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This video explains how much time is typically needed to maintain a productive garden and what affects the workload. I discuss seasonal differences, routine tasks, and ways to organise jobs efficiently. It is helpful for beginners wanting realistic expectations and practical advice before starting gardening.
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how much time does an aotment take a
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great question welcome to Gardening with
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Ben and welcome to this series of
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episodes where we're talking about
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getting started with an aotment and how
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to get started and where to get started
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so if you've not checked out the
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previous videos go and check them out
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cuz we're posting lots of these videos
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to give you tips and advice on getting
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started with an aotment so how much time
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does an aotment take that is a very good
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question which is hard to answer to be
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honest because I class an aotment as a
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full-time job you don't realize how much
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time and effort does need to go into
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looking after an a lotment if you've got
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a big one certainly does take a lot of
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time and I do this on my own and I spend
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all weekends down here and I don't feel
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that's enough time to be honest half of
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the time as you could do with coming
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every single night because during the
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winter months yeah it's a good time to
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start clearing down your plots tidying
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them all up getting them all ready you
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haven't got any weeds growing you've not
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got no watering of plants to do but you
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can manage through the winter months but
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in the summer months when all the weeds
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start popping through trying to keep
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them down is a nightmare and going
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around watering every single day when
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it's in hot weather is another chore
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which I don't like i absolutely hate
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watering so it does take a lot of time
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to look after an aotment obviously you
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see online people posting pictures of an
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amazing a lotment and all the produce
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what they've produced but you don't
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realize how much time goes into
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producing it and like I said it is like
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a full-time job if I could spend all the
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time down here that I would it would
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probably still look a
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mess cuz it's that much of a hard job to
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do
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but I'd recommend at least spending half
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an hour each day down at the a lotments
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try and keep on top of it and then
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spending a few hours down at the weekend
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as well to get any hard work done that
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needs to be done and trying to find time
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as well around your busy social life or
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around work can be difficult as well
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when you're looking after an aotment and
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that's one of the reasons why I haven't
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got chickens as well because I wouldn't
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have the time to be able to come down
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and look after them every single day and
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as well as my a lotment it would take a
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lot of time up so if you've got somebody
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that can help you do your a lotment as
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well that is a bonus but to be honest I
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prefer being down here on the a lotment
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on my own spending time down here
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enjoying the birds the wildlife looking
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around seeing the hard work that I've
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done and then it makes me proud that
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I've done it all by myself as well and
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the outcome that I've got so does an
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aotment take a long time to look after
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yes it does and you have to really think
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about if you've got the time to do an a
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lotment and the size of the plot that
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you actually want to take on to get it
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started so that's been today's episode i
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hope you've enjoyed it make sure you do
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check out all the other episodes so
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until next time everyone remember keep
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smiling keep shining and keep gardening
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with Ben everyone
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