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Did the Allotment Survive the Storms? | Post-Weather Damage Update
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Nov 13, 2024
🌧️ Did the Allotment Survive the 3 Storms? After days of wild weather, it was time to assess the damage… or hopefully, the lack of it! 🌬️🌿 In this episode, I take you around the allotment to see how it held up after being battered by three storms. From fallen branches to shed checks and wind damage control, come along as I inspect, reflect, and plan next steps. Has your garden weathered the recent storms okay? #StormDamage #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #WeatheringTheStorm #AllotmentUpdate #GrowYourOwn #UKGardener
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and welcome back to gardening with Ben
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well it's my time off again uh yes it
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does come around fast but we've got 4
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days off now and time to spend some good
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time on the allotment and getting all of
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it cleared because that is my task by
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the end of the month to get every bed
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dug over and I'm nearly there I think I
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may possibly do it we will see depending
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on if I go out on Friday night and get
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drunk that'll make only 3 days to spend
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on the allotment
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but it's payday and I certainly do
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deserve to have a night out once in a
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while so the question is did we survive
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all three storms what we've had recently
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um I can't even remember the names of
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them uh but yeah wow has it been
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Dreadful uh I don't think the storm
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Unice uh what was expected to be big uh
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up here was that big to be honest it was
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more the third one that was big uh in
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Sheffield that was really windy
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um and the thing is with uh finishing
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work at 7:00 I don't get a chance to go
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down to the alotment at night and go and
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check on it after I've finished work so
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I've been sat here wondering for the
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last 4 days is my shed still standing
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because um the other day I had to do
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quite a few repairs to it as it had got
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bit battered and dismantled in the wind
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and the rain but I repaired it and got
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it ready for the storm which was meant
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to be big up here and got it all ship
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shape and I thought I'm not going to
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spend any money on doing the repairs
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because if we get bad storms I've just
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wasted money so I didn't spend any money
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on it I just used what I got to repair
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it so the dreaded day came today I was i
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w I woke up early and I thought I'm
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going to go to the alotment and let's
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hope and pray that it's still standing
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and that I've not don't have to spend
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too much time rebuilding it all and
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spending money on it because I was
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literally talking to my friend the other
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day and I was saying I'm going to start
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a GoFundMe page for my shed if uh it's
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destroyed in the wind because I
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certainly can't afford to rebuild it um
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but yeah I have checked it today and it
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is still
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standing which I'm so over the moon
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about
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because uh it cost me like £300 to build
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uh which is cheaper than a proper shed
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and cheaper than a greenhouse and it's
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absolutely massive um but yeah it's
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still standing and it's still going
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strong there is quite a bit of work what
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does need doing on to it but um I can
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keep doing a bit of that throughout the
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summer time period hopefully uh we'll
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have to see about doing that but it's
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all good ready to start my seeds off in
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Spring I'm talking off seeds all my
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onion seeds have started spring in
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through today if you check out my
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Instagram you'll be able to see all
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those on my photos gardening with Ben
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have a look and you'll be able to see
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all my onions popping food now I'm
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growing my onions from seed this year
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not from set I tried from set last year
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and I did set versus seed and Seed did
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better than the sets so I've stuck with
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seed and that's how I'm doing it this
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year and also my herbs are doing very
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well two of my pots have got herbs
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growing in them um but then I went to
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check on my poly tunnel uh it looked
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like it were fine when I walked on
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because the side that I looked at looked
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Immaculate I thought blind me it's
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lasted another year it's been up
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literally 10 years this plastic and each
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year I keep thinking I'm going to have
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to end up replacing the skin soon
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because the creases they start to
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disintegrate and wear and tear uh and I
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thought it's going to end up going one
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year and I went around the corner to
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look at the other side of the poly
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tunnel and there is a huge split down it
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so we've got to get some poly tunnel
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tape to get the split sorted out um
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don't use duct tape if you've got splits
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in your poly tunnel or cell tape go for
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the strong poly tunnel tape it's
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waterproof it's fantastic it does the
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job it will hold it firm and tight and
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if you've got any rips in your polyol do
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them fast before the wind gets hold of
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it and ends up pulling all the poly
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tunel cover off because you don't want
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that um so hopefully it will last
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another year uh possibly a couple of two
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years uh but I will start looking around
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and measuring up about seeing about
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getting a new skin for it so if there's
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any poly tunel people listening feel
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free to give me a free poly tunel
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skin but no uh they are quite expensive
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to buy obviously not as much as the full
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poly tunel would cost which set me back
