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This video shares seasonal allotment jobs and practical gardening tips to help keep growing spaces organised and productive. It highlights useful maintenance tasks and simple techniques that support healthy plant growth.
The guide covers preparing beds, caring for plants, sowing seeds, watering, feeding and general garden upkeep. It also explains how regular attention and small jobs throughout the season improve harvests and prevent problems.
If you want clear and practical advice for managing your garden or allotment, this video provides beginner-friendly guidance to help you grow successfully.
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and welcome back to gardening with Ben I
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hope you're all okay and I hope you've
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listened to the recent episodes what we
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have uploaded as one of the episodes was
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all the jobs that need doing in March
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and then the other was all the seeds
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that you can plant in March so two very
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important episodes for you to listen to
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and get some tips and advice on what you
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should be doing this month down at the
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alotment or in the garden so as you know
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I'm off work for 4 days so so in the uh
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so in today's episode we're going to be
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talking about what we've been getting up
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to down at the allotment and what we
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have managed to get done down there well
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today it's absolutely chucked it down so
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we've not done
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anything there you go there's the
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episode thanks for listening to
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gardening re Ben only
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joking but no um yesterday was an
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extremely busy day down at the alotment
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it was really
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really a nice day so we got absolutely
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lots and lots done you may have seen on
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my Instagram story and Facebook that I
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have purchased quite a lot more bits and
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Bobs to go on the allotment and to plan
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really because I am looking towards
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Summer now so I'm starting to look at
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what things to plant down at the
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allotment and
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I'd been seeing quite a few Bargains
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here around and everywhere to be honest
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um I'd seen some longera what had been
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reduced to 90 p in my local supermarket
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from2 so I bought three of them whether
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they sprout or not because obviously
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supermarkets don't tend to water them
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and they're in the cardboard boxes so
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they can't get water to them and yeah
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they dry out pretty fast
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so I'm hoping that they are still alive
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what we've done with them is we have put
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them to soak for 24 hours so that they
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can drink the water and hopefully spring
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back to life if they are alive that is
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and to be honest it's longer than 24
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hours that they've been in that water
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because like I say it's been raining
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today so we've not been able to plant
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them and the same goes I've managed to
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by four Victoria plum trees now I've
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talked about my Plum Tree quite a lot in
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these episodes I've had it on the plot
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for now what goes 16 years and I get the
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most beautiful tasty plums from it that
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you've ever tasted so soft so juicy
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tender absolutely
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delicious and I've got one Plum Tree um
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and I've got like a couple of apple
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trees and I thought you know what I'm
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going to get another plum tree for my
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allotment obviously it'll take a few
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years to grow and start bearing fruit
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but we are going to get another plum
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tree so I decided to get two Victoria
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plum trees for my allotment and plant
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them in the new fruit area that I've
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designed this
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year and that we've got going on at the
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moment there's still quite a lot of work
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to do on that fruit new fruit area but
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we wanted to have some trees on it and
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obviously planting fruit trees requires
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four because they are going to be there
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for years to come and you won't be
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obviously digging them up out of the
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ground pretty soon so you need to think
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about where you're going to be planting
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your fruit trees and these Victoria plum
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trees had been reduced from £7 down to2
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£66 so like I said I bought four two for
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myself for my plot and two for my next
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door neighbor's plot because he tasted
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those plums from that tree I won't say
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he tasted my
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plums he tasted those plums from my tree
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and he couldn't get over how tasty they
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were so I've purchased him two fruit
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trees as well to put on his plot and
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hopefully he will be able to plant them
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and get some delicious plums from them
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as
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well so we've got four plum trees
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between us and obviously you you should
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really plant some fruit trees in twos to
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help with pollination and stuff like
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that um so I've got two for myself and
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two for him so again I've put them to
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soak for 24 hours because they've just
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been sat in one of these little bags
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with no water possibly for a month two
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months now so we don't know if they are
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alive
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if they're going to start again start
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growing so we've given them a good good
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drink and again I've not been able to
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plant them today so they're still sat in
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that bucket waiting to be planted
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hopefully we may get them planted
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tomorrow we'll have to see how we get on
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down there but I'm hoping that we do get
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them planted tomorrow we will definitely
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get them planted while I'm off work if
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it's still raining I'll still get them
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planted uh as they do need to go in the
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ground and get growing so yeah I'm
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looking forward to a lot more fruit on
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my plot then we have managed to get some
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red gooseb now I've been talking about
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these in my episodes quite a bit that
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red gooseberries are a lot nicer than
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the green ones because red gooseberries
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are sweet they're not sour and they
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taste absolutely delicious so I've been
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wanting some red Gooseberry bushes for a
