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Hey everyone, and welcome back to your daily dose of

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that is happening. So yesterday's podcast episode we talked about

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everything that you can plant in November, so if you've

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not listened to that podcast, make sure you do give

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it or listen to because there's plenty of things that

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we can still plant in the garden around this time

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of year, so why not give them a try and

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see what you can grow. I'm trying to grow plenty

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of stuff down at my allotment at this time of year,

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so follow me and let's see if we can grow

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some stuff together. So today's episode we're going to be

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talking about all the things that you can be doing

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in the allotment to do the improvements and get everything

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ship shape ready for next year for the allotment. So

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we're going to be talking about that in today's podcast.

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So let's have a look at what jobs need doing

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down in the allotment. First of all, we're going to

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be talking about all the jobs which need doing in

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the vegetable garden. At this time of year. I can

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always say is why not add these into a notebook

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so that you know when you've done stuff, you can

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tick it off and complete it. That is how I

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tend to work. I usually write down little jobs or

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things that I need to do down at the allotment,

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and then months i've done it, I tick it off

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and that's how I get all my plot ready for

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the year ahead. And usually I'm on track of things.

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I've nearly got all my allotment cleared, already ready for

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next year and well ahead of getting everything ready. So

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first off, in the vegetable garden, you need to clear

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away any spent crops like that means like get rid

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of all your tomato plants, get ready to cucumbers, get

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ready to sweet corn. Any squash plants that I'm rotten away,

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get them all cleared away and put on your compost

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heat because you've got to be careful of diseases that

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are left spreading around and stuff like that. It's good

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to get everything cleared away so that nothing's festering down

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on the allotment. Next up is harvest the last of

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your winter vegetables. Harvest your hardy winter vegetables like cabbages, leaks,

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brussels sprouts, and kale, and usually parsnips as well, after

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the first few frosts because it adds nice taste to

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the parsnip. Never harvests them until after you've had a

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couple of frosts. The frosts always improve the taste of them.

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The same girls for leaks and brussels sprouts, sprout sprouts,

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they always taste better after a couple of frosts because

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they can improve their flavor. Like I said yesterday and

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yesterday episode, plant your garlic and your onions, as these

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are over wintering vegetables and they can fill a bed

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up and you can get some harvests from them next year.

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And obviously you can once you've harvested them, you can

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fill the bed with some because they'll be ready around

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junjer lined time, so there's still plenty of time to

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grow over vege in them beds. Mulchi vegetable beds of

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organic much like straw compost or well lot of manure

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over your vegetable beds. Mulching helps protect the soil from erosion,

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suppresses the weeds, and improves the soil ready for next year.

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Prepare soil for spring planting. Yes, get that soil ready. Now,

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that is what I've done it. If you've been watching

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my YouTube videos, you'll see that I've nearly cleared every

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single bed on the plot. I've dug it all over.

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I've not necessarily got all the weeds out, We've just

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dug it over, clear them all, got all the main

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big weeds out. But over the winter period we'll keep

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digging them over, getting all them roots out, getting all

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that bind weed out, and obviously breaking up the soil.

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When the frost comes it can get in the soil

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and break it all down really well and nice ready

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for next year. Protect perennial vegetables. If you have vegetables

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like asparagus, are to choke or rhubarb. It's important to

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protect them against frost. Cut back asparagus after they have

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died back and mulch around crowns of perennials to insulate

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them ready for the freezing temperatures. Rubarb usually does all right.

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my allotment now for twenty years and it's still alive now,

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so that usually starts going back around March time. Clean

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and store your garden tools. Yes, this is one job

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that I don't always do, but it's a good time

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to wash them down, scrub them down, get rid of

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any dirt of them because they can harbor diseases and

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obviously oil your tools up to prevent rust over the

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winter months as well, and it'll make your tools last

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years to come. Repair any raised beds and garden structures. Now,

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this is one job that I always do for the winter,

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which I always bleed on out in these podcasts. You

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probably sick to hearing them about it, but I always

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use the winter period to do any repairs to my allotment,

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get things straight and tidy, and improve the shed. There's

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always work to be done in the shed, especially if

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you do love being in your shed like I do.

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There's always improvements that you can do to that. Cover

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bear soil with green manure. If you have empty patches

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in your vegetable garden, consider growing and sewing green manure

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such as mustard or winter rye. These cover crops to

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help protect soil from erosion, suppress wheeds, and add valuable

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organic matter and nutrients back into the soil when turned

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in before spring planting. I've never actually grown green manure.

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have ever grown green manure before, I'd love to hear

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about it. Protect crops in the greenhouse or got coal frames.

