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Summer Sizzle: Allotment Gardening Under the Sun | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 15, 2024
🌿 Summer Sizzle: Allotment Gardening Under the Sun! The sun is blazing, the plants are thriving — but summer gardening brings its own set of challenges and rewards! ☀️🌱 In this hot-weather episode, I’m sharing tips for keeping your crops healthy, staying cool on the plot, and making the most of those long, sunny days. How are you managing your allotment in the summer heat? #SummerGardening #AllotmentTips #GardeningPodcast #HotWeatherGardening #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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have been up to on the Alum so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for today's episode
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it's a bit later than usual but the
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episode is here and we have been
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enjoying the sunshine wow today has been
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phenomenal it said it were like 20
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degrees but I'm sure it must have been a
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lot lot warmer than that it's absolutely
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roasting today and I feel like I've
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caught some sun today and I think this
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is the first proper day of summer that
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we've had even though yesterday was the
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actual first day of summer the longest
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day so yeah it's been absolutely
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gorgeous down at the alotment today and
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we are busy we are busy at the allotment
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and what have we been up to well let's
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find out what we've been up to we have
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been harvesting our garlic and I didn't
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actually know this till yesterday is
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that you actually are meant to
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pick your garlic on the longest day of
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summer because by for for Gardener's law
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you meant to plant it on the shortest
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day and then it'll be ready on the
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longest day so I never actually knew
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that when I picked it yesterday so I've
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learned something new myself there and
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so we've harvested it all we've hung it
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up in our poly tunnel so it can dry out
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and let all the soil fall off it what's
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uh currently around it so I'll keep
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shaking those every day so let the soil
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fall off it and yeah we'll be making
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some meals with it so if you've got any
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suggestions for a single person living
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on their own what to make with garlic
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let me know and I will try and make
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something from it we've also planted uh
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where we' pulled the Paul as garlic
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we've planted a load more sweet corn
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plants now I started these off in my
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shed a couple of weeks ago not that long
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ago to be honest uh they probably should
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have been a bit bigger but I wanted to
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get them out in the ground get them
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rooted and get them growing so we
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planted possibly around 20 more sweet
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corn plants so hopefully we're going to
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have a lot more sweet corn growing so I
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need to make sure I keep those watered
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over the next few days and get them
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growing in this so because they'll dry
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out and they'll die if not so we need to
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make sure that we do keep his eyes
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firmly peeled on them and get them
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growing
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well we've also planted some more sweet
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corn plants where my other sweet corn is
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currently as there were a few gaps where
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ones hadn't taken they died off or yeah
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or they just not taken at all so I
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planted a few more around there so
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hopefully fingers crossed this year
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we're going to have a lot of sweet corn
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and sweet corn I absolutely adore it's
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delicious so
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nice I can't fault having sweet corn
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grown from home you have to pick it when
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it's ready don't pick it all at once
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because it loses its flavor as soon as
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you pick it so pick the amount that you
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want take it home and cook it and eat it
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that night so I'll only like pick a
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couple of days
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and just keep keep eating them every day
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every time you've been to the allotment
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so it loses its flavor and that's a
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well-known fact that so only pick what
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you actually require don't store it
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because it'll lose its flavor as soon as
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you pick
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it so we've done that and what else have
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we planted we planted a lar pece today
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absolutely hundreds uh I had two trays
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full of peas grow well I had three
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actually my dad asked me for a tray so I
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couldn't really take turn him down cuz
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he's being watering him but yeah we've
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planted two more trayf Falls of peas
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today and when I say trayf Falls there
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like a 100 plants in each one so we've
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planted absolutely loads we've got some
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peas currently growing at the moment
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they are doing really well they're about
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getting ready they just need to start
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swelling up now and start getting bigger
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the peas so we planted a little more pce
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so that we get a second crop later on in
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the year uh obviously when the peas are
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ready they're usually all ready at the
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same time so hopefully we'll get some
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decent peas and if you like me the peas
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won't even make it home you'll end up
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eating them down at the allotment raw
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that's what I always do they're so juicy
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and tender they absolutely phenomenal so
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we've done that what else have we done
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we planted some cucumber remember me
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telling you that I'd planted like 50
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plants 50 seeds and they've literally
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all grown well quite a few have got
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nibbled away so we've lost a few but
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we've planted them all and this is the
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first year that I'm planting some
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cucumbers outside I thought rather than
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waste money on lots and lots of compost
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and spend a fortune I'll plant them
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outside and give it a try as obviously
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it's turning warm now you never know how
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well the summer might be it might be
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nice and obviously if it rains it Waters
