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Potatoes, tomatoes, hydro & a warbler

June 22, 2020 The Weekending Show Season 1 Episode 11

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Gardening delights
You say potarto and I say potaytoe..well actually we say tettie around here… Tom Pattinson has been digging around to enlighten us about our spuds (potatoes!) and tomaytoes… I mean tomatoes!… 

Hydro heritage can help wildlife and tourism
Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust has found a link between pioneering hydro-electric schemes in the USA and UK on the Watouga river in North Carolina and the  Aln at Denwick, Northumberland… standby for an amazing story…

And,
Birding record on Holy Island
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t’s been a very exciting week for birdwatchers on Holy island, Northumberland, UK… a new county record for a very rare bird visitor to our shores… Tom Cadwallender will tell us all about the Asian Desert Warbler…#birding

All coming up on the Nature Garden Podcast….  : ) 

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