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or greenhouse, why not add some bubble wrap to keep

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it warm protected, or use a greenhouse heater to keep

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things warm. I don't use a heater down at the

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allotment or the polytonic because I'm never there in the week,

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so I don't want to leave a heater on when

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I'm not there. But if you've got it in your garden,

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keep it nice and warm and you'll protect your crops

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over the winter. Plan next year's garden. This is what

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I always do. I always draw a plan of my

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allotment to see what it looks like, think about what

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I'm going to grow, aware and try and rotate crops around.

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same place year after year because obviously they take the

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nutrients from the ground, so different vegetables use different nutrients.

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previous year, you don't want to pass it onto the

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new year's growth. Protect brassicas from pests. There's still lots

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of pests around, like pigeons and other wildlife. Use getting

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a mesh to protect these crops from being eaten during

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the winter months because it's not much around them to

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eat at the moment. So protect you like kale, cabbages,

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your cauliflower, your broccoli, any over wintering crops. Dig up

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and store your root vegetables, So now is the time

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to be like digging up your carrots, your parsnips. Obviously,

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like with parsnips, like I said, wait until we've had

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a few frosts, because it adds flavor to them and

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your beet roots. You can store them in a dark

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place packed in sand or sawdust and they'll stay fresh

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for several months. Cleaning organize your greenhouse. Now is the

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time to be cleaning it down, disinfecting it, sweeping it

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all out, tidying it up. The reason why we disinfect

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it is because there's diseases in there and it prevents

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any mold and stuff like that. It's a good idea

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to wash your greenhouse down thiole so that it lets

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more lighting through the windows through winter, because obviously they're

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more like the that keeps it warmer. So give it

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a good scrub down because they do get green and

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they get moss growing in them and everything like that.

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check all like the pegs and everything to make sure

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it's all sturdy for the winter period because obviously we

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get the winds, we get the storms and stuff like that.

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sure it's all sturdy and ready for the year ahead.

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So next up we're going to talk about what needs

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to be done in the fruit garden throughout November. There's

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plenty of jobs which need doing around in the fruit

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garden to protect those fruit trees and bushes ready for

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getting great crops next year. Now, November is a perfect

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time to prune apple and pear trees. Don't prune plums,

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don't prune cherries. You don't prune anything that's got a

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stone inside it until around summertime. That is when you

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prune your plums and your cherries apricots. So you can

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only prune apple and pears at this time of year. Now,

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be careful when you're pruning them. Don't know what I did,

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agumen Man a massive prune last year my cooking apple tree,

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and it's not fruited this year because I've stressed it out.

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I believe that is what they call it. So only

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prune it as much as it needs to sometimes, don't

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go over the top. Just give it a tiny bit

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of a prune, and then prune it some more of

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the year after. So hopefully I'm not going to provee

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Man this year, so hopefully I'll get lots of cooking

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apples next year. Much around fruit trees and bushers, this

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helps give nutrition back to the plants and helps feed them,

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and it insulates the roots from freezing temperatures, retains the

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moisture as suppresses the weeds. But if you're put it

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much around your fruit trees, don't put them right up

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to the trunk, as it can cause rotten. Leave a

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bit of a gap around the trunk. Harvest the last

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of the autumn fruits. Make sure you have your apples,

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your pears, quinces. These can sometimes benefit from the color weather.

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It enhances sweetness and the flavor of the apples, so

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make sure you get all them harvested ready far the winter.

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If not, the squirrels or pinch them. Protect fruit your

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soft fruit plants from the frost. Like your strawberries, your

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raspberries and other soft fruits can be vulnerable to frost damage.

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Protect them by covering the crowns with straw fleets or

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mult to help insulate them during the colder months. This

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will prevent frost from penetrating too deeply and harming the plants.

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Plant new fruit trees and bushes. As I said in

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yesterday's episode, now is the perfect time to plant your

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fruit trees and your bushes. Prune your raspberry canes for

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summer fruits. In raspberries, prune back the canes that have

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fruited this year, leaving the new canes for next season's crop.

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level after they have finished producer. This process encourages strong,

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healthy growth in the springtime and they will produce new

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fruit on them new canes. Clean up any fallen leaves

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and through clearing up any fallen leaves and fruit and

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debris around your fruit trees and bushes, it's important to

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prevent the spread of disease and pests. Many fungal diseases

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can overwinter in the soil on decaying thruit, so moving

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any material to help maintain a healthier environment for your plants.

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Protect fruit trees from pests. I usually give mine a

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good winter spray down over the winter months and then

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spray them again with springtime. Stops any moths from hibernating

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in the trees. Also get some sticky bands to stop

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wingless insects like winter moss from climbing the tree and

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laying the eggs in the bark, which could also damage

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the spring tree in springtime, check and repair any fruit cages.

