September 20, 2025 • 8 mins
Tonight on the show Roman asked the callers about gardening, who they learned from, and what they're growing. Sue chats about what she's learned over the years, what crops she has in her yard, and what she does with the fruits of her labour.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
I would love to start growing rhubarb again. Is rubarb
considered an old fashioned plant these days?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Soon?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Probably? It's been around long.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Time, has hasn't it? Did you know that the leaves
are poisonous?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah? Apparently they are.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Watch out for that.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Eh. Yeah. Some people make a spray out of it,
gin out of the leaves.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh yeah, like underarm what kind of spray?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know? The peats in the garden. Maybe they make
themselves sick as well. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, actually yes, And I think one of the daisy
books talks about using the leaves. If you've got a
pot where you've burnt something, you soak it with the
leaves or cook the leaves into that and it removes
all that crusty stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of uses for
various plants. Say, but I heard I heard it mentioned
about cape gooseberries before. Yeah. I've got them coming up
like weeds all over the place.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you like that or do you not like that?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's quite good too. When when they're formed in that
it's like the little lanterns growing on the plant a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They're very delicate, aren't they. They're just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I love the taste of them.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Actually, I can imagine. Actually it's quite weird because once
you once you peel the dried paper exterior, the exterior
of the fruit itself has got an oily context, hasn't it.
It's kind of it's weird, but slippery and slimy. But
they're just beautiful on ice cream or Yeah. Everything's nice
with ice cream, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, it's a slavor though, ay, I mean they've got
an amazing slavor.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, they have. What have you what have you learned
over the years, so about what works and what doesn't
work in your guarden? Because I know you're a prolific gardener.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, guess what I've been doing the last couple of
days gardening? Yeah, I have. It's between seasons, and I've
got a pile of broad beans up there, all flowering
and that. But with the window net, I did a
lot of bumblebees here and they're the best really to pollinate.
(02:42):
I've been getting the ground really and great in it
and whatnot. And today I started putting up the bamboo
frames for my runner beans.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Love.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, And I've got a few more of those. I
might have about six frame, you know, runner six foot
long frames for those stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Just before you go on to do you take the
seed from the previous season's beans? Is it how you
do it?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I do do. Yeah. And a lot of people say
to me. I've got all these egga panthers will are
not flowering yet but growing up the drive and it
just gets all these beautiful I love egga panthers blue flowers,
(03:38):
heaps of them. And when my beans are flowering, each
one of those egga panthers flowers, says about a dozen
bumble bees in each one, and then they go straight
up and pollinate the beans. You see.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm with you on the egga panthers. I know it's
a noxious weed in a lot of places of the country,
but yeah, the white and the blue, they're a lovely flower,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love? I love the blue. And like on one side,
I've got these I don't I don't even know what
they are. There, long stalks with all these orange flowers.
One side it's blue, the other side it's orange. The
food trees starting to get leaves on.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Love figs.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh yeah, these are those. I can't remember the name.
They're great, big red dark red ones are pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sally, do you do you? What do you do with them?
Because I know you can make them into all sorts
of different things, or just eat them fresh. What do
you like to do with yours?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I love them fresh. You can make jam if you want.
Sometimes I do. But I've got boys and berries too,
not yet, but they'll be soon, and I make jam
with that. And because they've got a lot of pet
and and them, you don't need very much sugar at all.
And they're beautiful and in a conserve, you know, they're fresh?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah they are. And look it's everything polarizes people, I guess.
But figs, people go, oh no, all of those seeds,
and I love all those little the little seeds a
little crunchy. But said, just do you have bee hives
close to you?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't think so. But I have not seen for
two or three years many bees around. I've seen some
of the native ones like they have it. They have it,
they live under the ground. But I did a lot
of bumblebees. But I think they're actually better.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, they're a lovely, lovely thing to have, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Just?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I just wonder if if someone with a registered of course,
because I know there'll be be a purist listening going.
They've got to be registered, I know all that. So
would you be keen to have hives on your property?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I wouldn't mind. Actually, that's good I have. Yeah,
I would love to. But you know the problem is,
even where I am, there's hardly any way was a
garden anymore. Hardly anybody's got flowers because they've just got
concrete pars around their places, and you've got to have
(06:21):
flowers from that to attract bees in the first place.
You know, some years I have them. But I've got
all the birds here because no one else has got trees,
you know, But I've got Washington oranges, lemons, free Joe trees,
golden Queen features. Yeah, at least they're not coming from
(06:46):
another country.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
No, that's true. So have you got things like because
I know that bees are attracted to well, they're attracted
to any flowers, but blue. They love blue, like borich.
Have you got that in your gun?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No? No, I've got everything else. So I've got heaps
or rosemary that is blue flowers flowering at the moment. Yeah,
have lots of mint and all that. It all just
grows wild up there. Nastasians I eat those, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, Well the Stasians are very sweet, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh the yeah, absolutely believes the peppery. But the flowers,
I've got all different colored ones, but they've got to
figure owed them through your fruit trees for some reason
as well, like your citrus trees.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I had never thought of doing it. They're very good
for fixing nitrogen, aren't they into the soil. So I've
been told, yeah that year.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, I put sheep creep everywhere up there, you know,
and hold it and to get given a bit of body.
It's really broken. It's all up. But I use a
lot of sulfur to pot ish too, you know, to
make things flour and fruit and everything.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We should have you on as a gardening show expert. Now.
