Monthly Q&A - October 2023

As part of your Premium access, you can send your gardening questions to our horticultural experts each month. They will then answer a selection of the questions they receive, and share the advice at the end of the month.

Ask your October questions below and our Gardening Editor, Emma Crawforth, will answer a selection. Ask your question by midday on Wednesday 4 October, 2023.

In the first email newsletter of each month, we’ll remind you to submit your questions. Please note, you will not receive an individual response.

Watch the answers to the September questions, which were:

• Why haven’t my dahlia flower buds opened?
• How do I keep the colour of my maroon hydrangea?
• How can I remove bamboo which has spread?
• When I bring cut flowers in, they’re full of insects, what can I do?
• How do I encourage my morning glory to flower?

Watch the answers to the August questions, which were:

• How can I control red spider mite in my greenhouse?
• Can I put raised beds for vegetables on top of gravel?
• Why have most of the leaves and flowers on my dahlia been eaten?
• My compost heap is covered in cleavers, what should I do?
• Why do my lavender plants flop over?

Watch the answers to the July questions, which were:

•  What can I do about weeds in my garden?
• How do I get flowers lower down on my ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ climbing rose?
• Why don’t my beetroots and radishes develop properly?
• Which plants can you propagate from basal and root cuttings?
• Which plants will grow in hot, dry summers?

Watch the answers to the June questions, which were:

•  How can I stop my