This week the panel explain some supernatural-sounding gardening phenomena. Then the GQT panellists get stuck in helping and advising the participants of our Listeners’ Gardens series: Matthew Biggs gets stuck in creating new borders in Grace’s garden in Nottingham. Anne Swithinbank revisits Katie-The-Rooftop-Allotmenteer in her new-build apartment block in Brighton. Friday 10th September 2010, 15:00. [...]
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Flowerless Fruit & Fairy Rings!
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Yew have to see it to believe it!
Go to RadioChris Beardshaw heads to Gregynog Hall, Powys, Wales to discover how to grow the perfect Yew hedge.
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Gardeners With Altitude!
Go to RadioWhen the GQT panel learnt they were joining Blackshaw Head Optimistic Gardeners (aka Gardeners With Altitude), little did they know they would be answering questions in altitude too! I’m not sure they’ve ever recorded from the gallery of a chapel before, but that’s Hebden Bridge for you.. On air: Friday 23 July, 15:00 & repeated [...]
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The party continues..
Go to RadioBack at the Gardeners’ Question Time Summer Garden Party to catch Peter Gibbs’ “Hot Pot “experiment – who knew that soil temperature could differ so greatly from one pot material to the other? Meanwhile in the GQT Potting Shed, Pippa Greenwood meets GQT listeners and their diseased plants at the Pest & Disease Clinic. Rosie Yeomans [...]
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The GQT Summer Garden Party!
Go to RadioThe best of the GQT Summer Garden Party, which this year took place at Sparsholt College, Hampshire. Highlights include Eric Robson as the reluctant flower-arranger, Bob’s Scrapheap Challenge and The Great Snail Swap. All this and more gardening problem-solving from our indefatigable team of experts! Friday 2nd July 15:00. Repeated Sunday 4th July 14:00.
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Up North with GQT
Go to RadioThis week we’re in Aberdeenshire with propagation on our minds: How to multiply your pelargoniums and your peonies. Bunny Guinness returns to Grace’s garden for a spell of garden design magic. Part of our Listeners’ Gardens series.
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To croc or not to croc?
Go to RadioRadio 4′s Gardeners’ Question Time is in Leven near Hull, answering the million dollar question: Is there any point to crocking your pots? Bob Flowerdew visits a nursery with a difference; while Matthew Biggs returns for an update from Emma Morris and family, as part of our Listeners’ Gardens series.
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GQT heads north
Go to RadioThis week the Gardeners’ Question Time panel are in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire: Here’s everything you need to know about working with acid soil. Chairman Peter Gibbs ventures to Cambus O’May for a lesson on scots pine and silver birch.
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Soil-free gardening
Go to RadioHydroponics in the home – listen to the ‘How To’ in this week’s Gardeners’ Question Time at 15:00 Friday and 14:00 on Sunday. In addition, Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank tackle a gardening question from further afield than usual – a British army base in Afghanistan.
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Ash-pidistra?
Go to RadioWhat effect will volcanic ash have on plant life? Find out in this week’s Gardeners’ Question Time. In addition, how to cheat using plug plants – Bob Flowerdew condones it… Finally, the Do’s and Don’t of bedding-plant design.
