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This video shows how to transform an allotment garden plot and turn an overgrown space into a productive growing area. It explains the key steps involved in clearing, organising and preparing the ground for planting.
The guide covers removing weeds, planning layout, improving soil, setting up beds and organising growing areas. It also explains how gradual improvements make a plot easier to manage and more productive over time.
If you want to improve your allotment or start fresh with a new plot, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice on planning and carrying out a successful garden transformation.
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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben with this week's tour
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video and yeah we've done absolutely
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loads of stuff down here this week we're
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not doing a weekly blog as I've done a
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lot of work but not enough really to
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show you so I'm going to pop it into
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this video so we'll show you what we've
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got up to down at the allotment this
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week so sit back relax and enjoy today's
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episode everyone
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[Music]
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so welcome back to today's episode so
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yes we have had a busy weekend down here
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at the alotment this week it's been
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absolutely gorgeous the weather is
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fantastic you wouldn't think it's
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November we've not had a frost yet and
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it's absolutely gorgeous and hence
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probably why a lot of the leaves are
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still on the trees and stuff like that
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and yeah my fruit trees are still not
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shedding the leaves yet so we've still
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got a frost to come and start the winter
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work really so hopefully we do get the
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frost because we need it to split the
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garlic bulbs but yeah we have done loads
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down here at the alotment this week so
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I'm going to give you a tour of the plot
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show you what's growing and what's not
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growing and obviously we've not got the
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Christmas potatoes to show you because
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we harvested them yesterday if you've
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not seen that video go back and have a
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look and you'll see all the video uh all
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the potatoes that we harvested down at
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the allotment so let's have a look
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around and see what's going on so as
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always we'll start at the front of the
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plot show you the front and work his way
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around the alotment and show you how
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well is coming on this Autumn
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time so we're down at the front of the
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plot We Ain't Got No Berries to pull off
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as fuches this week as one job that we
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usually do as we do this t uh tour video
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but yeah hopefully the Heather starts
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coming out it's getting more and more
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flowers on it and buds you can see them
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all coming along pretty nicely now so
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hopefully we'll get lots of Heather
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coming out pretty soon but yeah the
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Futures are still full of buds it's
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amazing like I say we've not had a frost
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yet so things are still flowering but
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yeah absolutely
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fantastic we've got lots and lots of
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flowers on the Futures looking
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absolutely amazing down here on the
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arment one thing my dad's done this week
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as well he's been an absolute Legend my
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dad he's done some work in my shed and
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he's fixed my host pipe through into the
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shed to save me having to put it through
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the top of the shed which it were before
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so yeah that's one job that he's doing
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for
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me but now we're on to the front of the
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plot and look at these they're still
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flowering really nice these
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climbing mes I keep dead adding them but
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yeah absolutely gorgeous we've got loads
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of Bus St on them which is strange for
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this time of year certainly
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is we've got all the spring bulbs
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popping through you can see them all
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coming through which is good a good sign
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there should be all spring bulbs in this
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side as well fingers cross the all come
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through we had some tulips in there at
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one point I don't know if they'll come
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back or not but we've got his Cherry
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bush in there as well we've been filling
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those feeders up keeping them happy
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keeping the birds happy and Mr squirrel
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as he's pinching loads of it but
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yeah like I said my cooking apple tree
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is not dropping its leaves yet it's
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still full of leaves Su are turning
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yellow but
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yeah it's still full of
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leaves but yeah we got us bird feeders
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out there's
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feses these ones are dying back a
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bit so yeah these ones are hibernating
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hopefully for winter hopefully they'll
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come back in flow and buds next year
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that's a Salvia which we Cho back I
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don't know if I've done M or not but
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I've chopped it all back hopefully it'll
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come back next year we'll soon see
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but yeah we've got lots and lots of
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fuches all
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around all of this is full of spring
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bulbs absolutely loads in there so
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hopefully we get a nice display again
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this year probably won't be as best as
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it was last year but we'll see we'll see
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how well it comes
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on this is my Logan ber it's going
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absolutely wild it's getting longer
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every week hopefully we'll get loads of
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loganberries next year off it fingers
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crossed but yeah um I'm planning on
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lifting all that up and doing it over
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top of there so it's going to be higher
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so we'll see how we get on with doing
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that that's one job on his list what
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we'll hopefully get
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done so we're now in the shed we have
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pinched back all our spring sweet peas
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not spring onions sweet peas uh that
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will be coming in another video so stay
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tuned for that and we'll show you how we
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did it all we've also poted up as drain
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as well brought them in out of the
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winter and into the greenhouse over
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winter again another video coming for
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that so you'll see all that but yeah my
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dad's cleared all my old desk qu area
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away I've got a wheelie bin in here
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folded with water to keep me going
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through winter because they turned the
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water off at of alotment site over the
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winter time so yeah keep some water in
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there until they turn it off
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but yeah look at his loopings those
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loopings are doing well we grew them
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from seed so I hopefully we'll have some
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nice flowers on them next year and we've
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got some other flowers which I've not
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labeled up so I can't
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remember but yeah we've pinched them
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ones out as well them sweet peas so
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we've sorted
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that we've also potted up all of
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salvia uh another video will be coming
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for that but yeah we're potting them all
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up these are all cuting from on that one
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that I chopped back outside so if it
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does die back we have some more plants