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while on my plot we used to have some
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when I first started my allotment years
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ago honk honk I don't know if you could
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hear that um but yeah um we used to have
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some uh on my plot absolutely years
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ago and I've always wanted to get some
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more so we managed to get two from B
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andq so we've got them planted in my new
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fruit area as well so this new fruit
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area is going to be absolutely fantastic
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we've planted obviously my strawberries
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they're all in we've planted
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some um raspberry canes down the side of
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my plot uh which are starting to Bud up
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and take root so they're starting to
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look good so it shows that they're
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taking then we've planted
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our forless black pris down the sides
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which hopefully they will grow and take
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root if they do fantastic I can't wait
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to taste them at least we won't have to
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deal with all the phones on them and get
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prickled as we try to grab some black
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bre so that's going to be good what else
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have we planted down there and I've got
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on order coming in the next few days
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some grapes I've wanted a grape rine for
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my allotment for ages and it's going to
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take a lot of work and a lot of training
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to get a good grip Vine but hopefully we
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do get a fantastic result from it and we
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do get some delicious grapes from it
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because
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of if you grow your own grapes fantastic
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because again they're expensive to buy
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in the shops so hopefully if we can get
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some great gra Vine a good grape vine
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growing and get some delicious grapes
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that will go down a storm with me my
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friends my family and they will
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absolutely love them so it's going to be
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jam-packed the only thing I've not
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managed to get is the yellow raspberries
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which I wanted to get uh so I may have
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to look into getting some of them from
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somewhere else but we'll keep an eye out
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we'll keep his eyes peeled you never
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know we might be able to get some uh so
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yeah it's getting pretty jam-packed my
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plot and after that our next job we have
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planted some Mars summer bulbs now I
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want to grow stuff what will keep coming
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back every single year that you don't
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have to keep growing from seed so
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getting summer bulbs will help in that
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process and hopefully we can get some
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fantastic color from them when they'll
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be reliable and grow good every single
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year so what flowers did we get well we
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have purchased 100 gladioli call ones
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and I've grown gladioli in the past and
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they look absolutely fantastic on the
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allotment so I've bought two packets of
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50 uh so that's 100 all different
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colored ones not the same colors and we
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have filled all my entrance rows with
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gladiola icons so it's going to look
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absolutely stunning in the entrance come
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summer if all those grow and the
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squirrel doesn't pinch them all and we
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will get get some fantastic results down
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there and it's just going to look
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absolutely amazing my plot this year I
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really can't wait to see how well it is
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going to grow and how well it's going to
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get going and the end result uh I'm
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certainly putting a lot of effort into
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getting beautiful flowers this year on
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my allotment uh to attract the bees down
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to my plot and get some fantastic
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results next up after the gladiol eyes
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we got some lily bulbs now I've not
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grown lilies before so I asked my
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followers about Liles because like I say
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I don't know everything so I often go
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back to my followers and ask them
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questions and they said to me to make
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sure that you can get Lily beetle with
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them so I need to look into ways of
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preventing Lily Beetle uh and what Lily
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Beatles do whether they eat the whole
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plants and stuff like that so I need to
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do a bit of research on
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lies and I've planted all them near my
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entrance as well so that they'll get a
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nice strong whift of Lies as I walk onto
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my plot and hopefully we'll get some
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beautiful flowers from them I'll just
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have to make sure I don't knock them or
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I'll keep getting stained from the
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pollen on them but
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yeah I can't wait to have the lilies
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growing on my
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plot and then we have got two packs of
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Summer bulbs mixed summer bulbs and in
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those mixed summer bulbs are some more
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gladiola IC corns so I've got even more
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gladiol eyes um my plot is going to be
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absolutely packed with gladiol eyes this
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year uh but hopefully it will make it
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look nice and it'll make it look
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attractive so we might get some nice
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color from them so we'll have I'll
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definitely be sharing lots and lots of
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pictures come summertime if those
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gladiol eyes all do pop up because the
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the show's going to be absolutely
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fantastic then please do forgive me if I
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don't say some of these names right like
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you like I always say I'm not very good
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at pronouncing flower names so then we
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have got some in this summer bulb
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collection we've got 15 and animate
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Blues so they do look nice on the
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picture then we've got 30 ox
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oxus and they're like a pinky color so
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they'll certainly look nice we've got
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two daia cacti a white stroke pink one
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so again daas they do fantastic they
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always look good and always look
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nice and we've got
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30
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tiia
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tra I don't know how to say that at all
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I really am not good at saying these
