This video explains the most important gardening jobs to do during winter and how to keep your garden productive in colder conditions.
The guide covers planning crops, early sowing, protecting plants, maintaining soil, checking structures and preparing for the coming growing season. It also explains how winter preparation helps plants establish earlier and grow more successfully.
If you want to stay active in the garden and be ready for spring, these simple practical tips will help you manage your growing space through the colder months.
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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was your weekend day yesterday everybody
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how was your Saturday did you manage to
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get out in the gardens did you manage to
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get some work done yes I did I certainly
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did and it wow it was absolutely
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freezing down on the alotment this
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weekend well hopefully it'll be a bit
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warmer today but yesterday I forgot my
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body warmer so I was absolutely
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perishing down at the allotment but
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hopefully we will remember it today when
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I go down and if you're listening to
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this podcast early send me a message
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remind me to take my body warmer with me
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to the
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alotment but yeah hopefully we'll get
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plenty done down at the allotment today
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so what did we get done down at the
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allotment yesterday well yesterday I
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obviously feed the cat when I get there
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and it's now started waiting on my fence
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perched on the fence and as soon as it
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saw me walking down it ran to the shed
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to get fed like we feed it every single
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day so yeah it's starting to wait for me
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now it knows when I'm there and
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obviously I fed the birds as well
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and I think the squirrels are pinching
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my bird feeders I really do because
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they're disappearing I don't know where
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they're going to but yeah they
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definitely hiding them somewhere so we
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got to go out and get some more bird
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feeders which is a pain so we got that
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to do uh but we F we filled the bird
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feeders that were available to be filled
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up so yeah we got that
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done what else did we get done we oh
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yeah I spilled some bird seed on my
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bench when I were feeding them up and
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the Robbin came in my shed and started
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eating it all there so tame Robins they
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just appear and come close to you and I
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sat down in my shed and I managed to get
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a good photo of the Robin perched on my
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tripod and yeah I posted that on
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coming back that's what we want I'm
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definitely tempted to get some Robbin
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houses down on my plot I've obviously
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got bir uh blue tip houses and I've got
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some uh Sparrow houses as well so we
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just need to get some Robin houses next
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to House of Robbins in on my but they
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tend to like Hedges the
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robins uh so yeah somebody's just liked
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my post now on Instagram my Robin
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that are following me on Instagram and
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liking it and we got 400 new followers
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on Facebook last week wow it's certainly
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starting to blow up and I am obviously
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posting more and more content now I'm
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posting videos I'm posting information
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and giving tips and the last few days
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we've posted tips on what to do in the
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garden in January what to start planting
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we've also shared about uh how to look
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after cyclen that you're growing in
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doors how to look what to do with your
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uh alium bulb once not your alium um I
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forgot what it's
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called it'll come back to me but it's
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the one that we all grow Christmas uh so
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what to do with that bulb when it dies
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back and also what to do with the Slugs
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uh in the plot and how to prevent them
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from coming onto your plot obviously we
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can't stop them completely but we and
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try and prevent them as much as possible
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so I'm going to talk about that in one
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of my podcasts what I'm going to do
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coming up so yeah everybody seems to be
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enjoying all the posts and we filmed a
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new YouTube video what's out so if
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you're not following me on YouTube go
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over to my YouTube channel and go and
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have a look at that we've shared a tour
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of my allotment showing you what's
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growing what's not growing I've been
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showing you my sweet peas my geraniums
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all my spring bulbs what are starting to
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come out so go over and have a look at
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that video and if you don't follow me on
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YouTube do give me a follow and then
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you'll see the videos come up as the
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year goes on so we've done that what
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else have we done today we've been busy
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tidying my poly tunel up I am a real
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pain with my polytunnel I just tend to
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Chuck stuff in there and then at this
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time of year I spend ases tidying it all
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out so I need to start being more tidy
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this year that is one of the plans to be
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more tidy and then I don't have to do
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all this tidying up in the winter
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period I'll be saying the same thing
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next year
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details what else did we do we've been
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sorting out all our canes because they
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were all my poon and they still got all
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the wires on and string attached to them
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and they got old runner beans plants
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that had died on what we fastened to
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them and stuff like that so we've been
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tidying all them up we've tied them all
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up and hung them up in a shed that's all
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done and all sorted but yeah we've done
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quite a lot down at the plot today and
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we've had a massive delivery today uh
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which I W expecting to come today and it
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was a big box from U garden and they've
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delivered me three big 30 L pots and
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we've got some potato fertilizer we've
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got three varieties of potatoes we've
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got desire we've got rocket and we've
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got Charlotte so we're going to be
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starting them off chitting them soon so
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we'll be filming that showing you how we
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chit them and the question is do you
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chit or do you not chit to chit or not
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to chit that is the question so send me
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a message let me know if you chit or you
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don't chit I'd love to hear what people
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do I tend to chit I've always done that
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and then I always plant them on Good
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Friday I even though it changes every
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year I always plant them on good Fridays
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to do with the moon uh but we'll be
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talking about that in a podcast coming
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up how to start chitting your potatoes
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and how to grow them so we'll be doing
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that and what else we've got a bonsai
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tree being delivered not an actual tree
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we've got five seeds so we've got them
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to plant and try and grow I've never
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grown a bonsai before and to start one
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off from seed it'll probably be a tree
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by the time I'm dead so probably rep
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planting it in remembrance of
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mate but yeah I'm looking forward to
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giving that try it's all good fun I love
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trying new things and different things
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so make sure you stay tuned for that
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I'll be posting my videos for that on
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YouTube and in Instagram and sharing the
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progress with how it gets on but yeah
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it's been a very busy day down at the
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pot today to say it was freezing cold I
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actually got quite a bit done and we'll
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be back down at the plot today we'll be
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recording I'm going to try and record
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five videos for you for this week so
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stay tuned for them there'll be more
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informational videos rather than
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demonstrating videos because it's not
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much to demonstrate at this time year uh
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so it's a bit like my podcast but we
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you'll actually be able to see me
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so we'll be doing that and hopefully
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adding some more of my polyol up getting
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a bit more done and by the time it comes
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to Summertime it should be
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spotless but yeah we hopefully get lots
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done down at the plot tomorrow um it it
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doesn't sound like I've done a lot but
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