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June Gardening Gems: Highlights from the Allotment! | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 June Gardening Gems: Highlights from the Allotment! The plot is bursting with colour, growth, and early harvests — June is a magical month for gardeners! 🌞🌿 In this episode, I’m sharing my favourite moments from the month, what’s growing well, and a few tips to help you make the most of your allotment this season. What’s been your standout success in the garden this June? #JuneGardening #AllotmentHighlights #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife #UKGardener #SummerOnThePlot
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episode hello everyone and welcome to a
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brand new episode of gardening with Ben
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we're Ben and this is your podcast well
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it's now the 1 of July and summer is
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here apparently if that's what the
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weather forecast people are saying we've
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been having hot spells we've been having
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cold spells we've been having downpours
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we've had some Hailstone and yeah I'm
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surprised we've not had no snow mind you
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up in Scotland they've had snow so yeah
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you never know what we'll have this
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month but hopefully we'll have some
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warmer weather but this past week that
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we have had a little Heatwave here and
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yeah it certainly boosted things along
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and in this episode we're going to be
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talking about what we've done in June
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and how well we've got on how badly
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we've got on the things we've harvested
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and what our plans are for July
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tomorrow's episode we'll be talking all
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about what to start what jobs to do in
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the allotment and Garden in July so make
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sure you stay tuned for that episode as
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we'll be talking about that
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one so I haven't recorded a few episodes
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for a while uh I've been extremely busy
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in the background still working on
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gardening with Ben and yeah I'm trying
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to sort of brand new website out and get
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things up and running on that as I'm
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wanting to do like daily
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newsletters and daily tips and advice
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I've been trying a few of those out on
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Instagram at the moment you may have
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seen them so yes stay tuned for lots
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more content coming along so I'm trying
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to get this website up and running as
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fast as possible so so that I can start
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getting the tips and advice out on a
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daily basis to you through my website
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and through newsletters as well so stay
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tuned
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for you to sign up to get the
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newsletters on a daily basis I will soon
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be sharing that link with you
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all so June down at the allotment what
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have we been up to well obviously we
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went and visited Gardener's world we
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went to Gardener world it was absolutely
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fantastic and it is too big to walk
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around in one day while even I get tired
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from all the walking around it is a
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massive area cuz it's BBC good food as
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well as obviously BBC Gardener world so
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there's so much to see so much to taste
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so much to buy and yeah we came away
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with quite a few things we came away
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with a lot of Futures we came away with
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some Salvia they're all now planted in
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my garden and they're growing really
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well I'm pleased that they've all taken
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I not had non die on me yet that is a
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success in itself so yeah I'm hoping the
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fuches takee because the fuches that are
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bought are bushy varieties so they'll
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grow nice and big fill in the gaps and
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hopefully make it look attractive and
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welcoming to the bees as well so that
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the bees come down and enjoy them so
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we've got all them planted we've also
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obviously been doing lots and lots of
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weeding there's always weeding to be
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done at the allotment but we've been
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doing that
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we've also been busy harvesting yes
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we've started harvesting our produce
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today I harvested my potatoes and they
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look absolutely delicious I didn't get
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as many as I thought as I'd hoped to
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have got but I think that's down to me
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not watering them as much as I should
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have done if i' have watered them more
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we probably would have got a bigger crop
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but yeah we've got a decent crop from
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them I've shared that picture on
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Instagram and Facebook if you've not
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seen it check them out guys in with Ben
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and you'll be able to see what potatoes
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I've got I'm just looking forward to
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cooking them now and trying them that's
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the best thing to do I don't know
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whether to try air frying them or
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boiling them that is the question so
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we'll see we'll give them a try I've got
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one of these Choppers as well what you
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put in it and it just slices it up into
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pieces as well so it might be nice in
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the air fryer but we'll have a look at
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them and try out some different recipes
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with them and I'll let you know how we
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get on with them I'm not a chef but I'll
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Google things and have a look and give
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things a try it's always worth trying
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new
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things so we've harvested this potatoes
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we've harvested peas we've harvested
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some peas and they are absolutely
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delicious they're so scrumptious and
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nice and tasty juicy succulent peas
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absolutely gorgeous we've still got
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absolutely loads left to pick but these
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ones are swelled up and they got to the
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right size so I picked them off before
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they got too big because then will not
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be as juicy just be rock hard so you
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need to make sure you pick them at the
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optimum time if you're picking your peas
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don't wait until they're all ready pick
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the ones that are ready and use them as
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and when they're ready so that you can
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have some delicious peas with your
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potatoes as well so yeah we'll be having
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the Sunday dinner soon we've also
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harvested some lettuce we've been
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growing Iceberg lettu uses they've got a
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nice fantastic head on them absolutely
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delicious and crunchy and yeah not many
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slugs hiding in it either which is a
