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Radio Stoke it's the gardening phone in between now and 130 and expert gardening guest is author R.H.'s author designer and teacher Jenny Hendy Hi Jenny how are you I'm very well thank you Terry good now you've been away in the sun yeah that's good always good to have a break and begin to talk about lots of things in the gone but before we do we could Akula from crew and it's Jean and that's was all about getting people to call in ask your advice so hello Jeanne. Hi Harry hi Jenny Hello Jeanne right here you talk about fruit trees don't you I do yes I boght so much patio fruit trees Yes I'm not happen to be is Ok. I've set them in the same pots. Oh but now I want I think it's time we went into a bigger pot Ok Do you remember what what type of trees they were than where they apples in. Right Ok Larry would have done nothing only route $86.00 but. The glory of plum tree which grew to really green route Wow Right and. Wrong yes and run out hopefully that crew to back up. The other one didn't do anything. Right Ok so when you bought them just sort of getting a bit of background really sometimes they when they saw like a collection that they guaranteed to sort of pollinate each other yeah like for instance you might have a couple of apples that will pollinate each other the plum is or all right on its own in the chair generally speaking and that the cherry in the plum is interesting you say it's Shuswap the cherry. Well the cherries do do that and around about sort of July time it's a good good idea just take some of the height down off those really tall shoots that will do with it Lashley make a little side fruiting spurs these little short shoes that will carry blossom and fruit for the following year so why not to do it now with plums and cherries because they can get Silverleaf disease but it's a great time you're absolutely right now that the leaves are just starting to drop it's a good time to pop them all in a nice a good quality compass something with John and his in it his I saw him. That night so well you know I would just use like you say a good quality multipurpose come past and it says on the packet with John Innes that yeah and I would buy an extra bag of John and his number 3 which is quite heavy stuff and I just mix a little bit more of that John an ace into all of the pots wanted. Yeah yes. I've also got some logic to it fruit trees that are in pots right I don't know shit about it we've got an orchard carrying that I was so it's only a small backyard Dobbin both the Apple had to put everything in pots because we don't play Yeah good on you for that office for finding a way round it yes and I've got so much to brown the apple right and I've got to. Compliment what the name is not it's the next thing to it copies right and I've got a number of us to rush Ok moment and then I'll be in big pots. I don't do what I do you get damage with. When you are yeah you know if you put at like a what they call top dressing which is just a layer really but do it 3 inches deep often in your novel that will do them in really good stat and also if you haven't gotten your to hand you out just thinking about all the people listen listening in I think yeah right you could also use your own garden come past and top that up with just a little bit of slow release pellets or all you have to tell granules you know the ticking palate could I use that I would or no I wouldn't put that on until the spring and the reason I'm saying that is because they provide a lot of nitrogen and that will get the growth going really strongly all the leaf and shoot growth in the spring so I believe that a little spring I did yesterday. Pelletreau that they have got too large containers of cooking parasite Yeah I'm going to ring Dr and ask about them but I bet you know what well I definitely put them in your on some slow release fertiliser and then in the spring Yes you know not too much obviously but now you can you can put a thin layer Yeah yeah all right I mean you very much by then bye bye always good to have a happy customer 01722008 double 08 is the number to ring or you can text you takes is one trouble 3 Start your message with the word Stoke someone who's done that is Sundra in Trenton and Jenny she says we've planted some daffodil allium bulbs a few weeks ago and they've appeared through the soil already do we need to cover them up with more soil right while daffodil bulbs are absolutely barren Hardy in so the alliums so it's only really. Things like Chili Bowl. Obs that can be a bit more vulnerable to frost this is quite common actually to see sheeting through the soil way way before that they're going to flower in the spring. So no you don't actually need to cover them up and sometimes it's really great when you've got your bulbs shooting earlier because it puts the scrolls off taking them off because squirrels a little darlings they will when you put things like chewed bowls in or crocus they very often can sniff those bulbs out and dig them up and Annie them but they don't tend to like them as much when they were actually started to sprout Ok another text before we play some music is from Gordon in Mir The Daily is looking sad can I lift them before the frost should I lift them before the frost even. Yet in this part of the world you get pretty cold winters don't you pretty sharp frosts and penetrating frosts boughts lots and lots of people now are actually using deep dry mulch is so. About 6 inches deep swerve of something like bark for instance and then just mounting not over why they weathered the daily as all on the ground cutting them down when they when they start to sort of looked at him What have you know and that is enough is quite often enough insulation to protect the cheap is underground so that you don't have to disturb the ridges everything up and do all this you know drying them off and everything very ready with Gordon if he was going to dig them up and stall them in the traditional why I would still leave it until the frost got gets the burn off oh well 72. The numbers are in or text 81 trouble free to start a message with words don't. Feel. One Supremes in Baby Love it says 17 minutes past 12 it's b.b.c. Radio Stoke and it's the gardening phone until 130 and our expert gardening guest this week Jenny handy Jenny before we took a break to listen to the Supremes we'd had a text from Gordon in Mia saying about the dangers and should we lift them up as could be called them by because they're a bit and then definitely you can cut them back at this time of it as long as they've already started to die back and then they go. If they're still really green and juicy but just a bit because they've got small fly. Hours on whatever it's important to leave them a little bit longer if you are going to dig them up because what happens is the cooler temperatures for the plant to send all those lovely nutrients from the leafy green this down into the chub are and it's all of our energy in food is stored in the cheap before for next year see that bigger better flowers next year so what you can do is. When they start to before they start to go yeah if you like give them a tomato food and that'll help give a bit of a boost to the Chukkers and then just wait until they're gone a little bit yellow and dying back if you don't want to wait to the frost and then you can cut them back right Ok so you don't have to lift them but if you know it's going to be frosty if you know that your garden is a cold garden the daily wouldn't survive otherwise but many many people even in colder areas are now getting away with leave the daily leaving the daily saying I'm just putting this dry mulch over the top. You know several inches deep of something like bark and then of Ok we've had a call a message for you from Iris in Leek who has a lot of pop a tree yes in a 14 inch square pot yeah half the leaves have gone yellow and a dropping off right country feed anything to stop this happening so a lot of pop bay tree should we should be dropping off this time of year well while evergreen shrubs do drop their leaves in it sometimes quite surprising that things are Hollies people have Hollies in pots and they get quite concerned when they get a bit of leaf drop and my standard a tree which actually in the ground. Produce an awful lot of yellow leaves which dropped off in the last couple of months but the plant itself is really nice and healthy now if part of the Shrub has gone yellow that's more concerning that would tend to indicate that perhaps something nice is either eating or in in fact in the plant at that level. All that something's going on in the roots in the pot I don't know how big the bay tree is but 14 inch pot that's quite is quite a sizable pot. Probably probably not that it needs repotting but one of the reasons why the lease will go yellow is also could have scale in fact so you need 2 hours needs to sort of look at the underside of the leaves and if they're a little brown blisters along the veins underneath and maybe some black city mold on the surface of leaves underneath and that would mean that she's got a bit of a problem and she needs to use a systemic insecticide watered into the pot and that should get rid of that keyword is systemic Yes Don't definitely don't spray directly because it won't kill the scale insect and it's more likely to get picked up by by other creatures right Ok lovely 01782208 double 08 is the number to ring or if you want to text it's 81 trouble 3 star a message with the word stroke It's 20 past 12 on this Sunday afternoon let's find out what's happening on the roads of Staffordshire and Cheshire and David as they decided by Terry the m 6 remains closed to traffic heading towards the Stoke area it's after a lorry overturned so it's closed off between junction 18 for Middlewich and Holmes Chapel and 17 for sound batch there's now a very long queue heading into that closure going back to junction 194 knots with all traffic is being diverted off the motorway junction 18 there's a diversion route where you follow the solid square signs using the $54.00 the a 50 and the a 534 to rejoin the m 6 at Junction 17 surrounding routes looking extremely busy you know all routes around Middlewich and Holmes Chapel particularly looking very very slow it's also looking particularly have Busy of the stretch of. The a 534 Congleton right also heading into wards junction 17 that's because of the diverting traffic just one other issue to tell you about there's been reports of an accident at leak police in attendance it's accidents on Asheboro that see a $5.00 to $3.00 around the junction of Pickwick Ave So expect delays in that area if you say thing else you can go on 7 nights to a white double Oit's keeping Staffordshire and Cheshire on them is with travel leaves every 20 minutes face is b.b.c. Radio stuck. Last Saturday evening in so long trying to call the wall of Allah look back at 967 the year that changed soul music it gave us some wonderful northern soul memories if you missed the program you missed some great music one account showed now by visiting the b.b.c. I Player for radio every edition of Solon trying program is available for a full 30 days Richard Serling's soul on try and listen again on b.b.c. I Player b.b.c. Dot co dot u.k. Slash Radio Stoke. Maybe I read you. 