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Snowy Day at the Allotment | Winter Garden Update from Sheffield
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Nov 13, 2024
🌨️ A Cold and Snowy Day in the Allotment and Garden in Sheffield! The plot may be frozen, but there’s still beauty and calm to be found in the garden under a blanket of snow. ☃️🌱 In this peaceful winter update, I take you around the allotment and garden on a snowy day in Sheffield. From checking structures and overwintering plants to simply appreciating the stillness, it’s a reminder that the garden never truly sleeps. Have you visited your plot in the snow recently? #SnowyAllotment #WinterGarden #AllotmentLife #GardeningWithBen #SheffieldGarden #WinterOnThePlot #GrowYourOwn #UKGardener
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everyone and welcome back to gardening
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with Ben well it's Thursday it's
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absolutely freezing but we're back here
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for another podcast today and my whoa
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has it been cold this
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morning I've been uh I saw the weather
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forecast yesterday um on my phone that
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it' say it it start snowing around
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midday so I thought I need to get to the
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allotment nice and early so that I can
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get my timeing down there and get
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cracking with the work that needs
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doing and it is a good job I did not
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because it was absolutely
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freezing but we managed to get lots and
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lots of work done down at the allotment
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today and I'm quite impressed with how
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much we actually did get done down on
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the allotments to say how cold it was
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and I couldn't feel my toes by the end
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of the time down at the plot I
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accomplished quite a lot to be honest
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because I'm getting to completion of all
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my beds and that is what I'm planning
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for by the end of February and hopefully
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tomorrow I will have got all my beds dug
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over so we'll have to see what the
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weather's like tomorrow but if it's
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absolutely chuing it down if it's
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snowing I won't be on the plot I will be
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in my shed and Greenhouse doing stuff in
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there but yeah I quite impressed with
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how much we've managed to get done
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because it did start snowing in
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Sheffield around 11:00 and the sky
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looked full if that's an expression
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you've heard before um when it looks
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like it is going to absolutely Chu it
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down with snow and it it didn't and it
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did but um I had had enough at the
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allotment I'd spent 3 hours down there I
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got down there for about 8:00 this
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morning and I went live on my Facebook
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so if you want to watch that feel free
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to check out my Facebook page gardening
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with Ben and you can see my live where I
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do a tour of my plot and show you how
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well things are getting on and how badly
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things are getting
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on but yeah I got quite a lot done and I
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was quite impressed that I got as much
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done as I had did because like I said it
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was absolutely freezing I could not feel
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my feet but by the time I'd finished
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doing my Liv so when I first got on my
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plot my fingers had gone numb and I just
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didn't want to be there at all today and
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sometimes you get them feelings when
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you're down at the alotment you feel
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like you don't want to do anything but
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you've just got to push yourself and
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motivate yourself to get in there and
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get doing some stuff so we've got that
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done so over the next few days hopefully
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I'm going to get that area finished at
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the top which is an absolute tip um of
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an area uh I've not really grown in it
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before and I'm looking to grow in it
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next year cuz it does get the sun on
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that area and I'm hoping to have my
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sweet corn in that area this year so
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we'll have to see about doing that but
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then I need to go and get these hydras
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tomorrow I've looked at where I'm going
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to put them on my plot and I'm going to
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get four by the thinking of it uh for
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this area I'm looking at putting them at
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the front of my plot
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on my entrance to give my shed a bit of
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uh Shield protection really from the
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wind when it does get windy and yeah
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they'll look nice at the front of my
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plot add a bit of color and Bush out and
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look good really uh and hopefully make
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it attractive and yeah I've always
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wanted hydranges on my plot I don't know
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why I don't know what I like about them
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but we used to have them in my old house
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and it was something that always looked
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beautiful and they always grew every
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single year as long as you looked after
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them you got beautiful flowers on them
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and they're easy to grow as well so
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nothing beats easy to grow and like I
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said I want to keep getting stuff on it
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what will come back every single year so
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that's my plan so we'll have to see how
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well we get on with doing that and if we
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manage to get them in the morning that's
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the plan to go across to the supermarket
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and get them in the morning so I may be
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planting them tomorrow so you'll have to
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stay tuned on my Instagram to see if if
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fact you can see a picture of them and
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what they look like cuz they're only
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like £4 each only small ones but they do
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grow fast and they do look healthy which
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is a bonus so yeah I'm looking forward
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to getting those and just remember if
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you do buy red or blue ones they do
