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This video explains useful winter gardening jobs and what plants can still be grown in cold weather. Learn simple maintenance tasks and suitable crops for cooler conditions.
The guide covers protecting plants from frost, caring for overwintering crops and preparing soil for future planting. It also explains basic care methods that help plants survive low temperatures.
If you want to stay productive during colder months, this video provides practical winter gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing.
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episode I hope you're all well on this
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Monday morning and hopefully the snow
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will start to fall and fingers crossed
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disappear soon because what's left is
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all that ice and it's awful when it's
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ice it it's it's lovely when it's first
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come down when you can crunch your feet
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in it and stuff like that but when
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you've had the snow now for about a week
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and it's all that ice it's awful to walk
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on like all the main roads are clear and
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stuff like that but all the Pavements
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are so awful to walk on it's absolutely
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awful but hopefully it will all go soon
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but yeah we went down on our allotment
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on Sunday obviously it's Sunday today
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when I've recorded this but we've been
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down to our allotment and I didn't even
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drive onto the site because my dad goes
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down every single day to make sure the
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cat's being fed down there and it says
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don't even drive on the site so I didn't
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I like parked away on the road and
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walked onto the alotment
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wasn't expecting to see as much snow as
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I'd imagined it was just as if it had
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been laid all the snow it was just a
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blanket of snow it were beautiful down
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there absolutely beautiful and when
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snow's been Fallen it just feels like so
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quiet so peaceful so calm it's
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absolutely gorgeous so I've posted lots
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of photos on Instagram and on Facebook
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of those if you've not already seen them
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go and have a look at them absolutely
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gorgeous and my main job today was
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obviously to go and feed the cat the cat
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was waiting for me waiting for its food
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we do make sure it's fed every single
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day even though it's a wild cat and it
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can probably fend for itself we do like
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to give it some food to keep it going
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and just make sure it's okay and the
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other main reason for going down to the
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allotment today was to feed the birds
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that is one thing that I wanted to do um
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obviously I've not fed him since last
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week uh my dad don't fe uh fill up the
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bird feeders like um he just manages to
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feed the cat so I filled up all the bird
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feeders on my allotment today
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got them all filled up with seed but we
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do need to get some uh new bird feeders
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that have got uh that I can put peanuts
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in because if I just put them in normal
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ones at the moment the squirrel will
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take them all so uh I need to get some
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squirrel
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proof uh peanut feeders that is one one
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of the things that are in my Amazon cart
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at the moment so we need to get some
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squirrel prooof bird feeders for the
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peanuts and hopefully in time I'll get a
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few more different varieties of seeds
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because I do want to get some um
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different varieties of birds down there
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obviously there's not many varieties of
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birds around at the moment because
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obviously it's winter time you'll just
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see a lot your blue tits and your
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Robbins I don't see any green finches
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and stuff like that at the moment so
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when it gets a bit warmer we'll be
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starting to put out some different
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varieties of bird seed hopefully attract
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some different varieties of birds down
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there and have them all in squirrel
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prooof feeders so that the seed will
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actually last a bit instead of it all
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being gone in a day uh they certainly
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are expensive feeding the birds but it's
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something I absolutely love to do and
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obviously feeding the bird attracts them
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to the plot and they all the insects all
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the Slugs and stuff like that as well so
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attracting the birds to the alotment is
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a successful thing to do and while I was
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down there at the alotment I just went
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for a little walk around to see how
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things are looking and see how things
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are getting on and I had to look at my
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geraniums I had a look at my sweet peas
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the rolls still alive fingers crossed
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they'll stay alive for much longer and
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we'll Ste them through to the springtime
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I've only planted up my geraniums from
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out of my allotment because I want to
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save some money for next year well this
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year now um what you can do with
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geraniums is that when it's before the
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cold weather comes before the frost and
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the snow and stuff like that you can dig
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them up and move them into a shed or
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into a greenhouse or on a window soul
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and keep them alive throughout the
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winter period and then you can plant
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them back outside again once chance of
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frosters pass and you'll get flowers on
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them again and you can obviously take
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cuting from them as well and start new
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plants off so it's a way of saving money
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and having stronger bigger plants for
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next year and get more flowers on them
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so that's what we've done we've dug them
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all up and hopefully we'll get some
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great flowers on them this year and
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obviously my swe peas you can start them
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off in October which I did and it makes
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the plants stronger it makes the plants
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being front and flower earlier and what
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I've done is I've trimmed them all back
