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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to

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a podcast for all things green and growing. I'm Ben,

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your allotment guide and here to help you cultivate your

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garden and your passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned

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gardener or just starting out, this podcast is for you.

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Each episode will dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to

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make your garden and allotment thrive from planting, sewing, and growing.

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We will share all the tips and add advice. We

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will also have regular episodes talking about what we have

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been up to on the alltment. So sit back, grab

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a brew and enjoy today's episode. Hey everyone, and welcome

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back to Gardening with Ben for another brand new episode. Well,

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I hope you've enjoyed the podcast. This week. We've had

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an episode every single day, so if you're catching up,

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make sure you go back and listen to all the

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episodes from this week. There's certainly plenty on there. Nice

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and short, as per usual, they're usually about ten minutes long.

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We don't let them drag on too much. We try

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and not waffle on for ages. But yeah, we are

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back and it is the weekend, and obviously over this

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weekend you will get podcasts talking about everything that we've

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been getting up to on the allotment. Fingers crossed, we

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will be down there today and hopefully getting lots of

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work done because now it's time to move inside. I've

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sorted most of my plot out on the outside, everything

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that I needed to get done, so it's time to

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move into the shed. And I've been looking forward to this,

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but because this is a bit that I enjoy. I

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enjoy doing all the building, all the maintenance work. And yeah,

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we're gonna give our shared a massive revamp on the

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inside of it, which I've got a good vision in

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my head. Whether it'll come out like my that is

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the question, but you'll have to stay and see how

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well we get on with it. We're going to build

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like a proper counter to do all my potting on

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and plant to pull my plants upon, and yeah, I'm

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going to use this counter to do all my filming

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out as well, because then you can see all my videos.

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I can do videos of Missowy my seeds, doing all

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my potting up and doing like examples and sharing ideas

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from it. So yeah, this counter, I've got an idea

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for it. Whether it will look like I actually want

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it to look like. I want it all to be

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nicely wooden paneled, and I want it all to be

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painted a nice color. And then I'm thinking of having

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a backdrop behind me and having my logo on this

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counter as well to make it look quite professional. But

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the question is if it actually comes out like this,

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we will see. But yeah, we will see how well

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it actually comes on and works, so hopefully we'll have

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a good outcome. We've got plenty of woods saved up

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my sheds, follow would, so I need to start using

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some of it up so that it doesn't all go rotten.

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And yeah, hopefully it's gonna look good. But we'll share

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progress photos as we're going along, and I plan on

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me painting on all the inside of my shed. I'm

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going to clear loads of rubbish way from inside of it,

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put some shelving up, sort on my plant pots out,

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all my seed trays out, and basically give it a

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nice freshen up and just so that it's more aesthetic

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when I'm doing all my filming, because I want to

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start looking a bit more professional. I'll never be professional,

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I'm a Yorkshireman, but yeah, hopefully fingers crossed it will

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start to come together. So at this moment in time,

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I've just put my drills on charge, so hopefully they

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will be charged for tomorrow so that we can start

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building it. Obviously, this week we've got Saturday and Sunday

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down there. Then it's Christmas Day on Wednesday, and yeah,

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hopefully I'll be back down at the allotment on Boxing

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Day as I have nothing planned to do. I've got

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a bar in life, and yeah, hopefully I'll be back

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down on Boxing Day as well, because I might actually

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sow all my onion seeds because that's an old gardener's

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tradition to plant the onions on Boxing Day. So I'm

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going to plant my onion seeds on Boxing Day. I

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think I'm going to stick by tradition. Now. The only

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other thing that I do by tradition is my potato

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planting as well, because they say to plant them on

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Good Friday. It's all to do with the moon. So

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I've always stuck to growing planting them on Good Friday,

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even though Good Friday moves every single year, I've always

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stuck to that date of planting them and they always

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come out good. So we may try the tradition of

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planting my onion seeds on Boxing day. Get in touch

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and let me know if you plant your onion seeds

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on Boxing day. Obviously you don't need to actually sew

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them till like January time, but if you're wanting big

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ones or exhibition sized ones, start them off around now,

