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

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Q – How to grow swedes?

(1 minutes 33 seconds)Ìý

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Q – Is there any way of getting rid of honey fungus?

(3 minutes 47 seconds)

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Q – What do you suggest I plant in between my runner bean crops?

(6 minutes 03 seconds)

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Anne –

Chard

Kale

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Bob –

Montia perfoliata, Miner’s lettuce

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Q – Can the panel suggest four small trees to replace the privet trees in my driveway?

(8 minutes 29 seconds)

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Matthew –

Malus sargentii

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Anne –

Amelanchier x grandiflora, ‘Robin Hill’

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Feature – Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Wilson head to RHS Garden Wisley, where Matthew is curator, checking out an exciting new feature designed to harvest rainwater.

(14 minutes 37 seconds)

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Q – What lessons have the panel learnt from 2022 that they are going to take into 2023?

(21 minutes 30 seconds)

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Q – We garden several large borders in a public park. We’re keen to apply a heavy mulch to prevent some of 2022’s losses. What does the panel suggest is the most effective, sustainable, cost effective, and will last as long as possible material. We’re not allowed to use gravel.

(23 minutes 53 seconds)

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Q – I’m part of a theatre company. We have inherited an allotment, which we’ve been tending and sharing for two years. How would you advise us to get the maximum yield from our huge polytunnel to share with our community?

(27 minutes 57 seconds)

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Bob –

Tomato

Red pepper

Green pepper

Habanero

Hot pepper

Rocket

Pak Choi

Potato

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Anne –

Physalis

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Q – I live in Norfolk, and I can’t grow lavender. Please help!

(31 minutes 35 seconds)

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Matthew –

English lavender, ‘Hidcote’

English lavender, ‘Munstead’

French lavender

Lavandula augustifolia ‘Vera’, Dutch lavender

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Anne –

English lavender ‘Miss Katherine’

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Q – Have the panel, or the audience, ever claimed on a plant receipt because the plant died?

(36 minutes 50 seconds)

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Bob –

Pear

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Matthew –

Clematis