:00:20. > :00:26.Hello, welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones. On
:00:26. > :00:31.tonight's show, we find out how these two X German refugees helped
:00:31. > :00:34.turn the tide of Second World War by working for Britain. And a man
:00:34. > :00:40.for All seasons, even if they didn't come in the right order last
:00:40. > :00:43.year, it is Monty Don. Nice to see you, welcome back. Always good to
:00:43. > :00:48.see you. Always good to think we are going to have a nice relaxed
:00:48. > :00:52.programme. And you know for the next 12 months it is going to rain,
:00:52. > :00:56.that always happens when I come on. Back in March, we asked you to come
:00:56. > :01:02.up with some plants that would be great for drought conditions. And
:01:03. > :01:07.the weather through all sorts at us. We do apologise for people who went
:01:07. > :01:13.out there and planted time and all sorts of things. We said there
:01:13. > :01:18.would be a drought and the floods came. How is it going? We had snow,
:01:18. > :01:22.lots of flooding. It has been so, so wet. When I left yesterday,
:01:22. > :01:27.there were floods. Did you have that freak thing over the weekend
:01:27. > :01:31.when there was snow and then it just disappeared? We had eight
:01:31. > :01:34.inches of snow, it poured with rain all night and by Saturday lunchtime
:01:34. > :01:42.all of it was gone and the water was rising. It was about 15 degrees
:01:42. > :01:47.warmer. Walking around the garden and picking up bits and pieces?
:01:47. > :01:57.About that deep in mud. It is a muddy garden, just walking. You
:01:57. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:02.throw a ball for a dog, and there If your garden is struggling and he
:02:02. > :02:06.would like to know how to fix it, send your questions and a picture
:02:06. > :02:12.of yourself and we will have a wet garden clinic with Monty Don later.
:02:12. > :02:17.Happy with that? AO, yes. As if we hadn't had enough water after the
:02:17. > :02:20.recent snow, then comes the big thaw. Then there will be lots of
:02:20. > :02:24.water in the form of flooding. Authorities in Shropshire have been
:02:24. > :02:32.hard at work fighting the flood water, erecting emergency flood
:02:32. > :02:36.defences. Iwan Thomas has been with This area was the birthplace of the
:02:36. > :02:41.Industrial Revolution. In The A- Team century, barges would
:02:41. > :02:46.transport limestone and coal along the Severn river. It is now a World
:02:46. > :02:51.Heritage Site. Protecting it is in everybody's interest. The last four
:02:51. > :02:55.months have seen heavy rain and flood across the country. Saturated
:02:55. > :03:00.ground has meant that Ironbridge in Shropshire is in the firing line.
:03:00. > :03:05.It is 9:30pm. Although it is dark, I can clearly see that the water
:03:05. > :03:09.has risen loads. I would say it is two or three feet. And the pace of
:03:09. > :03:14.the water is pretty frightening. If there is any doubt this place needs
:03:14. > :03:20.flood defences, here is the proof. This picture is from about 50 years
:03:20. > :03:25.ago. The water level is right up to the windows. It is now 11 o'clock
:03:25. > :03:29.at night. The guys have just turned up. This is stage one of getting
:03:29. > :03:34.flood defences up and ready. Originally, this barrier was built
:03:34. > :03:39.using pallets. Since 2004, this flat-pack version, built by
:03:39. > :03:44.engineers, is quickly erected in times of emergency. Chris is one of
:03:44. > :03:48.the Environment Agency officers deployed for flood management. Any
:03:48. > :03:51.talk me through the process of how it is assembled? This chain is
:03:51. > :03:57.purely for weight that is going to be on top of tall Paul then, that
:03:57. > :04:03.is going to go on this barrier defence. -- tarpaulin. It's quite
:04:03. > :04:09.high, how high do you think it will reach? It has been pretty high. In
:04:09. > :04:13.2007, we were somewhere near the top. This is the best mechanism you
:04:13. > :04:16.have got? The whole scheme is designed so we can get into places
:04:16. > :04:19.where you do not have to have something permanent. If you're
:04:19. > :04:24.doing a permanent structure, you would have a permanent wall and he
:04:24. > :04:28.would put flood gates on it. That really expensive. I've been here
:04:28. > :04:32.since 8 o'clock. How much longer do they take? They are going quickly,
:04:32. > :04:38.but they are earning their wages? They certainly are, they are going
:04:38. > :04:43.to be here until about four or five in the morning. Slightly different
:04:43. > :04:47.from last night. It is done, the boys have done their work. The
:04:47. > :04:51.waterproof is on top. They've done a good job, exactly what you're
:04:51. > :04:55.saying. Now we have the waterproof layer on, the pressure of the water
:04:55. > :05:00.is keeping it down on the barrier. To some people it doesn't look
:05:00. > :05:04.overly dramatic, believe me, it would be a whole road full of water
:05:04. > :05:10.in the property's. As I am standing here, it does not look that
:05:10. > :05:14.dramatic, not very deep. But it would spread right across the road?
