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a lotment rules and understanding them
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welcome back to Gardening with Ben in
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today's episode we're going to be
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talking about a lotment rules as
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different a lotments have different
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rules that you have to follow and if you
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don't follow the rules you can be kicked
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off the site and they're not really bad
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rules to be honest the rules that are
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set in place just keep everybody on
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track with how well they're getting on
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so we're going to talk about it today
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we've got his own little series where we
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keep posting little videos about
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starting an a lotment and tips and
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advice around getting started so in
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today's episode talking about a lotment
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rules and our a lotment has a few rules
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and sometimes when you take on an
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aotment they'll give you a rule book so
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that you can actually read it and see
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what the rules are around on your a
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lotment site and they're not usually bad
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rules to be honest it's just to keep
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everybody in check with what they're
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doing and some of the rules that's we've
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got on our plot on our a lotment site is
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that you can only have bonfires between
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November and April and that is just
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because obviously it's got neighbors
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nearby and people don't want the washing
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smelling the smoke and stuff like that
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so they say that you can burn between
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November and April which is
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understandable so you tend to save up
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all your rubbish and have a mass bonfire
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during the winter months which is nice
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because I do love a good bonfire down
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here when when it's cold and I I I love
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the smell of smoke to be honest but yeah
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I do love a good bonfire another one of
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the rules is that you can only have six
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chickens on our site uh we didn't used
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to be allowed chickens on our site but
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they've changed it now and you're
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allowed up to six chickens on the site
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and that's just to keep control of it
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and obviously not have too many down
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here because six is ample enough and
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you'll get plenty eggs from them i don't
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have any chickens myself i'd love some
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chickens but it would mean having to
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come down every single day and making
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sure that they're looked after and I
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don't feel I could give that much time
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to doing that another one of the rules
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is like private hedges you can only let
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them grow up to six foot high which
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again is another rule good rule because
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you don't want them getting out of hand
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and they can get massive private hedges
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and obviously you only trim them when
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the birds aren't nesting etc so that's
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another one of the rules and then
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there's certain important rules like you
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can't have carpets on your plot because
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they let out toxins when I first got my
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a lotments out I used to use carpet all
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the time until I read how bad it is
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using carpet to suppress the weeds um
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and then also as well with car tires
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again I used to use them previously but
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again I've read up on it and they leak
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so much toxins into the soil and into
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the plants that they can be harmful so
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don't use car tires on your plot they
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look nice when you're growing certain
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things in them and they look good for
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growing potatoes in but don't use them
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there's other methods of growing stuff
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in raised planters so stick to that rule
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as well but yeah have a look through the
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lotment handbook that you will probably
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get given and it will explain all the
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rules around it and to keep your plot
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healthy and tidy and you don't want much
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rubbish on your site as well so I hope
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you found that useful and if you got any
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questions please do leave a comment in
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the bottom and I'll try and answer it
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and stay tuned for lots more of these
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videos so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with bed everyone
