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This video explains how to prepare and restore an overgrown garden plot so it can be planted successfully. Learn how to clear weeds, improve soil condition and organise growing areas before planting.
The guide covers removing debris, preparing beds, improving drainage and planning planting spaces for vegetables and flowers. These steps help turn an unused or neglected garden area into a productive growing space.
If you are starting a new garden or reclaiming an overgrown area, this video provides practical advice to help you prepare the ground and begin planting with confidence.
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how do you feel when you switch to Geico
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and save on your car insurance it's like
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getting right out of bed late for work
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yet your hair looks immaculate no blow
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dryer no comb no sculpting gel just a
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Flawless look as if you walked out of
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your house and straight onto the cover
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of a men's fashion magazine good morning
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Steven oh have you done something new
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with your hair it looks amazing they
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don't have the slightest clue you were
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half asleep drooling on your pillow not
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10 minutes ago yep switching and saving
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with Geico feels just like that get more
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with Geico how do you feel when you
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switch to Geico and save on your car
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insurance it's like going to work on
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Thursday morning and thinking to
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yourself just one more day until Friday
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but then somebody walks into the
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elevator and says happy Friday then you
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check your phone quickly and discover
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today is actually Friday so yes happy
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Friday random stranger in the elevator
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happy Friday
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indeed yep switching and saving with
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Geico feels just like that get more with
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Geico
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your allotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode will'll dig into tips
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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and allotment Thrive from
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planting sewing and growing going we
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will share all the tips and AD advice we
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will also have regular episodes talking
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about what we have been up to on the
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alarm so sit back grab a brew and enjoy
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today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well I hope that
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you're excited for the weekend because
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it's nearly here it's Thursday already
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we're certainly excited for our weekend
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and yeah in today's podcast we're going
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to talk about how to transform your
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allotment in a month and yes that can be
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a big topic but we can try and condense
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it into about 10
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minutes because that's how long we like
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to keep us podcast we don't like them
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too long that is for sure we just like
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us nice short little episodes I hope
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you're enjoying all these topics that
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we're talking about at the moment we
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found a new way to find new topics to
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talk about and yeah I'm talking about
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different ones every single day but
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today we're going to be talking about
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how to transform your allotment within
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one month
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now December is the perfect time to
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transform your allotment if you're
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planning on doing a lot of work on it or
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if you've got a new allotment it's an
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ideal time and perfect time to get
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started and get cracking with the plot
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as obviously like last uh the other
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weekend we had the storm D so it was
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unfortunate that we couldn't do anything
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on the alotment that weekend how do you
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feel when you switch to Geico and save
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on your car insurance it's like going to
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work on Thursday morning and thinking to
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yourself just one more day until Friday
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but then somebody walks into the
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elevator and says happy Friday then you
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check your phone quickly and discover
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today is actually Friday so yes happy
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Friday random stranger in the elevator
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happy Friday indeed
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indeed yep switching and saving with
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Geico feels just like that get more with
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Geico but this weekend it was 11° it was
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decent weather ideal perfect gardening
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weather you you won't think of they sort
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of weather at this time of year it
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weren't raining it were decent it were
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good but
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yeah
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hopefully we will get plenty more done
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in this month and the way that you can
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like transform your M within a month is
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break it down into manageable sizes and
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into manageable tasks as well what I do
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is that I've got like I've got my fruit
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area and I've got my strawberry patch
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and I've got all my growing beds now
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I've got 21 growing beds 18 or 21
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growing beds so what I do is I divide
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them beds up per weekend if you get me
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and I tick them off on once I've done
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them and cleared them and tided them and
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worked them so then you can think I've
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done all that work I've cleared them all
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and they're all ready for the new year
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ready for Springtime ready for growing
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all your
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producing and I like to break things
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down into manageable pieces because if I
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try and do everything in one day or one
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weekend it becomes too much of a chore
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and it certainly ties me out like I'll
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go down to my lot at 8:00 in the morning
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and I'll come home at 1:00 in the
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afternoon I don't spend all day down
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there yet uh obviously when it gets to
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summer I'll possibly be down there much
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longer and earlier as I do love it when
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it's sunny in the morning like you can
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wake up and go to the I've been down at
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the alotment at 6 o'clock in the morning
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and stay till about 4 o'l uh it's
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certainly better when we've got the
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longer days to get work done
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and it's about thinking what tasks
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you've got to do on your allotment and
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what jobs you've got to do and it helps
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with me doing these podcasts at the
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beginning of each month and I'll say all
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these tasks need doing this month all
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these jobs need doing this month tick
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them off as you complete them and how do
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you feel when you switch to Geico and
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save on your car insurance it's like
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going to work on Thursday morning and
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thinking to yourself just one more day
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until Friday but then somebody walks
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into the elevator and says happy Friday
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then you check your phone quickly and
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discover today is actually Friday so yes
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happy Friday random stranger in the
