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"January Allotment Tour 🌱 | What's Growing This Winter?"
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Feb 27, 2025
🌱 January Allotment Tour! It may be cold, but there’s still plenty happening on the plot this winter! ❄️ Come along as I take you through what’s growing, what’s resting, and how I’m keeping the allotment ticking over in January. What’s growing on your plot this winter? #JanuaryAllotment #WinterGardening #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #GardenInWinter #UKGardener #PlotTour
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hey everybody and welcome to gardening
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with Ben on this cold Sunday morning
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well we're going to give you an
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allotment talk show you what's growing
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what's not growing and how well things
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are getting on we do this on a weekly
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basis so sit back relax and enjoy
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today's episode everyone
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[Music]
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so we're down here on the allotment it's
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absolutely freezing this morning but we
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came down to make sure everything's okay
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so yeah let's give you a weekly tour of
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our allotment we do this all the way
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throughout the year so that you can see
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how things are progressing what we're
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sewing and how things are growing so
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yeah let's have a look around the
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allotment everyone so as always we start
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off at the front of the plot and look at
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how well the hether is growing it's
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absolutely gorgeous plenty of color in
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these dull winter days but yeah it's all
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starting to look good the bulbs are
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popping through we've got signs of
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spring life I can't wait for all the
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spring color to come through we planted
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so many bulbs in this front area this
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year so hopefully we'll have some
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gorgeous spring flowers we've got some
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snow drops coming out look at
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them fantastic
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first bit of spring color is down here
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on the
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alotment but yeah so many bulbs so many
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varieties as well so hopefully we'll get
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spring color all the way through the
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springtime absolutely
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gorgeous but yeah fingers crossed will
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get lots of spring color this year down
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at the
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plot as you can see it's it's all
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looking pretty derel at the moment not
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much life but yeah lots more bulbs
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coming all the way around this front
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area hopefully we've got lots of bulbs
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in there as well to come out but yeah we
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should have some nice spring color this
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year all the bird houses have been
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cleaned out ready for this year's Birds
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if you've got bird houses take them down
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clean them out make sure there's no
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signs of life in it from previous
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nestings as the birds won't move in if
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there is a previous nest in there so
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yeah get them cleaned out get them tided
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and get them sorted for this year
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hopefully we get some more blue sits
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again this year we've had some the last
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two years so yeah we definitely
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encourage them we've got the bird
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feeders up as well so that the birds can
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know there's plenty of food
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around we've got loads of bird feeders
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up as it's the big bird weekend
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encouraging the birds to the Garden
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without the the birds you'll get lots of
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insects so attracting the birds will
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come and eat the insects and the Slugs
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so yeah it's a win-win situation down
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here at the AL we've got his lavender
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hopefully it grows back this year we
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might have to give it a little trim back
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and get it fresh ready for this year but
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yeah fingers crossed we'll get some
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lavender more bulbs coming through in
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between the lavender as well absolutely
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gorgeous these are our rhubard beds
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absolutely lots of rhar
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plants obviously at this time of year
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it's hibernating so not much life of
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that it'll just keep dying off when the
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cold weather comes but yeah that should
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get started properly around Springtime
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and hopefully a first harvest possibly
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around May time we still got us ponds
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clear out but we'll do that when it's a
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bit warmer try and get some Froggies in
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it this year because with Froggies
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obviously they eat the Slugs as well so
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that's one job on my list what I have to
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get done
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but we've got his fruit trees we've got
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us pear we've got apple trees all
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growing well we've got signs of buds
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coming on them so yeah hopefully lots of
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fruit this
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year we got more bird feeders down this
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side we got loads of bird feeders spring
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bulbs in this
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area growing hopefully lots more color
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this was absolutely jam-packed full of
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spring bulbs last year so hopefully the
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same will come back this year fingers
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crossed we will see somebody asked me
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what I grew in my
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green um pouches last year I tried
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growing flowers but I forgot to water
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them so they all died but we'll give
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them a try this year and grow some more
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flowers in them this year and see if we
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can get some color down this
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side that's a new bird house we've got
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up this year see if we get any birds in
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it fingers cross we do obviously we've
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got as wildlife camera to keep an eye
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and stuff we've got fat balls up we've
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also got a bird station here as well
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which we've got some Curren in for the
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black birds and we've got different
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varieties of bird seed as
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well in a shed we've got as deriums what
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we're trying to keep alive from last
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year they are dying a bit because it's
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been cold the last few weeks but
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hopefully they might come back this year
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we can also try and take some cuttings
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off these side pieces and possibly plant
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them and get more plants coming from
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them so that's always an idea as
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well we've got a sweet peas growing we
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started these off in October keeping
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them going throughout the winter period
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and then we'll plant them out come
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springtime we trimmed them all back to
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make them Bush out more the flowers will
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be smaller but we will get more flowers
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on them and a bigger display so yeah
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lots of sweet peas to
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grow we've got some loopings as well the
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cold weather are not doing them very
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well like I said this in a heated
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Greenhouse so we're trying we're trying
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as best keeping them alive we got more
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sweet peas growing but yeah this year
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we're going to take off all the roof and
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put a new roof on it and hopefully make
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it waterproof as well this year down in
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the shed make it
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warmer we got spring bulbs growing
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they're looking good hopefully lots of
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color you can see all the Tulips are
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coming through obviously a few weeds in
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there but yeah I don't want to go
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disturbing them much at this time of
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year we've got this bulb lasagna which
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is the first time I've tried doing that
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planting bulbs at different layers to
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add lots of color to a pot so let see if
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we get some great displays from
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that as you can see the squirrels
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enjoying the nuts as
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well but yeah it's destroyed that bird
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feed look at
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that oh well I don't mind seeing the
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squirrels down here those as long as
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they're not causing too much
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damage we got this
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Loganberry which is growing really well
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last year so hopefully we'll get a lot
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of Logan BS on it this
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year these are our plum trees that we
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planted a couple of years ago we've not
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had any produce on them yet hopefully
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this year we might get some on them
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they're pretty strong now and getting
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pretty big so hopefully we'll get some
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plums on them we've got his blue
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we need to clear them out and put some
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fresh arous compost in them freshen them
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up ready for this year we've got aliums
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all the way down this side
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growing so plenty of color
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there we've got
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strawberries I've got a radio growing
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that'll be no good now we've got a
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strawberries growing lots of strawberry
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plants in this area I planted about 200
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last year so hopefully lots of
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strawberries we've got this formless
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Blackberry down the side all tied up
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ready for lots of blackberries this year
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we got absolutely loads last year
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amazing having a formless black bra as
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you don't get prickled to death when
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you're picking them
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all we've got us climbing roses either
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side of this fencing we've got an
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archway on the way so plan is to get an
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archway up and get it growing over the
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archway and lots of color
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down here we've got us garlic
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growing we've got to take up that
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Archway and replace it and sort it out
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that's blown over in the wind we've got
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garlic grind here as well back ones
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don't seem to be doing as well but the
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front ones look like they're doing
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really well so plenty of garlic to
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harvest this year if it all grows to
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plan we got some utum onions growing
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they're not doing too well uh I don't
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know why
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but they're in you never know we might
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get some onions from them we are
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starting some off in March time so we
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shall always see we can always take them
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out and replace them with something else
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if they don't grow but you have wins you
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have losses and sometimes things don't
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go to
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plan so that has been a tour of my
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alotment I hope you've enjoyed it like I
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said we do these every single week when
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we remember and yeah continue to see how
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well things are growing throughout the
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year down here at the alotment and see
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what we're sewing and what's growing and
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what's not growing so until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with B
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everyone
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