Q&A: How do you protect dahlias from pests, and keep them healthy into late summer? What adds structure in the garden for next year? How do you prevent mildew? How can I stop containers drying out over holidays?

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Welcome to the August Q&A episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, where Sarah & Josie share their top tips based on your questions every month.For August, we hear how pests can be held at bay from your precious dahlias, and advice for treating the leaves such that they’re looking grand late into the summer season.Sarah also shares some inspiring ideas for giving your garden structure in a year’s time, Josie recalls our best advice for preventing and treating mildew, plus we look at the...

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0:35.9	Welcome to Grow, Cook, Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.
0:41.4	And today I'm joined by Josie Lewis, our head gardener at Putschill, because we're doing the August Q&A.
0:48.3	So we've requested questions from you that came in last week, and we're going to answer four of those which we feel
0:57.0	represent August really well. So kicking off with Josie. Yes. Hello. Hello. So we're going to
1:04.4	talk about daily as always in August and one of the questions is how do you prevent your
1:10.2	dailys from being eaten by pests and how do you keep them healthy going into late summer?
1:15.5	So at this time in August, your delis should be really a sizable plant now and shouldn't hopefully be attacked by slugs so much.
1:26.2	That's earlier in the season. So I'm not going to
1:29.3	concentrate on slugs. Hopefully they've got past that stage. Yeah. Yearwigs, we get a lot of
1:35.2	questions about, but I mean, we don't get them so much here, do we? It's not something we
1:40.9	struggle with, but we think of earwigs as friends, not enemies, because they're great for eating aphids and things like that.
1:49.6	But if they are really bothering your dahlias, then put an upturned pot in your daily patch on a stick, a little terracotta pot stuffed with straw.
2:04.3	And the Eewicks will hide in that once daylight comes and then you can empty them out into a hedge or somewhere or, you know, where
2:09.7	you've got an infestation of aphids on your roses or...
2:14.7	Great.
2:15.0	Yeah, and the other thing that we do a lot here at this time of year is stripping the lower leaves.
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