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Autumn Saturdays at the Allotment | Gardening Tips & Seasonal Advice 🌱
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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 Autumn Saturdays at the Allotment! There’s nothing like a crisp Saturday on the plot — leaves falling, crops maturing, and a to-do list full of cosy seasonal tasks! 🧤🍁 In this episode, I’m sharing what I’ve been up to this weekend, plus essential autumn gardening tips to keep your allotment ticking through the season. What are your favourite autumn jobs on the plot? #AutumnAllotment #AllotmentSaturdays #GrowYourOwn #SeasonalGardenJobs #UKGardener #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife
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weekend is finally here hip hip hooray
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you may say I certainly say it and so do
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you cuz that means I will be back down
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at the allotment today and yeah I'm glad
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well so you're doing your little bit for
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me so what are we doing this weekend
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down at the allotment well fingers
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crossed the weather will be decent as
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I've not been down to the allotment all
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week as obviously I've been at work and
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it's too dark when I finish work now so
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we've not been down for a week so
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obviously the first job will be when I
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get to the allotment will be to fill the
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bird feeders back up and fingers crossed
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they have been eating them all I'm
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guessing they will have done whether Mr
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squirrel's been back eating them all
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we'll have to see but I've got my
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wildlife camera up as well now so hope
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we have got some pictures of what's been
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eating them and hopefully some footage
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for you to see and hopefully I'll be
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able to share it online for you all to
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see of what I've done so hopefully like
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I said we'll get us bird feeders filled
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back up and the birds will love me for
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that we've got so many bird feeders I
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could literally buy a load more as well
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if I wanted to but I I'm staying away
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from them at the moment I've got some
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ideas where I want to put some in the
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future but we'll see about that and yeah
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I've also got my Ren Bird Box to get up
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we've got that to get up so I might try
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and get that up this weekend so that the
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Rens can start nesting in it and
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enjoying
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it and what else will we be doing well
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we'll be checking up on all my produce
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what I've got growing obviously I've got
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my onions in hopefully they'll have
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started sprouting by now they've been in
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a few weeks I saw one just starting to
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sprout but I want them all to start
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sprouting now I want them all to start
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popping through and showing the heads
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and faces to me and saying hello we're
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growing I don't want a dff set of onion
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sets if you get me so hopefully they've
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started growing and hopefully a lot more
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of my garlic will have started sprouting
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as well now and hopefully we'll be well
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under the way of growing them now my
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broad beans what I started in my shed I
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don't know if I told you this but Mr
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ratti or squirrel had been in there
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eating them all and eaten all the tops
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of them now I grow them in seed trays to
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stop them from being eaten when I'm
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growing them outside but something's got
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in my shed and eating them all while
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they're in the seed trays so it's not a
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win-win
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situation so yeah we might have to get
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some more broad beans to start and try
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again over winter time but we'll have a
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look around see what we can get and
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whether it's worth off doing them or not
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but I I'd like to I'd like to show you
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how well they are easy to grow through
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the window period so we might have to
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order some more seeds and get them
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growing but we'll have a look around see
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what we can do we might be able to get
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these ones back alive we'll see we might
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have to just cover them over and they
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might start sprouting from where they
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beat eat them off and start them going
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again we've also got our sweet peas to
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sort out this weekend I've been saying
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it every time when I've been doing my
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tour video that they need trimming back
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ready for getting them to Bush out over
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the next year I start them off nice and
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early so that they get nice and strong
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and they're well developed ready for
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planting out after the Frost has gone
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next year so we need to trim all them
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back and get them all tided up and done
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and again I'm going to do a video about
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that about getting them all sorted ready
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for next year so make sure you stay
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tuned for that video coming out on
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YouTube
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and I think this weekend is going to be
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a weekend of concentrating on sorting
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out all my paths on my plot as over the
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last few weeks I've been sorting out all
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my beds I've du over all my beds now all
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my beds are cleared and Weed Free
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they've got roots and stuff in them but
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hopefully we'll just keep turning them
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over over winter period and keeping them
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Weed Free that way and pulling out any
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roots that we find as we're digging them
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over and keeping them hold down as
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obviously it only takes 5 minutes to
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hold a bed down and it can take half an
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hour to weed a bed so if you hold them
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every week then you'll keep on top of
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the weeds in
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theory
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so I might go around hoing them all I've
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also got this wolf garden tool which is
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absolutely brilliant it's like a little
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pushalong rator to what clips into the
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hand rail uh handle and you just push it
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and it's brilliant and it's got a hole
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on the other side of it as well and it
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seems to pull out all the roots as well
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which is absolutely fantastic it's
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expensive it's like 40 odd pound for
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this head but it's well worth its money
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in gold and it saves you so much back
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ache and muscle pain with pushing a hoe
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around so we might do that and I'll film
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a video of that for you as well for you
