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This video explains which jobs to focus on during the colder part of the gardening season to prepare an allotment for the months ahead. It shows practical tasks that protect soil, crops and structures before harsher weather sets in.
The guide covers clearing beds, improving soil, protecting plants, organising tools and preparing growing areas for the next season. It also explains how completing these tasks early reduces work later and improves overall productivity.
If you want a well-prepared and productive allotment, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice on seasonal garden preparation and winter planning.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's a brand new
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week Fresh Start ready for it all to go
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again and wow the temperatures are going
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to drop this week if you not seeing the
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weather forecast have a look and yeah
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it's certainly going to be cold at night
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now so if you've got any delicate plants
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what are outside fetch them into the
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greenhouse fetch them inside protect
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them and look after them through the
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winter period because if not the cold
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weather is going to kill them off and
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obviously if the perennial plants and
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they survive and they come back every
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year that's fine but if they're not and
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if you want to keep keep them safe
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definitely bring them inside or put them
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in a heated
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Greenhouse as it's going to turn nippe
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and this snow predicted this week so
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we'll see if we get any fingers crossed
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we don't because it's my mom's 70th
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birthday at the weekend and hopefully
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I'm going to be out celebrating that so
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yeah it's now Monday what did we get up
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to on Sunday that is the question while
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I'm recording this on Sunday ready for
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Monday I've just come back from the
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allotment and I'm absolutely
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freezing I went down to the allotment
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today forgot my body warmer I'll have to
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start wearing my body warmer now at
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weekends as it's getting cold uh you
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certainly feel it compared to yesterday
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it were gorgeous yesterday down at the
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allotment but today it's absolutely
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dropped so I think the autumn and winter
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weather is finally here we've been
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waiting for it it's held off but it's
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finally appeared but we do need the cold
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weather to help with the garlic
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development over the winter period so we
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do welcome it unfortunately we have to
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welcome it and yeah what have we been up
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to at the alotment today well obviously
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yesterday I absolutely cleared all of my
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fruit tree area around my rubab so I got
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most of that done so there wasn't that
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much to be done today to be honest we
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took it pretty
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we had a bit of a lazy day at the
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alotment I went down and I were there
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for quite a few hours but we had a
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pretty much lazy day um we obviously did
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our first thing of feed making sure the
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bird feeders are filled up fed the
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Pussycat and yeah then we did some more
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clearing of the paths and clearing some
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more bind weed which had grow around one
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of my garden archers but I'm going to
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end up taking that garden arch down I
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think cuz it's it's not very good uh
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it's one of those metal ones and it's
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bent and broken and it's not done very
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well uh I thought I could grow my
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climbing roses over them but they're not
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very good and they don't seem to last so
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I think that's coming down we might have
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to look at other options on what to grow
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my climbing roses over maybe we'll build
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something you know what my DIY skills
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are like but maybe we will we'll have to
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have a wait and see maybe we'll have to
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design something you've not seen my
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drawing skills absolutely
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useless but yeah I do love DIY but I'm
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just rubbish at it uh but yeah we've
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been clearing some of that area and yeah
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I'm happy that I've cleared all my
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rubarb area in around there now and
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we've just dropped uh our YouTube video
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up of our weekly tour so you can see all
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the work that I've done uh this weekend
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around my rubab and how good it's
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looking uh we've got a big job next
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weekend but I'll save that for the next
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podcast what we uh for the weekend's
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podcast to tell you what I'm getting up
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to down at the allotment so make sure
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you stay tuned for that fingers crossed
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if it isn't
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snowing we've obviously been filming our
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videos for the week as I have to do them
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all on a weekend ready for the week I
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filmed all my daily questions which I'll
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be posting on Instagram Facebook and
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YouTube so make sure you get involved in
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the daily questions what I post as I do
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love to see all your answers I may not
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reply to them all but I do actually want
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uh read them all and yeah we've done a
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few YouTube videos this week so we've
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done the garden tour we've done a tour
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of my shed and what I plan to do with it
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this winter uh what we're actually
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growing over the winter
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periods uh how to look after the
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life an allotment or or encourage it so
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yeah quite a few videos coming up on the
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YouTube channel so I hope that you are
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following the YouTube channel I do post
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them all on Facebook as well and
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Instagram these days uh but they're
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easier to find on YouTube sometimes so
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if you're not following my YouTube
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channel make sure you follow it click
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the bell and you'll get notified when I
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upload
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them which will usually be at
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nighttime but yeah we've had a good
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weekend down there overall I've made a
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start on Tiding my shed out obviously
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getting that all clean and TI day
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but I'm happy with how it's progressed
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and I mentioned this in my tour video
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that I'm glad I started around end of
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September starting to clear all my plot
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clearing all my beds tidying it all up
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getting rid of all the band weed and
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it's pretty much all tided now all my
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beds are done and it's pretty much done
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outside I've just got another weekend to