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good thing as sometimes you get slugs
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hiding in the iceberg head itself when
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you're unwrapping the leaves you find
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little slugs hiding and bugs and stuff
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like that so you've always got to be
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careful make sure you wash them
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thoroughly and they're looking
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absolutely delicious as well we've had
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strawberries
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off again not too many this year I've
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not doing very well with my strawberries
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I don't know why but we've not had a
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good crop of strawberries this year
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hopefully fingers cross will have more
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next year and we'll plant loads more
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plants from the runners what are
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starting to come off them now we've had
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Logan berries first year having logen
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barries off on my plot uh my dad gave me
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some canes off his allotment and they're
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easy to take cuttings from locen barries
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if you got a whip growing out all you do
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is shove the end in the soil while it's
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still attached it'll grow roots on it
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and then you can just snip it off and
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there you go you have a Loganberry plant
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but the Logan berries will grow on the
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cane what grew the previous previous
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year so you might not get some in the
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first year you'll probably get them on
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the second year so this is the second
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year that I've got them in and yeah
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hopefully we're going to get a load more
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ra Logan Bears ready in the coming weeks
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because we've got so many on there
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they're like weighing down the Plant
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they're snapping the branches but
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hopefully we'll get some delicious Logan
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berries off and I've been fastening them
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up all the new canes what are grow ready
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for next year so fingers crossed will
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have even more next year on the plants
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and you never know we might start making
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some Loganberry Jam
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soon I've harvested more rhubarb
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absolutely loads of rhubarb the plants
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are starting to die off a bit now so I
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wanted to pick the rhubarb before it all
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died back and yeah I gave it all to my
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mom usually she makes me about five
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crumbles with but this lot made me eight
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crumbles in Little Boxes she packs them
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up in Little Boxes gives me some custard
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and I'm set for puddings for the week
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ahead so hopefully might get some more
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rhubarb off we'll have to keep watering
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it and keep it growing hopefully fingers
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crossed cuz we do want some more rhubarb
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crumbles and then it'll be on to the
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like apple crumbles coming up soon but
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the apples are way off from picking so
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we've got to keep the rubab going for
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the time being so that we get some more
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rubal crumbles off we've also harvested
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our garlic this week I didn't know this
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this was something I learn the past week
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I actually picked it on the longest day
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of the year and apparently meant to pick
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it on the longest day of the year
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because he meant to plant it on the
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shortest day and then plant it pick it
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on the longest day but I never knew that
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I just happened to pick it on that day
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which is bizarre it must be my green
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fingers I must have had it drilled into
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my head sometime or later that I should
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Harvest it on the longest day well we've
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put it all in our polyon it's hung up
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drying out ready for using and yeah I've
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never cooked with garlic before so
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that's going to be an experiment in
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itself am I trying to grow cook stuff
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with garlic so we'll have to look up
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some recipes for that and see what we
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can get with that as
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well but yeah I think that is everything
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that I've harvested this month it is
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fantastic when you do start harvesting
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all that produce from your alotment
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again try not Harvest too much at the
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once just Harvest as and when you need
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stuff and
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see what you want as and when you want
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it like right I've got some more boxes
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of potatoes I've not harvested them yet
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because I've got one box of potatoes
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harvested what will keep me go for a
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couple of weeks so only Harvest what you
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want and what you need and remember to
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keep feeding your plants as well as
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obviously they need food and nutrition
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to keep them growing I keep going around
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with some blood meal once a week to give
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them some food and I keep sprinkling
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some chicken pellets around every soften
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as well to help
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hopefully growing bigger all the plants
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that are growing like I've got my sweet
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corn that's starting to get big now I
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want some massive sweet corn so we need
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to keep them growing well we're giving
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them drinks of water all the time
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because they do like a lot of water
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sweet cor so we're going to keep them
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watered and keep them growing and
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hopefully I'll be sharing lots of sweet
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corn pictures with you in the coming
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months well September time when they'll
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usually be ready so it's been a busy
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June down at the alotment
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hopefully July is going to be as busy
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hopefully we're going to get some hotter
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weather and not just rain all the time I
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don't mind it if it rains at night we
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send it water as my plot for me I just
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want it to be nice and warm in the
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daytime so that I can spend some time
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down there without having to get wet and
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miss going to the allotment as well so
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yeah it's been a very busy couple of
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weeks down at the alotment again in
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tomorrow's episode I'm going to be
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talking about what jobs need to be done
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in the allotment in July so make sure
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you stay tuned for that if youve not
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followed my YouTube channel go and check
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follow because I do post pictures on
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