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This video explains essential winter gardening jobs that help keep plants healthy and prepare the garden for the growing season. Learn practical tasks such as protecting plants from frost, tidying beds and checking soil condition.
The guide covers basic maintenance, caring for overwintering plants and organising growing areas to prevent problems later. These steps help gardens stay productive and make spring planting easier.
If you want to stay active in the garden during colder weather, this video provides practical winter gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and outdoor growing spaces.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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and growing I'm Ben your allotment guide
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben I hope you're all
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well and I hope you're all keeping busy
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and yeah it's finally the weekend the
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first first weekend of December so who's
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going in the allotment or who's getting
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ready for Christmas that is the question
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or in the garden should I say as well
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but yeah are you getting ready for
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Christmas are you out writing your list
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for Father Christmas or are you spending
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it in doors staying warm and dry or are
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you mad like me spending it in the
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alotment so yeah as always we're going
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to be giving you a Christmas joke of the
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day for those that don't see them online
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this is another place where you can
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listen to them so unlucky for you or
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lucky for you whichever way so today's
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Christmas joke is why did The Gardener
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plant mint at Christmas why did The
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Gardener plant mint at Christmas because
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he wanted a Minter
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Wonderland why did the garden at Plum me
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at Christmas because he wanted a Min
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Wonderland there you are that's the best
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you're going to get and there'll be
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plenty more to come all the way up to
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December so I hope you're enjoying these
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daily Christmas
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jokes so what are we talking about today
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well in yesterday's episode we talked
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all about the key tasks of getting you
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alotment prepared and ready for the year
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ahead I hope you found it useful and I
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hope it gave you some enthusiasm and
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encouragement into getting your Gardens
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and allotments done so what are we going
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to be doing at the allotment this
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weekend for us down at the allotment
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that is the question let me share with
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you what our plans are for our allotment
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and if it encourages you to do a bit in
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your garden or allotments that's what I
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want to hear from so yeah what are plans
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well I need to go out and get some more
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bird feed as they are rumaging
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throughout throughout all my bird feed
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eating loads which is a good sign it
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shows that I'm feeding the birds and
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encouraging them but obviously the
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squirrels are taking some they're eating
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it and I've seen a rat down at my
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alotment as well so they're eating it as
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well so I'm feeding all the wildlife
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down there and obviously I'm feeding the
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cat as well which we've got down at my
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allotment but yeah I'll be feeding
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filling up all my bird feeders and
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getting them ready for the winter
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because we have had a bit of cold
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weather but not a load so the ground
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isn't that much Frozen so birds can
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still get worms and stuff from out of
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the gardens but obviously looking after
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the birds especially when it's cold and
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they can't get anything out on the
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ground it keeps them going and obviously
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feeding them certain bird feed gives
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them energy as well throughout the
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winter months which is what they
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want the next main job down at the
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allotment this weekend well last weekend
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I only went down on Sunday because I was
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out celebrating Christmas parties but
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yeah last weekend what I did was I
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rearranged all my Loganberry Bush and
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tied it in a better position so it
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easier to get down around where my
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strawberry beds are and I also tied up
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all my new BlackBerry canes as well what
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have been growing this year because
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obviously the next year's blackberries
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will grow on the canes which grew this
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year and the same goes for Logan berries
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the Logan berries will grow on the new
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canes this year year so it's case is
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tying them up and supporting them and
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getting them all in place ready for the
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year ahead so I did that very delicately
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because I didn't want to break any of
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the canes or damage any of them and
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they're all tied to my fences and
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supports so they're all sorted so my
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main job this weekend is going to be
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sorting out around where my strawberry
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beds are and Tiding them all up and I'm
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going to be trimming back any of the old
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leaves what are on them what are dying
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off or any disease Le
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to stop them from like getting diseased
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and spreading throughout the winter
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months so I just give them a good trim
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over the winter and I'll obviously cut
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off any runners what are growing and
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plant them up into the ground and make
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sure they're well watered which
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obviously there will be at this time yet
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especially with the amount of rain that
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we've had recently uh so it's just case
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of keeping them watered into the ground
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to make sure that they take but yeah we
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planted about an extra 200 strawberry
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plants the other month of my allotment
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because last year I did get a good crop
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so I've replaced a lot of the plants
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I've filled tons of gaps in which were
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all over in my Pol uh black membrane so
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they're all spaced out equally so we
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planted absolutely loads of strawberries
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so I'm hoping for a fantastic crop next
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year because my crop this year was
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abysmal I wasn't happy with it uh either
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the plants didn't do very well or the
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birds ate them so we need to keep an eye
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out and possibly protect them better
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next year from any birds and squirrels
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from eating them next year so we're
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going to have to look into possibly
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making a little structure or some uh
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netting over them to stop anything from
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coming down and getting them so we're
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going to be Tiding all them up we're
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also going to be Tiding all the paths
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around my strawberry bed area so that
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it's easy to get round and get down the
