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New Week of Gardening at the allotment and garden
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Nov 14, 2024
🌱 New Week of Gardening at the Allotment and Garden! A fresh week means fresh tasks, new growth, and more chances to dig in and enjoy the plot! 🧤🌞 In this episode, I’m sharing what’s coming up on the allotment this week — from planting plans to seasonal tasks and reflections on the growing journey. What’s on your garden to-do list this week? #WeeklyGardening #AllotmentUpdate #GrowYourOwn #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #AllotmentLife #GardenPlanning
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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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