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President Jimmy Carter has said he'd be willing to travel to North Korea to help diffuse the rising tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program Mr Carter who's $93.00 says he's spoken to President Trump's national security adviser but has so far had a negative response over $300.00 motorcyclists to on Weymouth beach right now in preparation for the annual beach motocross this afternoon 16 year old Charlotte from Weymouth is one of the riders taking part she's currently ranked 5th in the British women's championships I go into it a being like 11 and that most people start racing when they're 5 but I just kind of want to try out my cousins but I can love and kind of carried on ever since then friends do quite well I'm in the senior class top 25 finishes well I'm a really for well be a annual event are just organized by the way most important Lions Club gets underway at around 1 o'clock this afternoon British athlete Gemma Steele has become the 1st person to cross the finish line at the great sounds run imports Miss over 20000 people have been taking part to raise money for charity Gemma who's one of the elite runners says she wasn't going to let the wind get in her way at the pace . And she liked the break. And when. It's not a good idea to be honest well lots more runners have since crossed over the finish line we can go now to our reporter live to. Yes indeed a 100 Saxony in fact thousands now crossing the finish line it's a kaleidoscope of colors here all the different colors running. Vests and running trainers and the weather has held up after yesterday's. Storm Brian which sadly canceled. Its sunny we've got clear skies it is rather cold day still there she won the women's way so Chris Thompson defended his title managing to win the men's race after winning at last he it was close to the final few meters in the men's race yes I got a fair few run is here absolute delighted to have finished your from Gosport 172 and the legend and how was that for you it was I can't say I think you. Won the last 2 mouse. Sprint a very. On a. Farm in Georgia thank you it's lovely stuff and. How did you get this morning yeah between the are we done that well done to everyone did you guys enjoy yourself yesterday on for me is a great event every year is a well seasoned runner there we are and thousands more as the finish line here. Is . Really tough on that water and of course the fancy dress. And point of it walking past me right now I find he very much indeed legal reportedly to cost of the great run where you can see photos of some of those who took part right now by going to the b.b.c. Radio Facebook page b.b.c. Radio so you did news it's 4 minutes past 12. Thanks so much let's get the latest weather from Alex hello good morning oh much calmer conditions in the forecast today following the strong winds brought by storm Brian yesterday we did speak of speaking up to 85 miles per hour yesterday morning on the Isle of Wight but it's a windy day today but much less there than it was yesterday or rather cloudy morning with a few showers around but it is improving instruction in becoming and bright and dry it just the risk of a feather few showers developing at times but that wind easing and a fairly fresh feel today with the winds from a westerly northwesterly direction highs a 14 degree Celsius every night tonight it'll become dry and much less windy with clear spells developing and overnight around 10 degrees Celsius for Monday then it's rather cloudy starts 3 months the morning with some outbreaks of rain possible as the weather fronts moves through but becoming a dry and brighter into the afternoon and feeling multitude with the south westerly breeze highs up 16 degree Celsius b.b.c. Radio in. The kitchen garden with Rebecca Hello hello welcome along to the kitchen garden and gardeners questions here with you for the next hour. Yes good afternoon will come along on this bright and breezy day we have got those questions here with you for the next hour with your expert in the chair Rosie Yeomans garden right consultant and a lot Tia Good afternoon red is a lovely out there I know this is the sort of day we should be on your allotment Well isn't it yeah thank you Ira Yeah I. Like that this is good I love doing this but sometimes when the weather forecast over the weekend is going to wrong way round in terms of days yesterday horrible could have been in the studio in the rain and missile. And you can go there after words we will release you on the song because there's always so many jobs to do in fact after 1 o'clock we all Rosie's a lot because we recorded something last week about how to make the perfect compost so you've got that to look forward to in the meantime you'll gardening questions beagle small we really don't mind and don't be shy about phoning up and getting involved because I often think people think oh I want a phone not like a law from a file size question we won't I promise we are here to help Ok So pick up the phone 034-530-3961 you can text 81 treble 3 Start your text with the word soda Perhaps you've just finished the Great South Run you think I just want to get in a quick think so I'm going to do they are mad. Or you could email the kitchen garden all while b.b.c. Doc k Ok we will go to the phone lines in just a moment lein is that taking your calls this afternoon give me a call and then she'll put you through to Rosie with your question but we also have quite a few e-mails to get 3 rows in which is you know can I just say before we start that yeah sometimes when people ask questions which they think are really basic and they might be nervous about asking them even actually reminds me to go look at things or do things and you know if I. I find that probably for other listeners as well it's really useful it helps other people does she ask you think few I'm glad someone else is asking so why hasn't question I think just ask it good point good point and you never show it start learning with gardening let me pass you cross this photo this is from Clive he's emailed and he said thanks for your advice a few weeks ago regarding the vines and the lemon tree you're welcome Clive all are doing well which is more than I can say for my Acer a birthday present from Shirley 3 years ago that has pride of place in the southwest corner of the garden next to a small pond it gets good sunlight most of the day and is not in a particularly exposed place last summer I noticed it played by black fly which I watched off with some soapy water could the damage shown in the picture be the result of the black fly and what can I do to bring it back to its former glory and the photo you're saying there is how it looks like since early summer so what we see is a lot of foam leverage in the lower part of the plant and. To the top so there's a there's sort of reddish twigs of Japanese maple with nothing on them. You know or do you know exactly what's happened here and it is a completely seasonal thing it's nothing to do with the plant being stressed by the Black Friday the year before it's to do with the Lake Forest we had this year so if you remember we had a really shockingly late frosty day when the maples had already gone into leaf and they go into leaf on the upper branches Yeah that's what that those are the ones that you know turn up 1st on the plant and so there's an awful lot of Japanese maples out there right now that are looking like this that have got a sort of bare twig top with lots of Photogen to naif they just got cut back by the frost and haven't recovered that doesn't mean to say that that would is dead almost certainly or produce leaf. Next year and we have to keep our fingers crossed that we don't get a frost you know late into April early May Will they tolerate much of a frost a little bit of a frost they'll tolerate but damp was quite a harsh Frost remember a single harsh frost which everybody oh no the blossoms have gone oh yeah yeah yeah the reality is it wasn't too bad but lots of people have talked about this issue with Japanese maples this year so should you cover them up if we get particularly bad for a while if it's possible but I've got a Japanese maple That's about 4 or 5 metres high so on wow yeah I'm going to have to put up with that yeah Ok All right so don't worry too much Clive he mentions black fly which he washed off with soapy water isn't that good good I think to do yeah you have to disturb them as much as you can and you know a very dilute detergent is great too what the detergent does is wash the fly off but it also kind of blocks their pools a bit and so it's got to kill the most active of them Ok great stuff lovely we'll go to the phone lines in a minute I know we've got Sylvia on the line the question about Daley is 1st of all I just want to pass you across some photos that Jack has sent in from Fox Sports and he says while I was cleaning or clearing rather sorry the wilderness that is my garden Jack I came across this hiding amongst the badly and it looks quite interesting so rather than just rip it out with everything else I've left it the trouble is nobody else has any idea what it is so the kitchen garden is my last and only hope oh no pressure then though I doubt it all falls to you Rosie Well thank goodness I've got a clue. For you because I really. I think it's a shrubby abouta lawn Yeah and there's no there's no flower evident on it probably because it's been hiding this bit not enough sunlight for it to flower but the other thing is that it is slightly on the tender side so I'm hoping you know it's doing well in terms of fairly age because it's. In covered up maybe I'm hoping it's honest subtly wool or I can see there's a fence behind it and if it's sheltered by that fence and it's not going to be you know cut back by an easterly or northerly wind it'll do well Ok yeah just let it let it carry on you might want to prune away some of the most rapidly bits that are getting away from the main stem but next year it should produce really good strong shoes and flower in that beautiful flowers it could be red or wall slightly orange color there are white forms of it as well so you know our surprise that would be yeah fantastic so I just want to look at more vast what's its name again I need to own a p u t l n great for me thank you Ok let's go to the phone lines now if you've got a question this afternoon for Rosie give us a call 034-538-3961 Sylvia is on the line in Portsmouth Good afternoon Sylvia good afternoon there you were recently asked. My name and your lover are these daily as I thought a man but they're still really really lovely I don't know why not I have to start cutting them about to take them out. Well you got 2 choices You can either 1st of all they're not from rable that the actual bits of the daily or that you want for next year is on the ground it's the tubers and so even if the foliage and flowers get a bit cold and start to go a bit yellow at that's not a problem you want them to die back really because the energy from the foliage will die back and strengthen the tubers and they're not quite ready to come out yet. Do you only have Yeah yes no I need them I keep picking them and you'll probably find that the buds keep producing more flowers until we get frosts Yes No I mean taking me I would leave the bottom what looks a bit you know yes well I think that's fine you trim them so that they you know they look nice so you get yellow a bit of yellowing foliage remove it but generally you want to wait until it dies back and then the 2 choices are you either lift them and dry the chub is a bit and store them over winter may be you know under the bench in the garage or saw away yet at least a part of her yeah she probably used a sofa based fungus side which I'm not sure that you can get any more just to stop and rotting if you make sure that you dry them thar really before they go into a box with a bit of you know dry compost or something then they're not lightly to rot anyway it's one that the moisture causes the rot. And so the other alternative you have is if you'll soil is quite well drained and you're quite sheltered there down in Portsmouth you might just decide to leave them out if you don't hang up a fight. So you don't want to live just like. You know I don't I don't blame you in that case but if you had any others or if anybody else is listening that that might think that their daily lives could survive just throw a big old hay perv come pasta maybe some bracken or something like that on the top as a raised mound above those where those daily achievers are under the ground and that would protect them. Well sir that said if I get an estimate now you know I am like well it might be but I don't day half you lose Now I know I know what he's saying and saying maybe I will maybe next reply some in you know about him one place in another batch in another place and then try both methods and see with yeah helps Oh thank you Larry not find pleasure I hope they do well yeah Yeah oh here you enjoy I thank you not until I mention caring I think you will be very well kind of like everything that tell you thank you thank you she has one thing yes I had and it was a plant course. And I. Kept the force killer that was sure I'd take it and then put it in and it conservative or something again it's not marginal It's a salvia cooled Hotlips and some people leave it out and it's alright if again if it's well drained and it's a sunny sheltered spot then you probably find over winters really well if I need and yet so if you're exposed or you're on really heavy ground it's worth I tell you I do take cuttings at this time of year so that I know I've got young plants that we can i see if they get damaged I asked a good guy can I thank you very much oh I think of him best of luck Oh and thanks for calling in I would get to that area over by let's stick with the phone lines you're listening to governors questions as part of the kitchen gods and I'm Rebecca Parker and your ex boss in the chair this off to noon Rosie Yeomans Let's go back to the phone lines and speak to how it implements Good afternoon Howard's. High how much how can we help our. Heart who want to know you all to bow to. Your grand daughters to home to who were driven to and. I don't want to write. Oh really oh God oh really I want to turn them into call brought this up or to go yeah did you say did you say that you're going to shred them I can't read them well I mean shredded leaves make compost much faster than than home leave thrown into a heap and says Wes shredding them a few can but I only picked up on that because you said you're going to shred leave so if you want intending to you just have to wait a little bit longer for it so you either put all your leaves in a big heap which is quite aberrated around the outside but most enough to get the combination of bacteria and fungus getting to write it down but most leaf mold takes about 2 years to make a really really decent leaf mold is a long wait if you should write it it's a little bit faster. I know you're already at 10 to at leaves to my compost heap and accept that I've got a quite a cofs product at the end of it that goes on top of the soil and doesn't get dug in . So so it's up to you either have a Pure Leaf if you've got Cleaves on you want to make purely from old. You know most of us would give our eye teeth to have that. You know compost It's fantastic stuff so this will look very large oak tree Mr. Krueger all. Over the only. Bit of color stretch. Threaded and bag it up yes well if you shredded it and backed it and and tied the back up and then paste just a few holes in it make sure that the the leaves are a little bit wet when they've gone in and then paste a few holes just so they can get in and out and you'll get you know something decent probably by the end of next year crude they game us all make the most of those how it yes. Yeah I think my mouth way they go you've got a job to do now with them. All right thank you very much no problem thanks I would take a terrier by on the same subject actually Angela in Bournemouth has just texted in she said she's busy raking leaves and would love to make leaf mold but there are literally millions of Sycamore seeds and pine needles from the road mixed in with them she said Does this mean I can still use the leaves so they are right if they're mixed in with other yes I think as long as they're not too big seedlings did you say 6 easy pine needles Yes I mean the pine needles and make it a little bit more acidic that Sec a. The Sycamore seeds they might eventually try to germinate but if they're in a sort of composted material that be easy to to get out Ok I be. Slightly wary of the sycamore sage but not worried about the pine needles Ok so maybe safe those out if you can well to fit difficult to save us and I take the Chief I wouldn't not come possum because of it Ok so I would take the chance but be wary when you spread it you might get a few seedlings that need pulling out fast Ok brilliant thank you let's go out to the phone lines Lilian's in e.c. With a question about a high drang Hello lady m. Hello to you. I don't see a few. On your approach. Paper Trail was the blue coat. Oh yeah yeah so I fake you remember that. It is be you to talk with an 8 full flower now. What do I. Do I just really. I think I think when I think that's fine lots of them are flaring well now and you also get that sort of lovely or turn tinge on the phone leverage so I'd leave them for now but as soon as the foliage drops if you need to you could Deadhead the flowers but I would leave them because they go sort of papery and they look really nice particularly when they get frosted So I would leave them until the spring and then do a bit of a tidy up before they go into growth again they leap up peel. I know. They are let. They I have more highly trained but they didn't but I guess one where the right treated the. Same as the other. Yes if all of them I would leave the printing until the spring and they tend to flower on last year's maturing sure so you just literally a Deadhead them sort of take the tops down to a pair of leaves that are active in the spring you know that parrots are growing in the spring Thank you that's very kind to keep you happy enjoy your hydrangea Yeah it sounds like they're still looking great always be it I know it's a total surprise isn't it you think of it as something during the summer but still it's not join your knowing it's been a very very mild season hasn't there you know we haven't had the sniff of a frost yet it got a little bit chilly last night I did it if you notice but you know it's not feeling autumnal enough yet for everything and. It didn't go out to set him on was very slow I was a bit of a late start of the. Share. The good news it did in the end yeah you enjoy that kind of. Cheerio Bubba I Valen Farah has been in touch she wants to know if there's a way of keeping the New Guinea busy Lizzie's over the winter rather than having to lose them I'm fine yeah there will they go say it's worth a try if you've got a heated greenhouse you do it. Right you probably would I'm saying probably because what happens is you need to cut back you know some of. The youngest fail it so that it doesn't rot and then you've got these slightly cuts for that you get with in Patton's and that's vulnerable to rot so if you can keep them dry enough a for the winter you might get them reshooting next year. It's not unlikely I mean it's worth having a go just for the fact that you can say I know you're successful over wintered these you can't lose and that they're that you know the cold and damp is a recipe for for them to rot Yeah I could come back and let some of your gardening questions in just a moment. And has it looking good out there it's very busy you know they're the great run he continued today has come a rolling road closure on in place until about 2 o'clock this afternoon so it's a long Eastern parade the High Street St George's road and around the University of Portland in South Sea It will be very busy around the race route and on the southbound m 275 elsewhere delays on a 27 just to bypass road roundabout which is partially blocked westbound by a breakdown his keys back to Drayton lane and excuse him pull on the a 35000 side road between the new in to the Civic Center junction and on public transport replacing buses are running at West. Penn mill and Weymouth and sailing a 1 o'clock. And tolling Jersey have been cancelled because the recent bad weather conditions in the us the roads have not mentioned to give them more than 30 minutes . Radio silent Welcome back to countless questions as part of the kitchen garden I'm Rebecca Parker you ex-pats in the chat this afternoon Rosie Yeomans garden writer consultant lecturer and a lot minty Yeah we've got about half an hour left I got this question so still time to give us a call 03 full 530-3961 is the number you can text as one treble 3 Don't forget to start your text with the what's known and or of course you can email us the kitchen garden baby see you can let's head off now to Leon silent and speak to Graham. However about I how can we help the softly I was hoping that wrote you could have. Quite a large Talk about 630 inches wide and about 18 inches which I use for stories. But I got some plants one walked out of new ones come up next year some one right here and 2 years old that we have 38 next year but I want not over winter the strawberries. Have they not have they been successful so far been successful Yeah yeah well in terms of overwintering them what they need is a good bit of cold to to really produce a good crop next year they're one of those in a very hearty plants that need that vandalization which they get when it gets cold over the winter so that's why for example some strawberries that are under protection don't do so well and that cold storage before that planted out when they're grown under protection by commercial growers. And so I think you're doing the right thing if if you're exposing it to the winter weather. Any other thing I'd say is if you're planning to increase the number of strawberries all replace some of the old plants I do that now and don't wait until the spring to do it because that means your young plants have got time to get their roots in and also to get back cold winter weather again your approach to some of the rumors that they're starting this show started a lot of good and very well runs out there. But. He was now just trying to go to for 4 years Merab. How it worked out for free the best thing to feed it really address it with I wouldn't I wouldn't feed them now I'd feed them in the spring and use a. A general combination really took to get them to flower Well you need a potash high fertilizer but if you do that you're not paying attention to the rest the health of the plant and so in the spring they need a bit of a grace base with some nitrogen and then potash as well and so you might as well just use a general purpose compound fertilizer which has got a bit of everything in them so I'd throw something at the min the spring as a top dressing something like grow more which has got a balanced mix of the 3 main nutrients and a few other bits and that'll be fine that will do them for the year Ok one of those are just about from what are because they're really a cold winter this year remember cope with the last couple years oh no night tempting fate. This true greys are the least of your worries that although I enjoy it. Thanks very much played great program for. 3 years with 'd your gardening I love it when I started your god help them sort and that's brilliant Yeah it's nice to hear thank you Gran that's always a lifeline to the right thanks a cat area of a by talking of when so let's go to Doreen emotion even who's got a question I think about when to bedding plants Hello dory a bit afternoon repacking Hi Yes I have I'm just about to play my parts I've got in my back garden ahead and. Make. My Some of plants and yeah and I to see and wash our soap when we put in the pot so I don't mess. With the flowers could I put in a in the pot to keep it going to make it nice and bright in the winter that's my question please know you love live what a nice question my good I did respond a little to do something now during Yeah so it's a it's a tradition that the sort of things that. If you go to the garden center your find in trays and posts that are. Designed to give you winter color like perpetual flowered pansies which cost you a really good range of color and plants like Polly ancestors which will be flowering now I am will carry on sort of sporadically but particularly in the spring those among those are my 2 favorite Wallace for sort of bedding flowers but you will also now be able to buy things like wallflowers and forget me nots and a whole range of plants that won't be flowering until the spring so they won't give you when to come you know. The Polly answers they would give you a lot of colors out there at this rate to write Yeah but the other thing I'd say is that if you if you want to you could sort of think out of the bedding box and use plants which are traditionally planted as you know permanent shrubs like for example winter flowered Hatha they're relatively cheap and you could still use them like bedding and you could perhaps even put them into the garden when you finish with them you know a mixture of maybe a buried high pericope where's some winter flowering Heather and a few Ivy striping down the side might do the trick easily as well maybe a little bit more expensive to do it but you've got plants that can beat them planted elsewhere if you know to have a bit of color in the garden if possible you know people like shrubs that you know they change color in a lovely But all these parts about 15 and and a lot of ways Yeah and hopefully lovely pretty flowers you can't look garden on the Jimmy Yes the other the other thing I've just had more ideas I'm sorry to fill you with more i. Was just getting down. I was just thinking that if Neil was. Param we sometimes tend to get the nail and I he on about crosses and last year I used to care x. In my pops which is to have a green character I think it's called ice dance it was a white green variegated Carrick's it looked really good for all of the winter and I planted a few chewed lips amongst it as well and you know they come up much later of course that plant you mentioned. Is to get to you know they yes salt I'll tell you what Yeah I thought what the garden centers have done is identified some of these evergreen things like grasses and buried plants and have those and they sell them in a smaller size than they normally would specially for people to put in that pot so if you go along and have a look at the range of it you know you'll have to look at the pansies in the us and then walk along a little bit and you'll find you know some smaller potted examples of plants which would be good as betting I'm going to have to. Thank you very much. But also maybe not maybe I know the gardening came with come up with a. Plant and I could have great Don't forget about the lovely thank you very very much for I welcome you enjoy All right thanks dory. Well come back about some of your gardening questions in just a moment 1st of all important for all gardeners Let's take a look at the weather for you. Ok how does it look well today windy and rather cloudy with a few showers about brightening up the softer noon tunning dry maybe a few showers towards the end of the day high still. Was cooler this morning but we're still up at about 14 South yes tonight becoming dry a much less windy overnight with clear spells developing becoming rather cloudy by don't but remaining dry lows tonight dipping down to about 10 Celsius then Monday tomorrow the start of half time of course for many rather cloudy but drive through my. In the morning with some rain likely by the middle of the day a chance of drying up before dusk and some clear spells developing for the evening high some are 16 Celsius so warming up a little bit the outlook to choose day 3 to Thursday perhaps mostly dry and warm with variable amounts of cloud but re never too far away towards the north windiest on Choose day especially on the coast and the best chance of any draw I brush and warm weather. Does today so not looking too bad for the week ahead and the Ensure waterfall costs the south the bell to Lyme Regis wind west all Southwest 5 to set them occasionally Gale 8 until later visibility moderate or good occasionally poor weather showers squally at fast sea state rough very rough becoming moderate later. B.b.c. Radio so join the nation's favorite conversation go online to b.b.c. Don't code out u.k. Slash weather watch it. And just very quickly if you're hanging around after 1 o'clock the soft and I just want to give you a little bit of a taste of what's to come off to gardeners questions on to Rosie's a lot meant to get some tips on making compost we're finding out about a sweet smelling tree that's great for some color as to how to Leah gardens and ahead of the National hedge laying championships I'll be finding out why this rule craft is still going strong and I'll be having a go to make a start on this you will probably have to take over because I don't anticipate I'm going to be very good I'm going to grow up know what's the name of this tool again called to Yorkshire which side do I use it that side with the shorter rend I'm going to hand you the microphone I'm not sure who's going to be worse off a you know to the microphone on radio doing it right say what you need to do is nail down close to here. Into the stem and go to. Go hard go and you say you go there now with a sort of 45 degree angle you're doing well but that's only one bit how many more have you got left to do 1st you may just. Go so we cutting to that and then the next stage would be just so that all would heal off yes and it was hard going and you can find out how I got on off to 1 o'clock in the meantime you know back with got this questions I'm a back up your ex but the softer news Rosie Yemen's Let's go back to the phone lines for you and Pamela's in Shelly good often Impala. Now I hope you can help me with this this is a bit difficult I mean going to have 6 years ago and. I've gone on to say boat and so I decided not to do all the bad and plan shrubs in my chief So a long one so I but beds up shrubs then and along one side I've got a skirt. And I've got a red boat then and. C.h. Oh I asked why a u. Turn so. I see a no th us. I don't know if I got to write. This. I'm liking this guy it's like a smiling. Face and that I'd. Kill it. So I put the trunk then very small. Yes and there are now I'm not saying oh my goodness and I get know what to do with them as I say my mobility is very limited I have to get a gardener and because what I've done I've tried each here to cut the tops off but that's just quo more yes. And the things you've described got quite big leaf canopies as well. I mean one of one of the things I could suggest is that you just prune them regularly but if you're not very mobile and you find that difficult that's a that's a difficult task and also things like see in excess don't like being pruned at all so you know you most need to give them the room at the expense of the at this so I wonder I wonder whether it wouldn't be a good idea to if you could bear it throw them out and start again. I really hate destroying right so I redid it but mind you I suppose I could probably. Oh definitely they could be pushed but then they're 9 feet told you say he left you yeah I don't know they don't know why they're so big but they're here well there are no tenure and the choice will probably print quite well the high biscuits is a little bit fussy but that's also quite slow growing so that could be thinned out on the high biscuit Yes keep its height but thin it out the scenarios this I'm afraid just will turn up its toes if you printed too hot none of these things really want printing until the spring No Ok that was another thing. That blew while I come in at the height discus c.n.n. Express yes yes please flowers in the spring it's absolutely beautiful there are is well it's a tree it's not tree it's a shrub but it's absolutely laid not bad to touch that right will have the taking photographs of it is said to everybody is full and so and so I mean that the only thing you can really do is that at the end of the flowering you could tip a few bits but if you cut into the old this would see a nice This really don't do very well that they're unlikely to come back from that but I mean absolutely if you print it now it would really struggle to flower next year so I leave everything to spring I would yeah Ok I think probably that's why I did something wrong with my hydrangea to get my high drain j.c. Of the saw it there oh about 4 for Holly the full foot high Yes that's Ok that's not quite That's not quite so bad and again and again they need spring premium we tend to tidy up the branch now and there are some things that can be in a crown lifted or you know you can get some underneath them by taking some of the lower branches out but an awful lot of our printing particularly with evergreens is done in the spring Ok so when you say pruning then. Should I go should I really be very very. Sure I like you right yes so the foot in your can be printed quite hard in the a come back reasonably well choice the choice see a bit careful about the shape of it because it's got a lot of big foliage and when you start to chop that back you you get wood and so you really need to make sure that you have you know maintaining the shape so I'd finished a bit I mean General I don't prune Choisir an awful lot but it's because it's got too big you know thinking of doing it and my red rot then yeah that is the fair to Nia Yes I have to leave it half with that because it got its legacy Yes well it can be hedged you can chop the top out of it and you will encourage some growth from inside. And it's up a bit but it's a job for the spring don't need to do anything bad 3 think you'll spring Yeah I think and then have a go then the one law I should take has Eastlink you see. Is this c h o f y a that was you know that well that's your choice yeah you can try printing it and if that fails take it out but you know give it a try 1st don't give up on it Ok then all right give it a try next spring Yeah thank you very much for how you're going thanks for calling . My It's worth mentioning actually if you get some advice from Rosie today and you'll sitting there and you're trying to take it on board and you're writing notes you can go back and into again it's there for you on the ite Placide just head to our website all of Rosie's advice will be that 30 days after it's pooled cost and let's head now to John this Fordham roses that was a question I think about a lemon an orange tray Hello Rose Hello how are you tree in the conservatory and we've got like a pair on merit. And what about where we think the weapon. Oh yes you know yes we're not quite sure how to deal with. Can you just physically remove them then their Web site right now on the way yeah yeah and so I would just go through as much of the foliage as you can finding them they'll be they'll be sort of wrapped up near the tastiest bits which are the only and the young basically ifs and just does it relieved together it's yeah so so physically removing them is your best bet there isn't anything left now that you can really spray and expect to systematically remove them so I think that you know you actually have to physically remove them yourself but the other thing to be aware of is that if you've got if the container that they're in is quite large you might want to scrape away the top surface of the compost and replace it with some fresh because again you might well find that some are overwintering in those sorts of areas Ok so I think I think there'd be anything next so many things have been taken off the market I have that's right they haven't I I mean I've I'm in 2 minds about this because I do think it makes us observe things fast you know you in future you'll be looking for those weapons to pillows a newbie removing them when you see them. More than one used to when you could just get a bottle of something and spray it say Ok you know some ways it's a good thing because it makes us better gardeners make makes it more observant keep Yeah I think say and what they want to do is the lemon tree because we've had some beautiful. Fantastic let's go you know yes absolutely for the blossom at the moment yes well the other the other thing I do right now is just give it a bit of a wash generally because on the underside of the leaves you'll get all sorts of other little bugs creeping in red spider and so on and just give it a bit of a detergent wash give it a spare I mean I have been given a spray with just so people I keep a big spray can I would take him outside to give them a spray with yes but. Way to go for the underside of the leaves and all the species in the box and you know really give it a good clean Ok and I would thank you very much a very welcome thanks was Cheerio by on a similar theme sticking with citrus We've got David on the line with a question about the line tree Good afternoon Dave age little I've got a small lime tree in a part of the course. For about 3 or 4 years I've had it grew really well to such an extent that I pruned it quite harshly and it seemed to quite like that mole leaves came through it's never fruited but it's now not looking very happy all the leaves are gone droopy and there is a sticky deposit on some of the leaves so I'm wondering what I can do to give it a boost. So there's sticky deposit on the leaves which means that something is feeding on it that. Right so what it might I mean other leaves mottled paling. 