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And it's the Guardian phone until $130.00 on our expert gardening guest teacher author and gone designer Jenny Hendy Jenny we're also listening to Elvis we were sort of talking about the gardens and getting ready for the winter and worth of stuff and you said to me Do you ever scart side at night and listen and just listen and to see the bats flying over owls and it's like a jungle out there I think sometimes lately is it just gives me so much pleasure I got out and to I got to feed the hedgehogs actually sort of around dusk and and the has actually been a little baby had shark that's been coming even before it's got fully dark so well obviously he or she is quite packing let's just stick to hedgehogs because before we started the program yesterday you were telling me about hedgehogs if they're too young they won't Yes they haven't got up to a certain body weight they can't actually physically hibernate and unless they're looked after by you know people you know friendly gardeners and what have you and given some kind of decent shelter the probably won't survive the winter and as hedgehogs are critically endangered in this country it's really important that gardeners You know we kind of think about who is out there in the garden who is roaming around and night yeah it's interesting because last time you were at my house in my garden yeah I heard I think I might have said look no you surprises it was. And I said. I'll get my gun for you so your around it's just they don't always see that yes and that's why I think listening going out and listening at night is very useful because if there's something obviously rummaging around in the undergrowth it's almost certainly going to be a hedgehog or you know some similar creature. Because I was also saying to you that how you had an influence on all me the way I garden because years ago when it came to this time the year I just scorched scorched it was just everything every ground that it but you know is said you know you prefer to cut it's a 3 course the way down or halfway down whatever is looking good leave it edges need because it's all on this cover then the other day for the animals out of the better Yeah I think it's so much more pleasurable to look out on to something other than back background as well right Ok Now Gene Stafford has phoned in with a message for you to say she has a box hedge and the new growth is coming up yellow right his word is this serve box blight but it could get something else. Well box plants do when they put the new photo op in response to for instance if they've been cut back or if they're being given a nice liquid feed or something like that they will even at this time of year put on new growth that's why it's quite important to not actually clip box beyond the end of all ghost even if they start to look quite tatty really what what'll happen is that new growth comes out will then be quite vulnerable to to frost damaging Kashi go black in frost So what you're doing is you're leaving the plant long enough to toughen up inside that we've had this crazy mild weather haven't way yeah which is making loads and loads of things think it's spring and all starting to sprout flower again and I think that's probably what's happening here very often the coloring of box is sometimes quite pale when it when it comes through when it starts to come through and it could just being in too much sun got a little bit stressed not quite enough water or even too much water. So it could be any number of things I don't think it's box light box light. I have black streaks on the stem the leaves die off very quickly in this is just a different color. Or what you call a physiological things that are in a tizzy over about it serums don't worry about it but if it's in too much sun move it to a slightly shady position. Ok another subject that's been texted in the n h one trouble 3 if you do text or you message with a worse joke otherwise it disappears off in other directions and it is a text from Stephen who says yesterday I scarified the front door with by electric scarify I know it's got bald patches what it recover or do I need to put some grass seed down again we were talking about this won't we yeah you were saying don't scurry for the morning. So what is that what I mean you can't scarey fired and Stephen is going to be Ok he's got bald patches so what I would recommend days just rake over those bald patches and over so with a good good quality crosseyed and you can even get these patch of grass packets. Which have got kind of moisture retaining stuff in them so it means that if you if you just sowing those bald patches in various spots on the lawn they've got more chance of it coming through in the in the grass germinating So so yes he can over say with grassy but the reason why I am kind of reluctant to to suggest that people Skyfire all the most out of the law because lawns of often got quite messy by this time of year is that the grass is starting to be less vigorous and really when you remove a whole load of fat and Mohsen stuff like that you long comeon really quite a bad state by the end of it especially if you've used a nice piece of kit like like an electric skier a fire which really gets everything out. So if you did that process in spring sort of early April for instance the grass is growing more vigorously than and it can fill in those patches that much more quickly. And is less likely to leave you with that kind of a rather sad looking lawn through the winter Ok so it's not like against. I know you can do it. Yeah especially if you've got a tendency towards lawns and Moss will always grow in loans. Or. But also ones that don't have you know. I was 7 I had 2 to 8 Or text 3 but if you do text message with the word stuck. Yes. That. Call is just one look it's 25 to one on this Sunday lunchtime is b.b.c. Radio Stoke Terry water as always and our expert gardening guest here until 130 is teacher author and gone designer Jenny Hendy Jenny we were talking a few moments ago about sharks and that caused a Texas it's instigated a Texan lives in homes chapel Ok regular texter and Liz says you start to discuss hedgehog poo that you'd recognise in my garden what does it look like because I'd like to recognise it too and also if I do have them in the garden you want to say as well but what leaving them all yeah yeah Ok so far away what does. Well normally it's quite dark so almost black and quite glossy and that's because they eat a lot of beetles and it's usually tapered. Both hands as well if they've got a slightly upset tummy or they haven't been finding the right kind of food for instance if they've been eating a lot of bird food you know grains and things like that you'll often find on digested you know seeds and things in it and know how big would be like is it like this because a pencil in terms of listen. Meters long yeah battening long Yeah but if it's a baby had a child that obviously the pews are smaller here yet in terms of height from the around height of the width of a pencil Yes yes something like yes no doubt not a huge no no Ok but the very distinctive because they're black and they glossy and about an inch long pretty Now I know the next question then is if you do have the more you want to attract the more you feed them well I have a ground feed a bird trike which is just on short legs but people do feed had childs also with plates or you know just something happy that went flip over because you tend to put there from poles on the plates and if it's always provide fresh water for the other thing that I always do and they drink and drink and drink you know you watch them through the curtains and yes amazing how good long drinks I have so water fresh water is very important for them too so what source are some so yeah I just use a heavy ceramic dishes you know the bottoms of you know pot dishes Yes sources here . So in terms of food at this time of year you can use mail worms which the birds like as well so you can feed them things that Robin's love male worms starlings and what have you but they will readily those and also most importantly cat food dried cat food the you know like pellets Yeah because it's got the right constituents of. You know the right nutrients in it for high chalks So it's important to to to not to feed them the sort of the the wet asses sashayed type of cat food unless it's a jelly based one but the dry cat food they young. You know something that's chicken based or something like that and meat based as opposed to fish based and ideally put it somewhere where not to close the house persona where you can see out the window you can say I don't and as long as you're quiet actually they'll come amazingly close to the house