So in my in my head, you've got this rambling
massive property. How how many square meter ridges have you got?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It's not huge. I'll just make the most of what
I've got.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, that's that's a lovely, lovely. I love the way
you've described your whole garden. I was meandering through it
with you. I felt like we were hand in hand
through the Delphiniums there So.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For more from News Talk st B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks. There'd be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I would love to start growing rhubarb again. Is rubarb
considered an old fashioned plant these days?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Soon?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Probably? It's been around long.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Time, has hasn't it? Did you know that the leaves
are poisonous?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah? Apparently they are.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Watch out for that.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Eh. Yeah. Some people make a spray out of it,
gin out of the leaves.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh yeah, like underarm what kind of spray?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know? The peats in the garden. Maybe they make
themselves sick as well. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, actually yes, And I think one of the daisy
books talks about using the leaves. If you've got a
pot where you've burnt something, you soak it with the
leaves or cook the leaves into that and it removes
all that crusty stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of uses for
various plants. Say, but I heard I heard it mentioned
about cape gooseberries before. Yeah. I've got them coming up
like weeds all over the place.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you like that or do you not like that?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's quite good too. When when they're formed in that
it's like the little lanterns growing on the plant a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They're very delicate, aren't they. They're just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I love the taste of them.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Actually, I can imagine. Actually it's quite weird because once
you once you peel the dried paper exterior, the exterior
of the fruit itself has got an oily context, hasn't it.
It's kind of it's weird, but slippery and slimy. But
they're just beautiful on ice cream or Yeah. Everything's nice
with ice cream, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, it's a slavor though, ay, I mean they've got
an amazing slavor.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, they have. What have you what have you learned
over the years, so about what works and what doesn't
work in your guarden? Because I know you're a prolific gardener.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, guess what I've been doing the last couple of
days gardening? Yeah, I have. It's between seasons, and I've
got a pile of broad beans up there, all flowering
and that. But with the window net, I did a
lot of bumblebees here and they're the best really to pollinate.
(02:42):
I've been getting the ground really and great in it
and whatnot. And today I started putting up the bamboo
frames for my runner beans.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Love.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, And I've got a few more of those. I
might have about six frame, you know, runner six foot
long frames for those stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Just before you go on to do you take the
seed from the previous season's beans? Is it how you
do it?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I do do. Yeah. And a lot of people say
to me. I've got all these egga panthers will are
not flowering yet but growing up the drive and it
just gets all these beautiful I love egga panthers blue flowers,
(03:38):
heaps of them. And when my beans are flowering, each
one of those egga panthers flowers, says about a dozen
bumble bees in each one, and then they go straight
up and pollinate the beans. You see.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm with you on the egga panthers. I know it's
a noxious weed in a lot of places of the country,
but yeah, the white and the blue, they're a lovely flower,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love? I love the blue. And like on one side,
I've got these I don't I don't even know what
they are. There, long stalks with all these orange flowers.
One side it's blue, the other side it's orange. The
food trees starting to get leaves on.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Love figs.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh yeah, these are those. I can't remember the name.
They're great, big red dark red ones are pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sally, do you do you? What do you do with them?
Because I know you can make them into all sorts
of different things, or just eat them fresh. What do
you like to do with yours?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I love them fresh. You can make jam if you want.
Sometimes I do. But I've got boys and berries too,
not yet, but they'll be soon, and I make jam
with that. And because they've got a lot of pet
and and them, you don't need very much sugar at all.
And they're beautiful and in a conserve, you know, they're fresh?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah they are. And look it's everything polarizes people, I guess.
But figs, people go, oh no, all of those seeds,
and I love all those little the little seeds a
little crunchy. But said, just do you have bee hives
close to you?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't think so. But I have not seen for
two or three years many bees around. I've seen some
of the native ones like they have it. They have it,
they live under the ground. But I did a lot
of bumblebees. But I think they're actually better.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, they're a lovely, lovely thing to have, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Just?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I just wonder if if someone with a registered of course,
because I know there'll be be a purist listening going.
They've got to be registered, I know all that. So
would you be keen to have hives on your property?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I wouldn't mind. Actually, that's good I have. Yeah,
I would love to. But you know the problem is,
even where I am, there's hardly any way was a
garden anymore. Hardly anybody's got flowers because they've just got
concrete pars around their places, and you've got to have
(06:21):
flowers from that to attract bees in the first place.
You know, some years I have them. But I've got
all the birds here because no one else has got trees,
you know, But I've got Washington oranges, lemons, free Joe trees,
golden Queen features. Yeah, at least they're not coming from
(06:46):
another country.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
No, that's true. So have you got things like because
I know that bees are attracted to well, they're attracted
to any flowers, but blue. They love blue, like borich.
Have you got that in your gun?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No? No, I've got everything else. So I've got heaps
or rosemary that is blue flowers flowering at the moment. Yeah,
have lots of mint and all that. It all just
grows wild up there. Nastasians I eat those, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, Well the Stasians are very sweet, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh the yeah, absolutely believes the peppery. But the flowers,
I've got all different colored ones, but they've got to
figure owed them through your fruit trees for some reason
as well, like your citrus trees.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I had never thought of doing it. They're very good
for fixing nitrogen, aren't they into the soil. So I've
been told, yeah that year.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, I put sheep creep everywhere up there, you know,
and hold it and to get given a bit of body.
It's really broken. It's all up. But I use a
lot of sulfur to pot ish too, you know, to
make things flour and fruit and everything.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We should have you on as a gardening show expert. Now.
So in my in my head, you've got this rambling
massive property. How how many square meter ridges have you got?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It's not huge. I'll just make the most of what
I've got.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, that's that's a lovely, lovely. I love the way
you've described your whole garden. I was meandering through it
with you. I felt like we were hand in hand
through the Delphiniums there So.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For more from News Talk st B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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