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Plan Your Dream Garden for Next Spring
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Jan 1, 2025
🌱 Plan Your Dream Garden for Next Spring! It’s never too early to start dreaming (and scheming) your perfect plot! 🌼📋 Whether you're craving colour, focusing on food, or creating a peaceful retreat, now’s the time to sketch out your spring garden goals and get inspired. What’s on your must-grow list for next year? #GardenPlanning #SpringGardenDreams #GrowYourOwn #GardenDesign #AllotmentGoals #UKGardener #PlanYourGarden
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your allotment guide
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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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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