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Catch up at the allotment and garden
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Nov 13, 2024
🧤 Catch Up at the Allotment and Garden! After a busy few days, it’s time to get stuck back in and see what’s been happening on the plot! 🌱🪴 In this episode, I walk through everything that’s changed at the allotment and garden — from plant progress and new jobs to what’s next on the task list. A perfect check-in for fellow growers. What’s new on your plot this week? #AllotmentCatchUp #GardenUpdate #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #AllotmentLife #GardenProgress
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episode hello and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's w Wednesday
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and I can't get over this weather what
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we're having at the moment in England
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it's unbelievable um
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from being it's meant to be winter and
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we're getting like double figures at
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this time of year it's brilliant and I'm
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absolutely loving it because we've not
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had any bad weather really this winter
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whatsoever we had a bit of snow in
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November but it only a tiny bit and it
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didn't last for long at all but yeah
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while every it's like this I am getting
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so much done on my allotment it's
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unbelievable well we've been back down
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there today and we've had another busy
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few hours down there and it's
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progressing it certainly is
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progressing and what we've been doing
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today is I've been clearing out one of
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my old strawberry beds that used to hold
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my strawberries I've now moved them to a
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different area of my plot and the issue
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with this bed is that it's close to
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where my summer raspberries are and what
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what happens is that like I've said in
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the past raspberries are like weeds if
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the roots get gr on them you'll find
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raspberries popping up everywhere and
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these raspberries always take hold of
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this strawberry bed so one of the
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reasons why I wanted to move the
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strawberries out of the way really
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because the raspberries were taking all
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the nutrition from the ground so I've
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been clearing this area out and there's
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there's lot of raspberries in it there's
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a really lot of raspberries uh what have
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grown in that ground this year and as
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their new growth this year they should
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through this year so what I've done is
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I've been digging them up and I've been
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moving them to a new area down the other
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side of my plot cuz down one side I've
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got raspberries growing all the way down
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the side of the plot get absolutely
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loads off them I really do well with
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raspber and I haven't got anything
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growing down the other side I planted my
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formless black bre down there the other
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day but I'm filling it up with all the
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raspbery canes that are moving because
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that's the thing with raspberries
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they'll pop up everywhere but they are
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quite easy to dig up and move to where
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you want them uh so if you've got
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raspberries growing everywhere just dig
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them up and line them back up and
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replant them it's easy really and I just
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do that every single year I keep doing
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that and it's made a really good hedge
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of raspberries and if you were to go to
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a shop or uh Garden Center you'd be
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paying a lot of money for raspberry
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canes possibly around £6 for four
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raspberry canes or something like that
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so if you've got raspber canes popping
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up everywhere just dig them up and move
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them they won't hurt and if you do it
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now they'll get rud and they'll get
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going again and hopefully fruit and then
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you'll be able to continue your hedge
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down the other side of the plot like I'm
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doing and if you do it all the way down
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the side of the plot you will have
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absolutely loads of raspberries and the
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cost of raspberries to buy in the
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supermarket is expensive so it's great
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to get fantastic returns from the
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raspberry plants and I was looking at
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the rubar prices in the supermarket the
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other day wow that is expensive rubab
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and I've got 16 Plants of it uh so yeah
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uh I I really do get my money's worth
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out of my allotment uh and that's where
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it comes from from growing the fruit the
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fruit pays for the allotment 10 times
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over uh if I were to sell all my food
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I'd pay for my allotment 10 times over
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uh it's definitely one of the best
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investments you can have on the plot and
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that's why I'm trying to grow a bit more
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food this year and I've like I said I've
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currently just planted
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my forless raspberries and I've
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replanted my strawberries but I'm
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looking at possibly getting some more
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blueberry bushes on my plot I've got two
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already but I'm wanting a few more
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blueberries because again they're
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expensive to buy um and they're
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absolutely delicious if you grow them
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well and get good returns from them so
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I'm going to be purchasing a couple more
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of those to plant all the alotment
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remember if you are growing blueberries
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they need to be planted in acious
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compost and usually I plant them in
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large pots and then sink them into the
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ground and let them grow as they are so
