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Weekend Gardening Plans | Friday Allotment Update & Plot Prep Tips
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Nov 13, 2024
🌞 Weekend Gardening – Happy Friday, Gardeners! The weekend is here, and that means it’s time to get our hands in the soil and start ticking off those plot jobs! 🧤🌱 In this feel-good Friday update, I share what I’m planning for the weekend on the allotment — from planting and tidying to setting goals for a productive couple of days. Let’s make the most of it together! What’s on your weekend gardening list? #WeekendGardening #HappyFridayGardeners #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #FridayFeels #GardenPlans
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben well It's Finally Friday the
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weekend is finally here and that do
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always make um it sense for me because
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obviously I work shifts I work four on
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four off so my weekends fall all over
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the place but actually I finished work
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now
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until Tuesday so I am down at the
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alotment for the weekend I won't be down
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today as I've just finished night shift
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so I'll be sleeping all day today and
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going to the pub tonight but we will be
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back down at the allotment on Saturday
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for hopefully a nice day it's certainly
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been a nice week as well while I've been
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working I've been wishing that I've been
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at the allotment all week but you've got
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to work You' got to earn them pennies to
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buy those seeds and to keep your
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allotment up and running a without work
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we won't be able to do this but as we're
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now starting to get the nicer weather we
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do need to start looking at the jobs
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which we can do on the allotment towards
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getting it all ready for Springtime and
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getting ready for planting outside we're
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not going to be planting outside for a
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while yet the time for planting outside
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will be once the frost is cleared
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because we don't want to kill any
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vegetables off and stuff like that you
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pe some people can be too eager to put
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stuff outside and a late Frost comes and
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Bam you've lost it all and you've got to
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start your seat again so always be
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prepared for the WEA ahead that's what I
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usually say always play it safe when
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gardening because you don't want to lose
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any of your crops what you've been
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growing and yeah it's going to be a very
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busy week for me down at the weekend
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down for me at the allotment because I
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am still continuing with my maintenance
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on my plot I've done round my Plum Tree
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I've sorted all that out that's all
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ready I've planted loads of Summer bulbs
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on there as well and that area is going
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to look absolutely fantastic come summer
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as well as the summer bulbs I'm going to
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be planting some um hopefully some
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annuals and perennials around there so
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we need to keep us eyes peeled on any
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Bargains we see as well as sewing all my
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seeds what I've got to sew uh I am going
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to be getting some lavender plants down
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at the plot uh that's the next purchase
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on my list and I've seen where I'm going
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to get them from um I think I saw four
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plants
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for12 uh which is really good so I want
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to get quite a few lavender plants down
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at the plot because they are a guarantee
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success for the bees uh and the bees
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will absolutely love them and they are
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talking about the bees a lot at the
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moment on the new on my local news they
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were talking about it last night and how
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we can encourage the bees into the
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garden again and that's what I keep
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trying to put across to all my follow
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was uh that we're going to be trying to
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help the bees this
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year so we're going to be getting some
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lavender to plant and then I've also
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cleared down round my fruit trees that's
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all done we've put a new flower bed in
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there which is a nice long one down the
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side of my plot so we need to look at
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what we're going to be planting in that
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flower bed uh because it's not an easy
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to get to one because it's past my other
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fruit trees uh it's between me and my
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neighbors so we need to get looking at
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what flowers to put in there um there'll
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probably be annuals what I put in there
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because um then I can just replace them
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year on year and I like to have my
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perennials near the front of my alotment
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where they're easy to access and to
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maintain and look after and we also need
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to look at getting my broad beans in
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I've not got any broad beans in yet and
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as I keep saying in uh what seeds to
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plant and stuff like that if you can get
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your broad beans in earlier and get them
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harvest in earlier they'll be ready
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before all the black flies start to
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appear and attack them and decimate them
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uh and swarm on them uh and it's nothing
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worse than seeing them covered in Black
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Fly um your broad beans uh I don't think
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they do much damage to be honest but uh
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you just don't want them down uh all
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over your plants so we need to look at
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getting some broad beans in the plot and
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getting that job sorted CU there's some
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varieties out there that you can start
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now as long as the Hardy varieties where
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the frost won't kill them you can get
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some broad beans growing on the
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allotment that is one thing that you can
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plant outside and we're going to in our
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potatoes beds ready uh for planting
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potatoes out in the plot and also our
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onions uh we'll be planting our onions
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outside soon and getting those ready so
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we need to look at getting them beds
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ready getting them dug over and and
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possibly adding a bit of manure into it
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or chicken pallet feed uh just to
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improve the soil of it because I'm not
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really improved my soil while being down
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at the plot for 14 odd years and yeah
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you should definitely improve the soil
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and look after it because if you look
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after the soil the soil will look after
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your vegetables and hopefully you will
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get some decent crops from it so we've
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got that to
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do and this weekend's job is going to be
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mainly doing the maintenance work around
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my new fruit area what I've uh recently
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uh built and got ready in my new new
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fruit area I've moved all my strawberry
