Question Time: Exploding ketchup?!

Joe’s ketchup bottle has exploded. It hit both walls, his ear, his shirt and the sofa cushions, and now the great fridge or cupboard debate has to be settled once and for all.

Then there’s an operatic welcome that owes a great deal to Pavarotti, and James’s day out at the Britain in Bloom finals in Rochdale (gilets bleus and all).

An Austrian listener gets her letter read back to her in an accent she specifically asked them not to do. There’s the case for butterfly houses as a form of imprisonment, the interior designer whose big idea was to paint the whole house white, and the architect who looked at James’s finished garden and decided it had to go.

Plus a winter build where the mud nearly came over the top of James’s wellies, Joe’s favourite funk soul album, and why you should only grow the veg you can’t buy.

This week’s questions:

Christina in Bisamberg, Austria: Should I move my olive and fig trees out of their pots and into the ground?

Susan in London: Is it okay to hate butterflies?

Paolo: It’s the 18th century. Do you hire William Kent or Capability Brown?

Hannah: Do you work in all weathers?

Maxwell: Is grow your own actually cheaper than buying food?