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This video explains how to protect garden plants from heavy rain and stormy weather. Learn simple methods to prevent wind damage, waterlogging and broken stems during bad conditions.
The guide covers supporting plants, improving drainage, securing containers and using protective coverings to reduce damage. These techniques help keep vegetables and flowers healthy during periods of strong wind and persistent rain.
If storms or wet weather are affecting your garden, this video provides practical protection advice suitable for beds, borders and container plants.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well it is Sunday today and I'm
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recording this on Saturday night and
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wow it is absolutely horrendous the
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weather it's not as horrendous as what
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other people have had it obviously I'm
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based in Sheffield which is more Inland
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than on the coast where Wales is and
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Liverpool and Blackpool and all that
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area so I'm not on that side of the
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coast I'm in the middle of the country
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and the wind has been awful we've had
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torrential rain it's been absolutely
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awful today and I'm really really really
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dreading driving onto my alotment
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tomorrow because I'm scared that my shed
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might have blown away collapsed pieces
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might have flown off it my polyl might
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have ripped and yeah I'm really not
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looking forward to going down to my
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allotment tomorrow fingers crossed it's
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all Stood Still and survived but we'll
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have to wait and see and hopefully keep
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them fingers crossed and hopefully that
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you have not had much damage as well in
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your Gardens and your allotments and
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hopefully you will be able to recover
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from this bad storm and that's the thing
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we we have to get used to this around
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winter time we get these storms and we
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just have to keep us fingers crossed and
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legs crossed and hope that we don't get
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too much damage we're probably bound to
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get a bit of damage but hopefully not a
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load so we'll have to wait and see and
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see what it looks like tomorrow so yeah
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make sure you to next episode so that
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you find out how my allotment is
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standing and if it is still standing I
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presume that it will actually be okay so
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we'll hope and we'll pray that
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everything is safe so today's episode is
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where we talk about what we have been up
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to down at the allotment today yes I did
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go to the allotment this morning and yes
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I did get quite a bit done but it was
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absolutely torrential rain so I couldn't
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stay outside and do any work outside
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like I wanted to I wanted to do some
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jobs in my strawberry patch but I
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couldn't get round to doing them because
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it was just awful outside so I went in
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the shed and obviously I listened to my
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own podcast giving me tips and advice on
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what to do in the shed at this time of
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year so I've been doing quite a bit of
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tidying up I've been throwing away any
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plants that were growing in there what
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haven't taken or I forgotten to water
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them and they've died
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uh so I've been throwing all them away
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clearing them all away and putting all
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the compost into a bucket which I'll use
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again in my beds and stuff I never waste
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compost I always dig it into the beds uh
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The Leftovers that I've got from my pots
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and stuff like that so I've been tidying
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all them up and also what I've been
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doing is I've been taking all the plants
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off of the shelves and I've got a load
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of plastic uh really strong plastic like
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polyol plastic
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which I got spare from years ago and it
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was just shoved under my one of my
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benches and I thought I'm going to use
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that to protect my shelving in my
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allotment in my shed so I've been
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cutting it all down and putting it on
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the shelving and then putting the plant
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pots back on it which is quite time
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consuming because you have to lift every
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little plant pot off there and lift more
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back on again and yeah it's been quite a
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big job today so we've done half of my M
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Elin today so hopefully tomorrow we're
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going to do the other half the weather
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is still looking bad again for tomorrow
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here in shefield so it looks like rain
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again so I'll probably be stuck inside
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the shed or I'll be repairing everything
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that's broken and damaged but we'll see
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we'll see how things are
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so while I was in the shed as well I was
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trying to work out what Renovations I
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want to do inside it so like I said I'm
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going to Spruce it all up this winter
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and make it look nice for next year and
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I've been looking at what colors to
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paint it inside at the moment most of
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the wood is painted like a green color
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and I want to change the color I want to
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brighten it up and make it look more
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attractive so I'm looking at painting it
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a nice letter box red paint color so
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that's my plan to paint all the wood up
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PLT all the metal up and make it look
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nice for next year and hopefully a lot
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brighter but obviously we can't paint
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them at the moment because the wood is
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quite damp from all the rain and
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everything because it just soaks through
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from the roof and everything down into
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the wood it's it's not rotten or
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anything it's pretty strong wood but
