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This video explains essential winter gardening jobs that help keep plants healthy and prepare growing areas for the next season. Learn simple maintenance tasks such as clearing beds, protecting plants and checking soil condition.
The guide covers caring for overwintering plants, preventing frost damage and organising planting areas. These steps help gardens stay productive and make spring planting easier.
If you want to stay active during colder months, this video provides practical winter gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and outdoor growing spaces.
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the future is a hefty responsibility and
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not one that we take lightly but then
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taking things lightly has never been
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what Hefty is about that's why we've
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created the Hefty renew program that
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turns hard to recycle Plastics into
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valuable resources like park benches and
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building materials to participate simply
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fill up an orange Hefty renew bag with
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accepted items tie it up and drop it in
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with your regular recycling that's it
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it's that easy it's time to rethink
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recycling with renew particular valued
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resources may vary by geography more
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info available at Hefty renew.com
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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 life friendly gardening
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I'm here to help you grow your passion
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and reap the rewards so grab your gloves
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roll up your sleeves and let's get
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started on this year's gardening
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben it's the weekend the
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weekend is finally here let us celebrate
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let us shout from the rooftops because
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Saturday is here and there's no snow
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it's all gone thankfully hopefully when
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I get down to the alotment it's all gone
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but everywhere that I've been around
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there's not been any snow around so
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fingers crossed it has all gone so I'm
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so excited to get back down to my
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allotment today and hopefully get some
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work done down there and if the
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temperature goes by what it were like
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yesterday on Friday it will actually a
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decent day so hopefully we'll be
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productive down there and it won't rain
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and we'll be able to do plenty of work
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until the weather changes and it's
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frosty or it's raining or it's
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sleeting fingers crossed we'll get
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something done well we're definitely
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going anyway it is on our list to
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go so what are we doing at the allotment
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this week well we've got lots to be
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getting on with and this week I'm going
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to be obviously filling up my bird seed
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I do that on a weekly basis until I get
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some squirrel proof bird feeders where
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it don't all go away uh go down straight
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away but yeah we'll be filling up my
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bird feed as the future is a hefty
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responsibility and not one that we take
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lightly but then taking things lightly
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has never been what Hefty is about
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that's why we've created the heier new
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program that turns hard to recycle
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Plastics into valuable resources like
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park benches and building materials to
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participate simply fill up an orange
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Hefty renew bag with accepted items tie
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it up and drop it in with your regular
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recycling that that's it it's that easy
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it's time to rethink recycling with
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renew particular valued resources may
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vary by geography more info available at
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he.com and then obviously feeding the
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cat because the cat waits for me as soon
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as I get to my allotment my dad feeds it
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every single day but I I feed it at
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weekends so we'll be feeding the
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capat and then hopefully I'm going to be
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water in my sweet peas and my geraniums
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because last week when I went down it
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all Frozen up all my water water uh
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container so I weren't able to water
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anything but the plants won't need much
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water at this time of year there's
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plenty of moisture around so hopefully
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they're all still alive but we'll give
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them more water this week CU we've not
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watered them for quite a while and we'll
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be planting them out in the spring time
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when it does warm up and hopefully when
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the chance of frost is pass because we
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don't want to kill them off as soon as
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we put them out obviously we've grown
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them through the winter period and
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they're in my Greenhouse it's not a
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heated Greenhouse so if they survive
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until Springtime I'll be happy if not
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we've giving them a try but hopefully
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save some money by doing it so yeah
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we'll be doing that we're watering them
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and then we're going to start digging
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over some of my beds again last time I
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dug them over around October time so
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it's been about 3 months since we've
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given a dig over obviously there's no
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weeds growing in them it's too cold for
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any weeds to be growing but we just dig
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them over so that the frost can get into
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the soil break it up and kill any Roots
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what are growing in there if we keep
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turning it over so we'll keep doing that
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all the way up to May time when I will
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be planting stuff out obviously the
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weeds will start growing around March
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time and stuff like that so we'll be
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digging it over more regularly than once
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every three
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months so we'll be doing that and then
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I'm going to be filming some videos as
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well down there I've made a list of all
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the videos what I want to film this
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weekend so hopefully we'll be getting
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some content back out on YouTube again
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because some people obviously prefer
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seeing the visuals rather than just
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listening to
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me so hopefully we'll be doing some
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videos down there and I've ordered a new
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uh phone holder for being at the
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allotment so as well as obviously
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recording on my tripod uh it goes on a
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band that goes around my neck so you can
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actually see like what I'm doing with my
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hands so I can like film potting up or
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sewing my seats and doing stuff like
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that you can actually see it from my
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perspective as well so we're going to
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hopefully get some new camera angles on
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videos it all sounds professional but
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trust me the videos won't
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be we just do it for the fun and
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obviously people like to watch them so
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we'll be doing that but yeah we've got
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that to do and then obviously in a