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plants to a new patch uh I've planted
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red gooseb uh which I'm looking forward
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to Growing I need to put some feed into
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them and encourage them to grow uh I
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have read that you give them tomato feed
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uh which I never knew so I'm going to be
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looking at doing that giving them some
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smarter feed to help encouraging them to
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grow get
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big and also I've planted two blueberry
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bushes and I've read up that you give
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them acious feed so I need to get some
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of that ordered uh because we want some
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good good uh blueberry plants and I
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didn't know that you had to give them
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acious feed so we're going to get some
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of that ordered as well and I can feed
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my other two which I've had in for few
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years now uh so hopefully that will help
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Spruce them up and get them going pretty
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good uh again like if you look after
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your plants your plants will look after
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you it's a bit like looking after
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yourself if you look after yourself
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you'll be healthy and happy so that is
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what we need to do we need to get some
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erous feed I will put that on my list
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now while I'm
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talking but yeah we've got that to do um
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then we have planted some formless black
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bris so I need to keep an eye on them
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keep them watered and keep them trained
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and get them growing um and then I've
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moved some some of raspber what had gone
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growing in the wrong place uh I've moved
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them down to the side of my plot uh so
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we need to look at giving them a prune
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because they say if you prune the tops
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off your summer raspber cans what grew
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last year what they going to be the ones
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that produce this year they'll help push
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it out better
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and make uh more fuit on it because
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they'll Bush out and they'll concentrate
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on growing them delicious raspberries so
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we need to look at giving them a snip
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off the tops because I have noticed they
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are starting to produce them shoots on
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them now uh so they are waking up and it
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shows that they've taken as well so we
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need to give them a tidy up and sort
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them out and then obviously my
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maintenance work is going to be putting
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all my fence back up because that all
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blew down it it wasn't up the best uh we
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didn't put it up brilliantly uh it was a
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bit of a rush job what we did uh last
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year but I want to get it all sorted and
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get it all put properly because
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obviously this is going to be a nice new
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food area and it's going to hopefully
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produce a lot of fuit and stuff around
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it so if I make it look nice and make it
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look presentable as well that is one
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thing I do like to do on my plot I do
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like to make it nice and presentable
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um I do paint all my wood with uh wood
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paint and everything like that to make
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it look nice and fresh real each year
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and it just makes it that it just gives
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it that added little touch on showing
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that you care about your plot and also
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it treats the wood and stops it from
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rotting as fast uh so yeah it's going to
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be a very busy weekend down at the plot
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uh it'll probably take me all weekend to
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get this uh fruit area done and finished
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and make it look the best it can do and
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then next time when we're off we'll be
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Concentra on my main plot area which
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hasn't got a lot to do uh when I were
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looking at it the other day it's just to
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case sorting out all the paths I've dug
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over all the beds now all the beds are
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dug over they're all ready for planting
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the time comes but we have got uh
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possibly uh another three or four beds
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to build at the top of my plot which is
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exciting because I'm getting that much
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further down my plot now um yeah I've
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got my plot I've had my plot 16 years
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and I've still not got to the top of it
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yet every year I keep working a bit
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further up the plot and clearing a bit
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more and getting it all ready it's not
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about being a rush Jobing trying to do
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too much at once it's taking your time
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in getting your plot ready and just
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doing what's manageable to be honest uh
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there's no point putting pressure on
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yourself when you've got an allotment
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because that pressure some sometimes can
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put you off going and sometimes you
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can't get it all done and all ready um
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so yeah it's going to be
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pretty good once it's all done and
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hopefully come the end of April allma
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plot will be complete it'll be finished
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it'll look brilliant it'll look tidy and
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it'll all look fresh ready for the
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growing season we certainly put a lot of
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effort in this winter in preparing it
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and getting it ready uh one point I used
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to when the cold came Pro well probably
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end of October I used to stop going down
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to the plot of end of October and I
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won't go back to the plot until February
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and then I'd been rushing so much to
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getting it ready uh that I couldn't
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really do any improvements throughout
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the winter and my followers always used
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to say Ben where are you where are you
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gardening with Ben why aren't you being
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to the alotment we're worried about you
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uh so then I decided I need to carry on
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through winter and keep on going to the
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plot so that's what I've done and it's
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definitely helps because you're not
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rushing at the last minute getting it
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all ready and all prepared for the year
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ahead so I do I don't grow stuff mainly
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through winter uh I can't be doing with
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that uh it's a bit too cold for me but I
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do spend my time down there getting it
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all ready for the year ahead and it's
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definitely helped I do think that if you
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don't do it already you definitely need
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to do it and it's one thing that can
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benefit your plot so yeah we have got
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lots to do this weekend make sure you do
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