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This video explains what to plant and harvest in autumn and how to prepare the garden for winter. Learn which crops can still be sown and how to recognise when produce is ready to pick.
The guide covers clearing beds, protecting plants and preparing soil before colder weather arrives. These simple tasks help plants survive winter and make spring planting easier.
If you want to stay productive later in the year, this video provides practical autumn gardening advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing.
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hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening room Ben in today's video
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we're going to give you a tour of our
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allotment we're do this on a weekly
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basis now as everybody seems to be
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liking this video and seeing how the
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allotments progress in throughout the
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year and what we've been getting up to
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what we've been tiing and what we've
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been clearing obviously we're doing our
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weekend blogs now where we're sharing
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what we're getting up to down here and
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yeah I hope you enjoying all these
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videos we're trying to put as many
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videos out there as possible for you to
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watch and enjoy and hopefully give you
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some encouragement as well to get out in
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your Gardens during this winter period
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because it is the best time to be
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getting everything tidy and sorted ready
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for next year you don't know what the
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winter is going to be like it could be
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absolutely manic we could have snow for
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all the winter and you might not be able
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to get down to the allotment or to the
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Garden so now is a perfect time to be
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getting it all cleared all prepared and
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all tided ready for next year so let's
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have a tour of our alotment and see
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what's growing and what's not growing
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down here I hope you all enjoy
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oh look at that Mr squirrel's out having
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my peanuts and Seed absolutely loves it
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the py little things we're going to
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start off at the front of the alotment
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like we always do obviously we've still
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got some fuches around each week we
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pinch off some of these like we
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do but yeah the fuches are still
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flowering it's still looking good the
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hether starting to come out that's
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starting to get its flowers on it
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fingers crossed it'll all be blooming
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nice pretty soon and we'll have plenty
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of purple color coming through cuz he's
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absolutely gorgeous in the alotment and
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garden I only bought these for 50 P
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years ago and they Bush out really well
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hyd Rangers dying off now ready for the
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year but yeah the berries are getting
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eaten by the birdies keep the berries
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growing and let the birds enjoy them but
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yeah like I said we've still got flowers
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on the fuches absolutely
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gorgeous but we've got hundreds of bulbs
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in here we've planted so many bulbs in
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the front of this plot so fingers
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crossed come springtime we'll be showing
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a beautiful spring look but yeah look at
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all flowers out on fuchia still
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absolutely
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alerts you can see some of the bulbs are
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starting to pop food now in the
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garden but something's been at them by
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probably the squirrel as they do but
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yeah lots of bulbs popping through at
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the front of the plot which is a good
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sign
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we've still got some roses out on the
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climbing rows they'll all be dying off
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when it gets colder but they're still
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growing we meant to be a heatwave this
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year but uh this week but we'll see
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we'll see what it looks like but yeah
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plenty of buds still out on them as you
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just saw the squirrel was enjoying all
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the seed but we're feeding the birds the
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birds have started appearing again as I
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mentioned the other week The Spar Hawk
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were around so we've not seen no birds
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but the birds are around again and the
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be been enjoying the seeds which is a
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good
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sign but yeah we've still got to work on
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this area it's not a rush to get this
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area sorted but I'm happy with how it's
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all coming
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on let's have a look down
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here we've got those fat balls up as
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well as birds do love fat
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balls all around the fruit trees is all
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starting to die off you can see some
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rhubarb just popping through which is
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which will die off when it does get cold
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but yeah we won't be harvesting any
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rhubarb now until next year we've got
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all this area to clear that's on my jobs
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to-do list that'll be one weekend's work
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as there's a lot of brambles down the
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back of there and we've got all them
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leaves clear up you've got to make sure
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all the fruits picked up as well cuz you
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don't want to leave any around or it'll
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cause diseases so we got all that to
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clear and get it all tided ready for
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next year ready for all the fruit trees
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but there's still a lot of leaves to
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drop off but the cooking apple tree
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leaves aren't dropping off yet they're
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just starting to turn yellow so we've
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still got a long time before all these
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drop off on the cooking apple
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tree down this side we've got us fuches
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and yeah they're all doing well they've
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all dying back a bit now but they're all
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looking pretty clear down here again
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we've got absolutely hundreds of bulbs
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in here so fingers crossed come
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springtime it's going to look Absol
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absolutely gorgeous down here I've still
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got some garlic left from last year what
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I need to eat but yeah all that's dried
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out nicely now we after to use that up
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my pumpkins some of them are going a bit
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funny they're not ripened fully so we're
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going to save the seeds from them for
