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This video explains useful winter gardening jobs you can do during cold weather to keep your garden healthy and prepared for spring. Learn simple maintenance tasks including plant protection, tidying beds, checking structures and caring for overwintering plants.
The guide covers working safely in low temperatures, protecting soil and preventing damage from frost and wet conditions. These jobs help gardens stay organised while supporting plant health through winter.
If you want to stay productive in the garden during colder months, 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 brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well it's currently the weekend
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it's Sunday
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morning and we have been down to the
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allotment yesterday today did I do any
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work yes I did I did absolutely loads
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down there I could just hear the ice
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cream van in the
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background it's bit cold for ice cream
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but we have been so busy down there at
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the alotment today it was an absolute
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gorgeous day today cold very cold but it
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was sunny day and we got absolutely
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loads of stuff done down there so what
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did we get done today well we fed Mrs
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pussycat she at the allotment waiting
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for me as soon as I got there so I went
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and fed her she's looking well looking
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healthy and yeah she Pops to see me
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every time we go down to the
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allotment and then we fed the birds we
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filled the bird feeders up that is we've
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done the main things feeding all the
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wildlife down there it costs a fortune
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looking after all the
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wildlife but with them all and they will
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be happy that there's some food around
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because it was Frosty this morning it
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was icy so the birds will be struggling
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to get the bird the worms out of the
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ground so hopefully we can keep them
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coming down to the alotment eating all
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the insects and eating all the bird seed
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as well so we did that and then one of
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my main jobs what I wanted to get done
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today was sort out around my strawberry
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beds my strawberry beds are the pride
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and joy of my allotment if I could have
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strawberries all over my plot I
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certainly would do that is one thing
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that I would get done so we've been
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tidying up around all the paths sorting
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out some of the old Planters what we're
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around clearing all that sweeping all
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the paths down we can actually get round
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the strawberry beds now which is a lot
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better we don't have to clamber over any
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pots
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and um plant pots and anything like that
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we've got it all tidy so that is one job
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done and I've also been Tiding back well
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tying back my blackbery canes because
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they've grown absolutely wild this year
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all over the place and yeah I grow them
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down the side of my plot which is
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perfect they can Trail along my fence
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and everything like that but I have to
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tie them back to the fence because their
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little Runners shoot out everywhere so
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we've been tying all them back and
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sorting them all out and making sure
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that they on M at a plot because I
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always said to my neighbor if they're on
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your side help yourself to them but yeah
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I'm tiing them to my to my side of the
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plot and making sure that they grow
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Massad CU they're absolutely gorgeous
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they're for forless blackberries but
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they get absolutely loads of
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blackberries on them and they're massive
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they're a lot bigger than the standard
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Blackberry so I'm really happy with this
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formless variety that I've purchased and
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the varieties is that I purchased I
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think they were from Morrison's Garden
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Center that I originally bought these
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from and they're doing absolutely
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fantastic so we've got all them growing
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down the side of the plot and they do
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brilliant and obviously we're being
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trimming back any old Blackberry canes
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off them uh where the signs of old
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blackberri is what we on them from like
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the little uh shoots what coming off
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them we've snipped all them back tided
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them all up and they're all look looking
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pretty
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good we've also been doing a bit of
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tidying up we've always got tidying up
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down to down at the alotment to do um
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I'm a messy Gardener I've always
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admitted that but yeah we've been
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tidying up and clearing away and one
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thing I've not had to do today I've not
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had to do any weeding because I've
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weeded all my beds now they all are
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pretty empty and they're all just sat
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there waiting to be planted ready for
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next year and hopefully we're going to
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get a lot of stuff
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growing and if you listened to
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yesterday's podcast I were talking about
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all the poppy seeds that I've got grow
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uh what I purchased what I'm going to
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try for next year I'm also going to try
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different varieties of
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geraniums and I'm also going to try
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different varieties of sweet peas
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possibly and possibly sunflowers as well
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so hopefully we're going to attract lots
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and lots of bees to the alotment and
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hopefully a lot of fragrance as well
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because the sweet peas will smell
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absolutely amazing we've obviously got
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some sweet peas growing we've heard all
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them last year uh well this year around
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October time and they're still alive in
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the shed I had a check on them today
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they're looking healthy they're still
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alive the Cold's not killed them because
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like I say my Greenhouse is isn't heated
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so I'm fingers Crossing that they stay
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alive ready for next year we've started
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them off early because they say that it
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makes them stronger and we've trimmed
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them back so that they Bush out the
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flowers might not possibly as be as big
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but they'll get more flowers on them so
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hopefully this works as I've not grown
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them from this time of the year before
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usually I plant them around March April
