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Today’s Catch-Up with Gardening With Ben | Allotment & Garden Updates
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Nov 13, 2024
🎙️ Today’s Catch Up with Gardening With Ben! A relaxed, down-to-earth update from the plot — sharing what’s been going on, what’s coming up, and everything in between! 🌱☕ In today’s catch-up, I talk about recent allotment jobs, seed starting progress, plans for the week ahead, and a few thoughts on the gardening journey so far this season. Grab a cuppa and join me for a garden chat! What have you been up to in your garden lately? #GardeningWithBen #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardenChat #UKGardener #GardenUpdate #AllotmentDiary
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben well I can't believe it's been
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5 days since I last published a podcast
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but yep it has I know I said I'd keep
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them going while I was working but I
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didn't have time to record them after
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I've done 12 hours at work I feel like
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I've had enough and I want to relax and
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because there's a lot of new people
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subscribing to the channel so thank you
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for all the new people that have joined
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us and thanks to the people that sent me
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messages because I've been receiving
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some messages this week of people that
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have been doing stuff what I've been
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sharing like planting blueberries
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getting formless black Brees and even
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somebody's sent me a photo of their shed
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that there was building uh getting
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inspiration from building their own
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Greenhouse rather than purchasing one
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but yeah uh keep sharing those photos
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with me of what you're getting up to and
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if you if I do inspire you yeah
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definitely share them with me so we've
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been back down at the allotments today
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for the first time in 5 days and it was
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a horrible day today absolutely chuing
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it down this morning and then beautiful
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this afternoon I think winter is is
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finally arriving upon us but as I always
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say if it's raining there's always work
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to be done in the shed and poly tunnel
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and that is the reason why I've got a
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shed and a poly tunnel so I can keep on
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going down to the allotments and getting
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work done while I'm down there and it
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was great to see as well because the
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council was on the site relaying all the
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roads as well so they were down busy
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hard at work in the rain out while I was
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in my shed with my nice cup of coffee
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but yeah I've been in my shed today I've
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been doing some clearing up tidying up
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and getting stuff done but I have also
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been planting some more spring bulbs yes
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you may think well it's a bit too late
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to be planting spring bulbs but as I was
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clearing around in my shed I found a
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bucket full of spring bulbs what had all
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started sprouting so they needed to go
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in the ground so we've managed to get
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them in the ground whether they come
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come to anything this year who knows but
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they're all growing so they've all gone
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in the ground and hopefully we'll get
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lots of Blooms from them uh because this
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is an area where I didn't have any bulbs
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so hopefully it will look absolutely
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stunning so we'll have to keep our
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fingers crossed and see how we get on
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but yeah all the spring bulbs are
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starting to pop up in the plot now it's
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amazing to see how far they're coming on
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now and how fast they're progressing
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there's not as many many as I hoped
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because I felt like I planted a load
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more uh but we'll see we'll see they
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might come up it might just be taking
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them a little while but like they say it
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needs cold to wake the bulbs up to make
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shock them to think yes spring is on its
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way we best start waking up and start
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flourishing and start growing so yeah uh
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hopefully we will see the bulbs and this
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week you need to Batton down the hatches
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because we're getting two storms here in
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the UK this week I think it's going to
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be Wednesday and Friday they're saying
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the Friday storm could lead to snow so
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make sure you've got everything
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protected make sure your green houses
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are fastened down well because I've seen
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so many pictures of people's green
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houses and poly tunels getting blown
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over and Blown Away in this wind and
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it's to be expected in Winter all the
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wind and the rain and the horrible
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weather so make sure it is fastened down
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and if it's one of these green plastic
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poly tunnels take off the cover so that
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you protect it and then just slip it
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back on after the wind's gone at least
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the wind will blow through the poly
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tunnel then and you won't lose the cover
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on them um I I it just goes through me
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when I see people's stuff getting
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destroyed by the wind it really does uh
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all that hard work and effort gone uh
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and the ensive as well so make sure
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everything is fastened down for these
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storms on Wednesday and Friday everybody
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I only had to do a bit a few repairs
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after the last storm not much whatsoever
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thankfully touchwood I never seemed to
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get much storm damage on my plot but we
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never know it might blow my shed down
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this time hopefully not we'll have to
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see but yeah while I was down on the
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plot today I having a look at my herbs
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what I planted quite a bit back now
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uh in my Greenhouse obviously it's
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unheated uh because I'm not down there
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every day it's not heated whatsoever uh
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I've just planted some seeds and put
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some cing film over them and my
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coriander's starting to pop F today so I
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shared a picture of that on Instagram uh
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so if you're not following me on
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Instagram check it out gardening with
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Ben and you'll be able to see my
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coriander seeds
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growing but I'm hoping that we do get
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some decent days cuz I need to get some
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work done outside I need to get the rest
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of my plot cleared and done I'm hoping
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to get it done by the end of February
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and that's 15 days away now so hopefully
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we can get that work done and get it
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sorted because come March I'm going to
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be planting loads and loads of seats uh
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absolutely Lads I hold off from planting
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mainly most of my seeds until March uh
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so yeah I'm going to be cracking on in
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March time as the weather starts to turn
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hopefully nicer and warmer and if you
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remember to the first lockdown which was
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two years ago uh it was
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a red hot March it was absolutely
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boiling it was a heatwave it was like
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the hottest march on
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record so anything could happen in that
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month of March and April so yeah
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hopefully we'll get some nice weather
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and we can get those seeds germinated
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but like I always say a lot of them can
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catch up and can start growing a bit
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later so don't Bank sewing all your
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seeds in January February time hold off
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and get them sewn when it is a bit
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warmer and they'll definitely germinate
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but we're going to keep cracking on
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we've got three more days down at the
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plot so hopefully we can get a lot more
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done a lot more cleared it's starting to
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look like an allotment again it's not
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just looking like a general tip uh which
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it has been looking over winter the
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exciting part gets to when I start
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painting it all and start freshening up
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all the beds then it starts start to
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look a bit more nicer and posher and
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inviting as well just hopefully get all
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that done before the spring bulbs come
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and then it'll look nice and perfect
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really ready for sewing out all the
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plants later in May time and June time
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but yeah we're cracking on pretty well
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and it's good to see that um
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everything's coming along pretty well uh
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definitely this year because obviously
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last year I never got much time down at
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the plot so I hardly got much done but
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I'm already getting excited now about
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all the things that I'm going to be
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growing in my poly tunnel it's going to
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be absolutely jam-packed full and it's
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going to take time watering again uh
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that is one job that I definitely don't
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like doing I don't like watering
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whatsoever um it's just one job that
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seems to take forever and it's
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absolutely
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boring but yeah uh last time I grew in
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my Greenhouse set up an irrigation kit
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and I had it connected on to water Bots
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and they held water for about 3 or 4
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days and they just constantly sent a
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little drip every so often into the
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tomatoes and every cucumbers and
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everything and they just kept them
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watered and kept them going and they did
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fantastic it was amazing and yeah I did
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share the video on YouTube at the time
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of how I made it all and hopefully we
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can get that back up and running again
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but it does take a while to get it all
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set up and get it all working in
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Partnership together but yeah um I'm I'm
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looking forward to this year it's going
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to be a good year down on the allotment
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I can feel it already from what I've
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done down at the plot and what I've been
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sharing on my Instagram with you all of
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how I'm getting on it's going to look
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absolutely phenomenal down on the plot
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this year with the amount of stuff what
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I'm going to have growing so I look
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forward to sharing it all with you all
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