Postbag Edition: RHS Wisley Greening Skills Garden

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Peter Gibbs and the Gardeners Question Time panel visit the RHS Wisley Greening Skills Garden in Woking, an exciting new project designed to inspire and equip the next generation of horticulturists. No postbag edition is complete without your questions, so the panel dip into the GQT inbox to answer your gardening conundrums.

Joining Peter are head gardeners and garden designers Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Pottage and Matthew Biggs.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Junior Producer: Rahnee Prescod

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:37.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:41.5	Hello and welcome to Gardner's Question Time with me, Peter Gibbs.
0:45.9	Well, there's no polite way to put this.
0:48.4	Our esteemed panellist Bob Flower Dew loves to pee in his compost bin.
0:52.9	But as Bob says, it's free, it's full of nitrogen,
0:56.2	and you're not wasting water by unnecessary flushing. And of course, he's right. And also not
1:02.0	everyone or fancy trotting outside to do their business, we've come to one garden that believes
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