Bubble bath or the end of a long day's gardening. To get paid for the sounds that the studios haunted dish ensure we love gardening now we really know we really really love gardening now you may think you love your husband of 30 years you may think you love your children you might even think that you love your favorite football cricket team but that's just peanuts or should be rugby action this morning should make even the worker but that's just peanuts compared to how much we love mucking about in our gardens with plants and soil and secretaries and seeds and all the rest of it and we're here to help you with your garden that is all raise on that Tara. And when I came from. But it did hands over a 10756 double one double what is the number to call if you would like that help from Steve Bradley our super expert gardener today the text is 81 trouble 3 starting your question with the word can have just joined us. Is the sort of thing that you might want to ask well. But it's just not I want to try and set up that in Berlin doing something we wondered what advice you might give possible scorches almost like small. Caps this year to grow up and then now I've noticed that in fact. All the leaves of the box died off or just go in just gingerly never gone before I've got plenty of soil issues show up but no flowers are the only flowers the. Flowers I need to do anything to them not pick the top so already know where I planted some Laura Bush is in a pro now the last 68 weeks have noted the tips of the leaves are turning brown Yes wondered if it is work was. To be anything I thought. Here it found Do you still feel as if it could be one of those questions or something else ask away you confuse gardeners of the garden of England 80756 double one double one also in this hour of the program a half past 10 Jane Street feel the county organizer of the National Garden Scheme here in Kent will be here to tell us about their 2 garden openings today and ears open if you're in Benenden and minster in family it or anywhere nearby those 2 locations is where the National Guard and scheme have their Open Gardens today we'll keep you abreast of the travel news 20 past and 20 to the hour uncatchable to see what he's going to be discussing in Sunday speakeasy today and we'll catch up with him at around 2211 this morning Sunday gardening with Andy in Steve cool away 8756 double one double one only takes cans to each one treble 3 b.b.c. Radio. So whatever you're up to in the garden today we want to hear from you on the . Never mention roses and find that Rose publication and I promised I would give you the details and if you'd like a copy it's in a 5 magazine you need to send a check to find that rose 3 o 3 Mile End Road culture see for your. That doesn't look right to me c.e.o. For 5 and a c.e.o. For 5 is the postcode and make your check payable to find that rose for the sum total of 4 pounds and 70 of your English pens so 4 times 70 check made payable to find that Rose and send it to find that rose 3 or 3 Mile End Road cultures to see for 5 and the latest edition the 37th or find that Rose will be yours and Steve's already nabbed the studio copy. Well then Minister Oh you mean this. Morning and the jeans Dave says an engraved. Fungus that appeared on the lawn after having a tree stump ground 3 times 5 years ago would you advise to leave it and see what happens says an ingrate. Right well the picture I've got here it's obvious where the tree stump was. The grass is gradually growing over again but I think you've got a problem here with Honey Fungus. The bad news is there's no known cure for it and what I would suggest you do is you can either use something like sulphate of iron or you can use sugar to basically overload this stuff with carbohydrates it's living on the old roots. It will eventually spread through the garden if you don't do anything about it just think the best way is to these growths these fructify cations as they're called. I think if you keep treating those least check the progress of the fungus high and again stave my day off today visited the bargain plan tile Vanessa West Malling you're a woman after our own heart I came away with several I supply Bella and want to know what's their best chance leave them in pots in the greenhouse plant out in spring or plant them in the garden most of them well and hope for the best or maybe you have a completely different piece of advice all together have read their hardy down to minus 5 please how Panesar in my Smalling what I would do is keep in pots until the spring water them sparingly. You know that if anybody that doesn't know they're very closely related to folks clubs and. You know. The hardy to minus 5 but we do it in a mild winter tend to get one or 2 frosts like that so I would keep them in over winter and plant the spring Terry in south then says Can some of these be pruned and also moved at the moment or was it too rarely to do so is getting well the big says Terry