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Setting My Gardening & Allotment Goals for 2025 🍂 | Seasonal Tips & Advice 🌱
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Nov 15, 2024
🎯 Setting My Gardening & Allotment Goals for 2025! A new year brings new opportunities to grow — in the soil and in ourselves. 🌿📝 In this reflective episode, I’m sharing the goals I’m setting for the year ahead, from crop planning and plot improvements to personal growth on the allotment. What’s your top goal for 2025 in the garden? #GardeningGoals2025 #AllotmentPlanning #GrowYourOwn #UKGardener #SeasonalReflection #GardenInspiration #PlotToPlate
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what are we going to talk about today
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well I'm going to talk about one of the
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reals that I posted yesterday my daily
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gardening question and one of them was
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what was the
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most favorite autal task what you enjoy
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doing and I mentioned that I enjoy doing
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all the maintenance work down at my
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allotment doing all that sort of stuff
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but some of the replies that I got back
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were pretty similar some people said
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that they like doing all the cleaning up
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all the tidying up ready for the
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springtime and a lot of people
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commented saying that they love doing
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all the Spring ball planting which I've
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got to admit I miss that off my
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real I absolutely love planting almost
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must be bulbs because you plant them all
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you put them all out you lay them all
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out and then you think Mr squirrel don't
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take them don't eat them leave them for
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Springtime and then you can't wait to
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see the displays in springtime and see
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what grows and how beautiful it looks
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ready for the springtime ready for the
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bees to come ready for the start of the
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year for a fresh new gardening year so
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yeah I do actually love planting spring
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bulbs and I'm might do for one of my
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reals next week what's everybody's
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favorite spring flower so wait for that
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re to come out and another real that I
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posted is what is everybody's goal for
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20125 so that is going to be the topic
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what we talk about on the podcast today
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what's everybody's gardening goal for
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next year so if you've not commented on
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the real on my Instagram go and comment
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on it what your F what your goal is for
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next year also it's on Facebook or
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YouTube so feel free to comment on them
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and let me know what your gardening goal
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is for
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2025 so my gardening goal for 2025 is
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we're going to talk about this today
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quite a bit of some of the goals what I
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want to do for next year so one of the
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things what I've been looking at doing
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is getting an apricot tree now I reading
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up about these and you can get some
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really good fruited apricots now that
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must be one of the only fruits I've not
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got on my allotment I've got my apples
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I've got my pears I've got my plums I've
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got my strawberries I've got my rhab
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I've got my raspberries I've got my
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black crots I've got my gery berries
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I've got my blueberries I've got loads
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of fruit but I've not got an apricot
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tree so I'm looking at possibly getting
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an apricot tree on my alotment now if
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you've gotten an an apricot tree on your
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allotment send me a message and let me
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know the variety that's if it's a good
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fruiter let me know the variety of the
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apicot tree that you have if you've got
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one growing on your plot or in the
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garden as it looks really interesting
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and obviously they're really tasty as
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well so I'm looking for suggestions for
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an apricot
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tree another gardening goal for next
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year would be to start growing again in
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my polyon I've not grown in my poly
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tunnel for the last few years I've just
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left it and I've not done much uh
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planted all my tomatoes outside I
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planted all my cucumbers outside but
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yeah I'm going to look at growing in my
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poly tunel again next year and I'm
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possibly going to look at growing
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cantaloup Melons I'm going to grow
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peppers and I'm going to grow chilies in
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there so I'm looking at starting to grow
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again in my poly tunnel so make sure you
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stay tuned for that because I'm going to
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share my journey of growing melons and
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peppers uh my Peppers I'm going to start
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off in January I'm going to start them
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really early I'm going to get them going
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ready for this year because obviously
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Peppers do take a long time to form and
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the earlier that you start them off the
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better chance of getting more fruit on
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them so I'm going to start them really
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early so stay tuned for me growing my
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peppers and my
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Melons I'm also looking at doing some
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improvements to
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my supports what hold all my Great Vines
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up all my loganberries up I want to
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build like pagod from my shed now you
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know what my building is like it's
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absolutely
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rubbish but yeah I want to build like a
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pagoda I've got a few big posts and I
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want to join them onto my shed and build
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like a framework so that I can grow all
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my loogan berries along the top of it
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and possibly my grapes from the top of
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it as well so make sure you stay tuned
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for that funny video because it'll
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probably collapse probably break and
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probably dismantle and top a
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over but it's all the fun it's the fun
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what I enjoy doing so yeah I want to
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make a few improvements to that area and
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to my seating area where I sit I might
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make a little roof on that so that if it
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does rain I can still sit outside and be
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under cover so we might do a few things
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like that so I've got quite a bit of Pur
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pcks left so that'll be quite fun to try
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something like that that uh and it'll be
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fun to
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watch so that is going to be something
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good for you to
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enjoy but one of the main goals for next
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year is to revamp my shed I'm going to