because they forage a. A very wide area and the other thing that's really important is to make sure that they can get in and out of your garden in tonight his gardens in Torchy now using get them to do it as well to actually make a cd sized holes always through underneath of the fences for instance so that they they can get enough of a range because they know they need to be able to to move a large area you know just to get the right range of food a lot of people think that they only eat slugs and snails that's a very tiny proportion of what they actually ate they more earthworms caterpillars beetles and things of that nature than they do slugs and snails. Fascinating Ok Jamie Hendi is our expert gardening guest here until 130 and if you want to speak 201-782-2080 extension 8 is the numbering or you can text 81 trouble 3 but if you do tech start your message with the word stroke is 21 let's find out what's happening this Sunday lunchtime on the roads across Staffordshire and Cheshire and there's the latest I can hear by Terry so major problems on the m 6 north of Stoke is affecting if you're traveling towards the Stoke area because the southbound carriageway remains closed after a lorry overturned between junction $184.00 homes chapel and 17 for sound Bachche so that stretch completely closed there's a diversion route you follow the solid square symbols on the signs that will take you by the a $54.00 the 855342 rejoin the motorway at Junction 17 ahead of that closure of there are some long delays for traffic between junction 19 and 18 elsewhere other routes around our area looked to be moving pretty well but we have a report of an accident in Leek that's affecting one road around the junction of peak would ave if you see a problem you can of course callers are numbers 017822 are right on the right thanks David g.p. Staff at Euro Cheshire all members travel news every 20 minutes b.b.c. Radio so. Pure drama on b.b.c. One wife is dead my name disgraced my friends and family hunted down. By a lot of them out of those who have wronged me folks will light the fuse below. And then the king and his parliament above will be blown to oblivion. And my name. Is from a cage behind every shot is a mastermind gunpowder starring Kit Harington and Liv Tyler next Thursday night at 10 past. Terry b.b.c. Radio. Is b.b.c. Radio and. T.v. We've got a message from Margaret inmate who has a boulevard Clematis in a part of her. But how and when should she prune it right. Boulevard series small growing so not much more than $4421.00 metres and lots of flowers it's one of these repeat flowering types which is really useful for the patio so I'm not surprised Margaret's got this in a pot but like a lot of the the long flowering Clematis the long and later flowering Clematis prune these in early spring. And just basically take off anything is that actually dead and look for the they have twin buds quite large green buds lower down on on the stem and what you're doing is you're cooking back all the sort of the blackened within stuff above those those boards and cutting back to those strong buds so you're not taking off in other words lots of living material is quite a light prune you don't you don't need to sort of hard prune them back down to the ground or anything like that so you're just looking for those buds new JLI about February time this is a good time to do it because they'll have started into swelling those buds and you can you can see what you're doing much more easily. Ok about hopes and Margaret Meanwhile we have a text about and his alias. Is a have an azalea that's become leggy but it's growing again at ground level when can I cut off the top canopy Ok factor it's not signed by anybody but the center picture as well right well people are quite often nervous about pruning rhododendrons and design is. As they use are actually a type of rhododendron Yeah yeah yeah. So but for good reason in in some ways in that chameleon is is a is Rajendran Zz lots of sort of early summer and spring flowering shrubs already have their flowers initiated So in other words they're already carrying the boards that will be flowering next next year so obviously if you caught something like that but hard by now you lose that she is use a lot of next year's flowers however when sometimes I take the view that if something's gone really really laggy like that. In a way you don't really want to waste time you know kind of looking at those flowers in the spring when you could actually be encouraging lots of new growth and if there's lots of new growth as it looks in this photograph at the bottom then yeah they could take they could take those those tall shoots down to to make it a more compact shape but if you want to probably most people would actually leave it until after immediately after they flowered that's also a really good time anyway to prune rhododendrons and as alias because they're in active growth they're very often will be evergreen as well lots of azaleas are actually evergreen. And generally speaking you don't really prove want to prune Abba green shrubs until sort of May time. So that's absolutely coincides nicely with the flowering Ok 0172. Is the number to ring or he want to text 81 trouble 3 Start your message with the word stroke and if for example you want us to identify a plant for you. To identify a plant then you're welcome to take a picture of your Smartphone texted number and we will do our best we all know that . Is a possible hurrican or serious storm coming to the British Isles how far it will go this way we don't know so what's the weather likely to be over the next few days waiting for is the weather center is Alex Hi Alex Good afternoon well it could be cloudy with some bright spells where the cloud starts to thin and break if the sunniest bells start to wind out temperatures could shoot up to around 20 degrees Celsius this afternoon but 18 degrees Celsius is more likely under the cloud and it's really the luck of the draw whether you see any of that brightness or not tonight you can be cloudy and dry with lows of around 14 degrees Celsius again very mild for the time of year would usually expect temperatures of 14 degrees Celsius in the daytime rather than at nighttime now tomorrow it will be cloudy with some bright spells However thanks to x. Hurrican Ophelia it will become increasingly windy over the course of the day with strong gusts expected perhaps of up to around 45 miles per hour in exposed spots you won't have to go much further north and west of here once you get up into the Manchester area in Lancashire before those gusts end up being anywhere between 50 and 70 miles per hour and again in any sunny spots temperatures could reach $23.00 degrees Celsius but 20 degrees Celsius is more likely in cloudy conditions so again very warm lows on Monday night around 11 degrees Celsius on Tuesday winds will gradually ease over the course of the day it will be mainly dry with some bright spells and variable amounts of cloud highs of around 15 degrees Celsius lows of around 10 degrees Celsius so temperatures returning more to the seasonal averages we go towards Wednesday rain. Will move in on Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday showery rain will clear on Wednesday morning with cloudy but drier weather in the afternoon highs of around 15 degrees Celsius lows of around 10 degrees Celsius then on Thursday to be windy for a time with bands of rain which may be quite heavy at times moving eastwards there will be some bright weather in between the bands of rain highs of around 15 degrees Celsius lows of around 10 degrees Celsius then on Friday rain should clear in the early hours of Friday morning leaving variable amounts of cloud and some bright spells for the rest of the day the winds will start to ease off as well over the course of the day with highs of around 14 degrees Celsius so quite unsettled over the next day or so as we feel the effects of x. Hurrican Ophelia then things will start to settle down a little bit the winds will ease over the course of Tuesday before it becomes more unsettled again over the course of the midweek Thanks Alex Ok so I think too much to worry about well I think if you are out in the garden today and you've got your sleeves rolled up new sectors in your hand one thing you could do in preparation for if we do get these high winds is just take the height down on some of the more vulnerable shrubs in the garden so things like very tall Bodley areas that could have grown you know massively during the summer lover to area which is you know another typical thing that produces a lot of tall growth and can be quite badly affected by what's called wind drop you know there is a wind catches these very tall shrubs and actually rocks them almost out of the ground so just taking not not a hard prune but just taking about a 3rd of the height off some of these things even some of the tall the shrub roses as well might be a little bit more vulnerable or very tall hardly to be roses for instance so why is wind rock a problem because it disturbs all the roots or it disturbs the roots and they can actually he the root systems and leave plants almost kind of you know all Messala saw or sort of a wonky angle. Ok I want 72 to right is the number of text one trouble for you can start a message with the words folks to choose from Rolling Stones The Hopefully more of your calls Clinton Radio star. It's the dawning phone in this week's gardening experts is teacher author and gardeners on a journey Hendy a journey of how to text in from Tim in the Westlands in Newcastle to say I have a Palm that's been yellow all year even though I've treated it with seaweed fertiliser and periodically but it with tomato feed what I'm doing wrong. Well very often when you've got after greens like palms and other ships things like Camillus for instance going yellow. All over it can be more to do with the soil conditions and how much water they're getting than anything else and if they're not being give me enough water the chances are that