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This video shares essential gardening jobs and practical tips for managing an allotment garden. It highlights useful maintenance tasks and simple techniques that help keep plants healthy and productive.
The guide covers preparing beds, caring for plants, sowing seeds, watering, feeding and general garden upkeep. It also explains how regular attention and small tasks throughout the season improve harvests and prevent problems.
If you want clear and practical advice for your garden or allotment, this video provides beginner-friendly guidance to help you grow successfully.
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have you done all your February jobs and
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all all the seeds what you can plant in
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March and then all the jobs which need
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doing in the garden and a lopment in
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March so make sure you click that
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and every day and thank you for those
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that have subscribed to the channel so
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far it's great to welcome you to this
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great
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community so yeah what have we been up
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to on the lopment I need to think now
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because uh I did have a few drinks last
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night so my brain's not fully
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functioning
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today but yeah yesterday was an
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absolutely glorious day and I shared on
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my Instagram that it got to like 20° in
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my poly tunnel which is fantastic for Fe
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February uh it just goes to show that
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hopefully the weather is starting to go
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in the right direction and we certainly
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have not had a bad winter at all this
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year uh yes we've had a lot of wind but
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we've not had a lot of cold we've not
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had bad snow we've not had much rain and
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yeah you can't really complain at the
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winter that we've had this year and
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hopefully it will start to get warmer
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and you never know we may get one of
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those early heat waves what we've had
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past couple of years when we usually get
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a heat wave like in March or in April
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time and that will be a great time to
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get all the seeds growing and started um
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down at the alotment in the garden so
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what have we been up to recently so I've
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been checking up on my seeds what I'm
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growing at the moment my onion seeds
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they're growing really well now in the
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shed and we hopefully will be getting
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those ready to plant possibly end of
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March outside in the ground we'll have
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to see how the weather is whether uh
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with it's not too snowy but we'll have
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to look at getting those planted soon
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I've planted four different varieties of
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onion seeds uh there's absolutely loads
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that have grown from each packet uh so I
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possibly won't be using them all but
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we'll see how we get on and which ones
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we do grow so we'll be starting them off
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then we have got some herbs which have
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started uh sprouted uh I think they're
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my parsley and coriander which have
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started growing had a look at my rocket
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today my Rockets just started to get
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some Little Sprouts coming popping
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through which it's always great to see
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new seedlings popping through the ground
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I I certainly do get Amazed by it so I'm
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really pleased that they're coming along
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really well then my other stuff what's
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coming along well what I've planted
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recently are my blueberries they're
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looking pretty healthy I planted them
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about a month ago now and they they've
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been planted in ericaceous soil and
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they've been sunk into the
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ground so that the wind doesn't blow
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them over and they're growing pretty
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well and healthy so I'm definitely
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looking forward to getting some
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blueberries this year I've got two other
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blueberry plants which are a bit older
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than these uh more established and
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hopefully we'll get a nice good crop of
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blue brid this year hopefully fingers
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crossed and I checked on my forless
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black BRD they're growing well they're
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starting to uh get some shoots on them
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and then I've planted a load of Summer
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raspberry canes down the side of my plot
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and they're taking really well I checked
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them today and they've all got Sprouts
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popping through on them which shows that
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they're taking and that they are
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actually still alive and growing and
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that is the reason why you need to be
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planting fruit at this time of year
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because the ground is wet and they will
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take really well and better in the
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ground and you can have some fantastic
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results from them so they're coming
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along pretty well and then I've been
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looking around at my bulbs and my bulbs
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are coming up
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fantastic uh I thought I'd planted a lot
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more than what's actually popping
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through but we will see how they go some
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may not have started yet hopefully
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they'll start popping through soon and
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we'll get some nice displays I've just
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got to make a note of where areas where
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they've not grown so well either because
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squirrels have pinched them or have dug
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up the bulbs and not realized and they
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may have got damaged so we need to look
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at where we need to plant them at the
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end of this year um that's one thing
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that you always need to do when you
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bulbs qu have a look at areas what's not
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grown well and make market so that you
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know where to plant them next year uh
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and try and fill in those gaps because I
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was talking to somebody last night and
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they were from the wildlife trust uh in
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Sheffield and I said to him that I
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didn't use gr flowers on my allotment at
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all and and now that I've started
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reading up on things more and knowing
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that you can
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get uh help the bees more and she were
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really happy that I've been spreading
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that awareness of planting spring bulbs
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and to encourage the bees because the
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spring bulbs are the first thing the
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bees see when they wake up from hiber
