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This video explains how to plan a garden for spring planting so plants grow successfully throughout the growing season. Learn how to organise planting areas, choose suitable crops and prepare soil before sowing or transplanting.
The guide covers spacing, sunlight, crop rotation and scheduling planting times to avoid overcrowding and improve plant health. These simple planning steps help prevent common problems and make gardening easier to manage.
If you want a more organised and productive garden, this video provides practical planning advice suitable for gardens, raised beds and container growing spaces.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well these are the new episodes
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for the week over the weekend we talked
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about all the things that we've been
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getting up to D down at the allotment
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well today's episode I we're going to
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talk about planning your allotment for
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Springtime the best planning the best
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allotment for the springtime and
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planning your best
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garden and we've we've touched on this
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quite a few times and I'm getting
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prepared ready for the springtime as you
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know all my allotments pretty much
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cleared and tided ready for next year
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now and we we're getting it all settled
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ready for the new season ahead so we're
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going to be looking at what we're going
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to be growing next year and how we're
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going to plan it out and keeping a
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record of how things are growing and
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getting on now every single year I
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purchase myself a Gardener's log book
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and you can usually buy them off Amazon
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or from different shops or if you just
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want to buy a normal diary and keep a
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note in there but I usually buy a garden
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log book and support a local um support
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online businesses and stuff like that so
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I like to buy one of them and I usually
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do that for writing down all the things
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that I'm growing that month for that
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weekend when I planted it how I planted
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it the temperature of the month when I
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were planting it just like keeping a
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record of everything and when I planted
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it out when I harvested it which
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varieties I grew and how well it growed
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and whether I'll grow it again so I like
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to keep a record of things that I'm
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growing so that I know what to purchase
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the year after or what not to buy if it
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did absolutely
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rubbish so I like to keep a log of that
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and that's one way
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of planning for next year because you
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can look back and see how successful
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things were and whether you'll think
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about doing it again next year so we've
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done that
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and the next up is
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obviously planning our allotment uh
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every year I draw a plan of my allotment
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it's not changed much over the last few
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years my allotment I'm keeping it in the
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same style as I've always got it now as
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I've got the layout sorted it's all
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pretty much a good layout I've got my
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paths lay I've got my beds where I want
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them to be and I've got all my fruit
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trees where they're growing I won't be
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moving any of those obviously all my
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strawberries are in a special Strawberry
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Patch through some black membrane
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they're all pretty much straightforward
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and yeah everything's in its own place
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so I've just got my beds my growing beds
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where I grow all my vegetables for that
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year and obviously I like to improve the
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soil every year and add some nutrition
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into it but obviously we don't want to
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be growing stuff in the same in place as
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last year because obviously that plant's
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taking out some nutrition from the soil
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so they might not be that nutrition for
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that certain plant in the soil so we
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have to move things around so we like to
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draw a plan of all our beds and write
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down what we're going to be growing in
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each bed and
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how what variety will grow
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or yeah we tend to do that and just like
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make a plan of it all just to give us an
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idea where things are going to going to
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grow we'll we'll probably change things
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as we go along because we'll end up
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shoving things in gaps and if a plant
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don't grow we'll plant something else
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there but we tend to stick to that plan
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and again you can save a copy of that
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and look back on it the year before to
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see what you actually grew in them beds
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because if you ask me what I grew in
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certain beds this year I've forgotten
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already I'd have to have a look back on
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photos or look back on my planet and see
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how it's getting on so we can plan our
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year ahead now ready for next
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year and then the other thing that we
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need to plan is what we're going to be
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growing and as you know I get really
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excited about buying seeds I buy seeds
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when I don't really need to buy seeds
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but I just waste money on bu SE it's an
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addiction I can't help it but yeah uh I
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just buy a loads of different seeds
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and I have look on Amazon and I type in
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like poppy varieties which is why I've
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got loads of different varieties of
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poppies this year to grow uh or I'll get
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a Seed Catalog and I'll have a look
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through the Seed Catalog and tick which
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ones I want and order them that way but
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I do like to grow all different
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varieties of seeds I don't like to stick
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to bog standard varieties I like to grow
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unusual uh varieties that you won't see
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in shops or supermarkets to eat and yeah
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is that's what makes it more exciting
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and if you're getting different colored
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vegetables as well they're not just the
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bug standard green ones like most of the
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Veg it's good to have some color in your
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allotment and in your garden as
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well how I basically plan for my year
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ahead and obviously I watch a lot of
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videos as well and obviously watch
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Gardener world and different gardening
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programs and see what ities they're
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growing and how well they grow because
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it's always good to get feedback off
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other people like yeah you might see
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seeds online or something like that and
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you think oh I might give that a try but
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if you've seen somebody else grow it and
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if they've had success from it um it's
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always good to try stuff what you know
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will do
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well and there's obviously a lot of fake
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sites as well online where you can buy
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purple bananas or
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black um cauliflowers and stuff like
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that but never get suck it into buying
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any of those because they are all fake a
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lot of them and hopefully like the
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online stores keep on top of that and
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get rid of those fake sellers but there
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is a lot of different colored variety of
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vegetables out there which are real and
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which are legit so if you are looking at
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buying seeds make sure you're buying
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them from a legit Seed Company on Amazon
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not not just a random
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seller but yeah I'm excited for next
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year and I'm excited for the new things
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that we're going to try and the old
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things that we're going to keep on doing
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what we did last year which did really
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well because obviously we grew all our
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potatoes in tubs last year and they did
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absolutely fantastic we did some garlic
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last year that was
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amazing the sweet corn always does well
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we grew that in a different position
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this year and and yeah as peas was the
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best peas that we've ever grown on my
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alotment ever I've never had as
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successful year as I did last year with
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my peas and hopefully we can continue
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and do that again as what I did with my
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peas this year rather than throw them
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all into the ground which I've done in
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the past and they'll get eaten by rats
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mice and slugs when they pop in through
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we s them all in Sea Trace first and
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then we planted them out when they were
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big enough to be able to handle
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themselves and they did the absolutely
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amazing best seats that I've ever well
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the best peas I've ever had and they
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tasted absolutely delicious so we're
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going to that's the thing like as well
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like I always say Obviously with that
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log book is that write down your
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successes write down your failures and
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what worked well and what didn't work
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well and if it worked fantastic good try
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it again next year and Hope hopefully
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I'll have success but I've had I've done
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that in the past I like if I've had a
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success with something and then I try it
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again the next year and it's absolutely
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failing I'm thinking what have I done
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wrong what have I done differently but
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at end of the day it's all down to
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gardening and it's all down to the
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weather as well and sometimes things
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will do well sometimes things will do
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rubbish and yeah it that's Joy of
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gardening you win some you lose some and
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never get disheartened by anything that
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you grow just keep trying try and try it
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again so that is how we will plan for a
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successful spring next year uh being
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organized being planned and getting
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prepared ready for next year so I hope
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you found those tips useful get yourself
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a log book draw yourself a plan and have
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a look in those seek cataloges ready for
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next year until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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