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February Gardening Checklist | Seed Sowing & Allotment Jobs Recap
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Nov 13, 2024
📅 Have You Sown All Your February Seeds and Done All Your Gardening and Allotment Jobs This Month? February’s flying by — but have you ticked off everything on your seed-sowing and gardening to-do list? 🌿🧤 In this episode, I reflect on what I’ve managed to sow, plant, and prep during the month of February — and check in on the key jobs still to be done. It's a great way to reset, refocus, and make sure nothing slips through the cracks before March kicks in! What’s left on your February garden list? #FebruaryGardening #AllotmentJobs #SeedSowing #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #EndOfMonthTasks
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enjoy listening to it so I try and do
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them as regular as possible whenever
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I've got time to do
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them so we are now on the 28th of
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February can you believe it another
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month has gone and tomorrow will be my
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favorite day of the year which is
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Pancake Day yes who loves Pancake Day I
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certainly do and I will be having treal
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on my pancakes uh I Absol absolutely
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love them I can't be doing with this
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grave lock I have to have syrup on mine
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just oozing and making me feel sick by
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the end of the
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pancakes I think a lot of us do that
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they have two men out and then they
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regret it and then they think oh we'll
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not have another pancake until next year
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now but yeah I can't wait for pancake
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day tomorrow so yeah what are we going
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to be talking about today well we're
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going to be talking about have you got
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all the jobs done in the allotment and
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garden for February that needed doing
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and what have we achieved in February
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because we have been extremely busy at
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our alotment in February I really can't
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believe how much I have actually got
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done and like I keep on saying is that
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we have not had a bad winter at all this
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year it's been an absolutely fantastic
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winter and getting everything prepared
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and ready in time for the growing season
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has been brilliant and we are well ahead
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this year and hence the reason why I've
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been doing lots lots more down at the
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plot
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because I'm well ahead of time and soon
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I'll be able to start sewing all my
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seeds once I've got all them sewn then I
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can get back to doing more work in the
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garden and getting it all ready but
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sewing the seeds takes so much time and
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uh writing all the labels up sing a few
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seeds sprinkling them on covering them
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over getting them all in the shed
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getting them all watered getting them
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all SED and then we've got to pot them
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all on and grow them on a bit before the
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frosts come and then we've got to plant
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them all out I'm not putting anybody off
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all the gardening definitely not but it
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does take a lot of time and effort but
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it's all enjoyable
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stuff so this February I set myself the
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mission of getting all my plot dug over
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for all the beds dug over in February
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which I have completed I'm so pleased
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about that uh I've also dug over a new
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area where there's going to be three new
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beds this year and I'm looking forward
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to Growing even more on the plot this
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year and hopefully we will get some
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great results cuz we've got the time and
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the dedication that we can put in more
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dedication down at the plot to do this
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sort of work and get it all fixed and
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ready for the year ahead
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so I'm pleased that I'm encouraged to do
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it because some years I feel
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disheartened and I don't do well and I
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think oh I can't be bothered to go on
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another year but then I've got all my
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supporters and my followers and they all
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encourage me to carry on
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gardening so what you need to what we
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have mainly done is we've been preparing
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the ground ready for this year we have
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got some seeds planted this month um the
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ones that needed to be St started early
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but we've not got many seeds planted
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whatsoever so what seeds is it that you
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can plant in February and see if you've
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planted them and let me know so we're
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not going to go into too much detail
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about what seeds to plant in February
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because you can just listen to the
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episode which we posted at the beginning
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of the month if you want to listen in
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depth about what seeds can be sewn in
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February so the ones that you can SE
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this month in February is orene
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beetroot broad beans brussel sprouts
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cabbage carrots cauliflower celery
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garlic Jerusalem aroke leaks peas
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peppers and radish shalots spring onions
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and tomatoes and obviously you can start
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chitting your potatoes so a lot of those
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seeds you can actually start off in
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March so if you've not started them
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don't worry about it you can start them
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off in March there's still plenty of
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time but the main ones that you need to
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be looking at sewing now are if you've
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not already sewn them will be your orene
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your peppers your tomatoes because they
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take longer to grow and the quicker you
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can start them off the more fruit time
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you'll have on them and they'll keep
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producing more fruit until the Colder
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Weather so it's good time to get all
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that all them seats done if you've not
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already got got them
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soon so what fruit can you plant in
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February and this is what I've been
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doing I've been planting so much fruit
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this month because it is the time to be
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planting fruit the weather's perfect the
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ground is wet and they will take root
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and start growing ready for summer so
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this month you can start currants
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blackberries fruit trees gooses
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raspberries rhubarb and strawberry
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plants so yeah I've got I've planted
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some blueberries this month I've planted
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some raspberries I've planted some
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strawberries and yeah I'm looking
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forward to getting some great crops from
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my plants this year I've certainly put
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in a lot of effort to get some more
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fruit this year and hopefully we'll get
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some fantastic results and yeah I'm
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looking forward to hopefully getting
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some black Brees off of our formless BR