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side of the bed so that I can reach over
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and sort all them out we're also going
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to be emptying my carrot bed what I
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planted I started off while we I seed
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all my carrots in this race planter in
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my greenhouse and they all started
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growing because they're high off the
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ground so the carrot fly won't get them
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and I thought oh I'm going to get some
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decent carrots this year I forgot to
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water them throughout the year didn't
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I I just put them in a corner and forgot
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about them and didn't water them so I'm
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not expecting miracles from these
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carrots but we're going to pull them all
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up and we're going to see what carrots
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we've got from them so make sure you
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stay tuned for that YouTube episode
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because you know me I'm very open and
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honest I'll tell you if I've done
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rubbish or I'll tell you if I've done
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absolutely fantastic I share the truth I
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don't hide from it uh not like some
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gardeners will just say well we grew
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these and probably bought them in the
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supermarket and stuck them in the
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ground but now we are open and honest
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with how well we do with our growing so
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we're going to be harvesting all
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them and then possibly on Sunday we're
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going to start with the renovation of my
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shed and I'm excited for this because
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I'm rubbish at DIY I've always admitted
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that I'm absolutely terrible it looks
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awful and I do a rubbish job but I enjoy
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doing it and it's good fun so we're
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going to be renovating the inside of my
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shed this year last like I said last
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year we spent the time on rebuilding all
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the
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outside sorting all the structure out
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and everything like that this year we're
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going to call concentrate on the inside
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of the shed because I've got into making
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my YouTube videos quite a lot now and I
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absolutely love doing it so I'm going to
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try and make a potting bench type thing
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where I can film I can show what I'm
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doing with a good backdrop to it so it
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looks professional somehow
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professional one day I'll be
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professional one day I'll be famous keep
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listening to these podcasts and maybe
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one day I will be but yeah I want to
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have a nice backdrop to it I want it to
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look fantastic and
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look like a proper little shed studio
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type thing so I want to improve in my
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shed and do that I also want to sort out
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all my shelving tidy it all up I'm going
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to paint all inside my shed make it all
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look fresh and brand new I've got wooden
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shelv in at the moment and it's
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fantastic they're all cut to pieces I
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can take them all off if I want to grow
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anything underneath them so that um I
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don't have to unscrew all the benches I
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can just take them off of the supports
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and take them out but what I'm going to
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do is I'm going to possibly paint them
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all and then I'm going to put some
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pooline over them I've got a load of
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pooline in my shed and I'm possibly
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going to put polyene over them so that
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when I'm watering my plants it won't
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give the wood chance of rotting if you
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get me it's going to protect it so that
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the water will just run off and and then
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the shed will grow uh not the shed will
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grow the shelves will be protected for
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years to comeing hopefully last plenty
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of years so I'm going to do all that and
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I need to sort out a lot of my plant
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pots and my um all my seed trays I need
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to get them all cleaned out and ready
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and just sweep up and tidy up and burn
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any old wood I need to start having
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bonfires that's one thing I've not
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started doing yet we need to start
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having some bonfires down there and
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getting rid of some of the old wood that
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we've got down there so hopefully I'll
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be starting to do the shed but uh I will
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definitely be filming plenty of videos
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down there in the shed showing you all
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the transformation of what I'm getting
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up to and you can follow along and see
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how well I get up to so if you don't
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follow my YouTube channel do give it a
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follow and then you'll be able to see
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how well my shed is actually coming
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on and another job one weekend once it's
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dry is probably to
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spray all my fruit trees that's one
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thing I want to do I want to spray them
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all and get them all pretty much I put
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like a winter wash on them and I'll also
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put some sticky bands around them as
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well to stop any insects from crawling
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up and trying to damage the trees over
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the summer periods so if you put them on
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over winter it'll stop any insects from
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hibernating in it and laying its eggs
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and stuff like that but yeah that one
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job I usually do every winter but
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there's still a lot of leaves on my
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cooking apple tree I'm guessing there'll
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be a load more left uh come off it now
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because it has been windy today and
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awful when I've been recording this
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episode so hopefully the leaves all all
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dropped off so I'll have to tidy all
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them leaves up as well and put them in
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my compost heap so that they start
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rotting down so yeah we've got a lot of
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jobs to do down at the allotment
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obviously I'm going to film a allotment
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tour I didn't uh put one out this week I
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did record it but I didn't put it out
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it's a bit late putting it out now it's
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bit pointless so I'm going to do an
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allotment tour next week we'll start
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doing all the videos again obviously you
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are getting the daily jokes and yeah
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we're going to get some more content
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delivered to you over on the allotment
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so I hope you're looking forward to all
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that I'm trying to get as much content
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out there as possible for you to watch
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and listen to these days and I hope
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you're all enjoying it I get a lot of
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good feedback about my podcasts so I
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hope that you enjoy all them so if
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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