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February Allotment Garden Tour 👨🌾🌷
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Feb 27, 2025
👨🌾 February Allotment Garden Tour! It might still be wintery, but the plot is waking up — bulbs are pushing through, early seeds are in, and the prep is well underway! 🌷❄️ Come along for a stroll around the allotment and see what’s growing, what’s planned, and how the garden is changing as spring creeps in. What’s happening on your plot this February? #FebruaryAllotment #AllotmentTour #WinterGardening #GrowYourOwn #PlotLife #UKGardener #AllotmentInspiration
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good morning everybody and welcome to
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gardening with Ben in today's video
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we're going to give you a tour of our
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alotment and talk about our plans for
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this year down at the alotment site and
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decide what we're going to be doing and
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what we're growing and where we're going
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to be growing things so sit back relax
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and enjoy today's episode everyone
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so welcome to gardening with Ben
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everyone in today's video we're going to
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be showing you around the plot in our
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weekly tour video and we're going to be
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talking about what we're planning on
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doing this year and some of the exciting
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things that we're going to try and
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hopefully achieve down here at the
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alotment there's big plans and much time
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to do it but hopefully we can keep on
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top of it and we can get it looking
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absolutely amazing this year so yeah
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let's stop waffling and let's have a
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look around the plot everyone so we're
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at the front of the plot as always so
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we're going to show you around the full
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size of the plot show you what's growing
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and what's not growing and see what
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state it's certainly in So at the front
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of the plot we've got absolutely loads
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of bulbs growing we've planted so many
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bulbs this year well last year now and
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they're starting to pop through and
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we're starting to see some color popping
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through look at these bearded irises
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popping through behind the hether and
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hopefully they'll be out in full flower
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soon but yeah they're looking nice
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nicely hidden away but the he's looking
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absolutely amazing it's done so well
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this year and we only purchased these
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for 50 and I keep saying this in every
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video but yeah I'm so happy with that
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purchase and I wish I'd bought more of
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them be honest cuz we've got a few but
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these two seem to do the best out of
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them all but yeah hopefully soon we'll
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start to have daffodils out and we'll
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hopefully get the Tulips out as well
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soon in the highs which will look
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absolutely
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amazing we've got a few snow drops we
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need to get some more snow drops for
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next year we've not got enough snow
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drops this is only amount of snow drops
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I've actually got so we need to get some
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more snow drops down here for next year
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e uh they're the first things that come
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out in springtime so want to attract
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more color for next year so I've wrote
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that down on my list get some marel
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drops ready for next year so that we can
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have lots of color right early on
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throughout the
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springtime but yeah we've got loads of
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bulbs
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coming absolutely
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loads
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hopefully soon in the later videos we'll
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have lots more color to show you we've
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got a few crocus is coming out and
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another Bearded Iris popping out there
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as well so loads of color coming along
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we just need them all to come out at the
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same time but that never happens does it
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they all come out at different times but
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yeah lots and lots of bulbs are growing
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down
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here so this is the entrance to my plot
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and as you can see we've got absolutely
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loads of crocuses out at the moment
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they're all looking fantastic they've
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not open up this morning they'll open up
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in a bit hopefully but we are expecting
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a storm so hopefully they withstand the
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storm what's due to come we've also got
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some tulips in there that was full to
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busting the other year but hopefully we
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get plenty in there this year we need to
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fill it up with more compost because I
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planted this cherry tree last year well
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it's a cherry Bush and yeah as you can
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see it's not covered over properly so we
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need to put some more compost in that
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but it is taking it's got buds on it
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which is a good sign it is Alive and
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Kicking and hopefully we'll get some
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cherries on that in time to come but
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this area I want it to be my smelly area
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not as in smelly bad but smelly as in
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good I want to have lots of Liles in
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this entrance area this year so we might
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fill up these beds with Lily plants and
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I'm going to have sweet peas all along
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this back bit here all along this this
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fenc in and all along the entrance bits
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and the side bits as well so that as
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soon as you walk onto the plot it smells
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absolutely gorgeous and the color will
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be amazing in summertime so that's my
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plans for this area come this year to
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have it as a smelly
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area it's a funny way of saying it is it
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but yeah I want it to be absolutely
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gorgeous and if I'm getting the sweet
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peas growing up that side bit it'll look