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but look at how many we've got we've got
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20 plants so hopefully we'll have lots
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and lots of color from the saler next
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year on The
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allotment hey everyone it's gardening
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the
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episode back outside now we've got a new
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bird feeder up which is going down
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really well the sew blocks the loving
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that whether that's this uh squirrel or
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whether that's the bird I don't know but
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yeah we've got so much to do outside
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around this area we've got all down that
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side to clear out and tidy up I don't
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know if we've got any carrots in there
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they're looking good but we might have
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some we'll have to see we'll have to do
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a reveal on them ones like we did with
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potatoes see if we've been successful or
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not cuz I've never managed to grow a
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carrot so we'll have to see if we've
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actually got some carrots in there
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that'll be a fun video to watch and I
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will but yeah I'll show you whether
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we've had a success or failure like it
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I'm an honest Gardener I'll show you
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everything of what it's looking like but
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yeah we got all this to clear out all
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them pots to tidy up and yeah all the
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strawberries are taking while which we
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planted which is good hopefully we get
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them all growing strawberries next
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year this is our Great Vine which is
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going mad absolutely mad we've got a
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blackbery as well which is growing
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across this plot we're going to pull
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that back over and put that down the
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fence in down the side but yeah I just
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po that up for the T time being uh to
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stop it from getting broken so that'll
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be a job and enough pulling that back
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over but look at these absolute
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beautiful colors of the Great Vine
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absolutely gorgeous red can't believe
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it so nice in all aut them and all
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colors but yeah like I said we've got
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all the edging to clear out but we've
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got so many strawberry plants in this
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year absolutely Lads we've planted so
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many out so fingers crossed we do have a
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good CR drop next year down at the
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allotment we' got another climbing rose
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that's still flowering starting to die
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off a bit them ones now looking a bit
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bad but yeah we've been tidying us paths
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up sorting them
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out next week's job which is going to be
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a job and a half
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is going to be clearing out all them
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brambles down that side of the plot I'm
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not going to be to get them out I'll
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just prune them all back and it usually
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lasts year before I do it again the year
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after but yeah I'll prune all them back
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which is going to be a job and half but
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yeah look the rhubarb's growing that
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shows how warm it still is rhubarb
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shouldn't be growing now it should be
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going to
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sleep but yeah we'll get all the leaves
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up as well because we don't want to
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leave them around cuz that can spread
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disease and stuff like that so we'll get
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all them cleared
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out but yeah and then we're going to
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have to clear clear All That Bind weed
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off that Arch I think that Arch is going
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to come out this year it's had
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it we've got the shots in they' have not
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started growing yet but if you think
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about it we've not had no rain so that's
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probably why they've not started so we
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might have to start watering them if
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it's not going to rain we've not had no
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rain for ages we got a beetroot still
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some beetroot in we'll be harvesting
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that later on probably when it just
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starts to get cold let them keep growing
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for the time being no harm in
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that there garlic that's doing well it's
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looking
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good so hopefully we'll get a lot of
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garlic next year down at the
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allotment and then we've got as onions
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again they've not started growing yet
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but like I said we've not had no rain so
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I'm going to have to start watering them
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I think at this rate if we're not going
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to get any rain
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but yeah my plot is looking absolutely
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tons better I've been sorting out some
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of the paths today sweeping them that's
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the best thing about having Paving you
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can just sweep them all
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clear whereas that are is wood chip and
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black plastic so that's a bit more of a
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pain but yeah we'll get it sorted
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eventually it'll all be paved that's the
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plan just keep buying some more Paving
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to DS every year so this weekend's job
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what we've been up to what we have had
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would have had in as blog is we're been
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tidying out this area now I built this
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area a few years ago and I've never
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really done much with it yet uh but next
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year's main task we're going to make
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this look good we're going to have a
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nice new area which we're going to spend
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a bit of money on and improve and plant
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some nice flowers along this front bit
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have some nice herb beds up here have
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plenty of flowers growing and fingers
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crossed it will look nice that's the
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plan anyway and then I'll do same on
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that bit there of some flowers there but
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yeah have this in a nice flower and wild
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herb area so hopefully it'll look pretty
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[Applause]
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good but yeah that's the plot looks
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absolutely fantastic I'm impressed with
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how much I've got done you can't say
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I've not done anything because I
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certainly have done been working my hot
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socks off getting it all cleared and
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tided ready for next year but yeah I'm
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so happy we are it's all come
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on but yeah we have certainly had a
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fantastic week down at the alotment and
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as you can see it's coming on really
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really well this is the perfect time to
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do all this work and like I said the
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weather's been fantastic so make the
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most of it while it is decent who knows
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what Winter's going to be like it could
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be snowing for months it could be Frosty
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and hard for ages and you won't be able
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to dig any beds over but yeah make the
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most of it get them Gardens and
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allotments tidied up get them all in
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ship shape as the more you do now the
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less you have to do in Spring time when
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it comes to sewing all your seeds which
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will take up all your time sewing seeds
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transplanting them keeping them watered
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and stuff like that so this is the
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perfect time to get everything ship
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shape and ready for next year like I
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