A Sustainability Health Check for the Garden

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

To start off the new year right, we decided to begin with a practical and sustainable guide on what you can get up to outdoors this year – it’s what we’re calling a sustainability health check for the garden. We’ll be chatting about the state of play on peat-free growing, hearing from a range of RHS experts for some top garden sustainability tips, and exploring the future of grow-your-own in our ever-changing climate. Links: Peat-free gardening Peat- free nurseries 10 ways to be more sustainable in your garden Edible: 70 Sustainable Plants That Are Changing How We Eat

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:34.5	Welcome back.
0:35.9	I hope you all had a lovely plant-filled Christmas and festive New Year.
0:40.3	I tell you what, my festive season was full of homegrown delights. First off, we had some allotment
0:45.3	kale and some allotment potatoes for Christmas dinner, but then we also had some homegrown Christmas decorations as well in the form of mistletoe.
0:52.3	And it was warm and lovely,
0:55.0	but most of the time we spent indoors with family and friends.
0:58.2	And now that we're in the first few days of January,
1:00.0	I'm itching to get back onto my plot,
1:01.9	as I'm sure many of you are.
1:04.0	It's a quiet and a cold time in the garden,
1:06.2	but there's still plenty to do and plenty to start planning
1:08.8	for the year ahead.
1:10.2	So to start off the New Year
1:11.4	right, I wanted to begin with a practical and sustainable guide on what you can get up to in the
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