Phil Smyth
speaker
410 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Phil Smyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So like a good old volcano that sits around for a while and then erupts back again.
Grass is doing something similar.
It's kind of like when your phone, it goes into low power mode at the end when it's kind of nearing things.
It's
It's there to reduce, I suppose, energy loss.
But when leaves go brown, they're to reduce water loss.
So underneath the surface, the growing points are still alive.
So if you've been looking out thinking, Jesus, I've killed the garden.
Don't worry.
Your lawn is basically saying, relax, lads.
I'll be grand when it rains.
Yeah, this is, this is all about survival.
Like green leaves are fantastic at making food through photosynthesis, which some people might've heard of, which is kind of photo with light and then synthesis in terms of synthesizing that into energy.
Um, but what they're also the place leaves are where most of the water escapes from the plant.
So when soil dries, dries out, the grass is sacrifices those leaves to protect the more important bits under ground.
So like.
Like a hedgehog that kind of curls up into a ball or a tortoise that hides in its shell, this is reducing exposure until conditions improve.
So as soon as then we get a decent spread of rain, which, let's be honest, in Ireland isn't necessarily too far away, although lately it has been, then it'll be back out.
So, you know, watering our lawns is something, but it's potentially something that we could consider stopping actually at the moment, if that makes sense.
Yeah, so parts will dry off and fall away and then there'll be new shoots that will come from the established.
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