:05:14. > :05:20.It is also full of sediment, that get into properties and causes a
:05:20. > :05:24.lot of damage. The boys are in bed, it is mid-morning and they have
:05:24. > :05:28.worked all through the night. I think they deserve their sleep.
:05:28. > :05:31.They've done a really good job. I'll thoughts are with you if you
:05:31. > :05:36.are experiencing flooding or you are about to be hit by them. We
:05:36. > :05:40.were just talking about your new series. It is all about French
:05:40. > :05:44.gardens. You are a big lover of France. It has taken a long time
:05:44. > :05:48.for you to look at them in detail. You've been around the world, two
:05:48. > :05:52.Italian gardens, but not French ones? I've got a relationship with
:05:52. > :06:01.France, I have been going for a long time. I first went when I was
:06:01. > :06:08.14. I used a bus to get from London. I was trying to go to Greece. I was
:06:08. > :06:15.busking, I didn't get any money. I was astounded by the light. I
:06:15. > :06:19.really don't do well in the dark. The plants, the colours, the
:06:19. > :06:24.markets, just intoxicating. I went back and I spent six months there
:06:24. > :06:29.without any grand plan. But I haven't got my television act
:06:29. > :06:33.together to actually go, look, look at these amazing gardens. Fantastic
:06:33. > :06:41.gardens. In the first episode you introduce us to the fantastic work
:06:41. > :06:51.of Ade Gardner who designed a massive garden, I think we have it
:06:51. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :07:01.He broke the mould, the effortless way that the garden opens out to do
:07:01. > :07:03.it visitor. Carefully judge changes in level meant that Ali's, pools,
:07:03. > :07:11.cascades and the canal gradually reveal themselves as you walk
:07:11. > :07:21.through. Mind you, he had a limitless fortune and an army of
:07:21. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :07:30.18,000 men to car of this out of King Louis XIV's chief minister
:07:30. > :07:35.threw a party to celebrate making the garden. One of them was the Sun
:07:35. > :07:38.King, 21 years old. He showed his king nets, and the king was so
:07:38. > :07:43.furious he had spent all of his money. He threw him into prison for
:07:43. > :07:46.the rest of his life, confiscated everybody that worked there, he dug
:07:46. > :07:56.up all of the plants and said he wants a better garden than that.
:07:56. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:03.Is that how it works on Gardeners' World? Yes, rip them out! He was an
:08:03. > :08:08.incredible character. He has this beautiful book that was translated
:08:08. > :08:12.into many languages? One of the great geniuses. He changed the
:08:12. > :08:16.world. He opened it out, and everything had been introverted
:08:16. > :08:20.before them. The whole of France, it still remains, that book went on
:08:20. > :08:25.to be a bestseller. A gardening book prototype. People would say, I
:08:25. > :08:29.want that, open it up. It was published after his death,
:08:29. > :08:33.extraordinary. The thing you notice is that the French have a very
:08:33. > :08:39.specific way of gardening. Everything is very regimented.
