Gardening Australia episode 30 2022
Gardening Australia episode 30 2022: Jane tours a patchwork of urban bushland; Clarence pots up soft and spiky native plants; Sophie meets a renter growing food with her community; Jerry tours an accessible garden; Millie builds planters out of pipes.
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Transcript
00:02(THEME MUSIC)
00:05(GIRL GIGGLES)
00:08(BIRDSONG)
00:14(CAT MEOWS)
00:15(INSECTS BUZZ)
00:25(DOG BARKS) (ROOSTER CROWS)
00:28(BIRDSONG)
00:30(UPBEAT MUSIC)
00:40(HAPPY SCREAMING)
00:48Hello and welcome
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undefined:undefinedpremier agricultural show
01:05and there is lots of horticulture
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I'm exploring
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01:38SOPHIE: I'm meeting
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01:53and age should not be
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undefined:undefinedfor plant lovers,
02:19from specialist societies,
02:22there's competitive growing,
02:24and all sorts of floral displays.
02:26This is the Orchid Society
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undefined:undefinedI've been involved for 50 years.
02:4250 years of volunteering.
02:45That is incredible.
02:46It's fantastic. I love the Ekka.
02:49How important is it
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undefined:undefinedthe best of the best,
03:01our award-winning stuff.
03:03They can talk to the people
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03:19And how wonderful is it
03:21that absolutely everyone
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03:54(BRIGHT MUSIC)
03:58Sandy heathland is characterised by
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04:21all the way along the coast,
04:22from Port Melbourne to Frankston.
04:25And while almost all of it
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04:47This one is called Gramatan Avenue,
04:50a tiny wedge
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05:08We've got species such as
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05:21Wow!
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05:37Do you have to come in here
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05:52And one tiny droplet of herbicide
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06:10Jo's showing me
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06:24for thousands of years.
06:26And it's not just an ecosystem
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06:50We're in real suburban Sandringham.
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07:03We put a burn through 3.5 years ago
07:06and you can really see
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07:18And then that is needing a burn.
07:19And that really needs a burn, yeah.
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07:32to over 60 species of plant.
07:34So, yes, it's a real wow factor,
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07:50Yes. Beautiful. Ah.
07:52Hibbertia right there.
07:53And so they just pop up
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08:06Yes, the Allocasuarina littoralis,
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08:22"Oh, it's dead, isn't it?"
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08:30Lots of different species
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08:42as well as the milkmaids.
08:44So, lots of little treasures, yeah.
08:45You've gotta look down
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09:06This site was covered
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09:26Yeah. And it's a hot burn.
09:27It burns really well. Yes.
09:29There's a lot of preparation goes
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09:46We just want it to germinate.
09:48And as time goes on,
09:50we're learning that certain species
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10:00Amazing. I mean, for only 2.5 years,
10:01we've got dillwynias and lots of
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10:15You'd expect to have them dotted
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10:43That's why we come to work
10:45and get rid of the exotics
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11:04and it's meant that there's
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11:37The genus Brachychiton
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11:50and just after that,
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12:09Well, the NPK is something
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12:23so a lawn fertiliser where you want
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12:37Really, as a gardener,
12:38a lot of the products on the market
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12:52Well, you certainly do,
12:54but normally
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13:08then you need to add this stuff,
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13:29And Clarence reckons
13:31some of the best combinations
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13:50I'm on Dharawal country
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14:05but it also plays
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14:24Soft cascading plants,
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14:48Grevilleas can be
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15:09Because variety, after all,
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15:37Banksia serrate 'Pygmy Possum'
15:40is a small, compact shrub that can
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16:15Whether you're planting into
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16:29It is quite a delicate plant,
16:32but one good thing about plectranthus
16:35is the fact that it will grow
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16:55So, a beautiful soft mid-storey plant
16:58is this lovely flannel flower.
17:01As the name suggests,
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17:20through my pot mix here.
17:22This is a lovely little lomandra.