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next year we not necessarily eat them
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but we'll just save the seeds for next
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year and grow our pumpkins from
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them as Christmas potatoes they've died
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off the plants have died off they've not
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lasted as as long as I thought they
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would do I hoping to like Harvest them
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towards later November but next week
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we're going to harvest them we're going
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to harvest our Christmas potatoes next
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week down at the allotment so make sure
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you stay tuned for that video for the
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reveal of what potatoes we've got out of
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them fingers crossed we do get some or
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it'll not be a very good
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reveal in my Greenhouse we've got us
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cuttings we need to give these a water
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again this week we only water once a
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week uh but yeah I might have to get
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these out in the ground soon somebody
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said to leave them till Springtime but
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they are drying out pretty fast each
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week so I don't want them to die off as
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you can see that one's dying off but
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yeah we're going to repot them up into
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bigger pots we'll have to think about
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what we want to do with they call Salvia
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I forgotten the name but they're Salvia
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these but yeah we'll see how they get on
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what's growing around here oh look at
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that look at that the pesky little
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things
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I grew them in pots to stop them from
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getting eaten and now they've got eaten
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by something bloody
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owl like I said I show you the good
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things I show you the disasters and the
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broad beans have all been eaten I'm
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guessing that's a squirrel the pesky
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squirrel we've got a sweet peas they're
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popping
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through we've got lots of flowers
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growing all around
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here we got some more sweet peas we' got
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some Char what we need to plant out
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which needs to get out in the ground
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we've got loopings growing we've got Mar
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Salvia and we've got all these sweet
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peas as well growing around this area
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look at all them growing we're going to
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have a massive display of sweet peas
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next year fingers crossed we grow them
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now so that the stronger plants ready
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for next
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year as you can see the Logan B is
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growing absolutely wild it's turning a
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nice color of red now I do love this
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color of red absolutely gorgeous
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looks absolutely
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beautiful I do love autumn colors
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absolutely
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gorgeous these are all my 200 strawberry
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plants there a cat hello cat
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he's expecting me to feed
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him we're calling him
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suty but yeah we've got a bird feeder
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which my dad's put a little thing around
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it to stop the squirrels from getting up
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it which seems to be working on that
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one just not on that one over there
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which it were just
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on but yeah hello
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cat but yeah e keeps the rats down which
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is a good
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thing we don't want the rats down here
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but look at this grape vine as well
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absolutely gorgeous Reds on it it's
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turned a very nice color
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red but yeah we've got so much to clear
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there forless blackberry's gone wild as
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well we're going to be moving that and
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it that down that side at fencing soon
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sorting that out but it's a job on our
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list to
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do we've cleared all down that side of
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the fencing which looks absolutely great
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again that's my forless black PR did
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absolutely fantastic we need to tie all
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that up we' given some of it of prune
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but yeah it's done really well this year
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my phone is black bre we still got some
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beetroot in we're going to be harvesting
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that soon fingers crossed we do get some
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decent beat rot from that as garlic
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looking absolutely fantastic not all of
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them have come up yet but fingers cross
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the allall start popping up soon we give
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him a feed as well this weekend we've
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sprinkled some fertilizer on them and
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hopefully we'll get some decent sized
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garlic growing I put the netting on them
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to stop the squirrels and the pigeons
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eating them and pinching them and it
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seems to have worked fine the same goes
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for my onions they're not starting to
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show yet we've got one which is popping
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through but yeah fingers cross will all
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start popping through in a bit we need
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to push some of them back in the F
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coming out but yeah we've cleared all
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our allotment all the beds are empty now
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all tided we've got all the paths to
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clear next that's our next job to do but
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my main job was clearing all the beds
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first of all the weeds and all the old
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Seasons produce and I've got to say I'm
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pretty impressed with myself I've got
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all this done
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already so the next big job is sorting
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all the paths out and getting them to
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and maybe some new mulch down ready for
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next year but we'll see about that we
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see but yeah I'm happy without it's all
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coming
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on so that has been our weekly tour
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video I hope you enjoyed it come back
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next week and see our next week's video
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fingers crossed we've got loads more
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done and hopefully we'll have harvested
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them Christmas potatoes as well so make
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sure you give us a follow give us a like
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and leave a comment below until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep guarding B everyone
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