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Allotment & Garden Update | What We’re Doing on the Plot This Week
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Nov 13, 2024
🧤 What We’re Up To at the Allotment and Garden! There’s always something happening on the plot — and today we’re diving into a mix of jobs, plans, and progress! 🌱🪴 In this video, I walk you through the latest updates from both the allotment and garden — what we’re sowing, tidying, building, and prepping for the season ahead. It’s a bit of everything and all part of the gardening journey. What’s going on in your garden this week? #AllotmentLife #GardenUpdate #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #AllotmentTasks #GardenProgress
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben well it's Tuesday and we have
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got until Friday off work so I've got 3
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days to spend at the allotment I never
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managed to get yesterday I was too tired
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after my night shifts and I just wanted
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to relax so I didn't bother going to the
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allotment yesterday but we have been
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down today and my have we done some work
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today so first up I went to my favorite
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store B
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Q always looking for bargain
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and yes I certainly found some again
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today I've purchased eight campola for
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my allotment because the Fantastic
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flowers on them they spread up
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to 50 cm I think it is or possibly more
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uh so hopefully they'll spread amongst
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my flower beds and attract the bees
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because that is my key plan this year to
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attract as many bees as possible to my
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plot and I've actually seen my first be
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today um I couldn't believe seeing it on
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the alotment whether it were just hiding
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somewhere and it just came out of
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nowhere but yeah I saw my first be today
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and it's good to see that spring is
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finally on its way and all the bulbs are
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starting to pop up and it's looking
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beautiful and the more plants that I can
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purchase for the plot that will come
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back year after year it saves me less
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time in the future sewing as many seeds
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I will be sewing lots of flower seeds
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each year don't get me wrong but I've
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definitely want as many permanent
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fixture plants in as possible and
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campola grows back every single year as
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well so hopefully it doesn't get killed
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off when cold weather comes and it stays
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strong and keeps on growing and
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attracting those bees because it's got
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so many flowers on it already and
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they've been reduced from4 to1 so I
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bought
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eight all eight of them that were left I
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bought them all and I also purchased
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some phess blabber now I've been going
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on about these for a while uh on some of
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my podcasts I've been wanting to get
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some and I finally got some um these I
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bought three plants in total and these
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were £525 each which I don't think's too
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bad really and again buying fruit you
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get your money's back in no time because
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when you're buying a pet of black brez
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you're paying like2 pound for a pet so
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you definitely getting your money back
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and obviously I grow a lot of
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raspberries as well so they'll
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definitely go nice with the raspberries
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blackberries and raspberries and ice
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cream oh it's making my mouth drool just
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thinking about it
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now but yeah um I'm hoping to grow those
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along my fencing but I don't know how
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Wild they will grow they're quite well
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established already they must have been
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like growing well to start off with and
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hopefully they do take well and if needs
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be I'll have to put some wires up to
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grow them along wires and stuff like
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that to train them but for now I'm going
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to be growing them along my fencing and
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yeah if they get any bigger I'll
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definitely have to get some wires up but
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I'm growing them between mine and my
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neighbor's plot so that we both can
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benefit from it because I do I do love
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sharing stuff with my neighbors and yeah
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you're probably thinking he's got lucky
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neighbor definitely I do love sharing
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produce with other people it's the joy
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of growing and that is what I get out of
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it the joy of sharing as well sharing
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with one another down there so we've got
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them planted up next up we also
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purchased some asparagus now I've never
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grown asparagus before um it's something
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new to me again asparagus is expensive
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to buy from the
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supermarkets uh so I thought why not try
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and grow some myself and see how we get
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on we' bought one packet for the time
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being and that's got two plants in it I
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may purchased another another one but
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we'll see how we get on and how we've
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got space for it I'm going to try and
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make proper asparagus bed for it uh to
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keep them all together and keep them
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where they should be really once they're
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planted they're going to be staying in
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the same place so I need to make sure
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it's a nice bed for it and plenty of
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nutrition in the ground for it to give
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it that establishment it needs to get it
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growing and get it going on the plot so
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we've got that to PL this week and
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hopefully by the end of the week I'll
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have got my seed potatoes as well I've
