Staffordshire: Dogs, Gradient Gardens and Aphrodisiacs

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How can I stop my dog from digging holes in my garden? What conditions do walnut trees grow best in? If you could lose one pest from your garden, what would it be?

Peter Gibbs and a team of experts are in Staffordshire, to solve the gardening conundrums of the audience. Returning to the National Memorial Arboretum with Peter are grow-your-own legend Bob Flowerdew, pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood and garden designer Bunny Guinness.

Later in the programme, is your garden on an gradient? Garden designer Matthew Wilson provides tricks and tips on the best way to effectively garden on an incline.

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

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:07.0	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.0	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:14.0	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:26.0	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.4	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:32.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.6	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:43.1	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen,
0:47.8	and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
0:54.5	Hello, and welcome to Gardner's Question Time with B Peter Gibbs. This week we're in Staffordshire,
1:00.6	a county of geographical contrast which I'm sure can prove a gardening challenge. Take the
1:07.1	water table, for example. Staffordshire is dotted with over 30 reservoirs of varying sizes,
1:12.9	fed by an annual rainfall of getting on for 1,000 millimeters or 39 inches in the wetter spots.
1:18.8	And all that water sits on quite a lot of clay.
1:21.6	So we expect some boggy questions from today's audience.
1:25.5	And then there's the peaks and troughs,
1:30.0	while the middle regions of the county are low-lying,
1:33.2	the fringes of the peak district rise in the north,
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