:08:39. > :08:49.Controlled. Is there anything that we can learn from the French?
:08:49. > :08:57.Partly it was this idea of ordering nature, control, symmetry. They
:08:57. > :09:01.still love that. Also, dela ideas. They love concepts. They will make
:09:01. > :09:08.a garden that symbolises the retreat of the Sun from the Moon,
:09:08. > :09:16.rising up. They love that. There is a garden in Normandy, then our
:09:16. > :09:22.gardens in the South, it sort of melds into the landscape. You get
:09:22. > :09:27.this combination of order, rhythm, balance and control, with quite
:09:27. > :09:34.loose planting. That is lovely, really beautiful. As well as design,
:09:34. > :09:41.you look at fruit and veg, artistry? It's all there, anyway,
:09:41. > :09:44.it starts on Friday at 9pm on BBC Two. It is on a little bit later in
:09:44. > :09:51.Wales. If Britain was up against France in
:09:51. > :09:56.a gardening head to head, what could we possibly put against the
:09:56. > :10:01.Champs-Elysees? I think we should let Christine Walkden onto that one.
:10:01. > :10:08.For centuries, we have wrestled to control nature, sculpting the
:10:08. > :10:14.landscape around us into a more formal sculpture. These magnificent
:10:14. > :10:21.green, maids are an example of that. Living architecture, nearly 200
:10:21. > :10:24.years old. They are part of a once grand horticultural craze that
:10:25. > :10:32.first took hold of Britain in the 17th century. Each has a story to
:10:32. > :10:36.tell. Like Kingston Avenue in Dorset, planted in 1835 as an
:10:36. > :10:46.extravagant gift from the Duke to his mother. Possibly one of the
:10:46. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:54.most impressive avenues is here in This double lined avenue is the
:10:54. > :11:02.longest in Europe and it contains 1296 trees. It stretches for very
:11:02. > :11:09.nearly two miles. Laid out in 1838 by the 4th Duke of Newcastle, it
:11:09. > :11:13.took three years to plant them all. Visitors to the estate from
:11:13. > :11:17.neighbouring landowners to loyalty will have travelled along the
:11:17. > :11:27.Avenue, marvelling at the living buttresses of the great green roof
:11:27. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:36.They must have been very impressed, going along in a horse-drawn
:11:36. > :11:39.carriage it feels like it stretches on forever. A huge statement like
:11:39. > :11:47.this needs constant maintenance, otherwise chaotic nature will start
:11:47. > :11:52.taking hold. For landscape managers like Gareth Jones, it is a constant
:11:52. > :11:56.battle keeping the avenue in trim. But in the 1960s, this and other
:11:56. > :12:02.tree avenues were very nearly lost when they came under attack from
:12:02. > :12:10.the particularly ferocious winter moth. The female is flightless. She
:12:10. > :12:14.has to climb up the tree to lay her eggs for the caterpillars to hatch.
:12:15. > :12:23.There was an epidemic of them and virtually every leaf was eaten.
