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This video shows a garden walkthrough and explains harvesting, planting bulbs, and preparing growing areas for colder conditions. I cover checking crops, improving soil, and simple protection steps that help plants stay healthy. It is helpful for gardeners wanting practical guidance on seasonal garden care and preparation.
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Let's have a November tour of our a
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lotment. Welcome to Gardening with Ben.
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It's been ages since I've given you a
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tour of my plot. That's the reason why
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because it's an absolute tip at the
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moment. But I always say I'm an open and
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honest gardener. So, I'm going to give
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you a full tour and show you exactly
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what it's looking like at the moment.
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So, sit back, relax, and let's enjoy the
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tour. As always, we'll start off at the
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front of our a lotment. And as you can
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see, we've got lots of pansies in this
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front bit, but we've also planted a load
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of tulips. Remember, I planted a load of
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tulips at the top of my plot. We planted
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a load in the front as well. So, fingers
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crossed we do get some great color. As
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hydranger, that's dying off now. But
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remember, don't prune it until it starts
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budding up next year or you may kill it.
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But yeah, I'm looking forward to lots
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and lots of spring color in this front.
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We've got our heather growing. It's
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starting to go purple, starting to
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flower, which will look absolutely
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amazing when it's all out. That's
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getting bigger and bigger every year.
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They only started off as small plants,
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what they were selling off at BNQ. But
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yeah, they're coming on really nice.
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Let's go on to the plot. We still got a
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couple of climbing roses out which is
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looking fantastic. keep cutting off the
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old buds. But yeah, it's still
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flowering. While it's still flowering,
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I'm still happy.
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Now we've got the front of the plot. We
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still got some geraniums flowering. We
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really do need to get all those dug out
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and put in the shed to over winter them,
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keep them alive, and keep them going. We
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pruned back all the plum tree this year.
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It got a bit too big. But yeah, we need
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to get rid of all that rubbish. But
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yeah, hopefully we've got spring bulbs
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all this down these sides. So, we do
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need to get all this cleared before all
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those start growing. We've got a mammoth
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job cooked in the cooking apple tree
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back this year. It's absolutely huge.
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That's a job for once all the leaves
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have come off. But yeah, hopefully get
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those sorted.
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Now to go down here. This is one of my
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new areas that I did this year. We've
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got absolutely loads of color coming
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out. The cichlmen's growing really nice
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and flowering. We've still got fuchia
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on.
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But yeah, we've got a load of bulbs in
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here as well. So come springtime,
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they'll look absolutely amazing. We've
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got some free cichlmen what they was
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giving away at the cop. So we need to
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get those planted. I just left them
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outside to get some water so that
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they're back to life. But yeah, fingers
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crossed it'll look good that
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now into the poly tunnel. You know, I've
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been absolutely busy tidying clearing
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all this out. It's not finished yet.
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That's our new bench. What we've got uh
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what I got an Amazon vouch from my
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family. So, I bought a new garden bench,
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which is absolutely amazing. That's
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going to go to the top of my plot. But
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yeah, we've been clearing out loads and
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loads of rubbish. Got to take all that
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to the tip tomorrow, get that tidied
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out. But the job will be to rip all the
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flooring up and dig it over, level it
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out, get all the bind weed out, and put
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some new flooring down, ready for next
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year.
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There's Christmas potatoes. They're
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coming on. We need to give them a water.
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But they're growing well in here. They
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should be ready around Christmas time
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for hopefully a great harvest.
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I'm not going to climb down that side
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cuz it's a bit wild at the moment. But
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all the grape vines are turning red,
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dying off now for the year. Hopefully
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they come back next year cuz we got some
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great grapes on them this year. But
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yeah, we got to clear all the strawberry
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beds area out and tidy all that up and
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get it looking smart ready for next
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year. But that shouldn't be too big a
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job to get all that cleared and ready
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for next year.
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Now onto my a lotment. We had as new
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raised beds what we built which look
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absolutely amazing full of pansies.
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We've got climbers climbing up the
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arches. So fingers crossed we'll get
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some nice flowers on them next year.
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Again we've got us climbing rows which
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I've pruned back and tidied up on that
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one which looks great. But yeah, we're
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going to get a load of spring bulbs in
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these pot beds as well. We've got so
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many growing.
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And I'm just going to show you down
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here. We've got so many apples left to
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pick. Look at all these. with unundated
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with apples this year. Absolutely
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inundated. I'm even letting the
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squirrels and blackbirds eat them. But
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yeah, we'll get some more off and then
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get them tidied up ready for the winter
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once they go dormant.
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Down here we've got some onions in.
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They're popping through. We got some
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snowball onions and some yellow onions
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coming on. Right. All we got as broad
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beans which are doing amazing. Keeping
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those covered to stop them getting eaten
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away. Really impressed we have that
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coming on.
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Then this is our Chinese garlic. We
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planted Chinese garlic to compare
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against UK garlic over there. So at the
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moment the UK garlic is looking better
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than the Chinese one. I wanted to do it
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as an experiment. I know I always tell
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you not to plant Chinese garlic, but I
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wanted to do it as an experiment to see
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what if it is actually bad to grow. So,
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we'll give it a try. I do love an
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experiment. We've got shellots in this
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bed and some more onions. What we got
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from Simply Seed. They're a bit behind
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them ones, so they're not growing as
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much yet. And same again with these.
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We've got Simply Seed broad beans in.
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They're a bit behind as we planted them
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later.
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And then again, we've got some garlic in
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these beds. So, yeah, need to put that
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uh netting back over. Something's been
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at them. And then my plot looks
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absolutely abysmal.
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But we'll get on. We'll crack on. We're
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doing a bit of time working us way up
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and getting it all tidy. We've got all
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the beds to rebuild, all the path to
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sort out again. But yeah, it's a looking
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a mess at the moment. But we'll crack on
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and get there. Don't worry, it'll be
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ready for springtime.
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And this is the top of my plot where we
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got his new arches up as new area that
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we did. Again, we got the raised beds
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with pansies in and climbers in. So
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hopefully we'll get some nice climbers
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growing up these. In here, we've got
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pansies. And yesterday, we planted loads
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of tulips in these. Absolutely loads.
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So, they're going to be full abundance
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with tulips. In here we've got tulips
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and daffodil. So again, it's going to
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look absolutely amazing. And then we've
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got some new heather what we planted
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which is white which looks gorgeous. And
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in here we've got mascara blue bells and
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little daffodils as well. So yeah, it's
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going to look good come springtime. But
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yeah, we're cracking on, working his way
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up, getting it all tided, getting it all
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sorted, and hopefully a good year for
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next year's growing. I want it to be the
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best looking plot that it's ever looked.
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Oh, and down this side, we planted
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absolutely loads of daffodils.
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So hopefully we'll get a nice display of
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daffodils down that side. And again,
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same down that side. We planted a row of
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daffodil down that side. So fingers
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crossed the plot is going to look
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absolutely amazing of
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spring color in springtime. We've got a
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bird bath. The birds absolutely love it.
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We keep the bird feeders filled up so
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that the birds enjoy them. Absolutely
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loads of bird feeders. Keeping them
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going and keeping them eating it. But
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yeah, we will get there. And once it's
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all done, I can sit and relax on my new
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bench. So, thank you for watching my
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tour of my aotment. Make sure you drop
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well all those videos are getting on and
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as tips and advice. Until next time,
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everyone. Remember, keep smiling, keep
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shining, and keep gardening with Ben.
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Fuel.
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