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great and I'll put some netting up or
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chicken wire them to cling onto and
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support them along that way we've got us
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bird houses they've been cleaned out
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ready for this year we've seen the blue
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tits around but I've not seen them
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nesting yet we've had baby birds in
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there the last few years so hopefully
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again we get more blue tits this year
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down at the alotment we're trying to
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attract them by putting out the nuts and
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the bird seed but obviously that does
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attract the rats and the squirrels so
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but yeah this area is going to look
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absolutely fantastic come summertime and
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hopefully we're going to have some nice
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roses out we've got on climbing up the
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frm
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area and yeah hopefully come summer time
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it'll look gorgeous so stay tuned for
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that as well down here we've got us
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lavender plants we need to look at these
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I need to look how to prune lavender
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plants as I know they say you don't
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prune them back to the Woody bit cuz the
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Woody bit's dead so I might have to just
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leave them
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I'll have to read up on how to prune
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lavender so if you got any tips on how
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to prune lavender do let me know because
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I don't want to kill them off they don't
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look too healthy but yeah let me know in
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the comments how to prune lavender and
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if I should leave these or if I should
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prune them back let me
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know but yeah there's Robins we've got
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so much Wildlife around here but his
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cooking apple tree is looking absolutely
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fantastic we didn't get many cooking
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apples last year I gave it a big prune
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back but I've left it this year so
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hopefully we'll get some cooking apples
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on it this year because I think the
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pruning last year stressed it out too
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much that's why it didn't produce many
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cooking apples so fingers crossed we get
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lots of cooking apples this year down at
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the
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alotment then down this side bit we have
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got my rubar patch my f famous rhubarb
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patch about 16 Plants of rhubarb now you
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probably asked me why I've got so much
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rhubarb because I love rhubarb crumble
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and rhubarb freezers and it's expensive
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to buy so it's worth its weight in
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gold most certainly so yeah we've got
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plenty of rubot that's all starting to
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pop through probably do our first
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harvest around May time or the end of
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April depending on how warm the weather
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is but hopefully lots and lots of
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rhubarb to come we've got a PE tree this
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PE Tre starting Bud up and come back to
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life look at that all the buds are
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starting to come out on it we've had
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some great pairs on these peir trees the
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last few years so hopefully again this
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year we'll do even better then we've got
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as eating apples again they've done
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absolutely fantastic the few years I've
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not pruned it this year I should have
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probably pruned it but we'll probably
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leave it for this year and see how it
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gets on but yeah they're coming along at
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really really
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well this one's in pretty good shape and
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growing really well so hopefully lots of
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apples to come this year so yeah I'm
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happy with all this area again I'm going
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to grow sweet peas all the way down this
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side we need to put some fresh compost
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in there as it's quite wet and muddy
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down this area but we're going to fill
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it up put the sweet peas up put a frame
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up down the side of the PO tunnel and
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grow sweet peas up it so it's going to
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look absolutely amazing now we have have
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got hundreds and hundreds of sweet peas
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growing and when we go in the shed we'll
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show you how many we've got
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growing this area was full to busting
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with spring bulbs last year and
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hopefully it's going to be full to
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busting again as you can see they're all
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starting to come through the daffies are
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coming through first so hopefully we'll
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get plenty of daffodils coming out and
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looking amazing this year this should
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soon be opening as you can see the
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flowers are coming along pretty well on
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them at the
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moment so we're now in our shed so let's
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give you a tour of what we've got
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growing in our shed and hopefully what
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we're going to get growing this year so
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I planted all my sweet peas and we've
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got loads of different varieties this
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year to grow down at the alotment I want
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it to look absolutely amazing I've tried
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literally every variety of sweet pee out
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there this year to see what they look
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like and how well they grow and see
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which variety does best down here so
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hopefully they'll start popping through
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when it gets a bit warmer and then we'll
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take the clean foam off and let them
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grow and then we'll plant them out
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around maytime outside so fingers
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crossed they get growing and we don't
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lose
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them here's some sweet peas that I
