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hey everyone and welcome to gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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talk about making your garden allotments
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Wild Life friendly what can you do to
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make them Wild Life friendly
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well down here on the alotment obviously
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I have my bird feeders which I'm feeding
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the birds all through the winter months
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I don't tend to feed them through the uh
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summer months and stuff like that
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because there's lots of berries and
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everything growing down here so they
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have plenty of food to keep them going
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but I'll keep feeding them all the way
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up to like April May time when there's
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not much around for them to eat and
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obviously I've got my bird houses where
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I have blue tis in them we've clean them
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out if you've got bird houses clean them
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out during the winter months ready for
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spring ready for when they start looking
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somewhere to nest because they won't
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move into the birdhouse if there's any
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signs of life in there from previously
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uh so you've got to clean them out every
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single year and since I've started doing
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that we have been getting bluetits in my
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bird houses every year uh which has been
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absolutely fantastic they've been laying
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their eggs and the little blue tis being
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fledging from it it's been absolutely
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fantastic to see see the parents just
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flying in and out all the time in and
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out and bringing little uh books back
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from twet and everything like that it's
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absolutely brilliant to see obviously
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you can have a pond as well which uh
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will attract the frogs and yeah I want
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to get more frogs down here because
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obviously they go around at night eating
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all the slgs up eating all the stales up
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and the less slugs and snails the better
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so the more folks you get at your plot
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eating stuff it's absolutely tons better
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so if you're able to have a pond in your
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alotment or in your garden have one and
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encourage the frogs and Wildlife to come
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to that so let's have a look at some of
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the stuff what I've got down at my
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alotment so these are my two bird houses
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we had birds in both of them last year
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they absolutely loved
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them the first time put the bird houses
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up literally the blue tis moved in
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within 2 days it absolutely fantastic to
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see I couldn't believe it so I've
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obviously placed them in a good position
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for them to find them and obviously I
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have my bird feeders nearby so that
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encourages the birds to come down as
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well and then they'll see the houses to
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stay in so these have got seed in these
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ones which a lot of smaller birds in
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Jo and then we've got that bird feeder
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as well we've got that little thing
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around it to stop the squirrels from
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climbing up and eating them all but
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they're managing to get on it somehow
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and have stuff so we've got to keep an
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eye on Mr squirrel and hopefully feed
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them we've got the sew as well the sew
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feeder which they love that because it
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gives them fat and energy throughout the
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winter months and we've also got a
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wildlife cam up as well to hopefully
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capture any Wildlife that we do see
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coming down here on the alot
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which will be amazing to
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see you can also get these little
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ladybug houses where they'll go in the
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holes nest in them and hibernate over
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winter months so we've got some little
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ladybird houses down here to help the
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ladybugs we obviously help the bees as
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well down here on the o and the way that
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we help the bees is we plant loads of
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spring bulbs because of the first things
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that they have around when they wake up
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from iation to get the pollen and the
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next F to give them the energy for the
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year ahead and obviously we'll grow lots
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of different flowers as well down here
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but one of my main things for next year
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is I'm possibly going to look at how to
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help the butterflies we want to get more
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butterflies down here on the alotment
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and obviously they'll be coming less and
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less butterflies so we're going to look
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at methods of attracting butterflies and
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encouraging them to come down onto my
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allotment so if anybody's got any tips
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about getting butter flies onto the
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alment and how to help them let me know
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in the comments I'm always up to
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learning obviously there's like Bud Lea
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which butterflies absolutely love but
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yeah I'm going to look at different
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methods of attracting butterflies to the
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alotment and what can attract them so
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let me know in the comments if you've
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got much Wildlife going off in your
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alotment or garden I'm always up for
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