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grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

This month in your garden: December

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The garden winds down in December, but there’s still a few small jobs that’ll stand it in good stead for the year to come.In this monthly episode of ‘grow, cook, eat arrange’, Sarah takes us through which bulbs can be forced now, and an experimental watering technique, while Josie runs down the winter pruning plans and why it’s not too late to plant your tulips.Get in touch: [email protected] on the Sarah Raven Website: http://bit.ly/3jvbaeuFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram....

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly

0:06.3

beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,

0:12.9

lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden

0:19.8

and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of

0:23.1

garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today

0:29.4

to discover even more.

0:35.9

Welcome to Grow Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and our head gardener at

0:42.5

Putshire Josie Lewis, who is really often on with me. And she tends to do all the gardening

0:49.4

question and answers with me, but also the gardening jobs. And that's what we're doing this week.

0:53.9

So we're doing December in the garden. And that's what we're doing this week.

1:00.1

So we're doing December in the garden. And I'm going to hand over to Josie, which is something that we get asked a lot about, but we are still doing as a major job in the garden in early December,

1:06.3

which is, is it too late to plant tulip bulbs? So over to Josie, whose back is hurting right now

1:13.1

about what bulbs you can still plant in December. Yes, that well-used bulb planter, I wouldn't

1:19.4

be without it. And the table that all these are trial bulbs are sitting on, but I can just

1:25.7

begin to see the table appearing. So there is hope.

1:29.9

We'll get it done before Christmas. So, no, it's not too late. You know, keep planting your bulbs.

1:36.7

And, you know, always, always there'll be a pack you've forgotten, a pack you've put in a special

1:41.5

place in the garage or in your shed wherever.

1:49.7

Find them all now and if you can get them in before Christmas, yeah, do so.

1:54.0

Just not when the ground is frozen or, you know, really waterlog.

1:56.5

We've had a lot of rain in the last few weeks.

1:57.0

Yeah.

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