you'll get more brown leaves Inge and shriveling leaves and and the new growth won't be so prolific if you're giving them too much water and things are quite soggy or is poorly drying ground or you just watering pot too much or the reason sufficient drainage in the pot say the the the drainage hole much to being compromised. So if that happens then this one of the signs of watering is generally yellowing leaves. Yeah uh no more plants dive over watering under watering but as always it's this balance you know how do we know is tricky Well I know I mean I know somebody who's got some lovely box pulls in you know those lovely tall type containers very tactile here and his box plants started to go yellow and discolored because he left the bunks in the bottom of her right palm and all the way through the summer has been washing water water and cause the whole thing is full of water and box plants hate. Or standing there are so similar kind of thing really so I think it was a good plan to feed with seaweed tonic and the uneven water feed but I would look maybe at what kind of soil it to most and said whether it's in a pot or in the ground we don't know. And if it's in a pot I would have used good quality compost The other thing people sometimes do with I'll use their local soil whatever is in the border and that can cause problems with with poor drainage particular it's quite plainly. So I better to. You know an actual multi-purpose mix or something like that with with John Innes So it is treatable just treatable but we don't really know what the root cause of it is at the moment whether it's a nutrition thing whether it's just not quite getting in the right nutritional balance whether it's in the right or the wrong soil what it's going to much water. It could be be one of those 3. I've heard another text from Babs to say how suitable is June Berry as a hedging plant is there is a plan called you Marie there is. Also a hedging plant and what height what it is achieved I do I mean I know of June Berry obviously but I've not grown it and I don't know how how tall it grows. All that's information will certainly be coming to light as we speak very nice types of . Magnificent regime here June very hedging. Are So you know I'm just looking at pictures of only on the Internet. And. June very. True yeah yeah yeah Ok so yeah. Normally you grow hum along to you that's a Latin name I'm lying kill a marquee I you would normally grow that is. A small trees however I don't see why you couldn't kind of keep them chopped at a certain level maybe 64 to something like that. The lovely thing about here is they have this this beautiful white fluffy blossom in the spring and quite nice spring photo as well which is kind of a red tint tinted and good autumn color but also these very juicy little clusters of berries which I think I'm pretty sure they are edible now you say according to the Internet that I'm looking at now you can get hedge or June Berry hedge plants Well yes and you know I would say that if you look at any hedging plant things like whole thought for instance that is actually a tree which is being grown as a hedge and simply by cutting it for you Ok you go Ok you're going to see more of your calls 017-822-0808 after the 1 o'clock news. Across the nation in Cheshire. Where we live this is b.b.c. 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Thanks for you say Walsh Sunday from to the next off hour and we continue all gardening phoned in with Jenny handy expose if you want to call and I won 72 to 08 bytes or you can text one trouble free to start in message with Woodstock Thanks accustomed to Cheshire. Radio. It's b.b.c. Radio start your right is Terry Walsh here as always in the Sunday lunchtime it's the gardening phone in his $130.00 and then off to $130.00 we're going to be visiting the cotton fields allotments in Stafford and also visiting Sneed park where the old coal tip used to be of the PSNI Connery high sort of what used to be in the old days a black hill but now screened over and it's great so we're going there with historian that Edwards but meanwhile some questions are coming in on the text Ok Jenny Yeah 1st of all we ask one from Brian in birches head to say what an unheated greenhouse be Ok for storing 2 Jasmine imposts over winter and what I need some heating. So there is an indoor just meant just minimum the year which is more tender obviously than just minimum efficiently which is the outdoor Harley I saw and I have in my garden the outline I'm wondering whether Brian's talking about a couple of potted indoor time Jasmine's. If you go into how we make the assumption is better the outdoor ones will be will be fine before last so let's assume they're indoor Ok All right so probably if he was a little bit careful put the parts together wrap the pots collectively in bubble plastic. You can have to keep watering them a little bit during the winter and then maybe just drape the top with fleece they should i should I think they should be fine in a in a sheltered spot only they go Ok The next question that I would ask if I was Brian is how do I know whether it's an indoor one or an outdoor one well if they were bought as indoor house plants that he should know they've got an intoxicatingly strong perfectly Miss Well probably more more highly scented in the outdoor one the outdoor one is incredibly vigorous as well so. You know you probably probably just be able to tell really from from Lot Ok another question that's come in now from Glyn to say I have an all olive tree yet in the pot the main trunk is 3 feet Ok but then lots of branches about 3 to 4 feet so you know is always that yes on yeah should I trim these branches to encourage growth. So the main trunk is 3 to 4 feet tall on Olive Tree Yes but there's lots of branches so if you cuts a project off with it and grow higher. It's quite difficult to visualize this I think what he's talking about is a kind of a basic outline had it is a quarter line not so knowledge no sorry sorry this started getting stuck I look at another text where. The clinic and all are all a tree in a pot I mean should be 3 feet yeah but then loads of branches go out about 34 feet . I you want a picture dog to live and I think maybe what he's talking about is the fact that the branches that come off the main trunk 3 to 4 feet long that's possibly what's going on yeah Ok now what he could do is he could actually prune off some of the lower branches to produce more of a trunk you know like a lot because I think olive trees when you growing them in pots for instance do actually look better on a short trunk. And then build up that had so in back in Greece where I've just be starting to do a lot of all if tree pruning now and then they do it with chainsaws It's quite brutal. But you can certainly prune olive trees I would probably leave that till the spring just because we've got cold winters and you don't want to initiate a whole load of new growth you know stimulate just like a couple of them are pretty some of them so I probably would just leave it now until kind of April time or and then do some of that pruning and if it means that you've got long stem coming out from the bottom or or halfway up the trunk and you want to make those Bush out then yes you can trim them back it will stimulate those side shoots to to grow in thicken But also I would probably think about cleaning off some of the trunk in the spring is while so that you've got more of a trunk and then I like ahead of branches to make it more tree like fair enough Ok then hope that helps. Let's go to the phones Ken is in Trenton Hi Ken Oh don't talk about begonias don't you yeah yeah Tom got a role for arch begonias growing in the go Ok and what I want to know is where is the best time to lift him is it before the frost after the frost right it's tricky isn't it because the back they look gorgeous really where you. Don't really know right now yeah yeah yeah did you say that they were in pots. No You know they are planting them in the Go actually in the in the ground yeah in the ground I just wonder whether. Because presumably you will get frosts can in your and you. Were talking about De Leo Yeah even daily Yeah they're a little bit more robust then yeah again you're. Going to hear a bit and that's that's a. Maybe what you could do at how feasible would it be think to to take as much of the of the soil up as possible and actually almost pop the more up into parts of the Marine Oh yeah and and just move them to the greenhouse before before the frosts come my mind you are going to meet in the green are suited to running still. Well what you can do is you can start to withdraw water from from the plants and let them die down naturally. And then once you once all top growth has actually fallen off you can actually dig out the coal those Chivas and then you can keep those before the frost or after the process well you know. If if you let the frost kill off the top shouldn't a lot milder Frost shouldn't have got. To the cold by then but you would have to act pretty pretty smart in a quick small to actually get those chambers a part of the ground and then what you doing is you just basically take taking the the soil off off them and then put him in trays of slab Abas a slightly moist come past and putting them somewhere hopefully frost free in what you can do is probably we won't get that those sort of really savage temperatures into land to Christmas. So what you could do is actually put them in a greenhouse. Very maybe parts of the video that is a news paper overtop is a really good insulator if you've got lots of hand News bubble plastic fleece for those colder nights but otherwise you probably get away with it you know because we have had these much milder winters in late. Yeah Ok they're very very. Punctual no problem is carried by by now Earlier I mentioned cold lines when I was up to 2 sacks at the same time it's a Texan Ron in anyone to say I have new shoots at the bottom of my Cordyline can I suspect the way for new plants and if so when so can you