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Are we ready in the garden and allotment for Storm Eunice?
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Nov 14, 2024
🛠️ Are We Ready in the Garden and Allotment for Storm Eunice? Storm warnings are in — and it’s time to batten down the hatches! 🌪️🌱 In this episode, I’m talking through how I’m preparing the garden and allotment for Storm Eunice, what to protect, and post-storm recovery tips to keep your plot safe and resilient. How are you prepping for the weather? #StormEunice #GardenStormPrep #AllotmentLife #GardeningPodcast #WeatherReady #GrowYourOwn #UKGardener
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and welcome back to gardening with Ben
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well it's the day after after the
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horrible storm dudle and yes I have been
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down to the allotment today that will
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have been yesterday if you're listening
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today I always record the episode a day
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before so that it's out and ready for
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you to listen from 6:00 in the morning
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if possible so yeah I was down at the
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alotment today when storm Dudley was
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first off hitting where I am in
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Sheffield and to be honest
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it SED really really bad I was inside my
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shed for some of it as it was raining at
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the time so I was trying to stay
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protected from the rain and my shed was
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literally shaking from the winds and I
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was thinking it's going to take off any
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minute you'll see me flying Somewhere
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Over the Rainbow uh to another land um
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but yeah I am so praying that it's still
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standing tomorrow I'm currently just
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charging up my drill as we speak because
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I have lost a few plastic sheet sheets
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off uh the shed it's just that
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corrugated plastic uh what you can
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purchase it has been up for about 6
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years so they've with stod the wind and
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everything for six years or so so it's
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it's had its money's worth and the sheet
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in about £8 to replace them but where
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they cracked I'm thinking I will be able
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to drill them back on uh they should be
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okay to drill back on so my plan is
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tomorrow to take all the front off my
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shed undrill it all and make it stronger
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uh because it didn't have like enough
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wood to screw on to so they were
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rattling around in the wind and that's
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what's caused them to crack where the
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screws are and snap basically uh and
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crack off so hopefully I can get all
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that done tomorrow so I'm charging my
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drill up as we speak but you never know
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I might go back to the allotment
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tomorrow there not be no shed there
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whatsoever I might be building a brand
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new Shed from scratch but hopefully it
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won't come to that and if it does I'll
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definitely be setting up a girl fund me
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page because I can't afford to buy build
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another Shed from scratch not at the
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moment not until we get millions of
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people listening to this
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podcast which we'll take certainly some
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time to do so yeah fingers crossed we
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can get down to the plot tomorrow uh
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come rain or shine uh I'm going going to
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be working outside and getting my shed
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back fastened up together and we have
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storm Eugene coming on Friday which is
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going to be a lot stronger than this one
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apparently so I am dreading that because
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it was shaking around today and if it's
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going to be even stronger we will see if
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it withstands storm Eugene and the thing
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is I won't be back down to the plot
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after Friday for another four days so if
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it blows over it's down for a bit uh but
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hopefully fingers crossed it will stand
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the storm but we'll have to see uh and I
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will certainly share pictures of it if
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it does blow
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away you just have to laugh at these
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things sometimes definitely um but yeah
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we have been good uh we've been busy on
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the plot today um digging over my beds
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getting all them cleared we've still got
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quite a few more beds today
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so yeah with plenty of work to get done
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so quite pleased we we possibly cleared
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about three or four beds uh we've
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probably got about six or so to go so we
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are cracking on and then it's moving on
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to all my Pathways getting all them
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cleared and then getting all the rubbish
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cleared away and then I can move on to
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clearing the top of my plot um that's a
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bit that I've not really used fully yet
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I I planted a few spring bulbs last year
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uh but I don't know if they'll come
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through or not they're currently covered
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over with leaves and rubbish and weeds
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at the moment so we'll see if if they
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come through you never know they might
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do we might get a nice
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display and then it's case getting rid
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of all the rubbish off there um and also
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one of my friends popped down to see me
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on the allotment and brought me some
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coffee which is always a very good
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welcome I'm always pleased to see him
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when he brings coffee down to me down at
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the plot I'm get a bit of a catchup
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and just showing him my shed and how
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well it is and yeah there's lots of work