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them for me uh but obviously the more at
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risk of being attacked
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by mice rats pigeons and stuff like that
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so we're going to have to keep an eye on
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them and keep them protected until they
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get quite
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tall but we'll see how they get on and
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hopefully Mr squel doesn't like cucumber
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so we'll have to keep an eye on them so
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I planted them all outside today I've
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given them a good water a good
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drink because like I say is 22° today
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and I think it's only going to get
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warmer so we need to keep an eye on them
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over the next few days
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and keep them watered and well hydrated
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cuz as you know cucumbers they are full
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of water so they do like a good drink so
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we'll keep it on on them we'll see how
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they go even if we get about 10 plants
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growing outside I'll be happy with that
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uh but I have planted all the plants
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what we're growing in the tray so you
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never know we might be inundated with
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cucumbers you'll have to wait and see
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for the pictures for them oh my Logan
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berries are starting to ripen they're
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starting to look nice they starting to
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look tasty and I'm looking forward to
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having some nice fruit to go with my
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Greek yogurt water I'm on as you have
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probably seen on Instagram I've gone
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back to the gym I'm trying to get my
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fitness back in order I weighed myself
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for the first time the other day wow
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I've clapped some weight
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on and the camera had1 pound so it worse
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on
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camera that's why I'm doing a podcast
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but yeah um I've got myself back to the
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gym like I'm always talking about I
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struggle with my mental health my
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anxiety and even after the first session
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of going to the gym I absolutely felt
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tons better in myself I felt fresh this
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morning I must be working hard there
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because I ate like mad but I'm still
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happy that I went and I accomplished it
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and that I went to the gym and got
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myself there and yeah I'm going to be
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keeping track of my progress uh I'll
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keep sharing posts and stuff with you
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how I'm getting on and you never know I
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may have a sixpack for World Naked
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gardening Day next year you never
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know we'll see we'll see about that but
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yeah I'm hoping to put a lot of effort
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into it and I've also purchased one of
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those eyew watches as well an Apple
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Watch so we've got the little circles on
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it I don't know if those have got an
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Apple Watch I'm not that up on it yet
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not worked out how to use it so we need
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to work out how to use it and hopefully
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start cracking on it and start working
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on getting my fitness back to how it was
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that's the plan anyway you might think
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that being in allotment all the time is
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keeps you fit yes I probably would be a
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lot way a lot more than I actually do
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but I do a job where
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it's 12 hour shifts sat at a desk
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so I don't get much activity apart from
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when I'm at the Alman so hopefully this
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will kick me back into action and get me
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started on becoming a fit of myself and
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get better in the uh how I am so stay
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tuned for that so hopefully we're going
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to be back down at the allotment
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tomorrow we have got it's Saturday
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tomorrow so I'm back at work on Sunday
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so we need to get plenty done tomorrow
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we're going to have to give it a really
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good soaking if it is going to be a hot
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few days we need to give it a good
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soaking I may even have to go down one
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night but we'll see I don't tend to like
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going down to alotment at night on my
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own I know it's uh daylight and I'm like
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38 years old I just don't like going
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down there at night you never know who's
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around so tomorrow we might be planting
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some
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beetroots some climbing beans we maybe
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harvesting some
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lettuce but yeah hopefully we're going
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to get a lot done tomorrow
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and as you know I'm posting lots more
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videos on YouTube now I posted a tour of
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my allotment so if you've not checked
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out that video go and check it out it's
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a tour of my allotment it's an
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up-to-date one so you can see how well
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things are growing and how badly things
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are growing I'm an open honest Gardener
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and I share everything that I've been
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doing so if you want to look around my
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plot go and have a look on my YouTube
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channel called gardening with Ben
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so I hope you've enjoyed today's episode
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I hope you've got a lot out of it and
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yeah hopefully we'll get some more
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episodes recorded tomorrow for the next
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few days the tomorrow's episode won't be
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on until the afternoon time as I've not
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pre-recorded any for the time being so
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yeah I hope you all have a fantastic
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weekend make the most of this Sunshine
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don't forget to put the suntime cream on
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make sure you water all your plants
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early in the morning or late at night
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but it's better early in the morning
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because the Slugs aren't around in the
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daytime they only come out at night time
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mainly so make sure you water them early
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in the morning get up 6:00 give it a
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water go back to sleep and then get on
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with your day that's my little tip for
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you so until next time's episode
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remember keep smiling keep shining and
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