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How to Attract Wildlife to Your Allotment Garden Effortlessly 🐝🌿👨🌾
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Feb 27, 2025
🐝 How to Attract Wildlife to Your Allotment Garden Effortlessly! Want a buzzing, thriving plot full of helpful visitors? 🌼🦋 Here are simple, natural ways to invite bees, birds, frogs, and more to your allotment — boosting your harvests and supporting nature at the same time. How do you welcome wildlife to your garden? Share your tips below! #GrowYourOwn #WildlifeFriendlyGarden #AllotmentGoals #NatureLovers #GardenWildlife #EcoGardening #AllotmentLife
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hey everybody and welcome to gardening
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with Ben in today's episode we're going
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to talk about creating that Wildlife
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friendly Garden down at the alotment or
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New Garden so sit back relax and enjoy
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today's episode everyone
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[Music]
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so welcome to today's episode of
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gardening with Ben we're going to talk
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about creating that Wildlife Garden down
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at your alotment or in your garden watch
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my last episode go and watch that
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because we talk about how to start out
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on an allotment so this is a bit of a
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continuation of that really so I love to
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attract the wildlife down to my
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allotment I find it absolutely amazing
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seeing all the different animals and
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birds coming down to the alotment and
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enjoying it and the biggest thing that
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I've done re in recent years is I'm
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attracting the birds to my allotment and
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to the Garden obviously it comes with
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failures because it'll attract the rats
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but it doesn't really matter down at my
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allotment I don't really mind that as
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they're not causing any harm down here
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apart from eating a few bulbs and stuff
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like that but yeah I don't really have
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an issue with that so I have lots of
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bird feeders down at my allotment if
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you've not seen my videos with the bird
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feeders I've got absolutely loads down
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here and I'm starting to attract lots of
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varieties of birds down here birds that
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I don't even know the variety of I have
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to ask my followers what birds they are
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but we've got different bird seeders
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feed us up with sunflower seeds mixed
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seeds we've got peanuts up we put
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raisins out for the black birds and
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sultan us and we put sew blocks up as
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well all different varieties of bird
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feeders down here at the alotment and
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they absolutely love it and obviously
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yes it does attract the squirels which I
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don't mind the squirels I enjoy seeing
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the squirels down here yes they can be
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annoying and disruptive and cause Havoc
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but I don't mind it yes they do dig up
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the spring bulbs but if you put chicken
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wire down and stuff like that until they
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start growing they're pretty safe and
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once they get growing they leave them
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alone so we attract lots of birds down
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here the other Wildlife that you can
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attract to your allotment and garden
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which is the best Wildlife that you can
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get are frogs because the frogs will go
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around and eat all the Slugs up they
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will do the hard work for you and clear
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them all down at the alotment so having
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a pond Sometimes some allotments don't
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allow you to have ponds some don't mind
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it but if it's shallow Pond it should be
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okay so have a pond down into alotment
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have it with water in it obviously have
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some pond plants in it and try and get
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some frog born to put in your pond and
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hopefully attract the frogs through the
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alotment obviously if you can't get any
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frogs Bor you can it'll obviously
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attract the frogs if it's a nice Pond
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and it's welcoming you will get frogs
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down there because there'll be frogs all
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around and they'll soon find it and make
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it their home obviously I've had some
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bricks and stuff around it for shelter
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and to keep them warm and keep them
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moist they will love it and they will go
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around eating all the Slugs up and save
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you a lot of hassle in trying to get rid
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of the Slugs at the allotment so the
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more frogs you have the less slugs
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you'll have a bit like that the same
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goes for hedgehogs if you can get a
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hedgehog house in your alotment or in
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your garden or find out ways of
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attracting Hogs what they like create a
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little sheltered spot for them and the
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Hedgehogs will go around at night time
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eating all the Slugs up and doing a lot
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of work for you and obviously slugs do
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come out at night time mainly rather
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than the daytime and that's when the
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Hedgehogs will go around eating them all
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up and clearing your plot of all the
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Slugs there's obviously other Wildlife
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as well that you can attract you a lot
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and you can attract badges you can
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attract foxes but there's obviously
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different ways and methods of doing that
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which I'm sure you will be able to find
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out obviously certain allotments allow
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you to have chickens on them as well
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having chickens down at the alotment
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that's a good thing as well because if
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you let them roam while you're down
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there on the alotment obviously that's
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to do with different flws sometimes
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you're not allowed to let them Roam if
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there's uh bird flu policies and stuff
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like that but they will go around
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pecking around eating all the little
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weeds that are coming up and they'll eat
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the Slugs as well so attracting chickens
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to your alotment and housing them down
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there obviously it's a lot of hard work
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because you have to come down and feed
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them and clean them and look after them
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but if you allowed chickens and you've
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got the time to do it have them on your
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plot and you will obviously get X as
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well fingers crossed and yeah attracting
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the wildlife to the allotment is
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absolutely fantastic obviously the other
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Wildlife that you can attract are the
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bees now this is a big thing for me down
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at the alotment attracting the bees to
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my alotment I have absolutely loads of
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spring WBS I didn't used to have flowers
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on my plot because I thought what's the
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point in growing flowers I'll just grow
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the veg and the food but without the
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bees you won't get the veg or the fruit
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because the bees obviously pollinate
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your fruit trees or pollinate your
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vegetables like your cetes your
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cucumbers your Tomatoes Etc so the more
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flowers you have down at your alotment
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the more bees you will get coming down
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and helping the pollination and doing
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the hard work in creating the fruit and
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the vegetables down at the
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allotment and the reason why I have so
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many spring bulbs is because the bees
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wake up from hibernation in springtime
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and they will go they'll need food to
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get them started for the year ahead so
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they'll go around the spring bulbs
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spring flowers and if they come to your
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plot and see that you've got all these
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flowers they'll stay around and they'll
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keep coming to your alotment so keeping
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them flowers going throughout the whole
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year finding different flowers what the
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bees like they will come back and help
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pollinate the garden always obviously
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butterflies I love to see butterflies
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down at the alotment and obviously they
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help as well with pollination but they
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do come in the bad ways with caterpillar
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and caterpillars your cabbages and your
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cauliflowers and your brassas but if you
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keep on top of of it and you have
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butterfly netting you can cover them
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over your cabbages and your brassas and
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you can protect them but yeah I
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absolutely love to see butterflies down
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at the alotment and there doesn't seem
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to be many butterflies around these days
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and they're absolutely gorgeous to see
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so attracting the wildlife to The
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alotment Works in the favors as well as
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like ladyb birds as well they'll eat
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different certain uh insects so all
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Wildlife is good good as well so
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attracting it to your plot is key to
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your allotment so have a look around see
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how you can attract the wildlife GE
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alotment and if you do follow certain
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stuff like I do with birds with bees let
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me know in the comments what you do
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because the more Wildlife that I
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contract to my plot I will be happy with
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and I just love to see it down here and
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I've now got Wildlife cameras up so
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hopefully we'll capture some special
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things down here at the allotment and
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and hopefully no bad things but
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hopefully see lots of wildli down here
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at the lman so let me know what you get
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down in your garden and alotment I would
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love to hear what you get in your
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Gardens so if you don't follow me on the
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social media follow me on Instagram
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follow me on Facebook I share lots of
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photos on a regular basis and I've also
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got a podcast where I share tips and
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advice on all podcast platforms Spotify
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Apple podcast all over the place you can
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even ask Alexa to play guys ging with
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bed so until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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gardening with bed everyone
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