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Garden Storm Damage Recovery | How to Repair and Protect Plants After Bad Weather
Nov 13, 2024
This video explains how to check your garden after severe weather and what steps to take to repair damage and protect plants.
The guide covers assessing plants safely, rescuing damaged crops, securing supports, improving drainage and preventing further problems. It also explains how quick action helps plants recover and reduces long-term issues.
If your garden has been affected by strong winds or heavy rain, these simple practical tips will help you restore and protect your growing space.
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and let's enjoy today's episode hello
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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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