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This video shares practical allotment tasks, gardening tips and growing ideas to help improve productivity and organisation. It highlights simple jobs that support healthy plant growth and make the growing season more successful.
The guide covers soil preparation, seed sowing, plant care, watering, feeding and general garden maintenance. It also explains how small regular tasks can improve harvests and keep an allotment well managed.
If you want practical inspiration and clear advice for your garden or allotment, this video provides beginner-friendly tips to help you grow more successfully.
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well today it's Thursday and have I been
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busy down at the allotment today I
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certainly have and it was absolutely
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freezing when I got to the alotment this
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morning it was so bitter it was trying
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to rain it was just so cold but we got
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down there and we spent hours down there
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um absolutely loads of time down there
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today getting bits and Bobs done
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so what have we been up to today well I
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went to my favorite garden place where I
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always buy all my stuff from recently
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and I have purchased two blueberry
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bushes and
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some seed
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potatoes as I've grown blueberries for a
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couple of years now and they get really
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good uh blueberries on them but I've
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also created this new fruit area that
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I'm growing um all my strawberries in
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and my phoness blackberries and
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raspberries in and I thought I need
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something else to add in there um so I
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thought what can I get and I know
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blueberries are expensive to buy from
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the supermarket and I thought why not
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yeah they don't take much looking after
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so why not purchase some blueberries so
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I've purchased two more and I'm on the
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verge of attempting to buy another two
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uh to go in another spot so we'll have
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to see if we get them the only thing is
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with blue bries is that you need to
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plant them in
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acious compost or ous
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soil and the reason is that they prefer
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that sort of compost to survive and to
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get the crops that they need so the best
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tips and advice I always give for
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planting blue bries is to get your cous
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compost and plant them in large tubs now
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you can get tubs quite cheap these days
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these plastic ones and make sure that
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they've got holes in for the drainage so
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that they will obviously let the water
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out because you don't want them getting
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water logged or too wet and rot the
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roots on them so I've planted these two
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in tubs and I've sunk them into the
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ground now the reason why I sink them
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into the ground is because obviously
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when it gets windy it will um blow them
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over and you could damage them and lose
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the food off them and also if they sunk
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into the ground it's as if they like
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planted really they look part of the
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allotment and part of the attraction so
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they're in the ground and also they look
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less
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opportunistic if if I can say
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that if they were just stood on the
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allotment in pots who knows who would
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walking past and they just come and grab
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them and take them away and have free
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blueberry plants for themselves so yeah
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I SN them into the ground and I was
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talking to my plot neighbor today and he
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knows quite a bit about gardening and he
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was saying make sure you feed them with
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ericaceous feed and also that you can
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feed them with chicken pellets manure so
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I need to read up on that because it's
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got the nitrogen in it he says and they
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are good for blueberries uh so chicken
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I'll have to get some more because I've
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run out of them I know they're quite
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cheap as well to buy so we need to get
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some of those for the allotment as well
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because I usually feed my rhubarb with
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it as well uh I usually feed that at the
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beginning of the year so that could do
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with feeding this time of year as
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well and then I've bought my sea
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potatoes I have purchased ones that are
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called Charlotte and Nicola so two
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girls' names I purchased them ones
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as I've grown Charlotte in the past but
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I've never grown Nicola so I thought I'd
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give that one a try and see how they get
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on these are second earliest uh so it
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says to harvest them around 14 to 16
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weeks after you planted them so that
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should see us through summer I will be
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starting these off chitting them and
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getting them ready uh for planting out I
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usually plant out on Good Friday I stick
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to the old wife's tale of planted on
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good Friday yes I know Good Friday moves
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every year but it's to do with the moon
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and it's an old gardeners saying to
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plant them on Good Friday so that's what
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I've always done I always stick around
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that Daye and that's when I plant them
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all so I'm looking forward to getting
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those started so what else have we been
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up to well I'm currently in the process
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of getting all my plot cleared I've been
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working from the front of the plot and
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working my way to the back of the plot
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I'm I've cleared around all my fruit
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trees that's all done I've cleared