'd seemed to be fairly solid green right Ok so that cuts out the idea that it's red spider mite which absent you know of citrus plant so that's good but the other thing that that it might be which is a bit of a pain is scale insect and whilst you won't see the insects you'll see you so little brown bumps that look a little bit like if you can imagine harf a bird seed stuck to the veins of the leaf the you know what the main transport tree to surely. They could well be feeding all the other culprit is me the park which is a little it almost looks like a woodlouse but tiny tiny and it sort of wrapped in cotton wool indoor. They would love it they would love it indoors because of course you know they're there sheltered and over and over winter too and summer. Just sprayed with Rick Perry you know well that's now hit here we go on the sort of clean up thing again so really you need to be able to identify what it is and get it. I do know I was talking to somebody recently listening to what they had to say about pest and disease control and they were talking about completely submerging your plants and soaking because there's no longer. Pesticides that you can spray on and they'll really work in a sort of systematic way I'd be taken by him by the plant and then that when the bug feeds it poisons itself effectively there's no longer those things available they are mostly contact killers so you need to actually physically be spraying the bug itself now wave scale and maybe bug they've got these sort of wraps around them to protect them so. And that needs to be disturbed and so you either drown them out or you physically have to rip them off Ok so could I take it outside and give it a shower or yeah I'd give him a bit more vigorous than that I'd take a sort of brush or something. But yeah I can certainly not submerging literally yes I know yes but there are there are products that you can spray sort of fatto sprays which which basically says block the pores of the insect so they can't breathe anymore. Oh yeah it does but I am deaf they're not going to work if you just squirt a sort of random spread out the plant I've got to actually find them and spray them uncovered I'm after get involved in an operation. To my watery Kates really bugger McCourt Oh so she's found some of the nasty right sort of brown Yes well that also the other thing with that is that if you find them and you can get right down to them use a cotton bud which have soaked in some math because the method means that the the young stage of them won't resettle in that area Ok well let's cooperate helpful have to find some time to do this operation and I can imagine your Sunday afternoon is now come. Back for that about David I'm going to get Jerry a Rabbi let's go to the mouse I come back to your phone calls in just a moment don't worry I'm going to pass you this photo Rosie is coming from recession we were given this lovely comedienne Golden Wedding cold Golden Wedding love and you have got a story yes help though we live in an apartment in Leon silent Will it survive being on our balcony in a poll it's any tips places about 9 inches high at the moment should she reports if so what size of pot should it go in any advice on watering basically she does. I want to lose it how should she look after it will it be a can about right absolutely it'll be fine on a balcony it's it's better if it's not exposed absolutely to the wind so I'm hoping that she's got about a that's got a sheltered corner there must be one of the corners that you know will suit it it needs to be repotted into a compost which is Erik a shifts and so it's an acid loving plant it does much better in acid soil but don't choose just an organic compost mix it with some John Innes Eric Aisha's compost they're all mixes the toss specially for those and that gives it the stability of some soil so I would have a bag of each a mix them up $5050.00 and then pot the plant into something maybe as big as a. Is a 9 inch partition and 9 inches yes I'd go up another 3 inches so maybe a 12 inch pot and then gradually increase the size of the pot over the next 2 or 3 years until it gets to about 1518 inches and then don't go any further now the key to getting the Camillia to flower well is to make sure that it's watered in the autumn in the late summer autumn period because otherwise the but dropoff does have to be re most likely used to then water is best because it's slightly acidic in this area all our tap water is really hard and so that would mean that the ph levels are sort of fighting against each other so you've got Eric Aisha's compost if you've got the right ph for the plant if you start putting hard water onto it you're raising you know temporarily or raising the levels the ph levels can so I'd stick with rainwater if you've got it Ok go for tap water if you haven't because otherwise you know you know horses Yes Yes Yeah well hopefully we'll get your a comedian looking lovely your golden wedding or leadership here a hearing very healthy at the moment yeah not. Present again as well let's go to Britain now and Dennis is on the line the question about loganberries Hi Dennis Good morning. Rosie I'm glad you're in a lot materia. That Last year I had a bumper crop of berries and soft berries and Caryn's lovely and the local Berry was a specially good which it seldom has been before 'd but now it spread the kinds. To the left and 3 to the right old was right but the mine kindness gong salute the mining kinds of gone absolutely mad. There are at least of so perhaps 18 inches over that. Beyond the sky thought powers. That's not right and also it's my nose in loads of the mine. So I'd choose do I cut them back do I leave them alone until next year or any any so if green Grice right now on next year's free would say so then the ones you want to keep say you you chop out any of the bits that have free to do this year and you train in any of the green bits now your canes that are growing and they've gone sort of 18 inches above the top you can do you can turn them down so you can actually loop them untie them down and you will improve the fruiting on those canes. Ok but what about all these so I chewed say it's an absolutely massive well within them out if there's too many thin the mountains just select the most healthy but if you've got good green side shoots they'll produce fruit next year. I'm not sure when I'm back no no don't say so either that take some of them right out or or tie in the the most healthy ones but you know with these with these 2 a vigorous cane for each and all the high berries and Blackberries and so on you can be really creative with the canes they don't you know they don't have to if they're flexible enough to twist and turn and dose sort of serpentine tie and it will give you more stem to produce fruit next year and and it looks as though you know it doing as well so I would do that Ok one very quick question yes or no a large still boy well for the green I was. If you can it won't be with anything terribly noxious So it is worth doing because it definitely you know will clean the structure of the greenhouse but it won't be the sort of sulphur based stuff that we used to be able to get hold off on oh I had caterpillars say Sharon already you know. Caterpillars and they're in the green now so no I want to get rid of them yes well do you have anything else in the greenhouse over the winter. Just emptied out of a well I did I'd keep the doors open and let the birds in. They topped it. And then said Ok yeah yeah just let's just let the birds in to scramble about even put some actually now is going to save some but fit in there to encourage them but that link carries the rat said don't do that no need to do the birds are all right thanks for that thank you very much. Let's check on the roads for you with. Good afternoon are still very busy or they have a Great South Run continues in South see this coming rolling road closures until 2 o'clock this is including Easton parade the High Street and St George's road and around the University of Portsmouth in South Philly so it's very busy around the race route and along the southbound m 275 road more roundabouts elsewhere the small slide 27 of just a bypass of the bog road around the back of an earlier breakdown the still cute back to Drayton lane and in part of town forest the a 35 westbound is going to King from puddles answer to Dorchester and on the railways replacement bus the running Great Western Railway routing Yeovil Penn mill and why you must because a plan in general works in the us the roads of not mentioned do give the goal more in 30 minutes. Travel. Welcome back to the closing stages of gardeners questions I'm a back up r.k. Your ex but the soft new rosy Yeomans Let's go to Dennis impish at Stoke Hello Dennis who are. Busy how can we help launch a proper Sprint trio not where I'd go they got less pain free and a scope for use abuse leaders who were beautiful everything a was told to cut off say 2 or 3 feet I don't know what's holding you to doing things. Ok Ken you propagandise been trained Yes I was just wondering whether it's better to sow the seed of it or to grow from cuttings I've not done it. So you were told to take off pieces that were 2 to 3 feet some. Yeah well they it sounds to me in that case like they would be hard wood cuttings and they're ready now so that's worth a try so if you have access to some material but I don't think you want them quite that big what you want to cut off is is basically a stick of this year's growth you know go any older than that and then make a little v. Trench in the soil somewhere I have got a garden where you can just get a bit of spare space and make a v. Trench Pop a bit of grit in the bottom of the v. Trench and then put the sticks do several of them put the sticks all in a row and close them up again and and make sure that about the bottom 3rd of the stick that you're using as a cutting is under the ground when I was a stickler talk about it well it depends on the extension growth on the tree but it's probably not going to be longer than a foot. And and then give them a water and then just completely leave them until the spring and in the spring you should see the but bursting and if they then carry on growing vigorously you know that they're rooting but they're not ready to be dug up until sort of May June when they live really pushed out a lot of written actually if you can wait till the following autumn because they're sort of a sort a hole in most trees all they were like yes go into bird that's right yeah this is your turn to do it yes so so I tried that now but you've got me wanting to rush away and see what the commercial boys do with with Aspen and see what time you know what they're doing whether they're sowing seed or could you bring me let me know that. You know outlined Rosendo and then I'll let Rebecca in there yet. And we'll let you know next week Denis or nearly run you. Her post for the other morning got an order or 2 a lot oh it's a well that we know when he talked to the farmer probably but it would have been your own truth you wouldn't know I was have a legend in the n.b.a. To hit too hard but it would be nice to hear from you anyway I'll let you know with regard to the Aspen next week Dennis think your emotions All right thanks for calling in Cheerio But by and very quickly before the 1 o'clock news and I'm so sorry to rush because I know you've been waiting you've got a question about a deafening yes or no respect at all right a high on that long last got myself a little Daphne the moment it's got its back 9 inches tall and it's got there a gate at least I know that there are reports in Eric cases so all I want to know it won't hurt too but they're not particularly acid loving So if you've got some normal compost that's fine but I'll go for a low based mix make sure that you've got some soil by stuff in there as well thawing what you like John and yes a yes John and his mixed with a little bit of organic potting compost just to give it a bit of air and structure like thank you very much indeed for that very welcome nice and quite lovely to come again thanks very much Terry Oh bye bye another really busy gardeners questions my thanks to Rosie Yemens and we do it all again next week. 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Radio side Hello welcome along to the kitchen garden I'm Rebecca parka and this is the part of the program where I play out interviews that I've been to do during the week and often people ask me where to get ideas for the show in the features that we run most of the time it's if I think of something and think you know what you'd love to learn more about that I'm sure but sometimes you will get in touch with me and say how do you fancy coming out to recalled something well that's exactly what Chris sparks did not Chris is from new Winchester that he's also what's called a helpful hedgehog and he's going to be at the National hedge laying championships and we'll chat next weekend basically just helping people and giving advice on hedge Lang and what it's all about and how you get involved and why it's good for the environment and the wildlife so I make Chris go to touch with me said How do you fancy coming on doing something I said do all I so I went along to a fall new Winchester why cry. I was laying a new hole for hedge and we had a chat and I found out about the history of hedge laying why there are so many different styles of hedges depending on where you live and I'm ready to myself of pulling on the very thick gloves and having a go myself. He. Chris what were you doing that. Place in the hedge must split splits when you haven't cut through far enough to just Naser over and then what will happen is the water will run down the plates of cut the head off a 45 degree angle the water will run off the beach over the hill and into the ground it's very physical material that you're working with here is a hole full is that full is that good to walk went home for the black for one or one of the best hedges to lay people don't like them because shop. But if you've got it all right gloves then after falling and I find that I make a beautiful watch these heads that you're working with head that you're laying How does the whole phone hands spread between 12 and 15 years old has to be around 12 to 15 years old it needs to be more than 2 to 3 inches in diameter This is about inch and a half 2 inches to be out to lie Let's take a look at some of the tools that you work with what were you using to sort of slice in all cut down the whole thought. This is a Hampshire or tentative pattern hasn't got much of a bake has got too much of a big co-op in the hedge so it's a bit like kind of a giant knife with a come on the end of it which is why the bale shape is a bit like a but is this some is this something you use fees or do you kind of change them every couple of years this is my this is my pride and joy this was bitin 1942 so this is getting on for 70 years old. So what you have to do to try and preserve it or just keep it clean or just keep the edge. And then we've got the Yorkshire hook which is much a much bigger hook a math massive Cray stock that looks quite scary but this is done. Sided which is our job for him for his times biggest times and again is that something you've had for years needs low had to smite by blacks mission Weymouth So that's not very able to talk so that was my part traditional blacksmith using traditional That's was is that part of the appeal for head slang for you the fact that you are doing something that goes back hundreds of years and there's a heritage to it that it is a no. Say in a hedge that is in a bit of a mess and lie in it and then Michael that look noise and is in a is same benefits in the wildlife hedges that I live in of course so many benefits the head saying goes back hundreds of years just now it goes back to when man domesticated animals it's interesting through testing out about the different styles of head slang and depending where you are in the country it depends on what you want the heads full This is the South of England style had which I think was a risky to keep sheep in the fields was that the the South England had you leave the whiskers on by saw as which is old it with branches to keep shake from dialed upwards so the farmer 20. 2 layers hedge expect next I'd be had a push in that field and they wouldn't get out on this and on the white stone Hedges was slightly slightly lower but they do it similar and I like to put strikes in its head saying it dying on getting more people involved in head saying there's a lot more people wanting to do it there are training courses going on over the top and we've got youngsters coming for you now the National Alliance society have now bursaries you know without the youngsters and odor. If we didn't have the young ones to take it on then this wouldn't happen I think you're going to let me have a go at something. What do you want to demonstrate and then I'll see if I can be of any assistance we'll have a lie in a hedge Ok. Right well you show me what to do fast and then I'll see if I can have a go we need to. Clear around the ballclub Ok I'm going to watch what you're doing from the of the song I so you're grabbing hold of the whole folding ping off the spare small of branches around the hole full clearing the air from the box and getting rid of the brown bowl so that you needling down now you now cut to the bottom of the hole fold quite a course of really needs to act and goal so it's cut almost like a no. And then gently teasing it away from the bottom of the stem and then pushing the whole film down on top of the other late place sawing off the hand at the bottom of the hole full in 45 degree angle you make it look easy Chris easy peasy and you can find out how it goes on in just a moment. The Franklin and respect Welcome to the kitchen god and I'm Rebecca parka and just before Aretha we were chatting to Chris Spock's from Winchester about the have had slang and it was ahead of the national head slang championships which room will show on sucks today so we were talking about the kind of tools that he uses the materials he was with and that he straight behind hedge laughing but now it's time for me to get stuck in and have a guy and let me tell you it's a lot harder than it looks Chris with the safety goggles all make everything in the shade of blue of course the safety nice and I'm right handed so I don't wear one of my my how the way I want to my left hand you know many don't wear gloves when you're kind because then you've got to go. Clubs if you sweat the hook and you could do suffer an injury Ok now I'm putting these cups on and you said to me the very special cups because they've got chain men inside them. In the wave forms and brambles and I think just can't go for you can literally crap one of these. Unless they get very wet for it to make a start on this you will probably have to take out because I don't anticipate I'm going to be very good I'm going to grab Now what's the name of this tool again. And which side to use it that side with the shoulder to rend I'm going to hand you the microphone I'm not sure who's going to be worse off a you know to the microphone only holding it brought Say what you need to do is nail down close to here from stem into the stem and I go hard or go on I say you say you're going to now take. More acute angle with a sort of 45 degree angle you're doing well oh. I'm worried I'm going to make a Met. You a money here and it's not like you that a minute yeah let me just get it go and so you can say oh look a Nazi I did all the hard work for you really. That's only one bit how many more of you got left to do 1st you may just. Have a home. So we've cutting to that and then the next stage would be to sort of All told him off yes you've got 30 me says his show going to lay that tool down then now how long would that take you to finish a quick quick is not the real good coaches in life between 20 and 60 Minutes is it because you've got the National heads laying championship coming up and you said to me I think they're laying was it 5 metres in how long was it 10 majors and 5 hours for the open class and that's quite follow it's by stone what they used to say was I had. Slack lie a China tie which was 22 yards and so what they've done now is they've now set the competition says half a China which is now a quite still in just 10 metres this is a late hedge in a sort of agricultural science but also you can have it hedges late in the domestic sense in other words you could have them in Uganda you could always lie hedges in gardens you know a lot of people think more hedges of control in a garden is too high is too white Well instead of cussedness down sideways and cut into. And get the it's no guarantee I have a head than is to have a reduced if you will always struggling with the high if you had to and you're always cutting it down actually having it laid could be a really good option yet because then you're going to get it back down to say 4 foot or so which means then you can just go along and manage it easy Can you lay any sort of head I know you want he with whole full head to day but he went with anything you can buy anything to part from not done on time that you can box and furs and you play perfect as Mom Oh yes yeah pretty light beautiful you get you can get a crack in Age of profit which one do you prefer with you have a favorite I like Knights of hedges which is hopeful and bright forward spindle wife Aaron my poor who are the ones that you find in a natural hedge but peaches a beautiful wife still a person oh is just drop dead gorgeous and now match and am is absolutely you know these super we're going to finish off now we've laid some of the whole thought on that well I've laid one of them and you've done the rest by putting the the stakes in a we at that stage we can put some stocks that don't try to go oh yeah go on them well now I've laid a hedge I might as well put a stay kid you know there's no stopping me now Chris we always like our hedge faced which is by chin inches so why would our look and I will try and chuck the hedge in and I'll try and we are stuck between the heads of how to get it is a bit light sort of threading quite a hefty needle through the whole folds and you know stakes are about like you said 18 inches apart that's a big mallet Chris the cool Bay to moves it's just going to tap in like I don't want to do it that way it's got too hard because my next. My Pictures Oh my heavens oh which is what's going to hold the hedge together are with and look at me Hage and I'll pull it backwards and forwards into a good strike and then over then to me stocks down much tighter I've got the gloves on the gang Chris so you've just put your stock can't you you bit hedge you've put a strike in now we need to weave it locks in Ok that one there yeah this one here bring him over the front of you had pulled him over tuck you many and now bring that one I set it down well now this one bring him down and then not a bit behind that even now. Yeah and then push the ham and watch your fingers and with a bit of tidying up it got yourself one noise to catch up not on bad that have I done very well I'm I had today or in training now yes and this ticket to go I would as well oh yes I'll do all that anything for a sticker Chris thank you for showing us that that's pretty and you've got the heads laying Championships coming up you going to be that I'm going to be there on the helpful this year so what does a helpful hedgehog do I go around and if members of the public want to know any think I would explain what star was being like boys done by see what we've done to tell you and if anyone wants. The 2 ways I've a look for his that's recently be light and house the landowner or the owner who like to hedge or go on the national and website click on contractors pick a postcode and it will bring you a list of where you go 30 metres of a hedge left to lay a hit so I better let you get on with it Chris thank you very much my pleasure and it's good to see you again. That's Chris sparks. From new Winchester it's just gone 25 past. The radio. And. On the road for you good afternoon to the great run in South we continued to solve the news there are still some road closures in place for next hour cycling Eastern parade the high street and around the University of Portsmouth and he's still very busy around the race route in South say elsewhere in puddle time Forestry a free 5 west bound from Petal town to daughter star that's currently slowly moving and its cue is cute in poll on the a 35 side roads will to civic center junction. And on the train to place a bus the running on Great Western Railway between Yeovil Penn mill and where you have to plan weekend engineering works in the us on the roads of not mentioned do gives more in 30 minutes. Radio travel. Tomorrow it covers just 10 square miles it has a blue flag beach. Railway Yes we shine a spotlight on Hainan Island and the great Self. Will tell your story you get 6. Radio silence and on the subject of headlining if you head to head laying out the new wild hedge leg slightly safer if you can show off Facebook site now you can have a look at the video a quick demonstration that Chris did for you just showing you kind of the 1st elements of hedge laying there you go all the Great South Run photos and videos there for you to look through this afternoon and if you head to our website bbc u.k. Forward. There's a link to the page laying society. The Her throughout her the for every breath. Just a moment telling you what's on his program. While today becoming brighter and dry a During the afternoon with few a shower as am winds starting to ease highest today 14 South c. S. Tonight becoming dry at a much less windy of night with clear spells developing becoming Well the cloudy by dawn but remaining drawing and chilly across more rural areas lows tonight dipping down to 10 Celsius then Monday tomorrow rather cloudy but drive through most of the morning with some rain likely by the middle of the day a chance of drawing up before dusk with some clear spells developing for the evening high smart you looking at 16 Celsius and the outlook for Tuesday through to Thursday will perhaps mostly dry and warm with variable amounts of cloud but rain never too far away towards the north windiest on Choose day especially along the coast and the best chance of any draw Eyebright show more weather later on that day . Sign up and become a weather watch out go online to the b.b.c. Don't know dot u.k. Weather watch as. Richard cartridge is in the studio Good afternoon rich good often moving but how are you I'm right how you have you told off for owns a. Floor strip I have a but I'm about to in a couple of minutes only have spoiled it's all wrong because now the interest is piqued they want to know they were going to go off and do very important job but say hang on a minute you have got Berks is just told me the story is going to tell you in. The wondrous candyfloss tree I love this program Oh you to come. Do you oh yeah she's brilliant one of our experts we're very close. She's like a sister to. Say funny she's never mentioned you to me before. You know dying to know what I'm going from I can. Sing at the big 3 years over 3 hours on the little quiz that loves and I sometimes I just listen to that right off 1st year is Lee year in which Jarvis Cocker was born oh singer and songwriter he was in Pope he was I remember Jobs called Go out well I don't know a lot you know he was a brother to me like Rosie has his assistants you know not offense might say well gosh how does John because I'm going to say late 68th so 68 No 63 no way. Ok that's a surprise he's Ok this is not above this most but that in a 2nd year but the year was by the introduction of decimal currency for the common. 78 phone I know 700. Right far believe it or of photo you see if you can get one right not can just say this is mine I'm no good at picking the National Lottery numbers because you know when they saw it go what 9 chances of it being right we've got the National Lottery aap all off oh this game is. And you can scan the little thing. And we want the of oh did you get one of those annoying e-mails that says you've won the Euro Millions and then you open it says one pound 50 full no we did better them to you 1st and. Full post 600 Richard the bases are on you oh and we don't know what to do is a cruise stiff go in that is skiing again and some. Of the choices why don't they share our mall. I mean the whole 60 showed up. To impeach No I mean the big chunk Paul. Didn't 60 a 1000000 or whatever it was always on the subsidy center Al between 268 people for goodness sake it's too much money a clue to give the Yeah Ok final quiz question yeah. It's all of. Britain Awards in which the best international Creola look Kokomo its best live was you 2 best selling Barbra Streisand love songs yeah British breakthrough x. Years to. 80 fall oh so well 010 numbers of God Well what year was it going to 86 I was going to say I know you 3. Fine Well Richard it's been a delight thank you please try harder for next week that may not you know you're talking to us yeah I believe. And for those of the you the white in the county false trail becoming up in a moment yes we Sunday Tim day came as the perfect music and conversation to lift the spirit I was walking through and I noticed a new meditation center these meditation. Things out of her. Stocking back to. Sunday breakfast with Tim take it from 3 months has become really. Is a lot of history there's a lot. To the black community. Things that we never regret because it's a Sunday breakfast with Tim taking p.b.c. Radio silent Tim back next Sunday of course now it's time to talk about the candyfloss trade not its real name of course just an affectionate Wolfgang but prefers it to Wolfgang but being one of our experts of course on gardeners questions 1st and foremost also happens to be a director of so how old Haley a garden failed now the autumn colors are looking. They share which is incredible really considering we haven't had the kind of really cold overnight temperatures and a couple weeks ago someone phoned up and got this questions when Wolfgang was. He said that he was in colors looking good at the gardens at the moment of course he said yes they're looking brilliant but I thought you know what let's go out I'm a Cole was a pace looking at some examples of brilliant or some color so that's what we're going to do over the next coming weeks you get a different bit each wait looking at examples of autumn color so how would Harriet Gardens today that oh I thought we'd start off with a little look at a trait that not only looks good but also smiles amazing. And we've walked up this tree now reminds me of the fact Ground Zeroes around it is the new show it is fantastic I mean we call it the kind of floss tree. It's it's a tree from the Far East called sister to Philip says to them japonica. And in the autumn as the autumn color develops and as the leaves drop and basically the cells break down the leaf cells it releases the sugars that are in there and that's what you're smelling is the sort of candy candy floss and it's just fantastic So you've got this lovely kind of payoff. It's look it's quite soft yellow isn't it and then the ground is littered with these lovely leaves sort of kidney shaped heart shaped leaves and you cannot smell so you just want to walk through it you know in your in your wellies and just enjoy it it's gorgeous she said to me that I get at the smell would be a strong today because it's not a sunny day but it's really quite pungent at times it is if you I mean if this was a dry day you would and with a slight breeze you'd actually pick it up before you even get to underneath the kind of. It can be that strong. And it's just I mean this is one of our oldest trees that we've got off c'est a film here so this is probably one that Harold would have planted maybe in the fifty's so it's magnificent train you can see the box is very nice and fishes Yeah . I mean one of the other comp common names is tickets or a tree as well so it's a stunning thing to see to see in the autumn it's dropped about I maybe about a quarter of its leaves by now it will gradually lose all of it will it will That's right and you can see inside way it's more sheltered still green and you know when we step out of the canopy we're right inside it now then you can see that the outer leaves are the ones that go yellow So a little bit of more shelter less exposure means that the leaves stay for a bit longer but of course that means you know in a guard situation you can enjoy it for so much longer you know because they don't all turning at the same time so it gives you an extra 2 or 3 weeks of autumn color this is quite a big tree what if in the smaller garden though do they grow huge this grows quite big I mean you know what would it take it would take at least the 2 of us to give that trunk a hug you know and we're talking something that's probably 5060 years old. But there are called $2.00 which is smaller I mean there's one for instance which is a lovely red leafed. Plant which is calling the cold water folks Red Fox. And. That is literally ace just about a metre wide you know for quite a number of years and really really nice tree to have and that's something that I mean you know we grow it here I grow it at home it's a it means you've got that foliage will be around really you know right so it will be round right for the season it does drop in the autumn and it's an autumn color now as well so she do get smaller cultivars of that if you want to just remind us of its botanical name it's called Ceci to fill in japonica and not the candy floss tree not the kind of say but it's the saying is you're going to remember the Congress last year. The same you know if I show you the chili tray. Well we might do that a little while and I'll tell you what we call that normally you know all that well the children call that when you number that all right you lead the way thank you. And you got more examples of or some color coming up on the kitchen garden of the coming weeks but talk about the money so you had gone as questions a softening with the magnificent rosy Yemens you found out about hedge laying we've done or some color as you just had but coming up shortly you're going to have a brief must a coffee making come past. So . Illo. Illo . Ok. Live. And the right. Ok so it's time to talk Campaspe you have. Questions Rosie Yeomans she's not just a writer and Electra She's also a very keen allotment she's had one of the 20th I know she doesn't look old enough but she has and every couple of weeks I head off to Rosie's allotment we recalled something in trying to harvest the best of her allotment advice this week it's all about come past with Rosie to compost bins Yemens she's now 9 that's not my compost supply that's the supply that I used to make the compost at the end of the year and this is the trimmings if you like but this is the wife and not just sit so you don't cover the space up the chill you know you know that it does gradually decompose yeah that basically is a holding. For all the materials I want to make the compost heap once here a couple of weeks ago I dug out my cooked come past and I put it on the beds and I've used it in various bits of the allotment and so I emptied my cooking Campaspe and I've then turned a year's worth of Debbie that I've collected and I've added to it various other bits and pieces fertilizer anything else I could lay my hands on that I knew would decompose treaded paper bits of straw for example that run to the strawberries that all goes in there as well and I also bag up weeds as we say through the summer I put them black policy in bags and I push the air out of them as much as possible tied them up and let them decompose in the bags and that means if Afghani pernicious waging this war a lot here that goes into there like grass and horse tail all the groups and everything it kind of pickles it and then when I open up the bag I can pour that on to the compost heap as well as the smell is no no no I told her then you know not only slightly It looks of it looks a bit gooey But no no it doesn't smell even slightly so why don't you put the weeds on with the rest of this open and it's in the air and it's likely to grow if I do that so by pressing the air out of the bag and tying it up it sits in the dark and it just nothing grows if it looks even slightly as though there might be something stirred in I alive in the bag then I tie up and stick it back on the pile and and try in a couple months time we sometimes get questions on gardens questions about sort of insects and stuff on compost heaps we have not long ago about slugs Is there anything you need to worry about in terms of insects and compost heap so there's usually a good balance of predators that will eat them so you'll often find frogs and toads and slay worms around compost heaps they're eating the small slugs so that's great you know you get those big orange slugs that's been a lot of them. Cher I trolled on this morning I did seriously well you'll be sorry because they don't because they're not a danger really what they do is eat plant Deborah and so so Actually I've been moving them from the allotment I'm pushing them into the compost heap sinking you might as well have a good old munch in there and so after our decomposition for us for you are only making compost once a year you're not constantly turning over of course I do make a lot of compost at home as well on this is on the allotment so I do you know I haven't got room to to turn into a huge compost base so I've just got this at the end of the compost at the end of the allotment that will do it but for example at home I've got ha ha been on that turns over compost in about 6 weeks of say not that's on my Christmas wish list tax rate I do you know what some people say that they don't really work they don't if you don't feed them properly so you have to spit out having a pet Yeah you've got to look after it and I found that once you've got your head around getting the balance right it works a treat it's pretty it's really good supply I'm running a course on compost soon Tom instead study center so anybody wants to come see me wax on about compost so I did love it we're going to feather their last one and have a look at what you've been doing with the cooked compost and you'll hear that next week. The profit of all. That's Rosie humans on are not. How do you top that compost advice you played us. And. Good afternoon is still fairly busy there in places the great sound from is starting to wind down now in South Sea Breeze still busy along the race route there are still some road enclosed in place on the high street and around the university or Paul Smith elsewhere accusing Palmiotti $35.00 firm side roads towards the Civic Center junction and on the railways are pricing bus to running by Western Railway which in Europe will pen mail and waiting with the planned weekend engineering works or the open roads of not mentioned and do give the school there's more in 30 minutes. Maybe coming up at 2 o'clock and I know you're going to be listening but don't forget we've also got from 9 o'clock tonight unforgettable from the all kinds of the b.b.c. Light Programme we visit Humphrey to Jasc up plus a gun in a box the latest book set from fifty's legend guy Mitchell sets 3 hours instant. Tonight 9 o'clock. All that's it for this week on the kitchen god my thanks to Rosie for another really busy this questions thank you so much for being Paul. A bit and thank you for the take you know you cold. As ever I'm so sorry if we couldn't squeezing your question but don't give up we will be back next week another brilliant expert in the chat it's another Rosie Rosie holiday from Hardy's. Winner of a 20 Chelsea gold medals. All our experts are amazing. Would you expect anything less. So listen if inspiration strikes you during the wait you can send us an email with your question the kitchen garden at b.b.c. Don't kowtow in case. You don't have to wait until Sunday. Oh I know once a week isn't enough as a. Whole So next week we're going to be stepping into the kitchen of Chef Samara channel 3 from Boma. She's only one of the finalists in the International Indian chef of the Year awards . Oh I told you we have the best on this program. She is passionate about getting more people to cook Indian food from scratch. And she's going to be showing us how to cook a really easy by the potato day. It's gorgeous. Trust me. I know it's so hot having to tell you still this amazing food. I'm spoiled and I also next week we're going to be heading back to Rosie's a lot month to find out what she's sewing on the allotment now. And we're going to check the progress of a very in Forest Service. Ariane crop. You should see the size of them. Don't forget you can check out the Facebook site now for all hedge laying video. There for you to see in all its glory. Plus you've got all the footage of the Great South Run to look at. Richard conjured up off the news. The fantastic Jools Holland playing us out on the kitchen garden. A quick happy birthday to my little boy celebrating 10 tomorrow. I know he's reached double digits already. Doing have a fantastic week enjoy a hall of term if you're on it I think it will be sunshine. 