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couple of months hopefully we're going
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to be painting all my beds up because
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all the wood paints all washed off now
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it doesn't last last five years like
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most of them say on the tin uh they only
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last a couple of years a year at the
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most uh so I tend to paint them every
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couple of years just to Spruce them up
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and look nice obviously you don't need
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to paint them but it protects them from
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rotting a bit more faster and obviously
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makes it look nice aesthetically uh so
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it'll look good for photos and stuff
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like that so we'll be painting all them
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up the future is a hefty responsibility
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and not one that we take lightly but
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then taking things lightly is never what
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Hefty is about that's why we've created
6:31
the Hefty renew program that turns hard
6:33
to recycle Plastics into valuable
6:35
resources like park benches and building
6:37
materials to participate simply fill up
6:39
an orange Hefty renew bag with accepted
6:41
items tie it up and drop it in with your
6:43
regular recycling that's it it's that
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easy it's time to rethink recycling with
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renew particular valued resources may
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vary by geography more info available at
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Hefty renew.com I do hopefully need to
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try and Source some wood chip for
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because my paths could do it rewood
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chiping this year uh I put a load down
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last winter and obviously it rots down
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over the year so hopefully we'll try and
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get some wood chip sorted down for the
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allotment last time my neighbor got a
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load from the council so we'll have to
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see if if he can speak to his contact
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and hopefully get some wood chip down on
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the paths but there's loads of jobs to
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be doing this winter time and this is a
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time when you're doing all them odd
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little jobs around the allotment
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sprucing it up tidying it up doing any
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repairs and getting it all planned and
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ready for next year well this year now
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and it's exciting part because come
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March time I'm going to be sewing all my
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seeds all my seeds will be getting sewn
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and I'll be going down there regular
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little water them at night and stuff
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like that so we'll be having lots to get
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be getting on with down at the alotment
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so it's going to be a busy few months
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coming up but I so can't wait to be SE
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my seeds that's my favorite part the
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year
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sewing the seeds seeing them germinate
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planting them out and then seeing the
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produce what's produced on them it's so
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heartwarming seeing the
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final product really of what you've done
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and seeing how it's actually grown and
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how fantastic it is so yeah that is our
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day Roundup down at the alotment
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hopefully we'll get as much done as
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possible and tomorrow podcast obviously
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we'll be talking about what we have
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actually done so hopefully we can say
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that we've done some stuff down there
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and obviously soon I'm going to be
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preparing for the Big Bird Watch down
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there I'm going to get a load of
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different varieties of seed and
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hopefully get some pictures of some
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birds down at my allotment and yeah
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fingers crossed hopefully we get to see
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some birds down there I've been seeing
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blue tis down there regularly Robins
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down there and I might try and get some
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black birds down there so I might get
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some sulan and raisins because black
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birds absolutely love them so if you're
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wanted to attract the black birds get
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some sultanas and raisins and just put
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them in a little bowl obviously put them
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high up because they attract the rats
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and stuff like that but yeah try and
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attract some black birds to your garden
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as black birds are absolutely beautiful
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the future is a hefty responsibility and
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not one that we take lightly but then
9:22
taking things lightly has never been
9:23
what Hefty is about that's why we've
9:25
created the Hefty renew program that
9:27
turns hard to recycle Plastics into Val
9:29
valuable resources like park benches and
9:31
building materials to participate simply
9:33
fill up an orange Hefty renew bag with
9:35
accepted items tie it up and drop it in
9:37
with your regular recycling that's it
9:39
it's that easy it's time to rethink
9:42
recycling with renew particular valued
9:44
resources may vary by geography more
9:46
info available at Hefty renew.com
9:48
so hopefully we're going to get plenty
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done down at the allotment obviously I'm
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posting more and more videos on my
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Instagram stories my Facebook Stories so
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can follow along on a day how what we're
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getting up to and yeah and I've been
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sharing posts as well on my Facebook
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page of little blog ideas and what to do
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we at amarillas what jobs need doing in
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the garden in January what needs to be
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planted so yeah we're posting lots of
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different things and yesterday I posted
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a post on um how to prevent slugs from
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eating everything stop slugs from eating
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everything if only we could do that but
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yeah I might talk about that in one of
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my podcasts actually we'll do that as
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one of my podcasts how to stop slugs
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from attacking everything in your garden
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what you can plan to stop them attacking
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everything and hopefully getting some
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produce out of it cuz my neighbor he
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gets absolutely loads of looks on his
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allotment but thankfully touchwood I
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don't get many whether it's because I
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let the weeds disguise all my
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vegetables but yeah hopefully we'll be
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recording in that podcast as well for
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you soon so I hope you all have a
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fantastic day everyone make sure you do
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get out in the garden make sure you do
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something like feed the birds or fill a
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water bowl up them to have a little
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drink out of just go outside and enjoy
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some fresh air today everyone and I hope
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that you have a fantastic weekend until
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next time everyone remember keep smiling
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keep shining and keep gardening with B
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everyone
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11:32
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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garding in with Ben the future is a
12:09
hefty responsibility and not one that we
12:11
take lightly but then taking things
12:13
lightly has never been what Hefty is
12:15
about that's why we've created the Hefty
12:17
renew program that turns hard to recycle
12:19
Plastics into valuable resources like
12:21
park benches and building materials to
12:23
participate simply fill up an orange
12:25
Hefty renew bag with accepted items tie
12:27
it up and drop it in with your regular
12:28
recycling
12:29
that's it it's that easy it's time to
12:32
rethink recycling with renew particular
12:34
valued resources may vary by geography
12:36
more info available at Hy renew.com
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