:12:23. > :12:25.advance was halted by some clever natural thinking. A black grease
:12:25. > :12:33.Band was put around all of the trees to try to prevent further
:12:33. > :12:37.outbreak. We have not had one since then. The park is well maintained,
:12:37. > :12:46.but historically we have lost many tree avenues across Britain duty
:12:46. > :12:51.bad storms and disease. To try and halt the decline, arboriculturists
:12:51. > :12:56.are aiming to survey every Trai in Britain. We are trying to get an
:12:56. > :12:59.overview of the populations, the ages, the species, what condition
:12:59. > :13:05.they are in. It would give us an idea of when we are going to have
:13:05. > :13:08.to start replacing them and how they have got to be managed. We
:13:08. > :13:12.will keep alive the stories about the people that planted these huge
:13:12. > :13:16.avenues hundreds of years ago. We may have enough information to put
:13:16. > :13:23.forward a proposal to list avenues so that they are protected, like
:13:23. > :13:28.listed buildings. Rooted in history, tree avenues were once the physical
:13:28. > :13:33.expression of a wealthy landowner's vanity. They were intended to
:13:33. > :13:37.impress everybody that came to visit. As a gardener, I hope we
:13:38. > :13:42.never lose these trees. I hope they can be saved for the nation,
:13:42. > :13:50.because, if we do lose them, the stories of their creation would be
:13:50. > :13:54.You would be slightly envious of her doing that film?
:13:54. > :13:59.interesting thing is that is what French gardens are all about,
:13:59. > :14:04.avenues. It's a very French thing to talk about the concept of the
:14:04. > :14:07.avenue. But they make this link, ordering nature in two minds, but
:14:07. > :14:14.including it. They make that connection between the garden and
:14:14. > :14:21.the wild, you know, this unruly, wild boars. You can do it in a
:14:21. > :14:25.garden. And lime trees are good? Very good, bees like them as well.
:14:25. > :14:28.Before we meet the two men who helped to change the course of the
:14:28. > :14:32.Second World War, Larry Lamb has been to find out how British
:14:32. > :14:37.prisoners of war in the Far East kept themselves sane through years
:14:37. > :14:42.of captivity. This gate is a particularly
:14:42. > :14:47.touching memorial to the fallen of World War II. It was constructed in
:14:47. > :14:50.1942 by the inmates of a prisoner- of-war camp in Singapore to stand
:14:50. > :14:55.at the entrance to the camps cemetery. It was billed as a
:14:55. > :15:05.tribute to their comrades, who had died in this notorious Japanese
:15:05. > :15:07.
:15:07. > :15:13.$:/STARTFEED. It was restored and brought to Britain as a tribute.
:15:13. > :15:20.They crafted this while undergoing terrible hardships. It's one of a
:15:20. > :15:24.list of remarkable list that the men undertook. Midge's father has
:15:24. > :15:28.written a book about her father's experience. It was about the battle
:15:28. > :15:33.against bore Dom, because you don't know how long you'll be there, so
:15:33. > :15:38.anything that lifts your spirits, performing or even taking exams or
:15:38. > :15:43.studying languages. Think that takes you out of your jail. What
:15:43. > :15:46.sort of things would prisoners have involved themselves in? People
:15:46. > :15:49.might have been university lecturers at home, so naturally
:15:49. > :15:59.they would want to teach the POWs and that happened in the Far East
:15:59. > :16:03.and Europe. You might have read Jane Austen or Shakespeare. The Red
:16:03. > :16:07.Cross would send the papers and the POWs would sit the exams under the
:16:07. > :16:13.strict conditions and they prided themselves on the fact they were
:16:13. > :16:18.like the men and women back home. One man who took advantage of this
:16:18. > :16:24.was Cambridge graduate John Vickers. Novelist, Sally, is his daughter.
:16:24. > :16:34.He was captured on May 27th 1940 and spent the whole of the war in
:16:34. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:42.the camps. He learnt Serbo-kroat and modern Greek and Russian from a
:16:43. > :16:46.Pole. He also taught history to the whole of the camp. Red Cross
:16:46. > :16:50.appeals supplied libraries with books. John used them to study for
:16:50. > :16:57.a teaching qualification and to read for pleasure. He kept one book
:16:57. > :17:04.as a war-time memento. He took Moby Dick. I've kept it. You see it in
:17:04. > :17:09.the front. I think it was from the -- this is the only time my father
:17:09. > :17:13.stole anything in his life. prisoners in the Far East, they
:17:13. > :17:16.faced even greater hardships. Conditions in the camps were
:17:16. > :17:20.appalling and brutality was the order of the day. Physical escape
:17:20. > :17:25.was virtually impossible, which made mental escape even more
:17:25. > :17:31.important. John Lowe was a prisoner of the Japanese, confineed in huts
:17:31. > :17:35.like this replica at the national arboretum. He was a keen amateur
:17:35. > :17:41.musician who managed to hone his skills. In this camp somehow there
:17:41. > :17:49.was a small accordian and when somebody died I played Abide Me
:17:49. > :17:56.With Me. -- Abide With Me. Someone told him I played by ear and he
:17:56. > :18:05.said he would teach me classical music and from then on we sat down
:18:05. > :18:11.and he would sing the notes until I had it and I could play it.