right well I would tend to wait until the spring for both. I remember William Dyson telling me. When they were doing a trial it was Lee. They prune them early spring late winter early spring it just so happens that there are Portsmouth fields in the frost pocket. And a lot of them were killed and more set to restart the trial so I tend to think you wait until about the end of March maybe the middle of April when there's a risk of a hard frost gone and prune them then and I tend to take mine down depends on how vigorous the loss some a takedown by a 3rd so much take as much as 2 thirds. But I was due in the spring and if Terry wants to move it's spring again I would move in the spring again but again a bit like I said to the lady moving the roses all I would do is tie the tops up. Dig them up move them and plant them and it doesn't matter how careful you are you always break a few branches Well it's better to trim them after you have broken a few rather than trim them and then break even more yeah but yes the spring for both Ok so we mentioned the find that Rose publication found in roach to Stevie's a new beginning novice gardener right she says Steve when is the best time to prune roses and we're feeding them produce more flowers when should I feed them and what's the easiest feat to apply right well. I reckon the best time is. Around about mid March for this part of the country the may well have started to shoot if it's mild but don't worry about that. With most bush roses I take down to about 6 inches thin out the middle and then prune anything to an outward facing bud so that you get a hollow center to it. Feeding I just tend to use grow more you can get. Different fertilizers that tend to encourage more flowering but I think they're the ones that you use after you've dead had it in the summer rather than 1st time around. Pruning hard as I do means that they flower about 3 weeks later excuse me 3 weeks later than normal but I just use something like grow more. I text you for pelleted chicken manure or anything like that will do fine. But the main thing is make sure that it's either mixed into the soil or watered in because if it stays dry on the surface the plants can only take up fertiliser as a solution. And that's pretty well it it won't make them produce more flowers that's down to the habit of the plant but quite often if they're well fed they produce bigger flowers and you get in fact good luck with that let's get another caller from Ramsgate all of these all of my rounds. Of Dave's raising for us their morning Dave early morning and in stable Yeah yeah well my friend what have you got for us we're enjoying working for Radio Ramsgate Aren't we here we are . Quick quick you know all clones from Jacaranda Tree swim saying yes. Got me so bad so years old at the moment right ones so you sold me out ones about but so yeah I'll move them out saw it this summer well I have to move back in or will I base Bastardi there won't be frost Hardy No I mean all right it depends on the winter but if it's a mild winter you might get away with it but if they were mine I wouldn't risk it. So I'd move them back in November ish. Before the 1st frost of any significance is this the sensitive one. Because some of the jack around is if you touch the leaves I actually close not this one dug right but I don't I wouldn't risk it because if anything goes over the growing point and then of course you have to work to get it back to any sort of decent shape. Yeah and do it well law after a feed so you wouldn't have no no not at all in fact you keep them very much on the dry side. Because obviously the more to there is in the tissue. The more risk of being damaged by frost so you. You treat them almost like fusion geraniums through the winter and then bring them out again the following spring in a way they'll go Dave thank you for the call Dave in Ramsgate we to see grown Jacaranda Thank you Di Angeles in met Ben Hi Angela morning Stephen and a morning this is a question on behalf of your daughter I think this is a question on behalf of my daughter in Australia she has bought Daily a c. Plant them and they are must say they do look very very good I'm getting daily photographs of them the query is all her clearly is do they become a Cuba or of I just see just post she saying she doesn't know the difference between States into this into question really right well the thing is the Chub or is story Jorgen. Right and if they are daily a seeds eventually they will produce a Chub or and you know I don't know whether they get frosts in Australia but she probably find that if she doesn't know right if she doesn't well she can plant them in the garden and leave them out all year round when they get to their winter season. She can cut them down and then the following spring as the start to get some rain they'll come up again and chill finish up after a couple of years with a Chub or this about the size of a dust been laid low but. They