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time and sometimes this struggle when
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you plant them out uh they're not hard
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hardened off enough and they seem
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struggling a lot die and stuff like that
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so I'm starting them off now ready for
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next year to hopefully have a successful
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Sweet Pea
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Harvest and if all these sweet peas grw
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it's going to look absolutely phenomenal
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on my alotment I've got absolutely LS in
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my shed growing my geraniums are still
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alive in the shed as well they're doing
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well we dug all them up out of the
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ground and we put them in the greenhouse
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to keep them alive in the greenhouse
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over the winter because that's what you
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can do if you've got geranium dig them
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up move them into a greenhouse move them
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out of the cold and you may be able to
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keep them alive throughout winter and
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then plant them out again next spring
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time once the frost is gone cuz if you
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leave them out
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the frost will kill them and yeah you'll
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have to buy new ones next year so we're
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just trying to save a bit of money and
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keep them keep them
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alive but like I said I'm hopefully
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going to grow some geraniums myself next
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year I've grown them from seed before
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and they did absolutely fantastic we had
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amazing results from them first time I
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ever grew them and we managed to grow
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some from seed and they took a bit
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longer to get to flowering stage but
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they did flow eventually and they looked
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absolutely amazing so if you want to
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save some money try growing some
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drainings from seed yourself next year
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obviously if you start them off early if
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you've got a warm Greenhouse you will
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get flowers on them pretty earlier than
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like I did towards middle end of summer
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so hopefully we'll have lots of flowers
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next year but yeah I'm just getting
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excited now for stuff to grow and I may
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look at growing some different FS to
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cucumbers as well we have such a good
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success of growing a cucumbers Outdoors
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last year my market more variety I
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planted a Mt outside I got loads of
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spare plants and I thought I'm not
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wasting money
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on spending it on uh loads of compost
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put them in pots in my poly tunnel where
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they'll just dry out and die I'll just
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plant them outside and see how they go
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and to say it wasn't a very nice summer
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they did absolutely amazing it must have
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been a perfect season for them because
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we got absolutely loads of them so I
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might look at different varieties to
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grow next year there's like a lemon
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variety and an apple variety as well so
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I might look at trying to grow them
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seeing how we get on with them but yeah
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I'm hoping for a great big Harvest next
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year like I said I'm working 9 to5
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Monday to Friday now so I don't get
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chance to go down in the week like I
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used to I used to work four on four off
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so I used to spend four days down at the
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allotment at a time so hope hopefully we
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can still get a good harvest on two days
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a week like I don't live too far away
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from a plot so in the summer mons I will
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pop down at night down to the alotment
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just to check on it give it a water and
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see how it is so hopefully I'm I'm
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thinking that we're going to do well
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next year we've got a good start on it
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all my plots cleared it's all tiay we're
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going to now start working on inside our
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shed pretty soon getting all that ready
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ready for next year and yeah I've got a
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lot of faith in how well we're going to
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do next year and I hope you do too and
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like I always say start off early get
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your garden ready get your allotment
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ready for the season ahead like I could
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just sit back now and relax
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until March time because I don't need to
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particularly do much down there but I'm
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finding little jobs to do and getting it
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all ready cuz I cracked on after after
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the season and I cleared it all I got it
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all tided I dug up all the old plants
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cleared them all
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away and got it all already so I don't
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have to do anything throughout the
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winter period if I don't want to but I'm
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going to keep on going down because I
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need to keep creating content for all
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you guys and I need something to talk
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about while I'm down at the
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alotment so yeah I hope that you all
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enjoying these podcasts they have been
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coming on every single day and if you
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got any friends that like gardening or a
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lotman in make sure you share them the
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link to my podcast because we're getting
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more and more people listen every single
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day um I want it to be really successful
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next year I want it to really take off
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like we're getting over a hundred people
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listen every single day at the moment
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which is phenomenal for person that's
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not a professional Gardener I just talk
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about my what I'm getting up between my
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garden and sharing my tips and advice
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with you
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all and I think that's absolutely
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brilliant but we see if we can get 200
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people listening a day that' be
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phenomenal and yeah everything I made
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from these podcasts goes back towards my
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allotment and you know how much seeds
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cost some cost quite a bit of money so
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it all goes towards seeds and compost
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and keeping you all entertained and
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enjoying this
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podcast so until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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today so make sure you stay tuned for
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that until next time everyone I'll see
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you all
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later thank you for joining me on this
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