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to get done in there but we'll get it
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all done with and yeah I've been busy
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doing articles um I'm starting to try
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and do more articles to share on my
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Facebook page CU not everybody's got
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access to
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podcasts um and some people prefer just
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to have a read so that they can go over
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stuff again so yeah yesterday I shared
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all the seeds that were come plant in
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February obviously I've done that on a
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podcast C uh but like I said it's
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sometimes good to read and see what
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things actually need doing and then you
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can tick them off as you've done them
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and then also I've shared today well
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yesterday if you're listening to it now
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uh we shared what jobs need doing in the
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garden uh especially when it's not
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blowing a gale uh I'm sure most people's
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jobs over the next few days we'll be
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doing repairing and fixing green houses
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and poly tunnels that are blown away
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away and pots that are blown over and
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bulbs that have blown flat and trees
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falling over everywhere so yeah there's
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going to be quite a lot of work to do
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from the winds what everybody's having
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at the moment so we're going to get
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stuck in with all that and yeah
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hopefully tomorrow's Thursday so or
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today's Thursday I keep thinking yeah uh
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so we've got Thursday and Friday at the
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alotment so hopefully I may possibly get
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all my beds dug up by the end of the
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week we will have to wait and see if I
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put in the hours and the time and the
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weather stays decent like I said I'm
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hoping that it's going to be a dry day
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tomorrow looking at the weather forecast
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for today it's actually going to be all
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right I'm hoping that the rain doesn't
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come until later in the day and then on
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Friday it might be a wash out if this
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storm does come uh but we're going to
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have to wait and see if we can get stuff
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done but I will definitely still go down
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to the plot on Friday and I'll be
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working in my shed if it's raining
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because we've got to start cracking on
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with now getting that ready for the
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seeds because we're only about a month
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away from when I'm going to be planting
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all my seeds so it's got to be in shape
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and tidy and all my shell inut up
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because if you've not followed my
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pictures before of what my shed looks
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like in the springtime you will be
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amazed with how many seeds I do anyone
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would think that I'm doing it for a
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living uh selling plants but I'm
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certainly not I just absolutely fill my
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shed to busting because I do share all
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the plants out as well what I grw my
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seeds we have alotment holders so think
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yourself lucky if you're on my allotment
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plot because I do share stuff out if
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I've got leftovers and stuff like that
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because I do love to share and like I
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said I'm going to be growing so many
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flowers this year um I bought all my
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flower seeds the other week and that
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alone possibly about 30 packets so I'm
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going to need 30 trades for that so
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going to have to try and get some more
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trays uh I use gravel trays because
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they're a lot stronger than the plastic
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seed tray ones but as long as you make
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sure you drill some holes in them to
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have drainage in them they are perfect
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and they'll last few years as well you
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won't have no issues with them once
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you've got them you won't need to
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replace them ever unless you stand on
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them and break
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them but hopefully you won't be doing
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that but yeah uh we've got lots of
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gravel trays as it is myself uh I did
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use the uh cheap plastic ones but we've
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replaced them all with gravel ones
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eventually um I usually wait until
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they're on sale uh but we'll have to
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have a look around and see what we can
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get if we do need any more but we'll
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have a look around I do like to recycle
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tubs as well like when you've had your
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grapes and I even use all my milk
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cartons as well uh I have four pints of
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milk when I get my milk um and I save
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all them I cut the tops off them and I
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put some holes in the bottom of them
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and use them to Su my seeds in because
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you don't need big seed trays for some
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seeds because they've only got about
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five or six seeds in them so you can
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just plant them in them and use stuff if
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you can do and save yourself money as
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much as possible really because it can
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be expensive gardening obviously um you
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get the enjoyment out of it but it can
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cost you more to do the growing of the
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fruit and vegetables and actually go out
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and purchase vegetables themselves but
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