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Exactly 3 o'clock let's get the latest local news headlines for Cambridge here with Catherine Park thanks jazz but Esther has died in a collision with a fire engine responding to a 911 call in Royston it happened on a roundabout New York way last night the vehicle overturned in the crash she fire of as a royal will share from her future Farm Rescue Service has described it as a tragic incident and says the service is working with the police to establish exactly what happened and why these people saw it unfold heard all the commotion of the after it happened we saw the blue lights flashing from the hostel and we could see all the fire engines and police coming in and we heard the around it it's coming over it's just that must be devastating for the family involved on the sleigh and then also the fire crew that's just the driver than everyone who's in the river so I always just left that out as operating there's been a 9 percent increase in crime across Cambridge share compared to last year figures released by the Ins show that areas with the most increase of public order offenses possession of weapons violent crime and theft but the number of burglaries and drug offenses have gone down believed to be owing to the renewed focus on quality of crime according by the police. The Foreign Office has confirmed that 6 British tourists have died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia Unconfirmed reports say they were travelling from Manchester and Glasgow and were travelling in a mini bus between Mecca and Medina at least 3 people are dead and about 30 a missing after an avalanche struck a hotel in central Italy the hotel on Gran Sasso mountain was buried under snow yesterday but is so remote the rescue was only reached the sites in the early hours of this morning. Just over 10 percent of secondary schools in Cambridge share a deemed to be failing by the government that's 4 schools out of $39.00 some Edwards has more on today's figures up until this year schools have been rated predominately by war g.c.s.e. Results but now schools are being judged by new measures which take greater accounts of people progress in Cambridge and off Academy in Sydney it's u.t.c. Cambridge and Thomas Clarkson Academy and with speech all fall below the standards that's 3 schools out of $28.00 or 10.7 percent in Peterborough It's knowing point one percent with the voyage Academy the only school in 11 deemed to be failing had teachers say the results come amid a funding and recruitment crisis in sports pieces by striking cool testers joins league to Mansfield on loan until the end of the season Mansfield have an option to sign Kutas permanently should his loan spell it filled mill proved to be successful and England have been set a target of 392 for a victory in the 2nd one day international against India a moment ago they were 244 for 5 the weather became a ship plenty of sunshine today perhaps a bit more cloud in the north highs of 6 southeast and also lows of minus one they'll be more news as it happens at b.b.c. . Forward slash came to share it's now 3 minutes past right here listening to Chris South gardening hour on b.b.c. Radio Cambridge 1st broadcast on Sunday morning at 11 am. B.b.c. Radio Cambridge he is then it's the governor Steve Johnson in for the regular host Christopher south will be speaking it's a case Jordan Life'll gardening expert about all sorts of things over the next hour winter flowering plants Berry bearing shrubs school as little jobs that you can do now in the garden especially given the state of the weather this is the gardening hour on b.b.c. Radio temperature or 96 that found 95.7 f.m. Day I'd be trying to. I'm Channel 7 to 2 on Freeview Miss Christine much I've discovered I know more about gardening than I thought. This is b.b.c. Radio Cambridge yet. So Keith Jordan nice to see you again how are you are fine thanks yes we need to sort of set our stall at radio because I was out on a breakfast piece o. Krakauer this was a 67 years ago I think you were in hell's road so yeah we might slip in that he was right in those days and I took the right a car down to the allotment so I may be there and you did put me in a position where I had to file face one of my sort of pet gardening fears if you remember about slugs and snails I wasn't slugs and snails it was amphibians and whilst I'm a big fan of a garden I have a more not so big on amphibians but they do play a hugely important. That's right you know. Very huge population of common toads and this time of year they'll see just hide in 1000 but when they come out they often devouring a lot of so slugs and other insect pests so they doing you know wonderful job. We have got a lot of jobs to do in the garden to get it ready ahead of hopefully lovely bright and sunny Easter What other jobs to do now while this weather is yet to be mild Well what mild but drawing but probably not to die unless you have some really gardens of the nice shade or I mean things like raised beds coming to Rome coffee when you don't stop raining in your view. And you've got good pass your tea they're really useful for getting out and. So all the cultivating or if you've got some things growing so you know that's when they come into their own and if you've got a conservatory of course you can still do all your indoor gardening and if you've got a greenhouse even better even though especially weather we're having a minor are a few things to sow from from now on but. When the weather clears up because yesterday was a lovely place sunny day perfect for gardening and general tidying up this time of year where there's you might still have leaves lying around and probably. Sort of just dead either where slugs and snails will hide under and then breed even quite if it gets much you can do without Yeah I was trying to if you can try to reduce the population of the building up that's preferable to then in a few months time saying I've got a huge slug and snail population and you don't really want to introduce anything into the garden ecology you don't have to so no I mean obviously controlling as well frogs and toads and birds will do their bit but probably just keep in that the levels is pretty near your more vulnerable plants because a lot of plants some sort of on top or totally unaffected by slugs and snails but if you're growing salad crops it's best to gain an area of an exclusion zone around them it is fairly. How do you do that Genie I mean obviously you can dig a trench but. I mean you can have things like even a gravel path if you have one area you want to grow lots of more