{"id":576,"date":"2015-01-13T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T11:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/?p=576"},"modified":"2015-01-13T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T11:22:53","slug":"back-to-front-on-gardeners-question-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Back to Front on Gardeners&#8217; Question Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backtofront.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/growing-together-mosaic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-578\" alt=\"growing together mosaic\" src=\"http:\/\/backtofront.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/growing-together-mosaic-1024x282.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/growing-together-mosaic-1024x282.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/growing-together-mosaic-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people dream of making it big on X Factor. Our fantasies about fame are much less ambitious. All we&#8217;ve ever wanted to do is be on Gardeners&#8217; Question Time on BBC Radio 4. Towards the end of 2014, our dream came true (which, sadly, is not something many X Factor contestants get to say).<\/p>\n<p>Gardeners&#8217; Question Time (GQT for ease of weary typing fingers) was first broadcast in 1947 and has a long and honourable history of being the gardeners&#8217; go-to gardening programme. We&#8217;ve written before about all the hard work that went in to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/?p=543\" target=\"_blank\">GQT visit to Back to Front<\/a> a success.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lovely feature about Back to Front in the middle of programme, featuring interviews with lots of participants and volunteers. It explains why the project was started, how it&#8217;s progressing and its impact on local communities. We&#8217;re thrilled with it &#8211; if we could frame it, we would! &#8211; and delighted to share it here.\u00a0Even if you don&#8217;t have a garden, it&#8217;s still worth a listen. There are also some great tips on growing food in small spaces and in raised beds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04wwtsy\" target=\"_blank\">Back to Front on BBC Radio 4 Gardeners&#8217; Question Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, make yourself a cuppa, snuggle in a comfy chair and enjoy the dulcet tones of Bob Flowerdew and the rest of the GQT team putting the gardening world to rights. Meanwhile, we&#8217;ll listen again, whilst wondering what ambition we can fulfil next&#8230;<br \/>\n*The mosaic in the picture was created by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydeparksource.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyde Park Source<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydeparksource.org\/cross-green---growing-together.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cross Green Community Group<\/a>, our partners on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/?p=507\" target=\"_blank\">Fewston Bridge community garden<\/a>. It now sits proudly at the entrance to the garden, send a lovely message to us all. &#8216;Growing Together&#8217; &#8211; long may it continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people dream of making it big on X Factor. Our fantasies about fame are much less ambitious. All we&#8217;ve ever wanted to do is be on Gardeners&#8217; Question Time on BBC Radio 4. Towards the end of 2014, our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/?p=576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,12,22,10,23,25],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-community","tag-gardeners-question-time","tag-gardening","tag-gqt","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backtofront.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}