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Cold November Allotment Tour: The Best Tips for Fall Gardening from a Seasoned Allotment Owner.
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Dec 1, 2024
🍂 Cold November Allotment Tour: The Best Fall Gardening Tips from a Seasoned Plot Holder! The air may be crisp, but there’s still so much happening on the allotment! ❄️🌱 Come along as I take you on a chilly November walkthrough of my plot and share tried-and-true autumn gardening tips — from crop care to winter prep. How are you managing your allotment this month? #NovemberAllotmentTour #FallGardening #AllotmentTips #GrowYourOwn #ColdWeatherGardening #UKGardener #AutumnPlotLife
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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's absolutely
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freezing today but we're down here on
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the alotment and we're going to give you
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our weekly tour of what we've got up to
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down here at the alotment show you
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what's growing what's not growing and
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have a tour around so sit back relax and
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enjoy today's episode
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[Music]
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so yeah we're back down at the allotment
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today it's absolutely freezing but we
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have got lots of stuff done this weekend
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down here it was gorgeous day yesterday
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but the temperature has dropped today
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and there's forecast of snow coming up
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so fingers crossed we don't get the snow
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but we need the cold weather to help
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with the garlic because the cold weather
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helps the formation of the garlic clove
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ready for growing next year so we do
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need the cold weather and it will wake
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up all the spring bulbs and get them gr
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as well so let's have a tour around and
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let's have a look at our
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alotment so we always start off at the
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front of the plot the fuches are still
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buding
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up man you this cold snap we'll probably
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send them off to sleep
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ready for the winter but yeah we'll keep
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it out on then and we've got a bit more
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color on his heav this week we just need
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it all to start coming out and then
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it'll look absolutely gorgeous I only
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bought these for 50 P from being Q ages
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ago they were selling them all off at
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end of year and I bought quite a few of
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them poted them in and they've done
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absolutely
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fantastic yeah look at these fuches down
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here
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absolutely loads of flowers on them they
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should be going to sleep
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now but they're still flowering really
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nicely look at all these spring bulbs
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popping up
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everywhere Fantastic Mr squirrel's been
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getting some of them hopefully they'll
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leave some
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in but yeah it's all looking decent at
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the front hopefully we'll get lots of
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tulips and everything coming up at the
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front of pl we planted loads of bulbs in
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this front
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but still got roses on as well look at
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them absolutely
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gorgeous these are my climbing verses
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these ones but yeah we've got plenty of
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buds as well on them but again like I
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said this cold snap probably will send
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them off to sleep now we've put our bird
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houses back up they're being cleaned out
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ready for next year hopefully we get
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some birdies in them some blue tis
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that's what we
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want but yeah we've got loads of spring
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bulbs popping up down the side of the
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plot which will hopefully be good we got
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bird feeders
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up Mr squirrel keeps getting
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there
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but we've got to look after the wild
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life we got us fat balls
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up but yeah this weekend I have been t
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in up around that rubab area now this I
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couldn't even get down here the other
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day because it was full of Bram balls so
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were just Bram balls growing all down
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this side all over the place but we've
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cleared out all the Bram bols now so we
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can get down here we need to clean his
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pond out that's one job that we need to
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do all them leaves falling in it but
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we'll clean them out once all leaves
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have dropped get it ready for next year
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but yeah got lots of rubab
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but again the co snap will kill it off
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and send it back to sleep ready for
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winter but yeah this is all wood chip
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this area so keeps it warm keeps it
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mulched and hopefully stops the weeds
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but there's black membrane underneath
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all this anyway to stop the weeds from
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growing they only pop up through where
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the holes are
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Etc but yeah I'm happy with this area I
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don't think I'm going to be pruning much
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off my fruit trees this year
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they're not too bad we might leave them
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for this year and do them next
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year this area is looking very bare now
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now that it's all dying off the fuches
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seem to be dying back off at this side
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it's bizarre how they're not dying off
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at the front but they're dying off here
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but yeah hopefully this is going to be
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full of spring bulbs and full of color
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lots of color in there look at the
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redness of my loganberry leaves
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absolutely
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gorgeous they look
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brilliant hopefully we get lots of Logan
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berries on them next
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year we've started the mass clean up
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inside the shed started raining
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yesterday while down here so I've