:18:11. > :18:16.love of performing kept John going and it's never left him, but he has
:18:17. > :18:21.particular memories of a play he produced in his camp on Taiwan.
:18:21. > :18:26.the middle of the play there are one or two simple love scenesened I
:18:26. > :18:29.wondered they would be messed up, but there was not a sound. Not a
:18:29. > :18:36.single sound throughout the play. Many years later, I produced many
:18:36. > :18:40.plays, but I think that one was the best thing I ever did. It's an
:18:40. > :18:45.honour to meet men like John. Their spirit pulled them through in the
:18:45. > :18:48.camps they experienced the worst of man's inhumanity to man, but they
:18:48. > :18:58.responded by turning it into something positive. They are an
:18:58. > :19:01.
:19:02. > :19:06.inspiration to us all. # Abide With Me... #
:19:06. > :19:11.We are joined by historian Helen Fry and two ex-German refugees who
:19:11. > :19:16.worked for the British during World War II. Eric Mark and Fritz Lustig,
:19:16. > :19:19.nice to see you. Helen, differently to what we heard with Larry, some
:19:19. > :19:23.high-ranking German prisoners were treated extremely well, weren't
:19:23. > :19:28.they, in the UK camps and there was a specific reason behind that?
:19:28. > :19:32.there were. These are the last two surviving listeners that basically
:19:32. > :19:39.secretly bugged the conversation of the Nazi prisoners during the war-
:19:39. > :19:42.time and through that they gained information on some of Hitler's
:19:42. > :19:46.closely-guarded secrets. The cells were like the radio version of Big
:19:46. > :19:52.Brother, so Fritz, what were you listening to? What kind of
:19:52. > :19:56.information? We were briefed concerning each cell. We would
:19:56. > :20:00.listen to them. There were two prisoners in each cell. We were
:20:00. > :20:04.listening to probably two to three cells at a time. We were bugging
:20:04. > :20:10.from one cell to the other and we were told what information was
:20:10. > :20:17.expected from each prisoner. This was mainly what we were asked to
:20:17. > :20:22.look out for, or to listen for, was military information, either from -
:20:22. > :20:28.it was a navy prisoner, naval information and if they were Air
:20:28. > :20:34.Force, it was air information and until the invasion of the continent,
:20:34. > :20:39.D-Day in 1944, they were mainly naval and Air Force prisoners.
:20:39. > :20:44.After D-Day there was a great influx of army prisoners as well.
:20:44. > :20:48.We were told what to listen out for, but not only military information
:20:48. > :20:52.was expected to be recorded by us, but also political information. For
:20:52. > :20:56.instance, if a prisoner had been home on home leave, what conditions
:20:56. > :21:03.were like in the home town, what the mood was and so on. That would
:21:03. > :21:08.be used by political propaganda. Eric, during your time as listeners,
:21:08. > :21:11.what key pieces of intelligence then did you find out? Well, I will
:21:11. > :21:17.only quote one, because it happened to be one which was very important.
:21:17. > :21:22.At the time, when the Germans were beginning to launch the V1 and the
:21:22. > :21:29.V2 rockets, we needed to find out where were they coming from, what
:21:29. > :21:33.were the technical aspects of each of the delivery vehicles, what
:21:33. > :21:40.could you expect on the ground and where were they coming from exactly.
