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BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time Garden Party


Thursday, June 24, 2010

There are some events I dread and others I just love. And the GQT garden party is one of the year's highlights.  Last year we were all up at the RHS Garden at Harlow Carr, this year we are back down in the south in the GQT garden's home of Sparsholt College in Hampshire.
Just d about the whole team will be there, and we'll be recording two programmes and putting on a host of demonstrations and clinics (yes, I'll be there to look at all those pesky pest problems and fearsome fungal attacks!),  and there will also be demonstrations from many of the Sparsholt College staff.
If you're one of the lucky ones who got a ticket (I gather there were lots of disappointed Radio 4 listeners because the tickets sold out immediately!), hope you have a lovely day, don't forget to parcel up some garden problems for us to look at.......and bring an umbrella AND some sunscreen, over the last few years we have had pretty well every sort of weather except snow (perhaps I speak too soon???!!)


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