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In a half an hour. Radio. That would be maybe and this is Sunday supplement moving seamlessly almost from talking is stray and Mr Mr isn't to the. Music. And Karen joining me in the studio . That's. But you still need somebody to love b.b.c. Radio Leicester middle of today's Sunday supplements that means we turn our attention to what's going on in the garden just to get you in the mood let's just have a little bit of this. Yeah you know that bit of music means we're going to talk gardening and that is what we're going to be doing over the next and really you know winter pretty much upon us or will be very very soon officially there's been such a lot of pretty horrendous weather over the last few weeks lots of flooding lots of water what about your preparations for the new year what should you be doing in the garden at the moment or what rescues might be needed bearing in mind we've had some pretty awful weather but now's your chance to have a natter and I still have an Atta we have 2 experts with me in the studio down to earth gardeners We've got Karen Jimson Hi Karen we got nicked out of I think Hello good to speak to you both so if you would like to get in touch and ask a question Paignton is their best thing to do give us a call Oh wait oh wait 101049 lines of free now give him a call if you want have a chat to them or text one triple 3 but the word Lester at the beginning of your message you can do that any time during the next hour you can e-mail me Dave to Andrew's at b.b.c. Dot co dot u.k. You can tweet at b.b.c. Leicester whatever you like however we want to get in touch we would love to hear from you David Bates I got your email thank you very much indeed will answer your last question fair. Shortly but I think Cameron and Nick we really just ought to have a little talk about the weather how wet it has been what's it like down your way 1st car it's a nightmare Yeah. The ground is just like a sponge you know there's no way we can get on the grass we're really struggling to get the leaves off the grass you know it's really important to get the leaves swept up off the glass grass because obviously they're stopping the grass from photosynthesizing But on the other hand we can't get on there so at the moment I think we're about 5 weeks behind Szechuan on all the jobs in the garden garden Yes So but plenty of color fortunately. I've brought in today lots of chrysanthemums so cheering me or I've got some beautiful white bombs called Swan Yeah and I open up the got a live green but I and they open up and they last for about 2 weeks in a vase and eventually they go pure white so if anybody wants to grow flowers you know all the year round like a. Bit of a challenge to go into the garden every day of the year and be able to pick something and this time. Hardy chrysanthemums of the things to grow I've even got one bloody Oh like a blue Guardiola I don't know where that's come from it's weeks. Day so to speak but I've got for the argument as you think about his flooded garden media. I have got a beautiful fresh pink hydrangea that has fully in bloom now just come into bloom in the last in the last week during the seasons a confused Oh yeah great I agree it's a it's a strange one it's no it's and I'm going to ask you actually when you say you've got you try and get some kind of cut flower you know year round Yeah with that sort of what sort of space would you need to achieve that well I've got. A vegetable plot. Yeah and I've got 10 bets there are 1.3 metres wide by 3 metres long and I probably use about half those oh no you don't need necessarily a huge amount of space to achieve that and that was you know on Christmas day to go out and cut some flowers is another thing isn't it it's basically one Sierra sit down and I plan exactly how going to do it and for example at the moment I'm putting on paper white Narcissus yelling Hey take about 6 weeks to come into flour that base spec on Christmas Day I have scented white daffodils for the Christmas time so and forced hyacinths as well I've got those in a covert in the potting shed in the dark hunted them on a few weeks ago and then I put them in a plastic bag sealed it so cold dark and come just after Christmas they'll be have high self so that's the thing isn't it's not necessarily for the listeners at home it's not necessarily that you need a great big garden you just need to better plan things in advance so if you have if a gardener or someone at home has got a small garden and wants to have that that that perfect situation of being able to go into the garden and cut some flowers on any day of the year if they plan it then it's possible rather than having a great big garden that not everybody has well all the homes for example they're in 12 inch pots Yeah they're stacked stood out on the patio all summer and then they're brought in to I've got a 2nd hand 20 foot polytunnel open ended and basically that just keeps the rain off some of the flowers and gives me somewhere nice and dry to to work but it's not heated it's not so much the cold that's the problem with flowers it's the wet and it's the wet that spoils the flowers are still got Believe it or not very wet and bedraggled looking good all my pop pop plants from the summer are still flowering I've still got my own ears oh yeah it's not really happening. Really hard we've had a few sort of zeros and maybe minus ones but not nothing and I've still got sperms out in the garden still flowering looking every time we have that Frost I look out and see the see the frost on the grass no no no I forgot to bring those last years in but they're fine yeah you know we've now obviously not had anything really cold yet listening to our bizarre weather forecast when she was last chatted demonic wrongfully is and I think I heard her say that we're due for a 1st