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around my rarb area they're all nice and
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ready for growing they're all popping
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the heads through I shared a picture on
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Instagram the other day of them
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then I moved on to creating this new
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fruit area where I've been planting my
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strawberries I've planted absolutely
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loads of spring bulbs around it as well
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and I've I've also done my raspberries
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which are summer raspberries these are
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summer ones what I've uh popped up where
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they shouldn't do from my neighbor's
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plot so I've planted those I've planted
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my phoneless black bris which I'm
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looking forward to quite a few people
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were commenting on them yesterday uh
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saying that they're not too vicious when
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they're growing so we'll see how they
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get on and now we're moving on to my
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main plot area which will take a few
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weeks to get cracking on that area and
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get all that completed but it's not
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going to be as hard as the other areas
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cuz it's quite straightforward it's case
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of getting it all cleared I'm not
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digging around anything or protecting
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any plants or anything like that because
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it's where I grow everything uh that
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only grows once a year so I can like
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literally go in and demolition it all
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and just get it all cleared and tided
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and get it cracked on with real and
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they're all split up into beds where
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they are as well so I usually say I'll
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do four beds today or I'll do four beds
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tomorrow or something like that depends
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how long I stay down at the plot for and
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I actually stayed longer than I thought
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today because my plot neighbor was down
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like I said and it's always more
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encouraging when somebody else is down
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there at the side of you working on
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their plot you think ought stay down
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here if somebody else is down here and
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stay that a little bit longer and it
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certainly helps me get along with my
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plot and hopefully by the end of
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February my main plot area should be
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cleared that is my target to get my main
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plot cleared by the end of February and
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I'm well on the way to getting it done
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and getting on track with that so I'm
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looking forward to sharing that once
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photo of it once it is completely
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cleared and show you what it looked like
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before cuz it did look a mess uh it got
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the old sunflowers growing in it and
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everything so yeah hopefully in a couple
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of weeks it will look brilliant and then
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I can move on to the jobs inside my shed
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and it's Cas of getting all new shelving
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up getting all of it swept and cleared
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and hopefully fingers crossed I'm going
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to give it a good liquor paint this year
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and Spruce it up and make it look nicer
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uh because it does need a bit of TLC and
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Care inside it and it needs a lot of
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improvements doing to it uh it's been up
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quite a few years now so it's looking a
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bit derilict inside if you must say uh
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but yeah we're wanting to get them sort
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of jobs done and then my poly tunnel as
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well um I didn't use my poly tunnel like
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I said last year and hopefully like this
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year I'm going to be growing melons
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Peppers chilies cucumbers Tomatoes Au
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jeans all inside my polyon also so I'm
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looking forward to sharing all that with
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you from uh the plot from what I'm
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getting up to
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really so yeah it has been a busy four
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days down at the plot we have certainly
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cracked on getting it all done there's
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still so much to get done and I'm adding
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adding adding lots more flowers that
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come back year after year and my auntie
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and uncle came down today and I was
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showing them my campola what I planted
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and they were saying how much it spread
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on their Garden when they had it and it
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looked fantastic so I'm looking forward
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to that taking hold this year as well
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and starting to spread and fill up all
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the soil gaps and stuff like that and I
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was even nearly tempted to get some more
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gladiol light bulbs today so I may get
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some more uh soon I saw two packets for
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£9 and there was 50 in a pack so it be
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like 100 gladi eye bulbs and they'd look
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absolutely fantastic in one of the
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flower beds just all gladiol eyes it
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would look absolutely
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stunning obviously it take quite a bit
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to hold them all up once they've all
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grown because uh they do start to bend
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and Sway and stuff like that uh my
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grandma she used instead of using rubber
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bands she used to use her old tights and
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cut them into rubber bands uh because
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they were a bit more gentle on the
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plants so that's a little gardening tip
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there for you uh use all tights and cut
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them up and make your own rubber bands
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out of them not that I can be doing that
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cuz I don't wear tights only at a
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weekend but yeah um I've enjoyed talking
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