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Saturday November Allotment Jobs: Essential Tasks for Fall and Winter Prep
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Dec 1, 2024
🍂 Saturday November Allotment Jobs: Essential Tasks for Fall and Winter Prep! The seasons are shifting, and now’s the perfect time to get ahead before winter sets in. 🧤❄️ Here are the key tasks I’m tackling this Saturday — from clearing crops to protecting beds and planning for the colder months. What’s on your weekend to-do list? #NovemberAllotment #FallGardenPrep #WinterIsComing #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #SeasonalGardenJobs
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben wow it's Saturday
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already where has this week gone it's
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absolutely flown by well it certainly
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has been a cold week week hasn't it but
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fingers crossed we'll be able to get to
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the allotment today depending if it
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snowed or not when I've recorded this I
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don't
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know but yeah hopefully it's not snowed
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and hopefully I can get down to the
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allotment well what are we planning on
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doing this weekend well I'm planning on
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doing all my strawberry beds area and
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round near where all
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my formless black Brees are growing all
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my Great Vines I'm going to be sorting
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out all around them which is going to be
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a pretty big job as this probably will
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last me the most of the weekend to be
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honest uh but we'll have to see
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and I basically want to get all my
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blackbery canes tied up fasten to the F
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fence supported and yeah get all my
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strawberry beds uh trimmed back get all
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the old leaves off what are dying off or
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gone funny on them just freshen them all
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up and make them look ready for next
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year so that's going to be pretty big
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job in itself and then I'm going to tidy
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up all my paths sort out all that and
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yeah that area should then be done after
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that and then hopefully if I get all
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that done this weekend then next week's
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tasks I'll be starting off to get my
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shed ready for the massive revamp which
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I'm looking forward to as I need to
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start looking at ideas on how I want to
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make it look on the inside I want to
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Spruce it up make it look good as I want
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to use it as an area where I can start
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filming videos in there doing
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demonstrations sharing Me sewing my seat
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seeds and transplanting all my plants
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and just doing like weekly videos in
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there keeping you all up to date with
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everything that's growing and what's not
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growing as you know I'm an honest
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Gardener but yeah I'm looking forward to
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getting all that done and getting it all
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spruced up as it do need a lot of work
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doing on the inside but I am going to
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strip it all back and do it all a fresh
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and make it look good for next year give
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it all a pain brush out sweep down
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and do any repairs that need to do into
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the roof which uh one of the pieces is
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missing so we need to repair the
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roof we've got that to do and also I've
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ordered some winter wash for my fruit
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trees so hopefully I'll be able to get
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that done soon I want to get them all
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sprayed down I need to put some of that
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green sticky tape around the trunk of
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them to stop anything from crawling up
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on them nesting on them over winter so
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yeah yeah we've got plenty to keep us
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going and obviously once I've done
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inside my shed I'll be doing inside my
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poly tunnel as that is one of my goals
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for next year to start growing again in
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my poly tunnel I'm going to continue
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growing my tomatoes and cucumbers
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outside because they do absolutely
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fantastic they did really well but I'm
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going to look at growing my some
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melons and some peppers and some chilies
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inside my polytonal next year now the
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thing is with doing that is that I'm
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going to have to look into setting up
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irrigation for as obviously I won't be
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able to go down to the allotment every
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day of the summer as obviously I'm
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working now Monday to Friday so I'll
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only be down at weekends so I'm going to
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have to look into irrigation for them
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and I've done this once before I set up
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a water B with drippers he did off it so
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then they were dripping not fast but
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like just a gentle drip every so often
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and fill a water but up and it'll last
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for ages so I'll either do that or I'll
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use uh bags as I've used them in the
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past and they're really good as well you
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fasten the bag on to the side of the
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poly tunnel and again it has drippers
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leading from it and the uh you can like
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twist them to the speed of the drip that
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you want but yeah I think I might do
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that again next year and obviously it
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just keeps them water obviously it's not
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a big water in just a gentle drip but
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it's getting some water to the roots if
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you get me so then at least it'll keep
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them watered and obviously my dad will
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pop down every so often to give stuff of
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water for me cuz he's pretty good like
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that but
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hopefully we're going to get a lot of
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stuff done this winter depending on the
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weather obviously but soon I will
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actually be able to sit back and relax