:21:40. > :21:46.If we knew that, if we found that out through the conversations, then
:21:46. > :21:50.the RAF could use it in order to bomb those places. I should just
:21:51. > :21:56.add that when I went to Holland after the war I found that we were
:21:56. > :22:02.in the place which had been successfully bombed by the RAF and
:22:02. > :22:06.we have actually been in a flat on the outside. What did it feel like
:22:06. > :22:13.for you, because obviously you had left Germany a long time ago, but
:22:13. > :22:20.what was it like spying on what were your foe? I was lucky enough
:22:20. > :22:25.as a young boy to be sent by my parents to the UK at a time when
:22:25. > :22:31.the Nazi element in Germany was becoming stronger and when I was
:22:31. > :22:37.subjected to an attack in the school. The director of the school
:22:37. > :22:40.summoned my father and said this boy has to go. He said he had been
:22:40. > :22:48.attacked, he said, "Yes, but I can't guarantee his safety in
:22:48. > :22:52.future." I had to leave that school and my parent sent me to the UK.
:22:52. > :22:56.It's a longer story, but I arrived as a 12-year-old boy without my
:22:56. > :23:01.parents. I managed to get my brother over a few years later, but
:23:01. > :23:06.I never managed to get my parents out. So many stories. We could talk
:23:06. > :23:11.to you lads all night long, but unfortunately we haven't got time
:23:11. > :23:16.thank you so much to all of you for sharing your stories. There's a lot
:23:16. > :23:22.more about the secret listeners in Helen's book. Now, across the
:23:22. > :23:26.country, councils are trying to bring dog owners to heal with tough
:23:26. > :23:30.new measures. However, well-behaved owners are fed up with what they
:23:30. > :23:38.say is unfair treatment. Glory Hunniford takes one councillor to
:23:38. > :23:42.meet a pack of them. Even on a cold day, there are few
:23:42. > :23:46.finer pleasures in life than the freedom of walking a dog along a
:23:46. > :23:52.wind-swept coast. We are a nation of dog lovers and I'm happy to say
:23:52. > :23:55.I have two myself, very like Jenny here, but lately many councils have
:23:55. > :23:58.introduced stricter dog controls. Sometimes for very, very good
:23:58. > :24:08.reasons. But then dog owners are claiming that because of their
:24:08. > :24:08.
:24:09. > :24:12.rights, they are being well and truly muzzled. Dog lovers in the
:24:12. > :24:17.North Down area of Northern Ireland are up in arms. Under proposed
:24:17. > :24:21.plans, dog walkers on parts of this beach will be banned for nine hours
:24:21. > :24:25.a day during the summer months, from letting their dogs run free
:24:25. > :24:29.like this. Elsewhere on the coastal path, they'll be forced to be on a
:24:29. > :24:35.lead all year round and in some public places one person won't be
:24:35. > :24:39.able to walk more than two dogs. have four dogs and I would not be
:24:39. > :24:41.allowed to walk the four of them together. I would need to take them
:24:42. > :24:46.out separately. Another big issue for me is the coastal path. The
:24:46. > :24:50.four dogs would need to be on a lead, which isn't very acceptable.
:24:50. > :24:54.You are used to letting them loose? Absolutely. They run free and
:24:54. > :24:58.socialise. This is the way I've been letting off the steam. We
:24:58. > :25:02.think it's better for the council to educate rather than legislate
:25:02. > :25:08.and work with responsible dog owners. Professional dog walker
:25:08. > :25:12.David agrees that the council's plans are barking mad. I feel
:25:12. > :25:16.strongly that the rules which are posed are very over the top. It's
:25:16. > :25:20.so important for dogs' health to get off the lead and get a proper
:25:20. > :25:24.run and exercise. That really is affecting a great many dog lovers
:25:24. > :25:29.along here, because it's a popular coastal path. Responsible dog
:25:29. > :25:33.walkers like David play by the rules, but sadly, others don't.
