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🌱 A Busy November Weekend at the Allotment | Gardening Tips & Advice Podcast 🌱
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Nov 15, 2024
🌱 A Busy November Weekend at the Allotment! It may be chilly, but the plot is still full of purpose! ❄️🧤 In this episode, I’m sharing everything I tackled over a jam-packed November weekend — from clearing spent crops and planting garlic to prepping beds for winter. What’s been keeping you busy on your allotment this month? #NovemberGardening #BusyWeekendOnThePlot #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #AutumnTasks
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben in today's episode
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we're going to talk about everything
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that we have got up to down at our
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allotment over the weekend giving you an
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insight into what we've been doing
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well if you don't follow me on YouTube
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you would have not seen that I've done
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absolutely loads this weekend so make
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sure you go across and follow my YouTube
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channel and you can see it all in live
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action what I've been getting up to plus
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I've shared a weekly tour of my plot so
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that you can see what's growing and
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what's not growing well this weekend has
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been absolutely busy busy busy busy down
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there at the allotment this weekend and
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it's been actually a decent weekend it
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was that fine rain what does really wet
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you but we managed to get lots done
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anyway down there which I'm impressed
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with again like I always say is that I
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write a list of the jobs that I want to
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do while I'm at the allotment and I take
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them off as I get them done so I never
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give myself too much to do I just give
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myself enough to be able to complete the
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tasks so this weekend was about
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finishing off all my vment beds getting
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them all dug over as I wanted to get
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that out of the way so that I can
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concentrate on doing the tougher
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areas and getting them done but my main
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part of my plot was the main bit that I
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wanted to get finished because obviously
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that's where I grow all my fruit and veg
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throughout the year and once I've done
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that then at least I know that's
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completed yes the weeds will grow back
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yes the roots will grow back and all the
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bind weed will grow back through the
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soil but it's all du over now and if we
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get any frosts it'll break down the soil
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it'll break down any Wheat water in
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there and it'll help get the soil ready
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for next year and we can just keep hoing
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it every weekend now to keep it Weed
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Free fingers crossed that's the plan
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anyway come back Springtime and you'll
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see it all like a jungle
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again but yeah we've got it all weeded
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now and dug over so the next main plan
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will be to get all my paths sorted as
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that's the next important job of my
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allotment and then it'll be a case of
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repairing all my beds getting them all
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painted and looking fresh ready for next
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year but I obviously I can't paint them
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until it's dryer weather because it'll
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just wash off again so there's no point
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painting them through winter I'll paint
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them again in springtime to make them
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look fresh for the year ahead that's the
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plan anyway but we've got all that to
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do then we've also been busy clearing
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out all the bind weed what's been
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growing along all my fence now the
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reason why they call it bindweed cuz it
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is an absolute bind if you've ever dug
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up bind weed it just comes out like
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spaghetti and if you pull a long piece
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out it makes you all day if it snaps
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you're like no because you've got to
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find the piece what it's connected to
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when you digging up band weed you have
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to get out every single bit of rout or
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it will grow back and it can go back
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even worse so the more you get out the
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better chance of getting on top of the
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bind weed I never get on top of it I
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know that for sure because if you got
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membrane down for paths it grows all
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underneath the membrane and everything
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like that it grows under all the pairing
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Stones so you can't get it out unless
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you absolutely rip all your allotment
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part and start from scratch and dig
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every bit of soil over which it take
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forever uh but as long as it's not not
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getting into my beds digging them over
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and clearing them every year I'm keeping
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on top of it that's the
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plan so we've got that to do what else
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have we done we've been um also we've
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been obviously feeding Mr pussycat if
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you're not aware we do have a pussycat
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living on my alotment which is good it's
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absolutely brilliant it had kittens the
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other week but the kittens must have
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wandered off now or Fox must have got
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them or something like that because I've
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not seen them around for a bit but the
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mother cat is still around which is
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really good and we're feeding her on a
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daily basis as well so that she's got
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enough food and energy to keep it going
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but obviously having a cat around on the
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allotment it gets all the rats and all
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the mice which is brilliant it keeps on
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top of them which is what we want it it