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go on doing an area uh which I'll
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mention later on in the
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podcasts and then it's going to be
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indoor work getting all my shed ready
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for next year so we're well ahead of
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schedule we're absolutely flying we're
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getting my allotment prepped for next
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year um one of next year's plans is
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obviously
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to improve the soil in my beds because
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I've not improved them over the last
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like 12 years or so so I'm going to be
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adding some nutrients into the soil and
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adding compost into it adding food into
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it anything I can do to help improve the
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growth of all my vegetables and
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hopefully get some huge pumpkins next
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year and uh some fantastic corett but
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we'll
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see but we've got lots and lots to get
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done over there but yeah we've had a
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fantastic weekend like I said it's been
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a bit too cold today maybe I'm going to
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have to start having them bonfires down
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there I didn't manage to get one done
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this weekend um but hopefully I'll start
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getting some bonfires going and then
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that'll keep me warm as well but as I'm
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actually recording this podcast you know
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I said it's not hardly rained here it's
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absolutely chucking it down now which is
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fantastic which is what I wanted we've
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not had no rain proper rain here for
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ages we had a like 15 minute downpour
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yesterday when I at lotman but it wasn't
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much but hopefully this is a lot heavier
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than it was yesterday so hopefully we're
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going to start getting a bit more rain
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now because I need it to start watering
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my garlic and watering my winter onions
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as they're not getting any water I'm
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having to water it myself and it's seems
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strange having to water outside in
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November but yeah I'm having to water
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everything but it's going to be a busy
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week down at the allotment well at home
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to be honest not at the alotment it's
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going to be a busy week this week uh I'm
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going to start planning and prepping for
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what seeds I'm going to grow for next
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year so I'll be sharing that with you
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all shortly as I need to have a look
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what I want to order obviously pop them
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in a basket and then get them all
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ordered I want to try some new flowers
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next year that's another plan
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but yeah I'm going to start putting it
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all together and I'll share it with you
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on my podcasts and
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hopefully get some new ideas for some my
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new podcast ideas because I start to run
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out of things to talk about after a
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while I Tred to make them quite long
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episodes but I only managed to ever get
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to about 10
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minutes but yeah I like to talk about a
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different topic every single day so this
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podcast is obviously been talking about
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what we've been getting up to at the
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weekend but we've got us um bird houses
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back up we've cleaned them out we clean
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them out ready for Springtime if
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anybody's got any bird houses in the
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garden make sure you take them down
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clean out any old nests what in them
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disinfect them out just in case there's
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any diseases and stuff in there give
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them a clean as blue tips won't move
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into them if they look like they've
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being lived in or anything's Disturbed
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them so have them nice and clean ready
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for Springtime and then that'll
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encourage blue into your garden I do
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this every year and then the blue tips
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move back in again in the early
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Springtime ready
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for laying the eggs for baby blue tips
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so I'm looking forward to getting more
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birds down at my allotment next year and
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hopefully I'll get my prize as well
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delivered this week for my bird feeder
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so hopefully we'll have some SE blocks
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again because after yesterday's episode
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of the pesky squirrels eating all my Su
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blocks which I'm not very happy about so
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expensive they're not cheap Su blocks
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but yeah they're expensive and they ate
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them all and I thought oh that'll last
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me for about 10 weeks that put a new Su
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Block in every week but no it lasted me
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three
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weeks but hopefully we're going to start
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encouraging more animals down onto my
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plot
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obviously I had a look actually in the
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supermarket yesterday and they got some
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hedgehog food now it's specially
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designed for hedgehogs but obviously
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that will encourage M and wraps and
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squirels to eat it so I don't know if I
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should put hedgehog food out or not let
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me know in the comments if you put
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hedgehog food out uh well not in the
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comments by sending me a message I'd
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like to know if anyone else puts
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hedgehog food out obviously there's
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certain stuff that you can feed them and
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certain stuff you can't but this is
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specially designed for hedgehogs so let
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let me know if you feed your hedgehogs
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with hedgehog food and whether it's
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worth off doing it or not at my
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allotment as I have got a hedgehog house
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I've not put it out yet I need to put it
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out find somewhere nice for it to go
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because obviously this time of year
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hedgehogs are hyber and they need to
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stay safe ready for next year so let me
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know and send me a message if you feed
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the Hedgehogs or not make sure you come
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back for tomorrow's episode we're going
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to be talking about all different Topics
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in this week tomorrow we're going to be
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start talking
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about what's the best way to start an
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allotment off
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off excuse me uh what's the best way to
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start an allotment off from scratch so
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make sure you tune in for that episode
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tomorrow until next time everyone
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