Bradford: Buddha's Hand, Yorkshire Climate & Upcycled Ginnels

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What’s the best time to sow and harvest up north? Why won't my Buddha's hand plant produce fruit? Can nematodes get rid of codling moth?

Kathy Clugston and the Gardeners’ Question Time team head to Bradford, the UK’s City of Culture 2025, to tackle your trickiest gardening dilemmas. Kathy is joined by garden designers Marcus Chilton-Jones, Matthew Pottage and Juliet Sargeant.

Later in the programme, Juliet visits a hidden gem transformed by the Lister Community Action Group. Discover how volunteers have breathed new life into a once-forgotten ginnel, turning it into a vibrant community oasis.

Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:28.7	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:34.2	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax however you like to listen and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
0:45.5	Hello and welcome to GQT, which comes today from the UK's 2025 City of Culture.
0:52.3	Bradford in West Yorkshire.
0:53.7	Yes! 25 city of culture. Bradford in West Yorkshire.
1:12.7	What a crowd. Now, the many relics of the city's industrial past, Victorian mills and warehouses, canals, museums and parks are humming with art, music and theatre, celebrating the city's rich cultural heritage.
1:18.4	Gardening is, of course, a highly cultural pursuit, from the poetry of a well-pruned wisteria
1:23.9	to the drama of a slug-infested veg patch.
1:26.9	Our green spaces are a tapestry of triumph and tragedy.
1:30.4	And a good garden, like a city's culture, is always growing, always changing.
1:35.6	Well, the mostly clay soil here is, like the Bradfordian gardeners, tough, hardworking and full of potential.
1:42.9	Rather like our panel.
1:44.4	Please welcome garden designer Juliette Sargent,
1:47.1	curator of RHS Garden Bridgewater,
1:49.5	Marcus Chilton Jones,
1:50.9	and Yorkshire's own head of Royal Parks, Matthew Potting.
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