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change color depending on the soil
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quality if it's acid they'll turn Med if
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it's alkaline they'll turn blue so yeah
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hopefully we'll get some of those in and
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I need to look at getting some other
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stuff really from a plot um I I am
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spending quite a lot of money on flowers
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and stuff this year um that is the plan
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to add a lot more color to the plot and
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get
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some better displays really uh make it
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look more attractive and it all seems to
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be going to plan so far I were looking
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at my he this morning at the front of my
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plot and wow it does look absolutely
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beautiful and these were what I bought
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really really cheap at being queue uh
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they sell stuff off every so often and I
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was just lucky enough to go in and I
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think bought this hether for 50 p a pot
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and I bought about four and they look
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absolutely beautiful so yeah I'm pleased
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with them purchases sometimes you can
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land on really good
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Bargains um in the supermarkets so I
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keep popping in every single day just to
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look for bargains and see what I can
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come out with so it's always worth off
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if you drive past to B andq every day
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just pop in every single day and see if
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they've got anything in the reduced
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items because sometimes they're decent
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plants but the reason why they're
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getting rid of them is because they're
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getting the same variety coming in on
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the next delivery and they've not got
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room for them so they get rid of the Old
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Stock to get the new stock in so yeah
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always keep your eyes peeled in the
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reduce section in being C because I live
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in it and if you seen all my house
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plants that I purchased over the past
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few months from being cute you will know
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why I absolutely love it but that's the
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plan anyway we're getting there slowly
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with my plot
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and all my spring bulbs are going to
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come out this year they're going to look
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beautiful and fantastic but I do want to
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get some perennials down the sides of my
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borders
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that's the aim for this year I've got my
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gladiol icons put in I'm going to get
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some more of those I want to get some
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more in of those because they they do
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come up fantastic every single year so I
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want to get some more gladiola icons so
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they may be on my list tomorrow as well
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so it's going to be a pretty old busy
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day down at the plot tomorrow hopefully
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we manage to get all this done and
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hopefully the weather is decent because
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I do want to get get all this cracking
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along and getting it moving and I just
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can't wait for the color what's going to
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be looking in my plot this year like I
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said I am working so hard for the bees
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this year to get that food for them to
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help them come to my plot and help use
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their magic really and pollinate all my
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fuit because the more bees that come to
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your plot the more they will pollinate
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your fruit and you will get good crops
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from them and that's what I keep saying
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anyway and last year I got a bumper crop
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of fruit and I had a lot of flowers but
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I didn't have millions but this year
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it's going to be absolutely jam-packed
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with flowers my plot and the bees are
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going to be in heaven come into my plot
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um they'll be ignoring all the other
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plots and they'll be thinking we must go
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to Garden him with Ben's plot and enjoy
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all that nectar down his plot what he
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has planted especially for
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us so yeah there is going to be a lot of
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work done tomorrow I don't know if I'm
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going to be at the plot on Saturday yet
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because it is payday tomorrow and I will
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be going out for a few beverages
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thankfully I'd never show any live
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footage when I'm out
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drinking that's only for the additional
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fans only joking but yeah um hopefully
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tomorrow night it's going to be a nice
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night because I deserve a good night out
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every so often sometimes I don't go out
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much uh and yeah like I said I've been
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struggling over these past couple of
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years and it's good to get out and enjoy
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myself every often and as well as being
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at the alotment I do enjoy going out and
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enjoying myself every soften and yeah so
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if you've not checked out my other
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podcast what I do called gardening and
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alotment tips go and have a look for
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that it's on most podcast platforms or
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there's a link in the description below
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yesterday was talked about CC melons and
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today I might talk about melons on there
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uh different varieties of melons you can
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grow in the UK so yeah I'm looking at
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growing melons again this year uh that's
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a lot of subscribers on that one they
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seem to be enjoying it which is good so
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I've got two podcast channels this one
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and the other one and yeah hopefully
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they'll both take off pretty well this
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year and do as good as this one so thank
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