Trinity College

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Any tips on how I can successfully grow heavy potatoes in a bucket? Is there any way to get rid of slugs without killing them? Do you recommend the use of Coir in compost and how would you use it?

Peter Gibbs and his team of horticultural experts are at Trinity College in Oxford for this week's episode of Gardeners' Question Time.

Joining Peter to resolve the audience's horticultural dilemmas are passionate plantswoman Christine Walkden, garden designer Chris Beardshaw, and Head of Oxford Botanical Gardens Dr Chris Thorogood.

Later in the programme, Chris Beardshaw speaks with head gardener of Trinity College Kate Burtonwood to discuss the potential trials and errors of redesigning their north lawn border.

Producer: Dan Cocker

Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod

Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:42.0	They say in gardening you never stop learning, and today we visit a location where learning is the main
0:45.5	line of work. Trinity is a college of the University of Oxford one of the world's great centers of knowledge.
0:52.9	But it's not just spires that do the dreaming here.
0:55.9	The visionary gardens at Trinity
0:57.4	have a long and distinguished history of their own.
1:00.6	And here to tell us about the manicured and open green space here at the
1:04.4	college is head gardener, Kate Burtonwood. Hello Kate. Hello. Well, thanks for
1:08.9	inviting us here. It's an amazing space that we're actually standing in.
1:12.8	I'm sure most of the Oxford College's
1:15.1	boast beautiful gardens, but tell us about the space
1:18.1	that we're in here.
1:19.1	The entire site is about six acres,
1:21.7	but more than half of that is just pure gardens.
1:25.6	The two lawns that we've got in front of us are both about 2.5,000 meters of lawn.
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