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This video shares practical gardening lessons and explains common mistakes that affect plant growth and harvests.
It covers planning issues, timing problems, plant care errors, soil management and simple adjustments that improve results. You’ll also learn how small changes in routine and preparation can make gardening easier and more productive.
Understanding what works and what doesn’t helps gardeners avoid problems and achieve healthier plants.
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welcome to gardening with Ben your go-to
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podcast for all things green and growing
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in
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2025 whether you are a seasoned Gardener
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a budding Enthusiast or just curious
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about cultivating your own slice of
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nature you're in the right place join me
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Ben as we explore practical tips
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inspiring stories and the latest trends
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in gardening to make your outdoor space
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Bloom with life from allotment
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Adventures to Wild life friendly
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gardening I'm here to help you grow your
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passion and reap the rewards so grab
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your gloves roll up your sleeves and
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let's get started on this year's
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gardening
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Journey hey everybody and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben well happy Friday
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it is finally Friday and it seems funny
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me saying this because I'm recording it
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on
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Sunday but happy Friday everybody and I
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hope that you're all looking forward to
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the weekend well it's the last day of
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January finally it's the end of the
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month January is the month that keeps on
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giving it seems to last forever and ever
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and I know obviously everybody has uh
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that problem with getting paid early
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before Christmas which is nice but then
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you've got to Make It Last Forever
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throughout January but it's finally the
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end of the month and hopefully we will
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be turning a corner soon and heading
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towards Springtime which will soon be
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upon us in
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March so yeah what have we accomplished
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in January this is where we talk about
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our good things and our bad things of
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the month well have we done a lot down
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at the allotment yes we have and no we
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haven't we feel like we've done a lot
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but we haven't done loads to be honest
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but we have uh H make up your mind Ben
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have you how haven't
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you but yeah we have had a good month
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down in January obviously we've had the
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snow which put off us for a few times
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but we have managed to get lots done and
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in January we worked on Tiding all my
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shed up and sorting out some shelving in
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it and sorting my pots out getting all
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those sorted and really giving it a good
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tidy up and clearing it all ready for
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the month ahead because come March Time
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my Greenhouse will be absolutely full to
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busting with seeds what we have sewn
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because that's when I se all my seats in
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March
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time obviously we'll be talking about
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what seat you can goow in February
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tomorrow but I don't do that I tend to
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wait till March time because it's still
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quite cold where we are and I
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obviously want it to be warmer in my
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Greenhouse it's not a heated Greenhouse
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so we need to wait for the warmer
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weather for to germinate the
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seeds so we've done that we've also done
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a lot of tidying up in my poly tunnel as
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I've not used my polyol much for the
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last couple of years but this year we
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are bringing it back into action yes we
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are bringing the poly tunel back into
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full potential and getting it used we've
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stopped growing our tomatoes in the
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polyon now we grow those
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Outdoors as they seem to do better and
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you don't have to water them as often
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uh because the ground stays damper than
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it would do in a uh bucket of compost so
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we grow our Tomatoes outside that's
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Cherry ones uh the bigger ones you would
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need to goow into a greenhouse because
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they need a lot more sun to make them
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rer so big ones will grow indoors if we
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are growing any this year and obviously
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my cucumbers I grew about three in my
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polyan this year and I had about 15
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plants outside what I got spare plants
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left over and the ones out side did
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fantastic they did so much better than
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the ones in the polyon which is hard to
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believe but yes they did so I'm going to
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cut grow my cucumbers outside from now
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on if they're doing that well I might as
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well carry on doing them like that and
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again they won't need as much water
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because the ground stays wet and if it
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rains it Waters them which is a bonus
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but why are we fetching the poly tunnel
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back into action you might say we are
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going to be growing peppers in there and
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we're going to be growing melons in
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there and you're probably saying well
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why don't you grow those outside but
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them two things need more sunlight so
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and more heat so that is the reason why
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we're fetching the poly tunnel back into
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action this year so we've got it all
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tided out ready for them to grow which
