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Did the Allotment Survive the Storms? | Weather Damage & Recovery Update
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Nov 13, 2024
🌬️ Did the Allotment Survive the 3 Storms? After days of wild wind and heavy rain, I finally got back to the plot to see the damage (or lack of it)! 🏚️🌱 In this episode, I take you on a walk around the allotment to check for storm-related damage and share what held up, what didn’t, and how I plan to bounce back. Weather can be brutal, but gardeners are tougher! How did your garden hold up during the storms? #StormDamage #AllotmentUpdate #GardenRecovery #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #WeatheringTheStorm
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben for for an episode today I hope
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you're all well and I hope you've all
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had a good weekend it's the start of a
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brand new week which means it's a start
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to learning more gardening tips and
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advice whether it be from me whether it
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be from online
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gardening groups or whether it be from a
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TV show you're
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always always learning with gardening I
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know I'm certainly learning every single
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day and yesterday was one of the main
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days of gardening learning for me
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because I was learning from all my
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followers all about where how to plant a
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grap Vine because I've never grown a
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grap Vine before that's something new to
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me so rather than look it all up I asked
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my followers what is the best way to
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grow a great Vine and a lot of people
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were telling me that I need to plant the
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root outside and then train it inside my
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Greenhouse or poly tunnel so that's
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exactly what I've done that's why I've
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plan planted it I've planted it outside
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my greenhouse and I'm going to grow it
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into the greenhouse over the year and
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see how well it does so thank you if you
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are one of those people that gave me
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tips and advice it's always good to
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learn from one another and I'm certainly
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learning all the
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time and I don't think I ever will stop
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learning so what have we been up to
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today well today is my last day down at
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the alotment because I'm back on nights
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tonight
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and I don't usually go to the alotment
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when I've been on nights um I don't
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usually wake up till about 2 half 2 the
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only time I tend to go down to the
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alotment when I've been on nights is
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during the summer periods when either
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I'll go after I finish shift to go and
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water it all or I'll wake up in the
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afternoon if it's nice and go down there
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for a couple of hours but at the moment
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I don't need to go down I can cope
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without being on the allotment for 4
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days and then go back to the allotment
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for another four days to spend some good
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time there
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so that's the only time I'll be back
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down at the plot so we're going to be
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resting now for 4 days we're going to be
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building our energy back up and thinking
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of what to put on that list of jobs to
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do when I go back so today we have been
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finishing off maintenance work around my
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fruit Tre area what's been probably
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there for about 10 years now in my plot
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um I gave it a massive revamp years ago
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uh the fruit tree area and it needed a
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bit of a repair some of the wood was
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starting to rot uh around my uh edging
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and around my beds but I've replaced a
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few pieces of wood around there I've
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also pruned my cooking apple back tree
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back a bit because it was getting too
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tall and we're not meant to let them
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grow too big um on our s side so I've
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given it a little bit of a tidy up and
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then this week I've been creating a new
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flower bed down the side of my fruit
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trees so that is all in place I've
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filled it all up with old compost what
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was just uh in my shed from when I've
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used it for growing tomatoes and stuff
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and I just Chu all the buckets worth of
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compost into a bin and it yeah I reuse
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it in every is that I can plant flowers
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in and stuff like that I won't reuse it
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for seeds but I'll reuse it in my beds
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down the sides of the plot to improve
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the soil and to grow flowers in it and
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also it looks nicer when you've filled
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them up with compost rather than the
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soil look so it does look a bit better
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so we've been doing that and my Lord it
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did take a lot of compost to fill this
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uh bed up but we've done it we've
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managed it all so that is all complete
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so I need to be working out and planning
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what flowers I'm going to be growing in
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that bed and yeah it's a new bed um
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there is some rasur canes what grow in
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it so I'm going to be filling it up uh
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with flowers and the raspber canes will
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obviously grow grow through it and grow
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behind it but yeah it's certainly going
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to add a lot more color to the plot I'm
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just adding new flower beds everywhere
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all over my plot this year and I just
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can't wait for summer I know I keep
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saying that I know my podcast but it's
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going to look fantastic this year if it
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August to plan and I keep up with the
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momentum and the uh enjoyment what I'm
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spending down there at the moment it's
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really going to look fantastic this year
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and I can't wait to share it all with
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you and if you do follow me on my
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socials I am starting to put out more
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photos at the moment and share more
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stuff with you all as obviously it's
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starting to get a lot nicer on the plot
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and stuff like that at the moment things
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are starting to appear and look good so
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we'll be sharing a lot more content over
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the time and I hope you all enjoy the
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content that we do share and obviously
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on my Facebooks I go live all the time
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so you can see what I'm actually doing
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down there rather than me just
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explaining it over a podcast it's good
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to see it sometimes so you can always
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check out my Facebook lives as well
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where I give like TOS around the plot
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and show what's happening so yeah we've
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done all that so next week's task is
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going to be a lot harder than this