delicate plants herring or perhaps a gravel path and stars don't like rough surfaces. And siting it so it's not right next to a Hades if you've got a head your and damp air is that's where slugs and snails are going to hide so it's best not to site it near that try and keep it somewhere more open and. But this time of year there's still lots of things like you know if you have a compost heap it's all accomplices and they're all rotted down it's a great time to dig it out and the really good stuff you can then actually lie on your borders you don't have to get in there and then you then the worms can pull it down and then that all. Producer love the soil and we need it round here that waits we need they were very clay heavy and very dry and mild here the dry stone area of the country and on that note on the phone we have Tom from near March and he wants to know the best time to grow roses and the case go is. Went dormant on the line all still male because they got a little bored so I don't well. Got them off because I need a little you know a little porch and the roses will be all right well some people have always been able to do it in March Well it's far too late because the sap is already down to the roots were on Don Well if you wait on much you've got little leaves on and everything else will then you cut them off and that knocks em back you also your kitchen roses you know yeah they knock some back because like always clean the want go in we can all look like leaves off yet because you can accomplish risk but you won't get so many so I don't think they want to win in March and I don't know I quite agree actually I mean I would stop planting roses from almost October November of the money's not frosty or was yes and because the old oh you know you go down your garden you think nothing's happening but of course underground roots of law plants a growing there is a new plants or established plants those roots root hairs and are all growing because the soil the white in so a in to late in so so the sooner you plant things like Rosies and shrubs in the autumn probably not. Whether there are hard root pop pounds or they're rooted ones. Then it gives a chance you know for those roots to stablish and grow before the new because we can often get some really drying weather probably out in the fens when you get a failure in February or March and yet these Eastley drawing easterly winds and then the plant starts shooting that's when if you've got stablish roots so I'd say March is the the last time I talk a lady if you want to leave home and question for you what you grow your roses in because I'm not sure that they like clay soil that well that's what Clay Yeah Clay's perfect as long as it's not too compacted it's always a good idea to have lots of compost store well rotted mean you are to it to break it up I mean Clay is very nutritious and it does hold the water in when we have a drought period but yes I do put some compost is quite strong a lot it does help a lot because you can get a good root for my if you get too much cry Oh yeah that's right. Yeah but but you know always got a really good hole much much bigger than the size of the pots. And just make it and make sure it's wealthy they don't like sitting in wet soil. And a lot of plants a lot of crops I don't. Know go you know I'm like you know that's right no so you have a clay Clay's good Ok as long as you treat it well you've got to you've got to feed it as well because you know I mean you know I've got another rose question for both of you. Has called in she says she has cut roses in a vase of water they've started to bud and grow their own leaves Is it possible to get them out and growing in the garden season since Christmas or cut off the heads but are they growing. I know I would doubt if they would grow look what you can do is take this time of year take hard wood cutting of again we're getting a bit late for hardwood cuttings of many roses where you actually put in a nice if you have a nice little foot long stem pencils size. Of stem and you put them 2 thirds into into the ground outdoors they may. Even at this stage they may work well root so that's one way you can but I doubt if they've been growing in. You know I left for me and you know but you know and I'm like you get them on a firing stand i told me so yes well you know you know it's not really a good all day. Case just because well it's all right things in. The air we caught something else but. Well why won't old it's always play out because there's no knowing if they didn't have the balls for me not meant to go. Just like that so. Now I'm going to bed all day and set some probably. Especially busy. In Huntington is busy around the. Very. Best to the south of Sydney. 3 heavier than normal. And. 3. B.b.c. Radio Cambridge a travel. Mug Now keep Jordan out gardening expert is in the studio today Steve Jackson here in for Christopher South who's on his holidays at the moment we've had another rose bit of information Anyway Lynn in hast and says a man has grown several roses from buds in her garden so it is possible well yeah there's there's always you know trial and error is a great thing and sometimes some day you put things in water and you know they will root and so things like even like spider plants and as a rule the things that are actually in flower tend not to an end when you take cuttings you don't take. Shoots that are flowering on the whole things generally fruit better when they're not on flowering stem so it's certainly more unusual anything with flowers on. But then there's always that you know 1st time a chance ready and that's the great thing about gardening to trial and error well trial and error is pretty much the way that I approach my garden so I did like a bit of order of my garden I like a structure and I like the disorder to come from color and the most important thing in my garden is somewhere to sit and somewhat cook something on but you have to be in a situation where you know nice nice environment today I mean what you stand on planters against beds. Well for that's pretty for a lot of small gardens that's probably the best way. To grow things for you you know a lot of houses when you've got small yards or very small garden so in some ways you have to make the best of. The Heights really so either climbers or well plants that grow too big but will grow up right against a fence or wall that's how you can extend the sort of the green and colorful areas your garden. Be out by interests so I guess that's what you've got to be careful about in a smaller garden you don't planting that's going to be too rampant because there are