ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 4th June, 2025

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; we're having a sleepover! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network, it's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Sup. Um, I've got a bit of an update on a situation that I was really nervous about and I was going to employ Vaughan to help me, but now I don't know. God, this could be anything in your life at the moment. Yeah, help! Help!

Help! Help! So, my mother, when my nana passed away in 2011, my mum took from her garden the rhubarb, I've talked about this, and then my mum is moving up north, left their house, and so they brought the rhubarb. And my mum got it into my house, put it immediately into a pot that's too small, and was like, can you, one, don't kill it or I'll kill you. Because it's like a family tradition. It's man as rhubarb.

Yeah, right. And no matter where it is, it grows, right? And or can you take this to Vaughan and make sure that Vaughan plants it in his garden so that it may flourish. We spoke about this, the responsibility. It's a lot of responsibility. It's a lot of responsibility. We all got nervous for it.

So I keep meaning to like on a weekend be like, oh, I'm going to bring around that plant for one and give it to you. But in this tiny little pot, the rhubarb thriveth. Oh yeah, it will. It'll do really well. You've got to keep fertilising it though. That's what you forget about the pots. I don't want to do that.

You don't want to do that. Yeah, I don't want to be in charge of it. But I also don't want to now disturb it because she's really happy. I mean, the spirit of Nana I'd leave it for winter and maybe in the spring. I'd consider a split I think Nana's in the end. No Nana's in the rhubarb pot. I don't think she is. She's like Make a crumble and literally nothing else Wow You put rhubarb in a. Doesn't your mum make a rhubarb thing? Yeah my apple apple and rhubarb She'll do that rhubarb crumble. Cause I've had that. She's stewed apple and rhubarb in there. No, it doesn't. Your mum make a rhubarb thing. Yeah, apple and rhubarb. She'll do that rhubarb crumble.

Cause I've had that. She's stewed apple and rhubarb. That's basically it. Dad has that on him. Do you want to try some of my nana's rhubarb? Because before mum left, she cut up some and put it in the freezer. Very few people like rhubarb.

I don't like it at all. It's an old school tarty situation. Yeah, it's rhubarb tart. We've moved on. We've got Sara Lee desserts now. Yeah, do you know what I mean? You know what I mean? We don't need bit of a rub-up tart. We've moved on, we've got sourly desserts now. Yeah, do you know what I mean? You know what I mean? We don't need to be stewing rhubarb.

Yeah, we don't. It's too much work. There's a lot to be said about, you know, putting the effort in to these sorts of treats. And then an entire kg of sugar. Yes. And then it's edible. Yeah, that's what I mean.

I'm like, I've gotta put this thing into a pot. And I'm like, I get why we're keeping the actual plant, but I don't want nothing to do with it. The best way to propagate rhubarb is by splitting the crown of an older already established plant. That's playing with fire there. Yeah, that's what I mean. If we go tearing into this thing

and then we're the death of Letitia's rhubarb, what are we gonna do? I know, I mean, and his name was Letitia. Rhubarb crown should be split at least every four to five years. Now, while we're on gardening, I need to borrow from you. You said you've got some things for my plant that's all over the show. Oh, I do stakes and ties.

Yeah. His monstera. Yeah. It's outrageously out of control. I stood on it the other day and I didn't even apologise. It's out of control. I noticed there was a mark, a split leaf. It's fucking chaos. That I noticed, I noticed there was a, um, a mark, a split leaf. I'm gonna have to, yeah. It's fucking chaos.

That and the cat. No, no respect. Fawn, shall we, my friend, because we're actually having a team sleepover on Thursday. Yeah, yeah you are. Shall we bring some supplies and sort this thing out once and for all? Yeah, absolutely, that'd be lovely.

Cause I've got an abundance of green steaks. Okay, you bring green steaks. Now by the way, you guys need steaks. By the way you guys need to decide who gets the brand new never used before inflatable Kmart air mattress. Oh I've happily got an air mattress. Really? Yeah I'm happy. I know you've had an air mattress before when we borrowed that from friends but no I haven't used this. Who got a new Kmart air mattress? Yeah. One of those ones that goes... But when I have three gifts. It inflates itself. Yeah yeah. And it's got a headrest. Oh yeah, that's classy.

That's classy. That's classy. Oh no, I'm gonna go in the air bed. You can go in the spare room. I will go in the spare room, because I'm over 40 and you're not, and backs don't like sleeping that close to the ground. Does your little shit cat come in and hook his claws in?

That's also what I'm waiting for, is the cat to be like, up on it. And I'm just gonna wake up on the floor. Yeah. Because he scratches his claws on the headboard of the spare room cuz it's linen. Yes fabric. Yes Yeah, so good luck. You might wake up enveloped enveloped Yeah, when it's like that when it's all over you know, you might wake up and I'm like hi I slipped in in the middle of the night. I was cold and you can't pop the fucking bead.

You can just couch, there's a couch right there. Wow, that's really rude. Oh wow. Just freeze to death. Put a lock on my door. Put a lock on my door. I've got a bolt. I'll be bolting the door.