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we'll talk about in another
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episode so I'm excited to be growing in
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the polyol again obviously it mean I
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need to go down there often and keep
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things watered but it encourages me to
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get out and about and visit the plot Mar
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which I'm looking forward
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to and we did a few repairs to the shed
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because we've had a few bad storms uh
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the roof blew off some of it so we had
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to repair that but I only did like a b
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job because my dad said to me that he is
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going to help
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me take all the roof off and start from
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scratch and make a better roof which the
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roof's probably being on for about 10
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years now and it's perspects and it's
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pretty strong but it's starting to go
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brittle a bit now so when the wind comes
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it just snaps it now so uh it's time for
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a replacement it's done its job and it's
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time for a fresh new roof and hopefully
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we're going to make it waterproof as
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well because when I'm in there there
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drips qu for where all the screws are
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because I've not done it right I've not
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like capped it off I've not waterproofed
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them so it has
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it keeps getting me wet when it's
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raining in there so hopefully we're
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going to make it a bit more
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waterproof and use stronger plastic as
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well uh obviously we started looking on
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Facebook Marketplace Facebook
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Marketplace is a brilliant place if you
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wanted to look for cheap stuff or free
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stuff as a lot of people just post on
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there to get rid of stuff so if you're
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looking at doing work to your allotment
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or sheds or green houses have a look on
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Facebook Marketplace and you'll possibly
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be able to find some good
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Bargains so that is what we're going to
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be doing soon when it gets a bit nicer
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obviously we can't be doing it when it's
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absolutely chuing it down and cold and
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freezing because we don't want to be
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doing that so
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yeah we've not done much weeding in
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January January we've not done anything
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outside as it's been too cold the
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ground's been too hard and all the weeds
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don't seem to be growing much as at the
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moment so we might turn all the beds
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over in February that might be one of
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our jobs that we do in that month but
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yeah overall January has been a pretty
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decent month and obviously we're
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starting to do more content on YouTube
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we're getting more videos out there and
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we're going to film loads this year
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loads of videos for you to watch and
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obviously we're getting more and more
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content out on our Facebook page for you
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to read and share and in in Digest so I
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hope that you found that useful so yeah
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I'm happy that I've been down to my
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alotment in January years ago I never
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used to go down to my plot in January I
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used to finish off my plot at end of
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October then not go back down to the
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allotment until March time and I'd be
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rushing at the last minute to be getting
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everything tidied cleaned up and ready
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for the months ahead so I tend to carry
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on now throughout the winter period so
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that I've got all these jobs done and I
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can concentrate on growing my seeds
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throughout the March period because when
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I start sewing my seeds in March it's
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going to be a lot of work I'll obviously
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need to S them more and then keep them
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more water and then we have to pick them
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all out and pot them up individually and
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yeah it takes a lot of work so that is
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the reason why I continue doing all my
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work in throughout October through to
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February because you can't get a lot of
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stuff done and it's not necessarily just
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digging over it's like Tiding up and
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getting it all clean and ready for the
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year ahead so yeah January has been a
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successful month down at the allotment
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hopefully we'll get lots done in
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February I'm looking forward to it
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obviously the spring bulbs and
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everything will start popping through
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now and start showing the heads and
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hopefully start fetching some spring
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color down at the allotment because
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that's what I want I want to see all the
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Croakers out I want to see the daffodils
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out I'm looking forward to the heis of
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smells when you walk onto the allotment
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so yeah yeah I'm excited for the
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springtime and I'm sure you are all too
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so tomorrow's episode we'll be back with
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a new podcast and it will be talking
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about all the things that you can s in
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February like I said most things I won't
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be S until March time but it's there
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just as a guide for anybody that's
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interested and obviously all depends on
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the temperature in your area that you
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live in as well so thanks for listening
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to today's podcast everyone as always
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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