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This. Is b.b.c. Radio. News or 12 me today from b.b.c. Radio silence I'm Tony Adams hurricane force winds have reached the string of islands known as the Florida Keys hurricane known as most powerful damaging winds are expected in a few hours time is then expected to move along the Florida peninsula chip Casper is a senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in Key West he says the storm has already started lashing the area we are in a structure which is designed and built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane were fortified and elevated we are safe and sound so we can do our job but outside our Was the wind is howling we have ripping gales and damaging winds and wind driven rain and and the waters are rising Well the defense secretary So Michael Fallon has been defending the ukase relief operation in British territories in the Caribbean accusations that it was slow he told the b.b.c. That the operation was well under way 500 troops been sent to the region after a number of options were left devastated by the hurricane a man is in hospital with serious injuries and 4 people arrested following an alleged stabbing in Southampton place was sent to starting road shortly after half past 8 this morning and office is still at the scene. A collision between 2 boats along the Jurassic coasts which left only 5 survivors is remembered in a special service to softening $114.00 crew and passengers many of whom when you Zealanders returning home perished after the avalanche in forest both sank in $877.00 a service takes place every year s. And had his avalanche Memorial Church in Portland the Reverend Tim gum who will be hosting the service told b.b.c. Radio silent about the church's history. The avalanche sank some people were already New Zealand they were emigrating out there but what they were doing was actually going from London back to Wellington and through public subscription because of a big public outcry both here and in New Zealand about 2000 pounds has raised which meant 2 years late. Was actually built as a memorial. About the avalanche and a representative of the high commissioner from New Zealand will be among those attending the service which starts at home past 2 Tony Blair is calling for new controls on immigration which he says would allow Britain to remain in the e.u. Under his plan the former light Labor prime minister says European workers would have to register on arrival and already have a job offer early on McCluskey who's the leader of one of Britain's biggest unions unite accused Sonny Blair of being yesterday's man and failing to address the issue of a properly regulate the jobs market after Briggs it was Tony Blair in The New Labor Government were parts off and certainly what the conservatives have continued is creating this race to the bottom culture within our society rather than a rate for the job society that's where Blair misses the point the current Guinness World Record all for the most pull ups done in one minute was challenged in Southampton this morning former Royal Marine Steve quick he was hoping to complete more than 50 repetitions. And raise money for the Royal Marines Association he says he's been training hard for the attempt at a better world record the unofficial. However . Trying to be. It would happen on the day. Everyone Kings theatre in South Sea is on the hunt for budding young dancers who'd love the opportunity to get on stage this Christmas open auditions are being held today for its snow white pantomime children 8 from 7 can showcase their talents to the theatre with successful candidates joining rehearsals which will start in November and on to yesterday sport Bournemouth last a 4th consecutive game to start the new Premier League season as they were beaten 3 nil away at Arsenal in a subpar performance cherries were behind early on through Danny Welbeck skull and never looked like getting anything from the match manager Eddie Hal didn't hold back in his assessment after the game not good enough not good enough start to finish way way short of what we expect in terms of performance I'm talking about it was lacking right right from the 1st whistle b.b.c. Radio so in news it's 4 minutes past 12. Thanks Tony let's get the latest weather from Dan downs Hello again cloud continuing to build in now as we see a weather front heading eastwards bringing some outbreaks of showery rain for a time mainly liason patchy but there could be the odd heavier bursts and we see the wind picking up as well becoming crèche or stronger later as now front clears maybe a bit of brightness to end the day with also the risk of some heavy showers temperatures today reaching around 16 or 17 degrees but it will feel cooler in those winds so blustery showers in to the the wind becomes even stronger overnight with further showers pushing in setting us up for a rather blustery day it's a Morrow some heavy showers at times some sunny. Ells and feeling quite cool b.b.c. Radio cell in that kitchen garden with Rebecca Hello hello welcome along to the kitchen garden and gardeners questions here with you for the next hour. Yes we're going to pack in as many gardening questions as we can into the next 60 minutes 60 minutes worth of gardening know how and expertise all bought by today's expert It rests with you. Owner of holiday cottage plants near which And one of over 20 Chelsea gold medal so you are in very safe hands this afternoon as she will always know listen no gardening question too big all too small we are here to help you so ways you can get in touch and give us a call 034-530-3896 extension 1 you can text us 81 trouble 3 starting your text with the word so meant or you can e-mail us the kitchen garden at b.b.c. U.k. If you going to get in touch this afternoon do it quickly the phone lines do get very busy now we're going to start off with a question from a lady whose name had gotten for the National Guard scheme this afternoon penny sale she was on with Nikka telling you what you can expect to see when you go and have a look at her garden in Stockbridge I'll give you the question now that she passed on to Nick earlier then I'll give you the address or you can go on the Carter Well here we found we had some damage on various bits of being in the eye and we realize it's a badger. I wonder who is he's got any ideas that is away from. Ok so the postcode for that garden is s. 0206 d. W. Opened this afternoon to you till 6 and there's a link to Penny's garden from Oz and you'll also find on the National Guard and scheme website Ruth is. Tricky wrong I mean budgets are wonderful creatures but they're such big heavy beasties that they can push down quite a lot of fences and unless you're fencing around your garden is very secure and has been dug in then they will find their way in unfortunately and they do love lawns and they go into specific places in a border and they like to know there's a pool of the worms and everything else that's that and they will return to the same spot time after time once they found a spot I like they will return to it. So it is quite difficult to dissuade them from actually being there. And I speak dog of your own would probably be quite helpful who. I'm going out there and you know I'm saying shoot but I mean that they're pretty reticent they will keep coming back unfortunately so I think they answer is find out where it's coming in through your exterior fence and try and block up a little bit but that's a nation's carrots they are very there's nothing that they really don't you know so dislike unfortunately. You know they they will push through a lot of stuff and you know all these to Terrence to get like grazes and all that sort of thing which tend to you know deter other beasties from coming into your garden unfortunate botches just ignore Yes Ok no penny I have that's how she will little bit look for where it's coming in and try and block the top before we go to the phones I just want to touch on a question that we had last week Terry from shoaling had a problem with his daily is with black buds on the end it bends a. Ex-pat gave what she thought she might be the problem should John is going to go and read up on it in the meantime I got in contact with John Wood he's been on the show before he's had gotten into They've got snow lovely day is that he says and I don't know whether you agree on this race he says it may be down to but try says type of fungus often found in soft plant tissue overwatering daily as all moving from overhead may cause this and the new flower buds Donghae that can cause it just depends on whether what you're finding in the way of Black Bart is a halt solid black or whether it is damp and looks as though it's got a fungus growth on the top of it there is another cause for black blood in the buds just being very very solid and not forming a toll and that can be that they actually have drought as the buds are initiated and that full of wasn't enough water to begin with when the flower buds were initiated to the 2 ways that can cause it can be sunny not going to drown in the moment we. Are such good little bit of rowing here all around swimming that say didn't stop yesterday I felt so sorry for all those people at the Rumsey show well best of all the absolutely I saw some horrendous pictures from people being tired out and I think the effort that all the exhibits has go to even sometimes is just down to the weather isn't there terrible Ok let's go to the phone lines if you want to get in touch with a question the soft new the numbers always 345-303-8901 David is in gospel Good afternoon David it's good afternoon and thanks very much for taking my call that saw a problem with. A pear tree or go on the men. Actually picking the for already. Seem to have developed over the last 2 seasons really like sports I'm askin of the pairs. Like a call mist. Of already put a grease color around a tree a spray to the tree after floating the piers a really lovely in Sweden to see after repeal them I just wondered if you get any ideas of what the problem could be is like a little black spots on them but it's just purely on the scan. Right yes this can be quite common how old is the tree that you've got Bob you know and I say 6 or 7 years. Probably a bit years because I moved it from one place to the right Ok because sometimes the reason why they get that sort of black spot on the skin and it doesn't go into the rest it does tend to be something that is fungal or it can be that they are lacking in cow Siham or one of the minor nutrients so if you as you say for color on a new spring what should be being spraying with Sr Gen Polk you know nothing nothing too drastic that's what I wanted to ask you right because I went to war shaft of actually trained you know yeah I mean I went to wash is always a good idea but I would suspect it's more fungal round the bacterial rather than actually anything else. So the best thing to do is do the leaves will still look healthy as well everything else is looking healthy yes some of those eaves of saw go over come right on I have a suspicion Oh yeah I have a suspicion that it's probably just getting a little bit of fungal problem that and to make the plant be healthy I would suggest you give it a bit of feed in the spring and you can either do that by giving it a ground feed of blood fish and bones or a Vitus Q 4 type feed or you can give a fairly a feed which would just boost it Ok but I guess. You were to yes that most of those be available in the garden center you can also if you want to give it a fungal spray very early on just specially just before the buds open. Is the best time to get on Ok. Just. I know it's a lot to take on isn't it sometimes David I mean there is your peers have been fantastic you know once of them but it's just horrible you know and absolutely I mean yeah I think you know as long as there's nothing wrong with the fruits you know the fruit itself underneath you know carry on taking the skins off I know my father would never eat a pan with the skin on so you know they do taste a little better sometimes pale when you were going to say Oh God where they're going to go yeah seem to be Ok with problem a straight up or says well. Get the same sort of thing that the same bacterial fungal growth you can get and usually by boosting that growth will help them fight things oh Ok well thanks very much for the. Love your program thanks to well you're very kind Thanks Dave and I mean it often to cheer you on but by and David's point about trying to write down some of us are a no no no your photo what I should say is the episode is available online up to 30 days so just go to the website bbc to forward slash silent find is that on the I plan you can go back and listen and you compose it and you complain you can write things down because sometimes I appreciate as a lot of information there is no voice that there's always a lot of information Yeah it's amazing you know once once we start talking we can we forget that we are giving so much information. In your head you know and I'm always not the best person at retaining information so it's really handy to have that resource will go back to the phone lines in a minute David touched on apple trees we had an email in from sue in small in it she said I Some a print the apple tree in the Ogust some of the new shoots announce very long and she wonders whether she should prune these again now it's always very difficult when when a tree puts on a lot of strong growth off to pruning I mean that is the one thing that you've got to be very careful with the. If you prune at too much the trees will prove you know it will grow back at twice the speed usually I would say no don't don't take too much of that there is an old fashioned technique that you can do for plants such as apples to stop them over growing and that is a technique called Brett ing and it's a very old technique and basically what you do is you take the young shoots and use almost snap them but don't quite and then you bend them and weave them around underneath other branches and this technique will absorb all of the growth that the tree is trying to put into them because what it has to do is it has to mend what you have broken so basically you've given it a tag and then men's that and it doesn't put on more new growth and it's a very old very trusty technique for actually slowing down over growth in apples Ok and that's all new growth not on new growth Yeah song so you're literally bending the new growth to a point where you hear it's almost going to snap and you don't snap in how off but you allow it to just break slightly and then you bend and weave underneath the tree and because it's going into the horizontal position it then goes oh I'm supposed to produce fruit as well I need to really grow and mend myself before I put on new growth Ok great advice there you go say there's a solution for you going back to bunches Chris immortal even has been in touch he says that he puts knots down as the branches will eat the knots instead of picking up the loan but I would think that would encourage him to come on to the moon in the 1st place I might be wrong well there it is one of those things do you want do you want to see the badges do you want them in not causing any damage so if you don't want any damage yes feed them but the more you feed them the mauling are coming so you go together balance if they're going to come anyway despite your best efforts maybe get the knots out yeah right Ok. Let's go to the phone lines Margaret same way with a question about girl says Good afternoon Margaret you'd have to learn how can we have. I started my stomach growing grasses and is addicted to it now I need support me some peers have warmed up they sway their an $81012.00 inch caught I made a beautiful Now do we cut them down or do we leave. This you should really have. A day yeah I'll do my best it really depends on the type of grass that they are most the time I would say you are growing them because that's what you want you want movement you want swaying and it is best to leave old growth that until they naturally die down themselves this I think is the best trick with any plan that your growing to be architectural is that you leave it that looking architectural allow it to sway in the grass in the wind and everything else and then once it gets to a point where you really can't abide the look of it any longer than cuts it down. And it will come but I think they will come back the same Absolutely they are perennial plants. You will be cutting off all of the dead foliage the dead top growth and in the spring they will return and you will need to report them you know they can't stay in the same soil in those pots for more than a year you need to re knew that soil that they're in giving them a little bit of slow release fertiliser and then they'll come back and they'll be just as good the following year if not better because by the time they've had extra growth and a bit more food they'll be better plants and I don't blame this on going you're going to be in the same hole they can go back in the same parts just make sure you trim up the routine little bit when you know if the matter you'll find that some soil will fall off you can trim up the roots a little bit either by pulling them apart or if that's a bit too much hard work I tend not to like hard work so what I do is like take a saw to them and cut about 2 inches off the base and a little bit off the sides and then you put fresh soil in there with celebrities fertilizer put them back in and away you go for the next season Oh no indeed thank you very much nice and easy a mugger if you find out the names of your grasses the varieties we do have not the rosy device wasn't brilliant because it was totally spot on but we have Neil Lucas who's an ornamental grasp at least on the program next week so if you want sort of device to the variety find out what they are and give us a call back. Thank you very much I think I welcome Oh I thank you. I can understand why his son's addicted to millions use for me use quite a few grasses in your exhibits we do I mean grass is a fantastic you know you've got that wonderful basal clump forming and then you have the very top growth which sometimes didn't stop a gigantic early on the season is over now but even the seed had looked quite good and then later on now you've almost got the starting to put on that fantastic flower heads and they're all different colors so not just proms reds you know and they can be yellows and there really are some of quite heavy and you know they really look very very dense and others are very like to marry and the movement as you say and especially at this time of the it when we got a lot more wind around and they sway and they look great and I that's fantastic in fact we've gone into coming up with nails later on so having some of the autumn color of the sea not just for girl says that some to look for too but I know you've both in a couple of examples of plants for us to take a look at Vine now and it's a little bit difficult for people to look at them on the radio but we can we can describe them and see what they are but yes I thought we did there all night flowering plants and it's brilliant to have them around I mean I've brought in a beautiful starry with with red stems bright green leaves and that is one of these ones the thought any subject that used to be an ass that people use today of all of their McComas days is being asked they've all changed their names not everything but they nearly all change their names so this little wall is fantastic 6 rows in shade grown is that people have real difficulty with plants in shade so this has changed its name from Asda to. Prefer asked yes. It is and that doesn't really matter for people in their gardens you know you still call asked to still call it make mistakes that's not pro. What the problem is is that if you see a plant for sale somewhere and it's got this new name and it will go somewhere that you've got a problem place you take it back and put it in there and then you find it flowers and then something you've already got there flowers in the same plant and that's not what you want it so that's why you need to know the name changes Ok so that's good for a shady spot and you've bought something else I brought a most delicate beautiful little Alpine where we don't do a lot of Alpines but do like this one because it is a Jensen and it is the most sweet beautiful gentian blue that you have going Hosley have tiny is rosettes it's ideal for rockeries Alpine troughs that sort of thing and it's Jentzsch Iana Verna and it flowers at this time of the year really lovely little flower and still lots of color that you can get in the coming summer may be able for us humans but actually for plants are still looking pretty good specially grasses grasses and all the late season flowering plants are all coming into. They're pretty well been there before are in people's gardens right the way through till the middle November something to look forward to some of being in touch on the Tx Louisa's Tex in saying please could you repeat the postcode for the government site for the National Guard and skiing today of course I can always it's called Tustin so you can find them on the National Guard scheme website and you can find a link to them from our website as well their long stock in Stockbridge and the postcode is s o 206 d. For David w. And that's open the softer noon between 2 and 6 Ok We're going to check on the road choice see how they're doing this afternoon and then we'll come back and take more of your gardening questions. Radio solo and Vicki Carter has the latest advocate I guess on the roads in wind has the a 37 is a 337 a slow northbound play Hail leading up to the a 35 and a 31 is heavy eastbound from the early roundabout up to Canford Magna in Southampton. A 33 is queueing westbound between town key and southern road that's because of an accident leaving one lane blocks there and if you're heading to the Goodwood revival today it's like one approaches to the motor circuit especially clay pit lane where it's slow in both directions from you right if you spot anything else on the roads I haven't mentioned then give us a clue more in half an hour. Radio travel hotline. There's a place on the radio. Spent 3 hours enjoying some of the best music ever written and recorded. Sound. Good. Like the music it's simply unforgettable I'm Bob Roberts joining me tonight from. Radio So welcome back to the kitchen garden and governor's questions here with you for the next call for now then after 1 o'clock we step into the kitchen and the garden your experts this afternoon Rosie Hardy owner of holidays causes plants near which and when of one of the 20 Chelsea gold medals so give us a call with your gardening questions like we always say No question too big or too small pick up the phone 034-530-3906 extension 1 pounds on the line in bold with with a question think about Apple's Ampad is good often impasse and once again I want. More to throw on with my tale tracks but not all of them. The majority so Ok this is black spots on the skin is that yes Ok we have a similar question earlier with Perez right. Yes same as it is the same either saying both your pets and your apples have got less when they have and all your trees quite old or other young trees you know right Ok fair enough I think you'll find that this is a sort of bacterial black spot that is on that and a lot of it is down to husbandry and the fact that perhaps that the trees require a little bit of t.l.c. . That usually just means that they need a little bit of food either in the form of giving them a basal. Blood fish and bone type of food around the base of the plant and that can be done in spring or if you can do so than as a folia feed and usually a fairly a feed before they flower. That there is a good healthy plant growth as it's flowering and as a setting the fruit. Of the right to I put it down the tree trunk will come out where the come out you need to be where the root sauce so you need to be added to it needs to be watered in because you need to make chilled it gets down into the roots so that it cannot be I soaped by the trees themselves it is the next you've got just in the skin it's not going into the fruit he has just been a skin just in the skin in which case the fruit is perfectly Ok it's just as just a matter that they they there are certain elements that they require in the way of minerals and if they haven't got enough of it they will just utilise that from as they say the skin because they don't need it so much. Not a 10 Unfortunately the tree all that did it wants out of that fruit the seat that's what it's really that full so the it sacrifices the fruit which is not what you want to do see you've got to make the tree as healthy as possible so that it doesn't try and take any goodness out of the actual fruit itself. Yeah John Stanley Ok for you. Thank you. Yes thank you and also I've got a couple shouldn't they know growing. Apple tree but I guess I'm going to make the sky can I cut them back now you can cut them back now but do be careful as to how much you cut tat because as much as you cut time out it will regress. Even though it's this time of the year so I would suggest that you just cut Hoffa of that house and then do the rest of it in the spring Oh right yeah I think that you're doing what you doing it's an ascent if you find the black spot it is you don't you're not successful with just the feeding try a fungicide spray once the fruit has just formed as well. Oh right well thank you very much I have a good question for you one more quick question you know ordinarily I would say yes but we've got so many people hanging on the line I'm afraid I'm going to toss you to get in touch again next week I'm sorry about that. But best of luck to be as you very well and Rob Thanks a lot. But I think you see if I let Tom have another question Eliot in fabric move be very cross because he's been sat waiting on the line for ages Hello Elliot's that afternoon. Here is a seat not long. How can we how fairly well I'm doing some restoration work with the help of a go up to my father's garden and he's got a grape vine which has being there since before I was born and they see if I tell you my father's 92 we sort of set the scene for how long ago that might have been now. It's gone a bit. Yeah so growing along the wise it was on it's got into a tree. And we've had to take part of the trail right and we've got this great vine trailing across the lawn must be 10 or 15 feet before it actually gets to branches a moderately new looking growth. And I would actually quite like to preserve this this great vine and get it back into into great production it's a case of trying to compensate when to cross it. You know making sure that it comes back right is sounds as though it's really going a long way not being proof look soft a for a long time so you are going to struggle to get it back quite often and grapes old a grape will regenerate from. The base I'm not suggesting that you go to the extreme of cutting it right back down that far because then you lose all that peaceful Naldo old wood that you've got but what I would suggest you do is you trace back from the tips back to where your last. Lost all fresh growth is. Cuts to that that should then stimulate to brunch I'm hopefully it will then branch further along the old stem as well Ok so it's a case of leave it sprite at the moment is drapes right over so if you really don't have to prop it up on something I don't need I'd like to return 3 gliders. And we're sort of looking at it thinking where do we start so it's called the company the more recent growth off yes is a bike the old wood but that stimulates its growth by the back and then then work back a little walk back along as you get more growth going along the other areas they remember that grapes will fruit off Spurs so once you have got it then re growing you then cut back and he thing that comes up by at least a 3rd so that you create a spur which will then produce your fruit right Ok but it's going to take you $2.00 to $3.00 maybe 4 years before you're going to get anything I would have set off something of that I am needing to resurrect it Ok no that's fine as long as we get it back growing him could I actually make something of it yeah I mean I've I was suspect you know about science things it's got a lovely Naldo old stem so the only other thing you could do is you could completely sacrifice that plant to put a new grape vine him next to it and use the old stem as your framework for your new great fine now that's an idea. This particular vine 888 child a fairly famous cry cry and cry I'll let you look at that but then I would also suggest if that's the case that you try and take a few cuttings and they all semi right cuttings off the bits that you have the. Right untie the right presently you just plop them up let them grow Yeah yeah absolutely Ok and it didn't work involved for you I'm afraid but well worth the effort by the sounds of it. It will be it's a yes it's heritage is it is yeah yeah I think it will be nice to try to get this this one particular one go Yeah absolutely so so cuttings as well as giving it a prune back yes thank you for the planet going on with all right thanks so much best of luck thank you very much thanks for your time by let's head off to Lymington now and Sue's on the line Good afternoon say oh good out. There and. Saying. Yes in ground 0 for many many wars and. It. Branches taking up all over the place right now whether to train. And the other thing is it seems to split itself into 2. Legal sort of very Don't leave one side unlikely only other among the wondering if tonight so. What are. Sometimes yes sometimes is a is will will come up from below ground level and you'll get a you know what looks like a 2nd new by Sol where it's. Coming through so you can happen if it's putting on a lot of young top growth and it's normally a bushy shrub shop then I would cut those back by at least a 3rd. That way you would then encourage it to stay being. Neater and tidy a plant keep an eye on the Hoff that you think you know it's slightly changing it could be you say this is in the ground it's yeah it could be that has hit the. The roots of that haul off have hit something solid and it's not growing as well as the alcohol thought is something else that you are unable to see you don't know where the roots are going of a plant. So it may be is it just paler green or has it gone more yellow I look as though it's not getting as much food. For years much like to agree . To the alcohol Yeah so yeah so what you could do is you could give that bass a little bit of a fairly a feed. And just encourage it to to green up to the same as the other side otherwise it's going to look unsightly you should take that piece out the the plant then re grow into the space. So if I cut. So will I lose my balance or you shouldn't do no no if you're still got your other shoot which will approve produce the bud as it should have done right. Reassured Yes from a. Very good good story I think you. Know but I will come back in on some of your gardening questions and just a moment 1st we're going to check on the why the 4 year. One of things is gardeners of course we always worry about I rose and I were talking before we came to our about how so cool at the moment we've had bursts of hot weather over the summer but not consistently warm Well today outbreaks of Shari rain I'm afraid by the middle of the afternoon with the old heavy Abbas possible and it's also going to become increasingly windy especially across Hampshire highs today 17 Southsea stand tonight blustery shots a saving will die away for a time overnight with clear spells developing remain windy tonight with further showers likely by dawn lows tonight and dipping down to 10 Celsius if some chilly I lost not that's not any dropping down to 10 that's good thing monday tomorrow. By the recent study spells throughout the day but blustery showers will develop and they will be locally heavy and perhaps thundery winds will remain strong making it feel cooler than it is with highs tomorrow of 18 Celsius and the outlook for Choose day 3 to Thursday basically you can probably sum up and Yuck. Based Belles that's all you need from a forecast isn't that that's really all you really like here periods of ya can more sunny spell than showers are expected on Choose day but these will be few and lighter than Monday but there will be heavy rain and strengthening winds overnight clearing to leave on Wednesday and Thursday breezy with sunshine and showers in the coastal waters for calls for cells he built to Lyme Regis wind variable 3 or 4 becoming west or southwest 5 to 7 occasionally Gale 8 later visibility moderate or good weather rain or showers later see states light becoming moderate rough. In radio so join the nation's favorite conversation go online to b.b.c. U.k. Slash weather watch it. And if you're sticking around after 1 o'clock here's a little taste of what you can expect. The advantage of using cherries you can have a glass of sherry West or during it. Know that some in the morning. Sherry o'clock at any time Ok And how long is that going to sit in the marinate for for 30 minutes. Storing squashes we talked about storing potatoes all sweet What's the best way of storing squashes put them somewhere cool and with no moisture but they also improve enormously if you allow the Skins to harden if you get them cut and stick them in the sunshine for a few days and that really helps to hold on. Skin. Tented not to describe these because last time I described something is in your garden we still suffering from the wolf. And he's a wolf keeping things on Eleanor I can I think Dame Edna would love the things a little bit like I mean this is a Sangria Sorba and it's called pink square which is absolutely beautiful. That's all coming your way after one account will be looking at early autumn color cooking to know perfectly how to be filling the hungry gap on the allotment. Welcome back to the kitchen garden and gardens questions here with you for the next 20 minutes your experts in the studio the softening Rosie holiday the owner of holidays causes plants near which busy off to noon on the phones we're trying get through some e-mails as well if we can Jane has been waiting patiently on the line in Bend bridge with a question about to see just tree Hello Jenny and my dear. To both of you I think you mean mail a fortnight ago but I'm not very good technology to perhaps didn't get. I've got a little bit too much use to keep when it was and all of it is have some a holiday. When it was indoors it was a lawful of the scale insect and I tried everything eventually when I put it out goes the end so it's a problem I've noticed recently it's started coming back and I've had to resort to using a some now. Now when do I bring it in. What do I treat it with. I don't want it to spread to the rest of the plant and I also have some serious stuff the bag awful long and on really really don't know how and if I should use it's called I so pro bono. Right Ok. Scale on citrus is a real problem I have to say. And yes you're on swill have cleared it for a while but they that you would have still had egg sitting that which is why it's coming back. Using your nail is very good also being very meticulous in using methylated spirits with a cotton bud. You've done. Oh it sounds as though they're really don't like to go do that I. Am sent to this. But I knew. They will do a lot of these chemicals a really really hard if you're going to use something like that you want to really put the plan time saw and give spray and then it should be you don't want to be using it so the spray gets outside served if you could get a big. Tight policy in bag or something like that that would fit a I'm taking that this situation is not too big. Yes you could put a buck bin liner over the top of it couldn't you so if you were to put this chemical on very carefully and then put it but been a liner is little I keeping it in sun just do that for 24 hours so you keep that spray with in an area that will help the the spray actually work a little bit more effectively because you're not having it blown away by the wind and everything else. About this this I said yeah yeah right well do I do looting if you need to whatever the instructions all the are all knowing on an actual no instructions in which case I wouldn't even I mean I don't know that chemical I have to say it in a long time since I don't know. Yeah that's a light sound of it really. Well that's one time do you want special. Instructions I wouldn't I wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't do that I mean the good do you know anyone who smokes. Because the good old fashioned idea of having a lit cigarette and I saved in a bag and letting it smoking them as he was it sounds silly but can that be a lot better than using something chemical that you have no idea what it is. I don't like the I don't like the idea of these kind of special they've come with absolutely no instructions a tool as I say from my point of view up I personally don't like using chemicals wouldn't say that I'm gonna bar I just don't like what damage they can do. Everything organic that's applied to them yeah I know. But it's perseverance Unfortunately I need just have to keep on doing it have you got other plant material in the house so that for it would posset all and yeah yeah very close to it could actually be in the. You need to yeah yeah yeah I mean the only other were any other thing you could do is you could isolate. Put in quarantine for putting out putting Horenstein I'm just keep on you know with the methylated spirits in the in the buds because that really is one of the best ways of getting rid of it. When I'm doing it should be coming in now I have actually brought my own lemon tree in. Yes should be coming in. The night so getting quite cool yeah. It's got to that point I know they can tolerate it but they are in the Twix weather ice going to start losing their lease and then the going to put new leaves on and you don't want the new leaves to get caught by the really cold yeah so it's best to start thinking about bringing them in surely Ok I'll rummage around and find the methylated Yes I think you're going to have to do that and keep it away from the keep it isolated maybe you know as a say give it its own little. Clear plastic bag around the top so that you know at least if you treat it can go on and then you know it's not going to go to something else. They go. There every now and I. Know Ok. But a perseverance and a bit of quarantining for a while hopefully fingers crossed it will be alright I will and I think a very much. That will help find. A story about I will come back to the calls in just a moment very quickly I just want to squeeze in an e-mail because I'm conscious that we've got quite a few e-mails to get through as well Rosie going to pass you cross that photograph this e-mail coming in from Leslie says that you are goddess Oh great if you can also your ex but I rose if they know what the a touch pods all which appeared in a cluster on the lower part of what I believe to be a clematis I thought to see 2 on the flower heads there are 6 metres long and banana shaped So explain what they look like that but I'm not on the outside and they are all Prudy about 3 to 4 inches long and about an inch and a half wide and when they open up it looks like gelatinous seeds inside basically the vine that he's got growing is not a clematis it is a key b. Aqua Dots are. Also known as the chocolate fine and has beautiful purple flowers in the spring which can smell of chocolate it's a really fantastic climbing plants which will grow in shade it's brilliant for north facing walls or east facing fences that sort of thing and these are fruit lovely so and should have been a thing with them just now I just leave them there quite good as fodder for. Now leave them. I can't remember I think paps they might be edible but I'm not don't quote me on that because I know. That's exactly all that they are keeping a criminal lovely thing to discover Yeah. Well