Matt Biggs' House
Peter Gibbs and the GQT team visit Matt Biggs’ garden for a postbag edition. Joining them are Christine Walkden and Pippa Greenwood.
Is it a realistic goal to grow strawberries indoors? I never seem to have success growing beetroots or carrots. What should I do differently? Can you identify the grey caterpillars on my Solomon’s seal?
This week, Peter Gibbs and his team of horticultural experts pay a visit to GQT regular, Matt Biggs’ garden for a postbag edition of Gardeners’ Question Time. Joining Peter and Matt to offer all their tips and advice are pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood, and plants woman, Christine Walkden. The panel offer their best horticultural advice on a variety of questions: - from watermelons and strawberries to methods of moving a plant - all the while having a wander around Matt Biggs' back garden.
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod
Producer: Dan Cocker
Executive Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4.
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Q– My cordon cherry tree was planted nine years ago. The tree has plenty of flowers and fruit, butÌýthe cherries continue to go a reddish brown and then rot and fall off. What am I doing wrong?
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8 minutes, 13 seconds
Q–I unpacked a cherry tree, removed the plastic spiral tape from the trunk and saw it was weeping a thick sticky liquid. What can I do about this?
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10 minutes, 56 seconds
Q– Our lawn gets no treatment at all apart from routine mowing. Why haven’t we gotÌý a single daisy on it?
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Narcissus bulbocodium
Ajuga
Clover
Buttercup
Daisy
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Rose
Beschorneria yuccoides
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16 minutes, 42 seconds
Q– Can you identify the grey caterpillars on my Solomon’s seal?
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Gooseberry
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18 minutes, 30 seconds
Q–I have to move a cistus. I know they don’t like pruning or moving. What would the panel suggest as to how and when to move it?
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Sunrose
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20 minutes, 18 seconds
Q– I bought zingiber mioga and was assured it would flower in the first year, but I’ve had no luck yet. What’s going on?
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Q– My euphorbias are gradually dying each year. I have large trees nearby and lost of honey fungus. They keep wilting and going brown. What is going on?
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Fig
Citrus
Runner bean
Courgette
Gooseberry ‘Hinnonmäki’
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31 minutes 17 seconds
Q– My young fig is in its second summer. The leaves are being ravaged by a mystery insect, which leaves brown gritty deposits inside the young leaves. Can you help?
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34 minutes, 13 seconds
Q– Is it a realistic goal to grow strawberries indoors in this environment?
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Strawberry ‘fenella’Ìý
Vine
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36 minutes 44 seconds
Q– I never seem to have success growing beetroots or carrots. What should I do differently?
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38 minutes 8 seconds
Q– I need help with my watermelon plan: some leaves are yellow with brown spots, and the remainingÌý green leaves have grown upwards. What should I do?
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Tomato
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French beans
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