Midwest Radio Gardening Show

Daytime temperatures are on the increase and the foreceast is for ideal gardening weather so this week the programe focused on protecting softer plants and new growth against any night frosts while also boosting growth that has started to take hold. Potato stalks should be covered if exposed and plants can still be split for this year. Active growth also means that plants need feeding and Paraic reminded listeners to watch for watering, particularly in pots and containers. The programme features a discussion on herbs including savoury and helichrysum and colour this week is provided in the form of miniature sunflowers and celosia. Listeners questions feature pruning and planting bottlebrush, scarifying a lawn, problems with laurels in seaside locations, growing a Williams pear tree, planting out petunia seedlings, pruning conifers, cotoneaster and hydrangea hedges, growing japanese gladioli, grafting a plum tree and growing tomoatoes in a vegepod.