really do get that big but in nature you know the country places like South Africa or in Mexico in fact it's the national flower of Mexico they just stay in all year round and form a big clump. And yet if she'll find that once the seeds. Got to a certain size it will start to produce a Chub and the Chub or formation of the tube is actually linked to day length so that is the day start to shorten the tube or tends to pack away a lot of storage material ready for the following spring. Perfect then so basically leaves them and then they will eventually become achievable Yes and you can tell you've done loads of research and found all this out for a lot Hugo couldn't couldn't find anything so I said the answers raised gardening question time on can a radio can on Sunday morning and has the right sound Yes you came to the right place Angela thank you your own about time here later Darren Everest daily a grow extraordinary ease at the world Garden at least in council for cactus world Ly Well he will be with me Mexican Well absolutely right celebrating all things Mexican implants of the Mexican nature So Darrin is there the word garden today if you're going along for cactus wildlife You can also go diamonds bring to Doreen is in Maidstone high during high good morning what's rotting. A not i should write a will to beautiful on the tree hang in there all the family inside tell us when they will be over. That family's foyer Yes. We had enough plumb. Bob and I to launch of plums and custard the Rush went completely watch on the tree. Right well it's funny that yes if they were but they have measures that was proved yes and then you'll find that quite often they've got little brown almost like pin heads on them it's a fungus it's called brown rot. If you can if you can reach the mole you need to knock off any of those fruits that are still hanging there. Gather them all up and get rid of them and then. If you actually sprayed with a fungicide. Just as the trade is starting starting to shed its leaves you should get most of the spores but make sure you see you spray around the base of the plant. And try and kill off all the spores otherwise you'll get the same sort of problem next year and even worse if there are spores on the tree when the trees flowering sometimes you can actually get a type of blossom wilt where the fungus infects the flowers and so you finish up with whole sections of a branch with a blossom on being killed but it's a golden nearly all ancient top shelf now all right well what I would do for a start is water that plant well because that's a little bit early it's obviously very stressed and then. You can see you know you could spray it sort of next month I reckon they have a fine what to watch for a way as well if you use. This to particulate there's 2 types of. Fungus 5 to plus if you get the ready to use one even if you need to put it in a deal another spray or you can use the ready to use one on some edibles But the other one the one that comes is the concentrate you're not supposed to use on edible plants. Oh. Show us what's the code it's called fungus 5 to plus. Can you spell them for me as a fungus a few n.-g. U. S. And p. And s. . So which is at 5 g. H. . I t. And t. a r e e. And then plus. Fungus fighter plus Doreen Yes and you want to squirt you bottle one not the concentrate during thank you brown rot common problem the plum thank you Doreen for your call is a line for a few to get in touch this morning or 8756 double one double one quickie stave morning Gentz I want to plan my Agapanthus us in the ground as now too big for pots but my story is very stony says says Rosemary advice please I don't think it matters too much to be honest they do like free drainage so it's an advantage they only thing to watch with the Panthers is don't plant them too deeply or you'll get years and years of leaves and no flowers if you look at the stems of the Panthers. They'll be slightly swollen just where they go into the compost You should always see that swelling if that swelling has been buried they won't flower thank you Rosemary for the question it's not going to get off it was very quick thank you Jane Stratford from the National Garden Scheme with us in about 10 minutes time more gardening advice on the way before then. Travel News from b.b.c. Radio Kent. And Les starts on the m 25 and 6 likewise was blocked a few minutes ago around 10 minutes ago 1015 minutes ago just to remove the cones from between junction 6 and placard lane service is that has happened the motorway open and the entry 5 moving really well 6 rounds was clacking Lane The 82 knowing I spotted delays 40 minutes ago on the last man carriageway Bluebell Hill we had word of a car that was on fire earlier on I think the fire is out the sensors show it's moving pretty well now Bansal right adjourning is partly blocks there's a crash at the junction of Colton Avenue and on to the 23 just me where the m 23 now open south of get we can port