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Weekend Gardening Jobs & Allotment Tasks | Seasonal Plot To-Do List
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Nov 13, 2024
🧤 Weekend Gardening Jobs and Allotment Tasks! Weekends are made for getting stuck into the soil — and there’s always something to do on the plot! 🌱🔧 In this video, I take you through the essential gardening and allotment jobs I tackled this weekend — from planting and weeding to harvesting and tidying. A great reminder that consistency is key when growing your own! What garden task is top of your weekend list? #WeekendGardening #AllotmentTasks #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardeningTips #UKGardener #GardenRoutine #WeekendJobs
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It's Finally Friday your weekend is
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finally here unfortunately not for me as
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I'm on nights but I've got three more to
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do and then I will be back down on the
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allotment for 4 days so I can't complain
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that that really spending four days down
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at the
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allotment
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podcast so we've been talking about why
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it's important to create those gardening
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lists and why we should be doing it to
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be honest
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uh so as it's the weekend we need to
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start looking at what we need to be
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getting done on our
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allotment and in the last two episodes
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I've talked about all the seeds what can
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be sewn in February so you can be
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listening to that making a note of all
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the seeds what can be started off in our
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allotments and Green Houses in February
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but make sure you you have the warmth to
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germinate them because some seeds will
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really need the warmth to get them to
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germinate and without the warmth they
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won't even try growing so it's pointless
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sewing them without the warmth so have a
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look at your packets and make sure you
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check what temperatures they need to be
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germinated at and then the other episode
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we were talking about all the jobs which
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need doing on the allotment this weekend
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so well this month in
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February so it's a good idea to have a
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listen to them episodes and start
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creating your list of all the jobs that
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need doing this weekend now as I'm
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recording this we've been getting
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absolutely hailed here in Sheffield
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there's lots of hail been coming down so
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I'm quite happy that I am actually
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working to be honest because I hate it
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when it rains and I'm off work because I
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can't get all the jobs done that I need
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to get done I'd rather it rain while I'm
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working and then I'm not wasting any
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days if you get
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me so one of the things that I always do
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is if it's not raining I'll be working
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outside on my allotment but if it's
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raining I will still go to the allotment
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and I will do all the jobs which need
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doing in the shed and the poly tunnel
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and to be honest every time when I've
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been to the alotment it's been decent
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weather it's not been raining so the
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still a lot of work that I need to get
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done in my poly tunnel and in my shed
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ready for the summer months and if you
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know already I didn't use my poly tonel
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last year because I didn't have time to
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go down and water uh tomatoes and
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cucumbers and stuff like that so I
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didn't bother growing anything in my
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polyol last year so it became a bit of a
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Dumping Ground and I've not shown any
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pictures of what it looks like in my
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poly tunnel at the moment but it's an
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absolute mess and there's weeds growing
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everywhere
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oh it it all all just needs everything
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just taking out of the poly tunnel and
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cleaning down and restarting so that is
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on my gardening list of jobs to
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do but that will wait until it is a
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rainy day because I don't want to waste
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decent days of being outside all the
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jobs I do inside are for rainy days and
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that's the thing about having a
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allotment is that you can
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have an allotment shed so that you can
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keep doing all these jobs that need
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doing so that is one thing that is good
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to have at the allotment side if you're
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definitely new to getting an allotment
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uh or you haven't got one I would advise
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in getting a greenhouse or shed because
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then it's work that you can continue to
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do while you are spending time at the
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allotment and stuff like that because if
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it's raining and you haven't got a shed
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or a greenhouse or polyon
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you won't be able to go down to the plot
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because you don't want to be outside
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working in the rain I know I certainly
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wouldn't want to go through the lopment
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and get absolutely
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soaked so have a look around and
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possibly build yourself one I got an
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Greenhouse when I first got my
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allotment
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and it was a good greenhouse but it just
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wasn't big enough uh I am 6'5
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and I struggled to get inside the
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greenhouse so I ended up building my own
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shed greenhouse and it's absolutely
