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🎙️ January Gardening To-Do List: Essential Allotment & Garden Jobs 🌱
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Jan 19, 2025
🎙️ January Gardening To-Do List! Even in the depths of winter, there’s plenty to keep us busy on the plot! ❄️🌿 This episode covers the must-do jobs for your garden and allotment in January — from prepping beds and starting seeds to protecting overwintering crops. What’s top of your to-do list this month? #GardeningPodcast #JanuaryToDoList #AllotmentJobs #GrowYourOwn #WinterGardening #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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gardening with Ben after a short little
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break from these podcast but we are back
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now back with new episodes for you to
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listen to and wow has it been chilly
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this week have you had the snow where
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you are well it's know early last week
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and it's stuck around where I am it's
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still here um the temperature's not
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risen above zero this week it's been
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absolutely Baltic we just need it to
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warm up and to get rid of all this snow
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and ice what's left around where we are
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if you've not listened to my previous
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podcast go and listen to that one
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because that one's talking about all the
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things that we can s in January
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obviously depending on the weather but
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today's episode we're going to be
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talking all about what you can do in the
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garden in January obviously depending on
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the weather as well but these are the
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sort of tasks that you can get completed
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tick them off and then you can move on
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to doing all your other little jobs
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around the garden and everything like
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that and I just want to say a big
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welcome to all the new listeners out
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there as we are pushing this podcast out
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a lot more at the moment so hopefully
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we're getting a lot more people
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new podcasts come up so yeah today we're
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going to be talking about all the jobs
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which you can do in the garden in
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January depending on the weather like
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we've got a lot of our jobs completed
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already before this Baltic weather came
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but some of these jobs we will be doing
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ourselves and Ticking them off as we go
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along and these podcasts we talk about
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my gardening Journey what I'm doing what
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I'm getting up to what I'm sewing and
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what we are getting completed down on
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the allotment every time we go so first
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off we're going to talk about what we
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can do in the vegetable garden this
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month obviously we've not got many
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vegetables growing at this time of year
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but we've got a few things what can be
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grow first off is peas if you growing
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some early peas cover the the ground to
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warm it up before sewing unless you are
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sewing them in pots
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beforehand
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and I've grown my peas in the ground
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many many years and I've had good crops
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but now we've got loads of squirrels
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living where we are down on our alotment
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not that I don't like them I I love
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seeing the squirrels down there but
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obviously they're a pest and they'll
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like dig up all the food and eat them
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all and obviously because there's not
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much food around at the moment they'll
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Pinch A lot of them like the rats and
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the mice will so sometimes it's better
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to grow stuff in pots get them strong
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enough and then plant them out when
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they're big enough and then they won't
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get Disturbed as much parsnips if you've
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grown parsnips last year now is the
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perfect time to be digging them up this
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cold weather The Frozen Ground the snow
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on the ground gives them a better taste
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so always wait until we've had a frost
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before digging up your par
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Snips potatoes if you're growing these
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in the greenhouse or polyany which you
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can do through the winter periods you
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can't grow them outside cuz it's too
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cold but you can grow them in the
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greenhouse and poly tunnel make sure
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they're kept warm with a heater or use a
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fleece to protect them from the cold
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nights in January now it need a lot of
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power to keep it warm at the
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moment it's absolutely Baltic out there
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but yeah we grow ours uh as we're ready
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for harvesting at Christmas time we've
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not got any potatoes growing at this
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time of year what jobs can you do in
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your fruit Garden this
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month now this is perfect time to be
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doing all your pruning of your fruit
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trees while the plants are dormant while
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they're not growing the buds and while
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they are hibernating for the winter so
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like your apple trees your black
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currents your gooseberries your patries
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your red
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currents make sure you prune them all
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shape them all up make sure there's
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plenty of room for the air to get around
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and get ready but don't prune PL
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anything that's got a stone inside so
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for example your plums your cherries
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your apricots your peaches don't prune
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them at this time of year you meant to
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prune them around middle of Springtime
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end of Springtime as they can get Silver
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Leaf if you prune them at this time of