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as that is what people do. Obviously, I'll be sewing

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them indoors inside my shed. I'll not be planting them

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outside till March time, so hopefully by then they'll have

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shot up and be growing pretty strongly. And I'm going

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to do a comparison video again this year. I'm going

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to show what the difference is between planting form a

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seed and actually sewing onions from sets as well, so

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you'll be able to stay up today see the progress

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of how they're both getting on. We'll plant them both

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near each other, so the soil will be pretty similar,

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there'll be the same amount of sunlight, and we'll see

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how well they both actually grow and see which one

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actually does best, whether it's worth growing from seed or

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whether it's worth growing from the set, which is like

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a little bulb. So let me know which one you

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think I'll grow better, as I have done this before,

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and I know which ones actually did the best, So

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let me know which one you think I'll grow the best.

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Let me know if you go seed or if you

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grow set as well. I'd like to know what people

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actually do, so hopefully we need to do that. So

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I best get some compost actually this week weekend before

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they shut over Christmas, so I'll put that on my

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list and need to get some compost in the morning

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on the way to the allotment. So yeah, I'm looking

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forward to that. You never know, I might be actually

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filming it on my new table. That's if it's not

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collapsed already, because knowing my luck, it'll collapse the day

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that I build it. But no, I'm going to try

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and make it as stronger as possible about it, even

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actually lay on it to make show it's strong and

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stable enough see if it will survive my weight, which

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is a lot of weight. But yeah, that's our plan

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for this week and start building inside my shed. I've

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not got too much else to be getting on with

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down at the allotment. I've still got to winter wash

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all my fruit trees. And that's the case of if

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you look at Amazon and look for winter wash, they're

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basically what you spray on your fruit trees to stop

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the winter off from hibernating on them over the winter

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and laying its eggs, and then they would hatch, and

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then they'll obviously go inside your fruit and eat your

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fruit and stuff like that. So it's a case of

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protecting them a bit from pests and stuff like that.

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And I also need to buy some green sticky tape

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to stick around them as well, because that stops everything

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actually crawling up them and getting to the fruit as well.

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So the more things that I can do to prevent

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them from getting damaged the best, because the bug what

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damages my apples the most. It's not wasps, it's not birds,

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it's not squirrels. It's woodline. Yes, wood lice. When I

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was picking all my apples last year and the years

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before that, I look inside the core and there's a

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wood lice inside the little hole where the store goes,

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hiding away keeping warm out of the way, and yeah,

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they've obviously eaten a bit at the top of it

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as well, So I need to start protecting them more

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from the wood lice as well. Let me know if

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you get issues with wood lice eating yours and if

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you're managing to prevent the wood lice from eating them,

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let me know how you do it, because obviously I

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don't like spraining my food and stuff like that. I'll

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use this winter wash which is like organic type, but

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I don't like spraining the fruit once they're on with

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pesticides or anything like that. So yeah, I like to

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be as organic as much as possible on my fruit

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and veg side. It's what makes it taste better as well,

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So let me know your thoughts on that. So get

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in touch as well to let me know what you're

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getting up to at the allotment this weekend, if you're

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going down, if you're harvesting your Christmas dinners as well,

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that's the main part. Who's grown Brussels sprouts? Not me?

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I absolutely hate them. Who's growing them? And yeah, who's

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grown parsnips? Who's growing in potatoes? Have you got a

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full Christmas dinner from your allotment? Now? That will be

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the perfect Christmas dinner, all your vegetables, all from your

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a lotment and yeah, a nice scrumptious Christmas dinner. But

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I will keep these podcasts going all week. You will

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even get one on Christmas Day. As well, so make

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sure you stay tuned for the podcasts on Christmas Day.

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And yeah, I'm glad you all enjoyed them. The figures

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are going well. People are listening every single day. Make

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more people that listen, the better. So until next time

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when we come back to morrow, when we find out

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what we've been up to at the allotment today, that's

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if we've managed to do anything. Hopefully we will have done,

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so make sure you'll come back tomorrow. Until next time, everyone,

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

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Thank you for joining me on this episode of Gardening

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