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Spring Is in the Air | Allotment Garden Update & Seasonal Signs
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Nov 13, 2024
🌞 Spring is in the Air at the Allotment Garden Today! The sun’s shining, birds are singing, and the plot is bursting back to life — what a perfect spring day! 🌱🪻 In today’s update, I take you around the allotment to show the signs of spring arriving — from fresh new shoots and blooming buds to the early jobs I’ve been tackling. The energy on the plot is truly changing! What’s the first sign of spring you’ve spotted in your garden this year? #SpringGardening #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #SeasonalUpdate #UKGardener #SignsOfSpring #GardenVlog
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and welcome back to gardening with Ben
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well if you seen all my posts online
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today spring is in the air it certainly
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is it don't arrive until later this
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month but it certainly felt like spring
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today definitely and the weather is
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being absolutely fantastic this morning
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and this afternoon it's getting cooler
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now as I'm recording this but it has
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been a fantastic day for gardening and I
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hope you've all managed to get out in
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the gardens or in the allotments and got
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some work done and enjoyed being out in
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the fresh air like I always do because
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that's the thing that I enjoy the most
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about being in the alotment you're just
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outside in nature just in the fresh air
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I go down Come Rain Come Shine I'm
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always down at the alotment whenever I
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get chance to go when I'm not working
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and I certainly make the most of it and
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today I certainly did that and I didn't
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get home till like half 3 today and I
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got there at about 10:00 so I've spent
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spent a good amount of time there today
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and if it's like this tomorrow fingers
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crossed I may be there even longer
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because I'm working on my new area uh
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which I've been talking about quite a
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bit which is my new fruit area uh the
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bit that I've been concentrating on and
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spending the most money on at the
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moment and when I'm saying I'm improving
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it um I've planted all my strawberries
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in this area uh I planted those about a
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couple of months ago um I also planted
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two Victoria plum trees which I got
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cheap from Tesco they've been reduced to
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£260 from £7 so I couldn't resist not
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buying them uh I bought two red goberry
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plants which hopefully will have some
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delicious fruit on them I bought two
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blueberries for it as well I've bought
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three forless black Brees I've I've
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purchased my Great Vine which I forgot
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to check on today actually uh I planted
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it about 4 days ago so I should have
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checked on it really so that's what I
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need to do tomorrow I'll remember to
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check on it and see how well it's
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growing I've also planted loads of
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Summer raspberry canes which have grown
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in the wrong place so I've dug them up
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and planted them in this fruit area so
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yeah this fruit patch is going to be
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absolutely like fantastic once it takes
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R it'll take a couple of years for it
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all to get going and Get Growing uh but
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yeah it's going to look absolutely
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amazing in a couple of years time and
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I'm really pleased with how it's looking
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up to now but I'd just planted them I've
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not I've not tided up the area or
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anything like that and as I've been
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saying this month for me is maintenance
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month down at the allotment uh I've done
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all the digging over I've got everything
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ready for this year and now I'm doing
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all my improvements what need do into
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the plot the bits that I've been putting
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off at the moment because I wanted to
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get it all dug over and stuff ready for
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the springtime really ready for planting
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out when it comes to it uh so this month
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is all about maintenance and doing any
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fixing doing any improvements making it
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look nicer uh tifying it if that's a
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word uh but yeah definitely doing all
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the improve movements and one thing
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about this area is that I'd built my bed
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too big I couldn't walk down the paths
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because I've got massive feet I've got
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size 12 feet uh and I couldn't fit my
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feet down the paths so I've had to widen
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them to make it sure that I can fit my
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feet down I tend to usually leave enough
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space for a Paving slab uh that's the
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usual width that I usually leave for my
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um paths even though they've not got
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Paving slabs down what I do is I create
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it to make it wide enough just in case I
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manag to get a hold of some and then I
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can put them straight down on top of the
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black membrane and yeah they become a
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path then and eventually fingers crossed
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we will get all the allotment paved all
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the paths paved that is the plan over
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the years uh I keep getting a few more
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Paving slabs every single year and keep
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doing it up so yeah it's all coming
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together pretty well at the moment so
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I'm looking forward to that so we've
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been widening the paths the next job was
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to put up some to reput my fencing not
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put new fencing reput up my fencing uh
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I've been collecting old pieces of wood
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over the years like you do I'm addicted
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to wood if you've got an allotment you
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will know what I mean by being addicted
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to wood if you see wood you will collect
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it and you will use it eventually uh but
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I had a massive pile of wood on my plot
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and I was making trying to make use of
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it so I built myself a rubbish but a
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picky fence down the side of my plot uh
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just to make the most of this wood
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really and to just like give it
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some allotment
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luck but yeah um i' put all this fencing
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up the other year and I'd not put it up
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strong enough and it all collapsed
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during the winter uh so it's a case of
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having to put fresh new posts in which I
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got free from uh being C the posts uh
