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Q – I have noticed small, green, tomato-like fruits growing on my potato plants.Ìý What are they and what should I do?

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Bunny – They are related so sometimes you do see this.Ìý I would pick them off so the plants are not wasting energy.

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Pippa – These can sometimes be poisonous so do get them off if there are children around

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Matthew – All these plants are related to Deadly Nightshade so do bear that in mind…

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Q – I have a lavender bush that has new growth every year but does not flower.Ìý Why?

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Bunny – If you cut them in late-spring you can remove the flowers before they flower.Ìý Best time to prune is in mid-August.Ìý Cut it back to just beyond the old growth and then that will encourage it.Ìý They need a hot summer baking and sharp drainage. You need to get them in the sun for longer.

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Matthew – Lavender needs 6-8 hours of sunshine in a day

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Q – I have an old Hydrangea that is suffering from a fungus.Ìý What is it and what should I do?

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Pippa – I think this is Hydrangea Scale

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Bunny – You can get a glue-like organic spray to treat the plant fortnightly

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Pippa – On the stems get an old toothbrush and scrub them off with soapy water

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Q – I have a 40ft (12m) Eucalyptus tree that is sucking the life out of the rest of the garden.Ìý Can I take it out or cut it back?

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Matthew – You would need to seek permission from your local authority.Ìý

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Q – How can I prevent the neighbourhood cats from using my garden as a latrine?

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Bunny – If you provide them with a perfect sandy box in a sunny, sheltered spot the idea is that that will distract them.Ìý Also put brambles over areas of bed that you want to protect.

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Matthew – Cats don’t like citrus very much

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Pippa – Widely-available decongestant put onto used tea bags in the flowerbed can really work.

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Q – I have three courgette plants that took off very well, but now one of them is failing; why?

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Pippa – Look at the stem because there could be damage around the base.Ìý

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Q – I am trying to create a garden in Guinea with a touch of England in it.Ìý It is a tropical climate and by the sea.Ìý What can you recommend?

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Matthew – Canna indica would grow well.Ìý Melianthus major.Ìý

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Bunny – Box is very English and could work well.Ìý Plumbago.Ìý Dahlias.Ìý

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Q – With semi-desert conditions becoming increasingly prevalent in the south of England what vegetables can you recommend for an allotment?

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Bunny – Onions.Ìý Brassicas (apart from cauliflowers).Ìý Potatoes if you get good compost into your soil.Ìý Leafy crops.Ìý Roots crops.Ìý Celeriac on a raised bed would work.

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Matthew – Sea kale.Ìý

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Q – What can I plant in our west-facing garden that will replicate the AFC Wimbledon colours of blue and yellow?Ìý

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Bunny – Yellow repeat-flowering rose: ‘Graham Thomas’.Ìý Blue: Campanula lactiflora persicifolia.

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Pippa – Daffodils and blue Hyacinths.Ìý A Ceanothus on a wall would be fantastic blue.Ìý Then a Fremontodendron.Ìý

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Matthew – Salvia ‘Blauhugel’ with Ranunculus acrisÌý ‘Flore Pleno’ (Meadow Buttercup)