really heavy frost I think it's Monday night into Tuesday morning so that might really be the death knell for that's that's a ridiculous Yeah so the whole planning ahead thing let's you know anyone who's got anything slightly tender and they're all fleshy leaves like begonias for example and it's fleshy and it's the water isn't it that the cells freeze all of a sudden they burst and then you've got your you know you don't belong here and in my poke a beautiful deep red salvia Wendy's wish and it just comes into flower just as we get the frosts I mean fortunately it's in a pot but it's looking magnificent but I've had to throw that into the pan no. Soft gone off the salvia ride in our book quite a few of them but it's no good if they're sort of like coming to flower so late in the have to bring him enough that I love I do love those sour because they're great but if you got a free draining soil in that happy in that dry no you're going to talk about so yeah I mean it's so I won't steal your thunder but in my garden it's about an acre of a garden although I use a very small amount of it for growing stuff most of it's woodland wildlife things but it's really off us which after the leaf mold and the menu and the compost on and of mounted the mope and they're quite free training the bed not buffet with They've got 2 inches of rain water standing on the yeah well that's a perfect example of what is a perfect example of what so many people do by neglecting their soil and you know that is the way or one of the. Major ways that people can deal with extreme weather whether it's dry or whether it's wet which is obviously what we're experiencing at the moment but we're all paying some Absolutely yeah yeah yeah this is it we know we just don't do what we did that program ended being that chap showed up with these is the least modern He had made you know and some people get a bit confused about composts you know because they set themselves up with a composite to get all excited and they start putting things on it and it just becomes a bit of a cold wet. And nothing ever really happens and they get a bit disheartened by it one thing I will note and you know I'm never going to make my own compost in the way that the celebrity gardeners do but the perfect perfect way of doing it is just collect the leaves just collect the leaves either put them in a black plastic bag with a few holes or put them in a small bin you don't have to do anything to it. Leave it for a year and you get perfectly mild and that is the perfect soil conditioner you could imagine with and I guess and things we have so we don't know what to do so actually we just make them into a trench and just mound it. Up against a hedge I mean all had to go in there yeah well yeah and it rots down it takes about 2 down but we don't put it into any container or anything like that we just kind of like Mike. Yeah yeah yeah Ok let's opposing a bit of music with them no come back to perhaps Nick talk to you about soil and indeed how wet your garden is and also David must answer your question and Afghan if you want to chat to Karen Nick 808101 of 49 we would love to hear from you may monitor just get bits of Gerry Rafferty. Union. a. Prophecy and to. Old todays Sunday supplemented stave and down to earth experts during this hour Karen and with may go. A question just notice we got a tweet from Gloria as well Gloria about you figs we'll deal with that before the end the program do not worry but I mean saying about David and his hostile question he says hello I had a house to plant in a patio pot it out grew its pot so in the spring a cut in half and planted each part in 2 different places in the garden borders to join another variety of the same plant which I've had for some years sometimes in the summer I notice something very old with both new additions and enclose a photo of the result almost every leaf was in the same condition and this had happened very quickly something it devoured in neat rows all the way from stem to the tip of the leaves a friend said slugs but there was no slime anywhere on plant or soil both plants then flowered my original plant was untouched your comments would be appreciated That's David Bates from Leicester forest aced So we've seen we've seen a picture and he sent a picture of the lease which do you know I was in the basically and yeah they do look that it does look like slugs but it is quite interesting that the other well I think are just the key a crucial part of this is that originally when it wasn't having any problems it was in a pot yes so it was being kept away from the slugs and now we put it into the ground and when you say slugs attacking hostas in your head you picture these great big slugs that you see crawling on the pads but they're not the ones that do the damage it's the little tiny ones often little tiny snails that do the damage to hostas and so he said he hasn't seen any evidence of them chances are because it's a little tiny ones and the problem is once you've divided up and put them into the border like that the new leaves are the ones that the yes let's go for the new 10 our lives once they've grown a little bit say the grown about 4 inches they're a lot more that the leaves to fill slicks aren't so interested but transferring them from a part into the ground he's taken the protection of the potty away from. And so we put them back in a pot yeah at the top of the surface of your heart with some great or strong Schmoe she said with a good thank you that's a good thing yeah it's admin realized motion when you go in strong generalized strong isn't it that's right and it's got quite a scratchy current Yeah fair Yeah and this looks hates it so emotion everything with that at the moment is daily news from the r.h.s. At Whistler we're trialing it weren't they and they were getting some very good results because it forms