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This video explains the essential autumn jobs every gardener and allotment grower should do to prepare for the colder months and protect crops.
The guide covers clearing beds, harvesting remaining crops, improving soil, mulching, composting, pruning and preparing planting areas for winter and next year’s growing season. It also explains why autumn preparation is one of the most important parts of successful gardening.
If you want your garden or allotment to be healthier and more productive next spring, these simple seasonal tips will help you get everything ready before winter arrives.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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alarm so sit back grab a brute and enjoy
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today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for hopefully another
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long episode for you to listen to today
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well today we have been down at our
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alotment obviously this is out on Sunday
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but I've recorded it on Saturday we've
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had a absolute busy busy day down at the
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plot today and yes I'm starting to feel
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the cold while I'm down at the alotment
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so I need to start wrapping up it it's
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obviously still good temperatures out
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there but after I'd been down there for
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a bit I was starting to feel the cold
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and I was ready to come home and get
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back in the warmth again and it's not
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even winter yet so we've got all this to
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come but I do love being down there
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especially at this time of year it's
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nice weather to be down and it's been a
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perfect day for gardening no rain no
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bitter showers or any cold wind or
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anything like that it was just a decent
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day down there so what have we been up
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to today at the alotment we've been
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having a little bit of fun if you've not
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watched any of my latest videos we had
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ET down at the alotment and if you watch
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the videos you'll find out why ET was
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down down
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there but yeah we're having a little bit
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of fun down there and also when I got
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down to the alotment today I usually go
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into my shed and give uh put some food
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out for the cat what's around on the
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alotment the kittens aren't around
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anymore they've moved on but the main
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cat is still around so we usually give
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it some food and I went into my shed and
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wow my dad had been busy all week while
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I've been at work Tiding up in my shed
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sorting things out moving things around
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and yeah he started doing some work for
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me in the shed and making some
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improvements down there for me which has
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been absolutely fantastic of him as
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obviously I want to get it all renovated
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through the winter period uh get it all
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repainted and looking good but yeah my
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dad's being busy in there tidying up and
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doing a few odd jobs which I don't get a
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chance to do and my dad's better at
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doing them than me sometimes but yeah my
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dad's
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he's not young himself so I always worry
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about him being down there doing stuff
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and uh burning himself out but he enjoys
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going out and being active still while
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he can and while he can make the most of
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it moving around down on the allotment
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but yeah my dad's obviously got an
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allotment and he's been busy on his plot
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Tiding it all up ready for winter but he
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must have thought oh I like going down
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there's not much left to do on my plot
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I'll go and do some bits for Ben which
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has been a blessing in disguise so yeah
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big shout out to my dad and my dad's the
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one that got me into gardening and again
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his dad to got him into it because he
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used to grow all fruit and vegetables
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and look after his garden and everything
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like that so it does run down in the
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jeans
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and yeah I've been very busy obviously
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yesterday I talked about all the jobs
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that I wanted to do down at the alotment
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I didn't get chance to do them all but I
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got a lot of the jobs done which I had
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written down to do and one of my main
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jobs this weekend is to clear at the top
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of my plot which looks absolutely
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atrocious they were bind weed all over
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there were leaves all over the place
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from the trees what had fallen down you
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couldn't see the paths you couldn't see
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the beds what up at the top of the plot
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where the herbs have been growing uh
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there like mint up there and stuff like
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that because there nothing else what
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will grow much up in the area cuz it's a
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shaded area so we just stuck some bits
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in and yeah I managed to get half of
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that done which was what I wanted to do
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I set myself an alarm clock uh as I like
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to schedule things and tick things off
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as I do them to fit everything in so I
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set myself an alarm clock of time to do
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it in and I managed to get it all done
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what I wanted to do to do there's still
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a lot more to do of that area but we'll
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finish that off tomorrow fingers crossed
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we might have to go into next weekend to
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finish it all off cuz it's a it's an
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area that I don't look after much it's
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just an area what I've just tided up to
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make it look smart if you get me uh it's
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not an area that I'm too fussed about
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but obviously we have to keep them
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looking tidy for inspections and stuff
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like that on the allotment which we
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unfortunately we get so we have to make
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sure it's SP and span for
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them but yeah I've been busy doing all
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that and obviously I've been doing some
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videos as well for you to to watch uh
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I'm to do a video for every day on
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YouTube that is my plan that is my
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target obviously I'm doing a podcast
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every day for you and obviously when I'm
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down at the allotment at the weekend I
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have to try and film six episodes for
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you all to watch like different little
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short little videos for you all to watch
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which is obviously getting that done
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doing my allotment it's quite a push but
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we are managing to do it so what have we
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done down at the allotment today as well
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as clear the top area well today we have
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been
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busy harvesting my Christmas potatoes
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yes I've harvested my Christmas potatoes
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I were expecting them to be ready around
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December time but the plants have died
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off and I thought well they're not going
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to grow anymore now I might as well
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Harvest them so that was one video what
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which I filmed which is on YouTube now
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if you want to go and have a look of me
