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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 Autumn Allotment Essentials: Must-Do Jobs & Seasonal Gardening Tips! The leaves are falling, but your plot’s potential is still growing! 🍂🧤 In this episode, I’m sharing the essential autumn allotment jobs — from clearing beds and composting to sowing overwinter crops and prepping for the colder months ahead. What’s on your autumn gardening checklist? #AutumnAllotment #SeasonalGardenTips #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentJobs #UKGardener #GardeningPodcast #PlotToPlate
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today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for hopefully another
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long episode for you to listen to today
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well today we have been down at our
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alotment obviously this is out on Sunday
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but I've recorded it on Saturday we've
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had a absolute busy busy day down at the
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plot today and yes I'm starting to feel
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the cold while I'm down at the alotment
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so I need to start wrapping up it it's
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obviously still good temperatures out
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there but after I'd been down there for
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a bit I was starting to feel the cold
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and I was ready to come home and get
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back in the warmth again and it's not
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even winter yet so we've got all this to
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come but I do love being down there
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especially at this time of year it's
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nice weather to be down and it's been a
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perfect day for gardening no rain no
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bitter showers or any cold wind or
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anything like that it was just a decent
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day down there so what have we been up
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to today at the alotment we've been
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having a little bit of fun if you've not
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watched any of my latest videos we had
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ET down at the alotment and if you watch
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the videos you'll find out why ET was
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down down
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there but yeah we're having a little bit
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of fun down there and also when I got
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down to the alotment today I usually go
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into my shed and give uh put some food
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out for the cat what's around on the
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alotment the kittens aren't around
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anymore they've moved on but the main
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cat is still around so we usually give
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it some food and I went into my shed and
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wow my dad had been busy all week while
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I've been at work Tiding up in my shed
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sorting things out moving things around
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and yeah he started doing some work for
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me in the shed and making some
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improvements down there for me which has
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been absolutely fantastic of him as
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obviously I want to get it all renovated
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through the winter period uh get it all
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repainted and looking good but yeah my
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dad's being busy in there tidying up and
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doing a few odd jobs which I don't get a
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chance to do and my dad's better at
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doing them than me sometimes but yeah my
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dad's
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he's not young himself so I always worry
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about him being down there doing stuff
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and uh burning himself out but he enjoys
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going out and being active still while
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he can and while he can make the most of
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it moving around down on the allotment
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but yeah my dad's obviously got an
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allotment and he's been busy on his plot
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Tiding it all up ready for winter but he
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must have thought oh I like going down
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there's not much left to do on my plot
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I'll go and do some bits for Ben which
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has been a blessing in disguise so yeah
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big shout out to my dad and my dad's the
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one that got me into gardening and again
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his dad to got him into it because he
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used to grow all fruit and vegetables
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and look after his garden and everything
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like that so it does run down in the
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jeans
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and yeah I've been very busy obviously
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yesterday I talked about all the jobs
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that I wanted to do down at the alotment
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I didn't get chance to do them all but I
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got a lot of the jobs done which I had
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written down to do and one of my main
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jobs this weekend is to clear at the top
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of my plot which looks absolutely
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atrocious they were bind weed all over
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there were leaves all over the place
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from the trees what had fallen down you
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couldn't see the paths you couldn't see
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the beds what up at the top of the plot
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where the herbs have been growing uh
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there like mint up there and stuff like
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that because there nothing else what
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will grow much up in the area cuz it's a
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shaded area so we just stuck some bits
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in and yeah I managed to get half of
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that done which was what I wanted to do
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I set myself an alarm clock uh as I like
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to schedule things and tick things off
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as I do them to fit everything in so I
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set myself an alarm clock of time to do
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it in and I managed to get it all done
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what I wanted to do to do there's still
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a lot more to do of that area but we'll
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finish that off tomorrow fingers crossed
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we might have to go into next weekend to
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finish it all off cuz it's a it's an
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area that I don't look after much it's
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just an area what I've just tided up to
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make it look smart if you get me uh it's
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not an area that I'm too fussed about
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but obviously we have to keep them
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looking tidy for inspections and stuff
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like that on the allotment which we
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unfortunately we get so we have to make
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sure it's SP and span for
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them but yeah I've been busy doing all
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that and obviously I've been doing some
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videos as well for you to to watch uh
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I'm to do a video for every day on
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YouTube that is my plan that is my
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target obviously I'm doing a podcast
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every day for you and obviously when I'm
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down at the allotment at the weekend I
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have to try and film six episodes for
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you all to watch like different little
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short little videos for you all to watch
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which is obviously getting that done
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doing my allotment it's quite a push but
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we are managing to do it so what have we
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done down at the allotment today as well
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as clear the top area well today we have
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been
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busy harvesting my Christmas potatoes
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yes I've harvested my Christmas potatoes
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I were expecting them to be ready around
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December time but the plants have died
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off and I thought well they're not going
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to grow anymore now I might as well
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Harvest them so that was one video what
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which I filmed which is on YouTube now
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if you want to go and have a look of me
