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What We Got Up To at the Allotment 🌱 A Productive Saturday in January 🍅🥦
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Jan 19, 2025
🌱 What We Got Up To at the Allotment! It may be winter, but we had a super productive Saturday on the plot! 💪🍅 From tidying beds and turning compost to planning what to grow next, we’re setting the stage for a great year ahead. What did you get done at your allotment this weekend? #AllotmentLife #JanuaryGardening #GrowYourOwn #WinterOnThePlot #GardenUpdate #AllotmentVlog #UKGardener
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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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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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you're not following me on YouTube go
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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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