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harvesting my Christmas potatoes and
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I'll let you you see how well we
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actually did now I'm happy with the
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results of them but one of them uh was a
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complete failure um but
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three boxes of the potatoes did
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absolutely fantastic and I've brought a
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load home so I'm going to be eating
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chippies now for the next few weeks
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which is fantastic cuz I just shove them
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in the air fry I've got a special
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chipper what just chops them into chipsy
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shapes and I just stick them in the air
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fry for 10 minutes and they tastes
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absolutely delicious and there's a
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seasoning out there I don't know if
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you've tried it but it's to make them
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cheesy chips so I just stick them in a
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bowl and sprinkle some of this on and
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mix it all in and then put them in the
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air FR for 10 minutes and they taste
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Absolut like gorgeous um absolutely over
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the moon with them so I've got them to
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last me for a few months which will keep
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me going which is saving me money
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obviously so they'll be having with my
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tea every single night we'll be having
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some chippers throughout the winter
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period which is good because obviously
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you're spreading the produce out over
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the winter period as well so if you're
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having to go out and buy
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stuff and what else have we been up to
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we have sorted out all my sweet peas
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I've been showing in my tour video
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recently of my sweet peas and they were
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all becoming Lego and I wanted to uh
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pinch them them back and I explain about
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that in the video which will be coming
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this week that pinching them back helps
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push them out they'll be smaller flowers
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on them but they'll be more bushier and
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they'll get more flowers on them um
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whereas if you usually leave them not
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pinched out they'll grow bigger flowers
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on them and bigger Longer stalks on the
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flowers so that is a reason so if you're
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wanting them to look like a nice display
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pinch them out to keep them Bush it but
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if you wanted them for VES and stuff
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like that I suggest not pinching them
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out so we'll talk about that more in
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another episode later on down the
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line what else have we done as geraniums
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we finally dug them all up out of the
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ground before the frost comes we've not
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had a frost at all this year so far well
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this winter Autumn winter we've not had
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a frost yet which is amazing like at
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this time of year you've usually had a
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frost at least but we've not had no
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frosts around here whatsoever so I've
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managed to get them out before the frost
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gets them and kills them and we' potted
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them all up we put them in my shed and
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we're going to keep them watered and
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hopefully look after them throughout the
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winter period and keep them keep them
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alive because that's what we want to do
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so we've got that all sorted and that's
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another job ticks off my list so we've
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got quite a few more jobs left to do
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down at the allotment tomorrow obviously
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I do my weekly tour video which I'm
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going to be doing down there and I'm
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filming my blog of what I get up to down
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at the alotment as well but there's
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quite a few other videos which I want to
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film and we need to sort a Salvia out
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tomorrow I'm going to be sorting them
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out for a video for you all to watch um
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I took some cuttings earlier in the year
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and they've rooted they've took well and
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I just want to put them into bigger pots
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fresh compost and T them up and give
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them a big boost and then I'll be
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planting them out next year in my
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allotment so we want to encourage them
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to grow better and keep on looking
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better and hopefully we'll get some nice
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Salvia plants next year for free which
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is always a burners being a yorkman we
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always like everything for free or cheap
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or half price but yeah um I'm looking
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forward to next year we're putting a lot
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of effort into my allotment this year
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obviously like I said I've not got as
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much time down there I've only got two
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days a week down there at the moment
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throughout the winter period obviously
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when it gets to Summer and lighter
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nights I can stay down there later but
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we are only there for the weekends at
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the moment for a few hours and like I
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say it gets cold so I want in to come
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home after a short while down there so
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we've got the Salvia to sort out
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tomorrow we've obviously got the rest of
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the top area of my plot to sort out and
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finish off and which other job jobs are
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down on my list I want to sort some of
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my paths out hopefully uh we're going to
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be doing that and there's nothing else
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really down there what I need to
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actually get done and sorted um there's
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nothing burning to get done which is
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good I'm I'm on top of stuff um in front
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I've got a lot of it cleared and ready
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for next year so yeah it'll be a case of
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just once I've cleared this top out OFA
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it'll be a case of just Tiding it all up
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and sorting my beds out and screwing
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them all back together and then painting
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them all next year but my allotment is
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coming on fantastic I'm happy with how
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it's all looking and it's looking
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fantastic and then obviously through the
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main winter period it'll be the time
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when I'm sprucing up all my shed getting
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it all painted like I said I want a new
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potting shelf where I can record myself
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film myself and make it make some good
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episodes for the videos as well I know
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everybody's liking the videos being back
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at the moment which is fantastic and I'm
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happy about so hopefully we're going to
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keep this up this weekend's going to be
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busy as well recording all these
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podcasts for the week ahead I like to
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film them all on Saturday and Sunday so
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that you've got them for the
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week as obviously when I finished work
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I'm tired so I'm not necessarily wanting
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to record them but you will get a single
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an episode every single day this week
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believe me and thank you for everybody
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