it goes into my neighbor's plot
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but we can snip it all back and clear it
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all and make it look fresh so we've now
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cleared a lot of that bind weed down
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from that side and all the rubbish what
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we're growing as you can see that's the
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forless Blackberry doing absolutely
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amazing I've pruned about some of of the
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Dead bits off it but we're going to have
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to tie it up sort it out and get it all
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back straight and obviously as you can
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see need to clean my path of all the
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rubbish I'm a very messy
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Gardener hey everyone so we're back down
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at the alotment today it's Sunday we're
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halfway through the the weekend we got
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absolutely loads done down at the
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allotment yesterday we cleared two beds
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which were absolutely awful and we
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cleared a lot of my side border from all
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the bind weed and around my phess
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Blackberry so we're back here today so
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today's job we're going to try and clear
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another bed and hopefully clear some of
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the paths we'll also have to do some
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watering as in my shed stuff dries out
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pretty fast and I've got loads of seeds
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and plants growing in there I'll also
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doing my weekly tour video so that you
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can see how things are growing and how
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things are not growing I always show you
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the real bits but yeah we'll be doing
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that today so yeah hopefully we'll have
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a busy day down at the alotment so let's
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get started let's get his gloves on and
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let's get gardening everyone so today's
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job is to clear some of this area up and
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get this
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tided as you can see lots of leaves
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around ideal for the compost heap and
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yeah just lots of rubbish as well so
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hopefully we can get some of this tidy
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and looking better so that is that area
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cleared so that makes all my beds on my
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alotment dug over and a lot of the weeds
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cleared out obviously there's still a
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lot around but the next job after I
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finished off is to get all the paths
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cleared and get out all the grass what's
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growing in between and get all the beds
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fastened back up but yeah next week
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we'll be doing this area
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which is a mess but hopefully fingers
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crossed we should get a lot of it done
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we'll spread it over two days and get
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most of it cleared so we're just going
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to spend an hour now clearing some more
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of that off that side bit there and get
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that tided up so that it's nice and
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clear like the rest of it so that has
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been our weekly blog down here at the
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alment we've done absolutely loads this
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week so much so many things ticked off
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and so many things added to the for next
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week so make sure you come back to next
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week's episode where we'll be sharing
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what we're getting up to next week while
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we're down here at the allotment coming
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up this week we'll also give you a tour
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of our allotment site so that you can
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see what's growing and what's not
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growing and have a look around so yeah
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thanks for watching everyone make sure
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you click the follow make sure you leave
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a comment and make sure you leave a like
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as well until next time remember keep
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smiling keep shining and keep gardening
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with bed everyone
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