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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.

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Q – Do the panel recommend burying cotton underpants in the soil to help with microbial production, à la The Archers?

(1 minutes 47 seconds)Ìý

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Q – What plants could you recommend for easy-to-maintain, year-round colour, in south facing beds and well-drained, chalk soil?

(4 minutes 38 seconds)Ìý

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Bunny –

Rosa ‘M³Ü³Ù²¹²ú¾±±ô¾±²õ’

Pittosporum

Salvia ‘Cerro Potosi’

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Pippa –

Lavender ‘Hidcote’

Ceanothus 'Puget Blue'

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Bob –

Calendula officinalis, Pot marigold

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Q – I’ve grown butternuts from saved seeds. Half a dozen of them are rather strange shapes. I’ve read about toxic squash syndrome. I’m wondering whether I should risk eating it or pop them on the compost heap?

(8 minutes 11 seconds)

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Q – Given the last two summers, with no rainfall from mid-June to late August, and now a hosepipe ban as well, how best should we address pruning early flowering shrubs?

(11 minutes 03 seconds)

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Feature – Bob Flowerdew explains what green manure is, what it does, and how it does it.

(15 minutes 22 seconds)

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Q – When sowing seeds, is there an easy way of knowing which seeds need to be covered with compost and which need light to germinate?

(18 minutes 47 seconds)

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Q – Does the team have any suggestions for suitable ornamental grasses to add to my mixed border? It is south-east facing with very alkaline soil and in a frost pocket.

(22 minutes 39 seconds)

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Bunny –

Stipa Tenuissima

Luzula

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Q – How can I get the right plant in the right place, first time?

(26 minutes 05 seconds)

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Correspondence – Discussing the potent smell of the viburnum tinus

(30 minutes 45 seconds)

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Q – Can I take cuttings from my tomato plant, or should I dig up the root and overwinter that, indoors, to grow it on, taking cuttings in the spring because I can’t keep the seed?

(33 minutes 34 seconds)

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Q – How to persuade a gardening cynic of its joys?

(38 minutes 25 seconds)

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