use those as your new very busy career with a with a sharp knife you could actually sort of gently pad them away from from the mother plant these new shoes at the bottom if they're actually in on a cold in the ground. They can be the things that rescue a plant that dies from the top down sometimes you'll find it in a cold winter or if the drainage is a bit pull that the whole top growth can die back and actually all that new growth from the bottom can then spring up and make a multi stand new tray but if you want to take some. Cuttings from the bottom try and get as much root as attached as possible because they have often produced a little bit of root but they're also still attached to the mother plant obviously so you need a good sharp knife to do that with the mop but I wouldn't probably wouldn't do this now until kind of made time. Yeah yeah fair enough Ok So unless you've got a nice you know heated greenhouse or conservatory that you could you could overwinter them in right Ok. Another text that has come in. There I think I know I think it's not all in yet a jasmine poly anthem Yeah yeah yeah no I think the rest the text I think some text messages that will. Wave that's coming somehow talked about you know jobs we should be doing at the moment yet so we've said Don't scarify the law but that So lawns are Ok but you could actually put a lawn for I mean it's because you've had such mild weather I think you could still get away with putting an autumn Lord feet down if you wanted to there which is quite low in night she Jen has all the nutrients and it can just help or help it as slightly ailing lawn along you were giving me some good advice before the program started because I was telling you that I had put in some pot sides I put bulbs in a number anything in the ground but I put everything in in pots maybe 20 pots and some of them I put the chips at the bottom the the mini. Next one up and then the snowdrops and the top brass and things like that at the top Yeah and then I was said that then what I'd put on the patio or put in place in the garden and you were saying to me which I thought was a brilliant piece of advice is that when they finish yes put them in the garden as they are the 3 just. Do to get a hold of the whole lot in as slow as 3 yes and they'll fight it out amongst themselves some of the plants may not come through in subsequent years but you'd be surprised at how well. Do sort themselves out of find a way of of coming through and surviving so. If you growing short short right itchy lips the all the tall on things like Darwin shoots. And Triumph chips that the ones that tend to come back year on year whereas the other fancier ones very often don't stay they kind of tend to decline if there isn't in soil Yeah so yeah but other things Dr dills in particular very much crocus these are all things that are spring back and the reason I was asking out of the 1st place was because when I was saying to you before we start the program today about jobs to do and you were saying Bolds evolves. There's a loads of listeners out there who have bought bulbs with all good intentions and they're still sitting there on plants it that you so if you don't fancy actually putting stuff straight into the ground if that might have been your original intention you know get some pots from the carriage all the great house of the shadow whatever and just pop them up with that with anything any Elm compost even spend compost. You know one reason to put money back is because there's no room everything was still in flower in the garden so there's nowhere to put the and the other great thing about putting them in pots is you can put them somewhere sheltered out of out of you whilst they just ordinary brown bear earth but then once they start to come through it really gives you a lift if you start to see the bulbs sheeting through in the spring and then you can look for any sort of Babbitt saw boring bits in the garden or on the patio and just move them into flower when they come into flower and movement in view from the House and other George winter flowering winter baskets Yes I mean the Gunsight is absolutely chock full of moment of gorgeous things including many sentiment which we do actually make quite good basket plants believe it or not as long you don't get very heavy frost you have to take the baskets down if you've got pansies and sick woman in and just move them some sheltered 2 to weather through the very cold weather and then you can just hang them back up again when the once a mild weather comes back. 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Ok let's go straight back to phones on to before we go to the phones Jenny member we had a text area from Brian in birches head about Jasmine keeping Jasmine pots over the winter in an unheated Green Yes he's since come back to say that they are just poly out of them now and the label states that it has protection below not degrees so yes but you're saying to me that you said to me while listening to our green that they are indoors that right that's the indoor top Well that's the one that you would buy is as a house plant but you can grow them in conservatories here obviously around here but if he's having to keep them outside for some reason as opposed to keeping the main goals. Then and doing what I said about the bubble wrap in the fleece over the top he would recommend would probably get them through the winter in a greenhouse even though it says protection below not degree let alone or together I don't believe everything it says on the label No Well you know just I mean it's it's rather it's in a shell. The greenhouse will go below 0 but it's not on her at all so you have to be prepared to perhaps move the plants back into the house if it gets really cold period Ok we've got some callers before we finish so hopefully I'll get through them quite quickly but Gordon is a mare he had a golden hello how can we help you. I added you just a reward flower seeds right. Up What are some more and valuable aid not begging or to go out I've gone outside and Coltrane right Batley important. Next on or rescued Well I would I would keep keep them ticking over through through the winter in the cold frame. Props again if you've got some blankets saw bubble wrap wrap or something like that just for the coldest nights just to just to stop the frost really getting into them but pop them on if the if if necessary as well just to kind of keep them. In good health until you actually get them out in the spring so probably probably planting them out in kind of a pool time something like March April look very old More Well that's fantastic and they obviously won't flower at the same time the ones the body Monsey to be put in now as plants. But that probably bizarrely will flower in a kind of early summer and give you quite a nice great Ok only that there Gordon is a couple who want to ask questions very briefly before we finish Brian is in crude O'Brian how to talk about hydrangeas Don't You Yes not right you are one of you help me I broke you know I saw you during the storm and now they're Florida very well one is a beautiful blue and one is a lovely girl. In my mind I think you have to create them or vertical or type or stuff to keep their color. So I don't know if you saw oil isn't acidic than I will tend to over the years they will go more paying their way through right well they'll go to paying cash if they were blue wool per you right yeah yeah so so what you do is use something called hydrangea colorant early on in the year in the spring that helps too to deepen the color and keep out that blue color but it's also how awful to have acid so really think if they're going to go in the ground. Just a. The pot does stay in the pot so I got out I left I will look at the moon so when you when you put them up you just use our acacias come past to keep acidity and the new something called hydrangea colorant which you water on that should keep the colorful gray hydrangea color and Ok then Brown our final color is Mike in Burton Hello Mike Well Terry you are a sister you are just quirky and I got to a certain pour in part 3 or 4 you know like quite the quite good quite know nice I've also got a couple of men the garden couple standard ones we can brilliant. And I take the word out to the porch movement the garden no wonder we're doing it you can just stuff to lay full would be an ideal time to do it but just make sure obviously if you've got not the potted ones or not sheltered conditions I guess take the main more windy exposed situations it in the garden don't want to do very they don't like it just be be prepared for a little bit of school in the spring if they're in more exposed condition or the want to walk down the but you don't need to are there on the bottom or would have been no quarks are on the lawn like that lovely So yeah move them but but I would get a move on Ok of them pretty soon thank you very much Ok deciduous Well you are a creature sorry they don't actually need it if you've got very limey soil thank you might want to make it make it more acidic but it's really the organic content it's the things that manure and stuff that they'll really enjoy like I came out of a woodland so it is what they will Okeydokey prokaryotes and I thank you all right well that wraps up the program for today Jenny always good to see here and I think next on you coming it's probably early December Yes gosh the flies by doesn't it because if flies by so busy time for you in the Crikey Yes very busy in other people's gardens accruals Yeah yeah Ok Well good to see you thanks for your help and we'll see you again soon smashing Thanks Daryn. Not. Knowing. Then I saw her thing. Outlook. Kiri. Illegal. Radio still. 