Midwest Radio Gardening Show

On this week's programme Paraic issued a blight warning and advised to apply a systemic blight control treatment to potatoes and tomatoes. Looking ahead to autumn/winter planting the programme featured kale as a great winter vegetable which can be sowed from seed now. Roses are coming into flower and Paraic discussed some good varities for scent including Fascination, Whiskey Mac, Grandpa Dixon, Freedom and Ingrid Bergman. Other topics ranged from sowing whitethorn and lillies to tree ferns and foxglove trees. Listeners questions included Echinacea flowers for attracting bees, moving hostas, pest damage on plum trees, sowing veg in a poly tunnel and liquid feeding onions.