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and to about 6 in and when they start
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growing when it gets a bit warmer
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they'll Bush out rather than just being
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a
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one stem plant so we'll get more flowers
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on them a lot more flowers on them
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because he'll Bush out we there probably
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won't be as big of flowers but there'll
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be lots more flowers if you get me so
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hopefully we'll have some fantastic
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displays down at the allotment this year
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that's what I'm wanting some fantastic
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sweet pee displays because my mom loves
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them my Auntie loves them and the thing
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is with sweet peas is that the more you
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keep cutting the flowers off the more
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they'll keep flowering throughout the
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summertime and you can have flowers up
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to October on on your sweet peas as soon
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as you start letting them go to seed
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if you don't pick the flowers then it'll
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think it's dying off and in it's dormant
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time and then it'll stop flowering so
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you are encouraged to keep picking the
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flowers on Sweet Peas for them to keep
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blooming so that's why one of the
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reasons why we grow sweet peas they
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won't last long in a vs they'll last
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about three 3 or 4 days but obviously
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you'll be picking them off every few
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days so hopefully you'll get absolutely
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loads of free flowers and they smell
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absolutely amazing sweet pece absolutely
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gorgeous so it's worthwhile growing
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sweet peas if you haven't tried growing
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sweet peas before and they're pretty
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easy to grow once they started growing
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as well just um make sure that they're
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big enough before they put them out so
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that they can withstand like birds and
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slugs and stuff like that just make sure
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you protect them and you'll get some
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fantastic crops from the sweet peas and
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that is what we want really some
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fantastic crops growing so yeah I'm
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looking forward to some beautiful
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displays next year down at the the
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allotment and I had a look around I we
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walking around my plot today just
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checking and looking at the bulbs I can
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see a few bulbs popping through not many
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hopefully there is a lot of bulbs in
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there cuz we have planted loads this
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year so hopefully the squirrel didn't
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get them all and hopefully we get some
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beautiful spring bulb and spring flower
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displays as well down at the alotment I
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know quite a few people have been
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commenting on my post saying that
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they've got loads of bulbs popping
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through and everything like that so
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hopefully we'll get some beautiful
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pictures I love to plant bulbs and
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flowers and stuff like that so that I
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can get some great pictures as well as
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obviously making the allotment look
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absolutely gorgeous as well CU if you're
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just growing vegetables there's no color
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in vegetables so you need the flowers to
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make some color down there and to make
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it more attractive and obviously attract
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the bees to help pollinate the fruit and
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the flat uh vegetables as well so
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another reason for planting flowers down
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there so yeah it's been a nice day down
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at the alotment today I did spend too
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long down there spent about an hour down
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there had a had a few coffees down there
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just had a look around my plot and just
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relaxed really it didn't feel as cold as
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what it actually looked it actually
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pretty nice down there obviously I were
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wrapped up so I were pretty warm but it
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was nice just to be down at the alotment
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after being stuck in my flat whole week
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I needed to get out and being in my
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alotment is my happy place and I
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absolutely loved it so yeah
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it's been a successful day down at the
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alotment today I've not done anything
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obviously apart from feed the birds and
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the cat but it has been great to get
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down to the allotment and fingers
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crossed we'll be back down at the
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allotment next week with lots of jobs
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that we need to start doing and cracking
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on with we've tided out all our shed
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we've cleared all us beds and my job at
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the moment is to clear my poly tonel if
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it's still standing after all the snow I
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did notice absolutely loads of snow on
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top for the poly tunnel today I should
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have knocked it all off to be honest but
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it'll be like a block of ice so I didn't
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want to risk damaging the poly tunnel so
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I thought I'd just leave it and it'll
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slide off in its own time fingers
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crossed this week so yeah hopefully
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we'll be back down at the plot next week
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and get you lots of pictures and lots of
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footage I need to start recording some
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more videos again we've not recorded any
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videos for a while and hopefully keep
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you on track with how well we get on
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this year but yeah I hope that you're
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enjoying the podcast I hope that you
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enjoy listening to them we've had a lot
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of nice comments com in from people via
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messages and people have leaving reviews
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on the podcast as well which you can do
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and just let me know what you think of
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the episode it's always nice to see and
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obviously it pushes it out as well the
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more people that comment in the review
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section of the podcast on Spotify so
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thank you for everybody that does that
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so until next time everyone remember
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