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Norfolk Broads

The GQT team are in the Norfolk Broads for this edition of the horticultural programme.

What's the best way to grow great swedes? What are green manure crops? And have you ever returned a dead plant to the shop you bought it from?

Joining Kathy Clugston to answer these questions in front of a live audience in the Norfolk Broads are horticulturalist Anne Swithinbank, garden designer Matthew Wilson and 'grow your own' expert Bob Flowerdew.

Also on the programme, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Pottage head to RHS Garden Wisley to check out a new feature that both looks nice and harvests rainwater in times where many gardeners are worried about drought.

Producer: Bethany Hocken
Assistant Producer: Aniya Das
Executive Producer: Louisa Field

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42 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Jan 2023 14:00

Plant List

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

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Q – How to grow swedes?

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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

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