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What’s Growing in the Garden? 🌱 Ben’s Latest Gardening Plans Revealed!
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Feb 27, 2025
🌱 What’s Growing in the Garden? Exciting times ahead as I reveal what’s happening on the plot and share my latest gardening plans! 🌸🥕 From new crops to exciting projects, here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming up this season. What are you planning to grow this year? Let’s swap ideas! #GardenPlans #GrowYourOwn #GardeningUpdate #AllotmentLife #WhatsGrowing #GardenInspo #UKGardener
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Ben your goto podcast for all things
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in gardening to make your outdoor space
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Bloom with life from allotment
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Adventures to life friendly gardening
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I'm here to help you grow your passion
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and reap the rewards so grab your gloves
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roll up your sleeves and let's get
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started on this year's gardening
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Journey hey everybody and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben well it's Thursday
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already and wow yes thankfully the week
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is flying by and I'm so excited for the
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weekend I'm ready for the big bird watch
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which we'll talk about about in
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tomorrow's episode but yeah I'm
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definitely excited about it I can't stop
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talking about
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it hopefully we'll get lots of Feathered
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Friends down there but yeah look forward
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to tomorrow's episode where we'll be
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talking all about the Big Bird Watch and
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yeah so what have we been up to well we
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have obviously been working this week so
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we've not been down to the alotment but
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we are trying stuff here at home and
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I've started my Peppers off my onions
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off and my Chili's off and so far the
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peppers and the onions are growing the
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peppers seem to have started really
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growing this week as I'd not had no sign
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of Life on them for a couple of weeks I
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I must have planted them about 20 days
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ago 25 days ago quite a while ago and
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they were taking forever to germinate
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and I was thinking well it's warm enough
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in my flat this is the ideal temperature
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obviously cuz it need to be about 25° to
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germinate the peppers one of the reasons
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why I've started them off at home early
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to get them growing ready for this year
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so I thought I'll try them at home this
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year we'll start them nice and early and
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get them growing and yeah no sign of
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life I thought I would bought a dodgy
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pack of pepper seeds but no they are
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germinating and they're all popping
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through now so hopefully in possibly
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about a month's time we with my pot them
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all up into individual pots keep them
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growing at home until it's warm enough
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to take them down to the allotment to
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the shed to grow so hopefully we'll have
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lots of peppers this year that's my plan
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to try and grow lots of peppers and
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obviously my onions I'm starting them
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from seed this year and I'm growing some
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from set so I'm going to show the
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difference between seed onions and set
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onions and show which ones do better and
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I'm thinking it'll be the seed ones
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again cuz done it from seed before and
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the seed did do better than the sets so
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we'll have to wait and see and see which
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ones actually do well my chilies they've
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not even started growing yet so I'm
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hoping that they'll start germinating
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soon or I'll have to start some more off
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because chilies are easier to grow than
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Peppers usually when I did them last
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time the chilies grew absolutely loads
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on the plant I think I've not grown them
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for about 10 years now but they did
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absolutely fantastic so hoping that they
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do germinate and they get growing and
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then we'll get lots of chilies as well
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this
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year now I might start some orene off as
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well soon as now is the time to start
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orene off as well obviously indoors
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where it's warmer and get them growing
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so I might try a few orene this weekend
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and get them planted we have also spent
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a little too much money
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online guess what I've bought now well
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I was talking about watermelons and
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melons the other day and I thought I'm
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going to go online and have a look see
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what seeds they are so I like adding
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them all to my basket all different
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varieties and I thought s it I'm
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purchasing them so I purchased about six
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or seven different varieties of melons
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and watermelons to try and grow so we're
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going to try lots of different varieties
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of melons this year so make sure you
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stay tuned for that and obviously I'm
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going to be growing them in my poly
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tunnel where it's hopefully warmer and
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in pots I'll be growing them in pots so
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I'll have to keep them watered well and
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keep them really watered so hopefully we
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have some decent melons and yeah
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obviously I'll be sharing the journey
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with you all I'll be sharing all the
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photos online and updating you on the
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podcast how well they're actually
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getting on so that is one more thing
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ticked off on my list my next thing to
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tick off on the list will be my
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different varieties of sweet peas my
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different varieties of geraniums my
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different varieties of sunflowers and my
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different varieties of squash as well so
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hopefully I'll be able to purchase all
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them and get them growing but yeah I'm
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going absolutely mental with the seed
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growing this
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year I don't know where I'm going to
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find all the time to look after these
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but hopefully we'll find time and
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hopefully we'll get them all growing and
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hopefully we'll get some produce from
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them that's the main thing uh it's all
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right spending all this money growing
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them it's whether they actually get
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produce from
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him but yeah hopefully we have a
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fantastic crop and hopefully some great
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results to show you all but I'm so
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excited I'm so excited for March and I
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was just uh live on my Tik Tok account
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before I've recorded this and I was just
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chatting to somebody online who follows
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this podcast Ali a shout out to you and
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we're chatting saying that um
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everybody's excited to Growing Seeds and
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people can get carried away and follow
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the seed packets suggestion for growing
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too much and start sewing all the seeds
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pretty early and sometimes obviously
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they don't germinate or if you going
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them inside they'll get lagy and the
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only seeds that I would start at this
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time of year are chilies Peppers Orin
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and onions and possibly leaks I wouldn't
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start anything else off earlier not my
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tomatoes not my cucumbers I'll start
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them all off in like March time April
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time they soon catch up and they'll grow
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properly if they're in a greenhouse they
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won't grow Ley they won't have issues
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with germinating from the heat but yeah
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we everybody gets excited when they're
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grow for the first year and they'll
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start really early uh they need to hold
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off hold off from sewing them
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seeds but yeah hopefully get planting
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pretty later on and you'll see me when I
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start sewing all my seeds uh it'll
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possibly be like end of March Time
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beginning of April time I'll be going
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absolutely mental we sewing loads of
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seeds and we are going to label them all
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this year we're going to label up what
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I'm planting in what seed
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treay so then there's no guessing at the
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end my mom bought me some seed labels uh
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this year for Christmas some wooden ones
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so we're going to make use of them and
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we're going to uh down all our plants on
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seed labels so that we know what we're
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growing but I'm so excited for this year
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I'm really determined and obviously now
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that I'm doing more content with videos
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and with podcasts and everything like
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that I'm sharing what I'm getting up to
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so hopefully you'll all enjoy it and
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hopefully all enjoy the journey this
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year down on the allotment and sharing
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what I get up to and as I always say I'm
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an honest Gardener I'll show you what
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successful and I'll show you what fails
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as well there's no point being a
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gardener if you don't show what failures
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you have nothing ever always works and
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that's what obviously people show they
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show all the good stuff but it's good to
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show the bad stuff as well so that they
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know it's not all easy to do which is
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not it's a hard job to do and I hope
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that you do enjoy these podcast and I
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hope that you do enjoy my allotment
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Journey so we will be back tomorrow with
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tomorrow's podcast
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talking about the big bird watch and
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then on Saturday we will be down there
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getting all the footage and hopefully
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some birds there's a strong storm coming
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on Friday night everybody so if you've
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got any like uh standup green houses or
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loose bits on your Greenhouse make sure
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everything's secure make sure your pots
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are secure and everything won't blow
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away because there's going to be a bad
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storm on Friday so make sure you're
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prepared for that everyone so until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone Thanks for tuning in to today's
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