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Became involved in an argument with a group of manage about 2 in the morning one of the men pushed him to the floor and he was then punched and kicked in the head he suffered serious facial injuries and was taken to hospital police say the club was very busy at the time and people have seen what happened the think tank says people aged 17 to 35 will enjoy the biggest inheritance be moved any generation since the 2nd World War but the Resolution Foundation says many won't receive it until they're $61.00 Thorsten Bell the foundation's director says it's a major shift to some of the news that will solve some of their problems they'll get wealth and that will help them maintain their living standards over their lifetimes but obviously that won't be shared equally amongst all millennial some of the lucky some won't be and also for many it won't come early enough England have avoided an Ashes series whitewash after the 4th Test in Melbourne ended in a draw the England batsman Alastair Cook felt the pitch beat both sides just a slip and didn't really feel in the game too much whole day with the effort the guys put in the ball there was fantastic We're going to try to avoid even knows even a half chances really skin catches anywhere it is so it is what it is and the formalise in town defender John folklore has died at the age of 69 the former center half played at Kenilworth right for 6 seasons between 19721978 the weather will be bright and breezy this afternoon feeling moldable with rain spreading across the 3 counties by the saving top temperatures around 13 degrees Celsius that's 55 degrees Fahrenheit and you get the latest news and sport online the b.b.c. Dog. Slashed 3 counties. 2007. In the next hour. Speaking with me in. And you can get your questions gardening questions to him now although I'm sure he'd be quite happy to any questions that you have. The number you'll need if you want to speak directly to text your question to. And you can. Say 3 say No question is too big or too small for this man. 3 counties right. In the studio with me now is Governor Crist mill born ready to take your calls no question is too big or too small for him get a now I 3459 foldable 55 double 5 text us I want 3 double 3 starting your message with 3 c all Chris thank you for joining me today thanks Well thank you very much Sophia so slightly better weather the small news in a slightly better at least stance of hate up a bit out there look at a couple of degrees the other day it was monastery Montessori Sperry confusing is no wonder you were in the thick flakes next door you're on the allotment in a t. Shirt you don't know what you're doing Ok I know it's of the plants no doubt but before we also about the palettes how you how was your Christmas Christmas was very good so it's all over but quickly I was no use 6 months in the planning because I have took on a lot more last year for better or worse bass being fantastic in part of the challenge was to grow vegetables Christmas Day Did you succeed. Nearly or have I rode on that all iconic Christmas very edge the brussel sprouts Crace will happen she Sproul I'm fortunate about the source of a large pay so I have to admit it happened to me as well but I'm not except at the extraordinary God Now I met. They're a very novice gardener because I only got my garden what you sow I have an excuse what did was sure it's case well it's just one of those years but go on things that's what it's all about you do well on one thing and found on something else so what did you do well with apostolic our spirits were fantastic really they were about 15 centimeters across the top 30 centimeters long they were really good kale that did try and tie sticks we'd carrots are being goats all right but you didn't do too badly not to found it all it was just the Brussels but you know I've had so much people are taking the the molecule out of me for not being able to grow Brussels so you know everything else is for gold in the Christmas flowers in the time Oh yes I forgot it's these pedo Express did you try to eat them well I didn't I thought if I start peeling them there won't be much left and the thing. The thing about the sprouts this year and everyone said today is they were not swayed to the new show that search when we had that Frost 23 weeks ago the frost actually brings out the not so sugary flavors same we passed up so tasty really good because it had a good frost on them because the same was weighed I really didn't enjoy sprouts when I was work well enough attention 8 but the I could be a dozen and I did know there were also over the years they've been developing new varieties that slightly sweeter and don't have so I create a sulfurous taste to them any more I say I say well this is this is all very interesting but I think we should probably be some of the questions from the listeners what you think plan should think so to fabulous remember if you want to get in touch with let's talk tea a particular 34594 double 55 double 5 both Chris and I here not so much me given the advice most of the more crazy but I'd love to love to take your call and text us 8133 starting your message with it a bit like Anthony did in Leighton Chris this is the 1st question from Anthony he says he's got a plan called the mother in laws tongue which he's also it's known as a snake plot I know it's. Big What's the name of it a sense of area try fast the artillery n.t.r. As it's proper 9 well done that was straight out of a cracker very impressive but anyway the crew poor Antony's plan is will take and he's not sure if it's dead or can be revived What should he do you did do these things well wilt sense various One of the plants a bit larky cacti and if it starts wilting I would say there's a problem with the roots has it been overwatered which is more likely the case rather than under watered well time so they can do is if you carefully lift it out of the pot and has a look at the roots and they should be no or some white if the roots are gone soggy damn and he can push his fingers into them I would say it's not looking quite so good. But mother in law's tongue they do put up with quite a bit of abuse so if it has got a little bit wet I would say if you can put it on side and try and draw the soil out a little bit and what with the head you are not are just they've on the side on the kitchen window so somewhere like that so any excess imo is radiator that be too to fall asleep hanging just leave it but natural law