Fulham

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to grow edible watermelons in the UK? How do revive my red Duke of York potatoes after over-chitting them? How can I continue growing leeks while protecting them from leaf miners?

Kathy Clugston and a panel of keen gardening experts are in Fulham, West London to unearth the answers to the audience's gardening conundrums. On the panel this week are organic gardener Bob Flowerdew, pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood, and curator of RHS Wisley Matthew Pottage.

Later, we immerse ourselves in the Sound of Blossom festival at Kew Gardens, where head kitchen gardener Helena Dove educates us on the life cycle of blossoms, and the benefits it has for insects and wildlife.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

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0:41.0	Hello and welcome to GQT. We're in London today. podcasts. as a grow your own group. Everyone here is far too young, of course, to remember that first meeting,
0:55.0	unless we have any centenarians out there?
0:58.0	No, I thought not.
1:01.0	Well, the Society holds regular meetings and flowers
1:03.4	show throughout the year when various awards can be won,
1:06.4	including the National Vegetable Society Medal,
1:09.0	the British Pelargonium and Uranium Society's
1:11.4	Spoon and the RHS's Banksian Medal, all of which have probably been
1:16.0	one several times by Fulham's serial prize-winning grower Stuart Witton.
1:21.0	Stewart's been growing produce for 54 years and in last year's show he scooped the
1:25.8	coveted Cobb Cup for gaining the most society points. Well we know alas that
1:30.6	Stuart couldn't make it to the show today but I wondered if anyone else in our audience had won any prizes.
1:36.0	Yes, this lady over here.
1:37.6	Hazel.
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