26 minutes to 2 on this Sunday afternoon now have you a thought about having and what went on growing some of your own food well 2 of my colleagues here at b.b.c. Radio Stoke have their own arguments one of which is Jack Downing who you regularly hear reading the news well every couple of weeks will be joining him as he chats to some of his fellow allotment about jobs that we may need to think about this week he's talking to fellow allotment holder John about metals Welcome back to coaching field allotments in stuff it's in the town center between St George's County Hospital it's quite a blustery day today mixture of cloud and sunshine autumn really is setting in I'm here with John and we're standing by some nettles nettles can actually be a gardener's best friend in a way what was that some patches know all the parties some of the parts wonderfully rich in intersects for some reason the they attacked by the green fly and the green flyer attacked by various parasites and predators which is a parasitic wash them of the fly lady birds the list goes on all the books have been written about that so it's a wonderful place to come and to find a little babies that will grow up to be things that all the nasty things in our greenhouses that are spaced quite quite When I 1st started in the greenhouse industry back in the seventy's they thought it a terrible thing to introduce any plant material of the new what you're actually growing now every spring I like to put a few sprigs of nettles into the greenhouse to note into these all the parasites and predators for the year we're talking about April May Schwinn when the frosts seed away because the eye gets a little bit warmer and one of the telltale signs of say late. And and hover flies and when you're looking at a nettle plant you've got strong young growth and if you look at them very often you'll see some of them that could let white specks it in actual fact all the shed skins of green fly parasitized green fly feeling pretty feeble just before they die they think I want to best sons will crawl up and run being under lead the crawl into the top service of the league where they die and so that's where you look for the parasitized green fly on the tops of the leaves so the thing to do then is obviously not this time of year that we're recording this but it seems like a good enough time as only to explain it you come along in my April and you see little brown specks on the top of the lake and you take a leaf why put that in your greenhouse and grow up to hopefully destroy all of the pests in there you want more than one leaf of course not just the one 0 yeah I don't think we've just wanted to get as many as you can without totally stripping all the plants but once you're here you might also see the little larvae of of lady birds as well which you know wonderful little creatures and how can you tell how they look like well the lady would love it look at. Magination like little crocodile I suppose you could say without the snout they got 6 legs in the black and they have a the yellow red orange spots on them depending on the species and and they very very early to each other if they can find a green fly to eat so you want to get a couple of them as well put them in your greenhouse and fingers crossed I'll deal with your white flour your green fly and maybe other little past as well that might be popping along I've never been so interested in nettles to be honest with you Terry I'm going to have to have a look at these next April and May John I'll leave you to go on with your allotment really are probably the same for the rain kicks in to another week but for now Syria Thank you Jack Yeah that's b.b.c. Radio steaks Jack Downing and I'll be back in a couple weeks with more news from his allotment fails in Stafford and yet metals good for butterfly. Eyes and be as well so if you're into that type of thing I'm presuming the natural Gardens then you need to plot just a small area of nettles now on the gardening phone in next week our expert is Carol Adams from Trenton gardens so we're Jawn is then and as always we always have to disappoint some callers who are ring isn't too late so that I miss their opportunity to get on the the radio so if you do want to us to answer your questions then try to get in as early as you can now earth things are happening around the area today apparently there is a holiday show that's taking place today until 3 o'clock this afternoon in conjunction with the Katherine House Hospice and that Sundin whole start at 11 on until 3 sound and whole holiday show in conjunction with Catherine House Hospice if you're into music and funk music in particular then there's the funk music this late afternoon early evening with spinster Jones at the dog and partridge in marching tin near you tox it or that's between 5 and 730 tonight and it's also live music at the Royal Oak in Alton with Jason Callia That's from 9 o'clock tonight at the Royal Oak in Alton and I say that from 9 o'clock tonight and if you do have an event and you organizing event and you want to try and help you publicize it you're always welcome to our e-mail it to us to radio dot Stoke b.b.c. 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Junction 18 for Holmes Chapel and 17 for Sun batches to enable recovery work to continue after a lorry overturned earlier this morning so we got a long queue no heading into wards that closure coming in from the junction 19 knots for the course this is all through the area where the ongoing road works are underway being taken off at Junction 18 where you will follow the square symbol to rejoin the m 6 at Junction 17 to take you by the a $54.00 the a 50 and the a 534 running routes looking extremely busy particularly the a $54.00 around the middle which home to chapel areas there's also some very heavy traffic on the I 525022 homes Chapel Road getting down to boards junction 70 if you say a thing else affecting the roach you can call 17822008. Keeping Stafford and Cheshire on them is with Travel News every 20 minutes this is b.b.c. Radio. On b.b.c. Radio. Such as. Rounding out the day's events not over why did you have. Christmas. Week days for him for what a miserable Christmas. B.b.c. Radio. Show we have been a moment's Sneed Hill Park in Stoke on Trent. It's where Tim used to think that's the. The ball. If you're a regular listener. You know. That one of the. New places to explore. The human. About the. Well sometimes they could be public Paul sometimes had no nature areas but wherever I go what used to go is to be always completely free to get in this week we have visiting Sneed Hill Park the site of the Form a sneak colorist spoiled hip on the outskirts of ham the code bridge birds them all under the guidance of local story and then Edwards but once again Mervyn you bought me to a place I've driven past thousands literally thousands of times in all the years I've been here but never been in need Hill Paul although we have been coming off the Sneed elections we've come here off the entrance which is leap year road close to Holden Bridge sorry to tell us all about it but I hope you are in good decent durable footwear today Terry because we're going to be doing some tramping through some mud it's an extensive society you know only a couple of mornings ago I did have a jogging a power walk around here and it's a better haul from all around if you go along the roads that bracketed see the lake near road burst and cemetery Sneed Hill the sun but straight as well and all that constitutes about half a mile if you walk around shall we say the foothills of this site and it's based around the former spoilt it belonging to sneakily which they always tip eat of course and now it has a designated wood Stoke on Trent city council on another you fond of asking it what's the acreage you not counting me out with out again just 8 acres in extenso is quite sprawling if people aren't quite sure where we are of course it is that hill every Easter has a cross on the top doesn't it well used to anyway for years as now I'm not quite sure funny should say that a few weeks ago when I came up here this is a sort of Recchi there was a cross at the top the i.p.x. Of the former sports I'm suspecting it's still there now yes Wolf I doubt we will so let's go back to the very beginning of in the origins of the site where when we talk about. Which we will do in detail today you know people talk about the need sinkings in the Fair enough but can take the area back a lot further. Because we know that there were fatal it is it's need as it's then described in the $820.00 s. And even the 18th century there were coal workings in this area dotted around the site and this tells you much about mining technology and the way it was done in days of earth. Is good when it was descending the pits in 824 on a chain no cage in the shaft in those days human chandelier that's the way that miners in the early 19th century used to descend descending where the 2 friends of his and the chain broke about 10 yards from the bottom and Goodwin of course he was killed immediately and in part with the bottom of the shot and then used to friends were injured very badly but it terribly dangerous profession back in those days privatized mines of course if we take our story into the 20th century we know that by the 19th twenties it was a very modern pick there's no question about that there's a colliery technical journal called the engineer which describes a modern period with 13 mechanical coal cutters the grand machinery that's powered by compressed electricity by that stage in the course you've got the system locally which is aiding the spread of coal mines so that $1000.00. Attached to the site in the 1920 s. And of course you've got the North stuff it's a railway companies main line but the Loop Line which is helping to shift mineral traffic around the city and further afield it's a modern colliery we know that by 927 there were 1650 men working underground and 540 on the surface and the 930 s. Really is the. Head it's. Being erected. Over the country and. So this needs to come in 1931 and that gives the minor the chance to enjoy. A mug of hot tea and that would have been very warming and welcoming for him to 931 the. Things are improving on the surface what about underground mentioned that it was described as a model pet and. Seemed to agree