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Nation somebody messaged it other day to
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say that they' seen the first be of the
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Year and that it was very doy and stuff
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like that and they gave it some sugar to
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help it on its way and it's just doing
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that little bit to help the bees uh it
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doesn't cost a lot you can get a pack of
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daffodil bulbs for a couple of quid and
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plant some on the allotment as long as
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we're encouraging them to come to the
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alotment
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and I'm trying to plant as many spring
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bulbs as I can round where my fruit
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grows because obviously when they're out
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in flower and po um buding uh
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blossoming that is when the spring bulbs
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will be out and that will encourage the
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bees to come to the fruit to help
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pollinate it and hopefully get some
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fantastic results back to the alment and
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getting those great produce which which
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you're growing so it swings roundabouts
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you help the bees and the bees will help
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you so do more for the bees and get them
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onto your allotment because if other
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people aren't growing flowers on their
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plot and you're growing flowers you're
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going to attract all the bees to your
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plot and you will get them doing all the
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work for you and without the bees we
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won't get some fantastic produce and
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crops so keep on encouraging the bees to
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come to your plot this year and try and
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do what you can for them so if you've
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not planted any spring bulbs this year
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go out and get some at the end of the
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year and get planting them with me EX
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I'll be planting a load more there's
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still some areas that I still need to
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get some bulbs in and get them filled up
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the
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beds and also I've been getting loads of
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Summer bulbs but we'll talk about them
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in another episode I've just been out
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and bought some today so you'll find out
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what they are soon so it's all coming
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together pretty well on my allotment and
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I've done I've completed my mission for
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this month I was saying that I wanted to
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get all my beds dug over for February
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and I can confirm that that is now done
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all the beds are dug over the next job
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is to sort out all the paths on the plot
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and to repaint all the beds but I'm not
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going to repaint them I don't think
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until the end of April just before I
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start planting stuff out I want them to
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look the best uh throughout all summer
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so we'll be PL uh painting those up come
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end of April that'll be April jobs to do
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but I'm so far ahead this year it's
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unbelievable how far I am actually ahead
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so once I've sorted the paths out that
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will be a couple of days work uh because
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some are really weedy and I need to put
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some new black membrane down and fasten
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it all down and make it look good again
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once we've done that then it will be
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going on to repairing any beds that are
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broken or damaged build a few more beds
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because I've cleared an area at the top
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where I've not got beds uh laid so we're
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going to have three new beds on the
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allotment this year an extra three beds
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to plant in so I'm looking forward to
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that and there quite a bit of delight on
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this area so hopefully we'll get some
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great crops and I'm thinking of planting
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sweet corn up in these beds at the top
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of my plot because it is quite moist as
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well um so hopefully they'll get nice
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and big and grow really well so I'm
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hoping to get some fantastic sweet corn
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this year I've been out and bought some
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sweet corn again I'll talk about this in
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another episode of what I've purchased
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uh so you'll have to subscribe uh to
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this podcast to get notified when that
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episode comes up uh I keep encouraging
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you to subscribe I'm sorry but it does
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really help and obviously the more
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people that listen to this podcast it
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all go goes back into buying bits for my
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allotment so it's stuff that I can talk
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about to you so keep on listening to
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these podcast because it does really
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help with getting stuff so what else
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have we been doing down at the alotment
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so we've also purchased some more plants
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for the plot and I've shared on
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Instagram of what I purchased I
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purchased four hydr engers yes four um
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I've always wanted a hyr enger on my
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allotment uh whether it's because we
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used to have one in our garden well we
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had three in our garden and they looked
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absolutely fantastic and always full of
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color in the summer so I wanted some
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nice hydr engers on my plot and I've
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planted those right at the front of my
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plot uh which is like next to the
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roadside so hopefully it
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will windshield some of my shed because
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I planted a couple of in front of my
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shed uh so hopefully it'll windshield it
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a bit obviously it'll block a bit of of
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the light but I get all the light in
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from the roof as well because it's
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seethrough on the roof so hopefully it
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will stop it from getting damaged as
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much once they start going and they
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should grow pretty fast uh I believe
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they're quite fast to grow henders uh as
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long as you give them plenty of water
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they'll grow really
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well and hopefully they'll take pretty
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good and we've also purchased a catus
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now clamus look absolutely stunning when
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they're out and Yeah again the bees will
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love them uh because they've got all the
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little flowery bits on them you could
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tell I'm a very technical person uh
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they've got the flower hits on them