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Splash out and make it all look
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fantastic inside my shed like at the
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moment it's just basic with shells
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flooring um I've got old pots old seed
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trays but yeah I want to make it more
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better looking in the inside more
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aesthetic as obviously it's just a shed
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at the moment but I want to paint it all
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up I want to Spruce it all up I want it
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to make it look photographable if that's
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the word something what looks good to
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look at and I want to have it as a base
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where I can do all my filming inside
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film all my videos for what I do for you
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all on YouTube and stuff like that so I
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want it to look nice on the inside
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uh because obviously we do get a lot of
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rainy day so I can't always film them
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from the chair that I'm sat at outside
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so I want to have like a potting station
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where I'm filming potting stuff up where
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I'm filming taking my
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cuttings and filming sharing my tips and
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stuff like that so that is one of my
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goals for the winter so that's probably
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going to cost me quite a bit of money to
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get that all done up and looking nice
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for you all but hopefully we can get it
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looking good over the winter period
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ready for the springtime ready for when
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we're sewing all the seeds because that
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is what I always say like this is the
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time when we do all the improvements
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when we Spruce everything up do any jobs
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what need doing any repairs and that's
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why I concentrate on getting my
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allotment cleared as fast as possible
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which it's literally all nearly cleared
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and then you can start looking at doing
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all these jobs on the improvements
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because now my allotment is cleared I
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won't need to touch my beds until when
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I'm out in them in March April May time
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obviously they'll need digging over
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again and possibly weeding but if I home
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every week or so then they won't have no
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weed to them they'll all be ready for
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planting out next year so I've got quite
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a few goals from what I've been saying
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of what I want to do for next year like
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I said I always like to improve a
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certain improve an area on my plot every
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single year like where I planted my
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rhubarb and my fruit trees I did that up
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about 10 years
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ago possibly 15 10 to 12 years ago I
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literally dug it all out dug up all my
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rubab I put black membrane down in the
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whole area of it and even underneath my
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ping slabs I just black membraned right
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up to the fruit trees so that no weeds
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could grow through my this area I put
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slits in I planted my rubab through the
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slits so that the black membrane goes up
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to the rubar and up to the crowns so and
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then I put Paving slabs down and I put
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some wood chip down to help with the
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moisture keep it moisture and keep it
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warm and yeah that area hasn't needed
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any work doing in it for the last 15
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years because I've done it up the only
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job what I need what needs doing in it
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is what I'm going to be doing this
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weekend is that brambles seem to get
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through every so often so I just need to
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chop back all the brambles and tidy that
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all up ready for next year but yeah that
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area is all fantastic it's like my
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seating area which I built last year
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it's got all wood chip on the ground
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it's got a nice bench it's all nicely
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neatly tidy and yeah that won't need
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doing for a few years and that's one of
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the reasons why I want to get all my
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allotment paved because once it's paved
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then I don't have to worry about the
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paths every year I'll just sweep them
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and it'll keep them down obviously weeds
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will possibly pop up in between the
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pairing slabs but if I put black
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membrane down underneath they'll be easy
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to pull out they'll just be loose really
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but yeah I like to do a little area up
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every to help so that I don't have to do
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as much work if you get me I want to
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make it as maintenance free as possible
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where I'm going just concentrating on
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the beds where stuff are growing so each
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year I do love to do things up so that
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is my gardening goals for next year I
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want to start growing again in my poly
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tunnel I want to build up a
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g which is going to be funny and I'm
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going to spruce up all inside my shed to
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make it look fancy and to help with
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filming and with my content what I put
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out for you because next year my content
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is going to be even more obviously at
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the moment we're going to get get in one
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video a day or uh well we're getting my
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YouTube video a day we're getting my
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daily real video but I want to start
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putting out another video a day so I
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want to have at least three videos going
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out a day for you so hopefully we'll be
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getting lots and lots of content out for
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you and I really do hope that you are
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enjoying this content if you haven't
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subscribed to my YouTube Channel please
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do click a subscribe even if you watch
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give my YouTube channel subscribe
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because I'm trying to get up to 2,000
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followers by the end of the year that's
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this year's goal uh to get 2,000
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followers on YouTube so do give it a
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follow and I hope that you're enjoying
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it all because there's lots more content
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ready to come out next year
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so I hope that we can keep growing I
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hope that we can keep sharing tips
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together but yeah until next time which
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will be Saturday's podcast where we talk
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about everything that we're doing on the
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allotment this weekend uh make sure you
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tune in for that episode so until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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