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November Harvest: Allotment Garden Round-Up
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Dec 1, 2024
🍁 November Harvest: Allotment Garden Round-Up! The season may be slowing, but the plot’s still giving! From hearty root veg to the last leafy greens, here’s a look at what we’re harvesting this month. 🥕🌱 A great time to reflect, preserve, and prep for winter. What are you harvesting from your garden right now? #NovemberHarvest #AllotmentRoundUp #GrowYourOwn #WinterPrep #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #SeasonalHarvest
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's been about
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a couple of weeks since our last episode
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and I do apologize I know I said I going
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to do them every single day but we have
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had a special reason why we've not been
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doing podcasts every day the reason is
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I've moved house well moved flat and
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I've got a new place where I'm living
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now so I got to see it on a like Tuesday
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and I started to move straight away the
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next day so it's been all systems go in
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getting moved out of my old place into a
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nice new brand new place which is
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absolutely beautiful so peaceful so
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quiet and yeah no sirens in the
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background when you're listening to your
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podcasts
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now I can't believe how quiet actually
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is it's absolutely Bliss where I'm
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living now so hopefully the podcast will
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sound a lot better for you from wherever
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you're listening so yeah we've all
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settled in and it's strange being in a
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nice brand new property cuz obviously I
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didn't want to bring all my old stuff
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with me I've been out and bought all
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brand new stuff and it looks absolutely
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fantastic and thank you to those that
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have commented on my posts or sent me
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messages wishing me well in moving into
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my new property I absolutely love it so
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hopefully here's the podcast back again
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and hopefully no more breaks unless we
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move house again but I don't think I
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will be for a few years now but yeah
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thank you for all the support that you
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have given me so what are we going to be
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talking about today well it's actually
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the 1 of no December not November 1 of
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December today so we're going to talk
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about everything that we got up to in
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November and then tomorrow's episode
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we'll start talking about all the things
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you can grow and obviously all the jobs
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which need doing in December so if
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you're not following mate do give me a
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follow and make sure you stay up to date
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for them episodes dropping
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shortly so what did we get up to in
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November
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well we absolutely blitzed my allotment
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I did so much work down at the allotment
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during November to say I'm only getting
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like two days a week down at the plot
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now that I'm back working fulltime I'm
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I've absolutely done loads and I'm so
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impressed with myself because of how
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much I've actually got done I've managed
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to clear all my allotment the all my
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beds are completely empty I've cleared
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out all the bind weed what growing and
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dug over all my beds we have planted all
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our spring bulbs they're all nicely
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planted and summer starting to grow and
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pop through which is absolutely
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fantastic we harvested all my Christmas
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potatoes yes it's not Christmas yet but
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they were ready the plants have died off
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so there were no more growing in them so
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we harvested all of them
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we dug up our geraniums and we mov them
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into the shed which was a good sign
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because we had snow we did have snow so
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it's good job I got them in and
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obviously we've had the frost which
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would have killed them and looking at
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them today they're still alive they're
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still standing which is a good sign
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fingers crossed we can keep them alive
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all winter we also potted up all our
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Salvia cuttings which I took earlier in
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the year they're all growing well so
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it's case of keeping them all watered
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and keep it on top of that side of
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things and and obviously on my allotment
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side they'll be turning the water off
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over winter so we've got to keep things
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watered in the shed we've got a big
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massive bucket full uh well a wheelie
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bin full of water so hopefully that'll
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last me all winter I'm also feeding the
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cat on a regular basis the cat's still
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visiting my shed and coming for its food
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and my dad goes down on a daily basis to
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go and feed it he absolutely loves going
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down to see the cat so that's a good
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thing what else have we been up to we
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have been sorting out my fruit trees and
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sorting out all my Blackberry canes and
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Ras uh Loganberry canes I've been busy
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with them today actually been sorting
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them out tying them back to the fence in
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chopping off any old branches and shoots
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what were're growing on them and the old
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signs of the old black pris I've snipped
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off all them and tided them all
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up what
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we've cleared round all my rhubarb we've
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got rid of all the brambles on the plot
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which was absolutely
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awful dealing with brambles is horrible
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job but we've done it all we've got all
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that done and yeah it's pretty much
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looking very neat and tidy now uh
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there's still a lot of work left to do
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oh and I've been uh tidying up inside my
