What To Do Now - Protect tender plants
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
4.4 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Guide Dogs. Guide Dogs is a charity that helps people with sight loss |
| 0:05.7 | live the life they choose. This time of year we can enjoy autumnal walks and swishing through |
| 0:11.5 | crunchy leaves, planning the veg plot, planting spring bulbs and spending time with friends |
| 0:17.0 | in a community garden. Now think how you would do those things if you lost your sight. |
| 0:22.6 | Guide dogs helps people with sight loss live the life they choose so they can fulfill their |
| 0:27.4 | ambitions, big or small, day in and day out. Being outdoors, exploring the world around us and |
| 0:33.4 | gardening is all about getting involved and trying new things, and so is a life well-lived. |
| 0:39.5 | By providing guide dogs, mobility training and other support services, |
| 0:43.7 | guide dogs helps people with sight loss from childhood to adulthood. |
| 0:47.5 | Because you don't just have to manage with sight loss, you can thrive with it, live independently, and live well. |
| 0:54.0 | Find out more about guide Dogs' life-changing services |
| 0:56.8 | or how you can support their incredible work at guidedogs.org.org. |
| 1:02.3 | Everyone deserves to live the life they choose. |
| 1:05.3 | Fulfill your gardening dreams and don't hold back. |
| 1:08.2 | Guide Dogs is here to ensure that people with sight loss can do just that. |
| 1:15.3 | Hello and welcome to the award-winning BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast. Join our new What's Do Now series. |
| 1:22.9 | These friendly bite-sized podcasts offer advice on what you can be doing in the garden throughout autumn and winter. |
| 1:35.0 | Hello, Oliver here from BBC Gardens World magazine. If you're anything like me, you've probably |
| 1:39.7 | spent a lot of time and effort nurturing exotic or boardline hardy plants through the spring and summer, |
| 1:45.4 | only to worry as soon as the night start drawing in and the temperatures drop. |
| 1:49.6 | So let's look at some ways to give tender plants the best chance of surviving until spring. |
| 1:54.8 | When people think of protecting tender plants, the first thing that springs to mind is usually frost, |
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