17:28It's interesting,
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17:40it will be quite spiky,
17:42so it'll be a bit of both
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18:01and the name comes from the seed pod
18:05that looks a bit like a horned devil.
18:09We'll put this little spiky number
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18:43It will cascade out over
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19:07Again, a mid-storey.
19:09All I've got to do now is
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19:31it's always a good idea
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19:47so why not plant them side by side
19:49to show them off in all their spiny,
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20:21Sophie's meeting a gardener
20:23who proves that growing your own
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20:40her rental backyard
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21:22Well, I love just being able
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21:40So, when I moved in,
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21:50and potting them up every year,
21:52hoping that one day
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22:05At the moment we've got
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22:24for anyone in the community to grab.
22:26Brooklyn grow most of her crops
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22:50So the position of this
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23:04Three different varieties
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23:22The ones that are on the heat mat
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24:07Now, this is
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24:20So, the soil has a lot of nitrogen
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24:40Yeah. I love growing in rows.
24:45Brooklyn's garden
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24:58and have joined together
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25:12"Oh, I really loved
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25:26and it's just really nice to see
25:27people taking some autonomy
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25:39that I can't get growing in my yard.
25:41So, at the moment we've got
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25:52so we've got the native river mint,
25:54which is great in a cup of tea.
25:56And we've also got some muntries
25:59and some native parsley.
26:02That community spirit
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26:36You can grow in any backyard.
26:48Sunlight is the driver of any garden,
26:51particularly if you want it
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27:04For example, here in Perth,
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27:32to give me shade for the house
27:34and over the outdoor living
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27:50because they're in deep shade
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28:04Veggies need full sun year round,
28:08so they're in
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28:25as a sure-fire way to success.
28:27COSTA: Still to come
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28:51to leaf through the pages
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29:46We had four daughters,
29:48and the youngest decided
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30:02and we took the fifth block,
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30:24Now, at first glances,
30:26this is primarily
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30:44And the little built-up garden
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31:09So it's been trial and error.
31:13Weeding can be
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undefined:undefinedNobody likes mine.
31:33(LAUGHS)
31:34And you've got this beautiful
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31:53I keep thinking I should put
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undefined:undefinedthat can grow quite large,
32:22Ficus microcarpa 'Green Island'.
32:25I love it. Almost no maintenance.
32:28Permanently green.
32:30I'm an old Sydney girl
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undefined:undefinedall the way up the drive
33:03and two have survived,
33:05so I value them highly.
33:08The way I value the magnolias,
33:12my grandchildren gave me one each
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33:35and yet has a soft side
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undefined:undefinedand it's very special.
33:58It has really worked for us.
34:00I love the fact
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34:24You can do this
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34:52It's good. It's all good here.
35:04While the Ekka is
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undefined:undefinedIt's been fantastic.
35:31It's been such a successful event.
35:33Every year, we end up with
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undefined:undefinedand wild, which is what I love.
35:46And that original idea
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undefined:undefinedthan their face?
35:57(LAUGHS) They're right out there.
35:59And it's very interactive art
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36:08and they're making them
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undefined:undefinedand dried flowers.
36:23You really can grow plants anywhere
36:26on walls, on roofs,
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36:49But today I want to make
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37:03I designed this specifically
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undefined:undefinedthat won't need as much attention.
37:24And the other problem I need to solve
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undefined:undefinedof PVC stormwater pipe.
37:54The first thing I need to do
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undefined:undefinedgetting a little guide in place,
38:19so you can use
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39:00The next thing I want to do
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undefined:undefinedonto the bottom here.
39:15If you didn't want this pot
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undefined:undefinedinto a wicking pot,
39:24I am gonna seal it on.
39:26But I'm just gonna use
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undefined:undefinedsome 90mm stormwater pipe.
39:59I'm gonna make a few different sizes
40:01to sort of have them stagger across
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undefined:undefineda really light sand,
40:40because these pots, I'm gonna see,
40:42so I'm gonna give them
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undefined:undefinedin the house.
41:08Now, one of them is this
41:10it's Osmanthus fragrans.