a sort of a crust on the top of the soil and so whereas an ordinary straw would tend to get blown around or cause a mineral deficiency because as it's being rotted down it causes a deficit but it apparently is not and so so that is looking very very encouraging as a product and the other thing we suggest is the garlic gardens great garlic sprays a great one for keeping slugs off fosters. A bulb of garlic in a pint of water mash it up boy let's say I leave it overnight and then use it as a sprite Yeah you mushy it down that's when you save it through here and then that's your stock concentrate and then you want to look at that into another one I've got a 3 liter sprayer. Into a 3 liter spray and I keep it in that spring so it does it has to be diluted from the yeah if you like a concentrate and then you dilute it. Because you've got to do it once a week as soon as it's rained it sort of loses its potency So it's something that if you've got a 3 liter spray already filled with this come with this mixture and you can go around and it's fabulous this chemical way of yelling with you smoke so that's the key thing is that non chemical I think if I think people if they want to grow hostas they have to accept that. You know exactly you know where there's horses there are slugs and I think if you're going to grow hostas then you have to accept there's going to be some damage and it's much much better to do the garlic spray organic way of doing it. Rather than reaching for a slug pellets because I'm I mean yeah exactly it works and it's organic and it's like pellets I don't think are a real great thing personally if you see I know hostile This is where this recipes come from they're a nursery that just grow hostas and they're more to go winning company and I think to myself if it's good enough for Sienna hostile it's good to know. Ok I was just interested easy was a glug out and yet. To show metric measurement Yeah that's the r.h.s. . Carron Jim said. A lot of it without thinking well I really sort of like this like a quarter of a coke for yeah you know diluted and then down really Yeah and how much garlic. Blog anybody want like they did yeah Bramble garden dot com garden dot com Have a look at that and how much garlic goes into trying to construct just the single yeah yeah I'll be fine with this what's more kind of boiling water yeah I want to walk time to point to point to enjoy it to get all the all that all that sort of garlic you know it's out of the garlic and then you've got a really good terms try to get it down that open eye strain it yeah brilliant yes it works yeah yeah and it kills life it says well good thing about it is it means that it's jokes can still eat the. Snails you know it doesn't poison the well look after the head jokes not a little bit I know you want to talk a bit later on I wonder I wonder what it's like dislike garlic so much what it is about garlic don't know it's just I think the sense of smell maybe it's because it's quite a strong thing and they are you know mostly made up of water and you know in the old days we used to put a pinch of salt on a slug which is a horrible thing because if you've ever seen what happens to it's all fall or fall and yeah exactly that's it awful and maybe you know any kind of really strong. Compound. That just and they just think well that's not going to do me any good. Harry deters that maybe he does yeah that's it yeah exactly that's tough to basically do it repeated over and over again yeah anyway they don't like it up and that. It's Ok. It's not easy to go. His. Catherine Street so still looking very busy through those sunny street template still stuck on rate it's causing a confusion and some delays so he can avoid that probably a good idea to do so and also can very busy on Melton road and in. The junction of Marfa street lights makes time if you're heading that way is well I had entire group meeting with a 50 just in towards vuln we're looking sluggish I'm looking very busy. And they close circle as well through 6 pack plays in both directions to start approaching roads and if you're heading out for Palmerston we westbound traffic past might and park and towards the well to new junction. As well. It still has gas main marks sort of structures in place cubby ballast a Frisbee on the Reek and a Market Harborough Western Avenue remains closed for Watchmen worked in Fairfax road. Next update in 30 minutes. Or less to the bowling alley you couldn't she was yet. Stories. Came out that it really isn't for you thank you very much with not. This music is what introduced me to musical theater this started my love and of the family and music life much as you know Tyler. And I would go so yes I hope. If anything happened to the. B.b.c. . Days and days. C.b.c. Radio lets. You have a good afternoon to you exactly how far through today Sunday supplement. The theater that's what we usually cram the pages with and we're in the middle section of the supplement which of course is Gloria thanks so much indeed for your tweet will get round to your question very very shortly lots more to talk about as well but it's still chance for you to give us a call 801 of you want to talk to Nick and to Karen or text one triple 3 not forgetting the word list at the beginning. Soon. Mother. The lucky. Spandau Ballet and. Thank you very much I'm getting Gloria's tweet Laurie thanks very much she tweeted me actually direct which is at Dave a radio if you want to do or at b.b.c. . Glorious tweets everyone have a look at the pictures that she sent us you can have a look as well at radio but we've got 2 pictures here showing them to Karen and to Nick if I can just describe give you a question 1st of all Gloria says my fakes start in wonderful condition and then fall off before right wing help and we've got a picture we got the same Wall we got. Same figs on picture one it's full