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This video explains how to attract wildlife to a garden or allotment using simple practical steps. It shows how creating a balanced environment supports birds, insects and beneficial creatures.
The guide covers providing water, planting suitable flowers, creating shelter and avoiding harmful practices. It also explains how wildlife helps pollination and natural pest control.
If you want a more natural and lively garden, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice on building a wildlife-friendly habitat.
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hey everybody and welcome to gardening
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with Ben in today's episode we're going
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to talk about creating that Wildlife
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friendly Garden down at the alotment or
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New Garden so sit back relax and enjoy
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today's episode everyone
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[Music]
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so welcome to today's episode of
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gardening with Ben we're going to talk
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about creating that Wildlife Garden down
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at your alotment or in your garden watch
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my last episode go and watch that
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because we talk about how to start out
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on an allotment so this is a bit of a
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continuation of that really so I love to
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attract the wildlife down to my
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allotment I find it absolutely amazing
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seeing all the different animals and
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birds coming down to the alotment and
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enjoying it and the biggest thing that
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I've done re in recent years is I'm
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attracting the birds to my allotment and
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to the Garden obviously it comes with
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failures because it'll attract the rats
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but it doesn't really matter down at my
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allotment I don't really mind that as
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they're not causing any harm down here
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apart from eating a few bulbs and stuff
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like that but yeah I don't really have
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an issue with that so I have lots of
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bird feeders down at my allotment if
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you've not seen my videos with the bird
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feeders I've got absolutely loads down
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here and I'm starting to attract lots of
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varieties of birds down here birds that
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I don't even know the variety of I have
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to ask my followers what birds they are
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but we've got different bird seeders
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feed us up with sunflower seeds mixed
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seeds we've got peanuts up we put
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raisins out for the black birds and
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sultan us and we put sew blocks up as
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well all different varieties of bird
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feeders down here at the alotment and
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they absolutely love it and obviously
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yes it does attract the squirels which I
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don't mind the squirels I enjoy seeing
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the squirels down here yes they can be
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annoying and disruptive and cause Havoc
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but I don't mind it yes they do dig up
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the spring bulbs but if you put chicken
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wire down and stuff like that until they
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start growing they're pretty safe and
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once they get growing they leave them
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alone so we attract lots of birds down
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here the other Wildlife that you can
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attract to your allotment and garden
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which is the best Wildlife that you can
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get are frogs because the frogs will go
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around and eat all the Slugs up they
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will do the hard work for you and clear
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them all down at the alotment so having
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a pond Sometimes some allotments don't
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allow you to have ponds some don't mind
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it but if it's shallow Pond it should be
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okay so have a pond down into alotment
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have it with water in it obviously have
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some pond plants in it and try and get
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some frog born to put in your pond and
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hopefully attract the frogs through the
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alotment obviously if you can't get any
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frogs Bor you can it'll obviously
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attract the frogs if it's a nice Pond
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and it's welcoming you will get frogs
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down there because there'll be frogs all
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around and they'll soon find it and make
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it their home obviously I've had some
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bricks and stuff around it for shelter
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and to keep them warm and keep them
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moist they will love it and they will go
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around eating all the Slugs up and save
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you a lot of hassle in trying to get rid
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of the Slugs at the allotment so the
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more frogs you have the less slugs
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you'll have a bit like that the same
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goes for hedgehogs if you can get a
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hedgehog house in your alotment or in
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your garden or find out ways of
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attracting Hogs what they like create a
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little sheltered spot for them and the
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Hedgehogs will go around at night time
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eating all the Slugs up and doing a lot
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of work for you and obviously slugs do
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come out at night time mainly rather
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than the daytime and that's when the
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Hedgehogs will go around eating them all
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up and clearing your plot of all the
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Slugs there's obviously other Wildlife
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as well that you can attract you a lot
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and you can attract badges you can
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attract foxes but there's obviously
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different ways and methods of doing that
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which I'm sure you will be able to find
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out obviously certain allotments allow
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you to have chickens on them as well
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having chickens down at the alotment
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that's a good thing as well because if
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you let them roam while you're down
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there on the alotment obviously that's
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to do with different flws sometimes
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you're not allowed to let them Roam if
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there's uh bird flu policies and stuff
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like that but they will go around
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pecking around eating all the little
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weeds that are coming up and they'll eat
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the Slugs as well so attracting chickens
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to your alotment and housing them down
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there obviously it's a lot of hard work
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because you have to come down and feed
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them and clean them and look after them
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but if you allowed chickens and you've
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got the time to do it have them on your
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plot and you will obviously get X as
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well fingers crossed and yeah attracting
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the wildlife to the allotment is
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absolutely fantastic obviously the other
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Wildlife that you can attract are the
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bees now this is a big thing for me down
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at the alotment attracting the bees to
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my alotment I have absolutely loads of
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spring WBS I didn't used to have flowers
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on my plot because I thought what's the
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point in growing flowers I'll just grow
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the veg and the food but without the
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bees you won't get the veg or the fruit
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because the bees obviously pollinate
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your fruit trees or pollinate your
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vegetables like your cetes your
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cucumbers your Tomatoes Etc so the more
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flowers you have down at your alotment
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the more bees you will get coming down
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and helping the pollination and doing
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the hard work in creating the fruit and
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the vegetables down at the
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allotment and the reason why I have so
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many spring bulbs is because the bees
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wake up from hibernation in springtime
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and they will go they'll need food to
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get them started for the year ahead so
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they'll go around the spring bulbs
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spring flowers and if they come to your
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plot and see that you've got all these
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flowers they'll stay around and they'll
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keep coming to your alotment so keeping
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them flowers going throughout the whole
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year finding different flowers what the
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bees like they will come back and help
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pollinate the garden always obviously
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butterflies I love to see butterflies
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down at the alotment and obviously they
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help as well with pollination but they
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do come in the bad ways with caterpillar
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and caterpillars your cabbages and your
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cauliflowers and your brassas but if you
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keep on top of of it and you have
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butterfly netting you can cover them
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over your cabbages and your brassas and
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you can protect them but yeah I
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absolutely love to see butterflies down
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at the alotment and there doesn't seem
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to be many butterflies around these days
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and they're absolutely gorgeous to see
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so attracting the wildlife to The
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alotment Works in the favors as well as
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like ladyb birds as well they'll eat
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different certain uh insects so all
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Wildlife is good good as well so
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attracting it to your plot is key to
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your allotment so have a look around see
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how you can attract the wildlife GE
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alotment and if you do follow certain
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stuff like I do with birds with bees let
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me know in the comments what you do
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because the more Wildlife that I
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contract to my plot I will be happy with
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and I just love to see it down here and
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I've now got Wildlife cameras up so
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hopefully we'll capture some special
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things down here at the allotment and
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and hopefully no bad things but
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hopefully see lots of wildli down here
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at the lman so let me know what you get
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down in your garden and alotment I would
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love to hear what you get in your
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Gardens so if you don't follow me on the
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social media follow me on Instagram
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follow me on Facebook I share lots of
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photos on a regular basis and I've also
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got a podcast where I share tips and
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advice on all podcast platforms Spotify
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Apple podcast all over the place you can
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even ask Alexa to play guys ging with
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bed so until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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gardening with bed everyone
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