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words but we've got 30 of them alt
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together there's 100 bulbs in these
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summer flower collections so again we've
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been filling the borders up and getting
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all them bulbs and corns planted down
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the sides of my borders of my main plot
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so yeah it's going to look good if all
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this does grow so we've planted all them
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and what I've done as well in these
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borders is is I filled them up with all
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the old compost what I whenever I've got
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old compost I just Chuck it all into a
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wheelie bin and put it all in there and
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I've got a wheelie bin full of compost
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so I've just been filling these beds up
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with all the old compost obviously it'll
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still do the ground good because it's
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got some food in it and stuff like that
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and it'll improve the soil content but
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yeah we've filled all these borders back
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up with compost so they all look really
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nice and neat at the moment I've posted
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a picture today on my Instagram of some
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of the borders that are filled back up
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with compost and they do look a lot
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nicer than the soil looks so yeah
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hopefully we do get some fantastic
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blooms in there and as well as all the
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bulbs what I'm planting we are going to
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be planting a lot of flowers as well I'm
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growing lots and lots of flowers from
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seed I've talked about all the SE flower
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seeds that I've purchased in one of my
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episodes recently and shared that with
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you so if you've not listened to that
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episode make sure you do go and have a
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listen to it and see what all the
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flowers are what I'm growing this year
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so we need to look start looking soon at
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starting them flower seeds because some
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do need a long time to get going and get
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growing so I need to find out where I've
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put my bag of flower seeds if you like
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me you'll put things away and then you
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never find them again until year after
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I I did that when I moved out uh I
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realized how many packets of seeds I'd
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put away and then when I came here I
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realized blim me I've got all these
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seeds uh to sort out but hopefully I
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know where I've put them and we can get
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those flower seeds started because I
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really do need to get things moving
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along now we've got all the sweet peas
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to get going and get them growing
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because I want to make a spectacle of
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them as well this year
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as well as the gladiol I want a good
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display of sweet peas on my plot as I
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know they're fantastic and easy to grow
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once you get them growing so we want a
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good result from them this
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year so yeah and then obviously I've
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been down to the allotment today and I
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said it's been absolutely chucking it
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down which it has it was awful down on
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the plot but we have been working in the
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shed today and I'm trying to do some
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improvements in there there's a lot left
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to do uh don't get me wrong but we are
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doing improvements week on week down
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there at the moment and what we've been
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doing is we have rebuilding started
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rebuilding some of the shelves in the
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shed because they've been up quite a few
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years now some of the uh shelves and I'm
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starting to make some new shelving and
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hopefully make the shelving a lot bigger
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so that we can put more plants on this
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shelving and hopefully get some fantas
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fantastic flowers and uh vegetables grow
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because I need to get it all tidy and
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Ship Shape ready for starting these
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seeds off and once I've started them all
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off then we can go full steam ahead and
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get our allotment jammed packed to the
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rafters making the most of every
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available bit of space on the plot so
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make sure you do follow me over these
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next few weeks because it's going to be
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one hell of a it's going to be very busy
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down at the alment so make sure you
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follow in my Facebook and my Instagram
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and you'll be able to stay tuned with
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everything that I get up to down there
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cuz I do like sharing lots and lots of
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pictures with you all so yeah I hope
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that you have a fantastic weekend and I
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hope that you
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have plenty to do it looks like it might
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rain tomorrow fingers crossed it doesn't
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rain cuz I want to be outside in the
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garden tomorrow I don't want to be stuck
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in the shed for a second day running
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I've still got lots to do in the shed
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don't get me wrong but I would much
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rather be outside getting things done
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because we've also got a repair tape for
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the polytonal come so that I can get
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that up and fastened back together again
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and repaired because like I said we're
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going to be going full steam ahead with
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growing in the polyol again this year
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last year we didn't grow anything due to
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not having enough time uh so I'm going
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to be growing some tomatoes some chilies
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some cucumber some peppers and also
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we're going to be growing melons down on
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the allotment this year so I'm looking
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forward to sharing that with you all and
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getting some great results from the
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melons because we are going to put a lot
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of time and effort into growing them
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melons and hopefully get the results and
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some melons from the plants but we'll
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have to wait and see uh I'll have to
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share with you what melon seeds I've
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purchased to try growing so we'll have
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to have a good that and hopefully
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like I said hopefully we'll get some
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melons down at the
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allotment so I hope you have a great
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weekend everybody until next time
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