From the Archives: Christmas

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Peter Gibbs digs, rakes and mulches through the GQT archive to uncover some much needed gardening advice, providing you with knowledge to aid you in the new year.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and the perfect period to get ahead with maintaining you garden during the harsh winter months to come.

GQT’s various horticultural experts from over the years share their tips and knowledge on what to do with wonky veg, what to do with an Amaryllis bulb after it’s finished flowering, and which plants are deer proof.

Later, we listen back to when Chris Beardshaw visited Tenby Wells to learn all about mistletoe, its origins and the significance it has on the festive period.

Producer: Dom Tyerman Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod  Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.
0:05.4	My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.
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0:22.7	you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put together
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0:34.9	check out BBC Sounds.
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0:48.4	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:53.3	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen,
0:56.0	and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
1:00.0	Hello and welcome to gardeners question time. This week we're dipping into our archives
1:05.4	to bring you some advice with an appropriately festive feel as we bring our gardening year
1:10.6	to a close.
1:12.0	A gardening year that brought soggy soils, a plague of slugs and seemingly endless grey summer skies.
1:19.8	But with the winter solstice now behind us, the days are already stretching out towards spring.
1:26.0	I can almost feel the sap rising.
1:28.3	Or maybe that's just the effect of too many sprouts.
1:31.5	But let's start our dip into the archive by going back to 1961
1:35.3	and some typically no-nonsense advice from Fred Lodes, Alan Gemmell and Bill Sauerbuts
1:41.2	from a programme chaired by Franklin Engelman.
1:45.1	Your name, please.
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