because he went down Pitney described it as a model pit booked conditions appalling I mean one thinks of another writer George Orwell writing in The Road to Wigan Pier in the 930 s. And he said at a pinch I could be a tolerable road sweeper an efficient God not even a 10th rate farmhand but by no conceivable amount of effort could I be a coal mine of the work would kill me in a few weeks or we talk about. Its need like any other colliery did have a history in this respect when we talk about the disaster of 942 in which 57 men and boys were killed. At the top end of them at the moment but Mr member that the miners from families in. Kids who were affected by the terrible disaster and I always say you know it's not just the families that were buried it's that the many friends that these miners had when you consider what the integrated society person had in the 1940 s. With those young miners being attached to clubs pubs youth clubs chapels churches everybody would have been affected in some way or other by this need pits disaster for example you might have been queuing at the chip shop for your chips and your fish on a Friday night and certainly Fred isn't there because he's died down the mine or he might have been the ground which of course was then and handily and certainly he's no longer leaning over the crush barriers on the terraces So the big emotional impact. Move and do you write a book about that is 2007. And I was very well Terry of my responsibilities in writing the book because the responsibility of the dead but also to those families who still remember the disaster again there's the emotional part of the whole event in the to be very sensitive in what you wrote but I think you made a good job of that perhaps we can pick the story up at the next point let's move on . To the. I. Guess I. Did. Will park in the form. Where in the company. 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About the disaster America vent in $92.00 in many respects this mellow landscape is an organic memorial to all those fellows it out in 1902 that's the way I like to think of it and you know each of those $57.00 men and boys had their own stories to tell you know how did they take their coffee which team did they support which churches did they go to everyone has a story and when I was writing my book on the state but disaster in 2007 I wanted to bring some of the personal detail if I possibly could so we're going to do now Terry's to just delineate some of the lives and the details of the man who died so for example the George Manley and by the way he's a harrowing stories I have to say and George Marley was a colleague and he died in the disaster aged only 41 and sadly Peter who was only 4 months old died 5 days after George Manley and the both buried in the same grave in talk churchyard another reminder that not all of these fellows were buried in person cemetery of course then there was James b. Bennett he was a hole they lived nearby in the morning and he was 41 at time of death and there was this man a superstition. That you didn't want to be working on New Year's Day January the 1st but these were special circumstances because the drive to extricate coal for the war effort so he went down to the pit it was the 1st New Year's Day He worked for 17 years and his family came from Scotland come 2 years early because of the need for more coal in north so he died in the PSNI disaster as indeed did his son who also works the pit at age 17 and parts of the. Battalion so they became involved in local activity community events buried in the same. Tree and quite appropriately there is a motif showing the pit. Memorial how much Gibson was in the pit age 65 when he died his widow unable to attend his funeral because she'd been bedridden for 7 years and she lost sight of her eyes in the previous year. For a family blighted by. An unforseen pit accident. Haulage hand 34 at the time of death and his wife would die 8 already through the neglect of a bogus doctor the hospital in. The wife's gone. 3 children are left orphaned. Again a holy child is only 18 when the disaster struck here and he previously worked as a color works in them and then at Norton collieries darted 9 months before he's done it worked. And it was his dad's final wish that he didn't follow him into the mines booked he was called up as part of the scheme to recruit new miners the day before the pit disaster Snead So what a terrible tragedy that was there really stories I heard before. But how do we memorialize those lives. In a number of ways over the years there's my book but also. Because he has been well to the fore in remembering many men who died in mining communities all over North Staffordshire and it was in 2007 that Keith was able after a long campaign to erect a memorial pit we'll in the marketplace in them we mentioned I mean Pete's a modest sort of fellow anyway so wanted to do in deference to him is to mention the fact that Trevor Jones his sidekick in a very astute businessman was also a part of this campaign as indeed a number of firms involved in it contributed good sums of money towards the erection of the I was there on the for the unveiling a tremendous occasion lots of people milling around. And there's a number of other ways in which we memorialize the pitch disaster and 1st and foremost we must mention the annual anniversary that takes place every January at Holy Trinity in Hammel road from just above the port ground father Brian Williams the present incumbent and he produced puts together a very solemn service with gravitas and with sympathy and sensitivity and it's usually very well attended So what happens there is a number of people do readings. In the past and what do you feel emotionally compromised Terri you have a responsibility to speak well of course you have but if you had mine is in the family as my family has it's difficult to do but you have to do a good job and of course what they do is to light candles to memorialize the 57 men who died it's a great occasion and I can tell you that the another ceremony January the 7th 218 people will be there and I should be doing some reading indeed with people from city writers' group and other individuals so we look forward to that. With Story Mervin. Park after the 2 top leaders which is coming up next. A chance to share share. What I mean. This is b.b.c. Radio stand. 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Dot com to ek forward slash joke Thanks for you to a whoosh Sunday from 2 I'm coming up in this half hour we continue our tour around Sneed Hill Park and also go to juggle bank which could well with a bit of luck become a world heritage site. Across town which Cheshire. Where To sit down and Smokey Robinson and miracles it's b.b.c. Radio 8 minutes past to this Sunday. Through until just. A 2nd chance to hear it in praise of God and then at 3 o'clock might why I will be here as always with his mixture of music from the archives and his brain teases right coming up in a moment then continue our tour of Snead hell park in Stoke on Trent the silence of the formless needed Slike he'd. Been a. Not. That she was like has just pulled. Radio stuff. It's just after 10 past 2 on this Sunday afternoon now if you're a regular listener to my son in lunch time share you'll almost certainly know by now that one of the things I attempt to do is to discover new places to explore all remind you of places that you may have been to in the past but perhaps not for a while sometimes those places may be public parks and sometimes hidden away nature areas but wherever I go it's nearly always completely free to get in and that strew today because if you're listening before the news you'll know that this week we're visiting Sneed Hill Park in Stoke on Trent the site of the slag heap of the former Sneed color Well let's return now for the final part of our visit under the guidance of local story in moving Edwards. Well moving we went up to the top we saw the cross so windy up there we've come down to. A little bit I'm glad that your cross is still there. Now we were talking about the sad days of the disaster $942.00 since then of course it's been a very thriving well that's you know we didn't run out of history back in the 1940 s. Because of course in 947 The came the nationalisation of the coal mining industry and there were a good few years left in Sydney's dates I should add by the way that there was. A brick works a touch you often find that with. One thinks of color in fountain and also the. Just that sort of. Need Brick Works Company became a separate company after nationalization I do want to talk about the contribution that the miners have made over the years there's a sense in the press report back in 1051 which details the fact that it Stoke wakes week you know there's a virtual shutdown and stuck in that sort of thing and there's a number of maintenance workers who volunteered to stay behind it's need pit in order to look at the maintenance of the pit and to scrub boilers and flus do an overhaul of course one remembers that the same happened in the pottery industry during the wake shutdown it was the best chance they had of doing maintenance work because otherwise it was just such a busy productive era in the Stokes history indeed back in 951 as of mention there's a Henry Dillon who was one of the maintenance workers and it said of him that he didn't know what it was to have awakes holiday so he must've been really keen on his job at Snake colliery many miners evenin relatively late at times did work at pits until a very advanced age and social cut the example here of Joseph Griffiths in that $959.00 he lived mall and wrote in them and on April the 10th of the year the date of his golden wedding anniversary by the way he descended the pits having worked Snead for 59 years and he was now 70. Years and talking to the local press he wanted to get to 60 years and perhaps retire the next year not before time Terry I think did he have time to do that because of course the closed off good question Terry closed in 1980 