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Gardeners' Question Time
GQT at Home: Episode Twenty-Six
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Kathy Clugston chairs the horticultural panel show. Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Pottage are on hand to answer questions from green-fingered listeners.
This week the panellists are joined by a virtual audience as they tackle questions on how to ripen tomatoes and the best plants to provide pollen late in the season, and help a listener struggling with their cacti.
Away from the questions, Peter Gibbs joins Matthew Pottage at RHS Wisley to discuss the box-hedge caterpillar and they suggest variations to replace the box hedge, and Chris Thorogood teaches us about a plant which looks like Darth Vader.
Producer - Dan Cocker
Assistant Producer - Rosie Merotra
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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