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year they don't coat well with being
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pruned in the winter
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time rhubarb plants if you want them to
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grow early rubab why not try forcing it
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to get early crops I also like to
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sprinkle chicken pallet of manure around
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the crowns to help feed it for the year
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ahead but obviously don't put put it on
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the crowns because it can burn them as
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well my rhubarb up to the other week was
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growing really well it was growing
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already and it shouldn't be growing yet
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it shouldn't be waking up until March
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time but it will growing but it'll all
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be dead again now with all this cold
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weather it will have gone back to sleep
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and it'll start growing again in March
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time so General fruit Garden jobs check
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the stakes supports wires you use in
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your garden replace any that you need to
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if any fruit tree or bush has had to cut
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it all down below soil level or get it
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out if
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possible carry on planting fruit trees
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and bushes this month as long as the
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ground is workable to do
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it what jobs need doing in the flower
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garden at this time of year well again
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there's not many flowers growing at this
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time of year but the sort of jobs that
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you can do are pansies any flowers that
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have died these can be de dehe headed to
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encourage New Growth roses if you've not
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pruned your roses yet this can still be
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done this month while the rose bush is
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dormant so that is all the jobs which
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need doing in January there's not many
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jobs obviously through the months we'll
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get more and more jobs that need doing
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every single month down at the allotment
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and we talk about this every single
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month we talk about what to that month
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coming up so one of the main things that
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I like to do during the winter period is
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to make sure I feed the birds as like
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this sort of weather the ground is rock
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hard they can't get the worms out
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there's not many berries around
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everything's hidden by snow or Frost
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there's not much around so make sure you
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do keep feeding your birds on a regular
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basis now I've got some bird feeders and
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the squirrels eat loads out of them
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unfortunately so I'm going to be
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investing in some new uh squirrel proof
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bird feeders over the coming months so
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watch out for me sharing posts on that
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but obviously they're quite a bit more
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expensive because they're made out of
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metal and they've got metal frame around
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them to stop the squirrels from being
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able to get to them so hopefully
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obviously it's quite a bit of money
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expense to buy but it's a good
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investment because the seed won't be
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going down as fast so in the long run
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and hopefully fingers cross will last
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forever
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while they'll last a long time so we're
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going to be doing that and it's a big
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bird watch coming up pretty soon as well
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so if you've not checked that out check
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it out online the Big Bird Watch and
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help see how many birds are coming to
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your Gardens and your allotments in add
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them up and send them in and it's to
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help calculate what birds we've got and
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how many species we've got out there so
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it's all good fun and good fun to do
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with the family as well so if you've not
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got a bird feeder in your garden you
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don't have to go out and buy loads of
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bird feeders or stuff like that just buy
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one get some seed up and feed them birds
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and encourage your blue tis your Robins
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your black
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birds encourage them to your garden but
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obviously they can attract rats and mice
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and stuff like that so don't put them
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anywhere where you don't want to attract
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Vermin to your plot my dad puts a little
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like thing underneath it where it
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catches any seed that drops so then it
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stops the rats and mice from being
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attracted to them so have a look around
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for one of those as
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well so yeah that is it for today's
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episode a bit of a short and sweet one
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but that is all the jobs which need
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doing in January this month tomorrow
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we're going to be giving you an update
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on how things are growing at home
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obviously I'm growing things at home at
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the moment I'm trying to give it a head
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start I'm not growing loads of things
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I'm growing a few things so make sure
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you tune in to tomorrow's find out what
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I'm growing at home and get a little
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sneak preview but yeah I hope you've
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come up around 7:00 in the morning so
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you've got plenty of time to listen to
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them on the way to work or when you're
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having your morning boo or walking your
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dog or down at the Garden so we'll
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hopefully see you all tomorrow in
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tomorrow's podcast everyone remember
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