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shed we did a bit uh a few weeks ago
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when it was absolutely ch it down and I
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did some today because again it were
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Ching it down when I got to the
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allotment but when I got left the
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allotment today it was absolutely
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gorgeous you wouldn't have thought it
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were December it were warm it was sunny
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I felt like I was getting Sun tanned
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which I couldn't believe but yeah it
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were gorgeous down there so we've done
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all that so we've got a lot of jobs left
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to do during this month of December
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we're going to be obviously digging over
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the bed again I'm going to do that on a
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monthly basis because Roots will start
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still grow in the ground even if you
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don't see Weeds on top you might still
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get Roots growing in the ground so if we
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keep digging them over and pulling the
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roots out then we'll keep on top of it
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and hopefully less weeds will be growing
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in them beds next year and obviously I
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don't want the bind weed growing back so
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getting as much as that out as possible
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while it's winter is the perfect
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opportunity
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we're also going to be looking at sewing
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some seeds this month as well but stay
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tuned for what we're going to be sewing
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I'll share them with you on a later date
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so we've got all that done and this
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month I'm thinking about it might be
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time to start prepping my shed start
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doing all the renovation work inside it
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what I'm wanting to get done this winter
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so I'm going to look forward to that
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project side of it but next week we're
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going to be busy sorting out around my
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stre strawberry beds we're going to get
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that area sorted and once that's sorted
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then I'll be happy enough to leave the
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rest of the plot until next year and we
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can concentrate on doing everything in
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the shed that we want to get done for
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the winter period And once the shed's
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done then we can concentrate on going
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back outside which might be around
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February time obviously depending on the
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weather but hopefully we'll be getting
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lots done down there we've also invested
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in some bird feeders down at the
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alotment with feeding the birds on a
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regular basis we've got plenty of
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different seeds and feeds down there for
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the birds and I did see a rat screwing
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around today so at least we've got the
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cat to catch the
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rats I nearly struggle saying that but
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yeah at least we've got the cat to catch
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the rats so hopefully he will get them
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and stop
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them but yeah I'm happy with everything
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that's been going on and I like like I
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say I do apologize for not coming on and
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doing the podcasts but obviously I've
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had more exciting things to be doing at
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the moment with moving into the property
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and setting up all my setup and getting
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that
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done we going to be doing quite a bit of
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new content this month as well and I
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hope that you enjoy it I've dropped one
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already today a Christmas gardening joke
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and if you think it's a bit corny
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they'll get get a lot worse trust me
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I've recorded some for every day this
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week so make sure you stay tuned for the
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daily Christmas joke uh that'll be on
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Instagram Facebook and YouTube for you
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to watch and Tik Tok so stay tuned for
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the daily joke of the day they're all
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Christmas related and they're all
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gardening and allotment related so I
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hope that you do enjoy them if you do
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see them do give him a like give him a
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comment as it does help push him out and
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we're going to be doing a lot more
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content hopefully this month we filmed a
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allotment tour video today obviously
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there's not much to show you but you can
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have a look and see how things are
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getting on down at the allotment at the
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moment and hopefully we're going to be
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doing some other types of content down
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at the plot over the winter months just
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showing you what we're getting up to and
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different topics that we're talking
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about so I hope you're enjoying all this
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new content as it is taking up a lot of
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my time now but I absolutely love doing
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it and and the more people that see it
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the more people that follow the more
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I'll definitely enjoy doing it and so
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many people listen to my podcast last
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month uh it was probably one of the best
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months for downloads out of all the
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times that I've been doing these
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podcasts so it encourages me to do them
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more and more and yeah I hope that
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you're enjoying them so I hope you come
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back to the next podcast we're going to
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be talking about everything that you can
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grow in December and I'll talk about
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what I'm going to be sewing in December
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as well so stay tuned for that and the
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episode after that we'll talk about all
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the jobs which you can do in your garden
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and allotment in December to keep them
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going and keep on top of things so until
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next time everyone remember keep smiling
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