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been up to on the Alltment. So sit back, grab
a brew and enjoy today's episode. Hey everyone, and welcome
back to Gardening with Ben. It's a brand new week.
It's Monday, and yes we're back here with another podcast.
If you didn't listen to yesterday's podcast, we're talking about
everything we did on the allotment on Saturday. We've got
quite a lot done. And yeah, I went back down
to the allotment on Sunday and we got even more
jobs ticked off down at the allotment. So obviously, first
thing I usually do when I get to the allotment
is I feed the cat. The cat was enjoying the
nice food that we leave it every single day, and
we also fed the birds as well, made sure the
birds have got all their bird seed. That is one
job that I always do when I get down to
the allotment. So what have we been doing on the
plot today. Well, I've not done anything outside today because
I actually got most of it done yesterday, so it's
pretty much in good shape. So today we have been
doing work inside the shed. We've been getting it prepared
and ready for the mass makeover that we're going to
be doing it. I've got an idea in my head
of what I want to do. Whether it'll out like
I want it to is another thing, but we'll have
to see, hopefully, fingers crossed it does. I've got a
good idea of what I'm going to do, and I'm
going to make a lot of time into doing this
and make sure it's strong enough and it don't fall
down on what I'm going to be doing. So you'll
have to stay tuned for that, keep your eyes peeled
because it might be a little surprise. I might shure
that after picture at the end. So today we have
been sorting out some of my shelving as I want
to make them waterproof because it's all wooden shelving and
rain does get through into my shed and it drips everywhere,
and obviously when I'm watering my plants, it goes onto
the wood as well. So I've made all my shelving waterproof.
We put plastic covers over them all so then any
water will just run straight off it, and yeah, that'll
protect them and make them last years to come, which
is what we want. We don't want to be spending
any money down there, if possible, even though I'm going
to be spending money on doing my shed up, but
that is to make it look good for videos, etc.
So we got all them done. We sorted out any
plants what we're dying in there and chucked them away,
and sorted out all my compost what we're in the plots,
because I always reuse the compost in other areas. I
don't waste a single bit of compost. We also obviously
watered all the plants, made sure they were all watered
because you only need to water and possibly once every
couple of weeks. Now they won't dry out as fast
as what they would do when it's warmer. But to
say it was eleven degrees at the allotment today. It
were absolutely gorgeous. It were decent gardening weather for being
down there today, so we did all that. Then I've
been filming some content for you all, as obviously I've
not been doing many YouTube videos, so I've filmed a
couple of YouTube videos to put out this week. I've
done a tour of my plots so then you can
all see how it's looking, how it's coming on, and
see what I've done with my shelving. And yeah, obviously
I do these podcasts, but sometimes it's better to have
visuals and then you can see what I'm doing. So
if you're not following my YouTube channel, do give it
a follower and you will see them videos pop up.
I've also been doing some promo for my podcast because
I'm wanting more and more people to listen to it.
Yesterday's podcast was one of the best days for listeners yesterday,
So thank you to everybody that listened and anyone that's
knew that's giving us a follow. Thank you for all
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you'll get notified of when the podcast come up, which
is every day at the moment, so we've been doing that.
We've also been having fun with a drone. I bought
a drone cheap off TikTok for about twelve pounds. I
wasn't expecting anything. It was absolutely rubbish. It doesn't fly
where you wanted to fly, so yeah, that was money wasted.
So we won't be getting any drone footage soon, is
for sure. But yeah, maybe we'll get a proper drone
eventually and learn how to fly it. That's another thing.
So yeah, hopefully we will have a look into that
eventually and possibly do so. Yeah, I've done all that.
That's all done. I've worked out what I want to
do on the plot next week and that will come
in obviously on next Saturday's episode, so I stay tuned
for that. We won't spoil the surprise of all that.
And then one thing where our down at the altment
today and it were funny really somebody shouted me that
they were Benny, you're there and I went yeah, yeah, yeah,
and they went, do you know if somebody's been working
on our plot? No, because I only go down now
on a Saturday and Sunday. Now I'm not there in
week and I went why and they went somebody's put
a fence up, okay, and I went up and they
built an a fence at the front of the plot
and a gate and everything. Well, they've not worked off
the rest your plot. They've just done a fence and
a little garden fairies come along and built them a
fence at the front of the plot. And when they
can feel free and come and do bad if they want.
And they were right over at Moon bless them. They
only mentioned it to somebody on site a bit ago,
and I'm guessing it with this person because they always
offer to do help and everything for anyone. And yeah,
that really made the day that they were like a
little Christmas gift from They built them a nice fence,
put a fence outside of the plot and it looks
absolutely fantastic. So I may have to hire this garden
fairy to come and do some DIY for me. But yeah, definitely,
it's good when people come and come together and help
each other out. And that's what makes it so special
about our a lotment site is that everybody looks out
for one another. It's a nice little community and that's
what you get with allotments. Sometimes you get too much
politics in the way and stuff like that. But when
it all works, it all works well and everybody gets
on nicely. So yeah, that is basically what we've got
up to down at the plot today. Hopefully it's going
to be another good weekend next weekend. If it stays
this warm, I'll be happy throughout all December. Can imagine it.
If it stays at eleven degrees throughout December and January, what,
it's absolutely bad blowing. But this is global warming for
you and I. Even when I were doing my Allotment
tour video, I were going around my fruit trees, around
my roo barb. My fruit trees are coming into bud already,
so they're waking up from the hibernation already, which they
shouldn't be. They should be asleep at the moment. And
also my roub Bob's growing, which is another baffling thing.
Ru Bob should be dormant at this time of year.
It should be awake. It shouldn't be growing, it should
be asleep. And at this rate, I'm going to be
having rhubarb for my Christmas pudding. But yeah, it's all baffling.
It'll soon die off again if we're gett another coll spell.
But it certainly shouldn't be growing at this time of year.
But all the seasons are absolutely bizarre. They certainly are.
But yeah, hopefully fingers crossed, we can get a lot
more done next week and we're going to be working
in the shed possibly next weekend and getting stuff started
on my design makeover. But I'm not going to tell
you what I'm going to do in there yet until
I share what it is looking like. And knowing my DIY,
it won't come out however I've issuing it in my head.
It'll come out another totally different way, and it'll probably
collapse before I build it properly, but we'll see. I
may actually build something proper for once. I do love DIY.
I'm just rubbish it. That's the only issue. Who else
is like that with they? Do you have trouble with
doing DIY? Do you love doing it? But it's absolutely
rubbish like me? And it falls down, it collapses or
it blows away. But yeah, I absolutely love it. There's
not much left to do in the plot outside that
is for sure. I've got my bed to screw together
and sort them out and possibly sort out my paths
a bit more. But there's certainly nothing that I actually
need to do on my allotment whatsoever. So hopefully, I
hope you've all had a good weekend. I hope you're
all feeling energized and motivated for this week. I've got
lots of plans for this week, and hopefully I've got
some new plans for the new year, and hopefully we'll
be sharing them all with you soon. But yeah, I'm
building this podcast. I'm getting more people listen to it,
and everybody seems to be loving it, So make sure
you do come back for tomorrow's Tips and Advice video.
It's going to be a good video. And yeah, I
hope not video podcast. I hope you enjoyed the podcast.
But yes, we're going to have episodes every sing lay
for this week. We're recording them all in advance so
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