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week's task this week's task was to sort
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out the maintenance around my where my
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plum trees are uh make a new flower a
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couple of new flower beds around there
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which I did and obviously around my
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fruit trees making that nicer and adding
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some flower beds in there and also I
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repaired my poly tunnel as well and I
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also planted a lot more fruit and Bulbs
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as well so I did do quite a lot this
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week um on my four days off but next
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week's task is a lot harder because this
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is my new fruit area all the fruits now
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planted in this area that's all sorted
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um I've got my phoness black BRZ I've
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got some sum of rber canes what I've
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been popping up where they shouldn't do
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so I've moved them all into this new
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fruit area I've got my strawberry plants
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I've got my red
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gooseberries I've got my new blueberry
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plants I've got my new Victoria plum
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trees I've got my gra rine so there's
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quite a lot going off in this
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area and next up is to sort out the size
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of the beds because some of the beds are
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too wide and I can't walk down them with
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my big feet uh I do usually like to have
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my beds uh my paths a Paving slab slab
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width uh to walk down because if I do
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manage to acquire some Paving slabs from
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anyone if you live in the Sheffield
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areas send me a message if you've got
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any Paving slabs you want to drop off at
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my allotment I can't pick them up
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unfortunately because my boot doesn't
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work but if you've got any I will gladly
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accept
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them um as I acquire Paving slabs I do
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like to fill the paths up with them
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because it is a lot nicer to walk on
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Paving slabs and on the black membrane
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or on the soil because it's nice and
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flat and you can just sweep all the mck
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off it and it looks a lot nicer so yeah
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I I like to use Paving slabs on my path
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wherever possible wherever I can acquire
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them from be to be honest uh I will be
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looking at starting once I've got all my
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plot back in shape and tied it up that
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will be the next plan to start buying a
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few more Paving slabs every single week
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to complete armop paaths uh that's going
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to be certainly a mission and a half uh
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cuz it will need quite a lot of Paving
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slabs and like I said my boot's not
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working so I have to put them through
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the side door but yeah we can get a few
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in there at a time and hopefully get it
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all sorted so there's quite a lot of
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work still left to do on my plot uh as
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we get along so the next I I'll only
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have three days off next uh because
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obviously when I finished my fourth
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night I lose a day because I'm sleeping
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till the afternoon and I won't get down
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to the allotment so we won't get much
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done that day so next week's job is
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going to be sorting out all this new
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food area area uh I need to make sure
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all the paths are wide enough all the
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beds are secure and then the main task
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is to sort out down the side of my plot
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because my plot's a bit higher than my
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neighbor's plot and it's starting to cap
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size at one side so I need to look at a
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way of keeping the soil up and also put
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up a new fence because the fencing uh
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just all collapsed uh I did cure it
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after it had been windy because it had
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all blown down but it's really had it
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now uh it needs a good looking at and a
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good sorting out and hopefully we can
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make it look nice really because that's
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what I plan to do is make the area look
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as nice as possible and looks great yeah
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I like to have nice growing areas and
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make it look attractive I know it's only
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an alotment it's only somewhere waiting
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cre around but it's nice and good to
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have pride the work that you do I'm sure
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you are the same when you're at home or
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on the alment you like to take pride in
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how it looks and whether it looks nice
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or not so we're going to be busy doing
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all that and getting it all ready so
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it's going to take a long time to
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hopefully get it ready um I'm not
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expecting my plot to be finished until
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what are we in now March the end of
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April I want all my plot to be finished
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and ready for May time so it's quite a
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mission and a half but we are getting
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there and I'm on track to doing it uh
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the next 4 days we'll obviously be doing
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all that side plot and then it'll be on
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to my main plot which will be a lot
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harder and it'll take a long time uh to
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get all that ready and complete because
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I've got some new beds to build on there
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as well so it's going to be all systems
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go um throughout March getting it all
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and like I said I use April to paint all
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the
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beds and paint any bits in the shed what
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need doing so it's going to be very busy
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over the coming time but I know I'm
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enjoying it I'm certainly I'm enjoying
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it this year this year has been a
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fantastic year so far down at the plot
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I've spent so much time there and the
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weather's been fantastic it's not being
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bad to be down on the plot at all I'm
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certainly getting into it this year and
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I'm excited I'm excited at the things
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I'm going to grow like I'm going to be
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growing lots of different types of
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melons this year and giving them all the
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love and attention that they need to
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produce some fantastic fruit for me and
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the family and the friends so yeah I I
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really am into doing it this year so I'm
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excited to share it all with you and now
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that I'm doing these podcasts more
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regularly so you'll get to keep updated
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on how things are growing and how things
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are getting on and yeah it's going to be
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a good year for for all around uh and I
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