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seen which ones I want to get so I need
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to get some seed
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potatoes
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and hopefully I don't I I'm in two minds
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I'm growing onions from seed this year
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for definite I've got them in the trays
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already but I'm looking I may get some
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sets we don't know yet we'll see um I
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said I'd go just seeds this year because
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the seeds did better than the sets did
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uh but I'm still contemplating at the
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moment I've grown sets for years uh but
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like I said the seeds did best last year
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uh so I'm still tempted to buy a packet
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of sets and plant them but obviously if
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I don't plant them I've got more room to
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grow other stuff um but yeah I'm looking
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forward to this year it's going to be a
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good year of gardening on the plot
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there's still some veget full seeds that
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I need to get um I need to go through
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all my seed packets and see what we've
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got and what we haven't got and get
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looking at what I'm going to be growing
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because the magazines give me lots of
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free seeds but they don't give seeds
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like pumpkins squash sweet corn runner
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beans broad beans peas uh you don't tend
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to get them in the magazine so I need to
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go out and get all them and get looking
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at what I'm growing this year because
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it's going to be an exciting year I can
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feel it we're going to have some great
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stuff grow
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and
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hopefully I will be sharing lots and
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lots of posts about it uh I'm definitely
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sharing quite a bit on Instagram these
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days so if you're not following me on
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Instagram I'm sharing lots of pictures
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of my stories uh of how I'm getting on
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down at the plot I do love sharing what
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I'm getting up to plus quite a few
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selfies who loves a good selfie uh I
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certainly get a lot of likes and I'm so
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people must like them uh so yeah um I'm
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definitely enjoying this year so far so
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what else have we been up to on the plot
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well I've started going onto my main
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plot now uh I shared it on my Facebook
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live this morning so if you're not
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following me on Facebook check it out
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there I did a Facebook live showing
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people around my plot this morning and
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showing how I'm getting on with it and
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what I'm getting up to on the plot
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because like I said I've got a lot to do
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but I feel that I am in a good position
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to get it all done and tided very ready
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for the year ahead so I've got that to
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do and it shouldn't take too long I've
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done two beds today I've got 18 beds in
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total uh so yeah hopefully if I clear a
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few beds every time I go down I should
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get quite a bit done and now I'm H
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trying to spend a bit longer down at the
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plot as it's obviously staying lighter
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so I'm going a bit earlier to the plot
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as well and possibly spended about an
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extra hour on the plot every every day
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now and I'm trying to spend half an hour
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in my shed or my poly tunnel getting
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them tidy ready for spring because
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they're going to be come big major
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growing areas and I usually say I don't
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work in my shed unless it's actually
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raining because I don't like wasting
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time in the shed when it's nice day
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outside and this winter is been nice all
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winter uh I can't really complain about
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the weather whatsoever uh it were nasty
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this weekend but I on night shift this
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weekend so I wen't down at the allotment
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so usually when it's raining I spend
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time in my shed or in my poly tunnel
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getting work done in there but I've not
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had time to go in them because it's been
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decent weather and that's why I'm
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cracking on and getting loads done on my
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allotment and getting it all in ship
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shape and it's probably looking the
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best it's looking in years um because
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I'm spending so much time on it I've
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started at the top of my plot and
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working my way down to the bottom and
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progressing every single week on getting
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further and further down yes I am moving
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rubbish further down the plot but once I
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get to the top of the plot that's when
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it all gets cleared away but it's going
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to look great this year and the time
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that I'm spending down there at the
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moment is brilliant um it's it's it's my
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second home uh if I didn't have my lot I
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don't know what I'd do I'd go still
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crazy being in the flat all the time on
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my own and spending time down there is
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my Lifesaver uh it really is it means so
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much to me having that plot uh if I were
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to get chucked off or I I left it uh I
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don't know what I'd do but yeah it's
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definitely the place that I spend love
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spending time and I love sharing it all
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following me and I've made so many nice
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friends as well um I always get back to
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