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Essential December Saturday Jobs for Your Allotment and Garden
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Jan 1, 2025
🧤 Essential December Saturday Jobs for Your Allotment and Garden! Cold mornings, muddy boots, and a whole lot of satisfaction! ❄️🌱 Here are the key jobs to tackle this Saturday — from clearing beds and mulching to checking winter crops and prepping for the year ahead. What’s on your weekend to-do list? #DecemberGardening #AllotmentLife #WinterGardenJobs #GrowYourOwn #UKGardener #SaturdayOnThePlot #GardenTasks
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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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