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Autumn Allotment Prep: Completing Essential Garden Jobs Before Winter
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Dec 1, 2024
🍂 Social Media Description: 🌱 Autumn Allotment Prep: Completing Essential Garden Jobs Before Winter! The clocks have changed, the air is crisp, and it’s time to prepare the plot for the cold months ahead. ❄️🧤 From clearing beds to protecting perennials, here are the must-do tasks to tick off before winter sets in. Have you wrapped up your autumn jobs yet? #AutumnAllotmentPrep #WinterGardenReady #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #SeasonalGardenTasks #UKGardener #FallGardenJobs
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well I've been saying
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it for days we've not had no more rain
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and guess what while I was at the
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alotment I posted a photo this morning
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saying that it's a beautiful day get out
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in the garden get your jobs done and it
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started
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raining of all the days for it to rain
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while I'm actually at the alotment when
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I need to be getting my work done down
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there however it didn't stop me as
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obviously I want to start doing all my
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shed up over winter on the inside so I
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went inside for half an hour and did
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some tidying up in there while the rain
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passed it didn't stay for long the rain
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but at least we've had bit of rain so it
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does help with the garlic and the onions
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what are in the ground at the moment to
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keep them watered and get them growing
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well so yeah we just need a bit more
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rain but hold off on that because people
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have been telling me that snow is
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forecast this week will we get some snow
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who knows but I've been looking at the
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temperatures and it's going to get down
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to about minus one at night 0 de so it
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is going to start getting colder and
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yeah the temperatures are going to be
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around around five or six degrees in the
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daytime so it's going to start feeling a
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bit more nippy it's not going to feel
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like what it's feeling like now it was
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absolutely gorgeous down at the alotment
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this morning it weren even that cold I
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couldn't believe what temperatures we're
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having in November it's bizarre but it
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was the perfect day for getting lots
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done down at the alotment even though we
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had a bit of rain it didn't stop me for
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long so what have we been up to down at
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the plot today
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well I went to my parents house first
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for my uh coffee and to catch up with
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them cuz I I only see them at weekends
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so I went round to theirs and my dad
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said to me oh I've been um I put one of
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your bird feeders back up uh the square
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SE block one and he says but on the
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floor there was a SE Block in plastic as
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if like i' not taken it out of the
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plastic and I went well I'm sure I took
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it out of the plastic when I put it in
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the SE block I won't put it in in the
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plastic so I went down to the alotment
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after i' been to prep parents and all
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the Su blocks had gone from out of my
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poly tunnel there must have been
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about 12 so they' all gone and I just
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looked around the poly tunnel and
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outside and there were rappers all over
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the place so some's had them some's
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enjoyed all my Su blocks
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so yeah I couldn't put no sweet blocks
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up today um but I managed to put all my
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bird seed all my nuts all my SE balls
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and my SE uh pellets as well so I got
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quite a lot of bird seed and uh food put
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up but I couldn't put my suet blocks up
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but like I said we've won a prize on a
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competition so I think I'm going to be
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getting some s blocks uh sent to me so
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I'm looking forward to them coming and
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put up on my allotment on my in my trees
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and on my bird feeders so what else have
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we been up to today well yesterday I
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said to you that I like to spread my
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jobs out over the weekend so that I get
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them all done and stuff like that I
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don't give myself too big of jobs to do
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but I try and get them all completed by
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the end of the weekend now the job that
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I wanted to do today was to cut back all
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the brambles around my fruit trees
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around my rhubarb because my rhubarb is
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my Prime spot because my mom makes me
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crumbles all the way through the year
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which is absolutely
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fantastic and I usually chop these back
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once a year and they'll usually stay
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back for about a year and then I do them
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again at the end of each year so I
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thought I'll get started on that today
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and get it all cleared and finish it off
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tomorrow well I got it all done I
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couldn't believe it I worked by socks
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off today and I've my myself some points
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I cleared it all in one
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day I must have had the uh momentum to
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get going today and get get gardening
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but um yeah I was saying that I'd
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probably end up with loads of phones in
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me and scratch to death but I actually
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did all right I just made sure I kept
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chopping the brambles into small pieces
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popping them in my tub to uh throw
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away and I got scratched all the gloves
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were really thick so the phones didn't
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go through which were absolutely
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fantastic so I'm not in any pain
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whatsoever from cutting all the brambles
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back so they're all chopped back I've
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cleared back uh any old fruit what had
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fallen on the floor cleared some of the
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leaves up tided it all up those there's
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still a lot of leaves left to drop off
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uh my fruit trees so we'll still be
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clearing that up in a few more weeks
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time but the bulk of it is all done all
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the Bram balls cleared which was going
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to be a massive job so I've ticked that
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off so I need to find another job to do
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tomorrow down at the alotment so
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tomorrow I think I'm just going to be
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concentrating on Tiding my paths up and
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clearing a bit more of the top of my
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allotment so hopefully we find some jobs
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to do down there I'm sure we'll find
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plenty I don't want to exactly start
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doing stuff in my shed yet because I
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don't usually do stuff in my shed or my
