Edgworth & District

Q1 – I have sprayed vinegar on my kitchen garden… which variety of potato should I plant there to provide the chips? (02’06”)

Christine Walkden

• Solanum tuberosum ‘Majestic’, potato ‘Majestic’

Marcus Chilton‑Jones

• Solanum tuberosum ‘Pink Fir Apple’, potato ‘Pink Fir Apple’

Q2 – How can people make their garden bird‑friendly? - Bolton & Bury Swift Group (06’47”)

Q3 – I’ve got a five‑year‑old plum tree… it’s flowered already. Will I get plums this year, and when should I prune it? (10’29”)

Marcus Chilton‑Jones

• Prunus domestica, plum

Q4 – What are the best flowering perennials for this area, soil and climate? (12’35”)

Christine Walkden

• Sedum spp., stonecrop

• Lamium spp., dead‑nettle

• Aquilegia spp., Columbine/ Granny's bonnets

• Puschkinia spp.

• Muscari spp., grape hyacinth

• Anemone spp., anemone

• Hesperantha coccinea, crimson flag lily

• Sternbergia spp., sternbergia

Matthew Wilson

• Rudbeckia spp., Rudbeckia

• Echinacea, Coneflower

• Bistorta amplexicaulis 'Alba'/ Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Alba’, bistort ‘Alba’, white-flowered red bistort

• Campanula spp., bellflower (i.e. Campanula ‘Prichard’s Variety’ & Campanula ‘Elizabeth’)

• Kniphofia, Red hot poker

Marcus Chilton‑Jones

• Helenium spp., helenium

• Helianthus, Sunflowers

• Heuchera spp., coral bells

• Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Taurus’, bistort ‘Taurus’

• Echinacea spp., coneflower

Q5 – I have a bush about six foot tall that looks like it’s being eaten from the bottom - what is it and what can I do? (17’15”)

Christine Walkden / Matthew Wilson

• Viburnum tinus, laurustinus

Spring Feature: Dividing warm‑season grasses and perennials (20’28”)

Matthew Pottage

• Pennisetum spp., fountain grass

• Panicum spp., switch grass

• Miscanthus sinensis ‘Nepalensis’, miscanthus ‘Nepalensis’, Himalayan fairy grass

• Agapanthus spp., African lily

• Echinacea spp., coneflower

• Salvia spp., salvia, Sage

• Sedum spp., stonecrop

• Gladiolus spp., gladiolus/ gladioli

• Galtona spp.

• Lilium spp., lily

Q6 – We’re removing Himalayan balsam… what should we plant instead for bees in boggy areas? (24’56”)

Marcus Chilton‑Jones

• Eupatorium spp., hemp‑agrimony

• Hedera helix, common ivy

Christine Walkden

• Impatiens spp., impatiens

Q7 – How do you look after an amaryllis after flowering, and will it flower again? (27’47”)

Christine Walkden

• Hippeastrum, amaryllis

Q8 – My allotment is full of mare’s tail — how do I get rid of it, and can I use it for anything? (30’16”)

Marcus Chilton‑Jones / Matthew Wilson / Christine Walkden

• Equisetum arvense, field horsetail (mare’s tail)

Q9 – I have inherited a garden tool that is over 100 years old… Have the panel inherited any tools which they still use? (36’01”)