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How do I prepare my aotment in September
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for the autumn winter period? That is a
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very good question. Years ago, I used to
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stop doing my a lotment come September
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when everything had finished, just let
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it all die back, and then I'd start
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again in January, February time, and
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then I've been rushing to try and get it
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all ready for the year ahead. And since
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I've started doing social media, I've
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stopped doing that. I continue
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throughout the winter period as the
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winter period is a crucial month for
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getting the plot tidied and ready. I use
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it as a month of doing all my DIY work.
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I usually like to do up a little area in
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my plot. This year I'm doing up all my
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entrance of my plot, making that all
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nice and tidy. And yeah, it's case
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getting all the weeds out, getting all
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the bandweed roots out. You'll never get
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rid of all the bandwidth. keep trying,
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but I'll never get to rid of them all.
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But yeah, it's case doing that. Tying up
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fruit which is growing like your
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blackberries and your raspberries, all
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the new canes, what I sending out. Tidy
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all them up. Paint any beds up. Also
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adding nutrition to the ground with
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fertilizer with compost. People grow
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green manure on the plot, which is a
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plant which you grow and then you dig
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into the soil and it adds nutrients into
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the soil. So there's plenty of stuff
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that you can be doing as your a lotment
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dies off. And the best thing about doing
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it in the September months and October
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is that you're clearing your plot of all
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the old plants which can sometimes
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harbor all the diseases and then you'll
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get the diseases back next year. So
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clearing all the old foilage away and
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can help stop spread diseases down at
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the plot. So it's a good thing to keep
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on top of and get it all ready. And
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usually the best way to do it is do it
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in small little periods. Write yourself
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a list of little items that you want to
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get done down at the plot. Little tasks,
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little jobs. I always have a notepad
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with a checklist on it of what jobs I
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want to get done each time I come down
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and I tick them off and then I know that
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I've achieved what I wanted to get done
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down at the plot. There's always an
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endless list of things to do. Never an
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easy job in a lotments. Everybody thinks
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it's easy from photos that they see.
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It's not easy job. It's a full-time job
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in itself looking after an aotment. But
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there's so much to get done down at the
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plot. So, make sure you write that list.
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Make sure you continue throughout the
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winter period down at the a lotment.
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Yes, it is a lot colder and sometimes it
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can be hard the ground from the frost
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and everything like that, but there's
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always jobs to be done and it's a great
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month obviously to be clearing out your
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poly tunnel, cleaning out your
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greenhouse, clean them all down, tidy
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them all up ready for the sewing season
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in March time when I sew all my seeds
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and get them all ready for growing. And
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a lot of people wash the pots out as
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well because they can harbor diseases.
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So, getting everything all ready for the
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spring season ahead because when it gets
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to springtime and you're sewing all your
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seeds, it's a busy busy job. Sewing all
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the seeds, pricking them all out,
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keeping them all watered. There's lots
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to be done. So, it's good to keep on top
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of them jobs and get them all done
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throughout the winter period. So, I hope
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