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started off around August time they're
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looking absolutely amazing growing
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pretty well and looking good we pruned
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all these back pinched them out and and
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to make them Bush you obviously they
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won't get as big of flowers on them but
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they will Bush out and produce more
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flowers on them than normal ones so
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we'll see how well they grow like I said
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I've got loads of sweet peas growing
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this year we putted up as geraniums as
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well last year uh to see if we could get
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them to survive throughout the winter
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they've got some new leaves growing on
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them so maybe they are still alive maybe
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they're still growing but we
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might take cuttings off them and pop
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them up instead but we'll see how well
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they get on and see what they look like
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with growing we've got loads of flowers
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growing I've never grown flowers from
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seed much so we're giving that a try we
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started them off last year to get them
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growing and hopefully we'll plant them
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out and see how well they get on outside
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when it gets a bit warmer more sweet
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peas lots of sweet pees we've got loads
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of varieties of potatoes this year we've
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got them all chitting ready to go we've
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got them all labeled up so we know which
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variety they are and yeah they're
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starting to send the chicks out we'll
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plant these around the end of March time
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in containers and see how well they get
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on I've always grown potatoes for the
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last few years in containers as it's
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easier to get them out you don't split
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them when you're digging them mu and
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they don't get W worm as much like they
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do in the ground so yeah I've always had
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a good crop when growing them in
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containers and then this is my Salvia
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which I thought was dying off I didn't
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think I'd done very well with these
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cuttings it taken to start off with but
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then they died off throughout the winter
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period but I've noticed it's got new
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life growing on them they're starting to
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come back out into bud so looks like
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with they have taken so hopefully we can
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get these planted out this year these
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are the black current variety of salv
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and smell absolutely
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gorgeous so lots more flowers come into
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the alotment this year here we have
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another spring flower bed absolutely
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loads of spring buls in here as you can
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see all the Tulips are coming through
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all the daffies are starting to come
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through I think they look like n uh the
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mini T ones that if that's what you call
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them but yeah hopefully lots of bulbs in
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here we've got some high Sims hopefully
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in here as well I do love my high SS and
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I can just sit here and smell them and
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look out on my allotment
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we've also got a bulb lasagna which I've
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never done before uh I got sent the
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bulbs from Simply seed and they're
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coming on really well we plant them all
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at different levels and see how well
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they get on but as you can see they're
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all coming through really well so
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hopefully a jam-packed planter full of
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spring bulbs and it's going to look
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gorgeous so we'll keep you posted on how
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well that's
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doing this is my
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Loganberry which which we planted a few
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years ago that's growing bigger every
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year which is fantastic loganberries are
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good because they're not prickly like
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your raspberries and your black
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blackberries that smooth so you don't
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cut yourself on them and look all the
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buds are coming out on it all the leaves
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are starting to come out so yeah it's
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doing well and we're going to train that
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along our allotment and get it growing
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well we got his bird feeders out so we
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can watch his Birds we do love watching
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watching different varieties of birds
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coming out I need to tidy out my
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blueberries they need a bit of the
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tidying up and put some fresh acious
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compost in them but they're looking good
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they're getting all the buds on them
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which is a good sign we got all the
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strawberries in the strawberries all the
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way in this bed some are hidden
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underneath the holes but they're in
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there so hopefully lots and lots of
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strawberries this year down this side
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we've got lots more spring balls we've
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got a load of aliums as well in this
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side and I'm going to grow them a sweet
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down this side as well like I said we're
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going to have an alotment full of sweet
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peas this year which is going to look
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amazing down this side we've got a
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forless Blackberry which has done
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fantastic the last few years if you're
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looking at a BlackBerry get a formless
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one because it does amazing and they're
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so big the blackberries on them
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absolutely
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delicious but yeah everything's coming
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along good this is our Great Vine
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starting to get buds on it
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we've not had any grapes on it yet but
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we'll see what it's like this year the
