Garden for the Games, Olympic Park, Stratford

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Eric Robson and the panel meet a London audience at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, Stratford. We revisit the Olympic Park one final time before the doors are thrown open to the public. Questions answered in the programme: How can we encourage people to grow plants in their front gardens instead of concreting them over? What manure should I use for the best homegrown tomatoes? What tree will establish quickly and resist the harsh conditions on the west coast of Ireland? Suggestions included: Fir, Native Hawthorn, Birch, Rowan, Poplar I've got a dwarf spruce, dying from the inside out, what can I do? How can I maximise the crop yield of vegetables from a 6 meter square plot? Suggestions included: French beans, courgettes, cut and come again lettuce, parsley, fruit trees, rhubarb, sweetcorn. Planting suggestions for large tubs, brick planters, and baskets to along a seaside town high street. Suggestions included: Perennial seed mixes, grasses, Steeper Arundinacio, Wolvalarian, Sentranthus, Eupatorium Chocolate, Calendula, Suggestions for plants that can be planted now to flower in the Olympic colours in a month's time. Suggestions included: Annual poppies - 'Ladybird', Nigella, Pelargonium (cuttings) In the Olympic year, what could I plant in 9.85 seconds? Produced by Howard Shannon A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.