you've hit the jackpot thank you for that rosy Ok let's go back to the phone. Lines I would go Barry on the line in Portsmouth Good afternoon Barry Oh my good afternoon good afternoon I was very quick question for you at the spa treatment are we to know oneself is everything that is more effective. The off the shelf treatments in the garden centers place digging them up. As. It is it is the most effective because you get the whole of the really tacked. Yes I mean. The off the shelf ones are water recommended and they all the things that you really should use you have to make sure that the plants that you are treating you are not treating old leaf so cut off old leaves and just treat young central pieces of the plant and then you know the actual active ingredients will get into the plants more quickly try and do it and this is going to sound really dreadful on a day like today but when the plant is in full sunshine it is breathing more and it will absorb more of the chemical so that for try and do your weed killing on a sunny day all really and thank you I mean I have I have had mixed results some of the shiny lace to actually. Very very difficult so if you have a problem and what happens that is that the chemical runs off you just put a couple of drops of faery liquids other items are available so you know you know you washings soap and just per couple drops in there and that will help it to add here to the Leaves you are a Star thank you very much indeed. The Any probably going to have barriers finding a sunny day when I was. In the rain because it will just go by never this rank is obviously it will dilute the products right away let's go to think about why that you're very welcome thanks for calling in. So what would you recommend in terms of getting rid of weeds on those you talk about using some products I mean is it often down to good old fashioned digging the Maoists out if it is I mean unfortunately you know weeds will sit around but you things like plantings in the all down the line quite often it's far more efficient just to take them out of the ground that's the easiest way the other way is a save you've got a big plant that cuts off the big old leaves and then just spray directly into the center. So the young leaves are doing but as a say on a sunny day that not surprising will they absorb or if they actual active ingredient and so you are actually going to kill them quick cause that's interesting as I always find Hand waving is by the to do it when it's a little bit wet because Yeah exactly yeah I mean you know that it is it is a much better way of getting this with the mat because you get the full root and it's almost therapeutic it can be I mean you've got an unfortunate you've got a little unlike mine as you know my lawn is totally dandelions that that that that for a purpose Yeah you know you know in my house. Ok let's go back to the phone I let these a lot think with a question about what lies Good afternoon Leslie Good afternoon. I call them talking pig. Lots of different names for their mother. And I don't go. Up and then like yes it's mostly in pots but I pick crops up late they're everywhere I love Clematis I've got a lot of clematis in pots and I just say that was until the clematis right so I put him on them but nothing makes any difference. And suggestions plays right I mean they are and they to stay in there around that and when they're in you know normal numbers you don't really have a problem but it sounds as though you have got less of a yes and therefore they are doing exactly as you say they're eating roots of things in parts. It's very very difficult I mean the main thing to do is to collect them up as much as you can. You need you need some mice and some little voles pretty because all the things that eat them. So are you in a place or a garden where you are right in the center for Tom. I'm in a state in a state so there are lots of cats around They're all yes. So your problem is that what would normally eat all of these what have now become pests for you are no longer around because the great to vermin Hunter as in the cat has got rid of all of the beneficial. Voles and mice that you require to get rid of those insects. Which means that you've got to be more vigilant. Hedgehog right Ok but they won't be enough to eat although So when you when you find a pot full of them you need to shake them all out to a point you need to be reporting your plants probity 2 or 3 times in the year I know that sounds really annoying but it will help you stop having the eggs in the plant material when you are reporting so you need to check the none left of that give them a good shake give the plant root ball a really good so in water that will then remove any others that sitting around and then report as often as you can so say 3 times a year to get rid of them and then whatever beasts you have shake them into a container don't shake them onto the ground. And then take them and put them in someone else's car for me to. Say I know take them down to the local ponds and in the duck pond for the Ducks or something like that this morning I bought a lovely Christiane from an apartment in the front garden for a couple of days take indoors don't put it on the side door yeah I roll on the back . Yeah yeah yeah unfortunately it's because you haven't got something that actually can eating them. Unfortunately So I think that's your best bet and I would also suggest raising your poets so they're not actually on the ground. That will make it a little bit more difficult for the where they actually come. In the 1st place in the pop where are they they are hiding in crevices and just underneath the surface of the soil anywhere underneath logs paving you know if you lift up loose paving they'll be under there anyway like that in the dark. Or at lest they saw a bit of homework on your part by the sound of it silo do that yeah right sorry about. That about that. By. The radio so. Let's check on the road with Vicki. How I Elin test 837 is northbound in clay hill leading up to the a 35 and in Southampton the 33 is queuing westbound between 10 key and 7 road that's because of an accident the lanes have now reopened so the should ease off soon and the 31 is heavy westbound queues begin from bland food road and continue past many roundabout up confident Magna and West how Ringwood road is heavy on both approaches today but how roundabout are public transport in south west and well wait as a provide service with some services starting and terminating at different stations so to check before you travel if you spot anything else on the roads I haven't mentioned more in half an hour. B.b.c. Radio silent and Alex is back tomorrow from 1 o'clock with a wall of sound in the closing stages of governance questions as part of the kitchen garden Let's go now to June in Rye and he's got a question about Anna Sadia Hello Jim. Yes and that's my friend actually. Understand why the move. Move right Ok is the sailor in a post or is it in the ad it's in a pot Ok. Yeah and how long has he had this pond. War right Ok there are. A couple of reasons why it could be one is if it's an evergreen one then it is naturally starting to lose its foliage at this time to start regrowing some of the new stuff. Or one of the other a main causes is that it's getting too wet in the container and that that is causing it to be fairly ate. So he might be trying to feed it too much so as soon as he started to see it losing leaves he may have started to water it. And consequently then starts to overwater it I'm done fortunately plants can't swim and they do require you know every little bit of breathing space to get the water that enough sometimes via k When it and that is they are the one it is an evergreen one so as long as it is not losing absolutely hundreds of leaves all over the same time it could just be natural to fairly ation at this time of the year because I have a green plants do tend to lose leaves gradually over the year and then they'll have more of a loss now just before they go into the winter with the new relief coming through. Yeah but do check that you know that the pot is not either to actual to dry is also another thing but usually dropping of leaves is either natural. Or caused by overwatering. Thank you so much for that thank you very much thank you thank Jane but I got a minute left. But quick 5 questions John and I actually hate most to me the tree and needs to know when she should do it tree ferns usually best when the dormant right so wait until it's you've turned over the fronds and then in a dormant state move it then much easier you don't break the forms then either exactly don't have a bit to worry about this is a 2nd point actually a question we've had 2 weeks in a row we wanted to see how I know. The lady loves weight this is no one of the below I she was putting up a Christmas tree last weekend. Every year and I do see I'm getting I'm getting away from Christmas this year I'm disappearing but while he's going to the has a point that he had bought 3 years ago is now 2 feet tall wants to know how long they should last and how tall do they grow it has a Raechel Branco do they all grow that big oh no they're special ops in real life well they'll be 6 to 8 feet tall so they can get really quite huge you go to 10 refinance or up to you'll see them as shrubs 6 to 8 feet tall flowering the top slightly better stems because that's how they go yeah you can trim them back and make the more branched But yes they'll keep going they can grow like a rosy it's been a pleasure as always thank you so I know now that I know Ok what she hired in the South was so many questions thanks for being part of it. And then off the news we're going to be taking a look at early or some cooking tuna pathway and filling the hungry got on the allotment. Digital radio and t.v. Cross the sound. Is b.b.c. 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Radio silence I'm Tony Adams hurricane has struck the Florida Keys it strengthened during the past few hours bringing with it sustained winds of 130 miles an hour roads are already flooded a more than 2 100000 people have lost their power supplies 6000000 people have been in fact he waited from Florida the reporter make all about who's in Miami describe the dangers facing the region it will be down there for hours before then moving north toward the Florida peninsula and up the west coast but this is a massive storm that will span the entire Florida peninsula so here in the Miami area we will see an increased threat of tornadoes hurricane force winds and storm surge that's a real serious threat a man is in hospital with serious injuries and 4 people arrested following an alleged stabbing in Southampton on place was sent to stop the road shortly after half past 8 this morning and officers remain at the scene a service to remember the 114 people who died in a maritime accident off the Dorset coast happens to softer name taking place annually on the Sunday nearest to the 11th of September the service will remember the crew and passengers aboard the avalanche and Forrest many of them when you see didn't as who were heading home the 2 ships collided near Portland on a stormy 90877 the Reverent Tim gone told b.b.c. Radio silence about that night there were 63 person news on the avalanche and 34 crew on the other lots and then there would just 22 people on the forests 5 people actually survived the crushing of this storm on the meaning of the 11th of September the coast of Portland was pretty horrendous because the avalanche had actually left London on the 8th of September and then taken 3 days to get round to the end of Portland and then that's when the disaster. And in the ring of the 11 and a representative of the high commissioner from news even we amongst those attending the service which is it's an Andrews avalanche Memorial Church in Portland and it starts at home pos to the general secretary of the chief say Frances O'Grady has warned against what she calls a Cammy cause he brags it would no transitional arrangements in place speaking in Brighton ahead of the annual conference she indicated to the t.c. Would argue that the u.k. Should stay within the single market after brags that China has announced that it's to ban the production and sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines although it hasn't set a date yet full the change more than 28000000 new cars were sold in China last year making it by far the largest markets in the world. Damn Festus return to Rumsey for the 3rd time so how. Is hosting the free festival which is offering advice and information for people living with dementia there's also a number of activities and an offer throughout the rest of today and Bradford is one of the old line ISIS and he says the event will be empowering for people who care for loved ones living with the disease they have that situation where they are with it $127.00 what do I do how do I cope how can you help me cope and hopefully from a festival they may have come up with some ideas we just may help them to be able to deal with this you know in a better way and continues until 4 o'clock this afternoon. Has won the Great North Run for a record breaking 4th time in a row crossing the line in South Shields with a time of one hour and 6 seconds took the lead with 200 metres to go before he headed to victory Ed Henry was watching easy for my family he's done this so 2 so many times before Straight Times away to other Great North Run He now comes up to that site to wait it once again the 1st band so when 4 consecutive right North Run titles the arms come out series sides Meanwhile Paul Smith picked up their 1st a while. In the season in League One yesterday the blues scored a goal nature half to beat a.f.c. Wimbledon 2 nil Brett Pitman's a penalty was followed by a comma champ in goal to earn the blues all 3 points and take them up to 8 points from their 1st 6 matches is the Pompey boss Kenny Jackett is a well deserved win comprehensive performance by ourselves though with nervous to start with but happens away from home but away with the hard to come by here and you know that was a that was a good one we've certainly about for its arms but overall a 4 deserve the b.b.c. Radio 7 news is just coming out to 5 minutes past one. Thanks Tony let's get the latest weather with Dan Dowd's Hello again cloud continuing to build a now as we see a weather front heading eastwards bringing some outbreaks of showery rain for a time mainly liason patchy but there could be the old heavier bursts and we see the wind picking up as well coming creche or stronger later as now front clears maybe a bit of brightness to end the day with also the risk of some heavy showers temperatures today reaching around 16 or 17 degrees but it will feel cooler in those winds so blustery showers in the name of the wind becomes even stronger overnight with further showers pushing in setting us up for a rather blustery day it's a Morrow some heavy showers at times some sunny spells and feeling quite cool b.b.c. Radio sell land that kitchen garden with Rebecca Fox Hello welcome along to the 2nd I have the kitchen garden and my thanks to Rosie holiday for another busy gardeners questions. But then why if you didn't get a chance to get your question of the softening we're back again next Sunday from 12 o'clock to ex-pats in the chair next week Neal Lucas from no gardens and you'll be hearing from him very shortly and Rosie Yeomans as while. Let's. Let slip. I'll just say native New York baby sea radio Well if the full cost of done downs is anything to go by I think all hopes of an Indian summer a well and truly dodged but some of my baby behind us but that doesn't mean that Godwin's can't enjoy kind of a last such one off they might as well enjoy it a lost a wrong perhaps before the dark night stroll in while you may remember last week I went off to no gardens in Wimble to chat to us about encouraging life into a god in the simple steps we can take to make sure that happens now and of course is one of our experts on God in this question and all right just challenge as well as of now gardens whilst I was there that we didn't just chat about wildlife because I looked around and it was just. A stunning pitcher I decided to pick his brains why not make the most from what is that and talk about extending the season on what we can do to get in late summer and early or some color into the garden so we started by having a look at some of the examples of planting they've got at no gardens this for example is a native grass believe it or not this is millennia Karelia is the 2nd form called down strong but don't you think in mash like this it is just absolutely beautifully delicate purple flowers last for so long and he's great in the 2nd half of the year and it works as a perfect foil against you know the bane of an audience is ever such a common and popular plant especially so with a comma butterflies and things that we can see in front of us or over there to the right is the person carrying a beautiful plant for the garden and it's wonderful soft pink flowers there and it's also just as good for wildlife so it's a happy accident and this time of year you know late in the summer early autumn it's perfect right it is best so how long would you get a good deal of color from these one of the banners when Flower longer so I would have said from June until the frosts Percy care is probably a little bit late to July so much depends on the season this year as you will know you know the same in the millennia so we would say with a garden here we are at our best in the 2nd half of the year rather than the 1st half that isn't to say that nothing is going on but that's our extravaganza time that's when most plants are looking at their best it's the same with me better the 2nd are going to be. Now this grass that we're standing in front of it's probably almost about waist height and it's a kind of a muted purple color but it's lovely day because it sets off the brighter colors of the bay because it covers the wheat the pots I think this is it when we think about a planting a border we often think be like a sweet shop we go for a favorite you know one of these one of these one of the others putting a board to get there is no different from designing a room or anything else you need supporting acts which are things like these grasses is made. These wonderful Carver they keep the weeds down and they frame some of the pretty beautiful plants so it's plants working together that make a successful board make the garden work or not work so he it's it's a little bit scientific a little bit sort of a thought a little bit of knowledge a little bit of scale and a lot of sort of experimentation It's good fun but you do need a mix of plants that's interesting what you say about pushing together but I know we're talking about interest or some going into winter but when pushing grasses into a border is it better to have quite a few together rather than just one or 2 doses here in that we are trying to grass nurserymen so early on series that lots of grass is everywhere that's that's my ideal or my ideal landscape but getting back to a little bit of reality it's not altogether untrue because here as you can see we've probably got 15 or 20 millennia and I suppose we probably have got about the same number of the beans that have seeded around but less of the Percy carious So the smaller the plant the more you want to cover it like a fitted carpet the more of individual plants of those you choose and then you've got your accents in the important spots of color coming up through so that's definitely a really simple way to start planting or planning a border talk a so what these are in front of us here with these now I'm tempted not to describe these because last time I described something is in your garden we're still suffering from the the wolf the boy and exhibiting. All. This and he's off the pink a little more accurate big Dame Edna would love the things a little bit like him I mean this is actually beautiful this is a Sangria Sauber and it's called Pink squirrel which is absolutely beautiful and as you can see it's still very very popular with the insects and things but it's a beautiful garden plant as well and we put it behind is a bit taller a little bit flat after the rain but we put it behind a seed him you love the name of this this goes by the easy to remember name of Khalfan coastline Oh yes Paul Funk I thought I know why now that you are there you are says that it's a beautiful but again you can see that wonderful file age the fly. There is only just beginning to open and you can see the bumble bees and honey bees are attracted to just the few flowers that are already open and it's at its best this time of year so we've got our millennia and we've got our seed I'm a grass Angus or was there the front whereas the spring flowering plants that we do use still tend to be at the back so as they go to sleep for the summer the autumn ones take place so this time of year your boarders look absolutely full and at their best because we've got all the later flaring ones towards the front or in the more prominent positions. I know you're going to say yes to the answer is because you are a grass no sirree but the autumn and winter interest are they good backed with strangers to say that I think they're absolutely fabulous and the best plants ever in fact it's the deciduous group of plants of grasses that are at their peak in late summer and autumn so things like these 1000000 years again which is in 1000 form you know they're green and attractive now every single bit of this to me to stem will be a warm butter yellow boil over absolutely fabulous and they're beautiful we come around the corner here you can see some of the Miscanthus the big pink and purple plumes coming out and they will be at their best in September time October time so they are beautiful There are lots of other grasses that we know will grow in shade and evergreens which is good for year round but it's the big deciduous group Miscanthus panic comes 1000000 years that peak at this time of year in the autumn Ok I'm attracted by the one right in front of us which is kind of a vision of a Goldie yellow hates which looks brilliant now but looks like typical autumnal colors already it isn't and this is a little unusual the steeple go again to search the golden grass Spanish it lumps and it loves drawing and as you can see it actually flowers in about April time and then the flowers last until well after Christmas so it really is good it must have sun must have full sun and well drained as you can see it's an absolute I'm tempted to say vision is especially with the so. Bolting this way sailing around the grass is the main element in the design and we've got the little scabious which as you can see is so popular with the butterflies and bays around it making I think a nice simple picture again a lot we set September October best time to come and see the garden if I think that's the peak Yes I mean best in the 2nd half that September October is when we have all our classes and things and I would have said with the autumn color from the woody plants and all that then that is the time bit of sunshine it's my favorite time of year to be in the garden playing and that's New only because from no gardens he's going to be on guard next questions next week as one of our experts alongside Rosie Yeomans and I discovered crosses a few years ago actually going to know gardens and seeing grasses in conjunction with the plants plants and in the border perhaps as a support act I'm really just appreciating the unlight Rosie Hardy was saying out of that beautiful movement that they gave you in the borders in the so many different kind of subtle Shay and you have to go some I suppose knoll or other gardens in the area to appreciate them in a punting ski but no no nail will be back on the show next week you're listening to the kitchen garden on baby radio so the 1st part of the program we always have gotten is questions with an expert helping you through your gardening Di Lammas in the 2nd part of the shadow I basically got Jane the We Can I record interviews from kitchens from gardens across the south and then bring them back it not you just heard from Neil Lucas but very shortly we're going to be stepping into the kitchen and if you've ever wanted to know how to cook the path ect Chuen a steak stay that. Standard with a little of the softening looking cool just not softer they've been for a run. It's just not fat is it wild on her body who took part in the soft name now we're going to talk about China because when it comes it's a great link isn't running to chew Now how did you get out and now it's no easy when it comes to chew you know that not all equally cavity that's Tinchy you know that's fresh tuna and then quite frankly that is the Rolls Royce of cheap sushi great she now Catarina from the lemon and so quickly school runs lots of cookery shops when it comes to cooking fish and she went to in particular she is a woman on a mission now if you're more of a Macy to than a fish I promise you this next day which is see. You know with ginger chili and soy sauce to satisfy even the most committed of meat eaters and she should know because she's married to a butcher after the nice long of 2 Now this tonight is actually sushi sashimi grade and he'd say you could eat a dollar in for examples of what I said but today I'm going to. Be made to eat for about 30 minutes and then I'm going to see arrayed in them. And would just want to explain step by step how to cook tuna properly because I didn't always have a good experience even to memorize restaurants that they cooked it's properly it can get really really dry or it can be totally cooked and cold inside as well so you have to have the very templates and be very careful how to cook this these sort of peas will be probably about $28.00 pounds a key low wow and with it sort of the equivalent of Philip steak in the to know world it is totally Yeah so we're going to crack on with the marinade Yeah we have their chili fly there so yes there and juice of one lime we have a little bit of sugar in here may rain which is there Japanese seasoning if you don't have Marian because sometimes even I find it difficult to find it in the supermarket you could use Sherry and soy sauce I'm sesame oil so you have nice Asian flavors going out around I mean generally to you and oily face they go of the Asian flavors are nice robust flavors and course the advantage of using Sherry is you can have a glass of sherry West or doing it. All the time in the morning oh I don't know Sherry o'clock at any time Ok And how long is that going to sit in the marinate for for 30 minutes could you marinate overnight or would that be too much it would be a little bit too much Yeah well that's a lovely dark color isn't it does it smell like last minute. A little bit you had me we need to drop a sherry in that Catarina. I book the mayor I mean they're all right. With that sit there relax for half an hour and then we'll come back to it the tunas been marinating for about Hoffer Now what's the next stage Catarina Now the next day is to Pat dried the tuna and already sitting in that marinade has changed the color of it slightly It looks a little bit darker do you think it did also because we've got some lime tools in that and the acid in lime is cooking it slightly and I've got a great deal. And I want to make sure the palm is the really really hot so I'm going to add a little bit of oil what do you want to do it's cold sea air to you unless you are doing is see a need from the outside and if you like it sort of like rather than you want to cook it's one minute on each side if you like it side of medium rather than it's 2 minutes and if you like it sort of medium to well damn it's 30 minutes but the you don't really do it more than 30 minutes the thing that worries me about cooking fish and I'm sure it does lots of people is making sure that it's cooked enough but like you said it doesn't get drawn Well tonight is a different type of face because it is meant to be sort of slightly row in the middle anyway so bring. It. On could also press it down so it's going that the heat is going to be evenly throughout the face so you've got some lovely coloration on that's already so you can see in the middle you can still see the bowl line than so this is. Going to take it out and what I'm going to do is also heed the Magic 8. To give. Me. And then we can use the modern age. On the top of the face the lovely quick dish to do is now an Emmy and a feast these should be down on the 30 minutes from going to what I'm doing here with this Souls is trying to make it sort of like see about become 16 I think and that I'm going to put it over the face wow this is a trait I've never had this type of sharing of role and the soul sold off is lovely and kind of see and you cut into that which wound the thickness of. A so nice. Chinos I've never tasted before so different this and that and I love that side of Sweden Sallah line me slightly to see a leaf live all together they just. It tastes so good and it's good for you as well meat doesn't get much better as a and it's quick to make as well. It's a win win not catch a marina from the lemon and soul. The radio so. Let's check on the road to Vicky Carter has the latest hi Vicki high on the roads and back cross Ringwood road is stop start both directions in between long and back west roundabout and then action to the a 31 is heavy westbound queues begin from bland food road and continue past many roundabout up to convert Magna and Dorchester the a 35 eastbound before monkeys jump roundabout if you spot a thing else on the roads I haven't mentioned then give us a cool more in half an hour. B.b.c. Radio silence travel hotline 03453046 while. This week on stereo underground am a bit of punk rock as our history in the us is to read all. 3 tracks from the massive backlog was 2 hours of indie classics and. Stereo underground from 6 b.b.c. Radio silence. a new shadowy right I'm afraid the old heavy best possible and it will become increasingly windy especially across Hampshire highs this afternoon of 17 Celsius then tonight blustery showers this evening are going to die away for a time overnight with clear spells developing but it will remain windy with the showers a likely by door on lows tonight getting down to 10 Celsius then Monday tomorrow as we return to work and school while some sunny spells throughout the day but blustery will develop and these will be locally heavy and sundry winds will remain strong making it feel much cooler than the 18 Celsius it's going to be tomorrow yeah outlook for Tuesday through Thursday Sunny's bason shots are expected on cheese day but these will be few I'm lighter than Monday there will be heavy rain and strengthening weans overnight clearing to leave Wednesday and Thursday breezy with sunshine and showers. Sign up and become a weather watch out go online to the b.b.c. Don't you can say where to watch it. Now in just a moment I have an announcement from the hailing Island Horticultural Society don't let me forget to do that so you were birds. Are now. Gone past that down there they not got to you know to. People who say things. Yeah a lot so there does seem to be a bit of a trend lots of people you know have little ones that get to about 7 maybe 10 and then they start again. No You know as much as I love my boys and I do did they all say there's no I was old. I quite like the sleep you know and a bit of independence here and there I'm getting to like that you know if they get that little bit I think I can leave them to play for a while without constantly worrying whether that picking something off the floor and eating it. Up objects and I know I've been through the Yeah Yeah so no that isn't like you know me too I know you can't wait for 2 o'clock. Because I pick him Kitty we celebrate 3 years for a look yeah so I'm going to give you a quiz Ok Just you go for it now hang on last week I got a hat trick yeah you silly little smug look on new fires only because I was there you have Mike Green all it now that's very wrong if you to issue the reason I got those right was because I had pre-knowledge job to get. On that alright we get on cartridge September of this year yeah. Yeah if you call of. Damon Hill Oh I love Damon Hell I call that the others may know him turn them down the whole room yes both of those guys September Well you know you and color until you remove the label born of September of this year can I just take him to ponder call him fathers' my. Phone to. Be blunt about he's quite nice isn't a Obviously not as nice as the current Mr Jennings is going to be on the result of let go of those silly Look I do of your eyes I think I might actually be blushing so born in September it's a very good mon September to be bone and. I can't think how it's a 60. 4. No it is 64 years yes 960 odd that they really saw them all quite. Yes but they look good on and say. Yeah yeah I'll be a bronze are available I got that wrong. Jeffrey Archer his 1st novel not a penny more all of a penny less published portion was. I guess a Christie's last published novel The final Miss Marple stories leaping murder now I love the 1st year of real Yeah last Miss Marple story I can't wait to see the new murder on the Orient Express film comes out later this year oh I didn't know all that now who is it that plays Accu pile it's. Kind of brown. Oh may I just kind of be on a fantastic cost side looking forward to that. And I love Agatha Christie love moton So what do you. Get. 70. 6. Spoto Oh. Now we're going to do it for the final year just because such a for merely R.'s 3. September of my 3rd and final year of the passing of Laura are surely. 80 obviously you know the beginning of the eighty's mid eighty's. I'm going to say 88 no. One now 3 ain't bad but you know leaving such a legacy Yeah yeah. Richard's been a delight as ever especially interesting for me because no no you fancy call him for yeah but Brando seems to like you're right. Now compared to they say laughter is the best medicine video recorders always. On the Record the day after that happened somebody came and said. That and I thought it was the only shame we had we had so I said well I'll bring it round about a little piece of up and. Bring it. Tomorrow night from 10 to have a laugh with a b.b.c. The Temptations get write a. Specially for Kenneth Brown and. I'd say Damon Hill but he's probably just he falls to me to cut him. Do you think Colin and Ken have a garden they'd like me to come in I don't mind I come round record a little few we can tip toe through the ornamental grasses I mean basically I'd be doing it for you because you know I do anything for you in this program it's just a thought but Mike touch Now listen Hayling Island Horticultural Society has been in touch Well Bill has he's asked me if I can do a little announcement for my be delighted bill because they've had to cancel their monthly talk it was due to be on the 20th of September they had to cancel Jeter unforeseen circumstances and Bill said to me look we've put posters up in and around hailing and we put details on social media but I'm really worried that not everybody knows about it so please would you announce on a not a problem Bill they get 20th of September heading on and monthly talk canceled and if in fact you've got something you'd like me to announce when I had to do with your horticultural gardening society it's not a problem just get in touch drop me an email the kitchen garden at b.b.c. Don't have to catch a there is a talk coming up there which I know you'll be interested in it sounds great and actually see if I can go long fingers crossed the next talk they're going to doing is an evening with Pippa Greenwood at the Community Center 18th of October 7th us in the evening tickets a 4 pounds for members and 5 pounds for known members give you the phone number to call which is 023-924-6194 extension 2 appreciate a given you enough nurses have I to make a note of that phone number if I can squeeze it in again before the end of the program I will equally they've got a really good website that you can go to inhaling Island Horticultural Society is one of those groups is doing really well in terms of their members I know lots of horticultural groups does a struggle rather sorry to keep up the membership numbers but they're doing incredibly well growing all the time I just come on the kitchen garden this afternoon we are going to be stepping on to the end. Trying to fill. 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To a forward slash radio silent and it's that feed to download right now at the moment we're going to be stepping on to the allotment with Rosie Emma's this is part of our allotment series where we go off and we visit her last moment narry sleigh every couple weeks just to see how things are progressing what's worked well what hasn't worked well and to glean as many grow your own tips as we can from her rosy omens you may know is one of our experts on gardeners questions she's a gardening right at Electra and she's been keeping an allotment for the last 20 years now as a mom of 2 boys I thought I knew all about the hungry gap because it's constant it's expensive and it's rarely failed unless of course you are talking about the hungry gap on the allotment Well I started by asking Rosie what the hungry gap is and how to fetch it so the hungry gap is the period between about February and April maybe beginning of May and that's when. You're preparing the allotment says an awful lot going on for the next season's growth so you're sowing and and clearing and making sure that everything's ready to go but there's not an awful lot left to harvest so your stored material might still be getting things like potatoes squash but they will also be one of 2 crops that you can grow right now that will keep you going through that period of time and so if you for example grow precipice you might be growing cabbages through the summer or you could be grain winter cabbages those have really good at sitting until that time but they may well as the days lengthen suddenly get into flower or bolt and so if you put young plants in now I've got plants that are so did in July that I've planted out now and they look quite young they're about 30 centimeters Hajji that sort of size now and those will Wolf into growth after Christmas and as the that they've got about forward in another 4 weeks of growth now the one thing to growth after Christmas is the days begin to get longer and then they'll provide me a crop of early sprouting I've grown flower sprouts you know the kale sprout hybrid those little offsets will produce really good brassica greens for me at that period and also Kale is a real banker do you don't want to put on too much growth now in case we have this lovely Indian summer that everyone keeps promising or does it not matter well some will try and go into growth and in which case you just keep nipping mouth and eating them early but no as long as your plants are young enough now you'll get a good crop in the spring there are some things that you're ready to harvest almost now so we're going to talk about squashes and color shots because I've been impressed with your range of squashes that you've got here is this the 1st bunch of squashes we've got here know this but I'm not squashed down there and then this one is a hybrid so it's called often crown right. A taste of this it's a hybrid between a button up squash and I think Turkish cups that's a flat shape really not this one and it's also a good story and it's ready to harvest now or is that going to be ready later on in the air if I if I wanted to clear this right now I could I don't think I need to because I think you know September is often quite a warm month and if we get more sunshine they're better at being stored so the more sun the skins of the squash get the harder they become and if that's the case they'll store better so the softer the skins the less time lost or let's wander up the back of the plot now because I wanted to have a look at your very impressive. Because I couldn't believe the color of the phone on one of the leaves or a really bright green lush color and I said she was that down to what you've been feeding that Rosie and I mean with this is quite fertile ground here but it's it's not because just like the beans I don't feed the cortex after they've really got going at this time of year there's no point it's a bit like you know everything slowing down and beginning to die back to News and you don't want to start feeding something that you know going in the opposite directions would be a waste of time to do that so it's just it's just invigorated by its growing conditions and if it down to the variety as well the variety is definitely make a difference and the amount of room it has the amount of light it has what about storing your core Schatz and your squashes do they both store equally as well you know cautious don't store very volatile so they're the sort of thing that you pick as often as possible when they're quite small again there's no point in picking really big ones although some you know even you got to turn round and one will have turned into tomorrow before you know it but if you pick them small How brilliant is that because you know when you when you resort to having to buy them you usually get in them when they're out of condition they were seeds formed in the middle so I would pick them often and keep them in the fridge. A few days I've got some that I picked the other day and I'm looking at that one thinking I really should pick those 2 there and take them back so course that you have to 8 when you pick them or try them into a chuck they'll do something delicious like that to other into Ratatouille storing squashes we talked about storing potatoes last week what's the best way of storing squashes what exactly the same technique with school she put them somewhere cool dark and with no moisture in the air so as areas possible but they also improve enormously if you allow the Skins to harden and so for that you get them cut and stick them in the sunshine for a few days and that really helps to harden skin Ok Well we're going to head off now I think the heavens are about to open which I know the allotment is going to appreciate but we might not appreciate quite so much Rosie thanks very much it's a floater we timed that just right literally before it would have drenched us that's Rosie Yeomans one of our experts on gardeners questions of course and a contributor on the plot and if you want to go back and listen to any of the episodes that we've done on the plot you can do that on a website and they stay there indefinitely so you can go back and listen whenever you like just head to b.b.c. 