it merged with the wall Stanton colliery which at that time was being reconstructed as a super pit a huge investment there however Cole was still raised from Sneyd colliery for 2 words it was raised from the wall Stanton end one thinks of the Internet into connecting working seer June of 62 and indeed one of the shafts that's need was left open as a 2nd means of Stanton pets and also for ventilation and drainage purposes as well so it also observable Stanton from Sneyd and was told by. A good few years ago that there was Stanton miners refer to the counterparts and need. To take jobs but of course it's redeployment it would happen again in 1000 years in the mining industry so we move on to the story of do you this is a. Reminds me of course you know I came to this city in 1984 when I came here this was a black bear coal. The one in Hamley. Black coal tip maybe your description Terry but the Sentinel had it in 1971 that it was Stoke on Trent many volcano Why did they catch it in those terms and of course because there is there was a great deal of combustible material beneath all of this still smoking back in the early 1970 s. But at the time it was being reshaped really contoured as a reclamation scheme known by the name this need to scheme appropriate enough so at that stage they were grassing it over there was a forestation there were poor. Path that was being driven in you know we've ascended one of them today and this is what happened there were of course with occasional problems so that there was a cricket pitch nearby need cricket played by the way many many years ago 50 years ago there was also a football ground and they did find that there were some uncharted shots below the ground of the pitch so the local team. When they could look into or investigate that particular circumstance and they found 2 shots of 100 feet in depth again. Unforseen problems so we go to 974 when you were a newbie and Stoke on Trent and we find that dribble is writing her biography of Bennett's and she saw some of these things that you did in the day and what did she have to tell us she said the trees will be planted on the largest spoil heap the one that elegantly shades. The public asked if they wanted the flattened No they said they liked keep They didn't mind its being landscapes but they didn't want it taken away. Bennett would have liked that says Margaret Drabble back in 1984 Yeah I think it's fabulous I think that would be fabulous what the very thought foresighted counsellors and community did in those days quite correct and it's one of those areas in Stoke on Trent where if you've got a big dog that may cause you know disruption to other smaller dogs or dog walkers This is the place to come and walk and get him off the lead they can have a good run around because it's pretty overgrown We are taking a walk in the wild side today Terry and the dog will love it we haven't once again thanks every week somewhere I've never been to before my pleasure see that time let's restore immersion Edwards showing us around Sneed Hill Park in Stoke on Trent the site of the slag heap for most like he planning to the Sneed Cari Now if you're not quite sure where I'm talking about if you go from Hanley up to code bridge lights and turn right and then you can go down the mask leak road and as you go along the road you can either turn left up Sneed Hill and it's on your right hand side of the fully road round full of that main road eventually a left hand side before you get to the bridge in front of you as you drive up too long from lights toward Holden lane bridge so yeah it was going to say I've driven past thousands of times but never actually been there. a moment we're going to be hearing how South Cheshire could be getting its own world heritage site a Georgia bank. Perry spell as we say is France and could you cope with a bin collection once every 3 weeks that would be a bit of a problem I think and then you've got the health issues where you're going out there overplaying what becoming this is a conversation you have to be should L.H.'s staff have to pay to park at work you know why but it would help free parking fees so that the foundation people don't realize how much extra Can we put into our way he just doesn't seem fair that entrepreneurs are getting financial measures Fahy I would go Ok I really feel they mean well I fell upon them thinking of how can I find 3 Perry still weekdays from b.b.c. Radio static. Beholds and west and calling them will be. This is b.b.c. Radio star. Fish just after 20 past 2 on this Sunday afternoon that we've all heard of the Taj Mahal the pyramids of Egypt maybe the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China for sure they're all not just well known but they're also World Heritage sites were certain it over the Grand Canyon is but so the Great Wall of China is the pyramids are and the Taj Mahal as well but it seems that with a bit of luck we could be having our own world heritage site in South Cheshire was only this week b.b.c. Radio Stokes Lee went along to the potential site to discover more is one of most iconic landscapes across Cheshire in fact the whole of the u.k. The giant toilet telescopes from George will be like the big dishes Tzu's. The level to the script of course has been a since the 950 huge dishes sent in those signals up into space and get some signals back from the stars trying to find out if there is life beyond our galaxy and various other scientific discoveries that it's hoping to make over the next few years now as we said it's one of most significant scientific sites in the u.k. And that's kind of why they're going for this World Heritage site let's just go inside of it it's a sense of come out of the shadow of the telescope into his descents this morning through the planetarium I 2nd the 3 here and into the main office where the team are all busy Good morning team. Yes a very busy taking calls this morning we've got lots of attention on Twitter as well about there are well heritage beard now as we say it's one of those landscapes that my kids love it when they come past they pressed and those against the car window to make sure they can get a look at the telescopes on these futuristic sites but as we said hot spots are 950 s. I'm with Professor Tim O'Brien who's an associate director here at Jodrell Bank Tim I tell you feeling about this bid of very excited actually over and over obviously you would be would you to go and ask if we're successful and we were picked to be you will 30 so I think is a great accolade to solve internationally I think we know nationally obviously as an icon will to spread that to an international stage be brilliant Now we know it's not a competition as such it's not like you're against anyone but you having to show on your own merits Yeah I mean we have to you know we write a massive tasse actually been a lot of work so far and it's still quite a lot of work to go before the final submission in in January but yeah Were you do you demonstrate basically what's called in UNESCO speak is called outstanding universal value so you know for you know the sort of record of something extremely important to humanity and I think you know in our case it's to do with our understanding of our place in the universe by looking at the invisible sky that we do with our radio telescopes in universe of ways kind of intergalactic about here is really just tell us what it would mean to you to get to get it I think for me it's it's a measure of the importance of the of the science we have that we do but also the importance of the work that people don't hear over more than 70 years so there's many many hundreds if not thousands of of scientists and engineers the work here plus all the millions of people who visited over the years and it's I think it's a recognition of of its importance in there were you know culture it's always hard to judge how confident you feel. I think I think we're poor I think we're quietly confident actually I think you know there's a there's a gap in the in the world which you cite lists for places like General bank for these sort of scientific sites were used to thinking of perhaps the great sort of architectural monuments you know maybe the pyramids the Taj Mahal all these saw things but actually science is very much a part of culture it's certainly formed our everyday lives and I think for us to it's important that we preserve the physical record of how we develop these sorts of Sciences I think it's different different say the telescope is striking it in a different way it's not like what you call classic architecture but it is one of those things that we said earlier you see of the most recent coming in from Manchester Airport when you land it's one of these iconic things isn't it it is yeah I mean it's a they obviously was designed very functionally so it's designed to do you know it does what it says on the tape and if you like it it's a big looks like a big satellite dish it picks up radio waves coming from from distance. And so it's all about making it work as a telescope but as an object as an engineering object it really is a beautiful structure so I finally said What next for the bed how long we got to wait we finished the nomination dossier that's going to be a big job the next few months we submit it to parts you Nasco in Paris in in January that goes through from the u.k. Government and then actually there's a whole process of being assessed those visits and so on and I think we would find out if we're successful of the July 29th teen meeting of the of the world. Body So we're looking forward to it's a while to go Yeah but we're looking forward to some time so I mean Georgia banks are always looking for working for the future forward into the future as we're now looking to the stars it's set to become a superstar of its own we know is in Cheshire but it's had to become an international star. Professor Tim O'Brien associate director of the general bank complex in Cheshire talking to b.b.c. 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