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they have like wood area uh where you
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can collect offcuts of wood and there
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was some posts in it so I collected them
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and used them so yeah uh I've put all
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that up and then I've refastened all the
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fencing back up so that is all secure
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now and it's starting to look good again
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and come April I'm using that as my
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painting time so I'm going to be
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painting all my plot in April uh all my
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beds all my fencing everything that's
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made out of wood I will be painted it to
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give it a lick paint and to Spruce it up
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and to make it look good um so yeah uh I
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I set myself these little tasks and I
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complete them if you set yourself little
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tasks like you do uh it's a good way of
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getting things done and getting things
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completed on time and that's what I tend
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to do just create myself little lists
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nothing too drastic and try and get it
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all
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completed uh and each day i' go I do a
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bit more and yeah that's how I've
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managed to get on top of my plot and get
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it all ready for this time of year I'm
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really impressed with how it's all
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coming along pretty well at the moment
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it's starting to take shape really good
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and the areas are looking
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fantastic uh once I've got it all sorted
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it will look the best plot in
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Sheffield or the UK or wherever you're
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listening but yeah uh I'm really pleased
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with how it's coming along so we've done
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all that today um tomorrow's job will be
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to I've got this green house what I've
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built and it's got some pooline down the
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side but I want to put up some wood on
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the shed to try and grow plants on the
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side of the shed I see all this where
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people growing stuff in guttering and
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stuff like that and I have got some
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gutter in again if you see stuff you
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collect it and you don't always use it
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so I've got this guttering on the
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allotment and I want to make use of it
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and I want to spruce up the side of my
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shed to make it look better uh than it
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does at the moment and make it more
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colorful and attractive really obviously
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if you're planting stuff in guttering
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you will need to keep it watered well
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because obviously it'll dry out faster
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cuz it's not very deep and obviously the
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rain won't get in it as easy so you do
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need to keep things watered if you're
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growing stuff in
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guttering but yeah I'm thinking about
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Mery possibly grow some mixed lettuce
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leaves in it and stuff like that also I
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may po uh put some strawberries in it I
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may put
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some herbs in them but yeah I want to
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make it a green living shed if you get
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me uh add lots of greenery and color to
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it and make it look nice rather than a
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dull old shed uh so yeah that is my plan
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to get some guttering up tomorrow so
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we'll see how we get on with that like I
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said I'm not very good at diy things
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don't always last uh but yeah hopefully
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we can get it all up and get it all
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sorted and I can't wait to show you what
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it looks like as obviously I do keep
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sharing stuff on Instagram and on
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Facebook so if you're not following me
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follow gardening with Ben and you will
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be able to see all the photos and how
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things are coming along pretty well on
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the plot and hopefully you'll be as
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impressed as I am because like I say
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I've had my plot for 16 years and each
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year I just keep doing a few more
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improvements to it and making it look
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better uh nicer and easier and
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manageable uh the manageable bits the
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main key area of gardening uh making
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sure that you can keep on top of it and
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get things done so yeah it's it's been a
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good day today and like I said hopefully
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it'll be another good day tomorrow I'll
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only be down on the plot three days this
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week uh
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swapping from nights to days I
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obviously am asleep most of the day on
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the day that I finished so I lose a day
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uh but yeah 3 days down at the allotment
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hopefully get this fruit area finished
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and then I'll be moving on to a new area
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and doing some more maintenance on that
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for the 4 days that I'll be off next
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time so yeah it's all starting to come
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together pretty good we've got until end
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of the march to get all of the
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maintenance were done down at the plot
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and we're nearly halfway through so yeah
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I've nearly got half of the plot done so
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yeah I'm impressed with how it's all
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coming along and like I said now the
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days are lighter it's half 6 when the
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sun comes up in the morning now so I'll
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be down there a lot earlier I'll be
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going down at possibly 7:00 in the
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morning soon and I usually come home at
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a dinner time but today I stay till half
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2 3:00 so yeah I I'll start spending
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more and more time down at the allotment
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and hopefully we'll get much more
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completed down at the plot and getting
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things in shape for the year to come and
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I just can't wait for this year this I I
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was such ashamed of my plot last year
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really was uh I couldn't spend half the
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time I wanted to spend down there last
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year so this year I'm putting my
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absolutely all into it and I'm going to
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be showcasing it to H
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of my uh pictures uh and definitely now
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that all the spring bulbs are coming up
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there'll be plenty of spring bulb
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pictures and plenty of selfies in front
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of the flowers uh because you can't get
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