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Now begin from East End and continue past muddy roundabout and up confit Magna and in Dorchester the a $35.00 is still slow eastbound before monkeys jump around about public transport and Southwest and railway there's a revised service with some services starting and 10 aging at different stations due to engineering works so you check before you travel if you spot anything else on the roads I haven't mentioned. More in half an hour. Radio travel hotline. And if you want the phone number for those tickets for the pipa Greenwood's talk to Hayling Island Horticultural Society Get a pen now I'll give you the number in just a moment. Ok so that's it this week for the kitchen garden my thanks to Rosie Hardy for all your gardening questions. We want to hot to . 2 more experts in the chair for you next week Neil Lucas of no gardens and Rosie Yeomans is going to be here. You can get in touch throughout the week you don't have to wait until Sunday. I know sometimes in weeks to. 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T.v. Drama hour. Day from b.b.c. Radio one time Helen day and a special mass has been held in Boston a night one of the victims of the terror attacks in the city and the neighboring resort of Cambray also a message of solidarity from the pay process was read out at the service place in the council and region have conducted further searches and the American man suspected of marrying down pedestrians with a van in Central Park Lane on Thursday Margaret Gilmore from the Royal United Services Institute says it's unusual that the terrorist cell managed to keep themselves off the radar establish themselves as very mainstream ordinary on Face Book going out with girls leading a fairly westernized life and underneath it all it seems that they have been leading almost like a 2nd double life and. Something they've been doing intentionally so that they don't draw attention to themselves Meanwhile the Australian Government has published advice on countering vehicle terror attacks in public places the report commissioned after nice was touted last year suggested the installation of bollards fencing and c.c.t.v. Cameras to slow down fake hos. A man's been taken to hospital with serious injuries following an accident on a 31 at cadmium Eva night the road approaching junction one of the m 27 was closed for 5 hours one emergency services attended the scene it's not thought any other vehicles were involved groups representing the elderly have welcomed government Mase to tighten the restrictions on cold call is he trying to defraud people of their pensions those found guilty could face fines of up to half a 1000000 pounds for contacting older people without prior permission the band willing to read emails and text Jane vast from the charity h.u.k. Says the measures might not eradicate scumming it's a very well 1st step but it's not going to be the silver bullet and we don't as yet have a start date for it we know however the scammers are pretty convincing and as soon as one is parked they move on to another but seeing stars through the ages will be celebrated in Portsmouth today as a memorial is unveiled in their honor it's been created to commemorate the men and their families who have been involved in the sport in the city Speaking ahead of the unveiling Portsmouth boxing writer and expert Andrew fairly He's been a part of the project said he's not surprised by the city's success in the sport but has always been a working class sport we've always had this great tradition about some of them. And I suppose a large you know as well I mean we're pretty much a fight in city you know I mean for hundreds of years we sent men to war and as a consequence you know perhaps it's all supply and we produced so many quite fighting men a project to reintroduce water evolves into a river in hunch is proving successful since 2013 every 2500 waterfalls have been released into the rhythm me on after the mammals became extinct in the area Elena which is the lead Twain joint South Downs national park she told us what was done in preparation for the waterfalls Ranger prepaid habitat suitability 7. 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You know it's raising all in for a Beca on the kitching golden soft inning lovely and sunny on the side plenty of scope for gardening my guest my expert this afternoon is Allan Edmonson owner of bow cult garden design in Lymington he was here last week obviously didn't put him off to so he's come back which is good news yes indeed him for a 2nd How's your week been busy Yes very busy out in Brighton given a talk rubbish long haul but still it's all good fun and perfect growing others in the forecast as the saying yeah warm day bit of rain at night the perfect that's what we're about to have a full weather forecast for you at half past but let's crack on with the questions this afternoon and as always we start with a garden at the opening softening for the National Garden Scheme we heard earlier program a chap called Michael he's opening his garden in Broadstone in Dorset today and tomorrow and although I'm sure he's very knowledgeable he did have some a question he wanted to put you Allan a problem with a particular plant Let's hear that question we've been managed to. 3. We've been here a flower well but the leaves turn very yellow we've been using Epsom salts to create a limited success. But we look at the see if anyone can suggest something which might give us a better result Seibert months the leaves a going yellow he's obviously trying something and had a little bit of the result that themselves but is there anything else he could do really the option shelter magnesia optional fate so that will correct a magnesium deficiency which will cause a yellowing of the leaf but it could be caused by a deficiency of violence as well Ok and so it may be worthwhile applying sequestering which you can buy from the garden center which. Is a form of I am that the plant can take up fave readily could it's a nice soluble form it doesn't get locked up in alkaline soil for example we're not showing normally does you know I think of taking on for myself but haven't really thought about with plants Oh yes good for us all yeah and it can be a problem. You often see with comedians and rhododendrons which like a mouse a Cherry Yeah and if you've got them. Sort of that is a little bit limey little bit out of line then the iron in the short will get locked up as in chargeable compounds right and so the plant can shake it up and the net effect is it stops forming chlorophyll as well as it should and of course chlorophyll is responsible for the Green Yeah in the in the leaf and so the leaf goes yellow Ok I said I So it may be well worth while Michael gives a dose of sequestered it's it's not the cheapest product but it's a good product I'm carrying All right Michael I hope that helps Michael is opening his garden 10 close in Broadstone this afternoon if you want to go and have a look sounds like a beautiful garden I've only been there a couple years but it sounds like got a lot they've been busy let's put it that way in the last couple years so lovely garden to go and visit Now don't forget if you want to get your question in you can call us on i 345303961 Lina is taking your calls you can text us text the word silent 81 triple 3 or email the kitchen garden b.b.c. . And you can do that all week and I can collect them at the weekend so any time you think of a question a burning question just drop an email to the kitchen garden at b.b.c. Dakota u.k. One such person is Eve on the Isle of Wight even like now she says she's asking when is the best time to prune my 14 year old hibiscus and also what's the best feed to use. A business should be a flower now it may just be going over. For a young plant I know this isn't too young from her for a young plant pruning is not really necessary but it's just a 1st shrub and if it's getting too big for 55 then I would prune it assoon as the flowers are finished so that is any time now I wouldn't feed it now. I would say that until the spring it's not a good general fertilizer something like grow more can be scattered on the soil and if it doesn't rain in the next couple of days after you've applied it then water it in by Ok but not usually a difficult shrub to cope with now so you'd hope that a little bit of help should have a good effect yes but I wouldn't prune it annually right is no need. All right even hope that helps Caroline's also been in touch on the e-mail and she's gone from with run a big things now you tend to think they're really easy to grow they're in abundance I know my mother and father in law have tons on their allotment and we keep getting getting back full so far. Anyway Caroline's been in touch she says they're coming through very slowly so we get not many things a toll in fact only about enough for a meal or 2 every 5 days which for run a begins doesn't sound like a lot she says usually we're inundated but now I'm not sure what the problem is just to add to the humor of it her grandsons who are $8.10 love grannies beans so this is extra pressure. But there are none to speak of usually masses of flowers lots of babies around but no beings that lots of bees know beings were wondering is the wind a factor could they be blowing the flowers off before the bin stunt I doubt if it's the wind. I want to show from what Carolina said that is how well it is flowering Yeah I did she said usually how you want your flowers oh no hang on to put beg your pardon. And I see she's saying there are masses of flowers right Ok But no things it's so so it's a lack of pollination Yeah if we've got the flowers we ought to be getting the beans yeah now encounter large particular area it may be that there is a shortage of peace about a mile back from the sea she says that's when she's not going to you know you run a binge will grow that far back yeah so what I would suggest is we do the job of the Bee In other words we pollinate the flowers and yeah and one way of doing that is get a normal garden spread here the fine of the spray the better and just spray the inside of the flowers with a fine spray of water. And what that does if it works is it dislodge is. The pollen I'm pollinates the flowers. Ok it's not Caroline it's not the 1st person I've had who has had problems with pollination of the run of beans and it may be that spell a very hot dry weather that we had I know that's a good few weeks back yeah. That the pollen wasn't ripening properly Ok but we should be past that now because April has been far too old this has been far cooler Yeah and so we should be getting pollination so I think it's worthwhile to try to find spray of water into the flower Ok that's a good the helping hand Caroline hope that helps let us know how about guys and that would be interested tonight to give us an update right let's go to the fines now and Allan from Watford is on the line now Allan Good afternoon to you you've got a problem with them all times yes Kelley probably growing tomatoes in ring culture and right going to Mozart and. Tomato on one plant one on each plant fronts look drawing out. Going yellow. But you're keeping them well watered are you oh yeah I got Rinko Tzschirner there's a tiny water in the basement bottom in there that's for water yeah. I just wonder. How often do you feed the Mylan. Once a week and I'll use a high potash feed. Yeah which is a high potash feed I'd be tempted just to change the feed and get Try and more balanced feed one that's got a bit more nitrogen in. Because at the time a light is high potash normally does a good job in promoting the fruiting and the flowering but it could just be that's you're suffering from a bit of a nitrogen deficiency. And so I try to a more balanced fair to larger culture the garden center and look at the box is a fertilizer it gives you 3 numbers. Which come in they all that the percentage of nitrogen the percentage of phosphorus and the percentage of potassium and ideally I would choose just for the next 2 or 3 weeks one that is got more nitrogen in than the charm right so if the 3 numbers are 777 that would be ideal. Of 7 seventh's that's the key you want to look out for 3 Well that's a nice balance feed. And it's just got more nitrogen and a higher percentage of nitrogen in that the trauma I just probably got your kind. Are I Alan good to as a trial Well actually good luck Yeah because you want to enjoy tomatoes as nothing more frustrating than you can see in there and this is the problem and you want to get eating those tomatoes Yeah the ship recovering well now yeah that's it good luck with that Allan stay in touch and let us know how it goes Mickey now is on the line in Stockbridge now good afternoon to you Mickey Oh hello there nice to hear from you now you've got a question regarding an asparagus Yes I know that by I am going to have to move some established. Asparagus plant right now I'd like the best kind and the best sort of weather conditions in which I should be getting ready to move in successfully. I think if it's convenient I would leave them where they are for the winter right. Now that I have a deadline I need to leave before the middle of next March. That's going to be fine I think about it because I was going to suggest that you do it at the end of the winter oh right Ok And so they've died down the dome and they'll just be thinking about stocks and into growth Yeah about the end of February they really are and that would be a good time to move them. And I should I gave you my normal program of question and the from when they can yes I yes cut down the fronts tidy up the bed don't leave any debris lying around because you don't want to attract asparagus Beetle you know quite so keep the bad nice and clean when you cut the stems down can I just when I. Obviously I will. Bet it's one of my kind that is that kind of yeah that's actually quite good should I be warming the slit up with incautious 1st of all. It's not just sensual you could do but it's not a shen chill but I wouldn't clump them heavily in the 1st year right thank you yes especially in a particular plant Yeah I would like to see them get established before you crop them heavily but all means take a few sticks you go in to be a bit bold if you comes so pull a few stations cut a few stakes but don't crop as heavily as you know many would I can and should i could anything it when I recall them at the beginning of the year should I push any seed in or not. I would. Are you going to do them on a little mound if I am right at the level with the normal short also a few inches down from the top of the mound Yeah I would put a handful of blood fish in both excellent brilliant thank you very much yourself and me did you get a good crop this year did you see this yet not last year it was unbelievable. It wasn't quite as good and although that's based the 3 different varieties that 3 different stages they all came. In knowing so did you when you had a lot of problems through it which is not a bad thing really well yeah there comes a time. Well for it I'll make you I hope that helps greatly and thank you very much thanks for your call that was I mean that in Stockbridge with asparagus of lovely but I do like all you can change simply drizzle a lemon and a bit about oh I don't have I mean. Let's move on to Bob or import Smiths Now Barbara you were a bit of a fan of sweet peas you know growing them but you like to try and get hold of some is not right Oh I think of last year where are you. Going to my oval office Barbara Barbara we will try and come back to you in a few moments time let's all right sorry beg your pardon Barbara just called he'd got in touch so she's not here on the line with us but she's also going where can she find sweet peas she loves the smell she wants cut sweet peas I mean I guess unless you know somebody happened to grow them on I'm not mental. Would you have any tips there aren't you know anywhere where you could get hold of them cut. So you do see them outside cottage cage don't you yeah because the one thing about 3 pieces you've got to keep cuts in them yeah otherwise they stop flowering Yes they run up to seed. But it's not the normal cut flower that you're trying to enter a flower shop so I think go a little ride in the country and hope you've passed somebody else and also they don't keep the massively long time to that you know no no a few days on their days that I don't which is why the flourish don't stop them I'm quite lucky my mother in no grays among our lot mint and certainly last summer I had pretty much a fresh b.k. Every wait it was thumping there is probably no better you have time you will yeah until golden It simply is a cup flower is fantastic Deborah perfect on the allotment Yeah and you know if you want to extend your season then sow the seed in October Yeah Ok good don't wait till the spring gold in the autumn keep them in a cold frame over the winter Yeah and then you can you're off to a good start next year Ok Christine from the Isle of Wight Seaview in the out of what has been in touch now last week we're talking about fuchsias she's asking Can she splits and move lady Boothby big beefy show she has quite a lot of those what would you say can she split movement is now that time will do you wait if Christine is going to propagate her Lady Boothby I would do it by cuttings every time Ok and now is a perfect time to take the cuttings fuchsia cuttings are absolutely dead easy to reach so all all she needs is a chute of the plants. Ideally one that hasn't got a flower on the end. Cut that off you didn't do them an inch long but let's be play a bit safer say a 3 inch long cutting cut below the leafnode pull off the bottom leaves the actually root if you put them just in a little vase or water while the birds are put them in a mixture of seed compost and perlite the looting a couple of weeks. Christine can have as many late as shed right. For listeners who don't know the variety lady blues because it's often called a climbing fuchsia now it's not a climb or a troll but it is a tall growing fuchsia that is very good ruling against walls and fences Yeah Ok sounds like a lovely variety so good luck with that Christine don't forget if you've got a question you want to put Al in the soft inning you can get in touch just before 5303961 lean is taking your calls you can also text your question to 81 triple 3 start your work message with the word silent or email the kitchen garden b.b.c. U.k. Christine was asking for sneaky 2nd question there so we had the question about Lady Boothby future she's also now we might have a did have to have a disclaimer with this. She says she has a badly leaning Mimosa tree and now it's about 15 foot tall. What are the roots like is it likely to fall well we're. Going to be careful about what we say here but. Yet what all the root would you have knowledge of what's going on underneath are they likely to be big groups that well the problem is. Have the Reach got damaged you know how the tree being blown over by gales and some of the roots of snapped Yeah now there's no way here in the studio that we can say that one way or the other yeah if it is a really badly you know it it depends where it's going to fall it's going to fall on next year and next door's greenhouse and I'm a little bit concerned I'm even more concerned if it's going to fall how much Yeah so it's a bit difficult for us to comment here yeah but if in doubt. Replace it because the one thing about Moshe trees is they grow quickly Ok yeah and so you soon buy a new one and they're worth having because they flower show early in the year and they do grow quickly it may just be that this tree was not staked in a charity days and elderly Yeah but we don't know that to be short of details I see my neighbors have quite a leaning eucalyptus I mean it's actually stunning but it really does lane I mean would you think a lot of the same case for as well. We are responsible for the trees that are growing in our garden. And if you are told concerned about the health of your tree then you should take professional advice from a tree surgeon Yeah and you don't want that wait a responsible way on your mind as Patel he when you get really windy you know spells in the winter autumn winter and spring you want to wake up about 2 o'clock in the morning and exploring a careless Oman memo show. We don't want that live with out there now Liz I just want to mention Liz She's been in touch in the email lists are we really want to help you however you might need to re century now because we didn't get your attachment you were in touch asking about scented flowers she wanted to identify flower in a new mix to border and she wanted some advice on how she could protect it but I'm afraid we're a bit blank because we need the picture so Liz if you want to try and send e-mail again to the kitchen garden at b.b.c. U.k. Still plenty of time to get your questions into Alan 345383961. Just want to get rid of the music there we go there was your update we'll have another travel update for you 5 to you and in a moment we'll take a look at the weather and just see how it's looking for this week I got high hopes I think it's going to be some good gardening weather on the way it's often one this week in fact right let's go back to all questions this often noon now this is another question regarding identification calling from Bournemouth has sent us a couple of pictures and have to describe them for the listeners but one plant he was out walking saw a plant going along alongside a writing desk pulled shade. Near a cliff top in bold math it looks abundant very great green foliage almost kind of palm like leaves but he's keen to know what it is and wondered if he might not occur to him cells What do you think. Only check. The leaves are absolute one another that is you know are opposite one another on the start of each them on there's one true 3 for them and there's 19 leaflets on each step which roughly the shape of a willow leaf Yeah. It's got a nice colorful change in that this the shorter of blown She colored stamp and the new foliage just got a branch tinge as well. Would I grow it in my garden note right. Why this is a plant known as a rich r.h. Us can and will be rushed I feel that sometimes called the tree why wouldn't I grow it in my own garden because the foliage She's very attractive it's suckers right and this is almost certainly a shock from a more mature plant growing somewhere else it is a tree yeah it's not the largest of trees but it is a tree attractive foliage the heads of flowers which is sort of a ready Brown to my eyes not particularly attractive Yeah but you know if you plant this in a bed then you stuck it in the suckers in the law and it could end up being more trouble than it's worth and there were better trees yeah that's the thing if you're out and about and you see something about it's great then sometimes it's best left there you know it in the wild and in your garden in mind that might cause more problems than Yes Ok Colleen also mentioned another thing he spoke he's often out and about. Calling has said there's another picture of a tree. Now the bottom part of the the tree in the bark is heavily grooved and then suddenly that stops and the rest of the ball going up the trunk Well there is no bark you know the rest of the trunk is smooth and bad. Has no idea what kind of species that tree is and I said I looked it I thought well what could cause what's happened yeah what we've got I guess what 2 and a half 3 feet from the ground is a band. Certainly round off the trunk and presumably around the other half in the trunk is about. 18 inches in diameter and that bandish down leached Now my guess is that this tree has been planted at some time and immediately state. And what often happens is that developers plant the trees they stake them and then nobody inspects them as to how how the t'ai of the next one to this day is behaving and of course as the trunk grows the tie gets tighter and tighter Yeah and it cuts into the bark right and then one of 2 things can happen if it completely wring barks the tree so it creates the damage all the way around the trunk it will kill the tree. What it looks as though has happened here is either before that has happened the tire snapped all what may have happened is that the bark of the tree has grown over the top I write and so if you wish board a little bit more you might see bits of the tag where they are now on of. The rest of the tree looks healthy Yes they do you know so I think it's survived yeah but it needs somebody just to keep an eye on it because if that was a wire Yeah and they sometimes say it's cutting further and further into the tree yeah can cause a lot of damage Yes Yeah like I said that is your explanation Colin I look forward to finding out why you've been milking out about well it's Instead you just say that because if Colin is walking out and about yeah there was a particularly in Bournemouth there was something to keep an eye open because I had a moth a fly him off in my Garden on Friday that he's new to the garden while. And this is a Tiger Moth but he's a jersey Tiger. Now 10 years ago we'd have all been excited out of our minds at seeing a jersey tiger in Hampshire Yeah as its name suggests it's a moth that originates from the Channel Islands make it colonized normal and then a few years ago it moved up the coast and the want to colonies in the Alawite Well I can now what I think has happened in this last week is there's been an inundation of just the tiger was because I've had other people have had them yeah and there's more likely to be on the coastal fringe. Of the soul and whether they've come over from the island or immigrants continental Europe or the Channel Islands I don't know but it's a super looking muff and so if we see in our gardens and I'm talking now to people on the Hampshire coast keep your eyes open it's a very prominent moth and what it was she went at rest it black and white line it's a jet black background to the wing with a nice white pattern on when it flies you'll get an an orange red flash I sound stoned and off I'll be looking in my garden a softer name to do now we've got lots of calls to get through I'm just going to quickly take a look at the weather so bear with me and we'll get to those calls. With Julian playing tomorrow the pioneering technology that's arrived at one hospital in the south to save lives and we're also on a global adventure following the World Famous Clipper race that's back on the high seas. Back at 630 tomorrow. B.c. Radio silent. Now I was hoping to have a nice little bit of music there but it doesn't matter let's just have a quick look at the weather the rest of today is going to be cloudy this afternoon some rain could arrive later highs of 20 degree Celsius that $68.00 degrees Fahrenheit this evening in tonight they could be some rain light at 1st and then becoming heavier lows of 14 degree Celsius now Monday the rain should ease towards dawn giving a cloudy start perhaps with the old spot of drizzle However some brightest spells a possible and it will feel warm and humid in light winds highs of 20 degree Celsius tomorrow 72 degrees Fahrenheit the outlook for Tuesday to Thursday choose days looking pretty warm and humid but mostly Condie with some brought to spells it's still going to feel muggy overnight before some fresher conditions and sunny spells move in on Wednesday sunny spells on Thursday as well with some isolated showers at the coastal waters forecast will sell. Built Lyme Regis The wind is west 30 full backing Southall Southwest 4 or 5 occasionally 6 for a time later the visibility is good becoming moderate to very poor later and the sea state is slight becoming slight will moderate later on and I'll have another forecast for you in an hour's time right now we need to get to the phones because you've been getting in touch and I think we have we may have a question here another question regarding fuchsias David in West wintering get off to name. Nothing yet so what seems to be the what's what's the problem well I think we're in serious for many years they're all in flower but the past few weeks their own not so not at the end already time not at the flower at the top not open them up on this insanity creepy called a 7 but I just wonder what the problem was yes you won't see the creepy crawly day reduced microscopic It's known as the few should go all March and is becoming a major major passion of fuchsias. And it's a tiny little insect that bites into the growing chip which is why all the damage is done right out on the end of the tip where the flowers are going to fall. The plant reacts by becoming all distorted and the flowers don't develop properly. You are not alone though. Because as part of our business we go in a lot of people's gardens and in the last 2 or 3 weeks have seen so much of future goal might damage. It seems to be a bad bad year for it now the question now follows what can you do about temp and unfortunately the answer is not a lot. You know you could cut off the damage tips go back a good few inches and see what happens but my guess is you will it will simply come back. And a lot of people giving up I don't know sound pessimistic but I am sound pessimistic a lot of people grew up giving up growing fuchsias because of this the shame is now it's a major major problem there's nothing you can spray it with well right now they have been growing up for about 50 years or so this is the 1st time this has happened you've done well David really that this is the 1st year you've had it it is. David Well sorry to hear that so I mean I'm hoping there's some chink of light. Well. The whole to cultural trade aware of the problem yeah I'm working to try I may well get a spray Yeah Bella but by the time these sprays a licensed and that because this strong regulation over the years. Yeah I did damage may be may be done but it's a past has come into this country I suppose 10 right 12 years ago David Sorry about that so I won't think of course next year we would have things crossed Yeah let's be positive if you're going to try and keep you know future of these hardy fuchsias a half hour to you David better already once Yeah Ok then what I would do is cut them back very hard at the end of the year right and make sure all the old leaf taking away. Right yes but don't come possum whatever you do and when you've cut the fuchsias right down really hard. Put a good thick mulch around them of garden calm pasta or something like that right and you may be lucky next year but it has been a major problem in the last few weeks All right well I'm keeping my thing is crossed for next year I'm Martin Savidge thank you for your help No problem thank you for getting in touch that they've been with which ring Barbara and I. Michael they're all being very patient waiting on the line but 1st let's go to lezzie new Milton he's got a got a question regarding cuttings less Yes good afternoon same not a financial Yes it's about cutting my head is a getting a bit so we say I can't and I've all I know it's expensive to buy new plants to put in but they're basically I've got a lot of whips coming out from the base of the bay tree that's 3 or 4 foot long and I want to go over the best time to do those and level cuttings. This I would have said to them about a month ago ideally last but there's nothing to be lost by doing it Chef The name all right. And what's the best medium for them to put it put them into do they need to get rooting hormone at all. Yes I would give them some room to homeowners not to Shenzhen and then insert them into I would be tempted to use a seed compost Yeah with about a 3rd pair litle horticultural grit mixed in right so you've got a nice drifty well drained come past insert cuttings around the edge of the pot. Where you've got to keep it cuttings Well then I've actually got some Polish starting boxes would they be suitable to put them into yes you could try them in the most and kept in the garden generally you know somewhere on the cover you know not let the on the cover but in a sheltered spot yeah put them in a sheltered spot so you don't want that compost to get to West's right. And so if heavy rain is forecast. Even bring them indoors to avoid Das. Mindless and to be the lawless that the so is it Ok to do all is now yes yes and. I'm not. I'm not Nazi Now Madrid doing the best a relief you doing is ahead rival unquote quite a bit but played better in places that aren't. There so expensive the buying gold crowns you know yes but the other levels the Portuguese level is a much better hedging plant in my experience the bad guys put it you know it's personal preference you know unless I was going to help it certainly will All right thank you so much for getting in touch thank you thank you lead us less in e-mail to now we're going to straight to Bob are busy on the phones off me we'll try to get to you as soon as we can in Holly cliff Good afternoon to you you have a question regarding rhododendrons Yes. I don't I think we need to get into the quite well and anything about 18. And the down so much Bill but it's got blood on it but Ok money from the sale and the people in the loop because if we don't buy that and we get twice the rate is. Quite big. Ok it will move successfully Barbara because Modena don't have big huge bolts. So what I would do is when you're ready to move it soak the plants the night before. So that the ripple is nicely munched. Bear in mind that the root ball will extend to a bounce as far as the leaves extend. And so the following day with a nice shop Speight dig up the rhododendron. And paci top. You know in a nice sized park that is going to fit into comfortably. Come back fill the pots with some avocations come past put it in a cool place and then as soon as you can replant it Ok Ok I should be I mean really fine Ok thank you all right thank you Barbara thank you. Very busy on the phone so often we will try to get you since you can Lena is altering those calls 345303961 Don't forget you can e-mail us in the week as well get in there really at the kitchen garden at b.b.c. U.k. Now let's go to inhaling Island Good afternoon to you. I would cite some help if you can give it please I think. I would say. A boat as it doesn't get a lot of sun is sort of in the north and I'm always guessing this is like it is between the most and the we are growing and the anything I keep doing that 2 or 3 times here is a great thing on top of plaque Yes Green and I can do you know what it is or would whether I can put anything on to sort of stop it. Ok let's tell you what it is 1st right it's a plant known as Hell if she ain't all right mind your own business yes. Shady spots particularly if they're a bit damp Yes it will grow readily even over the paving Yeah and it spreads fairly rapidly Yes What would I do with it exactly what you're doing with it I would get a sharp hoe and just get underneath it and it will come off like a copy each It does and I think the way yes I. People you know no I don't think of them because if. You don't come past it's no because bits will. Probably not completely Show been h. It will come back on but it's controllable Yes but there's nothing I can do other than that. I don't really know what well there is I know what you're talking to the wrong man in the you know I'm not a great I'm not a great believer in using chemical sprays in the back No no I think. Yes Yes You know you could spray it with a good life or say oh no no what I don't know I'm not I'm sure I would just. Hope over spade underneath it the rich don't go in very deep. On the knees that and lift the coffee top it off do you know what that's helped me as well because not salt and find something that's in my garden this is ongoing Yeah but I have to do I do you only in small quantities actually quite like it I like the feel of it it's quite small to Jeff Koinange love that sort of effect Yeah you know they do it with mustard Yeah but they would love have actually grown across the pattern over lox Yeah. Right yes yes well thank you very much for your help I'm very grateful thank you note for your welcome I'm thank you that's an inhalant island now Mike Lynch is a has been in touch he has stem still potatoes have developed a scab he wants to know can he still them in this state will they not going to have to be thrown away. When you're harvesting you know potatoes it's the damaged ones and I clued them to that ones with scab on the skin this is a skin effect it does you know in deeply. They should be the ones that are eating fast So in other words the ones that you really want to store long term. Perfect look out for the good yes but the scab will do us any harm because when you peel a potato you peel the scab off Yeah Ok nice and simple thank you Michael let's go back to the phones now that engulfs will now we're talking about the how lovely sweet peas while. Also has a question Good afternoon to you. No There we go. While can we help well. I've got. The Pope. Yeah the last in St Pete is very rampant. And it needs cutting back very high at the end of each year. So don't let it grow too tall. It will wonder you can train it as you have done up to the fence and it produces good cover but at the end of the season cut it back. Near enough to the bass. 