Bolton
4/17/202642 min
Kathy Clugston and the Gardeners' Question Time panel visit the outskirts of Bolton in Lancashire. Kathy is joined by RHS Bridgewater Curator Marcus Chilton-Jones, Garden Designer Matthew Wilson and Plantswoman Christine Walkden.
The panellists tackle what to do about an overwhelming stash of black plastic pots, advise on why a listener's new compost bin is lacking in worms, and suggest plants for shady clay areas beneath mature beech trees.
Other questions cover planting for waterlogged borders, homemade foliar feeds for seedlings, and opening a wildlife-focused garden for the National Garden Scheme.
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First 90 secondsKathy Clugston· Host0:01
Hello, and welcome to Gardeners' Question Time with me, Kathy Clugston. This week, we're on the outskirts of Bolton in Lancashire, a town with a proactive community of gardeners. Residents can join the Rooted in Bolton project, which encourages households to grow their own food, share gardening skills, and support local sustainability through initiatives like window box planting, regardless of age and ability. There's also the Estate Rangers scheme that provides training and employment in horticulture through maintaining communal green spaces across Bolton. One of the biggest community gardens near here is at RHS Bridgewater, just a twenty-minute drive from where we are today. Its curator is one of our expert panel. Marcus Chilton-Jones is joined by Rutland-based garden designer Matthew Wilson, and making a glorious home county return, plants woman Christine Walkden. You're always proactive. Gardeners' Question Time panel. [audience clapping] Now, if you find the task of propagating plants a little tricky, never fear. Bunny Guinness will be here with the next in our series of spring features. That's a little later in the program. But now here in Lancashire, who has our first question?
Speaker 21:16
Hello, my name is Martin Brelsford from Bromley Cross. I'd really like the panel to tell me how I can stop my partner collecting black plastic pots and storing them