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This video explains which important gardening jobs to focus on over a weekend and how to keep your growing areas organised and productive.
The guide covers clearing beds, preparing soil, checking supports, watering correctly, tidying planting areas and getting ready for sowing and planting. It also explains how regular small tasks prevent bigger problems and improve plant health.
If you want to stay on top of your garden without feeling overwhelmed, these simple practical tips will help you plan your work and maintain a healthy growing space.
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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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can be the first to listen to it so
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today we have been talking
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about making gardening lists and that's
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on my other podcast Channel called
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not checked out that one there's over 30
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the link is in the description for that
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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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