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"Weekend Workshop: Building Our New Potting Bench at the Allotment"
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Jan 1, 2025
🌱 Weekend Workshop: Building Our New Potting Bench at the Allotment! Time to get hands-on! This weekend, we tackled a fun and functional project — building a brand-new potting bench to organise our growing space. 🪚🌿 It’s already making sowing, potting, and prepping so much easier. Have you built something useful for your garden recently? #WeekendWorkshop #PottingBenchBuild #AllotmentDIY #GrowYourOwn #GardenProjects #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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what we've been getting up to down at
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the plot this weekend well it's
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absolutely windy here at the moment it's
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been windy all weekend I don't know if
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you've had this where you are but it has
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still got me to the plot and I have done
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load now if you've seen my Instagram
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post or my Facebook post you'll have
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seen my new bench what I've built my new
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potting bench I said I were going to do
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it and I did it and wow I am in so much
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pain
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uh the first day on the Saturday I was
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doing it all by handsaw and sewing all
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the pieces of wood and everything like
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that and my hand was absolutely killing
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by the end of it and I thought I can't
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do this anymore U my dad's got a battery
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powered saw so I asked him if I could
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borrow it and I borrowed that on the
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Sunday and I wish I so wish I'd have
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used that on the first day because i'
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have got it all done in a day it just
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breeed through it breeed through all
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wood chopped it up I'd finished it
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within like a few uh in about half an
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hour of going down to the plot and it
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looks absolutely fantastic to say I'm
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not a builder I'm rubbish with wood uh
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everything usually falls apart I'm happy
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with how it looks and it looks fantastic
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it doesn't look superb it's not like
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gold standard but it will do the job of
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what I need it to do and hopefully it'll
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last for years to come now this new
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potting bench is going to be used for
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obviously doing all my potting up and
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stuff like that but I'm going to start
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doing obviously more videos down in the
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shed and in the alotment showing me
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potting up talking about my seeds
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talking about different topics down
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there and yeah just more videos from
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inside of the shed to come next year
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obviously you get your podcasts every
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day apart from when I have a day off um
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but I want to start doing a few more
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videos for you to watch as well we was
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good with the videos last month but we
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seem to have tailored off a bit cuz
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there's not much to do down at the plot
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at the moment with video wise but
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hopefully beginning of next year we'll
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have lots more videos coming out on a
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regular basis and yeah I've got a few
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more ideas for my shed which I've
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ordered a couple of things and I'm not
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going to tell you what they are because
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I want it to be a surprise to you all
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and I want you to see how good they
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actually look well hopefully they do and
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hopefully they fit perfectly so we'll
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have to stay tuned for that but it's all
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about my video
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quality but yeah I'm I'm excited for
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these and they're going to look good
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fingers crossed so we've got that done
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and what else have we been up to
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recently well we've not been up to much
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else down at the plot we've done some
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shed repairs obviously the winds caused
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some damage to my shed as per usual it's
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blown some of the plastic off the
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roofing uh so I to climb up today and
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screw some pieces back on and some new
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pieces on and hopefully it's temporarily
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uh and but hopefully it'll have lasted
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for the rest of the day because it's
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been really bad wind here in Sheffield
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for the rest of the day uh I certainly
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don't know what it's like where you've
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been but yeah I'm dreading going back to
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the allotment I'll probably be back at
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the allotment on boxing day because I've
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got nothing else planned in my boring
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life but yeah I'll be back down at the
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allotment onboxing day and I need to go
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out and buy some paint um that's on my
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to-do list tomorrow uh to get some paint
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to start painting it because once it's
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all painted then I can add the final
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touches which is all part of the plan
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and you'll be able to see what it looks
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like but I'm thinking of having it
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painted red red and black not that I'm a
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Sheffield United
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I I'm a Sheffield Wednesday fan but I
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thought red and black might look nice in
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there so I'm going to get some Med and
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black paint and see what it comes out
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like it's going to need a couple of
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coats because it's quite old wood and
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it's some pieces have been stained in
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the past and painted and stuff like that
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so it's going to need a couple of coats
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to make sure it's all covered and it's
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all looking smart and obviously the
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paint will add a waterproof in to it and
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hopefully make it last a bit longer as I
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do get lot of drips in my shed they drip
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everywhere uh but hopefully it'll make
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it last for a while but yeah I'm excited
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for next year I'm excited for all these
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little projects that I'm going to get
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started and coming up soon we'll be
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planting all our onions which I've been
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talking about recently I'm going to be
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sewing all my onions I'm going to be
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sewing my peppers and I'm going to be
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sewing my over jeans so we need to get
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some compost as well so when I go and
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get some paint I remember to get some
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compost and then we can start sewing the
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seeds as well and yeah my peppers and my
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ories I'm going to grow them at home get
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them started because Peppers need about
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25° to germinate they need a lot of heat
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to get them to germinate and obviously
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my shed is
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unheated uh I could have a heater in
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there but I don't want to uh I wouldn't
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risk wanting to leave it on in the shed
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when I'm not down at the allotment if I
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if I got the shed at home or the
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greenhouse at home I'd certainly have a
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heated Greenhouse but obviously we it be
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an alotment I'm not having heater in
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there so I'll be bringing home my
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peppers and my or jein to grow my windel
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as this Flat's got a windel in it now so
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I can have stuff on my window it's not a
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big one it's very T tiny but uh I can
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start my peppers and my or jein off at
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home but the things that you've got to
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be careful with is that you've got to be
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have to keep turning them around and
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making sure they getting adequate light
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when they're growing so yeah it's not
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been too busy as in doing work down
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there but we've got a lot achieved and
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I'm happy with what I've got achieved
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it's another job ticked off and the next
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jobs down in the shed will be to
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basically tidy it all up and uh give it
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all a lick paint and put some new
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shelving up I want to put some more
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shelving up tidy all my pots up tidy all
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my trays out all my seed trays and yeah
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give it a really good tidy ready for the
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spring time and try and get it organized
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I'm not very organized at all but the
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more organized I can be the better and
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give me that Head Start ready for next
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year down at the allotment so hopefully
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