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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and my mate Arthur Parkinson.

And today we're going to do a really down-to-earth, practical, hands-on tips for looking after your summer containers.

Okay. for looking after your summer containers. Arthur's garden is entirely in containers.

So he is a living expert on how to keep things looking good now,

going from mid to late summer and into the autumn.

And we have currently 370 pots at Purch Hill.

So I've become quite an expert too, although I have to admit it is not just me looking after them.

So, Arthur, shall we start perhaps with feeding, do you think?

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's really good that you admit that you've got gardeners, Sarah,

because the thing I find, particularly when I was working at a place like Kew Gardens,

is all these gardens that you visit, which have the most gorgeous displays,

there is an army behind that look,

and it's, you know, they're literally preened every couple of days these pots.

They don't just get planted and exist.

So it's quite an art of learning at home how to create a maintenance schedule, which

doesn't mean that the garden's overbearing.

And I'm learning every year of how to try and make things a bit easier. And what's lovely is now that we've done a few

of these episodes, I've learned quite a lot from my guest speakers. So we had the land gardens,

which, you know, soil is everything. And so I think the key to pot success is is investment in soil feed the

soil you feed your plants so it's a win-win scenario if you put your soil first when you're

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