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Busy Days at the Allotment Garden | Gardening Progress & Updates
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Nov 13, 2024
💪 Busy Couple of Days at the Allotment Garden! From sun-up to sun-down, it’s been non-stop progress on the plot these past few days! 🌱🛠️ In this episode, I share everything I’ve been up to — from prepping beds and sowing seeds to tackling long-overdue tidy-ups. It’s amazing how much you can get done with a few focused days at the allotment. What’s been your biggest garden win this week? #AllotmentLife #BusyDaysOnThePlot #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #GardenProgress #SpringGardening #UKGardener
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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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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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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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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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