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Take off all your netting over winter to stop because

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you don't want it all getting ripped with snow and

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winter damage so take off all your netting for the

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winter to protect it, and then put it back on

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again in the springtime. Prune your gooseberries and your currants again.

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Prune these back, remove any dead or crossing branches, and

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thin out the center of the plant to improve air circulation.

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This will reduce the risk of disease. Now you can

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divide and replant mobile crowns. If you rubib crowd plants

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have become overcrowded, November is the perfect time to lift

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and divide the crowns. Carefully, dig up the plants, split

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it intersections with a sharp spead, and replant the divisions.

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This will rejuvenate the plants and improve their productivity. Plant fruit, canes,

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and vines. As we said in the previous episodiode, now

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is the time to be planting all them. Check stored through.

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If you're storing any apples or pears or fruits, regularly

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check them for any signs rot or damage. Remove any

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effected fruit to prevent the rot from spreading to the

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healthy ones. Protecting grape vines, now is the time to

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prune and winter rise them. Cut back this year's growth

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to encourage strong vines next year, and cover the base

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of the planet with mulch to protect the roots from

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freezing temperatures. Consider wrapping the vines with fleece in cold

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regions to prevent frost damage to them. So let's talk

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about what you can actually do in the flower garden

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this month. There's still lots that need doing to get

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them gardens looking absolutely gorgeous for next year. You need

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to put in the effort and tidy them up ready

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for next year. So this is all the jobs which

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you can do in the flower garden. Lift and store

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tender bulbs and tubers, so that means lifting any like

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gladiolized bagournias to protect them from the frost. Carefully dig

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them up, clean off the soil and allow them to

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drive for a few days in a shelter place, and

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then put in a box full of sand. Plant flink

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spring flowering bulbs. Like I said in my previous episode,

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now is the perfect time to be planting other spring

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bulbs like your daffodils, your hyacims, your tulips, everything like

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that to encourage the bees to come to your allotments

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and too your gardens. Protect delicate plants from frost. Any

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plants are prone to getting frost damage. Like your caners,

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your futures geraniums. Protect them from frost, and if you're

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worried about them, fetch them windows in a shed, in

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a polytunnel, pot them up and keep them warm until

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next year. Cut back perennials. Now is the time to

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cut back any spent growth on any perennials like pioneers, hostas,

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and delphiniums. Trim back dead foliage to ground level to

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tidy up the garden and prevent disease or pests from

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over winter in. Prune your roses if you've got any

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climbing roses, any rambling roses, any roses, cut back long

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shoots to prevent them from being damaged by winter winds.

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Remove any dead, diseased or crossing branches. For hybrid t

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and floor bunder roses, focus on pruning in late winter,

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but you can likely trim them now to tidy it up.

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Multi flowerbeds. Applying a thick colout of mulch around your

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flower beds helps to protect the plant roots from freezing.

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Improve soil structure suppresses winter weeds. Use organic materials like

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compost or well rotted manure or leaf mold or bar

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chips and spread it around the base of plants after

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cutting back perennials. Checking clean your garden structures. Like I mentioned,

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make sure you clean them all down, clean down oi pergolas,

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trelliss plant supports. You don't want no diseases on them.

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Even if you use antibacterial spray that will clean them

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up and stop any diseases from spreading around. So many

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hardy annual seeds. So now you can be sewing your

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sweet peas, poppies or cornflowers. This will give them all

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a head start ready for next year. But make sure

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you save them inside your greenhouse or your polyton away

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is warmer, because the frost can kill them outside. Protect

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your alpine plants. If you've got any alpine plants, make

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sure you cover the plants with grit to improve drainage

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and prevent water logging, which can cause them to rot.

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Some delicate alpine plants may also need protection from excessive

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winter moisture. Planning your next year's flower displayers. Now I've

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said this in an episode the other day. Now is

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the time to be planning for next year. Think about

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all them flowers that you want to try and grow

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in the where you want to grow different varieties that

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you want to try and grow. Think about it or

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have a look online, have a looking brochures, or go

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into the garden centers, get those packets of seeds or

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bulbs and think about what you're going to be growing

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next year. Because think about it now can make some

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beautiful blooms for next year in the garden. So that

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is everything what you need to be doing in your

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garden and an allotment in November. Obviously there's other stuff

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that you can be doing, but those are the main

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tasks that need doing. So I hope you've enjoyed today's episode.

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It has been a long episode. I know that. But

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tomorrow we'll be back with the normal episodes talking about

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different jobs, what we've been up to at the lotment

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and different things what you can do in the garden

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and allotments at this time and yeah, sharing more tips

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that advice as usual. If you don't follow me, do

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and leave a review as well. Until next time, everyone,

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remember keep smiling, keep shining, and keep gardening with bet. Everyone.

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