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and not do anything cuz I don't think my
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shed will take me a long time to do it
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possibly it take me about a month to do
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it all as obviously painting's a big job
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and putting up new shelving and just
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clearing out all the rubbish what's in
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there as you don't realize how much
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rubbish you do accumulate when you're
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pottering around in the
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shedlock you just end up with loads of
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compost bags for that's one thing that
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you end up with loads of compost bags
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and Seed wrappers and stuff like that
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and plastic
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um seed um tags what you write on to say
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what's in your seats and stuff like that
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I tend to save them because you can use
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both sides or you can samp paper it down
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and write over it again and sometimes by
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now it's washed off anyway by end of the
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year
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so then you can just use them again and
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WR over them that's what I tend to
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do so that is going to be my job for
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this weekend sorting out my strawberries
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and my blackberries as I mentioned
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previously I want to build a pagoda on
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my allotment not like a posh pagod um
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it's basically going to be a few posts
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fastened to my shed and going to have
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wires down the side of my plot to
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hopefully train all the Logan berries
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all the black Brees all the Great Vines
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along so that they're off of the ground
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and hopefully away from predators but
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knowing Mr squirrel he will climb along
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the wires and he'll eat
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everything but we can only try so I need
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to start ordering some wires and getting
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that sorted and work out how I'm going
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to put the posts in without I'm falling
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over because knowing my look I'll put
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some posts in and then they'll end up
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falling over and it'll all collapse and
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all the branches will break but you're
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not allowed to use concrete on your
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allotment so unfortunately I just end up
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having to put them into the ground and
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stamping them down or putting a brick at
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side of them to like wedge it in that
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sometimes
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works but if you got any tips on keeping
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posts secure without I'm falling over
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let me know as obviously like I said I
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can't use concrete so I've got to look
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at other options on keeping posts
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upright but yeah I'm looking forward to
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this so we're going to order some bits
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and Bobs I'll obviously have to order
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some wires
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and I won't have to order any get any
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wood in because I've got plenty of wood
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uh if you don't know me I'm a big wood
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hoarder if I see wood available I'll
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take it and I'll save
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it when I were down on the allotment the
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other day one of the other allotment uh
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tenant said to me Ben have you got any
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wood that I can use to start this fire
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off I went yes I've got wood but it's
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not for
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burning but yeah uh I'm one of these
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that'll save every piece of wood for
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anything because you never know when it
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might come in
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handy but I hope that we do manage to
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get down to the allotment this weekend
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hopefully it's not snored by the time
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this podcast comes out and hopefully
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we'll be able to start getting lots more
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stuff done like I said I just want to
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finish off this little strawberry bed
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area and where all my black brid are and
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everything once that's tided then I can
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get on to the interesting stuff which is
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sorting out my shed sorting out my poly
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tunnel fixing any of the beds what are
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damaged on the allotment and getting all
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them painted as well which is going to
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be a job and half but I don't want to
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paint them all until Springtime really
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because if it snows or if it rains
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throughout all of the winter it'll just
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wash off again however good they say
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these wood paints are they do wash off
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if anybody's knows a wood paint that
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don't wash off let me know because I'll
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use
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it but yeah I end up having to paint
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them every couple of years uh you don't
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have to paint them but obviously it
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treats the wood it protects it for a bit
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longer and stops IT rotting as fast and
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it looks nice I I like my allotment to
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look aesthetically nice as well so
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hopefully we'll get all that
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done so I hope you all have a fantastic
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weekend down at the alotment hopefully
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it isn't too C here I'll be wearing my
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body warmer I may have started a bonfire
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again keep warm around the
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bonfire if I have a bonfire done I won't
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get any work done because I'll just sit
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around fire I do love sitting around the
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fire and smelling the
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burning I know that's weird but
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everybody loves the smells like I love
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the smell of tarmac as well so yeah
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hopefully we get that area finished and
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get it all sorted so until tomorrow's
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