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Garden Chores You Can Tackle Even in the Rain!
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Jan 1, 2025
🌱 Garden Chores You Can Tackle Even in the Rain! A little drizzle doesn’t have to stop your gardening groove! 🧤☔ Here are some productive (and satisfying) tasks you can still tick off, rain or shine — from organising the shed to cleaning tools and sowing undercover. What’s your favourite wet-weather garden job? #RainyDayGardening #GardenChores #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningInTheRain #UKGardener #PlotTasks
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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 Alum 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 we're halfway through the week
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already wow where is this week going
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well today's podcast episode we're going
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to talk talk about all the jobs which
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you can do in the rain yes there's
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plenty of jobs that you can do in the
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rain or in the snow if it's snowing we
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should have done this uh podcast for the
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weekend when it absolutely bounced it
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down but we're here with a podcast for
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you to give you some ideas and some
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inspirational things to do while you can
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do in the garden when it is absolutely
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chuing it down and during those win into
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months of cold weather horrible weather
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when you don't want to actually spend
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time in the allotment so what jobs can
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we do during the wet weather so we're
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going to talk about these and hopefully
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give you some ideas so first up is
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planning and
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organizing now I do talk about these a
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lot in some of my podcasts and one idea
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is to review your garden Journal if
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you've not started a garden journal have
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a look now on Amazon or on ET say
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different websites and see about buying
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a garden journal it's a good idea to
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make notes of when you start your seeds
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when you've harvested them where you've
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planted them Etc like that and then you
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can look back and see what worked well
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and what didn't work well like I take
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lots of photos obviously to share with
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you all on social media so I have a
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journaling photos as well as is writing
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things down and seeing how well things
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are
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do next up is plan your crop
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rotation
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now obviously you need to keep your
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crops rotated because growing things in
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the same place of year they won't grow
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as well because they take all the
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nutrition from the ground and you need
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to try them in a different place or if
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there's some disease still in that soil
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from that plant it will come back and
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get on that plan and not do as well that
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year as
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well next up is make a seed list decide
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what seeds you want to buy for the next
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growing season now this is one job that
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I need to do this week and start writing
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down the ideas of things I want to try
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and grow next year and if we're able to
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grow them because obviously I'm only
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working I'm 9 to5 this now and I only
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get weekends free to go down on the
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allotment so I to see about things that
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are feasible and that will grow with not
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as much um help from me and just things
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that will just grow by themselves and
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hopefully do well and still get produce
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on them so have a look at them seed
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lists and get W in them and yeah I'm
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going to think about starting some uh
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chilies and peppers off next month and
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possibly some orber jeans so stay tuned
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for them and stay tuned for the videos
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as I share what I'm getting up to and
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what I'm getting growing
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sketch your garden layout plan now plan
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your garden layout for next year plan
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what you want to grow where and what how
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you're going to grow it and if you're
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going to change anything with your beds
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or your paths or any new features that
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you want to add so make a sketchy your
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garden and decide where you're going to
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be planting
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stuff next up we're going to be talking
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about maintenance tasks that need a
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rainy day now
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now rain does help with things if you
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don't think that rain helps it does
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obviously it helps with watering but it
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can also help with jobs in the garden
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and one of the main jobs it can help
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with is obviously weeding weed pull out
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much more easier when the soil is damp
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use this opportunity to clear invasive
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plants especially
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bindweed my Nemesis but it keeps me busy
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keeps me occupied and keeps me fitted
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getting dug in if we didn't have no
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weeds we wouldn't have no work to do on
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the garden and we won't be keeping in
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good shape next up is planting
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perennials and shrubs the mo the moist
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soil reduces transplant shock for new
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plants so if you're wanting to plant
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perennials and shrubs it's ideal to do
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it when the ground is
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wet compost maintenance turn your
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compost pile or add materials to keep
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keep it balanced and aerated rain can he
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rain can help the pile
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moist keep moist so the rain can help
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keep the pile moist so rain helps your
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compost heaps so keep turning it and
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keep it rotting
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down so what jobs can we do undercover
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when it's raining so obviously I've got
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Greenhouse I've got poly tunnel so it's
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an ideal time to do jobs in the garden
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and that is one of the reasons why I try
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to get my allotment as cleared as fast
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as possible in October November so that
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I can do all the jobs in the greenhouse
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in the poly tunnel in the shed when it
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is nasty horrible weather which is
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usually around December time it's never
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usually nice in December it's usually
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rainy and horrible like in January
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February so yeah that is the perfect
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time to do all the jobs which need do it
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in the shed in the greenhouse and that
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can be obviously building new benches
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painting things up washing those plant
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pots yes you have to wash them don't
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take them home and put them in your
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dishwasher and get told off but yeah you
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have to wash your plant pots because
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there's diseases around there's bugs
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there's pests Etc give them a good clean
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and wash them with some nice soapy water
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and get them all clean and fresh for
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next
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year any tool maintenance clean your
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tools down sharpen blades oil any moving
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parts and organ I them in your shed hang
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them up make them look tidy and get them
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all ready for next
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year next up is potting bench projects
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so SE sew seeds in Trace or repot plants
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that need larger containers now
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obviously in my previous episodes I
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talked about all the plants that you can
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sew this month and we're going to be
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starting to sew our winter onions now so
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that is one job that you can actually
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get started now ready for next year get
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them growing and then get them planted
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out in the garden in March
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Time next up is jobs which you can do in
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the house while it's absolutely raining
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yes you can still do gardening jobs
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while you're in the house obviously not
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messy jobs because you'll get told off
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if you make a mess but there's certain
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jobs that you can do in the house and
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obviously you can care for your house
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plants if you're growing any house
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plants in your garden dust of leaves
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prune them and water them as needed I've
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got a house plant in my new house and
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I've not watered it yet I need to water
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it that reminds me uh but I'm hoping to
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get some more plants in my house because
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obviously more plants in the house makes
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a healthy you so I need to get some more
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plants for my house so if anybody's got
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any ideas of decent plants what I can
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grow in my house let me know start a
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herb garden plant herbs in pots to keep
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on your window soul for easy access and
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obviously growing herbs on windowell in
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the winter months they'll can continue
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growing because they'll get the light
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they'll get the warmth and yeah you can
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grow your herbs through the winter
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months in the
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house create your garden labels now we
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talked about this in my last podcast um
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my biggest failure is not making plant
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labels so why not get saving those milk
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cartons trim them down into strips and
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get making your garden labels ready for
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next year so yeah there's plenty of jobs
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that you can actually do in your garden
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in the winter period and things to keep
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you busy keep you occupied and I know a
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lot of people don't like going outside
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in the cold and the wet weather so use
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it as an opportunity to go in your shed
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or in your greenhouse and get them jobs
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done and hopefully get prepared ready
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for next year and hopefully have a
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successful year we are going to try and
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have the most successful year down at my
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allotment next year even though I'm only
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down there two days a week I'm going to
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try and prove to you all that you can
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actually do an allotment in two days and
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still get a fantastic crop from your
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Gardens so make sure you stay tuned for
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