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to see uh like I said I'm trying to film
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as many videos as possible CU obviously
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I do these podcasts but then it's
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sometimes good to see visual stuff for
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you to be able to see what I'm actually
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doing down there and I'm enjoying doing
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these videos down at the alotment now as
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I'm starting to do weekend blogs showing
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you what I get up to over the full
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weekend then I'll give you a tour of the
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plot at the end of the weekend to show
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you what it's looking like what's
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growing what's not growing and it gives
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me a chance as well when I do the weekly
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tour to see what jobs I need to do as I
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go around like saying oh I'm going to do
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this I'm going to do that but I never
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get around to do it and one of the other
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jobs what I keep saying that I need to
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do is I need to dig my geraniums out and
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put them in pots and put them in my shed
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for over winter because we're going to
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try and keep hold of them now if you
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leave your geraniums outside the frost
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will kill them and then you'll have to
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get new plants next year whereas if you
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dig them up put them in a poly tunnel or
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a greenhouse and or if you've got a
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window cell inside but I don't want to
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fetch them in doors uh into my flat but
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if you've got somewhere warmish pot them
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up and look them look after them prune
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them back can trim them and they will
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grow back next year and flow next year
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and save you a lot of money so if you've
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got geraniums dig them up and move them
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indoors and see if if you can keep them
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ready for next year save yourself some
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money as geraniums do cost quite a lot
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of money and I didn't realize how easy
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it is to grow them from seed I did that
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one of the years I grew a load of
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geraniums from seed and it is really
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easy to do so we might have to do that
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again this year trial some geraniums
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from seed and show you how easy it is to
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grow them I'm going to do another video
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as well on how easy it is to grow
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rhubarb from seed as that is really easy
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as well but obviously we don't start
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them growing until March time so
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hopefully like I said this weekend I'm
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going to be clearing all my paths
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tidying them all up and straightening
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them up and then next week I'm possibly
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going to be looking
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at fixing all my Beds which have rotted
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or Fallen apart and it'll be case of
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screwing them all back together again
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and tidying them all up and then we'll
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see what the weather's like because I
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want to repaint them all I want to
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Spruce them all up but if it's too damp
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the paint won't stick to the wood very
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well and it might be best off doing it
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in January time so we'll have to wait
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and see what the weather's like because
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if I paint tomorrow now and we have a
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really bad winter like
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rain snow and stuff like that it'll just
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wash it all off again however much
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Garden paint it says it last year it
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doesn't it does wash off eventually and
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it certainly does with my beds CU I seem
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to paint them every couple of
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years so we've got a mold paint and
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Spruce up and then I've got a herb area
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at the top of my plot as well which I
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don't really use much it's just there to
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fill a space in to use an area up on my
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plot cuz it's very shaded where that
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part of the plot is and I can't really
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grow that much in there so I've like
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made some little uh brick beds uh when I
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was Tiding all my plot up I found loads
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and loads of bricks on my alotment
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absolutely LED and I made like brick
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little beds and I put some herbs in each
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of those so I'm going to be Tiding all
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that up as well this weekend that is the
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plan to get all that area cleared and
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then it'll be a case just like sorting
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out all the leaves what I've dropped
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from all the trees and stuff like that
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putting them in my composting bin
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tidying up it's just general tidiness at
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this time of year and I'm trying to get
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as much done possible on my plot now
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ready for next year as like I say I only
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get two days off a week now before I
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used to work four on four off and have
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four days off so I used to get a lot
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done so it's case of cramming it all
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into two days and getting it all done
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and who who knows what winter we're
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going to have we could be have an
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Absolut terrible winter where we can't
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get out in the garden for months and not
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be able to do anything so the more stuff
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that I can get done now in preparation
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for next year it will save me the whole
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time in the world and once I've done all
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my allotment and if it's still decent
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well even if it's not decent I'm going
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to be in my shed getting all that ready
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for next year and tidying up like I said
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in one of my other podcasts last year I
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spent a lot the winter rebuilding all my
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shed as it had all collapsed it had
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rotted roof pieces were missing off it
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so it needed a lot of time and effort in
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getting it all back up to scratch and
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this year I'm going to renovate the
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inside of it and repaint I'm going to
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paint it all get some nice shelving down
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make it presentable because I want to
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start filming in there and sharing tips
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and advice from in there so hopefully
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we'll have a nice area to film in as
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well in the shed so I'm looking forward
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the allotment whether we' managed to do
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some of these tasks or not what we've
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talked about in this episode you will
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have to find out you'll have to wait and
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