'd hall. And. What you'll need to do that is when the new shoots come next year train the. Train the shallow angles don't try them so they go straight to the fence so the tram. Keep them at more of an angle. And this will produce more down. On this one I was. Yes I'm not a poke. Yes. Oh right. Now that they'll be fine. How many are in your pocket Oh goodness me. I'd be tempted because the probably all tangled together be tempted to knock them out the pot try and separate them maybe into 203 easy that doesn't matter report them into different parts Oh right and then keep them in a cool place over the winter and plant them out in the spring Oh that was lovely a long long time I didn't think I was going to do anything because they were in the pool. With life and I was almost. Like woke up who actually she perseverance. But. Not until now programmed. By pop. Right let's move on to Dorothy who's been waiting very patiently Thank you Dorothy that bishops Waltham you've got a question regarding Rudolph. It. Is very. Clear in fact you know some of this and if it was a time when one could be. They would you know and have a good. I wondered if that ending I can do to fight. To. I don't think I should. Know. I wouldn't pull them down. In all honesty I wouldn't do anything right. I think my rebound is the same there is lots of very healthy green leaves on it still I think the weather conditions have been so perfect joy in August for growing with a lot of rain as well as the warmth that the plants in general are just growing tremendously well. The rubab will get the message that winter is on the way enabled it will die back it was very sour this year. I don't know what to do to sweeten it because of course I I do put stableman year old stay with me near over the crankiness Yes. But it was a satire is anything I can do to sweeten it. Other than putting money. Only when you cook it to add a bit more sugar than usual. So we. You know when we when we were kids in Liverpool doubt I think we would eat more rhubarb and we would probably stems and just dip it in sugar. Might make it go. Thank you. Dorothy Oh I'm getting hungry I'm in our Sorry I'm sure last week very bald and no I haven't had any this year I haven't had any so I'm going to get hold of it is nice I like really Bob But yes we should be pulling it now John a bit late in the year for pulling it off to look out for next year I'll be more prepared to rebuild they do it does like plenty of moisture usually read about Ok white rice she's put in this well rotted horse manure on which is ideal because that will help retain moisture in the soil so they like a rich soil plenty of water and of course oldest we've seen plenty of rain Yeah Ok All right let's move on to the e-mails now and Michael's been in touch on the most he's easy amount the kitchen garden at b.b.c. Took him to u.k. And now he's hoping he can we can help him with his Graham Thomas roses he sent us some pictures now the leaves he's saying I've got a rust like feature on them some of the tops of dripping quite severely and I had a good flush of flowers in June but the new bugs are not coming to fruition now all the other varieties that he's got he says he's got more than 12 or oddities in the garden are doing really well any idea any advice that we have to look at these pictures will be Mike right well before we comment on the pictures let's just say we don't want to put anybody off growing Graham Thomas as a rose because if you want a yellow rose you won't do better than Graham Thomas I think yellow I mean. Dr Reddy's beautiful but yellow is one player in all of this isn't good tea p.l.o. It's a good do or it's repeat flowering You can have it as a small climber if you want it's a good good rose but Ok let's get to Michael's pictures now certainly we've got new growth here that is hang your head in shame Yeah and so the plant is obviously under stress and round the edge of a number of the leaves we've got well the leaf is dead round yet round the edges Yeah. On another picture that Michael Sam just the Graham Thomas appeared to be grown. Not quite underneath trees but very close to being in the nice trees or large shrubs and I think that the problem with it is it's got a very dry run to the tree Yeah and this is put immediately puts the rose under stress and I think that is responsible for the hanging of the head in that it's not been taking up enough water because Graeme Thomas is a vigorous grower Yeah and some of these new shoots can get up 5 feet even 6 feet high. So the guts take up a lot of moisture to keep that going what's the brown around the leaves I think at some time. Probably in July which was very hot and dry Yeah. The dryness is enthused and attack of mildew you on this road and what we are seeing now is the end product of the mildew has caused the leaf to die around the edges. So I think it's all to do with dryness has been the problem here. What should Michael do. At some time any time between now and Nash March next April I would mulch these roses quite thickly Yeah. 23 inches not right up to the stans you know want to introduce rocks but close to the stand. Say a foot around the plant with well lost trade garden compost something to try and encourage. In the show. All right Michael good luck with that sounds like you've got more varieties raise their fingers crossed not should be the solution we've we're running out of time we're trying get a couple more questions in in just a moment. Let's Radio 7. Good afternoon you're listening to the kitchen garden with me Rosenthal sitting in for Rebecca we're just running out of time for our expert Allan Edmonson who's been expertly whizzing through all his questions this afternoon I think I've got time for just one more that's come through on the e-mail this is come from Graham now he claims he's planted a laurel hedge 18 months ago a 6 foot high plants it's growing really well however we seem to get a lot of yellow leaves one tree what the cause might basis he did water it when there was the very drawing period a few months ago we've also fed it and had the root and had it the root dressing initially and if it's done with the ridges to support the ground root development sure that makes sense to you but. Any idea is something you might have missed if Graeme was fetish to certainly wouldn't feed it again and hopefully when he planted the lower head she put some blood fish and bone on the base which we always recommend but Lowell is a good every green hedge. But I'm just wondering whether the yellow leaves of the natural leaf drop his weapon when we say the plant is evergreen it doesn't mean that it keeps its leaves forever Ok and that it gradually over the year replace it it's green leaves with other green leaves and so the bottom of your low hedge you will always have dead leaves us just yeah so this might be without seeing it this might just be the natural dying off of some of the leaves Ok Ok that could just be the simple answer and one we're going to squeeze one more in from Susan on the email she says you got to keep you come the plants in the greenhouse they've got white mold on them anything any idea we can get rid of that. If it's not spread over all leaves just removed it this is mildew just remove the middles you do leaves and make sure that you're keeping your cucumber as well watered because the dryness in juices the conditions for middle to cucumber of a Thursday plants Yeah you know you've only got to think of the water content of the fruit. So yeah long as you're not taking all the leaves off yeah just remove the badly damaged because they're not serving any useful purpose now Ok I hope you got help Susan Allan you've been amazing this have to do you think we've we've we've called we've whizzed round so many questions been busy What have been very busy so I hope we got to you all if you did miss us we didn't quite get there in the end date Ivy You can e-mail us in the week the kitching garden at b.b.c. U.k. Rebecca will be back next week and a chance to answer some questions and Alan thanks very much busy week low end up a busy. 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Good afternoon Yes You're listening to the kitchen garden with me Rose Law sitting in for Becca she is back next week she's been having a nice holiday Townsend Freddie to go for you next weekend but still to come the softer noon in a moment you can hear about a lovely new sensory garden that's opened at Leap country park I went along to take a look around this is actually work in progress because they're going to be expanding it further but it's absolutely gorgeous down there and I also met a lovely little girl who suffers with a visual impairment I mean she really does have quite restricted vision but that hasn't stopped her from exploring this garden and she's a keen little garden and she took me on a tour of the Garden we'll have out in a few moments time. The police and every breath you take get often a listening to the kitchen garden with me it is 9 minutes. Now a new sensory. Leap in the forest as part of a multi-million pound investment in the by how the county council volunteers from the friends of leap group have been walking called to create a gold and everyone can enjoy as I thought put down their take a look around well in a minute we'll hear from the volunteers who've been hauled away but I spoke to Gibson he was high. The county council's executive member of the culture recreation and the country signed to the Century garden actually is born out of the wild area that the friends of really very very kindly decided to to convert from what was effectively a jungle into a wonderful area for food is this once and they finish the sensory garden way and we're very grateful it's a wonderful garden and I know time's a tight with money and budgets and things and maybe not so much from going for parks but was important to still investing in spaces like that you know from my point of view I took off the libraries I look off to the country parks and you know education is one thing the life experience is another so when you come to the parks you know kids who sit in a school classroom in the center of Southampton or wherever they they need more than just to read books about things they need to experience life and experience nature and we try and Hans that educational experience if you want to tell me you know what I. Ate and Charlie you're in the century God what do you like about in Him This is not tell me a bit about this night was good about this night has that packing of dying while and what have you got here do you want to join to give this a poem This is the water pump you want to show me how it works. So now I'm joined by David and Chris they're from the friends of Leap who are well fundamental in the building of this wonderful sensory garden sure how long have you been involved with friends. Friends of a paper 10 and a half years I was at the meeting in December 2006 and we've been slashing and burning ever since and the idea for the sensory garden when when did the 1st seeds can I say what i Pod to the site here used to be silent cultivation I can show there's a display board which they can if I sat there but we then money to bring in this century garden linking in with the old cottage garden they had and it was spawned in late 200014 we started clearing the ground in April 2015 and then we were going to work with what we found and so it's very much an evolving process and with 19 designs now from the garden that's how we've come to arrive at the state today Ok What should we get should have a little more through so we've got a lovely shaded area hey so what what were some of the key things you wanted to get into the garden here century as a whole is that the 5 senses save sight sound smell touch and also to make it accessible for those less able to and so on so we got different Pozza heavy gravel pass a wheelchair users a crunchy gravel path for people to crunch Yes that's. A very much using the land we had here we put a boundary around it with a hurdle fencing we got of which little woodland glade up there using the train stumps that they had to take down for the new build and them were just flounce and now they see that little bit of a spanking engine that they get but just to confine it and it's meant to be a quiet and trunk all flights of people to enjoy away from the Halle Berry I know David I know you've been hard at work here on the site what are some of the bits you really proud some of the bits that maybe took a long time to say we're standing on it we will come in the morning and the be a pile of gravel sculpin And I think we've had 35 tonnes of topsoil and be with us and by the end of day we would have put a scuttle it down put the gravel down and won't it be done Suncorp. All of the gravel paths that we've done because it was all hard work at the design from Chris and Richard and then at the end that it be passed and so that's where we're standing is this I'm quite proud of I curse I guess you know it's been a lot of won't go in here have you had some input into maybe some the ideas here an awful lot in with Richard. We've altered the plan every time there's a planned on we actually altered it until we got to where we are the 1st thing we put in was a certain area for school groups that stop will use the hollow as a pond or whatever same part so that I can communicate can communicate from one end of the garden to the other so we put that in before the the pounce when it we put light water pipe to get water in as well off in response to some of the planting not all float most of that was done by my wife but Everson it's been done or had a hand in one way or another although I swear I was got a lovely feeling of of having been here for quite a long time it's taken 22 months for the work and that's approximately one day a month there's 22 months where the band of up to 10 a dozen volunteers working in here David said lifting and shifting it just had to be put in place but very much an evolving thing to get it right the planting was done in May a pink and red sea mainly but we've also got both garden plants we've got scented plants thoughts of lavender over the. Garden there now a lot of the ideas did come off the internet Richard researched a lot of it said we could do they said do that there and then we were looking around getting ideas like these little hand pump it's ornamental it's not functional in that respect and but we also wanted to put in something for the less able so we've got this raise pond here for wheelchair people to be able to do Pandey thing now let nature populate it as they did real rather pond and then they stump rehear it was very much they had to cut 2 trees down for the footprint of the new building and we recycled old the logs and we got them to cut in specific lengths to give them a feature again shapes and so on it's not a toy it's not a climbing area but it just gives you different features and it must be really satisfying to know that hard work that you've put in here to see families and children benefiting from it add must make it all worthwhile all those hours of toil and hoping it it's a legacy that I've left my granddaughter can come rain or. When she's older and hopefully with her children then not muck around with any story at the moment but I'm hoping it will still be here and she got a shock from that out with us what a fantastic legacy they really are incredible friends of late they've put in a lot of hours into that God and that and I haven't been to late for a couple of years actually but it's absolutely beautiful down that is so much going on about the country part the seesaw and there's a lot of what going in their new cafe opening scene as well and the garden which is you know just across from the play area behind the beach that he's at sea stunning and as I say is a work in progress they all still looking to expand behind the garden and more areas in the future so they're really ambitious down there and absolutely beautiful and well in a moment we'll hear how that's benefited one particular little girl from Holly Hughes he was has loved exploring that God And we'll hear from her in just a moment. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut cut. The touch. Afternoon it is 21 you're listening to the kitchen garden with me sitting in full Rebecca she is back next week now a few moments ago we had gotten in late. Around and whilst I was that I bumped into a lady called Jenny and her 4 year old granddaughter Isabel now Isabel has severely limited vision but she loves Goldens and being outside and so when they heard about this new space they can wait to go and explore and in fact all summer they've been regular visitors to the sensory garden Well I took a walk around the garden with them. But then I left. On the stump feel for the stones to fate. Yeah. Just. The Fairy based on what. She's. Congenital. Which. Rashness haven't played and within a couple. But now she gets a bit of light perception so contrasts she she gets to say such things. And the different texture. But the different colors mean she she can. Through them so it's just brilliant for what's your favorite flower What do you have a favorite flower. America who works it feels nice Well it's a flower that hasn't come out yet that light have to. Go forward to turn a bit and there's all the flowers that the red dry names right no value right go forward right a bit Right right right there we go. That's not right Duran is red behind them fill the fluffy Leafs so you may. I guess it almost makes you see things in a whole new light yet it makes us think of things that we never thought of before. And experience for all of us but stack that isn't. That cool a good day. Looked like a day so when you heard about this garden I mean that must be amazing because I'm guessing going out about can present certain difficulties yes it has basically we need to be our eyes because if we don't direct the Left left left now forward she bumps into things so here I know it's not you know if it's not smooth but she needs to know that the world is not flat and it's not smooth here so these this is such challenges as well as you know such a good experience and I guess you'd like to see more places like this there is there definitely is not enough for not just for half or all churches to highlight all the senses that that's not enough about so this is amazing for all children you know obviously especially it's fantastic your hand up a tiny bit more than you had a. It was absolutely beautiful the help that it was a stunning gorgeous sunny often a but apps a beautiful garden and while I'm totally inspired by Isabel she said she knows this place she's starting to learn the root of the garden she's going to mapped out in our head and it's just incredible the feel of the stones the build the bubble cheaps that are down there so it's well worth a visit for everybody adults and children alike definitely worth visiting so I would recommend going down there and if you want to take a look at some of the pictures then go to our Facebook page b.b.c. Radio silent on the Facebook page I just posted a little gallery there so you can have a look at some of the garden but yeah well done to the friends of leap you've done an incredible job there. True I'm no good it's. Just still new no. Is not it's not the soon to go. I don't know. Who you call. Sam Smith and stay with me Richard is in the studio be speaking or in just a moment let's take a look at the weather 1st. And it's not looking too bad for this week actually don't get too excited but you know it's not looking too bad today they could be some cloud this afternoon and a chance of some rain later on today of 20 degree Celsius that's $68.00 degrees Fahrenheit tonight there will be some rain at 1st and then quite heavy minimum temperature of 14 degrees Celsius Now tomorrow the rain should ease towards dawn to give a cloudy start to the day perhaps the spot of drizzle but there will be budget spells and it will feel warm and humid in light winds highs of $22.00 degree Celsius the outlook for Choose day to Thursday going to be warm and humid but mostly cloudy with brightest spells it will still feel muggy overnight before some fresher conditions and sunny spells spreaded on Wednesday there will be sunny spells on Thursday with isolated showers possible the coastal waters forecast for cells he built along Regis the wind west 3 or 4 backing south southwest 4 or 5 occasionally 6 for a time later visibility is good becoming moderate to very poor later on the sea state is slight becoming slight later. 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John I know that's crap but I love it it's great it's you know you can't talk a kind of wardrobe or this guilty pleasure I just felt so guilty. Oh it's just pleasure yeah you know if we allow the Arsenal players really. Are going to say it's late eighty's Yeah. I'm told I'm going to go 89 No 87 out of too late well done that isn't this going to be fun it is and I've done terribly but there's some great music and her albums of the week from the Beatles Rod Stewart and you to stick some very music on the way then you're Ok I'll let you let you get to studio when they were. Cups. Alright so you get all Ok. Thank you Richard Richard is all the way from 2 o'clock this afternoon. Judy I'm playing tomorrow the pioneering technology that's arrived at one hospital in the south to save lives . Global adventure Following the world famous clip of. High seas. You get 6 30 tomorrow morning. Can. A promise. To be. A foolish. Thing. The. 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Radio 7 with me it is just coming up to 20 to 2 now do you grow sunflowers and if so how tall are they this year because I've got a couple in my garden given to me a couple of seeds given to me by my sister now I'm not sure what the variety is but mine are humungous Now I know they're meant to get tall but this is ridiculous one of them is well around 11 for Holly and the strange thing is there's no competition for long so it's not like it's had to strain to get the sunlight is in full sun but it's just got so toll and slightly annoying me the the head of the flower is for now facing the neighbors so I don't think I'm even going to get the full glory of the flower as it's coming out but yeah I thought it was strike strange that they got the top perhaps of a row seat I was talking to Alan it personally he said sometimes you get these seeds the kind of meant for you know competition growing some flowers some you know maybe one slipped through and I've got it well across the south there are some great places to see some flowers all mass and one of them is so pretty far in Christchurch there's some stunning pictures of the Sunflower feet some far failed in the bone with Echo this week they've got over 25000 that so well worth a visit and I don't know that the I didn't know this was a thing but you can pick your own some flowers so as well as going down there and picking strawberries and raspberries and blackberries you could go and pick your own flowers and that's a lovely way to spend an afternoon especially if you know someone who's got a birthday coming up maybe an anniversary you could pick up some flowers there wants to there well I thought I would have a quick chat with the farm manager Rob Cox to find out a bit a book a bit more about this some fall field. I think this is our 3rd or 4th season as long as I've been here it's about 6 years now we've always grown some flowers not so it's not some flowers some flowers. And a few other bits and pieces that we started we quite fancied doing some more of those so that's what we did how long have you been offering it as a as a take your on those pretty much as soon as we put them in so I ordered some say 4 years ago we bang in the ground. Yeah the response was great I see people talking past pleasing and I can help. That was publicly a little bit like bumblebees and I kind of conceived of and I guess now is the prime time how's it looking Yeah the looking well I mean we had that little noise when I was 3 and it brought them all over close together we tend to consecutively plant them so you know we've got 4 parts but they've all bunched up a little bit. In the end about it just as you've got 3 or 4 passes on and pick your eye and I mean we'll see how little rain has not affected the team on tours as they've been accused by turning those because they've been negatively impacted by the weather in terms of sales it's been slightly more difficult to pick your I when we have a rainy day it's quite. But no I think they're looking really well one of the thing about some flowers is you don't really have to do any weight control because when you cook great many big blogs they have such a large canopy that hardly any way to go underneath them anyway so in terms of growing them it's actually record straight for crops to know how tools all your phone calls because I was given a seed and I don't know what variety of goal but the wall is going like gold and his is literally 11 foot told that seems ridiculously high even for some flour. I could say more without knowing that probably about 6 to 7 feet of space but he probably good because if you had a lever to sell flour people going out it was some snows that might get dumped on the has to go I did from growing them or they just. I'm no expert we've just we've been gradually harvesting to see. We've been putting more and more in a meeting together with a published author which is very nice but we find it very easy we tell them 1st when it goes in in a bad. Way and then we continue every fortnight from there on so we tend to a little bit 1st lies underneath them when we drill them just push them on a little bit and then after that we just leave and to their own and do that benefit the rest of the farm by having a field of something was there yeah that's actually quite he benefits having them one. 'd is finished one by the more so introduce is quite low ball count matter but as you say your Sometimes the very tall even though I don't know that big when we talk them out that load of lovely green stuff goes back into the soil and then because they're so tall they have a really deep tap root which is quite good for breaking up so without them to do too much there's also the benefit of cleaning things up because there are so many we succumb to if there's not many of them broke off into the ground and we've got to deal with those and also the 3rd are going public and hope we can pick some of other so fruit and you know it must be handy actually having all these flowers to hand because do you have to find yourself in a situation someone's birthday coming up you can just go out there. For weddings that kind of stuff and I see also that we have a number of weddings. The bride into love going out there in a wedding finding a photo that. Sounds lovely lovely location for a wedding as well and yeah I didn't know you could do you pick your sunflowers so well worth a visit and how to look in the paper gorgeous photos. Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks. Thanks thanks. Tomorrow morning from 10 o'clock now it was a busy week last week b.b.c. Radio silent with the arrival of Queen Elizabeth into Portsmouth and if you missed any of the highlights. It's we were lawyers they would all be on the Wednesday morning and we had we were listening to all the people getting excited watching it come in and we put together a lovely kind of montage of all the best bits of the day and so if you didn't get a chance to hear it then you can go find the h 2 o. Podcast that's available via b.b.c. To. Radio silent is a special program this week marking the arrival of h.m.s. 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High They were the m 3 is moving pretty slowly South Hampton junction 103831 way to Chester and junction 11 for Winchester South come the other way also looks a little heavy as well the 870 is to bypass is cured both ways towards the Boca road right about where I mean it's the 859 and no change in Bridgeport either the a 35 is Creek eastbound approach West by road or the crab roundabout all of them I would now they offer that collision of the you want to be the route for Stone turn off earlier of course Southwest trains continue to run a civilian would you service across the network as this month long engineering works continue if these particles in the roads I haven't mentioned the give us a call in 30 minutes Thanks Andy. The b.b.c. Resurrection coming up with. Richard follows in a couple of moments but thank you very much for your company for the last 2 weeks. From holidays next weekend get your questions and you can e-mail the kitching. As a said the. 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Sunshine out there we have quite a bit of cloud and I think will tend see that cloud breaking up as we go through the afternoon say for some of us too with the tail end of the day we'll have beautiful blue skies Nevertheless it's going to be warmer than yesterday a dry often with that sunshine highs of 19 degrees into ninety's a similar story dry with clay spells we could see temperatures perhaps not quite as and I was last night down at 9 degrees and it does stay dry throughout next week tomorrow a fine and dry plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the late twenty's b.b.c. Radio so man that kitchen garden with Rebecca Hello hello welcome along to God knows questions here low life from the all right Ches Chelsea Flower Show. The real finally feels like it's been months of long build out with Finally broadcasting live from the all right Ches Chelsea Flower Show you may have seen our video earlier on Facebook life giving you a unique look behind the scenes of the Chelsea Flower Show before opens to the public but we doing this questions just like we always do obit with a much prettier backdrop. For. I was leading up to that and Iraq can do of course all our. You've heard him already and you Mark can do one of our experts on God knows questions taking your calls your questions today you can still get in touch the same way as you normally do you can give us a call 034-530-3906 extension 1 you can text just as well 81 trouble 3 Don't forget to start your text with the word soda the only way you can get in touch today is e-mail because I thought those up with maybe so many to box are now and this is one of the resplendent where we're sitting here this often I wish we could have a studio like this every Sunday we're in the show down to blow long long story short after long yes so this is actually the area where people come for a very special show. Branded blank because it's actually relates to Raymond long it's what was the hospitality area traditionally at Chelsea but it is now a very much more upmarket experience with Raymonde long food and the vegetables that you're looking at here were all grown. In Oxford share which is you know it's no mean feat at this time of the year to produce vegetable plants looking like it's midsummer Yeah and what we want to give people here really is a flavor of the whole Chelsea experience so they you know have a wonderful dining experience but also they do have the flowers they have the garden and you know quite often people come to Chelsea as guests and then not necessarily sort of interested in gardening. Some of them might actually come to hospitals here and not even venture into the show but what we hope through long is that people come they become inspired wrapped up in the whole Chelsea experience and then they explore they the big bad show ground where this is a lot quieter and a little. Very refined in a very refined than it is during the course of the show so they come past Pip's floral gate which I'm sure you saw on the way in through the floral portal on then into this digital garden which is a mixture of flowers of vegetables of woodland we've got quite a strong woodland theme here this year as used as a run down through long long this sort of boardwalk then lots of trees shade lovers some gorgeous anemone wild swanned there in force which is just beautiful some very interesting sort of hostages and Viola's So what I want to do through this really is give people a few sort of planting are just as well as a bit of a child's experience and if that's what your appetite and you're not lucky enough to come out to Chelsea you can see the footage of it now if you go to all b.b.c. Radio side of Facebook site way off on Facebook Live set on any can you join us with your question on Gartner's questions now you can also see us as well respondents in our hi village rather lovely snitches is very dangerous sitting on his bed just never know. Ok We're going to start off with your questions now as we do always week we feature a garden that's opening for the National Guard scape today at this is Sylvia Lloyd she would have had her own next show she's opening her garden this often in between 2 and 5 I'll give you the postcode in just one moment but 1st of all this is the quest. She posed to you earlier we have a beachhead is in the front garden dividing us from our neighbors and when we 1st came here the beach has was a lot longer until we made the border over because the land and it was in space with 3 beech trees now the beach strays lose their leaves in the autumn but the beach hedge hangs on to its leaves until the new shoots push them off in the spring so we just wonder why they are so different all right so base it was the difference between a big change and a battery on a beach tray Yeah right good crisis but trunk of one of the trays is still left in the bit of passage that we still have between us and our neighbor and you know the leaves fall off that even now it's just a trunk so why if you know why I have a space for doing it I don't know in the hedge or. So the difference between a peach tree and a peach hedge the other postcode for the National Guard and skiing garden open the soft noon if you want to go visit it is be h 121 j Q 22 Holt road put a link to it from a website as well and a different strain peach tree and beach hedge Well it's an interesting one because essentially there isn't any difference at all I mean they're both fake a silver. Of course with a hedge the sort of constant clipping keeps it very juvenile and very brown So in fact that when the leaves fade they don't automatically separate from the stem and because you've got this sort of dense Twiggy growth it shelters the leaves and they tend to stay pores and also he does keep the chill would very juvenile and it hangs on to the lee of course when you've got a tree then you go to a much more open structure and. They naturally you know the wind blows them off much more easily but also because the stems of maturity is to do with the sort of juvenility of the plant and also whether or not those leaves the project is Ok We're broadcasting live from the r.h.s. Chelsea Flower Show one problem that we don't have that you may not be aware of is the helicopter noise of the head we don't have that problem in the studio to me and they are not sure of course you're in central London here you know you might. Sort of saw Erin's going in the background and a certain quality of an is in the middle of the show ground I can assure you later on when you go around the show viewers have all manner of sort of traffic noise and everything else going on but hey yes I'm afraid you'll get the odd airplane you're going to helicopters and we probably hear a bit of traffic occasionally even though Ok let's crack on with the gardening questions we've had one Texan. In from Gale in cold and common He's also a question about have a generic creeper the Basically she says she wants to get rid of she's thinking about cutting it down at the end of the season because she wants to bring it back next year at the moment she says it's in twined with an a that she doesn't particularly want so she's thinking of cutting down the Virginia creeper but she's worried that it won't come back next year if she does that so 1st of all it's Ok to cut down a Virginia creeper Yes it is I mean it depends really I am assuming that this is sirens like this is just sort of rumbling through the ACTU a growth of another plant rather than naturally clinging on to a war and yes it will you know we will grow again I mean this is a vigorous plant Virginia creeper I mean this this to Paul from the sources they try Kuspit off of each which is really Boston on. And then and that has a sort of house a sort of 3 pointed or my sort of like a large heart shaped leaf with. And then this quick refer which has 5 leaflets. Both of them are equally vigorous. And both of them I think you will find will respond quite well to cutting back when can she do that well I mean you can do it realistically I mean is. Doing it in winter when the leaves fall and he's probably Ok You know so then he's got time to grow because what you don't want to do is miss the autumn color because that's where you grow it really is for the autumn foliage color exactly people are loving thing its own face but life on the way this afternoon and I think it's the hives Duckett's assessing us all I think it probably is I mean it's just so lovely on the complection isn't there. 