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Seasonal Gardening Tips & Advice | Practical Growing Guidance for Healthy Plants
Nov 13, 2024
This video shares practical seasonal gardening advice to help improve plant growth and maintain a healthy garden.
The guide covers routine care, preparing for seasonal changes, preventing common problems and maintaining productive growing conditions. It also explains how small regular actions make gardening easier and more successful.
If you want helpful gardening guidance you can apply straight away, these simple practical tips will help you care for your growing space with confidence.
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didn't have time to record them after
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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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