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massive um I dug down so that it was
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deeper um but it looks does look tall on
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the outside but it is deep on the inside
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so there's like a couple of steps down
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into it um so I I made it massive
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and obviously I built it myself and I
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built it out of
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perspect uh
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plastic and wooden frames so it wasn't
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expensive to build it cost built it cost
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me about 300 to build it to be honest
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and that's probably what you pay for a
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greenhouse and it's
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probably 10 times bigger than a
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greenhouse in turtle and if you're
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building something yourself then you can
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design it how you want it to be and
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there's so many freebies that you can
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get online you only have to look on the
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Facebook Marketplace and you will find
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wood Timber uh even plastic sheeting so
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you could if you really worked on it you
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could really build your own uh for free
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and I'm no good at DIY I always say this
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in my podcast I'm absolutely rubbish at
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DIY but um it's good fun to have a go
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building something uh you may have to
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keep modifying and making uh upgrades to
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make it last through the storms or
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through the winter weather but mine's
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been up years now and it's still
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standing strong um it's only had a
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couple of plastic sheets blow off but
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they bound to after a few years uh
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disintegrating and stuff like that so
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have a go at making something yourself
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so yeah this weekend it's all about
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writing down all the jobs which need
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doing on your allotment so if it is
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raining and horrible and stuff like that
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still have jobs that need doing in your
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shed and in your Greenhouse a good thing
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to do at this time of year is obviously
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clean all your green houses down clean
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all your sheds down disinfect them all
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spray them all that gets rid of any
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diseases what may be harboring and lying
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around dormant until the warm weather
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comes back again and it makes it all
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fresh as well and obviously you can
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clean all your plant pots and stuff like
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that I know that's a job that nobody
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wants to do uh I certainly don't want to
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do it but it's it's it's on the list of
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jobs that need do it uh trust me uh but
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yeah um there is lots of jobs that need
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doing in the shed in the greenhouse and
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you can make improvements to your
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shelving I'm always trying to find Space
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to add new shelves in and stuff like
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that because you never have enough room
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in your greenhouse and shed trust me uh
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the more shelves that you put up the
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more you'll end up
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growing I struggle every year to find
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shelvin to put stuff on in my Greenhouse
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uh I certainly do and it's funny really
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because uh when you see these people
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just try and cram everything into the
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greenhouse as possible and that is me
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trust me uh come springtime when I'm
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doing my live Facebook tours around my
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Greenhouse and shed you will see how
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cramp packed it is and obviously this
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year I'm going full storm ahead with
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growing flowers on my allotment and I've
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literally got 50 packets of flower seeds
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so I need to find 50 trays to grow them
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in it's all right buying all these
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packets to grow the in but you need to
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find uh stuff to grow uh grow the actual
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seeds in uh which is the hardest bit so
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we'll have to see how we do get on with
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that so I'm look am looking forward to
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Springtime this year uh I'm going to be
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spending some long time days down there
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and from the other day it has started
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getting lighter early I don't know if
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you've noticed that uh it started
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getting lighter earli in the morning so
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I can go to the allotment a bit earlier
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every every day now and hopefully spend
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longer that I don't like to spend I like
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to be home by like 1:00ish usually
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because we've got like a shared cop out
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so it's a first come first for parking
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your cars in uh so I like to be home at
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about 1:00 half 1 so that I get parking
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space because people coming back from
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work and stuff like that so but as the
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days get lighter I will be going down to
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the plot as early as possible um in some
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in the height of Summer I've been known
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to go to the allotment for like 6 half 6
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in the morning because it's the best
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time of the morning to go down in uh
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especially in summer when you're really
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watering hard and you need need to get
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it done before the hot sun comes out so
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I do love being down at the alotment at
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that time in the morning in the
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summer so I hope that you have a
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