1st she has her own face but lovely to see both rather than just hearing you Margaret Stanbridge said Love watching this impulse with you make me feel like I'm there and also in the sunshine as well Margaret we've arranged the sunshine just for you let's go to the phone lines now and take us call Valerie in Ringwood Good afternoon Valerie Oh. Yeah I know very well. As there we're very very lucky that I do what we do won't rain here overnight because I don't want to have to water this law Ok. The question of I'm growing mortgage to pay 3 for. Should I try to return. Beneficial Not particularly I mean the most important thing really is watering Oh you know I'm not the thing to really watch out for because Pais have a sort of moisture sensitive stage by the actual the poll. And develop you know drawing flowering time so now I really the time to starting to fly I don't think I'll have a close look but I don't think any flowers on. What I think of more of Ali germinate. My bro bees were picking through when I left to get back and see all that we tingle have today when you get back very much. But I certainly wouldn't bother taking the time I mean you know realistically that best suits have left we've got peace in front of us here actually which were grown in polls long in the. Piece they're quite pretty. But I know I certainly would miss tendrils off Ok I'll find another job today. Don't look it. Up for you to do. You're welcome like. If you want to get in touch with a gardening question the softening you can do with life from the all right just Chelsea Flower Show in the 2nd hour of the program After want to be walking round the show called mith pig pens they showing you some of the show gardens and bringing you ideas about how you can bring a little bit of Chelsea into your garden of the time being we'll take your gardening questions still governess questions with and give us a call over 345-303-1006 extension 1 of course we're live on Facebook as well so you can see us too and we've had a question from John in Bishop's Wolf she wants to use bamboo screen every she's considering putting the bamboo in large part small thing putting in open ground she went to her local garden center recently she was told there are 3 types of bamboo she's not sure which type to get and also shows a bit advice on the king after it so she won't bump into launch Paul you want is a bit of screen maybe for your neighbor which type to get. Ok the most important thing I mean if you're growing it in a pause I mean it's less crucial because there's 2 types there's the clump forming which sort of grow as a clump of canes on this the ones which actually run another would say have a rhizome which goes through the ground this is quite invasive and of course if you're growing it in a container it's less of an issue apart from the fact that eventually they become very congested if you get the style of the 1st ones you know the ones that run through the ground say go for one of the clump forming Farrar says you're going to ask me to actually recommend specifics which I can never ever in and day I knew I should have picked in this instead of you you can you can also go later on to say the same in. Case things nice big part loan based compost the tricky thing with oddly enough it really does have to draw yeah I know the fading I hate to try after he shed actually very very quickly if it dries out completely when it's in growth so you just go to think about the war trying if you're growing as a screen I might almost think about putting in one of those micro or cations systems which are incredibly easy to install at the same time yeah just to make sure that you get regular war shrink and what about throughout the age you have to prune them just to cut them back he just let them grow into their own thing you let them grow and do their own thing the bamboo or nearly all the band is the appearance is improved by removing the lowest it's. The sides so that you see the beauty of the carryings because otherwise they're just very pushy and great However if you want to is a screen you may want to retain those I think I made up a word. You may know of course but I called it screen array which is a combination between screen and say to me which I think is quite I think it could catch on. Yeah it's not bad actually yeah all right we're going to relate savers in the English picture it may well be noble may have noticed when you get to the e-mails now I'm going to use my bottom as a paperweight which you'll see on Facebook live if you're watching this because we're not in the studio when the problem is that bits of paper tend to fly about and I don't need you to tell me it's fairly sizeable so you'll be fine right now you'll save I've got some e-mails with Mazie Let's head to those this comes in from Mary in Mill but she says I'm emailing you with regards to a plant that I have please find attach some going to hand you the face now and he she says a calming hydrangea I've had it now for 2 years it's been absolutely fine she says until this year the leaves have all shriveled up but they look what it has also had white fly on it is that anything that you can suggest to help revive it any advice would be gratefully received love the show she says no pressure so Mary famille But so that's a climbing Oh yeah it doesn't look very healthy and it describe what you see in front of you Ok right where you go you know these sort of characteristic peeling stems these paling bronze times because the hydrangea is part hydrangea a normal a p t l r s and it's deciduous so you have these sorts of Twinings while they're not torn in this self clinging stems which is sort of time colored and then usually quite fresh green foliage and then lace cap heads why flowers nice thing. I'm not sure when this was taken. While this was sent in any couple of days ago so I don't know when she took the photo. I mean it may well be this is frost damage. Ok I would have said this year because nearly or hard drain Jews. Have suffered frost damage and it looks to me like this particularly if it was a war with the early morning saw you know we had those real Bloss does of frost actually at the end of April. And that may be your problem on this one right so what can she do now and what you can do now is just wait for it to recover and I mean well I don't think on this one if you look at the main If there is a pest that is causing this problem the only thing that puts me off the frost damage is that this. Is quite green but it may just have been damaged. So I think that would be my immediate reaction to this season is that that ship problem but I have a really good inspection of age and make sure it's not something like spider mites on the back of the leaf if that fails gritty. I reckon it's frost that Ok so leave it and see what it does for the tendency is when something looks like that and you panicked and we think oh gosh what's happened or what can we do about it and I think sometimes people underestimate because we don't see frost damaged national people don't recognize it and I find lots of people have said who. Is going to be lovely look at. All the buds. You know and we don't necessarily know that and we had that period of weather was lovely and warm and then we had some shots again yes absolutely and I think that's the problem is that stuff goes into quite soft and then it's been hit one thing I would say with. Race is the key thing is actually making sure moist enough for the roots because dying to see because it's rains that actually the plant is actually is more East I mean we find here at you know when we're putting things together at Chelsea Flower Show on gardens it's because you tend to sort of planting ball in composted bone and so you actually put the foot volcano around the bend over the pots and then you people say well you know we poured with rain last night you may have the top of the . Barca draw is a chip on tonight Yeah because that was its sticks in the top. Ok well life from the r.h.s. Chelsea Flower Show forgotten it's questions this often and we're here until 1 o'clock taking your questions and then after 1 o'clock we're going to walk around the show with Pip pensée so you can still get in touch with a gardening question just like Maria has done good afternoon Maria hello hello how can we how What's your question I want to ask the same about my son trained apricot tree. In the spring I had lovely looked at the moment and was ready. Trimmed back in late. Summer last year. And now it seems to have quite a lot of tied back on some of it and I think the pay. Hike colored. Coming from some of those well now and I was just wondering if maybe frost damage or if it's possibly got something else because same thing else only. Had a winter wash as well last year. Ok does the rest of the tree look quite how yet. And how does it go fruit on it yes it has a moment. Later. It was the thing is. If they're starting to look quite tempting then the squirrels have a go Ok. I think where about when you say it's. From. A famous today from like the nice between the new and the old. And you cut it when it was. Last year yes they get trimmed back slightly not Ok to that very much you know you're not but I'm an old. Shoe with because again it's. Yes. If you've got just a bit of dyed back on it I don't think at this stage I would I would. They all are a bit. Box on some of the tips you know all the plum family. And if the rest of it looks healthy I think. When it's a full leaf you can if it's the tips and cut them out and see you know see what the reaction is because I don't think there's anything you can really do about it it is going to be effective all of the shape some of. It. It would be easy to say oh gosh Actually that sounds like can cure or it sounds like a real problem. I don't think well it's very much where you get it with peaches nectarines in apricot So it's very much the nature of the. Get a bit it died back at the tips so I wouldn't worry about it Ok I'm area that's lovely thank you very much for your help well done problem well come back and take more of your gardening questions in just a moment 1st bill which check on the right. E.c.u. a way to see the music country hip hop. Gospel and. Origins and convert like never before this. Time. Change the world and everything American and take a full part television special tonight at 10. Welcome back to gold in those questions as part of the kitchen garden here on b.b.c. Radio well live at the all right just Chelsea Flower Show this off today where the . Live on faith but it's been watching us on Facebook live and we had lots of lovely comments people enjoying seeing us this afternoon I'm quite grateful we don't do this every week breathing in for a whole hour is quite difficult. And the pressure to color coordinate your lipstick with your top is very difficult I don't know about every weight so I'm pleased that you're enjoying it saying it's this afternoon but we're not going to do it everywhere if you want to get in touch with the question please do you can give us 834-530-3960 Let's go to the phone lines now we've got Dorothy ambitious all of them good afternoon Dorothy are there in that letter Wendy Doris Day because I've got such a night like this. I'm talking about is I love in NY I'm going to creep in the a very very good tree peony very strong. Some time ago I've. Come to members 9 you know cults and God and Brian k. Vaughan and I asked Brian when it should be pruned and he said it should be pruned off the prairie. Has finished glaring and it's it's unfortunate some of it's going to shave my lawn so I do need to cut it back some of the some of the old. Stems are actually shedding their bark so it would be best for me to cut 8 and there's lots and lots of bugs so I can come back to but hey you know I have to prune it. Well the thing it's the story it's the the yellow one you know the canary one the single Yeah I won yes single flowered with all my very divided attractively Yeah that's that yes well to be honest with that you can cut c. As hard as you like they have the important thing to remember always has the haulage a pruning produces more vigorous scribes said the hardy prune the more it will grow so better to cut but perhaps some of the. Some of the stronger ones. I saw last and perhaps take a is going some new ones coming up from the base and perhaps take some of the very old ones take some of the oldest dams right side and let some of that you guys come straight does what I'd recommend because very often people sort of pruned you know they're printed on a vigorous stand by Hall I did in the year it'll be docked there again and you know and if. You're trying to actually sort of keep it back and reshape it then what you'd be better doing is taking out the offending stems right to the bags and letting it regenerate from the Ok Now the question the flowers were larger this year and they were. Should I say get anything well I think to be fair I think a lot hasn't necessarily been a fairy could fly. I think it's funny isn't it you get some years when you get the most amazing source of flowering and this year everything seemed to get going roll the really and then it stopped and started and it wasn't you didn't get the impact from some shrubs that you had in the polished it won't hurt because we didn't we never did sort of flowering shrubs enough we sort of we fuss around feeding which then kept blackspot most varied anymore. And then the rest of it performs year on year we know so I give it a general release. Wrong really giving it rose food. I you know I was for fighters queue for. Mainstay because you want a good balanced feed slow release and it's going to release nutrients over a long 'd bed to be used by tax Robin using. You know the ones I put it Yeah definitely because I think that controlled release fertiliser is very good in containers Personally I think it's quite assertive extravagant you solve it in the in the open ground and it also does depend on moisture only releases new chains when this enough moisture it's a big Polish sickle and the tendency is you spring case around Joe shrubs and then it's quite draw underneath and nothing gets thrown into the soil whereas if it's something that just breaks down gradually in the soil then it does make its way through right thank you very much you're really well enjoy it if they really are good. Or they take care. If you want to get in touch with a question the soft new you can give us a call you can speak to on the or if you're a little bit shy about speaking to this gardening go as in France may you can know it's possibly a question on to later in ship possible into the for you so the number 034-530-3096 extension 1 as we say to you installed on Blome nestled between the flowers and the owner meant close as well now Margaret Shirley is called dame auntie she has a Pierce in a pot and she says it's brown on top possibly due to frost she thinks can she cut it off definitely for osteoporosis and now when can she come back home Yeah well I would just trim off the job growth is damaged you know give it a lot prune as necessary because it will really break you'll get a new flush of growth replacing it of course this year the Paris we're looking to refer to you know they put on very good growth issue. Yeah and then you get up last of the you know sort of very freezing conditions and it's so cold. So I think every player is actually that in the south is in the same boat and it was proved the same problems for the exhibits is him putting together the show gardens for a child say yes I have I mean every year is difficult I mean I can remember doing Josee some years where you know it's been through baking a whole of the years it's been freezing cold there was one year not so long ago where there was you know there was hardly a tree in leaf. You know they were really really tired Yeah where is this year generally I mean if you look around us here at the law I'm sure in Ron Miller gardens actually shown call a flower you know. We've had that lovely warm spell hasn't it was raining things along let's go back to the e-mails now you can still e-mail in your questions to soft and we may not get a chance to get them the softer name but if you email them we'll get to next week so the kitchen garden b.b.c. Took. Everyone on face but let's watching and listening this often and there's no escape the soft new not only can they hear is they can see it says Wow So that's a good thing when the end I said very good thing I'm sure you know wearing your hats now I mean and it's a man of many hats not just talent wise but also will. Really Geno's the 1st year I have been brought I mean when I was packing up to come up here as the weather was so horrible in Co impact upon them all and I thought we would have a shirt off today I may not make it a lot. Maybe I should rephrase up for what I read as I. Went on alone. And not the sort of restaurant on think you know yeah exactly. This is in your oh shit. Oh you know me too well but I read as I'm worried a suitably horticultural show and you were always a man that likes a floor. We've been competition today I'm sorry I know I'm keeping out. Today. Because down the other end long is actually still. Because we will actually on Monday be actually distilling. Jane here. Wow And there is actually also there's been some of it's already being produced it's actually on sale in small bottles it's by Warner Edwards a small. Boutique company actually producing on a farm in North Hampton share and you'll find Also you walk past their exhibit actually do on the way down here today when you come for the Make a number of flavored gins and it's really quite interesting actually what goes into the tonic I usually find I have sat me down they said that's not fair where you can see one of the constituents there over there on Jellicoe you know did you know Angelica right she was I don't know well no I'm just curious where you should be because Angelica was sent by then you Gabriel to cure the plague. Now you live in a road all along the Thames Ok let's go about your governing questions now you can still phone in 345-3839 when you've probably got about half an hour left maybe under or you can text 81 trouble 3 Don't forget to start your text with the website or of course you can e-mail the kitching gotten over what baby seat up you k. This e-mail comes in from Hazel could often name for a plot I bought this plant in the summer of 2015 it's not stopped flowering or growing since and they're going to get you to take those pictures off my lap for me they go sorry there's no table today how the South it's not stock to bring all growing since it's have flowers all the time she says even in the winter and is showing your photos you can see the facial face but live as well could you please tell me what it is and how to look off her. It I want to move it because outgrown the place where it is she says where it's a hug and it's got sun on it till about 11 in the morning and then it's full shade so 1st of all and they describe what it looks like a willow is a perennial. You know that if you know what a war looks like you know what this looks like bushy plan on narrow dark green leaves toll spikes which actually flower from the base. I'm flower for a very long period as she says it's virtually always in flower so it's a risk them bowls. Resummon bowls may have. Any great gap. It's what we would call we call it a short short lived shrub I reckon this plant normally lives right 2 years so it's only short lived some people regard it as a basis for idea with some people regard it as a shrub but basically it's short lived rather than moving it on I would take cuttings which route a very very easily an ideal you want to try and find some shoots on there which can be tricky in flower if not take young shoots was the flower was just developing in the flower bud and used and you really want pieces if you can take them as a hero you know where it joins the main stem and just pull them off absolutely perfect something a between about 4 inches long or aren't dead easy to rig you know just pop them into a seat and cutting compost. About 3 or 4 on the edge of a part root. And use that as you knew and you should do that really is a general practice. If it's been going for 2 years and it looks like it's doing very well I'm here God knows. It likes good drainage he likes poor soil and likes lots of sunshine the good do of it is going on I've got lots of. The other thing is. To see the. Chelsea flower show you'll see the bees on it it's a really good b. And thus a flock longs you know we were talking about that and you hear this interview later in the program pollinators with Sam Raven garden is the color Garden one of the b.b.c. Radio 2 got in celebration of course 50 years of broadcasting I did wonder how long we'll have to wait until we can all b.b.c. Radio 7 go with 90 well. Ok I'll have a weapon the boss with you could Yes Ok All right we've only got 100 quid is that not quite I don't want to have. More joking aside though I mean I know the show gardens very here in size but they also vary in but it was sort of money and we talking about for some of the show gardens and I think it depends on the size of the show garden but I mean really stick to if you were doing this sort of if you're doing one of the largest Gardens then 825-0000 quarter of a 1000000 would be your minimum it would cost. And it's not down that's hard landscaping and the planting though projects probably mean you know people I've known in show gardens here have a budget of where I live for a 1000000 to double it's obviously worth their while they being here at Chelsea paying that sort of money well it's yes I mean it's a difficult one always to quantify and people do chose the gardens for a number of reasons you know sometimes really it's for. It's a way of raising awareness. It's Brahms profile you know for example if you think about sort of Australians coming over sort of Fleming's stories in the trial for Fleming's drove on the garden which was a feature of Josephus many years and people would say well why on earth do they come to the to the u.k. And actually show it's an English sheriff you know operating here well the reason is because Chelsea is regarded as the number one in the world you know the showcase of gardening so if you get a gold medal it isn't in mazing indorsement an AK and it's a positioning exercise so you can go home and say we got a gold medal Chelsea Flower Show I'm not then positions your skills and your ability so it's for a number of reasons but it's. You know sometimes it really is it's to actually sort of sell the you know to sell and promote this is a contracting company might be to sell it to to promote the profile of an organization it's not just the corporate big boys or hey we get some charities exhibiting at Chelsea as well oh yes no I mean you know the sort of charities and it hasn't necessarily I'm to I'm talking about that sort of budget on a big goal but even if you're doing a small garden people forget they look at it and they sort of say gosh that's a lot of money to spend on a garden what you have to remember is that you have to get everything on to this saw eat in the middle of London you know and you have to get the people here you have to get the materials you have to get the plants the lawns are actually got a small part of the budget Yeah Ok Well we're going to be walking around the showground after 1 o'clock with Pip Benz they showing you some of the show gardens talking about how you can translate some of those ideas that you see into the show gardens into your own gardens at home we're bringing it out on Facebook live as well the time being going to stick with your gardening questions because as always we've got a lot to get through you've probably got about 15 minutes left to do. So if you want to get in touch give us a code 34530961 we've had a message in from George imports Mrs why am I wrong pale in color he's had them 3 years he doesn't say with a pen in color every year probably just a shade. I wonder if he means the fur or the fur. I think it's the fur she's talking about at this stage in the season. I would have thought so definitely and he's had them for 3 years 3 years isn't too awfully long . That could just be nutrient deficiency if it is if they're just looking yellow then that can be they can be nitrogen deficiency you know it's a it's a tricky one without knowing exactly imagine he's talking about foetal age if he's got this sort of discoloration particularly between the veins then that is generally a nutrient deficiency and rather than worrying about which you treat detainees I would just correct with a well balanced general. And I might even just put on a few comforts of home or you know with a liquid tomato feed which is a lot of potash it's got a lot of nitrogen and it's very absorbable because don't need an awful lot of time during the night when no they don't and I think what you remember is you know Ross results are actually there are a woodland plant they grow very well in semi shade people actually do tend to put them in sort of right in a really sunny position and actually it's not necessarily the most favorable environment that actually rather be growing sort of in light shade in a woodland setting they do need enough moisture when you think about it you know a major area for growing rasboras Scotland you know for a number of reasons one plenty of rainfall. And. It's what we say is above the 8th it lawn so you haven't got. Which then. They are the biggest carrier is a vase. So they move virus around so that's where you get virus free plants. So move to Scotland have passed their own spring by the midges during the weather's not great I do love Scotland I mean if they had not so wet that I don't sleep be tempted I think we got a problem with all phone lines it's often noon again I'm afraid we have the same problems yesterday but we can still also your questions don't worry him but you could send us a question on Facebook law even if you like this afternoon with there for you now b.b.c. Radio so don't just Google us and find us on Facebook you can still text that that is working 81 trouble 3 Start your text with the word silent and you can email us the kitchen garden b.b.c. Don't code lots of messages coming in now on Facebook Live Stephen says Great to see you guys Alison loving this broadcast thank you for that Allison Wendy said Hi it's lovely to see you looking good both of you must run it off again it always works Wendy it's fun we don't mind compliments she's in sunny Isle of Wight. Helena now I'm confused about this love the egghead trip over your trivia about the end Jellicoe she wrote she's referred to as eggheads trivia. And she's in sunny Dorset I think it's more I don't think she's referring to you being full of challenge Richard if I can just see that. I'm having to juggle everything paperwork phones today right Judy has a mail day and she's been recently bought a Williams patch tree which is being put in a large pot as we're still sorting out the gold and so I can't plant it prominently yet that was very healthy when we got it was several flowers developing she says about 6 feet tall However there was a box isn't that in the past week or so the leaves have begun to come not Laden and there are no bugs all Mox on the leaf so far but they are dropping off slowly she says I've kept it well watered but maybe I'm over tearing the watering what you think on a day or she might be overdoing the war. It could also be a big. Because a lot more slow to do so just be a little bit wary of the other thing it may be that if it's in a pause Just make sure that you go to secure so that it's just not wobbling around in the polt because sometimes that's the problem is if it was bare rooted in you. And it hasn't formed a good root system then it could be just moving around and breaking any new roof is forming Ok so that doesn't mean I 1st stop I mean certainly if one of the soil lists composts you know the sort of Light's. Not necessarily Pete but Pete substitute compost they do hold onto a lot of war when you watch them and they do tend to things move around in them they're not that stable so just make sure the you know the you've got it well state supported say that actually those roots on breaking that's always important in a was talking about the importance of staking properly Yeah and I think particularly in sort of circumstances like this people put things in pots which is nothing wrong with that if you can't plant them but you've got to remember you got to keep them growing on they're coming to leaf. I'll go out an awful trail which I. Really think gosh what was he doing out for it it was actually a sample. And it was route round I mean it was lawing around in the goal for over a year and what were you doing that for then my door supports it it. Took 3 days. I was used about sort of 2 bags of my own job which I wasn't because I was not lost about the op witchery but it has come through really well but it is well supporters and it's in a good situation Ok so in terms of staking your tree fruit tree what's the best way of tackling it well I mean in a post it's going to be tricky and in this particular instance we're just going to have to do is to make sure it's somewhere where you can actually talk it's on something there's no point just putting a cane in the pulse and thinking is going to make a difference because you really you know want to nursery situation they're posted and then they're tossed into lawns to go sporting odds are you going to have fun who are supporting it in the ground short vertical strike. Where you place where the tree branches serve it's a bush tree can you really wants to come up to about a hole from 8 right Ok and something sturdy Let's go back to the e-mails now the kitchen garden at b.b.c. Took u.k. Off said the phone lines were having problems with the software and I'm afraid you can still text in a one treble 3 star you text with the word soul and you can join us on Facebook live and you can send in your question via that just going to b.b.c. Radio 7 you'll find the video there we're streaming live from dissolve. The All right chest Chelsea Flower Show so you can send your question in that way this email has come in from brandishes hello we have a forest pansy tree approximately 6 years old it's about 7 foot tall this year the leaves a very spot very small and she's saying it's about one centimeter square what you think the problem is 1st of all on the What size should the leaves Be Ok so far as what she's referring to is so. Small So this is a. Crust Mitchell says is canadensis forest pansy I was going to correct you that but I thought I'd let you know it has a heart shaped slave and I would expect those to be a probably up to 3 inches across so. Small leaves at the moment. Was the problem. It was late into leaf issue very late and if I've got quite a big one in the garden I'm not with the desperately late coming into if. I obviously haven't seen it for the past few days while I've been up here. But it was looking very soon it was it was being sluggish they say yes and it may be just the season I don't think I would panic and. Ok so don't worry give it a time I would give it a bit of time and see what it does because sometimes you know it is very slow we are actually you know where Annie Hall for 3 men. You know tends not to be a best seller we've had some rain and that could be the other reason that those leaves the release more it's because it was drawing. On things didn't really now we've had rain and it's time to start moving I think. Give it a bit of time yeah I would I wouldn't worry at this stage the only thing I would say with that tree is that it is often grafted or usually grafted and sometimes you get a grafting compatibility even on sort of quite large trees where the graft. On the tree doesn't take up nutrients properly don't panic don't think it's not at this stage wait and see what it does is. The good news is the phone lines are working again so we can come you can come back and take your calls now either 345-303-9061 extension 4 the closing stages of Gardner's questions but the kitchen garden continues until 2 o'clock live from the Chelsea Flower Show as we walk around the show garden John is pate waiting patiently on the line and pulled it often in John it thank you for taking my call yes very well. I've got. A cooking sherry tray it's quite young it's less than 10 years old but most of the growth is right at the end of the branches. I really don't know if it was here when when we bought the house the 6 starting to produce fruit now but. Is it a bit fruit but nearly all the growth is the tips of the branches Yeah. Tricky really not uncommon I would say. You know they don't necessarily produce a beautifully bushy tree particularly if they have. This sort of formative stages and you know is it one year in a heritage Yeah yeah I imagine it was a struggle. And it's continued to grow quite happily from the end rather than ever thickening up. You could prove that. The fruit. If you can get some branching down in the middle of the tree. And I think up but. You know with cherries when they're in full leaf. You know otherwise they bleed faery badly so. If. I would do is I would bring some of the stems which the straggly. And see if you can get it to branch from within and see what happens Ok I will certainly try to give it a very much Ok all right now probably best of luck Janet let's take a look at the rights for you now. It's not looking too bad this Sunday lunchtime but in Dorchester. Head down towards the. From the New Forest Ringwood itself it's quite slow. Traverse the a $350.00. Between And Sandy looking. Radio says. Welcome back to the closing stages of this questions here on b.b.c. Radio and I'm here with. The All right just Chelsea flash we've been showing your questions was surely going to be heading out into the show Goldens with Ben's a thank you the softer name for watching us on Facebook live to be taking a brief break from Facebook Live and coming back and walking around the show gardens in just a moment and a quick couple of questions if we can squeeze them in as it like to ask a question about ads how do you get rid of ads who set up home in large Paltz and do they damage the roots of plants that are growing. They don't do a lawsuit. That's the worst thing I mean they're such industrious little creatures that always seems ashamed. To do anything about it but once you get to realize it's nest in a pole then the plants off because there's so much activity. In terms of getting rid of them your irony why really unfortunately to use them to kill or of some description. Probably your best bet in that it not case if it's in the bottom of a flower pot I find it better to actually introduce. Through the hot dry and huge hole at the bottom of the pot and then you know stand it back upright so to give it a blast with killer and then and then turn it back over and that's really the only solution but it's not going to damage the plant as such. No I mean you do the plant will recover but there will have been you know the Am tactility in itself is a bit of an issue Ok Brenda in looks easy enough see a question that many of us are probably wanted about she's found some old liquid house plant food tucked away in the shed it's been there for a couple of years and forgot about is it still Ok to use it do any home Ok Is there a life span in terms of house Paul food not particularly I mean you know I think you'll find that if it's being tucked away in or should it be known to the shelf in the greenhouse you know with pairing off and so on I probably wouldn't bother but in this instance I think it would be fine Ok Andy thank you as ever for joining us and thank you even more today because I know. That's it join us for the 2nd hour where we'd be walking around the Chelsea Flower Show garden with Pip pens a. Digital radio and t.v. Process down. The news or one from b.b.c. 