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This video explains the important gardening jobs to focus on regularly and how to keep your garden healthy and organised.
The guide covers preparing beds, checking plant health, watering correctly, supporting plants, planning sowing and maintaining growing areas. It also explains how consistent care prevents problems and improves plant growth.
If you want steady progress and a productive garden, these simple practical tips will help you manage your growing space successfully.
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episode hello and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's Monday and
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what an awful weekend it has been well
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the past few days have been uh to be
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honest uh it's certainly not been a nice
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weekend whatsoever uh with these two
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main storms and the third one which has
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come on Sunday as well so yeah we but we
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still can't complain because the winter
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that we've had has not been bad
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whatsoever uh yes these storms have been
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horrendous but we've not had the snow
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we've not had multiple storms uh we've
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been getting a few recently but we've
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not had as bad a winter as we usually
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get so I'm still not complaining about
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this weather to be honest because we've
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been pretty good and lucky to be honest
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up to now and I'm not looking forward to
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going to my plot because obviously I
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don't know what state my shed's in after
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the storm Unice uh hope hopefully it's
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still standing but we'll have to wait
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and see on that stance uh but yeah we'll
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we'll have to have a good week down
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there I won't be back down until my plot
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on Wednesday when I'm back off work and
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that will be for 4 days hopefully and
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hopefully the weather will pick up by
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then he hopes luckily it always seems to
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be raining while I'm working at the
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moment so we've not had many bad days
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down there and that's why we've managed
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to be able to back on with my plot and
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get it all ship shape and ready there's
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still an awful lot to get done I've
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still got about eight beds to clear and
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then once I've cleared all my beds it's
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a case of sorting out all my paths my
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paths are my low priority because
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obviously I'm not growing in them
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they're just for walking on uh but once
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I've cleared all my beds I usually rip
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up all my paths uh where I've got all
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black membrane down cing slabs down and
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I dig it all over again and relay all
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the paths from scratch the reason why I
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do this is because yes I've got black
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membrane down and I've got paths down
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but the roots still grow underneath it
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and they can sneak into the beds so it's
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good to get them dug over I do that once
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a year at least sometimes two depending
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how bad the weather is or uh how bad the
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roots are growing or if I've got time
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really if I'm up today with my plot I'll
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give them a second go over later on in
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the year but I try to get them done at
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least once a year and get them all
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readle over and sorted for the year
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ahead really and it's case of just doing
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it and making it look better really and
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cleaning up all my Paving slabs sweeping
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them up getting them a bit more level
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because obviously when you're standing
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on them all the time they start to grow
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on level and they get mcky and weeds
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grow in between them as well so yeah
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it's Cas getting them all ready and tidy
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and cleaned
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up so what are we going to be looking at
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doing this week down on the plot well
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hopefully if the weather does keep hold
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I will be going down and getting the
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rest of those beds dug over and getting
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them cleared and hopefully work a few
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hours in my shed because I want to spend
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a bit more time regularly getting my
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shed ready because getting into March
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that is when I'm going to start sewing
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all my seeds uh towards the end of March
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beginning of April so I need to get it
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all ready and in good shape because if
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it has all collapsed and everything like
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that who knows we will find out um we
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need to get looking at sewing all my
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tomatoes all the ones that do need a
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long germination rate uh to get going
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obviously a lot of people start the
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tomatoes off in January and February but
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I tend to wait till March because it is
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warmer up here in Sheffield uh towards
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then and they do soon catch up with the
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main plants obviously you won't get the
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fruit for as long uh but I'll still get
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a good crop from them so I'm not
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complaining so we need to look at
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getting all them ready for sewing and
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also I'm going to be sewing my melons
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pretty soon uh getting all them ready
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and I'm looking at growing a lot of
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different varieties of melons this time
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I hope you can still hear that it's
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absolutely bouncing it down while I'm
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recording this uh but that just goes to
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show it's absolutely chucking it down
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here this weekend um but yeah I've got
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lots and lots to get done and my main
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jobs this week what I'm thinking of
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doing is having a look at all my flower
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seeds as now is the time to be looking
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at what flower seeds you want to be
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starting to S because I'm going to be
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starting them off in March because a lot
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of flower seeds do need a long time to
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get growing and to get germinated really
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because they take a while to develop
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their flowers so the quicker you can get
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them going the better results you'll get
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from your flower seeds and I've good
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I've purchased so many flower seeds this
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year it's unbelievable if you saw my
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picture what I shared on Instagram of
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how many flower seeds I've purchased
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this year wow it's certainly amazing and
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if I can get a lot of them to grow
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I will be impressed with myself and lot
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a lot of them are actual perennials
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which means that they'll keep flowering
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year after year as annuals are ones
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that'll just grow for one year and then
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they'll die uh so then you have to
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replace them so the more plants I can
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get going what are annual uh perennial
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plants which I don't have to keep
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replacing the better really because
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it'll save me time in the long run and
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hopefully we'll get some great results
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from them
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so it's all time and effort getting it
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all started and getting those flower
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seeds growing but once I've got them
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growing and developed in the right area
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cuz I've got my flower beds which are
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specific for flowers uh and not for
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growing vegetables then they can just
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stay there and be happy and keep growing
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back and blooming every year and I'm
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going to be talking quite a bit this
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week uh about different topics uh one of
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them being about
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growing cut flowers that's uh one of my
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podcasts and also I'm going to be
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talking a lot about growing melons this
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year because I want a lot of people to
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try and grow some melons and see how
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they get on uh a bit of an experiment
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I've grown them myself once before and
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had great success been doing quite a lot
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of research into what varieties to grow
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in the UK because some varieties you
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won't get good results from um water
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melons you'll struggle to get good
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results from them and yeah I've been
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researching the best varieties to try
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and grow in the UK so make sure you stay
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tuned for that episode and you can try
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and grow them along with me uh sew your
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seeds around the same time when I let
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you know when I'm sewing my melon seeds
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and yeah if you've got a greenhouse or
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poly tunnel let's give it a try and see
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if we can get some melons growing it
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won't cost you much to get them going uh
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even if it they fail it's good little
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experiment it's good to try new things
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as I keep saying I like to try different
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stuff every year last year I tried a lot
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of different varieties of squashes and
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uh from trying that I'll be uh growing
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some of those varieties again this year
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because I had great results last year
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last year I grew loads of different
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varieties of sunflowers and wow did I
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get some beautiful sunflowers on my plot
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last year and I'm going to do the same
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again um growing new stuff leads you to
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Growing it in future if you get good
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results why not keep trying to grow them
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and get the best from your allotment as
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possible so yeah it's going to be quite
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a busy week for me down at the allotment
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and at home getting things prepared and
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