it only in fact you could actually take the parts off just doing speed up the drawing out process of the compost like a and over the chute a bit you know going to bit soft they might not really grow but you should get new growth coming up from the base provided there's a certain amount of root left fantastic I hope that helps your mother in law's tongue and Nate next question Oh nice nice message from say she says she's happy the gardening power is back on radio and can it be a regular feature where you have to write up less about that when gardening is something that is very important doesn't it well it's good for healthy current to the garden and it makes you feel a lot better my table going to the gym as well Moreover exercise leading and digging and everything else brings a little bit of mindfulness to your life isn't it and it's made even today you look out across the park here. There's a real noise beauty of the trees in the wintertime Larry look at the texture of the bark and everything else that gives you a nice or good feeling started Sam and Judy Dench Chris you know right there program my view of a Christmas I love to anyway see does also have a question she's asked how you keep Christmas cacti have pe and how do you extend it's flowering period Christmas cacti they have one specific flowering period they start developing their flower buds on the end of August when it gets less than 12 hours a day a lot that's natural for them because they originate from South Central South America where they actually grow on trees so they start developing their lights when you know it gets to less than 12 hours daylight. To extend the. One thing you can help to extend the flowering of them is don't move them around once they come into bad if they come into bad you start moving one place to another different conditions sometimes they drop the flower pads even a condition from say one room to another even in one room from a window to someone a slightly shaded those different light levels different temperature levels and that can affect the plants were it. Easily very interesting they are very after Christmas when the flowers are finished they're very easy to take cuttings of them root the soft bits of the say 3 inch long piece of the fleshy stamp in a gritty Sandy come past on their root within 33 weeks and by next year you've got more plants raise so you could have a whole plethora and money if you can because it's a Christmas cacti they don't just come in the one pink color you get them in doubles so peachy color so they come in quite a few different interesting colors one for height that helps you see 3459 affordable 55 double 5 is the number if you've got a question for Chris so you can text 8133 starting your message with 3 c.r. Chris of course I I got garden this year and I we've been doing the garden now for a couple of years now sporadically across the seasons but I actually went for it and I have we've up rooted our $100.00 at garden and it's now i actually garden which we will talk a little bit more about in the coming in the coming hour but I would I would radio it's now I mainly what I should be doing in the next the next few weeks just to prepare really it's a new garden you need to have a look at what sort of plants they put in has it given you year round color you can starting quite soon in garden centers they start selling pot suppose so if you've got any spare patches you can buy a few pots of daffodils cheery lips crocus no drops just. That little bit extra column and I think we also have to talk a bit about height as well but 1st let's get some music and a little bit of this and then we'll come back and talk about. We were not. In the studio is gonna Chris Melbourne with me he's taking your calls and your questions today about your gardening for the future the future of gardening 2018 when we all pick up pass by and we get going get dirty get down with it that's the what should but it's exactly into the garden next year exactly that but meanwhile we have a cooler that's not so much about the garden the well my guess it might be let's find out what Christine's Bonzai tree is Christine wishbones I tray and what help do you need with. Well if. We don't buy it do we Christine you know we dive by. Well yeah absolutely through this. But it's not doing very well at the moment. It's in the fall through the window sill but in the summer it did really really well. But now the leave the falling off the boat now is this not what happens to a tree Christina laid out normally with a tray out so I promise. Right Ok Christine do you know what sort of bonds are true this is because bonds are they come in quite a few different. Approach one. Can say I didn't sing yeah I'm going to live while you guys talk here I when I see and you know that's all right we've got the technology here we're all salty it. Bonds our would say if I start losing the laves that it's down to watering problems well you give it has a horn is open water wants a way it might pay as it's inside with the as we've had cold weather the temp we tend to turn the central heating systems up a little bit more and more to draw it out a little bit more so it's rather than a little bit once awake it might be a look and say lift out the pot and see if it's actually draw it out or got to weigh it right when he bought the store you did all the right thing only when you buy them you want to leave them in that container for about a year or so I really until you until a crime really well and then you trim the roots and put them into either slightly larger container or a similar size theatre in the road you to give the roots a bit of a slight trim but it's not the major routes you do it's like the small a few the small sort of common root has at the end. Well right Ok and you want to also every couple wait to give a liquid Tomar to feed as well throughout the year here is good that isn't it I don't think it's the same agree maybe shouldn't be in a bar through a bathroom is actually quite a good room because they're normally quite bright they've also got a little bit few men to tell you have all those bottles and showers you like so it I would say it's a better room or that of the kitchen rather than the lounge which is a very dry room courtesy this is a picture of is pretty isn't it yet another really really nice going around I don't agree on the top it's got like you agree Marge Simpson had a day with a bit of root sticking out the bottom is really rather it's yeah now sometimes they're very popular