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This video explains important gardening tasks to complete in late autumn to prepare plants and growing areas for winter.
The guide covers clearing beds, protecting crops, improving soil, maintaining structures and planning for the next growing season. It also includes practical tips to prevent cold weather damage and reduce problems later.
Completing these late season jobs helps maintain plant health and makes spring gardening easier.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your allotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode will dig into tips
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garden and alotment thve from planting
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben in today's episode
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we're going to talk about everything
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that we have got up to down at our
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allotment over the weekend giving you an
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insight into what we've been doing
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well if you don't follow me on YouTube
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you would have not seen that I've done
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absolutely loads this weekend so make
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sure you go across and follow my YouTube
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channel and you can see it all in live
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action what I've been getting up to plus
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I've shared a weekly tour of my plot so
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that you can see what's growing and
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what's not growing well this weekend has
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been absolutely busy busy busy busy down
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there at the allotment this weekend and
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it's been actually a decent weekend it
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was that fine rain what does really wet
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you but we managed to get lots done
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anyway down there which I'm impressed
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with again like I always say is that I
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write a list of the jobs that I want to
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do while I'm at the allotment and I take
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them off as I get them done so I never
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give myself too much to do I just give
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myself enough to be able to complete the
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tasks so this weekend was about
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finishing off all my vment beds getting
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them all dug over as I wanted to get
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that out of the way so that I can
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concentrate on doing the tougher
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areas and getting them done but my main
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part of my plot was the main bit that I
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wanted to get finished because obviously
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that's where I grow all my fruit and veg
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throughout the year and once I've done
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that then at least I know that's
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completed yes the weeds will grow back
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yes the roots will grow back and all the
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bind weed will grow back through the
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soil but it's all du over now and if we
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get any frosts it'll break down the soil
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it'll break down any Wheat water in
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there and it'll help get the soil ready
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for next year and we can just keep hoing
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it every weekend now to keep it Weed
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Free fingers crossed that's the plan
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anyway come back Springtime and you'll
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see it all like a jungle
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again but yeah we've got it all weeded
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now and dug over so the next main plan
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will be to get all my paths sorted as
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that's the next important job of my
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allotment and then it'll be a case of
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repairing all my beds getting them all
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painted and looking fresh ready for next
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year but I obviously I can't paint them
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until it's dryer weather because it'll
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just wash off again so there's no point
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painting them through winter I'll paint
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them again in springtime to make them
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look fresh for the year ahead that's the
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plan anyway but we've got all that to
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do then we've also been busy clearing
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out all the bind weed what's been
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growing along all my fence now the
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reason why they call it bindweed cuz it
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is an absolute bind if you've ever dug
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up bind weed it just comes out like
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spaghetti and if you pull a long piece
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out it makes you all day if it snaps
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you're like no because you've got to
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find the piece what it's connected to
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when you digging up band weed you have
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to get out every single bit of rout or
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it will grow back and it can go back
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even worse so the more you get out the
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better chance of getting on top of the
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bind weed I never get on top of it I
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know that for sure because if you got
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membrane down for paths it grows all
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underneath the membrane and everything
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like that it grows under all the pairing
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Stones so you can't get it out unless
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you absolutely rip all your allotment
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part and start from scratch and dig
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every bit of soil over which it take
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forever uh but as long as it's not not
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getting into my beds digging them over
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and clearing them every year I'm keeping
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on top of it that's the
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plan so we've got that to do what else
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have we done we've been um also we've
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been obviously feeding Mr pussycat if
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you're not aware we do have a pussycat
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living on my alotment which is good it's
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absolutely brilliant it had kittens the
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other week but the kittens must have
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wandered off now or Fox must have got
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them or something like that because I've
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not seen them around for a bit but the
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mother cat is still around which is
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really good and we're feeding her on a
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daily basis as well so that she's got
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enough food and energy to keep it going
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but obviously having a cat around on the
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allotment it gets all the rats and all
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the mice which is brilliant it keeps on
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top of them which is what we want it it
