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This video explains how to organise weekly gardening tasks and stay on top of essential maintenance jobs.
The guide covers preparing beds, checking plant health, watering correctly, supporting growing plants, planning upcoming sowing and preventing common seasonal problems. It also explains how consistent weekly attention improves plant growth and overall garden productivity.
If you want to keep your garden organised and thriving throughout the season, these simple practical tips will help you manage your growing space efficiently.
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episode hello gardening with Ben fans I
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hope you're all well while it's Monday I
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hope it's Monday because hopefully this
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will go out as like I said my
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subscriptions due to end yesterday but
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we pre-recorded these and put these on
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so hopefully they will still go out on
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time for you to listen to if not
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there'll be a book upload on Friday for
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you to listen
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to but yeah we hopefully get these
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episodes up and running for you but yeah
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it's a new week down at the allotment
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and usually
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I'm saying start making your lists on
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Friday for the weekend but this week is
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going to be a scorcher of a week it's
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going to raise up to about 20° while it
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is here in Sheffield it's forecast for
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20 de CSI which is fantastic weather
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which means you need to start making
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those lists for this week you need to
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make the most of every opportunity out
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in the garden this week while the good
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work ever is here whether it
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be early in the morning before you go to
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work or whether it be late at night
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after you finished work but make the
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most of this weather and by the M
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meaning of making the most of this
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weather is that you need to start
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looking at sewing seeds now you need to
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be getting your seed packets prepared
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you need to be getting them in order you
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need to start looking at what needs to
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be growing now and yeah start thinking
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about sewing all them seeds in in the
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greenhouse and it's going to be a
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mammoth task for me let alone anybody
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else because I'm going totally mad with
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my seeds this year um when I went to buy
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all my flower seeds I just looked at
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them all and I purchased them
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all if you're going to purchase some
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seeds why not purchase them all uh if
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you're addicted to seeds like me you
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will know the feeling if you see some
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seeds you will certainly buy some more
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seeds and yeah definitely but we have
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got a busy week I'm back on nights on
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Tuesday night so I'll be going to the
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plot today on Monday and making the most
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of this weather it's going to get up to
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20 on Tuesday I think it is so I'll be
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down at the alotment early on Tuesday
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and then going to bed Tuesday night
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before I start my night shifts because I
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need to make the most of this weather
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like I said while we've got it and this
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week's tasks down at the allotment will
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be I need to start off finishing my pond
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off which I started the other day and if
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you've listened to my other gardening
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podcast Channel called gardening and
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allotment tips you'll have heard me talk
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about encouraging frogs to the Garden in
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the allotment now that is my main aim
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this year on my allotment to get as many
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frogs as possible down there because
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obviously the frogs will go around
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eating all the Slugs up and that is what
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you want to do if you've not got a pond
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on your plot or in your garden try and
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get one on obviously if you've got kids
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you won't want one but try and get a
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pond on your plot if you have got kids
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just have a look at other options you
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can have a shallow Little Pond just
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somewhere for the frogs to jump into and
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enjoy the water if you can encourage the
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frogs to your alotment you are doing a
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fantastic job because you don't want to
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be using slug palletts frogs are a
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natural defense in killing the Slugs and
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slugs are an nightmare unless you're
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going to go around and gather all the
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Slugs at night I've seen certain people
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they put a flashlight on the head and
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they actually go around collecting all
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the Slugs at night and picking them all
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up and getting them all and chucking
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them away from the plot uh but yeah I've
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seen people do that uh so if you want a
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natural way to stop the Slugs encourage
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the frogs on to your plot and we're
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going to be encouraging so much Wildlife
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to our plot this year uh my my next
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major step is to encourage the birds
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onto the plot and that's going to be
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April no yeah April's task uh we're
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going to be putting lots of bird feeders
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up around my plot and hopefully get some
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beautiful birds coming to the plot it'll
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it'll cost money obviously keeping the
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bird feeders uh filled up but the more
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people that listen to this podcast the
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more we can feed the birds
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so keep sharing this podcast with
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everybody and it'll encourage the bird
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to app plot so that's one main task what
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we've got to do but um obviously
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hopefully I'll finish my pond off I'll
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be buying some pond plants in April when
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I get paid so that'll be one thing that
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I do then hopefully this week I will be
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finishing off my main area of my plot I
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started it on Saturday I've been
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clearing all my main beds uh I've
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trimmed back all my summer raspberries
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they're all ready for this year now it's
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a case of digging over all my beds I
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have weeded them all uh they've just
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obviously got flattened a bit uh over
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the past few weeks so I need to dig them
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over again I'm going to keep digging
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them over every couple of weeks until
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it's time for planting the more roots
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and stuff I can get out of them beds now
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the better they will be in the summer
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for not having as many weeds in them uh
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so that is how main task to keep digging
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them over every couple of weeks so we're
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going to be digging all them over I've
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got all my paths to sort out which is a
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mammoth job in itself because I've got
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so many paths um so I've got all that to
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do and then I've got the top of my plot
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to sort out which is going to be an
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absolutely tough job I'm guessing that
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I'll go into airpo that bit but we've
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got so much rubbish at the plot if
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you're anything like me you just keep
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moving the rubbish further and further
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up your plot and and until there's too
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much so I'm starting to clear all that
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now and get all that out of the way
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because I've got such a big area at the
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top of my plot where I've been chucking
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all my rubbish it's going to be a nice
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new area which I want as a herb garden
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I'd love a herb garden not necessarily
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just for the herbs but
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for getting the smell and encouraging
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the bees to the plot as well herbs are
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good for attracting the bees and even if
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it's just a nice seated area I want a
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nice seat to sit down down on I've not
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got a seating area on my plot at the
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moment so that is what I'm going to be
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looking at doing over the next couple of
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weeks so I'm hoping we can get all that
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completed and all that finished over the
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next few weeks because it's it is a
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tough job and this time of year is so
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much hard work down at the allotment
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because I do push myself probably too
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much and I will get through it all I
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will get on with it but I just expect
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too much from my allotment sometimes
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whether it's because I want to please my
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followers or whether it's just because I
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want to please myself but I do like to
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keep busy down there and another new
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thing what I want to build I want to
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build some raised beds at the end of
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each of my rows uh just out of scrap
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pieces of wood um I just want to build
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some Square beds at the end of each bed
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end of each uh path just to add like an
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extra bit of space to grow in really and
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I want to see what can grow in there
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whether it be some patunas what hang
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down over the edges or whether it be
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some squash plants but we'll see we'll
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see what we're growing there um but yeah
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I'm excited for this year it's going to
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be a good year and again if you've not
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listened to my other podcast Channel
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gardening and allotment tips go over and
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have a listen to that we're going to be
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talking about different topics of the
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week uh we're going to be talking about
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Planting onions planting potatoes
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planting broad beans planting peas um on
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that podcast we talk about all different
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topics but we just usually stick to one
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Topic in the episode so that we're just
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concentrating on that and you'll be able
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to get lots and lots of information on
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it so yeah hopefully you are going to
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have a fantastic week hopefully this has
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gone out on Monday and not Friday but we
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will
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see so I hope that you enjoy this hot
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weather what we're going to get yet I
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hope you enjoy it and make the most of
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the garden like I've said and yeah
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hopefully you get some seeds planted
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this week let me know on my Instagram or
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on my Facebook send me a message and let
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me know what you've got planted this
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week I'm always loving when I hear about
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everything what people are growing so
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until next time remember keep smiling
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