41:12And you can tell by that name
41:13that it does do something
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undefined:undefineda really good quality potting mix.
41:34So, to four parts of that potting mix
41:36I'm gonna add one good part...
41:39A little extra.
41:41Of perlite.
41:44So, for the first pot,
41:45I am gonna make it essentially like
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undefined:undefinedjust below that drainage hole.
42:07And then over the top,
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42:30Wow.
42:32So, I'm just going to
42:34just gonna loosen
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undefined:undefineda really good soak.
43:08Well, they're not high craft.
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undefined:undefinedin their new home.
43:37And really,
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undefined:undefinedof a storyteller
44:05informed by our landscapes
44:08and some of the most iconic
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undefined:undefinedI can't really function without it.
44:50My name's Sophie Cunningham
44:52and I have written nine books now,
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undefined:undefinedor Birrarung,
45:16which actually means
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undefined:undefinedto other trees.
45:34You look at certain trees
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undefined:undefinedthe 'Separation Oak'.
45:50It hasn't been trimmed,
45:52so it hangs like an umbrella.
45:54It sort of rests on its boughs.
45:57And when it's in full leaf,
45:59it's like this big green cave.
46:01It's just really extraordinary.
46:03But even when it's just kind of
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46:29I lived in America for a few years
46:31and that's when I started
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undefined:undefinedthat fresh eye,
46:46to the place I'd lived in
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undefined:undefinedand, you know, having a drink,
46:58walking and just being in a place
47:00is really the best way
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47:31"In the presence of
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undefined:undefinedlooked like a million years ago."
47:45I wrote that after meeting
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undefined:undefinedbut it could be more,
48:08significant red gums
48:10in this section
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undefined:undefinedfrom the bottom of the gardens,
48:30and so while the lion's head tree
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undefined:undefinedother trees and plants.
48:51Deforestation does lots of things.
48:54One of the things
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undefined:undefinedabout climate change,
49:31but in the last few years,
49:34the urgency with which
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undefined:undefinedhave started to take over my work,
50:02it crept up on me,
50:03but the bushfires of 2019/2020
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undefined:undefinedthat will make a difference?"
50:28I thought I need to take my skills
50:32and do something constructive
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined'Tippy and Jellybean:
50:48'The True Story of a Brave Koala.
50:50'Who Saved her Baby from a Bushfire',
50:52and that was illustrated
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undefined:undefineddoing the thing that you love,
51:10possibly,
51:11and for me, what I love to do
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undefined:undefinedand giving people hope, inspiring,
51:30all the things
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undefined:undefinedboth friendship and activism
51:51that I went to visit
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undefined:undefineda goddess of trees."
52:01"To find her, I drove through
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52:21"She brandishes her branches
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52:56Oh, perfect.
52:58(LAWNMOWER WHIRRS)
53:04In cool temperate gardens,
53:06fluffy fungi like powdery mildew
53:08are starting to
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undefined:undefinedto your patch
53:47with snapdragons,
53:48petunias and marigolds.
53:50Find a sunny spot, pop them in,
53:51mulch well, and enjoy the show.
53:54Redcurrants are beginning
53:55to develop fruit,
53:57so treat them to
53:58a fresh layer of straw mulch,
53:59keep up the watering,
54:01and tightly net bushes
54:02if berry-loving birds
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undefined:undefinedabout right now.
54:35A container or two of beer
54:36placed in the patch each night
54:38will make short work
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55:05From teas to curries,
55:07lemongrass has
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55:26It's fruiting now,
55:27so if you see it, bin it.
55:29Arid gardeners,
55:30establish new trees
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55:51produce edible bulblets
55:53on the ends of foliage.
55:55For a fast-growing,
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undefined:undefinedhave a go this weekend.
56:11And let us know
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undefined:undefinedwe'll be back again next week.
56:35We've got so much growing for you.
56:38I can't wait to see you then.
56:40Here we go.
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undefined:undefinedin flood resilience
57:02and offering some advice
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