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started sweeping up and tidying up but
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yeah it's looking a lot better we've got
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us water stored ready for when we turn
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the water off on site and yeah I'll need
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that for all my seeds next year so we'll
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be saving that
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yeah we've got a sweet peas these are
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the ones that we trimmed back last week
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we're doing all right the geraniums are
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dying off we're going to have to keep
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them watered we need to keep them
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watered throughout the winter
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period obviously like I say it's not
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heated in here so fingers crossed we can
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keep them but if not they die we'll have
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to get some more but hopefully we can
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save them and keep them growing all year
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round but yeah
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down here we've got loopings growing
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look at them they're doing
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well I've grown them from
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seed got some more sweet
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peas and these are Salvia that we potted
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up last week they're pretty damp still
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but yeah hopefully they take Route and
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we get loads of salv growing next
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year that's the plan
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help the bees
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out back outside we've got bird feeders
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up uh but that se block it keeps on
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getting eaten fast so whether the
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scribbl are eating the SE block but
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they're not getting to the seeds or the
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pets so that's good so at least the
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birds are getting them but yeah next
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weekend is going to be sorting out all
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this area which will be a job in in
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itself but yeah we're going to I've
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started all my strawberries AR my
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strawberries are fine uh we've got all
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them planted but we need to clear all
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down this Edge sort out the Blackberry
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uh came what's gr over there we're going
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to put that back up against the fence
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and just tidy the paths up so that we
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can get round them
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easily and tidy all the rubbish away and
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all the old weeds and everything like
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that give it a sweep up clean up but
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yeah the great Vine's losing its leaves
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now but look at this color absolutely
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gorgeous absolutely beautiful
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but yeah we need to sort the M out sort
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out all the rubbish down the side get it
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all tided get the old leaves swept away
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and
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composted but yeah we've got plenty to
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keep us doing we've got all bulbs down
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here you can see some popping
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through a lot of these are aliums I
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believe but yeah hopefully we get a lot
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of spring color down this side
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these ones are starting to die off just
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remember to keep deheading
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them when they die
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off that's all you need to do just keep
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deheading them we still got us beat loot
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to
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harvest those onions still aren't
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growing much yet we got a couple growing
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with shoots on but not loads those red
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onions aren't starting to grow yet we're
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going to give them more water today get
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them water Ed and hopefully give them
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that kickart to get started now there's
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garlic on the other hand look at this
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this is my garlic doing really really
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well the back lot are a bit slow but the
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front lot are doing absolutely fantastic
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look at them doing so
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good yeah hopefully we'll have a lot of
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garlic next year we cleared all around
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that area as well that's obviously where
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I've cleared all the brols but yeah it's
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looking a lot more tidier but all the
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beds are
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cleared ready for next year just keep
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need to keep them H keep them Weed Free
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ready for next year's
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growing but yeah I'm happy with how much
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we've got done we certainly got loads
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done down here that was all the old
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compost from my potato boxes but
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obviously it'll be good for the soil so
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we'll dig all that in as
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well so yeah that is a tour of my
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allotment and as you can see we've got
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absolutely loads done and the reason why
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we pushed on getting it all tided and
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all cleared because you don't know what
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the weather's going to be like during
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the winter months like they say it's
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going to be forecast cold weather this
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week possibly snow so I might not be
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down next weekend so now that I've got
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it all completely cleared I don't have
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to worry about that it's just case
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tidying up and doing any work down here
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that needs doing but all my beds are
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cleared ready for next year now so
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that's one job done out of everything so
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then I can concentrate on doing any
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repairs and any tidying up and any
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rubbish removal and stuff like that at
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least I've got the main jobs done now
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and yeah I'm happy that I've managed to
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complete it all we're in like a month or
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two um if anything I could sit back and
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relax but I'm not going
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to I'm going to keep on coming down here
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keep on creating these videos and
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sharing what I'm getting up to down here
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