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This video explains how to repair storm damage in the garden and help plants recover after severe weather.
The guide covers supporting damaged plants, pruning correctly, improving drainage, protecting exposed roots and preventing further problems. It also includes practical steps to strengthen plants and prepare for future storms.
Quick action after bad weather helps reduce plant loss and encourages healthy regrowth.
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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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here as well so it all goes back into
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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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