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Questions and time codes are below

Where applicable plant names are listed

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Q – I have read a lot recently about no dig horticulture – do you have any feelings on no dig horticulture? (3 minutes 55)

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Q – I am growing broad beans for the first time ever – how do I know when to pick them? (6 minutes 10)

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Q – We have a small cottage garden and we would like to plant a tree in a pot to give ourselves and our neighbours a little more privacy? It is a fairly breezy spot – can you recommend anything that is likely to flourish? (8 minutes 15)

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Sorbus (‘Rowan’ / ‘Mountain Ash’)

Cercis siliquastrum ‘Judas Tree’

Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ / Amelanchier Canadensis ‘³§±ð°ù±¹¾±³¦±ð²ú±ð°ù°ù²â’

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Conservation on climate change (15 minutes 40)

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Ceratostigma

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Q – I like growing interesting things in pots, at the end of last year I got a small pomegranate in a 6inch pot I have overwintered it in the conservatory and the beginning of the year it put on lots of new spindly growth so I decided to repot it and put it outside. Since then it has done nothing – what have I done wrong? (18 minutes 15)

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Q – Can you explain why parsnip seeds are so temperamental? (21 minutes 05)

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Q – Is it viable to grow turmeric in this country? (23 minutes 05)

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Siam tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia)

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Q - We have a growing population of Roman snails – do we need to worry about them? (28 minutes 55)

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Q – I have very dark shade in a small north-facing front garden. It is very green- I don’t have any colour. Is there anything I can do for floral colour? (30 minutes 55)

Skimmia

Pernettya

Vaccinium

Gaultheria

Autumn Bulbs

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Q – I have quite a bit of south facing wall I am wondering in the change of climate – do I stand a chance of growing apricots? (32 minutes 50)

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Q – I am a very keen vegetable grower and I have a large allotment which this year has infested with flea beetle. I have been told that ethanol mixed with washing up liquid with water is one way of getting rid of them – would this be classed as organic and would it work? (37 minutes 50)