:25:33. > :25:37.Persistent fouling and nuisance dogs are a constant problem for all
:25:37. > :25:41.local authorities. Elsewhere in the UK, many councils have already
:25:41. > :25:45.introduced similar controls, but this has created a patchwork of
:25:45. > :25:48.complicated laws that can baffle dog owners. The rules vary from
:25:48. > :25:52.council to council and beach to beach and in fact some beaches have
:25:52. > :25:57.banned dogs from being on them altogether. The dogs' trust
:25:57. > :26:01.believes that banning isn't the answer and could affect owners'
:26:01. > :26:04.legal duties to properly exercise their dogs. Within the animal
:26:04. > :26:08.welfare legislation people have to get their dogs out to exercise.
:26:08. > :26:13.It's part of the legislation. That would worry me. One of the
:26:13. > :26:17.restrictions is that an owner can't take out more than two dogs. How do
:26:17. > :26:23.you react to that? Some councils will say you are able to walk four
:26:23. > :26:26.dogs and others will say only two on a lead. It's totally confusing.
:26:26. > :26:30.Nearly 1700 residents have petitioned the coucil here
:26:30. > :26:34.demanding a rethink, but councils do have the difficult task of
:26:34. > :26:38.trying to balance their competing demands of residents who all want
:26:38. > :26:42.to enjoy the shared spaces. Peter Martin who worked on the new
:26:43. > :26:51.proposals has bravely agreed to meet me with some of the
:26:51. > :26:55.campaigners and their dogs. Before the consultation we can -- had
:26:55. > :27:01.evidence that there had been fouling on the paths. It was the
:27:01. > :27:04.irresponsible owners. The main part of what Peter is saying, there are
:27:04. > :27:11.a minority, but I don't think introducing the orders is going to
:27:12. > :27:21.solve that problem. Why not? It's us who will be penalised. You are
:27:21. > :27:23.over the top says, Heather. -- top, says Heather. We don't want the
:27:23. > :27:27.dogs on beaches period, some people say. The people here are
:27:27. > :27:31.responsible and I'm making a case for dogs. We have people who want
:27:31. > :27:34.them banned completely and we're in the middle of it. The council will
:27:34. > :27:41.make a final decision in the next month. Until then, dog walkers here
:27:41. > :27:45.are determined to make the most of their spaces while they can.
:27:45. > :27:49.Thank you. I'm sure that lots of people's gardens looks like the
:27:49. > :27:54.beach, because we asked for questions about wet gardens. This
:27:54. > :28:02.is from Roy. He said the garden is currently mud. How does he restore
:28:02. > :28:05.it back to lawn? He's 66 today. I'm preassuming that isn't a mud pie.
:28:05. > :28:10.If it's any consolation Longmeadow is a mud heap too. It's the same
:28:10. > :28:13.for all of us. Two things, one, it's only January, so give it a
:28:13. > :28:19.chance. We have another couple of months for things to recover and we
:28:19. > :28:25.could have a lot more snow yet. Two, get the drainage going, so as soon
:28:25. > :28:29.as it's dry enough, but not until, fork it, get the drainage up and
:28:29. > :28:33.that will get air in and the grass will start to grow. Grass grows
:28:33. > :28:41.above six degrees, so when it warms up it will grow and it's amazing
:28:41. > :28:47.how it recovers. 30 seconds. Susan from Stoke, how do you prepare the
:28:48. > :28:53.raised vadges for string sewing -- vegetables for string sewing?
:28:53. > :28:56.you put a layer of organic material over the soil in raised beds. Don't
:28:56. > :29:04.be in a hurry, it's fine. You don't need to sew until April. Calm down
:29:04. > :29:08.I would say. One word, when should I prune my roses? Now. That's it.