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This video shares practical gardening tips and allotment advice to help improve growing results. It covers useful tasks, seasonal preparation and simple techniques that support healthy plants.
The guide discusses soil preparation, seed sowing, plant care, watering and organising growing spaces. It also explains how regular maintenance and good planning lead to better harvests throughout the season.
If you want clear and practical advice for your garden or allotment, this video provides beginner-friendly guidance to help you grow more successfully.
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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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