GQT From The Archives: Sustainability Special
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Peter Gibbs takes a look through the GQT archives for top tips on sustainable gardening.
Over the years the GQT panellists have shared plenty of knowledge on how to be a green gardener. They look at everything from how to make your driveway more environmentally friendly, to efficiently collecting rainwater at home.
We also hear Hafsah Haferji's "how-to" on companion planting, and head back to RHS Wisley with Matthew Pottage and Environmental Researcher Tijana Blanusa to learn how trees help us with carbon capture.
Producer - Hannah Newton Assistant Producer - Bethany Hocken
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:59.2 | Hello and welcome to Garda's question time where this week we're thinking about New Year's resolutions. |
| 1:04.7 | I suppose at this point I'd normally be joking with the panel about the resolutions |
| 1:09.3 | they'd already broken just a week into January but this year there's something that should be on all |
| 1:15.4 | our agendas. One thing we really should strive to stick to throughout 2022 and |
| 1:21.4 | beyond, to look at our own practices and work throughout 2022 and beyond. |
| 1:22.8 | To look at our own practices and work out |
| 1:25.4 | what we could be doing to garden more sustainably. |
| 1:28.9 | Well, hopefully this is something we're all doing anyway, |
| 1:31.4 | whether it be using gray water on our gardens or making sure we're |
| 1:35.2 | choosing peak-free compost. But I'm sure we can all be doing a little bit more. And however |
| 1:41.1 | small your plot or pot as a collective group of gardeners around 30 million in the UK to be exact |
| 1:48.5 | we can make a real difference to our changing environment. Well this is something we've been discussing on GQT for many years, |
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