Propagation Perfection: Fuchsia and Lavender Tips for the Allotment | Gardening Tips & Allotment ...
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Nov 15, 2024
✂️ Propagation Perfection: Fuchsia and Lavender Tips for the Allotment! Looking to multiply your plants without spending a penny? Fuchsias and lavender are perfect for propagating! 💜🌿 In this episode, I share how to take successful cuttings, when to do it, and tips to ensure strong, healthy roots for your future blooms. Have you tried propagating these before? #PropagationPerfection #FuchsiaCuttings #LavenderPropagation #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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episode hey everyone and welcome to
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gardening with Ben for a brand new
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episode and I think the weather actually
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listened to my podcast yesterday when I
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said where's summer it's certainly here
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wow it has been a boiling day today
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absolutely sweating so much and plenty
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of sunscreen on while out in the
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garden and yeah it got to about 21
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degrees I know if you're listening to
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this in a different country you might be
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used to that weather but that is good
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for the UK and wow has it been Hot
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absolutely glorious weather and yeah I
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spent a few hours down at the alotment
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today did do an awful lot but I did
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plenty as I had hoped to get done and
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today's jobs have been quite good and
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I've started taking some cuttings from
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my Futures and from my lavender plants I
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may have talked about this in
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yesterday's episode I can't remember
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what I talked about to be honest um but
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I have taken some cuttings from my
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lavender and from my fuches now my
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fuches are only I only purchased them
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this year and they've grown so well so I
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thought I'm going to take some cuting
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from them and give them a try so I've
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taken 30 cuttings from my fuches and you
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might think wow 30 plants but yeah if I
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could get all these growing or as many
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as possible then I can have fuches all
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the way down the sides of my borders and
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it'll look absolutely gorgeous and
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that's the plan because fuches do spread
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they fill out they have plenty of
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flowers on they look absolutely
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beautiful and hopefully it attract
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plenty of bees to the allotment fall
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for
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details so I've taken 30 cuttings so I
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brought them all home ready to strip the
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bottoms of the leaves off and stick them
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in some water and pray that they'll take
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rout but this is the first time taking
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fuches cuttings so fingers crossed we
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can give it a try we may have a look we
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may not have a look we'll find out and
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that's the plan and we've also taken
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some cuttings from my lavender plants as
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well which I planted this year I
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purchased these from Tesco and they're
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about 350 each and they again look
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absolutely beautiful so I thought why
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not we'll give it a try it's three
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plants at end at day so I've took
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absolutely loads of cting off them as
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well and are watching a YouTube video
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yes I do look out for tips and advice as
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well CU again I don't know everything
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and I'm quite new to taking cuttings and
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they were suggesting the idea of putting
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them in soil uh to take root but I
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thought I want to try them in water so I
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brought them home and I'm going to stick
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them in some water and see if they take
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Route and see if if we get a good amount
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of lavender cuting growing so next year
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I could have a load of fuches and a load
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of lavender grow in my allotment but
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we'll have to see we'll have to see it's
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trial by error and every day is a
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learning day in the gardening
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world and that is certainly what I've
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been up to today so I've got all them
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cuttings I've obviously taken my
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cuttings from my roses my climbing roses
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yesterday they're at the alotment they
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are in soil uh so we're keeping them
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watered keeping them hydrated and we'll
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see if we get some climbing roses
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growing you never know I can give it a
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try we'll see how we get on it's all
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look of the draw and it's all fun I'm I
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I wouldn't be bothered if I didn't get
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any growing or anything like that I'm
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just here to have fun and enjoy myself
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experiment and learn something new now
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ideally I'd love to take some hydr enger
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cuttings but my hydr engers aren't that
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big yet but I might have a look again on
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YouTube seeing how to take hydr enger
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cuttings and we may possibly give them a
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try as they look absolutely gorgeous to
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a nice pink color really I've got two
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and the two different pinks as well so
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that's nice because it obviously goes
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off the fall into big savings all in the
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grapes for $3.99 each then get flavorful
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details acid or Alkali of the soil
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depending on which one's which the color
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of the high Dinger often comes out so
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obviously there's quite a bit of acid in
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my alotment that's why they've come out
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pinky red and yeah they look absolutely
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gorgeous so hopefully we might try and
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take some hydr cuttings so then we'll
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have lots and lots of free plants for
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next year the
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I'll have once I've planted them all up
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is to keep them alive until next year
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that's my biggest fear I'm often
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starting these things but I never
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actually see them who else is like that
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they'll start like plants off and then
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they'll just end up killing them all
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because they've given up or they've not
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been down to the garden for a few days
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so that's why I brought these cuttings
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home to hopefully keep an eye on them at
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home and see how well they actually get
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on and get started because now is the
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perfect time can't be going taking cins
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and I want to try and get some cins of
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some other stuff as well and seeing if
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we can get other stuff growing it's
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worth a try and again at end of the day
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you're not losing anything it's free and
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you've got lots of plants out of it and
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if you've got free cuting you can
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obviously give them to friends and
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family as well for them to have in their
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garden and you can say you contributed
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to it as well so we've done all that
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we've also been sorting out some of my
