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Welcome to GrowCook, Eat Arrange, our jobs for the month of May.

And so I'm going to hand straight over to Josie Lewis, our head gardener at Perchhill,

to describe the importance of our first job, which is planting out dahlias.

Yes, so planting out dahlias we can get on with now that we think the frosts are

over. Yeah. So once they're in the ground, you need to put your staking in. But you do get some

lower ones. You like totally tangerine, you may get away with without staking. But anything,

that's 75 centimetres and above, I would definitely put staking in because, you know, they snap

so easily if they're not staked and then you've lost them. So if you're just growing one or

three dahlias in a border, then stake them with a triangle or five hazel sticks, whatever you're

using, canes, and string in between, you know, as much

string as possible really. It'll all get covered with the foliage. So this might be at this time

of year in May above the dahlias, so it'd look a bit odd for a few weeks, but the dahlias will

grow all through it. You know, we go, because we grow beds of dahlias, so it'd look a bit odd for a few weeks, but the dahlias will grow all through it.

You know, we go, because we grow beds of dahlias here, we tend to use chestnut posts at the edges,

infill with hazel posts, and then we use hop twine, because it's slightly thicker than jute twine,

and it holds them better in place, you know, especially the wopper

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