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won't catch the squirrels unfortunately
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they're too fast for the cat but um the
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rats haven't been an issue at all
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whatsoever this year I've not seen any
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signs of rats on my allotment which is
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Absol abolutely perfect and it's so nice
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because as soon as I drive onto the
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alotment it must be able to hear what my
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car sounds like and it's sat waiting at
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my gate and then it runs through and
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then it waits for me on my strawberry
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patch while I go into my shed give it
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some food and then it will sneak in and
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eat it
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all and yeah we've been doing that a lot
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of people have said that obviously um I
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need to get it Ned or whatever but it's
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a wild cat it's just out in the area
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it's not my respons responsibility and
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it's seems happy enough with how it's
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living and yeah it's keeping the r
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population down on the allotment which
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is fantastic so I'm happy with how all
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that's
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going but then obviously I'm looking
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after my Birds now we're getting lots of
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birds down there I mentioned uh in one
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of my Facebook posts a bit back that I
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seen a sparrow hawk down near the
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alotment it literally dived bombed me as
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walking on and I thought I've not seen
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no birds around for ages usually even
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see see at least Robins around like
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following you every time you're digging
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around but there'd be no Robbins around
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whatsoever and I started to worry but
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thankfully this weekend I've started to
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see the birds coming back to the
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allotment site which is fantastic I've
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seen some I think they call them col it
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they like black and white but uh I've
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seen a few of them I've seen a few
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Robins around seen some black birds
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around which is good because obviously
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Spar Hawks are birds of prey and if
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they've eaten on an alotment or in a
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garden you don't see the birds around
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for quite a bit until they cuz they do
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know they do know that there's a
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predator around and they'll stay
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away so thankfully I've started seeing
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the birds around again the bird feeders
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are
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getting all eaten as soon as I'm putting
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them out and yes Mr squirrel is is
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loving the bird feeders he's going up
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and down them all and eating all the
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nuts and everything on them but on my
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new one what I purchased what I shared
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online recently uh the one on the pole I
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purchased like a plastic case what goes
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over it to stop the squel and rats
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crawling up the pole to get to the bird
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feed so thankfully the birds alone to
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get that one which is good and yeah I
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think I think that's all what we've been
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up to really it doesn't sound like a lot
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but it is a lot if you get me cuz it's
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kept me busy and I'm getting down there
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at like 9:00 in the morning and I'm not
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leaving till 1:00 yeah I could stay a
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few more hours but it's starting to turn
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cold now starting to turn nippy so we
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have to come home and warm up again but
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I'm only getting two days down there at
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the moment now that I'm back working
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normal hours and yeah I'm absolutely
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loving it and I'm ticking off all them
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jobs and fingers crossed by I'm giving
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myself until the end of November I want
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my
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allotment completely cleared all all the
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weeds cleared all the path's done all
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the borders clear that's what I'm giving
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myself till end of November and then in
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December I'm going to concentrate on
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giving my shed a real spruce up I want
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to paint all inside it I want to put new
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shelving up I want to put new flooring
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down I want it all to make really nice
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because I'm going to be filming lots
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more content inside of my shed and
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sharing tips and advice and I'd love to
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have a little shed just sit in and do
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some films and do some potting up and
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stuff like that so I'm going to Spruce
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the whole of my inside of my shed last
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year I was busy with rebuilding my shed
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because it all collapsed but this year I
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want to concentrate on the inside of it
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and sprucing it all up and making it
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look nice and yeah I know you don't need
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to spend money on a shed but I don't
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have a garden and this is where I get my
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enjoyment out of mostly so I'm going to
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end up spending a bit of money on inside
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making it all look nice and fancy for
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next year and hopefully growing lots and
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lots of spring flowers and vegetables in
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it next year so we'll have to stay tuned
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for that so that's what I've been up to
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down at the allotment this weekend
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another busy
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weekend but yeah this podcast will be
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back again tomorrow with a new episode
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at 7:00 we might be talking about garlic
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and onions so stay tuned for that and
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