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harvesting my Christmas potatoes and
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I'll let you you see how well we
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actually did now I'm happy with the
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results of them but one of them uh was a
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complete failure um but
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three boxes of the potatoes did
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absolutely fantastic and I've brought a
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load home so I'm going to be eating
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chippies now for the next few weeks
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which is fantastic cuz I just shove them
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in the air fry I've got a special
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chipper what just chops them into chipsy
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shapes and I just stick them in the air
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fry for 10 minutes and they tastes
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absolutely delicious and there's a
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seasoning out there I don't know if
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you've tried it but it's to make them
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cheesy chips so I just stick them in a
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bowl and sprinkle some of this on and
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mix it all in and then put them in the
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air FR for 10 minutes and they taste
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Absolut like gorgeous um absolutely over
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the moon with them so I've got them to
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last me for a few months which will keep
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me going which is saving me money
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obviously so they'll be having with my
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tea every single night we'll be having
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some chippers throughout the winter
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period which is good because obviously
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you're spreading the produce out over
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the winter period as well so if you're
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having to go out and buy
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stuff and what else have we been up to
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we have sorted out all my sweet peas
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I've been showing in my tour video
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recently of my sweet peas and they were
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all becoming Lego and I wanted to uh
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pinch them them back and I explain about
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that in the video which will be coming
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this week that pinching them back helps
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push them out they'll be smaller flowers
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on them but they'll be more bushier and
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they'll get more flowers on them um
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whereas if you usually leave them not
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pinched out they'll grow bigger flowers
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on them and bigger Longer stalks on the
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flowers so that is a reason so if you're
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wanting them to look like a nice display
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pinch them out to keep them Bush it but
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if you wanted them for VES and stuff
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like that I suggest not pinching them
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out so we'll talk about that more in
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another episode later on down the
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line what else have we done as geraniums
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we finally dug them all up out of the
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ground before the frost comes we've not
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had a frost at all this year so far well
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this winter Autumn winter we've not had
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a frost yet which is amazing like at
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this time of year you've usually had a
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frost at least but we've not had no
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frosts around here whatsoever so I've
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managed to get them out before the frost
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gets them and kills them and we' potted
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them all up we put them in my shed and
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we're going to keep them watered and
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hopefully look after them throughout the
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winter period and keep them keep them
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alive because that's what we want to do
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so we've got that all sorted and that's
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another job ticks off my list so we've
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got quite a few more jobs left to do
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down at the allotment tomorrow obviously
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I do my weekly tour video which I'm
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going to be doing down there and I'm
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filming my blog of what I get up to down
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at the alotment as well but there's
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quite a few other videos which I want to
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film and we need to sort a Salvia out
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tomorrow I'm going to be sorting them
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out for a video for you all to watch um
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I took some cuttings earlier in the year
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and they've rooted they've took well and
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I just want to put them into bigger pots
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fresh compost and T them up and give
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them a big boost and then I'll be
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planting them out next year in my
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allotment so we want to encourage them
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to grow better and keep on looking
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better and hopefully we'll get some nice
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Salvia plants next year for free which
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is always a burners being a yorkman we
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always like everything for free or cheap
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or half price but yeah um I'm looking
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forward to next year we're putting a lot
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of effort into my allotment this year
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obviously like I said I've not got as
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much time down there I've only got two
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days a week down there at the moment
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throughout the winter period obviously
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when it gets to Summer and lighter
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nights I can stay down there later but
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we are only there for the weekends at
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the moment for a few hours and like I
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say it gets cold so I want in to come
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home after a short while down there so
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we've got the Salvia to sort out
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tomorrow we've obviously got the rest of
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the top area of my plot to sort out and
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finish off and which other job jobs are
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down on my list I want to sort some of
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my paths out hopefully uh we're going to
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be doing that and there's nothing else
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really down there what I need to
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actually get done and sorted um there's
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nothing burning to get done which is
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good I'm I'm on top of stuff um in front
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I've got a lot of it cleared and ready
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for next year so yeah it'll be a case of
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just once I've cleared this top out OFA
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it'll be a case of just Tiding it all up
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and sorting my beds out and screwing
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them all back together and then painting
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them all next year but my allotment is
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coming on fantastic I'm happy with how
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it's all looking and it's looking
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fantastic and then obviously through the
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main winter period it'll be the time
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when I'm sprucing up all my shed getting
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it all painted like I said I want a new
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potting shelf where I can record myself
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film myself and make it make some good
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episodes for the videos as well I know
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everybody's liking the videos being back
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at the moment which is fantastic and I'm
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happy about so hopefully we're going to
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keep this up this weekend's going to be
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busy as well recording all these
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podcasts for the week ahead I like to
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film them all on Saturday and Sunday so
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that you've got them for the
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week as obviously when I finished work
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I'm tired so I'm not necessarily wanting
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to record them but you will get a single
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