West Yorkshire: Unorthodox Advice, Edible Essentials and Sodden Patches

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What unorthodox advice have you heard as a gardener? What fruit and veg can I grow in a sodden patch? If you could take one bag of seeds to a desert island, what would it be?

Kathy Clugston and the Gardeners’ Question Time team return to Bradford, West Yorkshire, to unearth the answers to your gardening dilemmas. Kathy is joined by garden designers Marcus Chilton-Jones, Matthew Pottage and Juliet Sargeant.

Later in the programme, we dig into the first edition of our brand-new Edible Essentials series. Ecological home grower and community gardener Poppy Okotcha shares her go-to spring checklist for growing delicious, sustainable crops.

Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Hi Curios, I'm Dara Brien.
0:03.0	And I'm Hannah Frye.
0:04.0	And we are back for another series of curious cases.
0:07.0	Where we investigate the scientific mysteries sent in by you.
0:11.0	I would like to know if anything in the universe is truly invisible.
0:14.0	Why do we lie?
0:16.0	What happens to our brains when we fall in love?
0:19.0	We tackle the mysteries of the universe through audacious experiments and expert insight.
0:23.9	Curious cases.
0:24.9	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:29.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:34.8	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston,
0:36.6	and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:40.3	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen,
0:45.0	and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
0:52.4	Hello, and a very warm welcome to Gardner's question time. We're back in Bradford
0:56.7	this week. The bottom of a garden quite near here was the scene of one of the world's major
1:04.5	scientific controversies. Amid the verdant ferns that thrive in the damp and shady Yorkshire climate,
1:11.9	cousins Francis Griffiths and Elsie Wright photographed what appeared to be the delicate winged creatures
1:17.0	known in folklore as the Fay. The photos were so convincing that even Sherlock Holmes' creator
1:23.1	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle declared them genuine proof of fairy life. Well, decades later, Francis admitted
1:30.8	to a bit of harmless mischief, which is a relief actually, because we do not need anything else
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