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where they can land um on and they look
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absolutely fantastic and I've planted
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that to grow it up in front of my shed
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so that it grows uh covers my shed
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really I'm going to put chicken wire in
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front of all the plastic so that I can
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fasten it to the uh chicken wire and
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grow it in front of my shed and yeah
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it's a bit of a like to disguise it
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really uh just to like block it off and
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make it look a bit more
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colorful rather than the horrible
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plastic look so I'm looking forward to
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Growing that chatus now I think I just
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need to pick up one more because it this
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one that I purchased it said it doesn't
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grow very far now I thought glamas
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always spread quite far but this one
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don't seem to spread that far clamus
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Arabella so if you're growing one of
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them let me know because I would love to
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know if yours are spreaded far and yeah
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I might have to pick another one of
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those up uh if I want to get it
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covered then I purchas a
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honeysuckle and it's a red one uh a
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pinky red one and it looks absolutely
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fantastic and if you know honeysuckle it
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smells Divine as well and I I've planted
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that near the entrance of my plot so
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that I can smell it as I walk on uh I
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just want as much color on my plot this
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year as possible and to make it as
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bright and beautiful to look at and to
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get nice pictures as well it's all about
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getting those pictures for the
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gram but yeah I'm definitely looking
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forward to having some honeysuckle on my
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plot
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so we've got to look after that and
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again I'm going to be training that
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against wires and chicken wire to make
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sure that it grows well and that it
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covers the area that I want it to grow
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in then we've bought a Jasmine and this
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is
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be B am
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banum if that's how you say I'm not very
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good at saying these words I really do
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think I'm dpic uh I do struggle with
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saying words so forgive me um but yeah
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I'd never be able to do a gardening
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program cuz I wouldn't ever be able to
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say the
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words I'd have to get an interpreter to
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do it uh but yeah we have got that and
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it's a pink one again I've seen the
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yellow Jasmin and they look absolutely
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fantastic but I've never seen a pink
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Jasmine and this does grow a lot uh I
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think it says something like 7 m it can
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grow in width so I've put this as a
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hedging for down the side of my plot
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with my neighbor and hopefully it will
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add some real attraction to the entrance
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of the plot and some real color so I'm
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looking forward to Growing that as well
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and training it cuz obviously I need to
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train it to grow where I want it to grow
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and to get the best out of
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it so I'm really ex I am getting really
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excited about growing flowers and adding
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this color to my plot obviously I've got
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all my seed PL uh on my plot all my
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flower seeds but to have plants that
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come back every single year that's key
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as well to getting good results and
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making it look attractive and then I
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bought a couple more climbing roses uh
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pink ones and they looked really healthy
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I looked inside the boxes and they've
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got plenty of flowers uh leaves coming
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on them so it shows that they're healthy
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and that they will hopefully do pretty
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good so yeah we have got extremely lots
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and lots of things to do coming up on
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the plot and like I said I always set
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myself little tasks and missions like I
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said I set myself the mission of this
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month clearing the whole of my plot and
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getting all the beds dug over and I've
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completed that I've managed to do it so
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I'm pleased about that so this month's
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Mission well March will be to sort out
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all the paths and to do any new beds and
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edging and get all that done this month
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so it's going to be quite a crafty month
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this month uh with my fantastic rubbish
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woodwork skills uh we'll have to see how
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we get on so we'll have to see if we get
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some great results from them and see how
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we get on so yeah I'm looking forward to
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this year this year is going to probably
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be the best year on my allotment by far
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uh for the results and what's going to
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be growing this year down at the plot
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because I just want it to make it look
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like a masterpiece and a sh piece just
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to show it all off and make it
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absolutely stunning for you to see and I
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can't wait to show well I can't wait to
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see it to be honest uh all this hard
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work and effort that I'm putting in and
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money as well uh into the plot but I'm
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hoping that the results that I get come
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back and show me how well it's come on
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and the results that we've got so we'll
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have to see if we do get the results
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we're after down at the
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allotment so yeah like I said it's all
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come from you listening to these
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podcasts uh like I said I only get about
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2 pound a day from them but it all goes
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back into buying plants and seeds and
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compost to produce these episodes
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because if I have not bought all them
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plants this weekend I wouldn't have had
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anything to talk about so it's all gone
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towards that and you can see from my
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photos and my Instagram post and my
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Facebook lives how well it's all coming
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along really
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do in March and also what seeds to be
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planted in March so yeah thank you for
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