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be plants but we'll see hopefully
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they'll grow they might take a couple of
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years to get going but fingers crossed
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they will get going so what flowers can
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you sew in February bonias
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chrysanthemums daas geraniums Liles
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liilia roses and sweet peas so yes again
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we've been planting roses this month we
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haven't started our geraniums yet um
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I've also purchased some lily bulbs well
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I'll talk about that in another episode
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so stay tuned for that so yeah we're
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going to be starting loads of flowers
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off ourself in March so we need to go
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through all our flower seeds I purchased
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loads and I talked about that in a
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previous episode if you've not listened
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to that I've purchased loads of flowers
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this month so obviously I've grown got
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my plants I bought my plants for my plot
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but I've start got loads of seeds to
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plant on the plot and it's going to be a
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cracking year down at my plot I'm really
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looking forward to sharing photos with
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it if it doesn't turn out well I'll I'll
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definitely cry and be disappointed but
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if if it all goes to plan it will look
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great and fingers crossed it does go to
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plan this year it just depends if
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anything else comes up and we don't
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manage to do
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it so what jobs did you need to do in
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February make sure you get all these
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jobs done if you've not got them already
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done get them done as fast as possible
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so asparagus you can mulch that this
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month get some Mulch on it and get it
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woken up ready for starting to grow in
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the
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springtime potatoes if you've not got
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your potatoes yet go out and get them
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because they are selling out fast I saw
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some in Wilkinson's the other day so
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places have still got them in so go and
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get yourself some potatoes and start
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chitting them if you are chitting them
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if not get them ready for planting out
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pretty soon I'll be planting mine out on
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Good Friday I always plant my potatoes
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on Good Friday to do with the moon I go
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by the old wife's tail but yeah
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definitely so your fruit trees apple
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trees pear
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trees and yeah they can be pruned this
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month if you've not pruned them get them
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pruned get them tidied up but don't
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prune any fruits that have got a stone
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in them like your plums your peaches
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your cherries they don't want to be
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pruned until the end of spring leading
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into summer as pruning them now can
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affect the fruit
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and you really don't want to affect the
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fru in on them I definitely don't want
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to affect the fru in on my plum tree uh
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my best best fruit tree on the plot and
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I absolutely have fantastic crops on
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it black Curren if you've not pruned
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them back from last year get them pruned
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back same goes for all bushers
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gooseberries and red currents if you've
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not pruned them give them the pruning
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that they need tidy them up get them so
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that they've got some vent ation around
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them so that they can breathe once all
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the leaves grew and yeah get them
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mulched get them get them all ver for
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growing this year the effort that you
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put into it they will provide the best
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fruit coming back from them and if
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you've not pruned your
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raspberries Autumn raspberries prune
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them to the ground summer raspberries
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prune the ones to the ground which had
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the fruit on last year the New Growth
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last year is the ones that will have the
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fruit on the this year I must have gone
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over raspberry so many times but I hope
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that you all get get
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it so what do you need to do in the
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flower garden if you've not already done
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it clamus prune your summer clamus this
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month fuches these can be pruned back to
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two buds on each shoot this month I do
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need some fuches on my plot that is
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something I do need to buy so we need to
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look out for futures that's the thing
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that I've not gotten it's on my list of
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things to get I've obviously got my hyr
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engers now so I'm pleased I've got them
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but I've not got fuches he I've
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definitely got heav on my plot so it
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says now is the time to prune these back
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it's funny that one because mine are
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flowering they look good and I don't
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really want to touch them so I might
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leave mine for a bit longer but it does
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say to prune them back now but yeah
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we'll keep an eye on them and we'll see
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how we get on with them panes keep
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deadheading them while every you're
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deadheaded them the more flowers will
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keep coming on them and keep them going
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keep them lasting through this
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Springtime the more you dead head them
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and look after them the more the will
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flow off here and look great in the
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garden pansies are something that really
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do brighten up the garden during the
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winter
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time so yeah we have had a busy February
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we've got absolutely loads done to say
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we've been battered and bruised by all
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the storms we've had
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we've certainly been productive down our
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allotment and I'm looking forward to
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being even more productive in March
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especially we're starting to se the seat
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at I'll probably be starting midm March
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end of March we s my seeds so make sure
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you stay tuned for that because we'll be
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talking all about it throughout March so
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yeah tomorrow's episode will be talking
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about all the jobs that you need to do
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in your garden and allotment in March uh
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expect it to be longer because as months
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go on there's more and more to be
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getting done with and then Wednesday's
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episode I'll be talking about all the
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seeds that you need to start off in
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March and again that will probably being
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a longer one because there's more and
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more that can be sewn in March so if
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