some plants we probably all done it where every wretched put in a planting like Clematis Elm and the other grows huge and you know you realise you you know it's probably best if you lived in a state. Mile a minute. Now we've got another question which is a completely different end of the spectrum from Howard in having food he says the end of November we had a lawn what looked like patchy frost closer examination showed it to be a sort of white fungal spore almost like white cobwebs on the grass surface which disappeared because the rain then we were left with brown patches covering about a 3rd of the lawn What was it and what can we do to rectify it now before the grass starts to grow is it possible to retrieve that situation yeah I mean probably this time of year a lot of lawns are looking. A bit sort of patchy and a lot of it depends on your soil type on my lawn always seem to sort of. Degenerate in the winter months in the year you think they're constantly you wait some more and that's a perfect time for fungal diseases like fuse Ariens to take hold and you can get these bare patches sometimes it's related to drainage and if you think over. The previous year where you know a lot of people can walk in on the law and it becomes compacted in all the air spaces are. Sort of forced out and of course the routes routes need oxygen just as much as the leaves do and so one thing you for a lot of lawn sporty from now warm is to try and improve the drainage when you can the harbor in these if you got a bigger lawn. Despite hearings but you can if it's small enough go over with a garden fork and put it in sort of soft 3 or 4 inches and then just put the lift it slightly and by doing that you're introducing air what you can do then is to rake in some either sound a lawn sand or or others it's almost gritty material to try and improve that drainage. And in doing that and probably giving as soon as it starts probably not time to feed it long now but feeding in. When the when the gods the grass is starting to grow and your Perhaps having to think about knowing it I thought he was totally wrong if you carry on like I was you know that's right the grass is looking suspiciously green at the moment and it's twitching a little bit as if it wants to do something it should have been a couple of months yet I mean it's very much dependent on the weather and I mean if you think that last autumn the previous year we had ridiculous Lee mild Alton and beer grass was growing in Wellington November almost December. But I found in the past my lawn as rapidly improved once that whether it's improved are good are a feed sometimes even a liquid is some of the seaweed. Are here and that can really perk up things no end what you might have to do is if there are bare areas to see them as well probably again wait till about for your March to even think about some sowing and. Then there are some I mean the range of horticultural fungus sides is probably much less than it used to be but it's probably worth just asked because of course a lot makes a negative impact on us that yeah but if you're going to extensive area and nothing you've done has helped improve it you may there might be so that is the nuclear option Yeah but that's how I would use it as a last resort I think a lot of things can be rectified by just good cultural practices and you know drainage I think is one for law and one of the key things another law related question for me actually if you've got so far and no type. Does the lawn suffer from not being rolled like you have on the back of a of a Petra. I mean that can be one aspect of it. Probably just the fact of you walking on if it's small on prime walking on it is enough just. Like going to a bowling green you know additionally if you that would be our spring activity of rolling it because the more with the frost sometimes pull pushes the soil up and rolling is one of the you know the traditional met methods used to. Say if you've got a lawn mower with a roll or one of them but the biggest problem with flying Mary's is that because you haven't got a grass box you're not collecting all the cut grass so over a whole year all of those blades of grass are still there the Rotty down so in fact one of the key things as well as spiking from I mean you could do it from some sort of. Patch for every time it's the right one of these spring breaks bring the box and there's a lot of moss yeah around the end most out at the moment dead grass and the other day pretty that's landed there and that combined with perhaps if you got really bare soil used to sew it again with some new grass seed and perhaps sprinkle some compost to like that later then with some of the few millimeters of compost or lawn sand. You recommend a safe muscular so you don't get all those horrible black patches all over the place you know and I would only use if a good thing else to nothing I would tend to go for the norm chemical approach so it would be Ok you have an allotment there yeah maybe we're touch on that there's also costing you money as well I mean nothing here you go to nothing close but less than $10.00 pounds or something some of these them. In your religions you can buy yeah religions is great we're actually. Agent suggest reaction and that's not necessarily something they are doing we can want to not proactive in the garden and that's kind of where we're going today right if you had one job to do today in your garden what would it be I would. I would go if you've got any plants you know say I told Green I'll sort. A cold frame is to go around and pick off any dead leads because of. This is a very damp atmosphere at the moment and if you've got so you've got or even Then you've got pot plants in your house is to go over them just check if there's any thoughts Larry or this is sort of a lovely box of through it's a really nice one I haven't planted yet but as soon as you get slightly mild I'm going to plant this out so beautifully planted with a little plastic card in there telling us exactly what you mean rubella and some really lovely winter flowering plants. And I also got a Christmas rose but I haven't got round to planting but again that looks great in the us that due out of the ground before and before you have to really think about doing well it all seems a lot of pop plants you don't want to keep them in too long. Of you knew you would need to report them if you're going to keep them out in a pot plant that's on your good look that you get those aren't great value targets or things would be perfect for those big long term plans was definitely yes along as you probably move them perhaps nearer to th