Pasquali after it was closed early this morning because of links horses and on the trains Eurotunnel and Eurostar reports a good service southeastern run into rushes to replace my buses Tunbridge to Red Hills. By running replacing buses as well this morning on James Wally the small travel news throughout the day on 104.2 f.m. In which Dibble Moloch gate and Canterbury and across West came on 96.7 f.m. This is b.b.c. Radio 10 so if you're up early in Kent on a weekday morning some of the sting wake up call with. The wake up call every morning from 6 join us for topical debate discussion and a bit of levity as well but a smile and a smile was always a smile though there's never a small physique of a green green I've never seen that your face might crack that's happening at the wake up call with Ian Collins and I'm a cook so back Monday from sakes b.b.c. Radio came and I inadvertently describing the relationship on the show. I was just thinking how similar it sounded right around. Brian is in all for this morning hi brian but. How. Well this. New one if you like to cross yes now I don't start to think well you know we're not and do all the rest of it get rid of it but as our sort of in the senior years I found the same. Group all the magic machine. In American I have across it called crab grass yes it is a then one for Killed grass it's very similar. And you tend to find that if you show you the distribution it's a bit like buffalo grass and one or 2 others. Then they're used to hot climates. So they wouldn't do very well here I've seen the growing in Greece as well but so it's Ok for a Mediterranean climate don't think it would do very well in Oz until the climate is going to change as much as they claimed yesterday it needs to change a lot more yet. The reason for I went to shoot this and I found the result a weight killer diesel going to get rid of it called tenacity and that's probably American as well is it oh yes it is but the this is the problem it's $59.00 per fluid ounces Yeah and you get an awful while for that money to get rid of me a little too much gas and how would you know others to take on from it but I just want to make sure he's in. It worth investing in my opinion 60 quid to get rid of contrasts in a solid civil. No out you don't think such Well nothing firm would know the whole thing on right after they hang on the 1st I mean I'm going to tell you how to kill it but the 1st thing to bear in mind is that that product may well have approval in the United States but it doesn't know to say it's got approval here. You can use glide to sate based We killers or you can use this weed free plus that I've mentioned a couple of times this morning both of those will kill the coach grass and all the other grass in your loan you know that and then you can start again and that's going to if you know if you don't want to dig it up and I wouldn't want to that's the way to deal with it you just need to bear in mind that you could probably start now. And give it a spray you'll have a brown lawn all winter. And then you'll probably find the next spring a few bits of cooch grass will come up again so you'll need to spray again but by this time next year you could be reselling or laying turf on the lawn and start with a clean lawn all over again. Yeah out that sounds a better way to do it well you'd you'd probably have the same sort of time scale using this thing that you probably brought in illegally from the not United States . If you or couldn't possibly do anything illegal. Well I'm just hoping I put you off. Right thanks very much indeed Ok. No seriously either of those 2 products. Will deal with this and deal with it the same way as the stuff from America which you may well find if you look at the active ingredient it may well be a drive to say anyway Brian thank you in fed 100 given a key. Is also having trouble with gracilis Shayna good morning what's the grass you're having trouble with well beginning of the year had a lot of weed and oh so we killer and unfortunately I picked up the wrong we kill and kill the girls as well right of got about 6 of the patches and neighbor told me to the good parts and then glossy down and then just covered over with a smaller all which I did keep it watered but I tried that 3 times and I'm only getting little bits coming up. Right well the main reason you only get little bits coming up is for a start it's been very dry but also you don't need to cover a grass seed the usual technique is to rake over the surface to get a good seed bed so the seed rake it again to make sure that the the grass seed is evenly distributed and then. If it's dry you water it sort of 2 or 3 times a week until it's germinated. It's not too late to do it now but whatever you do don't cover the seed. When you buy the cd if you make sure that it's one that's got a bird repellant in it or it means that the birds will pick up the seed it'll get as far as their crop and they have to regurgitate it becau