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Tucker and I get off today and while we've still got a lot of sunshine out there we have got a bit of cloud and I think will tend see that cloud breaking up as we get a 3 day off today and say for some of us too with the tail end of the day we'll have beautiful blue skies Nevertheless it's going to be woman than yesterday a dry often with that sunshine highs of 19 degrees and tonight is a similar story dry with clay spells we could see temperatures perhaps not quite as and I was last night down at 9 degrees it does stay dry throughout next week tomorrow a fine and dry plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the night twenty's b.b.c. Radio. That got with Rebecca. Hello hello welcome along to the 2nd day of the kitchen garden laws from the r.h.s. Chelsea Flower Show. Know I woke. Up. That's. Rough I'm back to the kitchen garden life from the all right Ches Chelsea Flower Show so we have an hour of darkness questions now we thought we'd walk you around the Chelsea show ground if you saw earlier on Facebook life we had a sneak peek behind the scenes of the Chelsea Flower Show before opens to the public now we're going to walk around some of the show gardens and help you translate some of those on I did and put them into your garden the home but I'm not going to do that by myself thankfully we've got Bentley with this triple Chelsea gold medalist had a pink Hello how are you yeah good lovely to see you at Chelsea It feels like coming home here every year it's something very special it's different to any of the flash any on you know I get a lot of ties and this one is just different it's like Rendell a cram it's fantastic it really is in the pit the moment where I feel like I've come home to Chelsea every year it's where I walked round the corner from the gate as we come into the Fast Show garden that you see on Main Avenue which is always the m. And g. Garden which is a big plots Now we showed you this garden Facebook Live in which we should if a show of it on that b.b.c. Radio silent. But to my mind this is a little bit controversial as gardens go you'll see if you've seen the photo it's very much I think about hard landscaping not so much about planting and it looks a bit like you know I don't want to appear like a Philistine in here but you know when you look at a piece of modern alt and you think I know I'm supposed to really appreciate that and get it but I just don't I have to say it's not often I want to live with it it's a governess make a statement really in terms of actual gardening as I don't think there's anything here that I can take away with me and I think that's a little bit I'm worried that Chelsea to starts to lose that it's about making a dramatic statement a big sculptural design and she loses touch with real people who want to know about Palm some bonsai see ations things that. Are all than a sort of much more sort of serial idea involved it's it's a pretty harsh. Yeah there's an awful lot of hard landscaping going to reach you the brief about this government says inspired by an abandoned Molteno quarry the message behind the design is creation is that humans need to take action to preserve the fragile environment of all plonked sustaining planets rather sorry sustainable water disposable recycling and composting old all vital if mult is to say its distinct and delicate landscapes now I think with some of the show gardens at Chelsea it's a bit like watching a fashion show with the models on the catwalk you think that looks beautiful but it would never work in my garden as much as you would aspire to it but I think you're right this garden is much more of a message than about the planting Yeah and that worries me because it gets sort of very much about it's trying to tell you something rather than actually inspiring your make you think you know there are some fabulous plants that let's rescue them let's you know let's see the beauty of these plants. And I think this is Raul the last beauty of the pump material that it does have sort of enclosed in these pillows and you really can't see the plant material I think that's a real shine it will let you make your mind up when you watch the Chelsea coverage and that's always a good to talk about that because I think we often come up to Chelsea and we stand here a guy who doesn't look beautiful and isn't it wonderful but actually I think you need to be honest about what you see in front of it and yes it's down to interpretation but you at home like me you know we're just average gardeners and that's not something that would appeal to me as covers it probably is unlike the guy that we're just about to cross over to now these are the Radio 2 Gardens there are a series of them the one that we're standing in front of here is the Ana Corrales colored garden it's being designed by Sarah Raven and all these gardens have been designed to celebrate 50 years of broadcasting this is a joyous garden packed full of color I adore this going because I love Kala I love seeing things that this you could have in your garden this so many different shades and tons of things look at the gorgeous rise that the most popular Skala. Stunning I can't even describe the color it's a red but was shades of purple in it and a touch of tangerine as well I mean the colors in this is just fine plus with a message as well that you can cancel Also this news that I'm So you know that whole English files movement is huge so you can almost become a tiny part of English you know British fast doing and you are in God and growing things like this and it's all these different plots in different colors a stunning I mean the different colors and textures in here and what I love you see I'm a bit of a sucker for glow. And it's got this lovely sort of slightly did a play today to shed here which is got a skin really fun it's nice and rusty but on the shelves that there's lots and lots of different colors Blas And that to me when we were in this morning the. Sun was shining from behind and. Standing I want to jump up and down with joy when I see this garden it just kind of fills you with that sense we're going to be tweeting photos of all the gardens as we go around and see them at b.b.c. Radio and we want to down and have a look at a few more Radio 2 Gardens in just one moment but yesterday I was lucky enough to catch up with Sarah Raven the designer if you know her before she's a gardener she's a cook she's an author she's a broadcaster if you go to the garden center should probably see her name on some of the seed packets I caught up with a yesterday and had a chat with her about her and a crisis color guard so I'm not just saying this because I'm sitting in your garden but it's joyous it's a riot of color but in a good way you must be so pleased with it I am actually a totally thrilled I felt sort of from the beginning because we were in the us to do these gardens literally 10 weeks ago or something and it felt like it was under Bill but there's been a fair wind behind us all the way I've had from testing growers pushing stuff because I really wanted lots around us because it's cut and come again cut flowers mainly And I want to run years and really you know from March to now it's not enough time but because it's the light levels have been so high things are in flower and and then just the hope coming together of the Garden this week has been fantastic and really genuinely a pleasure every day very long very tiring but really really creative and fun your garden is a pleasure to look at you walk around the corner Any see a hair and it's one of those gardens and I think this is rather a child say where you see a god you think yes I could pick me up take it home and put it in my God you could see that well that's exactly what I wanted and actually this is in a way a more distilled intense version of my garden at home which is very colorful but no sort of color I hope I do it in a kind of subtler more fines and carefully thought through way than that and so there's a color progression through the garden but it is about color and it's about being able to go out. In your nightie pick a bunch of flowers see the Stemmons in boiling water which means our loss better in the vase and have flies around your house as well as around your garden because that's what you are doing now you said to me I'm just boiling the kettle for the folks gloves Yes So if you if anything any flat flop so you find any flat petals drop really quickly like puppies if you see it a 10th of the height of the stem in boiling water it's just got to be in a coffee mug straight off the boil with the kettle and how long you said depends on the texture of the stem surface would you like to give it 30 seconds if it's really soft like an annual light Cerinthus or even a Blue Bell I give it 5 seconds. Critic if someone came to Chelsea and saw this garden or they saw the tennis I want to recreate that. It's fairly still what tips would you give them is it really is easy to do a lot of the stuff here is annuals about 4050 percent of the plants around here so it's incredibly cheap because you can grow them from seed or buy little seedlings and then there's a good bone structure of some perennials and a few evergreens eucalyptus which almost are hidden in here but actually they are here and so they will be along with the lovely Capas woods so Rick Birch structures for the sweet peas will give a lovely structure for the winter too so it really is easy and doable and there's no room for ways because it's so heavily plantings up about why did you have to go and the edibles in here are the ornamental all on the mantle Yeah no I if I had to garden twice the size I'd probably exactly mirror it with the edibles But no this is all a mental illness and lovely scent coming from it as well I think the roses over there as you walk past they waft in your direction your loss of scent and I hope you notice also. Be testing there are be everywhere my husband is that she allergic to bees and I bet he hasn't got his Epi Pen but wherever I look there are bees and not yet butterflies in the air but it is really really really intensely active with pollinators assoon as the song comes out and this garden is the and the karate scars and so has also been done so much up us now it's a little bit Anika Yeah it's very vibrant and Tricia guild too from Designers Guild say we collaborated on it and they both love blue and green particularly there that you really passionate colors to the bed David that is very much the attrition Anika bed. But the cushions we're sitting on here from Designers Guild and so the 3 of us are sort of I mean I kind of propose things and it's been edited by them I guess and what happens to the garden after Chelsea. Well a lot of it. This shed we're going to recreate back at my home at pet. And it's going to be a little plant so the stool I think. And a lot of the plants will go back to Pat shell as it will sell off some on Saturday and the crocus who supplied last the plots to they're going to sell so much a big plot for next weekend so this question of that going on and you know inevitably I'm not going to be here because I think I'll find it just to heart rending surprise that other people can take a little bit of Chelsea but if you want God and I'm sad Thank you very much lovely lovely to meet you that's design a Sarah Raven talking about. Color garden that she designed as part of the Radio 2 series celebrating the 50 years of broadcasting there are a series of gardens hey we've moved along to the edge now which is another one of my favorite radio 2 gardens they're all great but I do have to have a favorite haven't you and this is the Jeremy Vine texture garden which was standing in front of now by tweeting photos of it on that b.b.c. Radio silent we will be on Facebook live again later this afternoon so you can see some more of the gardens here but I wanted to bring Pip to this God because I wanted to talk about how to get texture into your garden this is truly rumbles noisily behind me it's proof that they're still building things they say in the Chelsea Flower Show now when we're building a garden often it's a case old pay if you go to the garden center you pick up all that looks gorgeous I've got to have it my garden we don't always think about how it's going to work in the go we think about color and how it's going to look but also the things like sent to incorporate and in the case of hair it's about texture as well and it's x. But. It's really beautiful isn't it what they've achieved here is they've got some of the strongest shapes and forms with a really sort of both look to them but against some lovely soft grass is that give you a lovely feel this type of tenuous which is the light of the grass is so slightly golden color just gorgeous it works really well and then in among. That you have these silky textured California poppies which are an lovely soft almost a primrose yellow which is like a butter cream isn't it it's just such a lovely color and it's in amongst the Purple Sage purple fennel they've got that lovely sort of rusty rich Burgundy Cala against that and the colors together plus that extra work so well so it's looking at different textures so you want smooth shiny tracks just something we they give you a boulder failed to it and then you want something Fina I'm oh man to Modelica and that gives you a contrast against it so it's really important so you do it in both the state the direct feel of it so whether it's coal whether it's course a matter whether shiny but also in the shape of the flowers say one of the things we tend to do is actually any have one kind of flask you like a certain kind most of us like round flowers so you'll buy a round last words he see and hear this less round flowers and lots of lovely spikes of flowers looking come through and they give you contrast as well so it gives you a different feel lines amongst the texture it's a very clever garden and I mean look at the tree here this is a standard this is a Multi Stem prune if Sarah and it's got a mahogany imagine a Silver Age with a rich mahogany colored ball that's what it's like it pales is absolutely beautiful looks stunning when I think he's also done here which I don't think is very fashionable but he's managed to achieve it splendidly is the introduction of conifers here not always popular no kind of it's a very out of fashion and it's such a shame because these a lovely little pines already Pinus me Hugo which is nice compact fine and we buy toward his in the garden centers and actually they grow to about 6 foot whereas these are probably about 20 years old and they're only about want to know half across maybe 3 wide and they're just and so so beautiful and these will look great all year round so when the Haitian things are. Goan you still got that contrast a text to from those evergreens and that's really important it's the bank writing of your girl that makes such a difference to me and normally when we think of conifers we think of a comical shape we don't think of qualifies as being in a dwarf nature like that so that's how you can incorporate a little bit of texture into your garden just some of the factors to think of we're going to head off to the all to sad gardens in just one moment because it's not something that features as heavily as the show gardens here at Chelsea and then later on the softening we're going to be walking into the floor pavilion where of course we have many local exhibits says including holidays cottage plants here the 25th year at the Chelsea Flower Show we've got Hampshire carnivorous plants college Hayley and stories to name but a few will be catching up with some of those local exhibits says and seeing how they getting on at Chelsea now I must draw your attention to this governor we're going to stand in front of the news can be one the most talked about which is the Chris Evans Tice garden again one of the Radio 2 Gardens if only my allotment. But we all wish all veggie people look like this this is so perfect because right is a beautiful perfect bed here we go left this is we go kale we go all sorts of things again the contrast of color and texture here is amazing coming soon it's decorative when you've got things that just stunning look at those leaks and the leaks a perfectly lined up so all the leaves are going the same way so it's really very very decorative it would be a shame to ate anything in here off to it but that's I think a message that we're trying to get across so you're trying to get across is garden design is actually growing edible plants can be just as pretty as growing ornamental plants as well and also you don't have to give them their own vegie called numbing all of these look great in amongst all the plants in your garden so when you go in the garden and you think you know what to put in there Popovich to pull in put some tomatoes put some lettuce let me know so I can see that being a strap life. Go with puppets to what are you waiting for I think we've got about one minute before the trouble before we get knocked over by all the various Laurie and just very quickly I want to tell the Jo Whiley being you should full soft halting here is while all it's got one of my favorite haunts look at that beautiful puppy it's absolutely stunning fully fully double black puppy with this sort of grey fire ledge these I have in my garden but tiny If I dig the ground so if you stop cultivating they go away so then when you do get going they suddenly reappear the next year so it's one of those things poppy seed you have to disturb it so that you get a growing well here I mean it's a wonderful mix of deep plummy colors and then a shot so white through it it's absolutely stunning and just lovely You can hear we've got our own traffic and travel here with the airplanes overhead and the helicopters as well but the time being we're going to check on the roads where you all. P.c. Radio silent. And Steve Dean has the latest I do indeed if you're heading towards London all names for a Don't get between junction 2 for the m 25 and 3 for light water the motorway will be closed all weekend so it's looking busy as you approach that section and straight southbound junction a friend over it's also looking fairly busy through the road works as a speed restriction in place of 50 miles per hour. 35 found side road by attractions this time between long flat road best sharp and parks and right now you find the right clothes because of road works and looking at public transport car no problems to report but remember. Mary stadium the softer name Southampton entertaining stock city and the footy the kick up is abstract clock so you can expect extra traffic in North America Kings why amoraim price just before the match and of course off to the farm it was so awful 45 if you want anything on the roads I mention and give us a call and I have more fear in 30 minutes. Travel hotline. As the general election campaign intensifies which issues matter to you the red cell service I'm very concerned about education breaks it. On the b.b.c. . Understand what the policies really mean for us here in the south and we're asking the questions you. Keeping you up to speed with events on t.v. Online. On b.b.c. Radio silence as we delve deeper into the issues when we live. On b.b.c. Radio. Hello welcome back to the kitchen garden live at the r.h.s. Chelsea Flower Show We're also live on Facebook this off today. B.b.c. Radio site and you'll find us there on Facebook now we are standing now the offices and gardens and I thought we'd come around here anyway because we have a local design a Sarah ebony but also because I don't think they get enough profile we often feature the show gods and not the smaller. Gods is that the main difference between those in the show Goldens Pip they always have a feature or something had to be made a skill that's been used in creating the garden so something like this that's the scale of the most that's involved in this it's inspired by Gowdy these wonderful. Nouveau stuff I mean ball Sloane or if anyone's been there just stunning So it's going to trip. You can see the garden now if you're on Facebook live it is stunning It's designed by Sarah who's also designing the nurseries garden this year in the floor base and she's going for her triple double She tells me which basically means she's had 3 years of doing 2 Goldens at the same time potentially this could be another set of 2 gold medals who knows that it will be the triple double that's difficult to pronounce it just sounds like a fancy cocktail to manage and surely that's going to be some kind of world record she is the most decorated designer at Chelsea and it's not surprising standing looking at this garden in front of us here it's not an arranged tree I Spy before me it's fabulous isn't and small that an orange is looking stunning and. Really shows how something like this synagogue if you go a really sheltered you know what you could do this really yeah you create this little corner with an orange tree it's nice and sheltered it will put up with it will take surprising amount code should you treat it in the same way that you treat 11 tray Yeah it's very similar that just their little bit more tender lemon if you're a little bit colder lemons a better bat just lovely like this because it gives you a whole enclosed feel hey you know you can see you've got this wonderful see you consider home with you much when the orange blossoms out and how gorgeous it's going to smash. The oranges there at about Absolutely absolutely but something like that you have to bring in those in the winter presumably spends half sheltered you are I mean a lot of all gardens in the area very sheltered by the sea it's amazing what you can get away with I always work on the principle of try it and see what happens see how you get on let's skip down so that you can see the rest of the gods if you're watching And joining us on Facebook Live some of the authors and gardens in front of you further down there's a golden that we're going to be featuring later I did an interview yesterday with David domany who's designed the Wargrave saying Tina every garden which I know everyone's talking about because there's that emotional message behind it is so poignant and it's beautifully put together so you'll be have to say freshness of that face but live and also we were talking about craftsman how all these gardens have to have an element of craftsman and there's the poetry lovers garden where if you know who designed the garden also made some of the sculptures initials while Pitt was standing in front of David's saying Tinner a garden hair again lovely soft planting alliums obviously being a massive feature of all the Chelsea Gardens is time of year yeah it's just such a reliable lot of great in the garden just in the coming year after year after year so the a real reliable Chelsea study it's Paul that's here with another reliable one to do . The tallest lovely for those towering spires But what's lovely about this gun is this really shows what you could do in a small town garden because this is got quite a sophisticated feel to it you know that's a nice amount of the hard landscaping but this lovely soft tones and to go with it I think this is another of the very divil in gardens it's got a really lovely feel to it you feel sort of almost envelops by the planting always amazes me about the design is or any design is that put a garden together it's not just something that looks beautiful because it does and it's not just something that season also fits for this time of year but also how you managed to get a message across from it as well as how it makes you feel when you step inside the garden and that's difficult yet is and it's it's one of the the sad things in a way sometimes because the public can't see inside the garden because it's one of the nice bits about being here during construction you know you know a lot of the design is you get her village you going inside the gardens as well but this one in particular really draws you in even though you're not going inside it you really drool into it it's got very clever. Like a balustrade the lead here in the metal one quite modern looking man really love it draws you right in and it shows how lined takes you right into. Say much of the skull and it's been made by people with a link to the Commonwealth people and it just makes such a difference to a message and it's beautiful it's just a lovely garden you can see the faces of it now or footage rather on Facebook life are going to leave your face but life is a member going to come back in a moment and be in the full pavilion but for the time being I want to play you an interview that I did with David domany yesterday the designer of this garden you may well know him this is how the channel pickled i.t.v. And we've never had it it does a television programme the city with gardening favor and I write a broadcaster and designer and this is an interview from yesterday David won on a to do this got him it's amazing isn't it and I've been to lots of different grave sites all over northern Europe and I suppose when you're there and you realize the magnitude of what happened 1st and 2nd world war in the 1700000 who died. There's no full. Awareness in your own mind and put your own life into perspective the gratitude you have for the freedoms that we live today and also the fact that the hardship that the servicemen and women felt during those times spelling to comparison any of our own hang ups that we've got in life so I wanted to try and create something that was a small reflection garden the sort of like position limb between the. Grave sites and the car park where people can sit and think and remember and appreciate it so looking at the garden the 1st thing you notice is this like huge circular Gates it's like almost a moon gate but it's in the shape of this this list metallic wreath with crying on the top and as you look through this portal this this giant circle you see a beautiful garden within and a circular called. Vic's mirror reflecting back at the garden there are railings that seem to snake right the way through to a circular race platform at the top of the stairs and for imposing Japanese maples which have got beautiful green heads and clear stems and underneath the clear stem there is marvelous flowers attracting all the beasts and there's a mixture of turf or shades with white fluid movements of of grasses and rich green foliage works and of course nestled in there there are 2 statues and they came from a very special place you know as a link to Portsmouth I came from from British naval headquarters in the memorial at Portsmouth of which they've stood up to the weather for the certain of the last half century and as part of the regeneration and. The way they take care the Commonwealth War Graves Commission take care of their sites they have been replaced with new statues and these ones here from the the front at Portsmouth now find themselves in a secluded garden with butterflies birds and bees and plants around them as a as a point of remembrance and reference to the soldiers that fell to the 1st and 2nd world war what happens to the garden after Chelsea Well it can't be going to a further place than where it is now and it's going to be rebuilt up in Cameron Australia is going to be built for this trail and show obviously the river Seasons they'll have an Australian planting combination will be different but the railings in the race than the mirror and the seat and everything goes over over there so we're not astray and. Can identify and relate with because the one thing having gone to the some battle which my grandfather fought in he was badly wounded in the in the 1st World War We always thought he was unlucky but he survived of course and that is that that that those that were my father and me and my daughters wouldn't be born but you get a. An over. Well me emotional feeling in the connected nature of that lots of different countries came together and if you look there's a little small leads tally Cleaves almost the size of an earring that are hung all the way around the railings on the inside and there are $154.00 little leaves there all marked on the back and they represent each of them represent a country where there's a war gravesite so within it it's right in fact that the paving that we have you are old headstones that have been replaced with new headstones for the soldiers is part of the recycling we've incorporated and given them a 2nd life in so the garden has a lot of personality for the war graves commission which is celebrating its 100 years since it since its founding. And attempting to put as much personality into the garden as possible make it very poignant those touches were always amazes me about you design it is how you managed to convey a message like that and a message with such sincerity within a continent Yeah and it tempts to 2 to put the personality each got each of my guns have a lot of different personalities with a 10000000 in you know 20000000 in diamonds and I did one year for b.m.i. . And also had tanks of life around us when we were doing underwater voyage types and things so my aim with a lot of the guards is to put that personality and try and stretch gardening much further you can make a garden too to your own needs so you're own things it doesn't have to just follow the standard formats this garden in particular has a lot of members believe in association with the commission and the gardens have as well and it is that balance between beauty and something that feels comfortable I'm hoping somebody that works on the Commonwealth will go commission would walk into this garden feel at home because what my garden feels like and I think everybody's . Should you know the garden is like the the jumper you wear on a Saturday that feels so great and fits so well and it's comfortable and gardens do that because you know plants in your if you go to the war grave sites and look at the some battlefields they were completely different now to the mud in the trenches you know nature in Jaws and I think sitting in a garden you know lifts the heart and nourish the soul and this garden is a garden of remembrance but also appreciation for all the positive things that we have in life today and a connection with nature goes a long way with this garden changed to you to some extent and for suture effect on your own life like the mirror at the back of the Coliseum Yes I think it has been a journey having gone to the site where my grandfather for it was badly wounded and where 500 of the of his friends and colleagues were buried I think it really focuses your mind towards the gratitude of those who for and those who are in the armed forces of and protecting the values that we hold so close and it will be a place I will take my daughters to to see as well and I think there's another thing about it of course is that we will have a tendency to get hung up with our own life problems and you realise compared to to the soldiers who go out and supporters and our values in many of the there's a debt of gratitude we have to them and and that's been quite a lot of emotional journey that you could may convey the message x. And I know it's a garden lots of people are talking about they are genuinely coming in saying Have you seen David's garden it's a garden I think that touches a lot of people that's it and then it's waiting so it's really what the public is not with the public think what the judge is saying but the moment that's coming on Wednesday why not say what they say they've come to say about that as well so yes and we're close to the end of the journey it's been a long time putting it together so many different components that are within it and at one point this God was in 5 different countries it's all here together and thinking of all the answers and crafts from the commission in France and in Belgium and of course in the u.k. As well that have all played a part in putting it together it's been a marvelous journey and a brilliant Chelsea thank you very much Rebecca. That was David dominate talking about his will grave saying in one of the offices on God and say that the Chelsea Flower Show Welcome back we're live now from the floral pavilion we've stepped inside away standing next to Rosie holidays from all these cautious it's gotten hits her 20 year saying it because it makes If it out had 25th year at the Chelsea Flower Show I think she's probably up to about $21.00 gold medals I saw this garden earlier today it's come on a treat even more so since when I saw it this morning and what's grabbing my attention pit those beautiful sky blue iris is all they were just that. She's done really cleverly issues pair them with a bright strong pink which really brings out the color and this is one of the stones where you really see combinations. Rosemary is so good at putting them together you know it really makes such a difference we're really lucky here so many of our experts on gardeners questions I hit every year at the Chelsea Flower Show we've got Rosie Hardy one of our experts we caught up with Neil Lucas from no gardens who's also a mediator here a judge and all right just judge at the Chelsea Flower Show I can do of course you . And David hover am now David's not so much designing a garden Hamp but he is planting a garden and I think that might come as a surprise to people that gardeners who are very well qualified recognise in the industry are also planting for other people at the Chelsea Flower Show Well it's absolutely vital as a child when I come in later on to actually start assessing the skull on the 1st things you look at is what you're looking for is those correct combinations of plants so you've really got snow when you're putting something together it's not just what looks pretty it's not she what would genuinely grow together because simply in the floor pavilion we don't want to give people the wrong idea about flaunt something we could plant this. I'm with this one if you couldn't and salute you volatile these homes will grow together in your garden in the combination so that is a big thing as a challenge you're looking for say uni really skilled horticulturist to actually produce and we're going to come back in a minute and talk about Clematis because written a bit about climate a mushy tale we're going to make the most of our and talk about that but 1st I want to play you an interview that I did with a few nicad who's the designer of the poetry love is gone and again an artist and garden she's a lady that's not only responsible for the designing She's also made the structures and it was David her in one of our experts associate editor for gardeners wild magazine that did the planting on that garden and this is. Yesterday the point of the garden I suppose is that it's designed for a solitary individual who likes a contemplative tranquil retreat near the sound of water where maybe they come home after a hard sit outside read a book perhaps a book of poetry because it's based on the dogs based on a poem by Taylor Coleridge called this lime tree by my prison and I thought it would be fun to make a garden is. About somebody who didn't really want to be in the garden in the 1st place so how do you entice them into the garden if they don't want to be in a well the the back story is that when courage wrote the poem he had injured his foot and was unable to go off with his friends for the loan make sure ramble that he did intend it as say he's sitting with his feet up in his own garden when he doesn't want to be there and while he's imagining what all these other poets are doing striding across the landscape looking at the sea and the waterfalls and so on he begins to realise imaginatively he's connected with them anyway and that we. All connected and then did nature is all connected with gardening and everything else and that helps him to enjoy the more confined space that he's actually in and say My garden is designed for somebody who actually enjoys the contemplative life like Coleridge. Isn't an interval is a good Charisse person who also wants to go outside that's why it's got a gate at the back into and should. You have planted the orchard as well have you have. A man behind the gate Yes and as within the garden there's a section of wildflowers planting out a couple of patch trees Petrie's said that it's a very small or should but it is that. Like gardens in Britain you can't rely on the weather and if you need to out the garden you need some shelter which you don't roll the magnificently with the line tree Well they're known drip limes same case in case anybody is wondering there are a variety called Taylor you Clora which is very be friendly and there are lots of bees in the poem so I wanted be friendly plants digitalis and lots of things as well. But they also are not drip because the chaise long that. This going to sit on very Tates but it is under the canopy of the tree and rotating chaise longue That's a new model me where did you get that from you have a specially made well I did have it specially made I designed it made old a sculptural elements in the garden because I have a background in terrorists and finally So I wanted to to sort of show I suppose the Alba things that I do within the gardening context. So it's not just the planting it's the sculptures Why does up even more pressure on you or is it better to actually have complete control over everything yourself well I have to say I thought it would be better at the beginning but as I and indeed overall I think it's fun to do that not saying it's better but but as we wrestled with the engineering challenge of the water feature itself I began to think it was the biggest headache in the garden and I'd never get to think about the planting but it will came to get us a there that's why it works and how you feeling now you're putting the finishing touches to the garden please with everything you must be pleased amazing team of people helping me. I feel put to shame by the incredible sort of set of skills that have come come together to work on this both both my my hard landscaping contractors and the planting people are just so talented and just fun it's bridges wonderful the way that they've interpreted you know my ideas with the plants that I've got but yeah I'm still a little nervous because we're not there yet we've got a bit of finishing off to do well it's a beautiful garden I don't think you need to be a poetry lover to appreciate it so wonderful relaxed pace best of luck thank you thank you very much Becca. Welcome back to the r.h.s. Chelsea Flower Show that was you know the designer of the poetry has gotten an artist on garden here the Chelsea flash I welcome back to everyone watching on Facebook live as well thank you for joining us this afternoon when the closing stages I'm afraid of the kitchen garden we've only got about 15 minutes left just to tell you from 2 o'clock this afternoon b.b.c. Radio certain sport brings you live commentary of the last day of the Premier League season Saints host Stoke City Bournemouth travel to Leicester City back to gardening matches now we've got Pitt Ben stay here also an author of a. Because climbing plants where standing in front of Raymond ever since Clematis stand which is breathtaking it's a very different stand the shed just explain the structure of it yes this slightly crazy structure actually he's got these wonderful grids supporting clematis that literally go in waves across the whole of the stand and it's a big exhibit here this is a really large one particular Camus's which can be a little bit cheesy You know they may be in beautiful flower for the show although maybe just coming out just with that said this must have been huge undertaking for him in the team. It's a huge difference there we only catching them is net really I mean it's very dramatic he's got this lovely sort of slightly Seiji blue. Path across the middle and just looks stunning I mean I mean Clematis happened here yes Raymond and there was not enough room in coach him Fisk really bought Clematis back to Chelsea in the sort of late seventy's they they disappeared and they both between them bought them back and of creates this sort of really dramatic spectacle with them and they're just such fabulous sponsors you fitment anywhere in the Gulf. Or in front of them to us because we're at the time of year when for many people there Clematis will have gone nova now so how do you extend the season can you have climate is fine in your garden year round Yeah absolutely there's a clematis for every single month of the year so you can have flour right the way around these Clematis here on the whole what we call large flat hybrids so they fly . And that's that big period of flying now the thing people worry about with climate is printing so this kind they grow so from now on this time will grow and then might bogs and then the rest in the winter and come out into the spring so what you want to do is if you need to cut them back you cut them back now so you preen the back to a frame that you're happy with and then let them grow and produce more bugs through the summer so. Don't prune them at the end of the season because then you'll be talking about self that thing you've always putting off of lying and would you do that with a clematis It's just finished wiring now a spring flowering well yeah unless it's something big like I'm on top on a an Alpine pathless So they're the big and most species ones I like the little ballet school ones where you have the lots and lots of that will double petals hanging down among taller which are the single little ones couple trees and things there isn't any pruning when you need to cut the back because you won't space whereas these a little bit later flowering lovely big flowers on them and these are the ones that you want to cut back immediately they finish flying you cut them back and sometimes with some brought a 2nd crop of last in September that's a little bonus pretties one of those things always confuses all us God knows what she's why you experts say Hey welcome home if you're joining us on Facebook Live this often in the closing stages of the kitchen garden life from the Chelsea Flower Show we did a little behind the scenes tour for you showing you the gardens still very much in the finishing state is we wanted to show you one of the gardens here as well we're always talking about how you get the next generation into gardening and of course Paul Schulte college a very good at saying that we'll be looking at that in just one moment very quickly but 1st let's just check on the right. The radio silence. 3 musical genre has a big. Music was a break. Every style forged by different pioneering work and every day and we've always found a way to sing the music country hip hop. Gospel and. Origins on a concert like never before in this period. Of time. To. Change the world and everything American and pick a full part television special tonight at 10 on b.b.c. 4. Sadly we've reached the end of all Chelsea Flower Show special with his bar as I'm sure it will do if you're lucky enough to come and visit I hope you've enjoyed this on Facebook life this often as well thanks to my ex but. Always a pleasure I was away lovely to be in here that fabulous smile and Joe Palma will be reporting live on the breakfast show and she was bringing the news of all the medal hopefuls including the likes of Spawn college courses ponce. But we're going to leave you with a little selection of all metal hopefuls hoping for a gold medal on Tuesday morning. Some of the students grow in the polls now we're going to meet the construction full time the exhibit guys come on in the sheltering from which you believe it the some today I know it's a rarity to say that a while and write your name by the line Johnson. And have any of you been up to Chelsea fan. Before obviously you've seen on the telly here so how do you feel building an exhibit that's going to go channel say it's a bit daunting is where the best plans for the standards are. You're involved in the Chelsea Flower Show again this year how did that come about and what she doing we have been involved in actually growing plants for Merrick who grow food that Eco therapy come to your senses garden have been involved in making fairy houses which will be a feat to point of the garden Hello class to have am. You sound like a team that has a lot of good idea is to do you know where these fairy houses are going to end up oh a lot of hands up now go on that old child Mia one threat by a quite ready 321. And no fuss Oh now this is important isn't it because almost or it's been at the Chelsea Flower Show it's going somewhere else solve this now it's going to get your house. Chelsea's always a headache because it's the time of year that it is and it's always so changeable weather wise but it's this one of the years you've had all more challenging I think every year Mother Nature she has actually turned off as other exhibitors must find the very stressful times to get ready yes we'll get circle we go to the back of my mind I'm confident I can breathe. So Sarah your the most decorated designer at Chelsea does not put the pressure on a little bit more than have you got stage fright doesn't make you different it does put the pressure on because this year could be my triple double so impressive and it kind of just being there makes me think. So what's the trouble double I have. The last 2 years won 2 gold medals at each of the last 2 . To 5 including 2 guns this year again if I get to go. I sort of somehow managed to get to the point where with 25 years of exhibiting at Chelsea I don't know where.

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