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tomato plants what are growing outside
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they're growing pretty well and pretty
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fast now I'm impressed with how well
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they're actually coming on these are
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what I started from seed from Tescos
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Tomatoes mixed
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variety box of tomatoes yellow orange
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and red I started some of those seeds
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off and then I planted them all outside
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I did this last year and got a fantastic
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crop obviously not as big a crop as what
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you get in a greenhouse or poly tunnel
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but the reason why I grew them outside
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is because of the heat wave the year
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before last and it killed all my plants
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off in the poly tunnel as it was too hot
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and there were water restrictions and
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stuff like that so I planted them in the
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soil and I had good success last year I
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got a great crop enough just for me so
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we're doing that again this year and
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there's plenty of flowers growing on
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them we've be putting the canes in
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fastening them up sorting them all out
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and hopefully hope we'll get some decent
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tomatoes to
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eat I've also brought my beetroot home
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as well what I harvested the other day
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details so I need to YouTube that again
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YouTube it to see how to cook beetroot
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in my air fryer so hopefully we'll be
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alive tomorrow if we've not killed us
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stuff but we'll give it a try we'll give
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it a shot and see how well we get on
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with cooking some beetroot it doesn't
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that too too hard in the Airy but we'll
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let you know how we get on and I may
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post a photo of what it actually looks
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like once it comes out of the Airy I
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know I need to go and get some file to
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wrap them in that's one thing that I
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have read up on so we need to get some
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file for that we've also been sorting
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out some of our climbing beans as i' not
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put up some supports for them I didn't
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think they get that tall but they have
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got to so we put some netting up for
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them to climb up and for them to sort
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themselves out and Hope
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get
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some beans growing on them and one guess
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what I've noticed today on my runner
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beans I've actually got some beans
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growing on them already they were hiding
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uh I didn't think they'd be ready yet
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cuz like it's only July time and I
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thought surely they're usually ready
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around August September time but no we
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got lots of runner beans coming already
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so looking forward to having them on a
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Sunday dinner with some white sauce on
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so I'm pleased with how well the runner
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beans are coming on we've obviously
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still got load and loads of peas left to
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go come we've got potatoes left to
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harvest so we've still got lots and lots
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of crops coming and my lece is starting
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to get to the end of itself now so we
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need to harvest as much as that and get
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it all out of the ground and hopefully
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get some Marvin as well get some more
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lettuce growing in his
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place and obviously I gave it a massive
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watering as well today as I'm working
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for the next four days hopefully
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there'll be a podcast every single day
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I'm hoping to plan to record some for
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you to listen to now these will be
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talking about tips and advice rather
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than what I'm getting up to in my
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allotment because I won't have been to
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my allotment for the next four days so
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I'm praying that it rains on the days
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when I'm actually working never know
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usually it rains on my days off but I'm
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hoping it rains on my days when I'm
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working but yeah I gave my alotment of
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really good water in today I've watered
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all my cucumbers what's inside my poly
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tunnel so hopefully they'll be all right
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for the next few days obviously I should
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really go down and water to the
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cucumbers in the poly tunnel even if it
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rains it obviously won't rain on the PO
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inside the poly tunnel so we need to
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have a look possibly going down and
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checking on them later in the week so
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hopefully I'll be back down at my
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allotment on Saturday when we'll be back
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harvesting doing more work and hopefully
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sewing some more seeds as well fall into
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big savings all in the Kroger app get
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less than 5 miles away or tap the screen
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now to download the Kroger app to save
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big today Kroger fresh for everyone
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details I didn't get a chance to go to
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the shops to get some seeds so I'm
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hoping to get down there and get some
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seeds ready for the weekend and
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hopefully get some planting done but
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we've got lots and lots of stuff growing
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I looked at my black breis today my
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black breis are forming they're getting
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already we've got absolutely loads on my
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phone that's blackberry plant it's doing
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so well I'm impressed with how well it's
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growing and my loganberries are throwing
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out lots of new canes ready for next
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year remember with loganberries they'll
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grow on the cane what grew the previous
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year so all the canes what are growing
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this year of hmet all the side SHO
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they'll have loganberries on next year
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so yeah hopefully we'll get a fantastic
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crop and I'm starting to train them all
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as well and tie them all up as they
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growing everywhere because I don't want
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them growing along the ground I want
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them off of the ground so we been tying
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them all up keeping on tracker keeping
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them supported and hopefully they'll
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survive until next year and we'll get
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some decent crops so yeah it has been a
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pretty good day down at the alotment so
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I'm going to keep you post on these
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fuches and these lavender plants uh
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hopefully they won't die and hopefully
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we can get them to grow some stuff on
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them some roots on them I haven't got no
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rooting powder so I'm doing it without
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rooting powder so we're going to try it
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with old natural water from the council
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tap so we'll give that a try and we'll
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