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yeah it's pretty easy to grow
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blueberries you just keep them watered
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and keep them fed really and they will
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return great fruit for you to
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enjoy so we've been doing that today and
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what else have we been doing or just
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general tidying up really I'm always
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tidying up I've got so much to tidy I
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spent half an hour like I say every day
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when I go down to the alotment I'm going
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to spend half an hour in my shed giving
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it a bit of a clear out it's going to
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take weeks to do it's such a mess and it
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all needs repainting as well at some
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point and spruing up uh and making nicer
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really uh cuz it is looking a bit
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dilapidated inside so we need to give it
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a bit of TLC at some point and make it
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nice again and make it welcoming and
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good to filming
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cuz I definitely need to do some more
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filming uh down at the allotment so yeah
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definitely for
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that but what else are we going to be up
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to I need to start getting things going
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um I need to have got a lot of sweet
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peas and I did start some before
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Christmas but I never potted them on I
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should have done and uh they went uh I
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lost them uh but I need to start some
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more sweet peas off so that might be a
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job for tomorrow starting a load of
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sweet peas off getting them going uh I'm
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going to be starting them off in my flat
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where it's warmer because I use uh my
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little trick what to get them germinated
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and that is to put a piece of kitchen
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Boll in a t tupperware box and sprinkle
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them all in and spray them with water uh
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so that the kitchen roll is damp and
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then I will
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let them germinate I put the lid back on
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the topware box and let them germinate
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and I get literally 100% germination M
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it's fantastic the results that I get
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from them and I know which ones have
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germinated and then I can pop them on
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when you see that little Ro popping out
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of the uh PE uh so that is a great way
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to get them to germinate and sweet peas
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did fantastic on my plot the last couple
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of years I've had such a great display
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and I'm hoping to get the same sort of
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display again this year down on the plot
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uh for you all to enjoy and to give
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Bunches of flowers away as well because
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that's the best thing about growing
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sweet peas is that you can just keep
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cutting them and the more you keep
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cutting the flowers off the more the
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flowers will grow because if you leave
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the flowers on they'll go to seed and
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they'll stop producing the flowers so
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you have to keep cutting them you can be
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going down to the plot every day and
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picking flowers uh to see you all the
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way through summer and into Autumn and
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you can get some great displays and
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thing is with sweet peas is that smell
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absolutely fantastic you get a fantastic
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smell from them and they will be
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beautiful to have in the flat or in the
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house so that is what I need to get
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going with and I just need to start
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making my lists really of what I want to
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grow and where I want to grow it because
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I need to start planning now um my plot
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is going to be cleared by the end of
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February possibly beginning of March
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it'll all be ready day and then it'll be
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a case of starting to do any maintenance
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or build anything that I want to do
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through March and then in April end of
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March beginning of April I will be
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sewing all my seeds and getting them
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started so my plan is coming together
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pretty well down at the site and it's
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all coming on along really well I'm
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getting everything done that I want to
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do in time but the thing is if we get
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some really bad weather and snow for a
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few weeks it'll put a hold to all the
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tracks uh where I'm up to but touch wood
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it is staying on the right track at the
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moment and we're getting some good
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results from the plot so hopefully we're
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going to get a fantastic looking site
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this year and you never know I may enter
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for the best allotment on site uh there
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is a competition which has run through
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the allotments uh for the best allotment
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on site so I man
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you never know uh get the inspectors
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around looking around the plot and
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seeing what they think uh of all my
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allotment but we'll see how we get on it
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all depends on time again once things
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start growing it'll be a case of getting
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down there and getting it watered all
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the time and stuff like that and
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obviously work gets in the way of doing
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what you
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enjoy so hopefully we'll get plenty done
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so tomorrow I'll be back down at the
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allotment so expect another episode on
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what wouldve been up to at the plot and
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then we will be back at work for the
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weekend so there'll be episodes still
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