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This video explains how to take fuchsia and lavender cuttings to grow new plants successfully. Learn when to take cuttings, how to prepare stems and which growing conditions help roots develop.
The guide covers compost choice, watering, humidity and positioning cuttings to prevent wilting. It also explains how to care for young plants after roots form and when to pot them on.
If you want to propagate plants at home and produce healthy new growth, this video provides a simple step-by-step method suitable for gardens, greenhouses and indoor growing spaces.
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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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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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fall into big savings all in the Kroger
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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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less than 5 miles away or tap the screen
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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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