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to discover even more. Welcome to Gle, Eter Range, the podcast with me, Sarah Raven, and a regular visitor, guest speaker on the podcast, Josie Lewis, who's our head gardener here at Perch Hill.

And because it's so early in the new year and, well, extreme weather, wet Christmas,

rain, wind, frost, snow, they're all kind of in our minds.

We actually thought we'd just take a side step from talking about plants and gardening

and talk about, well, gardening,

but gardening in extreme weather. And what we are aware of, and particularly Josie, running the

garden, with each of those things. So whether it's like it's been very cold recently, so frost

and snow, or whether it's been very windy, which it has recently,

or whether you've got torrential rain, how do each of those things affect your garden?

And is there anything you can do to combat that? So welcome again, Josie. Thank you very much.

Shall we start perhaps with frost? So given that it's been cold for pretty much the first

time in two or three months, hasn't it? What's the number one thing you think when you come

into the garden at Petch Hill and it's a frosty morning? So if there's frost on the ground,

don't walk on the grass is the first thing. Stick to the paths.

The grass may look nice and white and crunchy,

but all those little blades are frozen,

so if you walk on them, you break them.

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