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about £500 when I purchased it uh which
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is obviously very expensive but for the
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10 years that I've had it I've certainly
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got my money's worth from it I can't
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believe how well it has lasted so it's
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just going to be a case of replacing the
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skin and getting a new one of them on
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and obviously the UV uh stuff inside the
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skin uh will have uh gone by now so it's
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good to get a new skin on it eventually
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so I need to replace it but it's a work
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involved in doing that because I'm going
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to have to dig all my trenches back out
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I'm going to have to put the skin back
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on Hammer it back to the doors and then
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pile all the soil back in with the
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bricks on top ET ET Etc um but yeah
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we'll we'll start looking around at
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getting some skins for it uh the
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question is should I start a girl from
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me page for that skin
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cover cuz they're not the cheapest uh
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proper polyol skins but uh they're
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definitely worth it and if you put it on
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right it will last a long time uh like I
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said man's lasted 10 years so far so I'm
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quite impressed with that so yeah we'll
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have to have a look around and start
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pricing them up and seeing how much it
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will cost so keep on listening to these
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podcasts uh because the revenue that I
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earn from these will obviously go
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towards it and I only get about 22 an
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episode uh per day um about 2 p a day I
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get so yeah it's not a big amount from
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my podcasts uh but it all goes towards
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my allotment and Improvement and buying
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stuff will help me talk about stuff on
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everything that I do for you so yeah we
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have had quite a busy day down at the
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allotments today I've been having a good
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look around seeing how things are
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growing my roses are sprouting which I
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planted last month uh which I purchased
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uh from the supermarket uh they climbing
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roses they're all sprouting which is
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good sign and yeah uh I've been digging
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over some beds uh I'm like I said I'm
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nearly at the top of my plot now so I've
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nearly dug over every uh every bed so
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then we will
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be doing all the paths getting all the
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paths cleared and then we will be on to
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sorting out around my top area of my
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plot which I've never really done I
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started it last year but I've not
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completed it yet so I need to spend
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quite some time on
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that and then also I need to then start
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repainting all the beds getting all them
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painted paint all my
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fences and yeah get it looking nice
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ready for springtime I'm just waiting to
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make sure all the bad weather is
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finished before I do paint it all
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because it it even though it's wood
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paint it will wash off uh after bad
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weather and stuff like that so we want
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it looking good for spring and summer
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just before we start planting everything
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that's when I'll start putting it all in
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really so yeah we've got quite a lot to
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do um I've I've been checking all my
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bulbs all my bulbs are popping through
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um I planted absolutely loads uh at the
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end of last year uh every time I kept
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seeing them cheap I kept buying them uh
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to fill the areas up around my plot and
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they're all popping through pretty good
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now uh I just need to keep an eye on
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them because something's pinching them
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I'm blaming the squel uh but yeah
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something's pinching them so hopefully
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doesn't pinch too many and we still get
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some bulbs growing but I can't wait to
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see all the spring color down on the
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plot this year and I've also seen in our
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local supermarket some hydr engers uh
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what they're selling I think at4 each
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they're only small but they are growing
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and they look healthy and I've always
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wanted some hydr engers down on my plot
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because I know how good they look and
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how fantastic they grow and the color
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that they add to the plot as well so I'm
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looking at getting some hydranges on my
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plot as well to make it look even nicer
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and guaranteed color really and
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obviously it all goes depending on the
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soil quality of what color they come to
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uh obviously if it's red it's acid if
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it's blue it's alkaline soil uh that's
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how it tends to go but yeah I would love
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some hydr engers on my plot that's
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another plan for this year so maybe if
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they've still got any on Friday we will
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go and get some hydr engers for the plot
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uh which I will certainly share pictures
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of them with you all so yeah it's going
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to be a pretty much busy busy week down
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at the plot this week uh I've certainly
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got lots to get done I'm hoping to get
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down there pretty early tomorrow we're
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going to have a big day down there
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tomorrow because I want to finish off
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these beds and then start on my paths
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and hopefully repair my Poly tunel on
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Friday because I'll need to go out and
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get some poly tunnel tape and I've not
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got enough money until uh payday so I'll
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be waiting to get that poly tonnel tape
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and hopefully it won't have blown off by
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then uh but yeah we're going to be a
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busy week so keep watching everything on
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