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This video explains useful weekly jobs to carry out in a garden or allotment to keep plants healthy and productive. It shows simple maintenance tasks that help prevent problems and improve growing results.
The guide covers checking plants, watering, feeding, sowing, tidying beds and monitoring growth. It also explains how regular weekly care helps maintain an organised and successful growing space.
If you want to stay on top of your gardening tasks, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice for maintaining your garden or allotment throughout the growing season.
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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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with you I get so many nice messages
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don't get no negativity whatsoever and
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that's what I love about this that
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there's so many people nice people
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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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people when they send me a message or
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all different boats and stuff like that
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