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while ever it's damp I can't be watering
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it at the moment not watering it
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painting it so I can't be painting it at
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the moment so we're going to let it dry
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out usually we get like dry spells in
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January time when it's just cold and
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Frosty and not raining so maybe we'll
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get it painted around then we've just
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got to get wait for some decent weather
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to start painting inside
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it but yeah I'm going to be looking at
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hopefully sewing my onion seeds as well
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soon and my peppers and my Auber jeans
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seeds because usually start them off
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around January time so I'm going to be
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looking at getting all them
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started my onions I'll probably start
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off down in my shed because they should
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germinate all right fingers
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crossed hopefully they'll have enough
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warmth to get them to germinate but my
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peppers and my orber jeans I'm going to
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start them off in my flat because I've
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never had a windel in my old flat and
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I've actually got a window Soul here so
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I'm going to start a few Peppers off and
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a few or jein off here in my flat so
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that I can give them that extra start
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and extra warmth to get them germinated
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because Peppers will need like 25 26° to
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germinate so they need really warm
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weather so we're going to start them off
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at home and get them started but the
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thing is when you're starting seeds off
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on your window you have to be careful of
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them being Ley and getting enough light
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so you have to keep turning them around
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and everything like that but yeah once
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they have established then we'll take
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them down into my shed and continue
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growing them down there at the allotment
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but it's just giving them that extra
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boost and extra few months in past I've
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started them off like March time and
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they've only just been producing frood
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by the time it comes to the end of
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summer so we're giving them a few extra
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months to get started and get
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established to get them seeds growing
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down at the
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allotment but yeah I didn't actually do
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a awful lot at all down the alotment
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today uh I fed Miss cat well Mrs cat
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should I say uh I fed her she's always
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waiting as soon as I come down to my
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alment she's like waiting at the gate
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for me and my dad started whistling her
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whenever he comes down to alotment but
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as soon as she is the cars come she'll
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run onto the plot and get in position
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ready to be fed we feed her on a daily
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basis so she's well looked after and uh
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she's just a rogue cat but obviously she
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keeps the rats down and keeps the nice
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down so it's good to have a little
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allotment cat wandering around it's
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probably from one of the houses behind
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the allotment site but she's often down
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on my
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allotment and I did see her at the other
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day so hopefully she managed to get it
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so yeah we've also got all those bird
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feeders to fill up as well uh I thought
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there's no point filling them up today
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because the wind is absolutely awful
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some of the bird feeders were on the
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floor and yeah if I filled them up
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they'd probably just blow off the trees
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again and all the seed would just blow
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all over over the floor so it's pretty
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pointless filling them up today so
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hopefully when the wind dies down we can
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get them all filled back up again for
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the birdies and yeah I brought on my SD
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card for my wildlife camera uh it's not
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got any good footage on it to be honest
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it's not taken any good shots of
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anything so we're going to have to look
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at repositioning that and sorting it out
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hopefully get some Wildlife on it that's
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what we want we want to see some badges
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or we want to see some foxes around I
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just want to capture some nice footage
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of different Wildlife done at the mment
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because that's what I like to do I like
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to encourage the wildli to my plot yeah
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the bad Wildlife some of them like rats
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mice and squirrels but I love seeing all
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the wildlife down there and every little
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thing that I can do to help them I
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certainly will do so yeah hopefully we
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will be back down at the allotment today
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when you're listening to this on Sunday
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so hopefully we'll be back today
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hopefully we'll be able to get some work
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done and then tomorrow's podcast again
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we'll be talking about what we've got up
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to down at the alotment and what we've
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managed to achieve and hopefully get
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done and hopefully I'll give you a
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report on if my shed is still standing
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and my poly tunnel's Still Standing so
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wait for that episode to drop on Monday
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morning so I hope you've enjoyed today's
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episode a little Roundup of what we've
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been getting up to and obviously storm
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Dar hope hopefully everybody's pretty
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safe and hopefully not too much damage
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so until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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