Roots and Shoots

Roots and Shoots

Hilarious gardening expert Sabrina Hahn answers all your gardening questions big and small. Roots and Shoots is the gardening program for green thumbs and non-gardeners. Join the program live on ABC Radio Perth twice a week.

Episodes

May 27, 2025 28 mins

Find out Sabrina's special trick to rid your garden of rats with the help of a little cake mix (it's possum safe too!)

00:42 A safe and effective way to rid your garden of rats with some cake mix (and at 07:03)

05:37 Why you might be struggling with mould on your grapes. 

11:20 A Tuckeroo tree can be a beautiful addition to your garden, but it might need a hand in the hot weather. 

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Carrie Cox joins Sabrina Hahn for Roots and Shoots

10:25  20 years of successful capsicum growing and suddenly they are dying

12:14 Illyarrie red cap gum is covered in leaf blisters

46:59 Could the trucked in water on a regional property have caused issues in the garden?

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Jo and Sabrina help Gary identify a plant in his garden, plus more garden goodness. 

06:28 Problems with your crepe myrtle?

13:28 More crepe myrtle advice.

21:30 How to prune your gum tree.

29:24 Drive's Gary Adshead asks Sab to identify a mystery plant in his garden. 

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May 16, 2025 55 mins

Geraldine Mellet and Sabrina Hahn taking on all the garden pests this week

12:13 A severe gall wasp infection in a lemon tree

40:46 Did Vivi accidentally harm her pawpaw tree with full strength worm wee?

44:35 A serious fruit fly infection in white sapote trees and a potential cure from a surprising source

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Jo and Sabrina share how to deal with rats, caterpillars and more pests.

02:41 Hungry caterpillars or speedy grasshoppers eating your veggies? 

07:15 Sabrina's eggy recipe for a protein spray that wards off kangaroos. 

08:53 Could your cardamom plant be an impostor? 

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May 9, 2025 55 mins

Amber and Sabrina discuss phytophthora in the garden, agapanthus lying down and the transplanting of caper bushes.

3:50 Could phytophthora be behind a spate of dying plants?

27:54 Agapanthus and walking lily lying down instead of being upright

44:57 Should potted caper bushes be transplanted into the ground? 

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Jo and Sab want everyone to plant more banksia trees.Perth needs two million more banksias to give Carnaby's and Baudin's black cockatoos a decent food supply, according to Curtin University botanist Professor Kingsley Dixon. 

01:28 How long until you can expect fruit off your dwarf Hass avocado tree.

04:30 Hot weather is on its way - should you still prune? 

15:20 If your trees aren't prospering, at what point shoul...

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May 2, 2025 55 mins

Amber and Sabrina in the studio for World Naked Gardening Day, answering all your gardening questions

6:58 Removing a rose garden and replacing it with natives, how should the soil be improved?

14:45 A warning for anyone germinating brachychiton from seed

35:59 Spider mite attacking a viburnum and the left filed solution involving solar fair lights

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ABC listener Billy shared his idea of planting fruit trees for Christmas with Jo and Sab. 

04:03 If you have an ant problem under your brick paving, here is what you can do. 

09:16 Gone too far with your tree trimming? Sab can help. 

20:24 It's the perfect time to transplant your fig tree. 

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Amber and Sabrina talk haircuts for grass trees, a total re-do on a front garden and a neighbour's impressive passionfruit vine 

26:40  Neighbour's passionfruit vine has entangled a frangipani tree that needs pruning. Is it best to wait for the fruit to ripen or chop the lot?

32:46 Do grass trees in their natural habitat need haircuts?

46:44 Advice on a complete re-do of a front garden in a new housing estate.

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April 22, 2025 25 mins

Amber and Mark Tucek and all the garden goodness you need.

10:11 Transplanting a pomegranate plant may seem hard, but here's how to go about it.

11:48 Is roll on lawn worth the hassle? Why mowing roll on lawn can help it grow quicker

18:01 Where to trim your native rosemary bush. 

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Amber and Lisa Passmore answering gardening questions and describing her 50 fruit tree orchard

14:27 Pamela’s purple pears; the top leaves of the pear tree have turned a deep maroon

34:36 Fig trees producing fruit that is rotting not ripening

44:27  After years of thrip issues is it time to dig out the roses and try something new?

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April 15, 2025 33 mins

Jo and Sab discuss boarding school and garden goodness. 

05:05 Your passionfruit vine has grown too large. Is it okay to prune in April? 

5:55 Why are the leaves on your lime tree turning yellow? 

15:10 How to get rid of puffballs (fungus) on your tennis court or pavement.  

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April 11, 2025 55 mins

Amber discovers Sabrina’s plans to minimise her house to one room to make more space for gardening.

5:05 Will a eucalyptus preissiana grow in a tight spot next to pavers?

22: 54 Attract smaller insect eating native birds into your garden with prickly shrubs

30:41 Watermelon vine big and healthy but no fruit yet, should it be pulled out? 

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April 8, 2025 32 mins

Jo and Sab want you to whip out your paintbrush in your garden

06:05 Why is your mistletoe dying? 

08:30 Is worm juice and native plants a match made in heaven, or hell? 

20:35 Tips on turning flowers into fruit with self pollination. All you need is a paint brush! 

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April 4, 2025 55 mins

A special Saturday Breakfast broadcast from the banks of the Swan River as part of the River Guardians Festival:

19:10 Two year old peppermint tree suddenly very sick

23:59 Can you induce flowering and fruiting with a dragon fruit cactus?

45:45 Caterpillar infestation near a lilac tree

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Jo and Sab worry about magpies, pruning fruit trees and more garden goodness. 

01:50 Where have all the magpies gone? Sabrina says her garden has less magpies than usual. 

13:12 Wind can cause havoc in your garden. Here's how to help.

26:19 How to get rid of bugs with more bugs. 

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Hilary and Sabrina are on the tools this week, answering your garden questions.

2:10 The link between army worm grubs and the spate of magpie and crow deaths.

14:14 Mary has given her citrus tree every soil amendment available and yet it still complains (citrus leaf miner).

16:50 Herb asks if stinky weed tea is as good as manure for fertilising the garden.

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March 25, 2025 30 mins

Jo and Sab help with tips in your kitchen, and your garden. 

04:41 Controlling impossible chilli thrips. 

10:52 Cow manure vs chicken manure. 

17:32 When to prune your native plants such as eremophila.

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Christian and Sab say get the pruners into action if you are growing mulberries.

18:30 Just Joey Rose looked faded, can I brighten it up?

29:48 When is a good time to prune a mulberry tree and how much to take off

44:18 Sabrina recommends a eucalyptus stoatei for a tight for a tight spot next to a driveway

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