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won't catch the squirrels unfortunately
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they're too fast for the cat but um the
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rats haven't been an issue at all
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whatsoever this year I've not seen any
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signs of rats on my allotment which is
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Absol abolutely perfect and it's so nice
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because as soon as I drive onto the
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alotment it must be able to hear what my
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car sounds like and it's sat waiting at
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my gate and then it runs through and
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then it waits for me on my strawberry
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patch while I go into my shed give it
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some food and then it will sneak in and
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eat it
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all and yeah we've been doing that a lot
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of people have said that obviously um I
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need to get it Ned or whatever but it's
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a wild cat it's just out in the area
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it's not my respons responsibility and
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it's seems happy enough with how it's
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living and yeah it's keeping the r
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population down on the allotment which
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is fantastic so I'm happy with how all
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that's
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going but then obviously I'm looking
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after my Birds now we're getting lots of
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birds down there I mentioned uh in one
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of my Facebook posts a bit back that I
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seen a sparrow hawk down near the
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alotment it literally dived bombed me as
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walking on and I thought I've not seen
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no birds around for ages usually even
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see see at least Robins around like
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following you every time you're digging
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around but there'd be no Robbins around
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whatsoever and I started to worry but
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thankfully this weekend I've started to
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see the birds coming back to the
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allotment site which is fantastic I've
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seen some I think they call them col it
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they like black and white but uh I've
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seen a few of them I've seen a few
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Robins around seen some black birds
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around which is good because obviously
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Spar Hawks are birds of prey and if
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they've eaten on an alotment or in a
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garden you don't see the birds around
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for quite a bit until they cuz they do
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know they do know that there's a
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predator around and they'll stay
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away so thankfully I've started seeing
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the birds around again the bird feeders
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are
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getting all eaten as soon as I'm putting
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them out and yes Mr squirrel is is
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loving the bird feeders he's going up
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and down them all and eating all the
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nuts and everything on them but on my
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new one what I purchased what I shared
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online recently uh the one on the pole I
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purchased like a plastic case what goes
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over it to stop the squel and rats
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crawling up the pole to get to the bird
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feed so thankfully the birds alone to
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get that one which is good and yeah I
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think I think that's all what we've been
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up to really it doesn't sound like a lot
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but it is a lot if you get me cuz it's
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kept me busy and I'm getting down there
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at like 9:00 in the morning and I'm not
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leaving till 1:00 yeah I could stay a
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few more hours but it's starting to turn
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cold now starting to turn nippy so we
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have to come home and warm up again but
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I'm only getting two days down there at
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the moment now that I'm back working
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normal hours and yeah I'm absolutely
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loving it and I'm ticking off all them
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jobs and fingers crossed by I'm giving
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myself until the end of November I want
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my
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allotment completely cleared all all the
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weeds cleared all the path's done all
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the borders clear that's what I'm giving
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myself till end of November and then in
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December I'm going to concentrate on
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giving my shed a real spruce up I want
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to paint all inside it I want to put new
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shelving up I want to put new flooring
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down I want it all to make really nice
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because I'm going to be filming lots
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more content inside of my shed and
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sharing tips and advice and I'd love to
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have a little shed just sit in and do
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some films and do some potting up and
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stuff like that so I'm going to Spruce
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the whole of my inside of my shed last
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year I was busy with rebuilding my shed
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because it all collapsed but this year I
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want to concentrate on the inside of it
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and sprucing it all up and making it
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look nice and yeah I know you don't need
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to spend money on a shed but I don't
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have a garden and this is where I get my
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enjoyment out of mostly so I'm going to
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end up spending a bit of money on inside
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making it all look nice and fancy for
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next year and hopefully growing lots and
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lots of spring flowers and vegetables in
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it next year so we'll have to stay tuned
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for that so that's what I've been up to
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down at the allotment this weekend
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another busy
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weekend but yeah this podcast will be
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back again tomorrow with a new episode
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at 7:00 we might be talking about garlic
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and onions so stay tuned for that and
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