as a pond so I plant and they're normally quite easy to grow Yeah yeah you don't like them but I think it's quite sad don't turn to give up on it because you don't don't give up because even if the leaves drop what happens is you'll get some or within a couple weeks some new little chute starting to develop Yes that's the case Christine tell you just give up what's the watering don't give up and hopefully in a couple of weeks it will really cry again yet I could also tell him I didn't have a good day happy new year you know you see that's the thing when you start to love these plants they become a member of your family and then they go and start dying on year is the problem is that the House is not the most ideal living conditions for a lot of these plants you think they're outside where they get a little more humidity or perhaps even in warmer climates they still have humidity in the air yeah and we tend to have a very dry atmosphere and I was is when I was going to ask you know if if you were a novice gardener what you would start with because I would have thought the 1st thing to start with would be an indoor plant but perhaps not perhaps a top or something outside and inside tubs are preps easiest because they can put up with all the conditions house plants their act. Coming back into fashion a lot more but select the house plant according to the conditions of the house rather than think oh that's nice of the I'll just put it in the lounge where it might not like those conditions Well I mean the bones I start with that is quite an expensive hobby isn't a slight expensive but about 1516 pounds out the expensive are the ones I still hundreds then yeah if they're brain it depends how long they have being grown some of them are when you see them a Chelsea Flower Show possibly 500 years old and they go out as well fantastic Don't go shopping for them it Chelsea flowers definitely not and I think actually I was in Kew Gardens was the last one I saw as a perhaps perhaps I was I was in the wrong place over 3 full 594 double 55 double 5 is the number that you need to call if you're calling on behalf of someone else like Christine who is too shy to come on or you can text us as well I once read up with 3 start you message with 3 say Ah Chris so what kind of questions are you expecting for people to people to ask us today when it comes to this this teacher spring because I'm quite frankly baffled by what we should be doing next work skating ready for the as a surly of the Goans now quite empty so I want to have a look at the garden think what worked well last year what didn't look quite so good in the summer time what can we move to say shrub need cutting back or can we put something else in in its place what can we plant to give year around color because now we have patio heaters and all these sort of things so even in the autumn time we go out to the garden and have a light like barbecue something like that so you want something in the autumn for color and what kind of what kind of things do you give us this color that we decide where to where you can either go for plants with very lovely stem colors like the corners of the dog's words which have been brought Reds orange is grains or you can go for plants evergreen plants there's a plant called fact see japonica we have a large blade. If about 30 centimeters across as want flowers in November tunnels really attractive some of the small trays the ices the cherry with the sort of peeling bark they look good in the winter time I've actually got a gap in the bottom right hand side of my garden stiffest I feel like it's all just all one level at the moment and I sometimes think that Heights can be quite attractive when you're trying to garden together I sound very professional what do I do for heights what you want to do when you redo the garden think of it it's a bit like a skeleton so the bones are like the larger trees the largest sharps and then in fill with smaller shrubs a basis plants grow Aussie's And then finally go down small plants the bulbs the bedding plants that give you color either in the autumn summer or winter time and it is that level thing that we need to treat is you want to try and get it so it's a bit like a triangle so you go from the height downwards Rioch a Chris 34594 double 55 to 5 is that number again if you would like to call us and ask Chris a question about the about the garden you can text us 8133 starting your message with 3 c.r. And you can tweet us at b.b.c. 3 c. Are just going to travel their lives. Yes pretty Let's get some travel then we'll come back to the God of. Traveling. 3 Counties radio. Well Daniel in 25 anticlockwise between junction 24 and junction 23 itself looks to be a bit slow through there as it does on the m 25 anticlockwise between junction 16 b m 40 and junctions 15 for the m 4 we've still got a lame close their full barrier repairs back to junction 17 now. Chicken Street Victoria Street and some pizza street they're looking busy Holywell hail that's building up in Harpenden the high street that's looking a little slow and just noticing on the sense of the m one northbound between junction 10 Falloon up towards junction of the Dunstable that starts to look a little bit slow now as well football today we've got to take the city of the great road Kickoff is at 3 and at Adams Park which in one is a time you might feel town kick off Also at 3 o'clock am on the trains on great Anglia there's a ribeye service into and out of Liverpool Street and buses running between blocks born in Hartford East and on Thameslink no service in this weekend between some Pancras and London Bridge I'm Michael Page b.b.c. 3 counties radio b.b.c. 3 counties radio. The boys just don't have a. Baby seat 3 counties right gives me a chance to say you must join my friends while just to me with a place to face in the last. Set of really good. In terms of really good guests. So we'll be hearing back on people including Justin Heyward Matt Monro Gina and the dung beetles That's Mike from 12 until 2 hit on b.b.c. 3 counties radio but it is a though and it's the last half an hour of the gardening hour of Christmas one in the studio ready to take your calls no question is too big or too small for this man as we've realized and I have to say I've had a tweet in from my own garden and I'm going to I'm going to explains that the some of the background here as you said wrote quite rightly said during the song Chris they Micron's been in the making for 3 years we've had we have the house it's 2013