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elevator happy Friday
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indeed yep switching and saving with
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Geico feels just like that get more with
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Geico do them and then obviously you can
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do your other tasks as well if you're
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not listen to that podcast it's usually
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at beginning of the month like the first
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or the second and you can find out all
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the jobs which need doing at your
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allotment and Garden in December and
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I'll do the same in January I do it
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every single month and talk about what
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you can plan as well and what you can
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start sewing and also what jobs need
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doing so I talk about all them and then
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as I've completed them tasks then I'll
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move on and do other tasks around my
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allotment and I have got like a long
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scale job list like wishes what I'd love
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to wish do and then I've got the jobs
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which are sufficient enough just to get
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my plot looking TIY andn decent ready
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for the year
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ahead and on that job list I've got that
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I want to build an actual fruit F fruit
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frame around my plot cuz at the moment
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it's just all my loganberries are tied
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up to poles same with my grapes tied on
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to poles and stuff like that but I want
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to put some wooden beams in and drill
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holes for them and put wires through
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them and connect them all up that way
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and yeah knowing my look they'll
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probably fall down again
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but and smash something no my look but
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that is what I plan on doing it's the
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same with my shed that I thought I'm
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getting all my allotment tided and
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cleared first and then I can concentrate
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for the next few months doing work
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inside my shed doing all the
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improvements and sorting out all the
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shelving and getting all that done
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that'll be most of December and January
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jobs it's not a crucial job which needs
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doing it's just a luxury job if you get
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me of what needs doing so if you're
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wanting to transform your allotment
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within a month write down all the jobs
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which you need doing on your plot and
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just divide it up by the two days if you
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only get weekends off like me like
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Saturday Sunday divide it up that's like
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eight days divide it up into eight days
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of what need's doing and you'll
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certainly succeed and get it done and
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this is is going to be my problem
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throughout the year now because I used
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to work far on far off and now I've only
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got two days to cram four days worth of
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working too if you get me um so I'm
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going to be pushing myself to try and
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get these jobs done and obviously now
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I'm creating more and more content with
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videos Etc uh that takes up long enough
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just to record videos but I do love
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doing these videos and I love recording
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them for you and obviously the welcoming
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that I get from them everybody enjoys
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them so if you want him to transform
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your allotment make that list tick them
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off as you do them and sure enough you
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will have more and more things to add on
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to your list as you're going along and
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while you're going around the plot
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you'll find different things that need
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doing or if it's bad winter weather and
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if we get a storm you'll certainly have
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more things to add on to your list
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because we certainly get some storm
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damage and yeah it's not always
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brilliant down there but the list of an
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allotment is always ongoing and there's
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always jobs to be done and if you don't
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think you're going to be able to get
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your allotment dug over or cleared in
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time ready for the when all the Weeds
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start growing and everything just have a
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look online on Facebook Marketplace or
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something like that and try and buy some
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tall polling uh just to cover it over or
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black membrane because membrane's better
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than top poing because it does like the
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waterr and it keeps it moist as well and
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it just suppresses the weeds from
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growing back if you get me so have a
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look around cover it over and just
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uncover it when you're ready for using
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it like I wish to be honest that I'd got
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a piece of black membrane the size of
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every single bed and then I'd just cover
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every bed over in the winter and take it
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off in May time when it's time to plant
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out and they'd be perfectly ready if you
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get me so that might be one thing that I
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might invest in the future uh because it
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is expensive black membran it's not the
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cheapest
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anymore but yeah it's about working them
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jobs one job at a time and dividing them
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up and getting it sorted and getting it
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done and making the most of it whenever
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you've got decent weather and I always
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say like obviously not today because
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I've done my plot um if it's decent
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weather work outside in your allotment
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if it's bad weather there's always jobs
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to be done in your shed in Greenhouse
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there's always jobs to be done there as
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well so I hope that you managed to
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transform your allotments within a month
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let me know if it encourages you if it
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motivates you to get you started and get
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you cracking for the year ahead and next
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year is going to be a challenge but
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we're going to smash it we're going to
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smash it together and I'm going to
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obviously keep sharing my allotment
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Journey with you all here on the podcast
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and on my Instagram I share lots of
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photos of what I'm getting up to and
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obviously in my weekly tour video what I
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do on YouTube as well for you to see my
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progress throughout the year one thing
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that I might think of doing next year is
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standing in the same spot every weekend
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and taking a photo of the plot week
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after week and then compile it all at
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the end of the year to show what
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transformation is over a year of my plot
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so I might actually try that next year
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so stay tuned for that video and we'll
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see how we get on so until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone thank you for joining me on
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