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plant's getting bigger every year so
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we'll see if we get any grapes on it
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hopefully it's warm
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enough and we got another Loganberry
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here growing pretty well I do love my
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Logan berries they're absolutely
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gorgeous if you've not grown Logan
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berries before give them a try we've got
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another climbing rose we need to fasten
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that to our new Archway what we put up
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the other
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week but that's all coming out into bud
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it's all looking
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great and then this is the alotment
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where I do all my growing of all my
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vegetables we've got some white onions
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got some red onions and then some of
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them need pushing back in they're coming
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out but hopefully we get some onions
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growing and hopefully we get a different
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good crop we are going to plant some
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ones in March as well so we're trying
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both winter onions and the normal summer
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variety of onions
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up here we've got us garlic
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growing some haven't done so well but
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some have done really well and it's
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growing
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fantastic but we should get a good
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amount of garlic by the looks of that a
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decent
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cropping and the cold weather helps it
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along and helps it split but they seem
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to be growing pretty good I'm happy we
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are they're all coming
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along so as you can see that was a tour
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of my allotment andn it's looking pretty
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decent at the moment I'm happy with how
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it's coming along down here we've got
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all the jobs done we've got the plot
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cleared ready for this year we're ahead
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of time and next month is the month that
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counts sorry about the wind it's a storm
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on its
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way but yeah we've got so much planned
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this year and March is the busy month
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down here on the allotment where we
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start sewing all our seeds fingers
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crossed on the
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weather uh but hopefully that is when we
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start sewing all our seeds so we'll be
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sharing that Journey along the way so
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make sure you're following us to stay up
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to date for that seeds we've got lots of
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different seeds we want to try we've got
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peas we've got squashes we've got corett
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we've got sweet corn beetroot carrots
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lettuce you name it we're going to be
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growing it and the more we can grow down
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here obviously the better off we'll be
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because obviously we'll save money with
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buying things and we can live off the
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food that we grow which is one of the
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reasons why I've got my allotment
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because it tastes so much nicer having
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your own fresh vegetables down here and
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tasting the difference of them like
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potatoes taste so much difference when
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they're homegrown sweet corn does
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absolutely gorgeous and like I said with
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my rhubarb is that I've got 16 Plants
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but we can just keep har in it and
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freezing it and then it'll last me all
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year and we'll be having rhubarb crumble
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every single day but that's a good thing
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I love my rhubarb
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crumble I'm sure a lot of people do like
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rhubarb crumble as well and it's an
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oldfashioned vegetable it's not actually
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a fruit it's clust as a vegetable but
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it's an oldfashioned thing which tastes
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absolutely delicious and gorgeous I'm
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hoping that this shed roof is going to
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last this weekend we are going to be
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putting a new shed roof on soon so we're
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going to be improving the shed and doing
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some working there we've got all the
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shelving up all the shelving is fine but
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we're just going to be repairing the
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roof we're going to repair the sides of
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it and just make it last a few more
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years longer the structure is perfectly
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fine it's just the polycarbonate what's
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had it it's been up about 10 years now
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so it's starting to deterior but we're
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hopefully going to get it all pretty
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good this year we're also going to try a
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lot of different different varieties of
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melons down here on the allotment this
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year now I've sewn all them pretty early
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I know a lot of people commented saying
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oh you growing them to early you're
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growing them too early but last summer
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it was a struggle we didn't get much sun
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we didn't get much warmth so I want to
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start them off early to make sure that
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hopefully we get some produce and that
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they'll ripen in time because things
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were ripening late last year like
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September October time so it were pretty
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late on so that's one of the reasons why
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started them early but we're going to
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try lots of varieties of melons we've
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got Cela we've got watermelons we've got
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sugar baby watermelons nice small ones
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lots of new varieties to try I just like
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experimenting even if it doesn't grow I
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just like experimenting growing
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different things down here that's the
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whole fun of gardening trying new
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varieties and different things to see
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what grows and what doesn't grow so I
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