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poly tunnel unless it's raining because
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it's a waste of
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time being in the shed when it's
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actually nice outside I feel like I need
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to do all the outside jobs while it's
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decent and then doing the shed when it's
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not very nice when it's chucking it down
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or when it's awful but yeah we're moving
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fast our plot is going to look
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absolutely fantastic next year fingers
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cross that is the plan anyway but I'm
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going to have to try and make it a bit
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more
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um less maintenance next year because
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like I say I'm only down there twice a
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week now but uh I need to make sure that
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it can look after itself when I'm not at
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the allotment and fingers crossed we can
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work out a plan for that and hopefully
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get things still growing while I'm at
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work and staying alive but we'll look
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into all that but hopefully we'll be
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getting lots of stuff done so yeah I'm
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going to be back down at the allotment
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tomorrow and getting all them paths
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cleared and down the side of my plot and
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hopefully fingers crossed I'll be
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filming a lot more content tomorrow so
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it's done me a favor getting it all done
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today in one go because Sundays I
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usually like to film all my YouTube
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content down there I film my daily real
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questions down there so hopefully I'll
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get all that filmed for you tomorrow so
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I hope you're enjoying all the videos
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because we've been posting videos quite
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regularly now and these podcasts have
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been obviously posting them every day
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and I'm trying to promote this podcast
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as much as possible to get more and more
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people listening to it so if you are a
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new listener please do give me a follow
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and make sure you check out all the
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other episodes and obviously these are
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now going out on YouTube as well so I
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hope that you enjoy listening them to
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them on YouTube if you're listening on
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YouTube
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and we've got a lot of episodes to come
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and I'm going to be film recording quite
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a few episodes this weekend Sav me doing
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them at night when I finished work so
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yeah but tomorrow's episode will
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obviously be talking about everything
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that we've done on Sunday down at the
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allotment and what jobs we manag to do
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and what we have found to do and who
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knows what the weather might be like
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tomorrow it might be snowing it might be
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raining or it might
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be hot and
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sunny I don't think it'll be hot and
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sunny somehow but
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yeah but I'm always on the look out for
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new ideas for my podcast and videos so
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if anybody has any things that they'd
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like me to cover please do send me a
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message and I'll try and cover it in a
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podcast or a
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video but I think that's everything that
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we're going to be talking about today uh
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I'm just trying I've been looking up as
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well when to start my Peppers off
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because I want to try and grow quite a
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few peppers next year and I think last
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year I planted them around April May
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time and they weren't quite ready in
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time so I'm going to be starting off uh
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I've been looking at when's best to
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start them off flight whether I'd start
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them off in January or February time
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that'll be when I get them started but
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I'm going to look into my methods of
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growing them because uh I follow another
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person online and they start all their
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seeds off in tissue paper rather than in
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compost and once they've germinated then
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they'll plant them into compost because
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they'll know if they've germinated or
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not which is a good idea and obviously
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uh you can put into final pot before uh
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you don't have to repot them out of the
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seed trayers and stuff like that once
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they start to grow you can just put them
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straight into the pots that they're
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going to grow into so yeah I might look
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at different methods like that because
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compost is getting expensive now I don't
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know if you've seen prices of compost so
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the more I can save money the better
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will it but let me know in the comments
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if you start your seeds off on tissue
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paper it's a case of just keeping them
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damp and getting them to germinate that
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way uh I'll probably not be able to do
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the really small seeds like that but the
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ones like cett and pumpkins and melons
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and peppers possibly try that way and
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we'll see how well they get on I always
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love to do experiments when I'm
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gardening trying different ways
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different methods seeing what works
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seeing what doesn't work and that's the
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whole fun about gardening trying
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different experiments and seeing what
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works so I hope that you come back to 's
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podcast and listen to it like I said
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tomorrow we're going to be talking about
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everything that we've done on the
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allotment today and what we've got up to
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so make sure you stay tuned for that
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stay tuned for my weekly tour video as
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well on YouTube I always post a weekly
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tour video now uh rather than monthly I
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do it on a weekly basis so people can
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follow along with me seeing what I've
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been getting up to down at the plot and
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staying up to date with it alls I don't
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go live down there anymore I just like
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film in the video so make sure you stay
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tuned for the weekly tour video If
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you're not following us on YouTube do
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give us a follow and then you'll be able
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to see all my videos and what we have
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been getting up to rather than just my
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voice but yeah I hope that you enjoyed
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everything so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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keep gardening with bed
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everyone thank you for joining me on
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