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This video shares beginner gardening tips to help produce a successful vegetable harvest. Learn the basic care techniques that keep plants healthy, including watering correctly, feeding plants, monitoring growth and avoiding common growing mistakes.
The guide explains how to recognise when crops are ready to harvest, how regular maintenance improves plant productivity and how small adjustments can increase reliability when growing vegetables.
If you are growing your own food and want practical advice to improve results, this video provides simple gardening guidance suitable for gardens, raised beds and small growing spaces.
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now and yeah we've got quite a lot to
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talk about at the moment because
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obviously it's the big time of the year
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at the moment it's quite big in the
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garden so things are happening there's
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lots of jobs that need doing so there's
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lots to talk about here on the podcast
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always good to hear from people that do
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listen to the podcast so today what are
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we going to be talking about we're going
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to be talking about harvesting it's
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getting to that time of year when we're
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starting to Harvest our produce things
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are coming along things are getting
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ready and it's time to start picking all
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that
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produce and one thing I notice is that
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everything seems to come at the same
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time uh once like a few strawberries
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start ripening then they'll all start
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coming same goes for raspberries the
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lettuce they're all ready at the same
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time and then they all go to seed at the
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same time if you don't pick them fast
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enough so you don't learn by the things
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you do sometimes they say you shouldn't
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plant things all at once you should
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plant them like a few weeks at a time
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separate so that they're all ready at
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separate times but you don't listen dear
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everybody just plants them all at the
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same time and then everything seems to
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be ready at the same time well obviously
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things are starting to get to the to the
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time of harvesting you should be
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harvesting your luses lettuce is
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starting to get ready potatoes the first
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lot of potatoes will be starting to get
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ready peas peas will be starting too I
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noticed some of my dads they were nearly
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ready for picking so he best watch out I
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might be pinching them soon but yeah P
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are ready obviously your
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strawberries
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your radishes radishes should be ready
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and yeah everything will start to come
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ready and obviously as yes harvesting
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these things as well as like spring
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onion as well is repl in them replacing
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them with new stuff because just think
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like you may have had these in the
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ground for two to three months to get
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growing well obviously things will grow
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a lot faster fingers crossed when the
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weather does warm up uh things should
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grow a lot faster and some of the
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vegetables are pretty fast growing like
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your lettuce your
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radishes um the spring onions things do
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grow pretty fast some things so as
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you're harvesting these produce you need
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to be replacing them and getting more
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stuff back in the ground because if you
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think about if you plant these stuff now
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they should be red A from September so
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you'll be able to get another Harvest of
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crops before the year's out because you
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once it gets to like September you won't
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have chance to plant anything again for
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this year unless it's winter
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vegetables so it's important to keep
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replacing what you're harvesting to get
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the most out of your garden and out of
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your allotment and the best thing is
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around now is that you don't need to
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waste a lot of money on like compost in
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growing them all in seed trays you can
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start a lot of them off in the ground
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outside in the right place that they
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want to be in and obviously if you
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planted them outside they'll need a lot
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more protection because there is slugs
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are out slugs will come and eat them so
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you need to protect them and pigeons and
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birds and stuff like that so you do need
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to protect them when you are planting
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them outside but make the mo most of
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growing stuff outside it's warmer it's
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not cold at night well anyone would
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think it is winter here in England at
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the moment it certainly has felt like it
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where I am will someone please let me
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know when the hot weather is coming we
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need some hot
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weather but yeah keep replacing what
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you're
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growing so I'm going to be harvesting my
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garlic this week I'm going to harvest
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some lettuce this week I'm going to be
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harvesting my strawberies this week and
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what else my loganberries are looking
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ready soon they just need to start ring
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I've got loads and loads of loganberries
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on my Loganberry Bush now my dad gave me
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some cuttings from that a few years ago
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and it's looking absolutely fantastic to
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get cuttings from Loganberry plants all
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you do is put the end of the whip in
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some soil and it'll get some roots on it
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and then once it's got some roots on it
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just snit that end of the whip off and
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there you are you'll have some Runners
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and that's all he did for me and I've
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got some fantastic ones growing and
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loganberries the whips grow for Miles
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like you can grow them all the way down
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the side of a garden or you can grow
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them over an archway it will be
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fantastic so if you're wanting to grow
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some food try grow some loganberries
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they're absolutely delicious we've grown
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them for years loganberries and you can
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make some nice Jam as well with it
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so hopefully we'll be getting some
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loganberries off soon oh and I need to
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look at my Peas My peas are covered up
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to high heaven in netting I have
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protected my peas with fortunes of
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netting the birds will not eat them the
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mice will not eat them the rats will not
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eat them I have protected them with my
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life because I have had issues in the
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past where I've planted peas out and
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they've all been eaten so I'm protecting
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them of my life I'm surprised I'm not
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even sleeping down there while they're
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growing so hopefully we'll be having
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some peas soon and again all the peas
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seem to be ready at the same time and
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once the peas have been
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harvested do not dig the plants up out
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of the garden snip them off so that the
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roots are still in the ground and the
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nitrogen goes back into the soil from
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the pee pea plant that you've grown so
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if you've never tried growing peas
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before remember to snip the plants off
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at the bottom once you've harvested all
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your peas and all the nitrogen and the
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goodness will go back into the soil the
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same goes for runner beans for climbing
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beans snip them off at the bottom and
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the nitrogen goes back into the soil and
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it helps feed it so then you can plant
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some more stuff and we've got a lot of
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stuff that we're going to be planting
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over the next few days we've got a load
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more peas I planted like a lake cropping
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a peas so that we'll get a second batch
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growing uh I've got some more climbing
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beans to plant we've got loads of sweet
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corn plants to plant we've got uh some
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beetroot to plant we've got some lettuce
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to plant we've got some spring onions to
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plant we've got carrots to plant we've
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got so much to plant down at the
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alotment but this is my favorite time of
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the year I absolutely love it and if I
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could spend all my time down at the
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alotment I would do
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and it's just a place where I love to be
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uh I've often said I work shifts uh so
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I'll end up in the flat for four days on
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a time when I won't even go out of the
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house and it's a time when I can just be
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outside enjoy the
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sunshine and relax really so if you get
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if you are harvesting stuff please do
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let me know I'm going to be sharing lots
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and lots of photos again soon of me
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harvesting all my produce I'm sorry but
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I'll warn you in advance as soon as
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we're harvesting stuff fotos will be
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coming up Galore and
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it's making up for all the lack of
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social media that I did last year
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because I was so quiet last year but
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this year I'm doing so much so much for
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you guys my YouTube's smashing it my
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podcast smashing it uh and now I'm just
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trying to get my other socials back up
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and running like my Facebook and
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Instagram so I'm hoping that you're
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enjoying all the content everybody I'm
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not going to bring the live streams back
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to the Facebook at the moment I'm just
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sticking to my YouTube recorded videos
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for you all and I hope you're in all
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enjoying them so until next time
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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